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733 closed Vessels. In the first essay Dr. Child sup and corroborates Mr. Darwin’s investigations in to the mode of fertilisation of orchids, but he adduces some important evidence in opposition to that author’s views to the effect that " Nature abhors perpetual self-fertilisation."" The second essay, which is an extremely interesting and important one, is in some sort a continuation of the same train of reasoning, the author being a decided opponent of the view that marriages of consanguinity are necessarily followed by deterioration or degeneracy of offspring. The third essay contains a clear summary of the well-known dispute between the panspermists and the heterogenists, which a year or two ago excited so much attention in France, and with the latter of whom Dr. Child appears disposed, as we gather from his last essay, to rank himself. We have much pleasure in recommending this volume to our readers.
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Remarks upon the Causes of Consumption. By VALENTINE DUKE, M.D., F.R.C.S.I., L.K.Q.C.P.I. London : Longman & Co. Dublin : Fannin & Co. 1867. THIS is an excellent and valuable statement of the tubercular cachexia, and of the sanitary principles upon which the approach of consumption is to be arrested, and its development prevented. Phthisis is a disease of no special state, or country, or climate; and it is only by sound sanitary principles, acted on by individuals and communities, that this great destroyer is to be successfully resisted.
Physiological
regard
ports
A
NEW
CATCH-PIT.
A NEW catch-pit and interceptor has been invented by Mr. Chesshire, of Newhall-street, Birmingham. It consists of an iron box, or tank, one corner of which is screened off by a coarse perforated iron sieve, which permits the aqueous fluid to pass directly into the drain, and retains its more solid
Laryngoscope in Diseases of the Th1’oat,. with a Chapter matters. The bottom of the tank is covered with coarse Rhinoscopy. A Manual for the Student and Practitioner. By Sir GEORGE DuNCAN GIBB, Bart., M.D., cinders, with a layer of ashes above them, and it is then LL.D., Assistant-Physician and Lecturer on Forensic placed beneath a watercloset, or dry seat, as the case may be. Medicine, Westminster Hospital. Third Edition. pp. 158. It is stated that only one-seventeenth, or 6 per cent., of the solid matter passes through the interceptor, and that the London : Churchill and Sons. 1868. contents retained contain sixty times more nitrogen, and 300 IN announcing the third edition of Sir Duncan Gibb’s welltimes more phosphoric acid, than the outflow fluid. The known work on the Laryngoscope, we cannot do better than tank requires removal from time to time for the purpose quote a portion of the author’s preface to it, which states that of cleansing, the period varying according to the use which "the time has been so short since the publication of the second has been made of it. The mode of fixing is simple, and the edition-a little over a year-that it has afforded scarcely any ’, contents, when mixed with a sufficient quantity of earth, form a valuable manure. Mr. Chesshire states that it is the opportunity for the introduction of additional matter into the united presence of water and fsecal matter which alone gives present edition bearing upon the subject of which the volume rise to smell, and that the immediate separation in the inter. professes to treat ; it will be found, nevertheless, in no way ceptor purifies the drains and preserves the solid matters behind its predecessor." Whilst endorsing the latter statement, from unwholesome decomposition. We are glad to hear that and believing that the student and practitioner could not have the interceptor is to be tried at Netley, under the supervision of Dr. Parkes, and we hope to report upon its use ourselves. a safer or better guide in the use of the laryngoscope than the Meanwhile we can readily conceive that it is an apparatus present volume, we would venture to suggest to the author well suited for particular places, as indeed is fairly proved by the omission of notes The
on
certain
the
same
reflecting upon
other workers at
the testimonials Mr. Chesshire has received.
THE
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I will readily explain the apparatus.
subject.
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sums they have kindly promised to subscribe in addition to their annual subscriptions, should such be found I am, Sir, yours obediently, necessary. LORY MARSH, Hon. Sec. December 1st, 1869.
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To the Editor of THE LANCET. you will allow me, through the medium of your columns, to state, in reply to numerous eorrespondents, that it was decided at the general meeting not to increase the 3tLL-POx continues fatally prevalent in Sheffield, subscriptions of the original members. resulting in 12 deaths last week, which makes altogether 102 The formation of the guarantee fund will prevent the neces- deaths from this cause in the last nine weeks. Out of a popusity of any increase of subscription ; and if every member lation thirteen times greater, the fatal cases of small-pox in could, during the ensuing year, introduce one new subscriber, London have not amounted to half those recorded in Sheffield the guarantors would not require to be called upon for any during an equal period of nine weeks.
