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THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS STALL AT THE NATIONAL BAZZAR.
1601 such pollution must exist. It does not necessarily follow that this should be brought indoors. Unfortunately, at the present time a large number of women sweep the streets with the skirts of their gowns and other garments and bear with them wherever they go the abominable filth to which we have briefly alluded. Attempts are, indeed, often made by women to keep their dresses from dragging. Such attempts are usually unsuccessful. The management of a long gown is too difficult a matter for the majority of Englishwomen. The habit has arisen of seizing the upper part of the skirt and holding it in a bunch at a place called by women the broad part of the back below the waist" and amongst anatomists by the less cumbrous term 11 gluteal region." This practice can be commended neither from a physiological nor fiom an artistic point of view. It is not to our purpose to descant on the absurdity or on the ugliness of the habit of walking in long skirts-these things are too palpable to be laboured ; but we strongly protest from a sanitary point of view against the importation into private houses of skirts reeking with ordure, urine, and pathogenic microbes. For walking in the street a short skirt should be worn, and we commend the sensible walking gown now adopted by the best-dressed women to those whose business it is to write on the fashions in dress for women of the middle and lower classes.
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He
also with the Zhob Valley Expedition of 1884. to the Times through Reuter’s Agency, dated 22nd, states that " the Queen’s birthday honours
was
telegram
Simla, May
include 81 silver medals of the new Kaisar-i-Hind Order. 44 natives receive medals, which are given chiefly for services in connexion with the plague and famine." Among the European recipients are Captain John Grant (Medical Service) and Miss Charlotte Adams, Mrs. Henry Smith, and Miss Susan Campbell, lady doctors.
THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS STALL AT THE NATIONAL BAZAAR. OWING to the untiring exertions of the ladies, married and single, who worked at the Royal Army Medical Corps stall its success was placed beyond doubt. Durirg the of sale On the intake a reached sum close on .6200. days the opening day H.R.H. the Princess of Wales visited the stall and purchased from amongst its exhibits. Her Royal Highness had also before the opening of the bazaar contributed some very valuable and pretty articles to the stall which found eager purchasers. The officers of the Corps express their indebtedness to the ladies who so largely contributed to the gratifying results we now announce.
NERVE STRUCTURE ELUCIDATED BY NERVEAUTO-INTOXICATION. DR. C. A. EWALD, in a recent number of the Berliner Klinise7te lf’oe,7iense7trift (Feb. 12th, 1900), deals in a comprehensive manner with the subject of auto-intoxication as it occurs in various diseases and brings much of our scattered and fragmentary knowledge together. As examples of intestinal auto-intoxication he cites the nervous disturbances which occur in acute and chronic digestive disorders-for example, attacks of flushing and giddiness, headaches and curious sensations in the head, and throbbings and noises in the ears. Some cutaneous eruptions such as urticaria, acne, pruritis, and purpura are also due to intestinal auto-intoxication, and Muller and Manicatide have recently published instances of affections of the spinal cord in children resulting from the same cause. Periodic vomiting, asthma dyspepticum, tetany, and some of the ansemias are assignable to the same source. Among the auto-intoxications arising from diseased metabolism within the tissues and organs of the body may be included ursemia from renal disease, pancreatic diabetes, the cachexia resulting from cancer, Graves’s disease, Addison’s disease of the suprarenal bodies, myxoedema, cachexia strumipriva, cretinism, leukaemia, and pseudo-leukasmia. The eclampsia of pregnant women, gout, and migraine are attributable also to similar diseases of metabolism, giving rise to auto-intoxication with various chemical products. It is not, however, correct, says Dr. Ewald, to classify icterus gravis among the auto-intoxications, and the same may be said of acetonuria and oxaluria, which are symptoms of special diseases and which require treatment accordingly.
