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THE SANITARY INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS.
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villages where it prevails. That it will meet with opposition is only to be expected. It cannot be supposed that ignorant and misguided men,jealous of a supposed duty, will at once I
YELLOW FEVER IN FLORIDA. THE epidemic of yellow fever at Jacksonville is reportell to be increasing, and during the twenty-four hours ending at 6 P.M. on the 18th inst. 156 fresh cases of the fever and 20 deaths were recorded. Since the outbreak of the epidemic 1203 cases and 153 deaths have occurred. The United States Senate has voted 100,000 dollars for the relief of the sufferers. The disease is so far confined to the city, and for
agree to surrender it at the instance of reformers, however enlightened. That they will in time do so cannot be doubted. We would fully admit the value of tact in all measures of this kind, but we would also remember that nativeIndian opinion is even now becoming leavened with the spirit of reform. It is reasonable, therefore, to expect that, as with the practice of suttee, the exercise of a judicious firmness will in due course bring to the Government that success
the comfort of the relatives and friends of the many Englishmen resident in the State it is satisfactory to be able to add is likely to remain so. The vast majority of Englishmen in Florida are settled in the pine woods, and here the disease has never yet occurred.
which its efforts deserve. ____
THE SANITARY INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS. WE have received a copy of a report of the NorthEastern Sanitary Association, giving an account of the
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I
ACTION OF CHLORIDE OF ETHYLENE ON THE CORNEA.
of twenty-six buildings in Newcastle-on-Tyne. CHLORIDE OF ETHYLENE is often used by physiologists We note with pleasure that this branch of sanitary inspecto anesthetise dogs. M. Dubois has observed that abroad tion is receiving attention. Hitherto the inspection of of the animal thus anaesthetised undergoes a cornea the similar associations has been too much limited to an inquiry into conditions of drainage ; and, important as that subject change some hours after recovering consciousness, a bluish is, it by no means covers the whole question of the fitness opalescent appearance being developed. This opacity is not of a house for habitation. We observe that the gentlemen followed by necrosis, and at the end of some months the who have conducted the experiments are opposed to what is cornea clears from the periphery towards the centre; the known as natural ventilation. Unfortunately, no great change is believed to be due not to inflammation, but to a true oedema. success has hitherto attended the efforts of engineers to methods artificial for the provide securing adequate supply FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. of fresh air. To use the words of the report, ventilation of Basle.-Dr. F. Siebenmann has qualified as docent in public buildings " represents the most bemuddled branch of human knowledge extant." Perhaps greater thought will Laryngology and Otiatry. be given to this subject as its necessity is more recognised. Bonn.-Professor Fr. Schultze, of Dorpat, has been offered, and has accepted, the chair vacated by the death of Professor Riihle. THE BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. Greifswald.-Professor Bardenn.rtUer, of Jena, is to be THE British Pharmaceutical Association held the twenty- offered Professor Budge’s chair. fifth annual meeting at Bath, under the presidency of Mr. Wahlfors has been nominated ProHelsingfors.-Dr. F. Baden Benger. In his address, the President dwelt upon fessor of Ophthalmology. Extraordinary the great development of the Association, and the increasing 7M.9&rMcA.—Dr. Hermann Klotz has been promoted to interest shown in its proceedings by those attending the the rank of Professor Extraordinary. meetings. The relation of pharmacy to pharmacists, and Jena.-Dr. Wilhelm Biedermann, Extraordinary Prothe education and training most likely to improve this fessor in has accepted the chair of Physiology relationship, formed the main topics of the address. Con- vacated Prague, the resignation of Professor Preyer. by of as field for the a practical application sidering pharmacy - ZV
atmosphere
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1B
Hygiene. EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY IN iviAT’i’NRS or medical InljereSt oiten
vortex of
while
get
FICTION.
wninea inro tne
fiction, and frequently mystify the general reader
the profession. In "Tracked Out" Bristol Library) the author has very ingeniously made experimental physiology lend valuable service. In fiction an author may well be allowed to obtain results beyond those of the laboratory, but Mr. Arthur à Beckett is to be congratulated upon his moderation. He has only made a head speak four words after its severance from the body, hence there is much to be elucidated after
they
amuse
(Arrowsmith’s
these post-mortem utterances. DR. WOLTERING ON
GLUTEN
-
THE Roman cemeteries, recently the subject of animated controversy in some of our lay contemporaries, are about to receive an addition-the Monte Mario on the Janicular, to the north-east of the city, being the spot selected. A
hygienic commission has just approved the acquisition of the ground; and one objection to it--namely, the possible filtration from the cemetery into the Acqua Paolina-has been shown to be futile by the special investigations of the engineer, Signor Vescovali, and of the geologist, Signor Zensi. The view commanded from the Monte Mario is in finest in Europe.
some
respects the
BREAD.
