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THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
1275 Last Load"(92) lighted landscape.
sends a clever study of a low evening In the large room (160) " A Tanagraean Pastoral," by Mr. G. H. Boughton, exhibits all the painter’s well-known grace and delicacy of handling, while special mention must be made of (166) " The le-le of Avalon," FROM by Mr. J. W. North ;of (167) " Tucking the Rick," by MAY 1824. Mr. La Thangue ; of Mr. Melton Fisher’s charming picture (179) "The Mirror"; of (191) Mr. Hook’s "Home from the Marshes," wherein we grieve to state that the returning LEPROSY. sportsman has shot a heron ; of (198) by Mr. W. J. Donne; The following description of the species of leprosy being a very original presentment of "The Chalk Pit, "; and (201) a perfect little gem by Sir L. Alma commonly met with in India, is from the interesting work Mer&tham entitled-b’lcctc7ces in -ZM.<7M, written by l4Ir. HUGGINS, late Tadema, "Caracalla."" Mr. George Clausen, in (648) "The an indigo planter in the district of Tirrhoot :Rickyard : a Winter Idyll," gives with his usual skill the Of the sculpture effect of the cold wintry sunshine. A person attacked with the species of leprosy prevalent in India is bloated in his face; his forehead, nose, lips and ears swell out; his we may mention (1600) -1 Fairy Tales," a pretty little nostrils expand ; his eyes appear sunk and very fiery; the tone of his statuette, by Mr. F. M. Taubman ; (1609) Mr. Brock’s voice is altered to a loud and somewhat nasal sound ; no eruptions statue of Gladstone ; (1617) Mr. Swan’s wonderful repreappear upon his body, but his skin is hard, parched, and dry, having .entirely lost its softness and moisture. About the shoulders he appears sentation of a wounded leopard. It is transfixed by an arrow, tight and contracted ; his knees are stiff and motions constrained ; the at which it is tugging in a vain effort to extract the missile. hairs fall off him, or are seen in their stunted stalks, dried up from The late Mr. Onslow Ford has several examples of his art, want of wholesome nourishment; his breath is foetid, his perspiration " Snowdrift " ; stopped, or if it flows at all is rank and stinking; he complams of the most noticeable of which is (1723) excessive internal heat, cannot bear exposure to the sun, and is another (1694), a silver and ivory group, St. George and his in the their discharges, digestive organs performing irregular the Dragon," is a piece of real handicraft. St. George is dlmctions very imperfectly; there is a certain numbness seizes all his acuities, so that his sensations of pleasure and pain are considerably standing on the dying dragon and he is habited in one of impaired ; and lepers of this kind have no excessive propensity to those wonderful petticoated suits of armour which, although venery after the disease appears, although they may have had it before. they look all right when the wearer is on horseback, are not It is a common opinion that people seized with this malady are of a suitable to a dismounted man. Of the water-colours we have warm and amorous temperament; but when a person is seized with leprosy, the pleasure derived from such indulgencies. and the capacity only space to refer to Mr. Goodwin’s exquisite " Amalfi " (978). nor them are in a great measure annulled. After these primary .symptoms, when the disease has become inveterate, the leper’sfingers arc gradually eaten away, and drop off at the joints ; his toes are
Looking Back.
THE LANCET, SATURDAY,
1,
g;
"
.affected in a similar manner, sores break out about his ancles and wrists. During the progress of these cancerous attacks no pain is endured by the leper, owing to that numbness which I have already stated as pervarling his system whilst the disease gradually proceeds ulcerating his flesh, and dissolving his joints, till the vitals become .-)ffected. In the last stage his flesh gapes with long sores, his mouth, nose and brain dissolve before the leprous poison, till death happily relieves him from such accumulated miseries. Some fakirs profess to o LOCAL ’cure this disease, it applied to at an early stage of it; and I have known men them. To a cure these men healed effect myself by Wmnister a root procured from Nepanl, which causes copious salivaREPORTS OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH. tion; they also put the patient oil a regimen, forbid him the use Bath Urban District.-BVe are to learn from of salt and sexual cohabitation, and the lepers who recover generally abstain from these during the remainder of their lives.’ current annual report of Dr. W. H. Symons that
Poor Public Health and Law. GOVERNMENT
BOARD.
