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THE PORTSMOUTH CORONER ON DANGEROUS LAMPS.
THE QUESTION OF MEDICAL DEFENCE.
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1 wall of the left auricle at the margin of the appendix had resolved that no one should enjoy its membership i took office in a medical aid association, or any other auriculas. The pointed portion of the needle then extended who The point was just :association a which was proved to employ touters and to sweat across the opening into the appendix. i medical officers, it would have done much to prevent touching the opposite wall of the auricle, where a little its papilla of vegetations was set up by the irritation of the 1the evils which are now so seriously degrading the proi ?2 The Association has powers as a voluntary assopoint of the needle. In the ventricle the needle penetrated fession I the heart muscle immediately behind the coronary artery ciation which it could not have acting under the sanction of on its way to the anterior interventricular groove. TheParliament, and it will best serve the profession by retaining needle was firmly embedded in the tissue, so that it could freedom and using those powers well. not be pulled out without using considerable force. It was one and five-eighths of an inch long. It was black in colour THE VACANCY ON THE SENATE OF THE The left pleura was firmly and its surface quite smooth. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. The superior lobe of the left adherent throughout. SIR JOSEPH B.A., M.B., has consented to be put lung was a mass of tuberculous nodules and some in nomination LISTER, as a candidate to fill the vacancy on the small cavities. The inferior lobe presented another of the University of London caused by the resigna feature of interest in the presence of a broken knitting Senate tion of Mr. Hutton. Mr. Walter Rivington, B.A., M.B., M.S., needle. There was an old cicatrix in the skin to the left been invited to become a candidate for the vacant has also margin of the sternum. The needle, pointing downwards, seat. The is filled by the Crown from a list of three vacancy entered the lung at the anterior border of the inferior lobe submitted by Convocation, and on the present about two inches from the lower margin, passing down- persons the choice falls on a graduate in medicine or wards, backwards, and slightly outwards, reaching the outeroccasion science. surface of the lung at a point about four inches from its, posterior border and two inches above the circumference of PORTSMOUTH CORONER ON DANGEROUS the base. The needle was four and five-eighths of an inch LAMPS. long, the broken end being slightly bent and the other end AT an inquest at Portsmouth on March 23rd Mr. T. A. pointed and sharp. The needle was completely eneysted. the borough coroner, had something to say about Bramsdon, Neither point emerged before the manipulation of the lung in its removal. It was quite black and was not in any way cheap lamps. A woman aged fifty had been left in bed with a lamp which two years ago had been bought for one penny. corroded. She was afterwards found terribly burned-indeed, in flames -but gave no intelligible explanation of the occurrence. THE QUESTION OF MEDICAL DEFENCE. Mr. Bramsdon in his summing up said such lamps were as THE points raised in Dr. Drage’s letter on our articleon as it was possible to conceive and could be termed the report of the Medical Defence Union are well worthy dangerous else but death-traps. Cheap lamps were deplorable, of the attention of the profession. All the same, we entirelynothing awful things, and their seriousness could hardly be realised. dissent from his conclusions. We have consistently disHe referred to the continual reports of deaths occurring from couraged the multiplicity of societies having the same object, the use of such articles all over England and expressed his and so have advocated the union of the two protection opinion that the sooner legislation put a stop to their use the societies. But we fail to see that one good strong society better it would be. for the one purpose of defence of members of the profession against unreasonable or malicious charges is too much for THE LATE GIUSEPPE FIORELLI. the work. It is very doubtful, indeed, whether the British MEDICINE owes a debt of gratitude to the distinguished Medical Association would add to its strength by above named, for he it was who not only archaeologist attempting the work done now so well by the Medical enriched the treasure-trove of ancient surgical instruments, and its sister It could Defence Union society. certainly not do the defence work better than it is done. And if this but also preserved for the comparative anatomist a vast work came to be added to the work of the Association, number of skeletons eighteen centuries old which otherwise already multifarious enough, the chances are it would would have been lost to history and science. These services be worse done. The disposition of one big body to absorb he rendered in his capacity of superintendent of the excavaand appropriate the function of