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supervision by capable veterinary officials is alone com- relaxation. No definite diagnosis could be made, though patible with public safety. It appears to be taken for tetanus and strychnia poisoning were duly weighed. She died granted that all this inferior horseflesh is consumed in suddenly during the night after admission, and the necropsy Belgium itself. There have been suggestions notwithstanding that this is not the case. In consideration of certain disquieting rumours which have been set afloat in the British press we would suggest as a highly proper and legitimate subject of inquiry for the official supervisors of abattoirs the question, How much of this meat, if any, returns to the British Islands, and under what name ?
showed merely intense congestion of the brain, doubtful indications of meningitis, and some minute recent vegetations on the mitral valve. The coroner ordered no examination of the contents of the stomach, though these had been reserved. Cases such as this are by no means unknown and have baffled the diagnosis of many physicians, but no good end is served by dishing them up inaccurately for the lay press. -
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THE DEATH OF SIR GEORGE JOHNSON. WE
deeply regret
to
announce
the death of Sir
George
Johnson, M.D., F.R.S., Physician Extraordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, which occurred at his residence, 11, Savile-row, on Wednesday afternoon last, June 3rd. The deceased gentlemen, who was in his seventy-eighth year, had been in excellent health up till Monday, but on returning from a drive on that afternoon he had a hemiplegic attack, from which he never recovered. We shall give an extended notice of Sir George Johnson’s career in our next issue. __
A JENNER
RELIC.
THE immortal Jenner was a many-sided man, but outside the profession he is best known as ’’ the man who invented vaccination." An interesting relic of this "person"" of Jenner has been presented to the Royal College of Surgeons in the shape of Jenner’s silver lancet-case and lancets. The donor is Mr. E. Wadams of Great Malvern, and the relic was presented to him by an old patient whose grandfather was Jenner’s assistant. This case bears Jenner’s initials and the lancets his name, and it can be seen in the Museum of the College along with the other Jenner relics.
COMPARATIVE PAUPER STATISTICS. IT is
satisfactory to be able to record a continued decline COÖPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL. in pauperism, as shown by the monthly comparative pauper THE following is a portion of the title page of a pamphlet returns issued by the Local Government Board. We have sent to us by a correspondent : " Coöperative Educational before us the return for the month of March, and we find by Henry S. Lunn, M.D., B.Ch., Fellow of the that in all the several divisions of the country there has been Medical Society of London ; and J. T. Woolrych Perowne, a decline in the amount of pauper relief as compared with .March of 1895, and that this is true of each week of the M.A., late Classical Scholar, Corpus Christi College, Cammonth. Certainly it is said that the present year has had bridge." Truly times have changed. In old days people freedom from the severe frost prevalent in February of last never started on a journey with the idea of being educated. Of course, if they travelled in a proper manner they were ,year and which was of a character to have an influence on educated, but the primary objects of travel were either to as well of At as those ,the March pauper data February. _the same time the figures are encouraging. In London as visit the Holy places, or amusement, or both. Of pilgrims regards the first week the decline was as much as 22’0 per in the first sense there are many examples. Early travellers cent. on the corresponding week of March, 1895, and 15’0 for travel’s sake are rare, but a notable instance of the combined pilgrim is the astounding liar who wrote the immortal per cent. in the closing week. In England and Wales the were rates of decrease in 1896 as compared with 1895 9’5 travels of Mandeville-if, indeed, he ever travelled at all. Somehow the title " Educational Travel" takes away the in first cent. the second in the week, 7’9 per per cent. romance of travel. It savours too much of those educational cent. in in third and 6’3 cent. the 5-7 .week, week, per per which appear at intervals-and to judge by this the fourth week. In proportion to population the rate per games 1000 in the last week of March this year was lower than prospectus, everything is made far too luxurious. Roughing it is half the pleasure of travelling. To show what .in any of the years 1857-95, except the four years 1891-94. an old time journey was like-a journey undertaken when a pilgrimage was a real act of a very lively THE LAY REPORTER AT CORONERS’ INQUESTS. faith-we recommend a perusal of a little-known OBSUURE ana unusual cases are always worth recoramg in work, an ’’Evagatorium"by Brother Felix Fabri, to the their proper place, but the details of inquests which often writers of the pamphlet. It is not written in good Latin, find their way into the daily press serve little end but the but is full of wisdom. He quotes a remark made by a satisfaction of a morbid craving on the part of the public. " prudens Comes"to the effect that thejourney to the Capital is too frequently made out of details which are Holy Land " nimis fore periculosam illis, qui levitate ducti, ,exceedingly inaccurate, and a very false impression may be aut curiositate, aut seculi pompam, aut quandam vilem ac created in the mind of the public. In more than one of our transitoriam vanitatem, finem ejus prsestituerint." Now hear evening contemporaries paragraphs " appeared last week the pioneers of cooperative educational travel :" relating an extraordinary death which occurred at The twenty-one gitinea, cric6ses.-For the sake of clergymen St. Bartholome w’s Hospital as the result of drawing a tooth. who can only spare three Sundays from their parishes and From these we might gather that the patient, a girl aged professional men whose busy life will not allow a longer fourteen years, went to the hospital, had the tooth extracted, vacation we have planned two short cruises to Palestine and at Sicily and Malta, which will afford the was detained, and died suddenly in hospital the next day Egypt, calling of a brief visit to the Holy City and the opportunity from rapid inflammation of the brain which had escaped Pyramids to those to whom it would not otherwise be the diagnosis of the physicians under whose care she was. possible. The days of rest on the steamer will obviate any Inquiry shows that the case was indeed an obscure one and sense of hurry, and the time allowed for Jerusalem and remained so. After the extraction of the tooth the girl went Cairo is long enough to give opportunity for treasuring up home, became ill two days later, and was admitted to the never-to-be-forgotten memories of historic scenes." hospital on the third day in a nearly unconscious condition and The Midnight Sun, the chartered steamer, is indeed a ’with severe constitutional symptoms. She developed risus floating palace. We quote from the prospectus :— sardonicus and chronic convulsions, and later in the day "The s.s. Midnight Sun is one of the finest pleasure yachts tonic convulsions and opisthotonos, with intervals of complete afloat and is a magnificent steamer of 3188 tons register and
Travel,
’’
supervision by capable veterinary officials is alone com- relaxation. No definite diagnosis could be made, though patible with public safety. It appears to be taken for tetanus and strychnia poisoning were duly weighed. She died granted that all this inferior horseflesh is consumed in suddenly during the night after admission, and the necropsy Belgium itself. There have been suggestions notwithstanding that this is not the case. In consideration of certain disquieting rumours which have been set afloat in the British press we would suggest as a highly proper and legitimate subject of inquiry for the official supervisors of abattoirs the question, How much of this meat, if any, returns to the British Islands, and under what name ?
showed merely intense congestion of the brain, doubtful indications of meningitis, and some minute recent vegetations on the mitral valve. The coroner ordered no examination of the contents of the stomach, though these had been reserved. Cases such as this are by no means unknown and have baffled the diagnosis of many physicians, but no good end is served by dishing them up inaccurately for the lay press. -
-
THE DEATH OF SIR GEORGE JOHNSON. WE
deeply regret
to
announce
the death of Sir
George
Johnson, M.D., F.R.S., Physician Extraordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, which occurred at his residence, 11, Savile-row, on Wednesday afternoon last, June 3rd. The deceased gentlemen, who was in his seventy-eighth year, had been in excellent health up till Monday, but on returning from a drive on that afternoon he had a hemiplegic attack, from which he never recovered. We shall give an extended notice of Sir George Johnson’s career in our next issue. __
A JENNER
RELIC.
THE immortal Jenner was a many-sided man, but outside the profession he is best known as ’’ the man who invented vaccination." An interesting relic of this "person"" of Jenner has been presented to the Royal College of Surgeons in the shape of Jenner’s silver lancet-case and lancets. The donor is Mr. E. Wadams of Great Malvern, and the relic was presented to him by an old patient whose grandfather was Jenner’s assistant. This case bears Jenner’s initials and the lancets his name, and it can be seen in the Museum of the College along with the other Jenner relics.
