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THE OPENING OF LABORATORIES OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY AT LIVERPOOL.
825 taken with domestic freezing machines which do their work on the same principle-that is, the alternate expulsion and reabsorption of ammonia. We do not remember a case occurring before, so it may be assumed that the process is fairly safe but that owing to a structural defect or perhaps blocking of the pipes the unfortunate explosion took place.
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THE OPENING OF LABORATORIES OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY AT LIVERPOOL. issue of Sept. 17th we gave a list of some of those who are to be present at the opening of the new Thompson-Yates Laboratories of Physiology and Pathology, Additional names are on Saturday, Oct. 8th, at Liverpool. of of those the Bishop Liverpool, the Vice-Chancellor of the of University Cambridge, the Presidents of the Royal of Colleges Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh, and Sir William Turner. At three o’clock Lord Spencer, Chancellor of the Victoria University, will confer the degree of Doctor of Science upon Lord Lister in St. George’s Hall, after which at half-past four the laboratories in University College will be formally opened and inspected. After the ceremony tea and coffee will be served at the College. IN
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SECONDARY HÆMORRHAGE FOLLOWING THE REMOVAL OF POST-NASAL ADENOID VEGETATIONS.
Leaving his work on rinderpest immunisation already practically complete in the hands of Dr. Kohlstock and Dr. Turner, the former being subsequently replaced by Dr. Kolle, Professor Koch set out for Bombay. When he arrived on May 1st he found that the German Commission under Professor Gaffky had nearly finished their labours, and by the end of June the Commission returned to Germany. Professor Koch, however, had in accordance with instructions to proceed to German East Africa to investigate a disease resembling plague which had appeared there. Here, he says, he found a rich field for work, and whilst Dr. Zupitza proceeded inland to collect material on the malady in question he busied himself with studies on tropical malaria (which we propose to notice at greater length in a future issue), Texas fever, and the Tsetse or Surra disease of cattle. It was in February, 1898, that he received at Daressalam, where he had established himself, materia which enabled him to declare the cases seen by Dr. Zupitza to be true bubonic plague. His labours were now at an end and on May 20th he returned to Berlin. The reports now published must, he says, be considered for the most part as preliminary to more detailed accounts which he hopes to produce when occasion serves. We fear that the new commission he has received to study malaria may delay the appearance of these more extended writings, and therefore it is all the more satisfactory to have the present accounts of scientific work written at the time when the researches were in progress. plague. -
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IN the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, May 19th, 1898, Dr. W. Preble writes on this very unusual complicaNON-POISONOUS MATCHES. tion. He removed vegetations from a girl aged eleven years. The operation was quite The bleeding was not severe. ONE undoubted way of preventing phosphorus necrosis in successful and nasal breathing was restored. But on the match factories would be to eliminate altogether the yellow -
seventh day a sudden haemorrhage occurred and the girl was phosphorus in the manufacture of the match-head. The earried into the house fainting. Under cold syringing the difficulty is, however, to find a substitute which, like the bleeding stopped. It recurred and was stopped by plugging ordinary phosphorus match-head, will strike anywhere. The the posterior nares. On the eighth day a sudden gush of safety match will, of course, not do this, the means blood came on and she <1ied before assistance could be of producing ignition being the rubber on the box which rendered. There was no history of hxmophilia. Dr. Preble contains non-poisonous or amorphous phosphorus. In other has collected 21 cases of serious primary haemorrhage after the words, safety-match tip contains the elements of comthis operation (of which 4 proved fatal) and 5 cases of We bustion while the rubber contains the excitant. secondary haemorrhage. Of