SiR,—I hope
,
ganisms in
Remarks upon the Causes of Consumption. By VALENTINE DUKE, M.D., F.R.C.S.I., L.K.Q.C.P.I. London : Longman & Co. Dublin : Fannin & Co. 1867. THIS is an excellent and valuable statement of the tubercular cachexia, and of the sanitary principles upon which the approach of consumption is to be arrested, and its development prevented. Phthisis is a disease of no special state, or country, or climate; and it is only by sound sanitary principles, acted on by individuals and communities, that this great destroyer is to be successfully resisted.
Physiological
regard
ports
A
NEW
CATCH-PIT.
A NEW catch-pit and interceptor has been invented by Mr. Chesshire, of Newhall-street, Birmingham. It consists of an iron box, or tank, one corner of which is screened off by a coarse perforated iron sieve, which permits the aqueous fluid to pass directly into the drain, and retains its more solid
Laryngoscope in Diseases of the Th1’oat,. with a Chapter matters. The bottom of the tank is covered with coarse Rhinoscopy. A Manual for the Student and Practitioner. By Sir GEORGE DuNCAN GIBB, Bart., M.D., cinders, with a layer of ashes above them, and it is then LL.D., Assistant-Physician and Lecturer on Forensic placed beneath a watercloset, or dry seat, as the case may be. Medicine, Westminster Hospital. Third Edition. pp. 158. It is stated that only one-seventeenth, or 6 per cent., of the solid matter passes through the interceptor, and that the London : Churchill and Sons. 1868. contents retained contain sixty times more nitrogen, and 300 IN announcing the third edition of Sir Duncan Gibb’s welltimes more phosphoric acid, than the outflow fluid. The known work on the Laryngoscope, we cannot do better than tank requires removal from time to time for the purpose quote a portion of the author’s preface to it, which states that of cleansing, the period varying according to the use which "the time has been so short since the publication of the second has been made of it. The mode of fixing is simple, and the edition-a little over a year-that it has afforded scarcely any ’, contents, when mixed with a sufficient quantity of earth, form a valuable manure. Mr. Chesshire states that it is the opportunity for the introduction of additional matter into the united presence of water and fsecal matter which alone gives present edition bearing upon the subject of which the volume rise to smell, and that the immediate separation in the inter. professes to treat ; it will be found, nevertheless, in no way ceptor purifies the drains and preserves the solid matters behind its predecessor." Whilst endorsing the latter statement, from unwholesome decomposition. We are glad to hear that and believing that the student and practitioner could not have the interceptor is to be tried at Netley, under the supervision of Dr. Parkes, and we hope to report upon its use ourselves. a safer or better guide in the use of the laryngoscope than the Meanwhile we can readily conceive that it is an apparatus present volume, we would venture to suggest to the author well suited for particular places, as indeed is fairly proved by the omission of notes The
on
certain
the
same
reflecting upon
other workers at
the testimonials Mr. Chesshire has received.
THE
The woodcut
I will readily explain the apparatus.
subject.
MEDICAL
sums they have kindly promised to subscribe in addition to their annual subscriptions, should such be found I am, Sir, yours obediently, necessary. LORY MARSH, Hon. Sec. December 1st, 1869.
portion of the
CLUB.
To the Editor of THE LANCET. you will allow me, through the medium of your columns, to state, in reply to numerous eorrespondents, that it was decided at the general meeting not to increase the 3tLL-POx continues fatally prevalent in Sheffield, subscriptions of the original members. resulting in 12 deaths last week, which makes altogether 102 The formation of the guarantee fund will prevent the neces- deaths from this cause in the last nine weeks. Out of a popusity of any increase of subscription ; and if every member lation thirteen times greater, the fatal cases of small-pox in could, during the ensuing year, introduce one new subscriber, London have not amounted to half those recorded in Sheffield the guarantors would not require to be called upon for any during an equal period of nine weeks.
SiR,—I hope
,