other bodies less than tions at Pompeii. For twelve years he was the life and soul itself, but not less efficient, has many illustrations, and is of the operations by which that buried city has been restored not to be encouraged. Still more doubtful would be the to something like its former self in outline and in detail. the year in which the Bourbon Government was of the policy relieving corporations from their ethical func- Before 1860, in the Two Sicilies by that of the House of Savoy, tions by one huge corporation representative of the whole replaced excavation was conducted at Pompeii on unscientific lines, profession. The bodies that give diplomas cannot be relieved of the disciplinary duties attaching to their authority. The more attention being given to whatever objects of artistic or association of such duties with that of examining and negotiable value could be unearthed than to the determination its buildings public and private, its admitting to the profession is as old as the oldest qualifying of the plan ofitstheoiecity, intirne. Every visitor to the National occupations, and to no conceivable is alter Parliament the body, likely fact. We entirely agree with Dr. Drage that such bodies Museum of Naples must have profited by the richly represented should recognise the corporate rights of their members and beautifully arranged relics of Campanian life placed en without delay, and that they would strengthen themselves évidcrwe before.him, and supplementing so fully and so vividly through the silent streets and tenantless houses of by doing so. But if the British Medical Association is not athewalk once animated " Rome-super-Mare "-the " gay and guilty to have handed to it a over as likely voluntary association the ethical powers of the corporations it has enormous Brighton of the first century." All that memorable experience was made possible for him between the years 1860 and powers as a voluntary association. And it is only fair to 1872 by Fiorelli-an epoch in archaeology which has been say that it has no more used its full powers as a voluntary association than the corporations have used their full legal continued under the inspiration of its directing mind to the those twelve years some 600 skeletons powers to repress the evils of the profession. There can be present day. During and fragments of human bodies were excavated, all the no doubt that if ten years ago the British Medical Association individuals to whom these skeletons belonged having, with 1 THE one exception, died in great agony. Suffocated by the dense March LANCET, 21st, 1896, p. 794.
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1 wall of the left auricle at the margin of the appendix had resolved that no one should enjoy its membership i took office in a medical aid association, or any other auriculas. The pointed portion of the needle then extended who The point was just :association a which was proved to employ touters and to sweat across the opening into the appendix. i medical officers, it would have done much to prevent touching the opposite wall of the auricle, where a little its papilla of vegetations was set up by the irritation of the 1the evils which are now so seriously degrading the proi ?2 The Association has powers as a voluntary assopoint of the needle. In the ventricle the needle penetrated fession I the heart muscle immediately behind the coronary artery ciation which it could not have acting under the sanction of on its way to the anterior interventricular groove. TheParliament, and it will best serve the profession by retaining needle was firmly embedded in the tissue, so that it could freedom and using those powers well. not be pulled out without using considerable force. It was one and five-eighths of an inch long. It was black in colour THE VACANCY ON THE SENATE OF THE The left pleura was firmly and its surface quite smooth. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. The superior lobe of the left adherent throughout. SIR JOSEPH B.A., M.B., has consented to be put lung was a mass of tuberculous nodules and some in nomination LISTER, as a candidate to fill the vacancy on the small cavities. The inferior lobe presented another of the University of London caused by the resigna feature of interest in the presence of a broken knitting Senate tion of Mr. Hutton. Mr. Walter Rivington, B.A., M.B., M.S., needle. There was an old cicatrix in the skin to the left been invited to become a candidate for the vacant has also margin of the sternum. The needle, pointing downwards, seat. The is filled by the Crown from a list of three vacancy entered the lung at the anterior border of the inferior lobe submitted by Convocation, and on the present about two inches from the lower margin, passing down- persons the choice falls on a graduate in medicine or wards, backwards, and slightly outwards, reaching the outeroccasion science. surface of the lung at a point about four inches from its, posterior border and two inches above the circumference of PORTSMOUTH CORONER ON DANGEROUS the base. The needle was four and five-eighths of an inch LAMPS. long, the