COMPARATIVE PAUPER STATISTICS. IT is
satisfactory to be able to record a continued decline COÖPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL. in pauperism, as shown by the monthly comparative pauper THE following is a portion of the title page of a pamphlet returns issued by the Local Government Board. We have sent to us by a correspondent : " Coöperative Educational before us the return for the month of March, and we find by Henry S. Lunn, M.D., B.Ch., Fellow of the that in all the several divisions of the country there has been Medical Society of London ; and J. T. Woolrych Perowne, a decline in the amount of pauper relief as compared with .March of 1895, and that this is true of each week of the M.A., late Classical Scholar, Corpus Christi College, Cammonth. Certainly it is said that the present year has had bridge." Truly times have changed. In old days people freedom from the severe frost prevalent in February of last never started on a journey with the idea of being educated. Of course, if they travelled in a proper manner they were ,year and which was of a character to have an influence on educated, but the primary objects of travel were either to as well of At as those ,the March pauper data February. _the same time the figures are encouraging. In London as visit the Holy places, or amusement, or both. Of pilgrims regards the first week the decline was as much as 22’0 per in the first sense there are many examples. Early travellers cent. on the corresponding week of March, 1895, and 15’0 for travel’s sake are rare, but a notable instance of the combined pilgrim is the astounding liar who wrote the immortal per cent. in the closing week. In England and Wales the were rates of decrease in 1896 as compared with 1895 9’5 travels of Mandeville-if, indeed, he ever travelled at all. Somehow the title " Educational Travel" takes away the in first cent. the second in the week, 7’9 per per cent. romance of travel. It savours too much of those educational cent. in in third and 6’3 cent. the 5-7 .week, week, per per which appear at intervals-and to judge by this the fourth week. In proportion to population the rate per games 1000 in the last week of March this year was lower than prospectus, everything is made far too luxurious. Roughing it is half the pleasure of travelling. To show what .in any of the years 1857-95, except the four years 1891-94. an old time journey was like-a journey undertaken when a pilgrimage was a real act of a very lively THE LAY REPORTER AT CORONERS’ INQUESTS. faith-we recommend a perusal of a little-known OBSUURE ana unusual cases are always worth recoramg in work, an ’’Evagatorium"by Brother Felix Fabri, to the their proper place, but the details of inquests which often writers of the pamphlet. It is not written in good Latin, find their way into the daily press serve little end but the but is full of wisdom. He quotes a remark made by a satisfaction of a morbid craving on the part of the public. " prudens Comes"to the effect that thejourney to the Capital is too frequently made out of details which are Holy Land " nimis fore periculosam illis, qui levitate ducti, ,exceedingly inaccurate, and a very false impression may be aut curiositate, aut seculi pompam, aut quandam vilem ac created in the mind of the public. In more than one of our transitoriam vanitatem, finem ejus prsestituerint." Now hear evening contemporaries paragraphs " appeared last week the pioneers of cooperative educational travel :" relating an extraordinary death which occurred at The twenty-one gitinea, cric6ses.-For the sake of clergymen St. Bartholome w’s Hospital as the result of drawing a tooth. who can only spare three Sundays from their parishes and From these we might gather that the patient, a girl aged professional men whose busy life will not allow a longer fourteen years, went to the hospital, had the tooth extracted, vacation we have planned two short cruises to Palestine and at Sicily and Malta, which will afford the was detained, and died suddenly in hospital the next day Egypt, calling of a brief visit to the Holy City and the opportunity from rapid inflammation of the brain which had escaped Pyramids to those to whom it would not otherwise be the diagnosis of the physicians under whose care she was. possible. The days of rest on the steamer will obviate any Inquiry shows that the case was indeed an obscure one and sense of hurry, and the time allowed for Jerusalem and remained so. After the extraction of the tooth the girl went Cairo is long enough to give opportunity for treasuring up home, became ill two days later, and was admitted to the never-to-be-forgotten memories of historic scenes." hospital on the third day in a nearly unconscious condition and The Midnight Sun, the chartered steamer, is indeed a ’with severe constitutional symptoms. She developed risus floating palace. We quote from the prospectus :— sardonicus and chronic convulsions, and later in the day "The s.s. Midnight Sun is one of the finest pleasure yachts tonic convulsions and opisthotonos, with intervals of complete afloat and is a magnificent steamer of 3188 tons register and
Travel,
’’