glad
criticisms which
THE 134th exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts which will be open to the public on May 5th is an average show. That is to say, there are good pictures and mediocre pictures, but there is no work like the famous "Ascher Wertheimer " of Mr. Sargent exhibited in 1898. That accomplished artist sends eight portraits, of which perhaps the best are (157) " Alfred Wertheimer, Esq.,"and (323) 1 - The Duchess of Portland." The painting of the jewels in the last-named is comparable to that of Titian in the "Family of Darius." To our thinking, however, by far the best portrait in the exhibition is (202) " Lady Marjorie Manners " by lVIr. Shannon. Both colour and quality are beautiful and the way in which the various shades of black are managed is worthy of all praise. Of portraits which have a more or less medical interest we must mention (134) "The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London," Sir Joseph Dimsdale, M.P., by Mr. A. S. Cope; (244) an admirable picture of " Lord Kelvin," by Mr. Ouless; (291) "Professor J. B. Pettigrew," also by Mr. Ouless ; and (788) a very good likeness of Surgeon-General Jameson by Mr. W. R. Symonds. A clever portrait is (45) "Miss Gertrude Bowles," by Mr. Mouat Loudan. Of" figure studies Mr. H. J. Draper in (26) " A Deep-sea Idyll shows his usual mastery in anatomical drawing and flesh painting ;while good anatomical drawing and modelling triumphing over difficulties of position are to be found in <110) " Many Waters cannot. Quench Love," by St. George Hare, and in (149) " Storm Nymphs," by the President. In (295) "The Plague," Mr. John Collier has painted a His dead lady looks .gruesome subject with great skill. really dead : we have never seen the absolutely lacklustre eye of a corpse represented more Of other pictures Mr. Charles Sims’s "The Top o’ the Hill" .(24) is full of breeze and light and atmosphere, while Mr. W. Hatherell in his "Gleaners Waiting for the
truthfully.
published
in
our
columns in October,
to sanitary arrangements at the Royal Mineral Water Hospital at Bath have resulted in an enormous improvement
1898,
THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
we
the the
as
in the condition of the institution.
The
general sanitary
"models of in 1737 with the view of gratuitously extending to the poor of the United Kingdom the benefits of the local hot springs. Dr. Symons gone very thoroughly into the distribution of tuberculosis in Bath, and he finds that during the last 32 years there have been in some streets no deaths from this disease, whereas in others the deaths have been numerous. In one street he found as many as 52 deaths and as an instance of the diminishing number of deaths from phthisis in one selected locality ot the city the figures by decades have been worked out. In 1866-75 there were 34 deaths and in the next decade there were 31. In the five years 1886-90 improvements were made and during this period there were but 11 deaths. From 1891 to 1900 there were in the same area but five deaths from this disease. In connexion with the control of phthisis in Bath it may be mentioned that the Corporation has contributed f:500 towards the erection of the Winsley Sanatorium for consumptive patients and an annual subscription, to provide two beds, of f:130. ( Croydon Rnral DÜtrict.-The Croydon sewage farm, which would appear to be situated in or near this district, gave rise to serious complaints during the past year and we are glad to hear that the sewage is now to be further treated. Diphtheria has been very prevalent in a locality known as Beddington Corner, which is bounded on one side by the Croydon sewage farm and on the other by the polluted Wandle river. The soil of the Corner is water-logged and Mr. C. M. Fegen, the medical officer of health of the district under consideration, is evidently inclined to ascribe to the topographical conditions of the Corner some share in the production of diphtheria, even if such share be one of predisposition only. The district council provides antitoxin and opportunities for bacteriological examinations for the medical practitioners of the district. The foul condition of the Wandle remains unabated, but the several district councils morally involved have conferred together with a view to purify the stream.