broken end being slightly bent and the other end AT an inquest at Portsmouth on March 23rd Mr. T. A. pointed and sharp. The needle was completely eneysted. the borough coroner, had something to say about Bramsdon, Neither point emerged before the manipulation of the lung in its removal. It was quite black and was not in any way cheap lamps. A woman aged fifty had been left in bed with a lamp which two years ago had been bought for one penny. corroded. She was afterwards found terribly burned-indeed, in flames -but gave no intelligible explanation of the occurrence. THE QUESTION OF MEDICAL DEFENCE. Mr. Bramsdon in his summing up said such lamps were as THE points raised in Dr. Drage’s letter on our articleon as it was possible to conceive and could be termed the report of the Medical Defence Union are well worthy dangerous else but death-traps. Cheap lamps were deplorable, of the attention of the profession. All the same, we entirelynothing awful things, and their seriousness could hardly be realised. dissent from his conclusions. We have consistently disHe referred to the continual reports of deaths occurring from couraged the multiplicity of societies having the same object, the use of such articles all over England and expressed his and so have advocated the union of the two protection opinion that the sooner legislation put a stop to their use the societies. But we fail to see that one good strong society better it would be. for the one purpose of defence of members of the profession against unreasonable or malicious charges is too much for THE LATE GIUSEPPE FIORELLI. the work. It is very doubtful, indeed, whether the British MEDICINE owes a debt of gratitude to the distinguished Medical Association would add to its strength by above named, for he it was who not only archaeologist attempting the work done now so well by the Medical enriched the treasure-trove of ancient surgical instruments, and its sister It could Defence Union society. certainly not do the defence work better than it is done. And if this but also preserved for the comparative anatomist a vast work came to be added to the work of the Association, number of skeletons eighteen centuries old which otherwise already multifarious enough, the chances are it would would have been lost to history and science. These services be worse done. The disposition of one big body to absorb he rendered in his capacity of superintendent of the excavaand appropriate the function of other bodies less than tions at Pompeii. For twelve years he was the life and soul itself, but not less efficient, has many illustrations, and is of the operations by which that buried city has been restored not to be encouraged. Still more doubtful would be the to something like its former self in outline and in detail. the year in which the Bourbon Government was of the policy relieving corporations from their ethical func- Before 1860, in the Two Sicilies by that of the House of Savoy, tions by one huge corporation representative of the whole replaced excavation was conducted at Pompeii on unscientific lines, profession. The bodies that give diplomas cannot be relieved of the disciplinary duties attaching to their authority. The more attention being given to whatever objects of artistic or association of such duties with that of examining and negotiable value could be unearthed than to the determination its buildings public and private, its admitting to the profession is as old as the oldest qualifying of the plan ofitstheoiecity, intirne. Every visitor to the National occupations, and to no conceivable is alter Parliament the body, likely fact. We entirely agree with Dr. Drage that such bodies Museum of Naples must have profited by the richly represented should recognise the corporate rights of their members and beautifully arranged relics of Campanian life placed en without delay, and that they would strengthen themselves évidcrwe before.him, and supplementing so fully and so vividly through the silent streets and tenantless houses of by doing so. But if the British Medical Association is not athewalk once animated " Rome-super-Mare "-the " gay and guilty to have handed to it a over as likely voluntary association the ethical powers of the corporations it has enormous Brighton of the first century." All that memorable experience was made possible for him between the years 1860 and powers as a voluntary association. And it is only fair to 1872 by Fiorelli-an epoch in archaeology which has been say that it has no more used its full powers as a voluntary association than the corporations have used their full legal continued under the inspiration of its directing mind to the those twelve years some 600 skeletons powers to repress the evils of the profession. There can be present day. During and fragments of human bodies were excavated, all the no doubt that if ten years ago the British Medical Association individuals to whom these skeletons belonged having, with 1 THE one exception, died in great agony. Suffocated by the dense March LANCET, 21st, 1896, p. 794.
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