THE BIRTHDAY HONOURS. WE regret that by an oversight the name of LieutenantColonel Aylmer Martin Crofts, I.M.S., was not included in our reference to the honours bestowed upon members of the medical profession in the last issue of THE LAX<-ET. Lieutenant-Colonel Aylmer Martin Crofts, who has received a Companionship of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, is residency surgeon at Gwalior and medical officer to the Maharajah. He served in the Afghan War of 1878-80 at Kandahar and with the Khyber Brigade, receiving the medal. In the Egyptian War of 1882 he was present at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir and for his services in this campaign received the medal and clasp and Khedive’s
STAINING. IN giving an account of Mr. William H. Wynn’s article on the Minute Structure of the Medullary Sheath of Nerve-fibres in THE LANCET of May 5th (p. 1297), we inadvertently omitted to mention that the modification of the Weigert-Pal process of staining the nerve tissue which was so effectively employed by Mr. Wynn in his reseaches was originally suggested by Dr. Joseph Shaw Bolton, now of the Pathological Laboratory, London County Lunatic Asylum, Claybury. An account of I ’ Dr. Bolton’s method and of the steps by which he was led be found in the Joqtrnal of Anatomy and Physiology to it will January, 1899, and for January, 1898. In the former article he called attention to the circumstance that the medullary sheath is deeply stained in parts of its circumference only, this occurring either as six sections separated by gaps or as six dots surrounding the axis cylinder, the outer part of the sheath being practically unstained. Mr. Wynn’s article contained a more elaborate and amplified account of the structures seen and partially described by Dr. Bolton.
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THE THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS: PARIS; 1900. THE committee of organisation of this Congress has issued circular reminding the members that the titles of communications must be received at the offices of the Congress, 21, rue de 1’Ecole de Médecine, before June 10th at the very latest, if they are to be entered on the official programme. The final prospectus is about to be issued and will contain the titles of all communications with the names of the authors which have been sent to the sectional secretaries in Paris in time. It is necessary, therefore, that all notices should be sent to Paris at once. The list of members of the Congress will be closed on July 15th, and communications can be made until that date, but such belated notices will not appear in the final prospectus. The British Government has officially appointed the following gentlemen to represent Great Britain and Ireland at the forthcoming Congress :(1) Lieutenant-Colonel E. F. Drake-Brockman, I.M.S., delegate from the Indian Medical Service (Great Britain) ; a
(2) Brigade-Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Crombie, I.M.S., delegate from the Indian Medical Service (Great Britain) ; (3) Fleet-Surgeon Gilbert Kirker, R.N., representing the Naval Medical Service; and (4) Mr. Thomas
Star. A
He
also with the Zhob Valley Expedition of 1884. to the Times through Reuter’s Agency, dated 22nd, states that " the Queen’s birthday honours
was
telegram
Simla, May
include 81 silver medals of the new Kaisar-i-Hind Order. 44 natives receive medals, which are given chiefly for services in connexion with the plague and famine." Among the European recipients are Captain John Grant (Medical Service) and Miss Charlotte Adams, Mrs. Henry Smith, and Miss Susan Campbell, lady doctors.
THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS STALL AT THE NATIONAL BAZAAR. OWING to the untiring exertions of the ladies, married and single, who worked at the Royal Army Medical Corps stall its success was placed beyond doubt. Durirg the of sale On the intake a reached sum close on .6200. days the opening day H.R.H. the Princess of Wales visited the stall and purchased from amongst its exhibits. Her Royal Highness had also before the opening of the bazaar contributed some very valuable and pretty articles to the stall which found eager purchasers. The officers of the Corps express their indebtedness to the ladies who so largely contributed to the gratifying results we now announce.
