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THE PROJECTED HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AT BIRMINGHAM.
279 curiosity was rewarded by finding in the pulp an deposit unlike either secondary or nodular dentine.
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HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AT BIRMINGHAM. WE hear from Birmingham that the promoters of a special hospital there for the Diseases of Women are earnestly gathering their forces for a public meeting, fixed for the 3rd proximo, and that no pains will be spared to obtain resolutions in support of the proposal. A very excellent letter has appeared in the Birmingham Daily Gazette, pointing out some of the difficulties in the way of the projected institution, and inquiring whether the existing charities could not be made to supply the want. We feel that here is the true solution of the matter. The Queen’s Hospital has recently constituted a department for female under the care of Mr. Clay, but has only been able to allot to it two beds. The General Hospital should follow the good example thus set, and should do so on a more extensive scale. There can be no doubt that there is a want of accommodation for the cases in question, and it is equally certain that such accommodation cannot be afforded as part of the ordinary work of a general hospital. It can be done
THE
PROJECTED
osseous
It was more like very coarse cementum ; but on closer examination it was found more nearly allied to osseous tissue existing in the cancelli of bone. It filled very nearly the whole of the pulp cavity at the junction of its middle and lower thirds, and was pressing the fasciculi of nervefibres out of their course. There can be no doubt that this was the cause of the pain. Two months had elapsed, and Mr. White had heard nothing more of his little patient.
THE ROYAL MEDICAL AND SOCIETY.
diseases.,
CHIRURCICAL
meeting of this Society will be held on WedMarch 1st, when Mr. Curling, F.R.S., will be pronesday, for posed president, Dr. Basham for one of the treasurers, and Dr. Symes Thompson for medical secretary in place of Dr. W. Ogle. We notice that it will be proposed to begin the session of the Society on the second Tuesday in October, instead of the second Tuesday in November, and to only by a special hospital or by a special department. terminate it at the end of May instead of June. This will, Where there is a superabundance of money, the chief ob- we think, be an improvement, for the sittings in June are jection to a special hospital is that it wastes the time of usually very ill attended; and if the Society will adopt the students in journeys to and fro, and that its arrangements suggestion we made last year, and hold over papers which about hours often clash with lectures and other work. cannot be read in extenso during one session, to the next, Where funds are limited, it should be remembered that instead of H murdering the innocents" by the half-dozen on .every bed in a small special hospital costs much more than the last two evenings, there will be no lack of papers in a bed in a large one, where the establishment charges are October. The Council recommends the discontinuance of spread over a wider area. If the charitable folk in Birming- the publication of the Society’s Proceedings-an event which ham wish to do the greatest possible amount of good with will, we believe, excite little regret in the mind of anybody. their money, to benefit the greatest possible number of actual patients, and to diffuse knowledge widely among THE NAVAL DIRECTOR-GENERAL. students for the general benefit of the public, they will go A PARAGRAPH in the Army and Navy Gazette directs attento one of the great hospitals with proposals for the formation of an efficient department under a medical officer or tion to a subject which we have felt some delicacy in officers appointed for the purpose. If they were repulsed, noticing hitherto, lest it should be thought that we were they would then have good reason for establishing a special unduly pressing the claims of a professional brother. We hospital; but at present they have no case. A separate hos- refer to the persistent way in which all titular honours are pital is the resource of a specialism that is struggling to- withheld from the Director-General of the Medical Departwards recognition; and, when such a specialism can fa,irly ment of the Navy, the head of a service towards which the - claim a 11 department," to build for it a new hospital would Government professes to be well disposed, but which has The Directorbe a retrogression. The hospitals