the latter 3 of the patients are not prepared to admit that the entire adoption of were French and 2 were Danish. There does not appear to this system would be a source of serious inconvenience be any case of secondary haemorrhage recorded in English to the public. However, several persons, prompted by literature. the publication of the recent cases of phosphorus poisoning in certain match factories, have been seekTHE TRAVELS OF PROFESSOR KOCH. ing for a composition which will do away entirely with UNDER the title of "Keise-Benchte " Professor Koch the use of poisonous phosphorus while at the same time it has published1 the text of the reports furnished by will strike anywhere. No quite new direction in the preparahim from time to time during the eighteen months of tion of such a match appears to have been suggested. The his "roving commission"in Africa and India, where he published composition of one in particular is the following : was engaged in investigating the rinderpest, the plague, and chlorate of potash, whitening, plaster of Paris, ground glass, malarial and other affections. They form an interesting glue, and amorphous phosphorus. There is reason to believe volume in which the main lines of his inquiries and their that red or amorphous phosphorus is not poisonous, for a case results are described with his customary lucidity. Professor is recorded in which a dog took as much as 7 oz. in twelve Koch was invited by the Cape Government to investigate the days and remained without showing any signs of being rinderpest which had invaded the colony from the districts poisoned. The only novelty in the above composition appears north of the Zambesi. He arrived at Cape Town on Dec. 1st, to us to be the use of special diluents like whitening and 1896, accompanied by his assistant, Dr. Kohlstock. He plaster of Paris, which reduce the energy of the otherwise established himself at Kimberley, in the vicinity of which violent action between red phosphorus and chlorate of potash. the rinderpest was rife, and by the end of March, 1897, was These latter substances indeed form undiluted a very powerful well advanced in his laboratory work upon a method of and It is this mixture which is used in dangerous explosive. protective inoculation for the disease. He was then toy caps or the French am01’ces. By attenuating the mixture requested by the German Government to proceed to with an inert powder such as whitening it is probably Bombay to take charge of a scientific commission rendered less active and therefore safe, while in the form of which had been despatched thither to investigate bubonic a dry match tip it is said to strike anywhere. Now that 1 Reise-Berichte über Rinderpest, Bubonenpest in Indien und public opinion has been stirred in this matter it is probable Afrika, Tsetse oder Surrakrankheit, Texasfieber, Tropische Malaria, that attention will be given to non-poisonous matches with Schwarzwasserfieber. Von Robert Koch. Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer. (Reports on Rinderpest, Bubonic Plague in India and Africa, the view of dispensing with the ordinary yellow phosphorus, Tsetse or Surra Disease, Texas Fever, Tropical Malaria, and Blackwater the use of which involves unhealthy conditions to the operaFever. By Robert Koch. Berlin: Julius Springer.) 1898. Obtainable tives engaged in ordinary match-making. We have ceased from F. Bauermeister, foreign bookseller, Glasgow. Price 2s. 9d. ____
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THE OPENING OF LABORATORIES OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY AT LIVERPOOL. issue of Sept. 17th we gave a list of some of those who are to be present at the opening of the new Thompson-Yates Laboratories of Physiology and Pathology, Additional names are on Saturday, Oct. 8th, at Liverpool. of of those the Bishop Liverpool, the Vice-Chancellor of the of University Cambridge, the Presidents of the Royal of Colleges Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh, and Sir William Turner. At three o’clock Lord Spencer, Chancellor of the Victoria University, will confer the degree of Doctor of Science upon Lord Lister in St. George’s Hall, after which at half-past four the laboratories in University College will be formally opened and inspected. After the ceremony tea and coffee will be served at the College. IN
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SECONDARY HÆMORRHAGE FOLLOWING THE REMOVAL OF POST-NASAL ADENOID VEGETATIONS.
