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THE OSLER MEDAL.
611 and certainly if women suffered as a sex what they aresupposed to have suffered 50 years ago they could not The Italian Marine Corps controlled administration have taken the large part they have in business and by urine examination. The Italian Artillery was professional life. Nevertheless a fair number still notably free from malaria owing to the closeness with find their periods a real handicap, and their sufferings which men and officers were thrown together and the have provoked the question, " Why does a normal interest taken by the officers in seeing that their men function cause pain ? " The first reply is, of course, the counter-question, " Is it a normal function ?" took their little daily dcse.
pernicious. Quinine prophylaxis requires, says Signora Celli, Leal, determination, and personal attention.
THE OSLER MEDAL. THE photograph which we publish shows the obverse and reverse of the bronze medal which has been designed for the Committee of the Osler Memorial Fund by Mr. F. Bowcher. The Osler Memorial Fund THE OSLER MEDAL :
Prof. A. Pinard and others have maintained that thenormal woman would never menstruate ; Nature intended that from her first period onwards her sexual life should be a continuous series of pregnancies and lactations. The subject is discussed fully and with an exhaustive bibliography in the able monograph which Prof. V. Wallich has written for Prof. Ch. Richet’s
OBVERSE
AND
REVERSE.
"
accepted by the University of Oxford last year monumental Dictionnaire de la Physiologic," now the press. This monograph has been printed and together with a plaque by Mr. Vernon, of Paris. An account of the unveiling of the plaque by the circulated separately, from the dictionary’s formes.l on Prof. Wallich points out that Vice-Chancellor in the University museum although the June 10th, 1925, was published in THE LANCET. haemorrhage has naturally drawn both social and The Osler memorial bronze medal is to be awarded scientific attention to itself, to understand the real significance of the monthly cycle it is essential to once in every five years to the Oxford medical graduate who shall, in the opinion of the Board of Awarders, follow its variations through the whole mammalian have made the most valuable contribution to the species and to study the complex of symptoms, of science, art, or literature of medicine, and who has which bleeding is only one and not an invariable one not previously received the medal. The residue of at that. The main fact is a periodical congestion of the income of the fund, after payment of all expenses the female genital organs which marks the crest of in connexion with the medal, may be used at the their rhythmical activity and ceases when they take discretion of the members of the Board of Awarders up their proper work of reproduction. Anatomical resident in Oxford, in making grants from time to observation shows a profound modification of the time to teachers in the Oxford Medical School, to mucosa uterina, the whole of which undergoes enable them to pursue some special study connected tumefaction and hyperplasia in order to fit it to receive with medicine outside the University. The first award and nourish the fertilised ovum. Simultaneously of the medal was made on June 10th, 1925; the next there is a psychic awakening that induces the female to seek the company of the male. This phenomenon will therefore be made in 1930. of congestion occurs in all mammalsand is more intense in some than in others ; there is always some degree of haemorrhage, but this may take place only MENSTRUATION AND PAIN. in the interstices and may never show itself in the WHEN the Victorian young lady took to her room uterine cavity or at the vulva at all. Prof. Wallich and left word that she was " unwell," she was not states that the bleeding is probably more profuse in taking refuge in an empty euphemism. The monthly the higher primates because their heavily-muscled and periods seem to have been a much more severe ordeal plexiform uterine wall locks the capillaries of the to her than they are to her grand-daughters, and shemucosa and prevents them from expanding properly accepted malaise. headache, and more or less severe the time of congestion. They are fragile and rupture at pain in the hypogastrium and back as part of the order In the horned uteri of the lower mammals of Nature. It is true that some gynaecologists stilleasily. the vessels have a bed of cellular tissue in which to teach that pain is the normal accompaniment of I and any hæmorrhage there may take the expand,form menstruation, but statistics show that only about of infiltration into the submucous layer. 70per cent. of healthy modern women, such as public I school girls and Civil Service candidates, experience it; 1 Librairie Félix Alcan, Paris. was
in
simple
pernicious. Quinine prophylaxis requires, says Signora Celli, Leal, determination, and personal attention.
THE OSLER MEDAL. THE photograph which we publish shows the obverse and reverse of the bronze medal which has been designed for the Committee of the Osler Memorial Fund by Mr. F. Bowcher. The Osler Memorial Fund THE OSLER MEDAL :
Prof. A. Pinard and others have maintained that thenormal woman would never menstruate ; Nature intended that from her first period onwards her sexual life should be a continuous series of pregnancies and lactations. The subject is discussed fully and with an exhaustive bibliography in the able monograph which Prof. V. Wallich has written for Prof. Ch. Richet’s
OBVERSE
AND
REVERSE.
"
accepted by the University of Oxford last year monumental Dictionnaire de la Physiologic," now the press. This monograph has been printed and together with a plaque by Mr. Vernon, of Paris. An account of the unveiling of the plaque by the circulated separately, from the dictionary’s formes.l on Prof. Wallich points out that Vice-Chancellor in the University museum although the June 10th, 1925, was published in THE LANCET. haemorrhage has naturally drawn both social and The Osler memorial bronze medal is to be awarded scientific attention to itself, to understand the real significance of the monthly cycle it is essential to once in every five years to the Oxford medical graduate who shall, in the opinion of the Board of Awarders, follow its variations through the whole mammalian have made the most valuable contribution to the species and to study the complex of symptoms, of science, art, or literature of medicine, and who has which bleeding is only one and not an invariable one not previously received the medal. The residue of at that. The main fact is a periodical congestion of the income of the fund, after payment of all expenses the female genital organs which marks the crest of in connexion with the medal, may be used at the their rhythmical activity and ceases when they take discretion of the members of the Board of Awarders up their proper work of reproduction. Anatomical resident in Oxford, in making grants from time to observation shows a profound modification of the time to teachers in the Oxford Medical School, to mucosa uterina, the whole of which undergoes enable them to pursue some special study connected tumefaction and hyperplasia in order to fit it to receive with medicine outside the University. The first award and nourish the fertilised ovum. Simultaneously of the medal was made on June 10th, 1925; the next there is a psychic awakening that induces the female to seek the company of the male. This phenomenon will therefore be made in 1930. of congestion occurs in all mammalsand is more intense in some than in others ; there is always some degree of haemorrhage, but this may take place only MENSTRUATION AND PAIN. in the interstices and may never show itself in the WHEN the Victorian young lady took to her room uterine cavity or at the vulva at all. Prof. Wallich and left word that she was " unwell," she was not states that the bleeding is probably more profuse in taking refuge in an empty euphemism. The monthly the higher primates because their heavily-muscled and periods seem to have been a much more severe ordeal plexiform uterine wall locks the capillaries of the to her than they are to her grand-daughters, and shemucosa and prevents them from expanding properly accepted malaise. headache, and more or less severe the time of congestion. They are fragile and rupture at pain in the hypogastrium and back as part of the order In the horned uteri of the lower mammals of Nature. It is true that some gynaecologists stilleasily. the vessels have a bed of cellular tissue in which to teach that pain is the normal accompaniment of I and any hæmorrhage there may take the expand,form menstruation, but statistics show that only about of infiltration into the submucous layer. 70per cent. of healthy modern women, such as public I school girls and Civil Service candidates, experience it; 1 Librairie Félix Alcan, Paris. was
in
simple