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THE RELATION OF THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY TO HOME DEFENCE.
46 and belladonna are extensively used, but the administration of alkalies is much less employed. They admit that the determination of the indications for surgical treatment is the main question of the day. Professor Obrastzow of Kiew reviews the treatment of gastric ulcer in Russia. The editor, Professor Bickel, contributes a review of the pathology of the secretion and movements of the digestive canal, which contains within short compass some interesting material. We welcome this new publication and feel assured that it will be well supported and will prove of great value to the medical profession in many countries.
the necessity arise for the defence of our country. The members of such a detachment should possess a working knowledge of first aid and field nursing, and plans should be prepared beforehand. "Let us suppose that the school. house, the church, or the hall will hold 40 wounded. 40 beds must be provided. Are there 40 inhabitants who will give a bed and bedding for each of these ? Are there ten women who will nurse them ? Are there three women who will cook for them ? Is there a minister of religion who will give them comfort and consolation ? Is there a village carpenter who will prepare splints for the mangled limbs, and are there children who will roll the bandages to envelop them ?" No doubt all will be forthcoming, but what is needed is preTHE JOHN HERBERT WELLS FUND. There must be no conTHERE is hardly need to retell the story of the heroic life paration, organisation, training. no overlapping, no misunderstanding ; there must be fusion, and death of John Herbert Wells, for those of our readers self-sacrifice. who did not read the obituary notice in our own columns ofknowledge, organisation, precision, discipline, must know his own place, or her own place, and Everyone Oct. 23rd last have probably seen particulars of his career in women are little less needed than men, for nursing,, for cookone or other of the daily papers, which published the appeal as we see here for the first time in military organiIn case any have not ing, and, on behalf of his widow and children. as qualified physicians and surgeons. The county sation, seen them we may repeat that whilst treating a case of branches of the Red Cross Society undertake the formation human glanders successfully with a vaccine Wells received of these Voluntary Aid Detachments ; each county is to an accidental laboratory infection, which resulted in his have its own director, who will act as administrative officer. in of October last after 18 months death helpless suffering. Wherever the military operations are taking place, the There has been a generous response to the Fund from the commander should know the capacity for assistance of general public and the medical profession, but those who the part of the country concerned. Suppose the railway have undertaken to collect and administer it are very anxious lines are blocked, or that the urgency of the military operathat such a sum shall be provided as will ensure, an income tions renders their use impossible except for combatant that will enable Mrs. Wells to live in moderate comfort and the local resources would have to be relied to educate her two children in a manner worthy of their purposes, on both for accommodation for sick and wounded and father. Every additional £100 that is raised will further this All this should be thought out and for transport. end, and we ask those of our readers who are blessed with so that the commander might know beforehand, arranged a comfortable living, if they have not yet subscribed to this that by such and such a route there would be clearing Fund, to give according to their means. The medical proand all that is needed fession is conspicuous for its charity, and it cannot surely be hospitals, temporary rest stations, the and wounded. Sir Alfred for sick Keogh admitted better exercised than in honouring the memory of one of its that the work to be done to secure this result looked formidmartyrs by rendering substantial assistance to those who were dearest to him. The committee in charge of the Fund able ; but he maintained that it is not really so. No one individual has to know all the duties, and the demands upon are the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, the Earl of Dalhousie, the time of members of the Voluntary Aid Detachments need Lord Justice Fletcher Moulton, Sir Almroth Wright, Mr. We again not be great, once a beginning has been made. H. A. Harben, Mr. Edmund A. Smith, Dr. W. H. Willcox, this scheme to our professional brethren throughout commend and Mr. Julian Lousada. Lord Dalhousie and Mr. Lousada the country ; success is assured if we as a body respond to are ,the joint honorary secretaries and treasurers of the the call of the military authorities. No class or profession fund, and will be pleased to receive subscriptions sent either is more sincerely desirous of peace than our own ; but si vis through this journal, in which they will be acknowledged, or bellum. Paceva, para E. C. directly to 16, Old Broad-street, London,
spiritual
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THE
RELATION OF THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY TO HOME DEFENCE.
WE have already referred in these columns to the new scheme of organisation of medical aid to our Forces in the The medical organisation for the event of invasion.1 has line been completed, also that for the fighting base of operations, in the shape of 23 large hospitals, which will be opened as required at important centres throughout the country. For the intermediate arrangements the War Office authorities rely on the assistance of the non-military part of the population, which they ask to be afforded through the agency of Voluntary Aid Detachments in connexion with the County Associations and the British Red Cross Society. Sir Alfred Keogh recently gave an address at St. James’s Palace to the council and officials of this society, in explanation of the principles of the scheme, and emphasising certain important details. Why should not every town and even every important village possess one of these detachments ? We are told by war experts that there is no single spot in these islands from which it can be said such aid will not be required should 1
THE
LANCET, Oct. 9th, 1909,
p. 1080.
THE
MEDICAL SCHOOLS OF FRANCE: A STUDENTS’ GUIDE.