arrangements are now, Dr. Symons states, applied science." This institution was founded
has
-
sends a clever study of a low evening In the large room (160) " A Tanagraean Pastoral," by Mr. G. H. Boughton, exhibits all the painter’s well-known grace and delicacy of handling, while special mention must be made of (166) " The le-le of Avalon," FROM by Mr. J. W. North ;of (167) " Tucking the Rick," by MAY 1824. Mr. La Thangue ; of Mr. Melton Fisher’s charming picture (179) "The Mirror"; of (191) Mr. Hook’s "Home from the Marshes," wherein we grieve to state that the returning LEPROSY. sportsman has shot a heron ; of (198) by Mr. W. J. Donne; The following description of the species of leprosy being a very original presentment of "The Chalk Pit, "; and (201) a perfect little gem by Sir L. Alma commonly met with in India, is from the interesting work Mer&tham entitled-b’lcctc7ces in -ZM.<7M, written by l4Ir. HUGGINS, late Tadema, "Caracalla."" Mr. George Clausen, in (648) "The an indigo planter in the district of Tirrhoot :Rickyard : a Winter Idyll," gives with his usual skill the Of the sculpture effect of the cold wintry sunshine. A person attacked with the species of leprosy prevalent in India is bloated in his face; his forehead, nose, lips and ears swell out; his we may mention (1600) -1 Fairy Tales," a pretty little nostrils expand ; his eyes appear sunk and very fiery; the tone of his statuette, by Mr. F. M. Taubman ; (1609) Mr. Brock’s voice is altered to a loud and somewhat nasal sound ; no eruptions statue of Gladstone ; (1617) Mr. Swan’s wonderful repreappear upon his body, but his skin is hard, parched, and dry, having .entirely lost its softness and moisture. About the shoulders he appears sentation of a wounded leopard. It is transfixed by an arrow, tight and contracted ; his knees are stiff and motions constrained ; the at which it is tugging in a vain effort to extract the missile. hairs fall off him, or are seen in their stunted stalks, dried up from The late Mr. Onslow Ford has several examples of his art, want of wholesome nourishment; his breath is foetid, his perspiration " Snowdrift " ; stopped, or if it flows at all is rank and stinking; he complams of the most noticeable of which is (1723) excessive internal heat, cannot bear exposure to the sun, and is another (1694), a silver and ivory group, St. George and his in the their discharges, digestive organs performing irregular the Dragon," is a piece of real handicraft. St. George is dlmctions very imperfectly; there is a certain numbness seizes all his acuities, so that his sensations of pleasure and pain are considerably standing on the dying dragon and he is habited in one of impaired ; and lepers of this kind have no excessive propensity to those wonderful petticoated suits of armour which, although venery after the disease appears, although they may have had it before. they look all right when the wearer is on horseback, are not It is a common opinion that people seized with this malady are of a suitable to a dismounted man. Of the water-colours we have warm and amorous temperament; but when a person is seized with leprosy, the pleasure derived from such indulgencies. and the capacity only space to refer to Mr. Goodwin’s exquisite " Amalfi " (978). nor them are in a great measure annulled. After these primary .symptoms, when the disease has become inveterate, the leper’sfingers arc gradually eaten away, and drop off at the joints ; his toes are
Looking Back.
THE LANCET, SATURDAY,
1,
g;
"
.affected in a similar manner, sores break out about his ancles and wrists. During the progress of these cancerous attacks no pain is endured by the leper, owing to that numbness which I have already stated as pervarling his system whilst the disease gradually proceeds ulcerating his flesh, and dissolving his joints, till the vitals become .-)ffected. In the last stage his flesh gapes with long sores, his mouth, nose and brain dissolve before the leprous poison, till death happily relieves him from such accumulated miseries. Some fakirs profess to o LOCAL ’cure this disease, it applied to at an early stage of it; and I have known men them. To a cure these men healed effect myself by Wmnister a root procured from Nepanl, which causes copious salivaREPORTS OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH. tion; they also put the patient oil a regimen, forbid him the use Bath Urban District.-BVe are to learn from of salt and sexual cohabitation, and the lepers who recover generally abstain from these during the remainder of their lives.’ current annual report of Dr. W. H. Symons that
Poor Public Health and Law. GOVERNMENT
BOARD.