in which it was originally hitherto had but little encouragement. fostered may still exist, but its actual home should be found General of the Army Medical Department not only enjoys in the great charities to which the medical schools are a larger salary than his fellow of Somerset Honse, but the successive holders of office at Whitehall have received the affiliated distinction of the K.C.B.; whilst from both Dr. Armstrong, TOOTH-PAIN WITHOUT CARIES. and his predecessor, Dr. Bryson, that distinction has been WE all have met with cases of great pain in apparently withheld. Again, when the late Sir James Gibson resound teeth. Mr. White, at the recent annual meeting of tired from office after a seven years’ tenure, he was given the Odontological Society, made an important contribution an extra pension; but when Dr. Bryson applied for a to an understanding of such cases. A boy eight years old similar indulgence, he was refused. On this subject we are glad to find that we are of one was brought to him on account of continued pain in a lower mind with Dr. Frederick J. Brown, who, in the second edition The sound canine tooth. tooth and being quite temporary firm, he advised that the gum be well rubbed with spirits of his pamphlet on the Naval Medical Service (just pubof camphor as a counter-irritant, and that the boy be lished) urges that there is a strong feeling in the service brought back in a week. But before this time had elapsed that the Director-General of the Navy should be put on the boy was brought back with a request that the tooth perfectly equal terms with his brother of the Army, both as might be at once extracted, with a view to the relief of the regards honours and emoluments; and shows that, though incessant pain. This was done, and the cause of the pain a five years’ tenure of office as Director may be beneficial, yet was looked for in the pulp cavity of the tooth by Mr.White, that the holder of it may, under the Superannuation Act of who at a former time had found intolerable pain caused in a 1859, be eligible for a superannuation allowance. Dr. Armstrong has, we believe, deserved well both of the young lady of seventeen, in whom all the teeth on the affected side were apparently sound. She referred the pain to an in- department and of the Government. To have carried two ferior front bicuspid. This was eventually extracted, at the great reforms such as (1) the abolition of the Captainearnest solicitation of the patient, and on being opened the Superintendents of naval hospitals, by which the inspectors cause of pain was manifested in a globular mass of osseous become the acting and responsible cfficers, and (2) the deposit in the upper part of the pulp. It consisted of opening of Netley hospital and school to the naval medical nodular dentine pressing the sensitive pulp against the department, shows how fully he has the interests of the prowalls of the cavity. In the case of the little boy, Mr.White’s fession as well as of the service at heart. THE annual
I
scientific
HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AT BIRMINGHAM. WE hear from Birmingham that the promoters of a special hospital there for the Diseases of Women are earnestly gathering their forces for a public meeting, fixed for the 3rd proximo, and that no pains will be spared to obtain resolutions in support of the proposal. A very excellent letter has appeared in the Birmingham Daily Gazette, pointing out some of the difficulties in the way of the projected institution, and inquiring whether the existing charities could not be made to supply the want. We feel that here is the true solution of the matter. The Queen’s Hospital has recently constituted a department for female under the care of Mr. Clay, but has only been able to allot to it two beds. The General Hospital should follow the good example thus set, and should do so on a more extensive scale. There can be no doubt that there is a want of accommodation for the cases in question, and it is equally certain that such accommodation cannot be afforded as part of the ordinary work of a general hospital. It can be done
THE
PROJECTED
osseous
It was more like very coarse cementum ; but on closer examination it was found more nearly allied to osseous tissue existing in the cancelli of bone. It filled very nearly the whole of the pulp cavity at the junction of its middle and lower thirds, and was pressing the fasciculi of nervefibres out of their course. There can be no doubt that this was the cause of the pain. Two months had elapsed, and Mr. White had heard nothing more of his little patient.
THE ROYAL MEDICAL AND SOCIETY.