Leaving his work on rinderpest immunisation already practically complete in the hands of Dr. Kohlstock and Dr. Turner, the former being subsequently replaced by Dr. Kolle, Professor Koch set out for Bombay. When he arrived on May 1st he found that the German Commission under Professor Gaffky had nearly finished their labours, and by the end of June the Commission returned to Germany. Professor Koch, however, had in accordance with instructions to proceed to German East Africa to investigate a disease resembling plague which had appeared there. Here, he says, he found a rich field for work, and whilst Dr. Zupitza proceeded inland to collect material on the malady in question he busied himself with studies on tropical malaria (which we propose to notice at greater length in a future issue), Texas fever, and the Tsetse or Surra disease of cattle. It was in February, 1898, that he received at Daressalam, where he had established himself, materia which enabled him to declare the cases seen by Dr. Zupitza to be true bubonic plague. His labours were now at an end and on May 20th he returned to Berlin. The reports now published must, he says, be considered for the most part as preliminary to more detailed accounts which he hopes to produce when occasion serves. We fear that the new commission he has received to study malaria may delay the appearance of these more extended writings, and therefore it is all the more satisfactory to have the present accounts of scientific work written at the time when the researches were in progress. plague. -
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IN the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, May 19th, 1898, Dr. W. Preble writes on this very unusual complicaNON-POISONOUS MATCHES. tion. He removed vegetations from a girl aged eleven years. The operation was quite The bleeding was not severe. ONE undoubted way of preventing phosphorus necrosis in successful and nasal breathing was restored. But on the match factories would be to eliminate altogether the yellow -
seventh day a sudden haemorrhage occurred and the girl was phosphorus in the manufacture of the match-head. The earried into the house fainting. Under cold syringing the difficulty is, however, to find a substitute which, like the bleeding stopped. It recurred and was stopped by plugging ordinary phosphorus match-head, will strike anywhere. The the posterior nares. On the eighth day a sudden gush of safety match will, of course, not do this, the means blood came on and she <1ied before assistance could be of producing ignition being the rubber on the box which rendered. There was no history of hxmophilia. Dr. Preble contains non-poisonous or amorphous phosphorus. In other has collected 21 cases of serious primary haemorrhage after the words, safety-match tip contains the elements of comthis operation (of which 4 proved fatal) and 5 cases of We bustion while the rubber contains the excitant. secondary haemorrhage. Of the latter 3 of the patients are not prepared to admit that the entire adoption of were French and 2 were Danish. There does not appear to this system would be a source of serious inconvenience be any case of secondary haemorrhage recorded in English to the public. However, several persons, prompted by literature. the publication of the recent cases of phosphorus poisoning in certain match factories, have been seekTHE TRAVELS OF PROFESSOR KOCH. ing for a composition which will do away entirely with UNDER the title of "Keise-Benchte " Professor Koch the use of poisonous phosphorus while at the same time it has published1 the text of the reports furnished by will strike anywhere. No quite new direction in the preparahim from time to time during the eighteen months of tion of such a match appears to have been suggested. The his "roving commission"in Africa and India, where he published composition of one in particular is the following : was engaged in investigating the rinderpest, the plague, and chlorate of potash, whitening, plaster of Paris, ground glass, malarial and other affections. They form an interesting glue, and amorphous phosphorus. There is reason to believe volume in which the main lines of his inquiries and their that red or amorphous phosphorus is not poisonous, for a case results are described with his customary lucidity. Professor is recorded in which a dog took as much as 7 oz. in twelve Koch was invited by the Cape Government to investigate the days and remained without showing any signs of being rinderpest which had invaded the colony from the districts poisoned. The only novelty in the above composition appears north of the Zambesi. He arrived at Cape Town on Dec. 1st, to us to be the use of special diluents like whitening and 1896, accompanied by his assistant, Dr. Kohlstock. He plaster of Paris, which reduce the energy of the otherwise established himself at Kimberley, in the vicinity of which violent action between red phosphorus and chlorate of potash. the rinderpest was rife, and by the end of March, 1897, was These latter substances indeed form undiluted a very powerful well advanced in his laboratory work upon a method of and It is this mixture which is used in dangerous explosive. protective inoculation for the disease. He was then toy caps or the French am01’ces. By attenuating the mixture requested by the German Government to proceed to with an inert powder such as whitening it is probably Bombay to take charge of a scientific commission rendered less active and therefore safe, while in the form of which had been despatched thither to investigate bubonic a dry match tip it is said to strike anywhere. Now that 1 Reise-Berichte über Rinderpest, Bubonenpest in Indien und public opinion has been stirred in this matter it is probable Afrika, Tsetse oder Surrakrankheit, Texasfieber, Tropische Malaria, that attention will be given to non-poisonous matches with Schwarzwasserfieber. Von Robert Koch. Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer. (Reports on Rinderpest, Bubonic Plague in India and Africa, the view of dispensing with the ordinary yellow phosphorus, Tsetse or Surra Disease, Texas Fever, Tropical Malaria, and Blackwater the use of which involves unhealthy conditions to the operaFever. By Robert Koch. Berlin: Julius Springer.) 1898. Obtainable tives engaged in ordinary match-making. We have ceased from F. Bauermeister, foreign bookseller, Glasgow. Price 2s. 9d. ____