glad
criticisms which
THE 134th exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts which will be open to the public on May 5th is an average show. That is to say, there are good pictures and mediocre pictures, but there is no work like the famous "Ascher Wertheimer " of Mr. Sargent exhibited in 1898. That accomplished artist sends eight portraits, of which perhaps the best are (157) " Alfred Wertheimer, Esq.,"and (323) 1 - The Duchess of Portland." The painting of the jewels in the last-named is comparable to that of Titian in the "Family of Darius." To our thinking, however, by far the best portrait in the exhibition is (202) " Lady Marjorie Manners " by lVIr. Shannon. Both colour and quality are beautiful and the way in which the various shades of black are managed is worthy of all praise. Of portraits which have a more or less medical interest we must mention (134) "The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London," Sir Joseph Dimsdale, M.P., by Mr. A. S. Cope; (244) an admirable picture of " Lord Kelvin," by Mr. Ouless; (291) "Professor J. B. Pettigrew," also by Mr. Ouless ; and (788) a very good likeness of Surgeon-General Jameson by Mr. W. R. Symonds. A clever portrait is (45) "Miss Gertrude Bowles," by Mr. Mouat Loudan. Of" figure studies Mr. H. J. Draper in (26) " A Deep-sea Idyll shows his usual mastery in anatomical drawing and flesh painting ;while good anatomical drawing and modelling triumphing over difficulties of position are to be found in <110) " Many Waters cannot. Quench Love," by St. George Hare, and in (149) " Storm Nymphs," by the President. In (295) "The Plague," Mr. John Collier has painted a His dead lady looks .gruesome subject with great skill. really dead : we have never seen the absolutely lacklustre eye of a corpse represented more Of other pictures Mr. Charles Sims’s "The Top o’ the Hill" .(24) is full of breeze and light and atmosphere, while Mr. W. Hatherell in his "Gleaners Waiting for the
truthfully.
published
in
our
columns in October,
to sanitary arrangements at the Royal Mineral Water Hospital at Bath have resulted in an enormous improvement
1898,
THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
we
the the
as
in the condition of the institution.
The
general sanitary
"models of in 1737 with the view of gratuitously extending to the poor of the United Kingdom the benefits of the local hot springs. Dr. Symons gone very thoroughly into the distribution of tuberculosis in Bath, and he finds that during the last 32 years there have been in some streets no deaths from this disease, whereas in others the deaths have been numerous. In one street he found as many as 52 deaths and as an instance of the diminishing number of deaths from phthisis in one selected locality ot the city the figures by decades have been worked out. In 1866-75 there were 34 deaths and in the next decade there were 31. In the five years 1886-90 improvements were made and during this period there were but 11 deaths. From 1891 to 1900 there were in the same area but five deaths from this disease. In connexion with the control of phthisis in Bath it may be mentioned that the Corporation has contributed f:500 towards the erection of the Winsley Sanatorium for consumptive patients and an annual subscription, to provide two beds, of f:130. ( Croydon Rnral DÜtrict.-The Croydon sewage farm, which would appear to be situated in or near this district, gave rise to serious complaints during the past year and we are glad to hear that the sewage is now to be further treated. Diphtheria has been very prevalent in a locality known as Beddington Corner, which is bounded on one side by the Croydon sewage farm and on the other by the polluted Wandle river. The soil of the Corner is water-logged and Mr. C. M. Fegen, the medical officer of health of the district under consideration, is evidently inclined to ascribe to the topographical conditions of the Corner some share in the production of diphtheria, even if such share be one of predisposition only. The district council provides antitoxin and opportunities for bacteriological examinations for the medical practitioners of the district. The foul condition of the Wandle remains unabated, but the several district councils morally involved have conferred together with a view to purify the stream.
arrangements are now, Dr. Symons states, applied science." This institution was founded
has
-