NERVE STRUCTURE ELUCIDATED BY NERVEAUTO-INTOXICATION. DR. C. A. EWALD, in a recent number of the Berliner Klinise7te lf’oe,7iense7trift (Feb. 12th, 1900), deals in a comprehensive manner with the subject of auto-intoxication as it occurs in various diseases and brings much of our scattered and fragmentary knowledge together. As examples of intestinal auto-intoxication he cites the nervous disturbances which occur in acute and chronic digestive disorders-for example, attacks of flushing and giddiness, headaches and curious sensations in the head, and throbbings and noises in the ears. Some cutaneous eruptions such as urticaria, acne, pruritis, and purpura are also due to intestinal auto-intoxication, and Muller and Manicatide have recently published instances of affections of the spinal cord in children resulting from the same cause. Periodic vomiting, asthma dyspepticum, tetany, and some of the ansemias are assignable to the same source. Among the auto-intoxications arising from diseased metabolism within the tissues and organs of the body may be included ursemia from renal disease, pancreatic diabetes, the cachexia resulting from cancer, Graves’s disease, Addison’s disease of the suprarenal bodies, myxoedema, cachexia strumipriva, cretinism, leukaemia, and pseudo-leukasmia. The eclampsia of pregnant women, gout, and migraine are attributable also to similar diseases of metabolism, giving rise to auto-intoxication with various chemical products. It is not, however, correct, says Dr. Ewald, to classify icterus gravis among the auto-intoxications, and the same may be said of acetonuria and oxaluria, which are symptoms of special diseases and which require treatment accordingly.
THE BIRTHDAY HONOURS. WE regret that by an oversight the name of LieutenantColonel Aylmer Martin Crofts, I.M.S., was not included in our reference to the honours bestowed upon members of the medical profession in the last issue of THE LAX<-ET. Lieutenant-Colonel Aylmer Martin Crofts, who has received a Companionship of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, is residency surgeon at Gwalior and medical officer to the Maharajah. He served in the Afghan War of 1878-80 at Kandahar and with the Khyber Brigade, receiving the medal. In the Egyptian War of 1882 he was present at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir and for his services in this campaign received the medal and clasp and Khedive’s
STAINING. IN giving an account of Mr. William H. Wynn’s article on the Minute Structure of the Medullary Sheath of Nerve-fibres in THE LANCET of May 5th (p. 1297), we inadvertently omitted to mention that the modification of the Weigert-Pal process of staining the nerve tissue which was so effectively employed by Mr. Wynn in his reseaches was originally suggested by Dr. Joseph Shaw Bolton, now of the Pathological Laboratory, London County Lunatic Asylum, Claybury. An account of I ’ Dr. Bolton’s method and of the steps by which he was led be found in the Joqtrnal of Anatomy and Physiology to it will January, 1899, and for January, 1898. In the former article he called attention to the circumstance that the medullary sheath is deeply stained in parts of its circumference only, this occurring either as six sections separated by gaps or as six dots surrounding the axis cylinder, the outer part of the sheath being practically unstained. Mr. Wynn’s article contained a more elaborate and amplified account of the structures seen and partially described by Dr. Bolton.
for
THE THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS: PARIS; 1900. THE committee of organisation of this Congress has issued circular reminding the members that the titles of communications must be received at the offices of the Congress, 21, rue de 1’Ecole de Médecine, before June 10th at the very latest, if they are to be entered on the official programme. The final prospectus is about to be issued and will contain the titles of all communications with the names of the authors which have been sent to the sectional secretaries in Paris in time. It is necessary, therefore, that all notices should be sent to Paris at once. The list of members of the Congress will be closed on July 15th, and communications can be made until that date, but such belated notices will not appear in the final prospectus. The British Government has officially appointed the following gentlemen to represent Great Britain and Ireland at the forthcoming Congress :(1) Lieutenant-Colonel E. F. Drake-Brockman, I.M.S., delegate from the Indian Medical Service (Great Britain) ; a
(2) Brigade-Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Crombie, I.M.S., delegate from the Indian Medical Service (Great Britain) ; (3) Fleet-Surgeon Gilbert Kirker, R.N., representing the Naval Medical Service; and (4) Mr. Thomas