diseases.,
CHIRURCICAL
meeting of this Society will be held on WedMarch 1st, when Mr. Curling, F.R.S., will be pronesday, for posed president, Dr. Basham for one of the treasurers, and Dr. Symes Thompson for medical secretary in place of Dr. W. Ogle. We notice that it will be proposed to begin the session of the Society on the second Tuesday in October, instead of the second Tuesday in November, and to only by a special hospital or by a special department. terminate it at the end of May instead of June. This will, Where there is a superabundance of money, the chief ob- we think, be an improvement, for the sittings in June are jection to a special hospital is that it wastes the time of usually very ill attended; and if the Society will adopt the students in journeys to and fro, and that its arrangements suggestion we made last year, and hold over papers which about hours often clash with lectures and other work. cannot be read in extenso during one session, to the next, Where funds are limited, it should be remembered that instead of H murdering the innocents" by the half-dozen on .every bed in a small special hospital costs much more than the last two evenings, there will be no lack of papers in a bed in a large one, where the establishment charges are October. The Council recommends the discontinuance of spread over a wider area. If the charitable folk in Birming- the publication of the Society’s Proceedings-an event which ham wish to do the greatest possible amount of good with will, we believe, excite little regret in the mind of anybody. their money, to benefit the greatest possible number of actual patients, and to diffuse knowledge widely among THE NAVAL DIRECTOR-GENERAL. students for the general benefit of the public, they will go A PARAGRAPH in the Army and Navy Gazette directs attento one of the great hospitals with proposals for the formation of an efficient department under a medical officer or tion to a subject which we have felt some delicacy in officers appointed for the purpose. If they were repulsed, noticing hitherto, lest it should be thought that we were they would then have good reason for establishing a special unduly pressing the claims of a professional brother. We hospital; but at present they have no case. A separate hos- refer to the persistent way in which all titular honours are pital is the resource of a specialism that is struggling to- withheld from the Director-General of the Medical Departwards recognition; and, when such a specialism can fa,irly ment of the Navy, the head of a service towards which the - claim a 11 department," to build for it a new hospital would Government professes to be well disposed, but which has The Directorbe a retrogression. The hospitals in which it was originally hitherto had but little encouragement. fostered may still exist, but its actual home should be found General of the Army Medical Department not only enjoys in the great charities to which the medical schools are a larger salary than his fellow of Somerset Honse, but the successive holders of office at Whitehall have received the affiliated distinction of the K.C.B.; whilst from both Dr. Armstrong, TOOTH-PAIN WITHOUT CARIES. and his predecessor, Dr. Bryson, that distinction has been WE all have met with cases of great pain in apparently withheld. Again, when the late Sir James Gibson resound teeth. Mr. White, at the recent annual meeting of tired from office after a seven years’ tenure, he was given the Odontological Society, made an important contribution an extra pension; but when Dr. Bryson applied for a to an understanding of such cases. A boy eight years old similar indulgence, he was refused. On this subject we are glad to find that we are of one was brought to him on account of continued pain in a lower mind with Dr. Frederick J. Brown, who, in the second edition The sound canine tooth. tooth and being quite temporary firm, he advised that the gum be well rubbed with spirits of his pamphlet on the Naval Medical Service (just pubof camphor as a counter-irritant, and that the boy be lished) urges that there is a strong feeling in the service brought back in a week. But before this time had elapsed that the Director-General of the Navy should be put on the boy was brought back with a request that the tooth perfectly equal terms with his brother of the Army, both as might be at once extracted, with a view to the relief of the regards honours and emoluments; and shows that, though incessant pain. This was done, and the cause of the pain a five years’ tenure of office as Director may be beneficial, yet was looked for in the pulp cavity of the tooth by Mr.White, that the holder of it may, under the Superannuation Act of who at a former time had found intolerable pain caused in a 1859, be eligible for a superannuation allowance. Dr. Armstrong has, we believe, deserved well both of the young lady of seventeen, in whom all the teeth on the affected side were apparently sound. She referred the pain to an in- department and of the Government. To have carried two ferior front bicuspid. This was eventually extracted, at the great reforms such as (1) the abolition of the Captainearnest solicitation of the patient, and on being opened the Superintendents of naval hospitals, by which the inspectors cause of pain was manifested in a globular mass of osseous become the acting and responsible cfficers, and (2) the deposit in the upper part of the pulp. It consisted of opening of Netley hospital and school to the naval medical nodular dentine pressing the sensitive pulp against the department, shows how fully he has the interests of the prowalls of the cavity. In the case of the little boy, Mr.White’s fession as well as of the service at heart. THE annual
I