THOSE who have just completed, or nearly completed, their medical curriculum in this country often derive great benefit from a short period of additional study in one of the continental schools. All change of environment has a real educational value, and this applies with force to young practitioners whose life’s work will bring them into contact with different classes of the population in every possible condition of health and sickness. Breadth of view is gained by living under the altered conditions abroad, and those who can afford this useful interlude should certainly take it. Le Progres Medical has now issued a Numéro des Étudiants, a cloth-bound volume of more than 1000 pages called 11 Index du Progres Medical," and we are flattered to note that the idea of the publication was originally suggested by the Students’ Number of -THE LANCET. The work covers a wide field, and those who intend to study at any medical school in France will find in the earlier portion an exhaustive account of all the schools in the country, with useful notes on the stages of the curriculum and the _ examining bodies, and a long list of the subjects on which candidates have been examined for
,
the necessity arise for the defence of our country. The members of such a detachment should possess a working knowledge of first aid and field nursing, and plans should be prepared beforehand. "Let us suppose that the school. house, the church, or the hall will hold 40 wounded. 40 beds must be provided. Are there 40 inhabitants who will give a bed and bedding for each of these ? Are there ten women who will nurse them ? Are there three women who will cook for them ? Is there a minister of religion who will give them comfort and consolation ? Is there a village carpenter who will prepare splints for the mangled limbs, and are there children who will roll the bandages to envelop them ?" No doubt all will be forthcoming, but what is needed is preTHE JOHN HERBERT WELLS FUND. There must be no conTHERE is hardly need to retell the story of the heroic life paration, organisation, training. no overlapping, no misunderstanding ; there must be fusion, and death of John Herbert Wells, for those of our readers self-sacrifice. who did not read the obituary notice in our own columns ofknowledge, organisation, precision, discipline, must know his own place, or her own place, and Everyone Oct. 23rd last have probably seen particulars of his career in women are little less needed than men, for nursing,, for cookone or other of the daily papers, which published the appeal as we see here for the first time in military organiIn case any have not ing, and, on behalf of his widow and children. as qualified physicians and surgeons. The county sation, seen them we may repeat that whilst treating a case of branches of the Red Cross Society undertake the formation human glanders successfully with a vaccine Wells received of these Voluntary Aid Detachments ; each county is to an accidental laboratory infection, which resulted in his have its own director, who will act as administrative officer. in of October last after 18 months death helpless suffering. Wherever the military operations are taking place, the There has been a generous response to the Fund from the commander should know the capacity for assistance of general public and the medical profession, but those who the part of the country concerned. Suppose the railway have undertaken to collect and administer it are very anxious lines are blocked, or that the urgency of the military operathat such a sum shall be provided as will ensure, an income tions renders their use impossible except for combatant that will enable Mrs. Wells to live in moderate comfort and the local resources would have to be relied to educate her two children in a manner worthy of their purposes, on both for accommodation for sick and wounded and father. Every additional £100 that is raised will further this All this should be thought out and for transport. end, and we ask those of our readers who are blessed with so that the commander might know beforehand, arranged a comfortable living, if they have not yet subscribed to this that by such and such a route there would be clearing Fund, to give according to their means. The medical proand all that is needed fession is conspicuous for its charity, and it cannot surely be hospitals, temporary rest stations, the and wounded. Sir Alfred for sick Keogh admitted better exercised than in honouring the memory of one of its that the work to be done to secure this result looked formidmartyrs by rendering substantial assistance to those who were dearest to him. The committee in charge of the Fund able ; but he maintained that it is not really so. No one individual has to know all the duties, and the demands upon are the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, the Earl of Dalhousie, the time of members of the Voluntary Aid Detachments need Lord Justice Fletcher Moulton, Sir Almroth Wright, Mr. We again not be great, once a beginning has been made. H. A. Harben, Mr. Edmund A. Smith, Dr. W. H. Willcox, this scheme to our professional brethren throughout commend and Mr. Julian Lousada. Lord Dalhousie and Mr. Lousada the country ; success is assured if we as a body respond to are ,the joint honorary secretaries and treasurers of the the call of the military authorities. No class or profession fund, and will be pleased to receive subscriptions sent either is more sincerely desirous of peace than our own ; but si vis through this journal, in which they will be acknowledged, or bellum. Paceva, para E. C. directly to 16, Old Broad-street, London,
spiritual
-
THE
RELATION OF THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY TO HOME DEFENCE.
WE have already referred in these columns to the new scheme of organisation of medical aid to our Forces in the The medical organisation for the event of invasion.1 has line been completed, also that for the fighting base of operations, in the shape of 23 large hospitals, which will be opened as required at important centres throughout the country. For the intermediate arrangements the War Office authorities rely on the assistance of the non-military part of the population, which they ask to be afforded through the agency of Voluntary Aid Detachments in connexion with the County Associations and the British Red Cross Society. Sir Alfred Keogh recently gave an address at St. James’s Palace to the council and officials of this society, in explanation of the principles of the scheme, and emphasising certain important details. Why should not every town and even every important village possess one of these detachments ? We are told by war experts that there is no single spot in these islands from which it can be said such aid will not be required should 1
THE
LANCET, Oct. 9th, 1909,
p. 1080.
THE
MEDICAL SCHOOLS OF FRANCE: A STUDENTS’ GUIDE.
THOSE who have just completed, or nearly completed, their medical curriculum in this country often derive great benefit from a short period of additional study in one of the continental schools. All change of environment has a real educational value, and this applies with force to young practitioners whose life’s work will bring them into contact with different classes of the population in every possible condition of health and sickness. Breadth of view is gained by living under the altered conditions abroad, and those who can afford this useful interlude should certainly take it. Le Progres Medical has now issued a Numéro des Étudiants, a cloth-bound volume of more than 1000 pages called 11 Index du Progres Medical," and we are flattered to note that the idea of the publication was originally suggested by the Students’ Number of -THE LANCET. The work covers a wide field, and those who intend to study at any medical school in France will find in the earlier portion an exhaustive account of all the schools in the country, with useful notes on the stages of the curriculum and the _ examining bodies, and a long list of the subjects on which candidates have been examined for
,