THE Italian Commission on the Prevalence of Pellagra in the Provinces has just concluded its report, with the gratifyDR. WoLTERING, of Miinster, in Wurtemburg, writing announcement that (thanks to the intervention of the ing in the Allgemeine 1Yfedicinische Central-Zeitqtng, strongly recommends the more extensive use of gluten as an State) the disease is greatly on the decrease. In 1882 the article of diet, both on account of its extremely nutritive pellrcgr-osi were 13,663, in 1886 they amounted to 8734, qualities and of its very low price. He shows, by means and in 1887 to 6653-and this notwithstanding the augof tables of analyses, that pure gluten bread is some mented population. three times as nourishing as meat, and that bread made THE death is announced of Dr. Josef Fabricius, Professor with the addition of 40 per cent. of gluten contains more albumen than hare or chicken of the best quality. Ophthalmology in Buda-Pesth, at the age of fifty-three. -
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villages where it prevails. That it will meet with opposition is only to be expected. It cannot be supposed that ignorant and misguided men,jealous of a supposed duty, will at once I
YELLOW FEVER IN FLORIDA. THE epidemic of yellow fever at Jacksonville is reportell to be increasing, and during the twenty-four hours ending at 6 P.M. on the 18th inst. 156 fresh cases of the fever and 20 deaths were recorded. Since the outbreak of the epidemic 1203 cases and 153 deaths have occurred. The United States Senate has voted 100,000 dollars for the relief of the sufferers. The disease is so far confined to the city, and for
agree to surrender it at the instance of reformers, however enlightened. That they will in time do so cannot be doubted. We would fully admit the value of tact in all measures of this kind, but we would also remember that nativeIndian opinion is even now becoming leavened with the spirit of reform. It is reasonable, therefore, to expect that, as with the practice of suttee, the exercise of a judicious firmness will in due course bring to the Government that success
the comfort of the relatives and friends of the many Englishmen resident in the State it is satisfactory to be able to add is likely to remain so. The vast majority of Englishmen in Florida are settled in the pine woods, and here the disease has never yet occurred.
which its efforts deserve. ____
THE SANITARY INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS. WE have received a copy of a report of the NorthEastern Sanitary Association, giving an account of the
-
I
ACTION OF CHLORIDE OF ETHYLENE ON THE CORNEA.
of twenty-six buildings in Newcastle-on-Tyne. CHLORIDE OF ETHYLENE is often used by physiologists We note with pleasure that this branch of sanitary inspecto anesthetise dogs. M. Dubois has observed that abroad tion is receiving attention. Hitherto the inspection of of the animal thus anaesthetised undergoes a cornea the similar associations has been too much limited to an inquiry into conditions of drainage ; and, important as that subject change some hours after recovering consciousness, a bluish is, it by no means covers the whole question of the fitness opalescent appearance being developed. This opacity is not of a house for habitation. We observe that the gentlemen followed by necrosis, and at the end of some months the who have conducted the experiments are opposed to what is cornea clears from the periphery towards the centre; the known as natural ventilation. Unfortunately, no great change is believed to be due not to inflammation, but to a true oedema. success has hitherto attended the efforts of engineers to methods artificial for the provide securing adequate supply FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. of fresh air. To use the words of the report, ventilation of Basle.-Dr. F. Siebenmann has qualified as docent in public buildings " represents the most bemuddled branch of human knowledge extant." Perhaps greater thought will Laryngology and Otiatry. be given to this subject as its necessity is more recognised. Bonn.-Professor Fr. Schultze, of Dorpat, has been offered, and has accepted, the chair vacated by the death of Professor Riihle. THE BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. Greifswald.-Professor Bardenn.rtUer, of Jena, is to be THE British Pharmaceutical Association held the twenty- offered Professor Budge’s chair. fifth annual meeting at Bath, under the presidency of Mr. Wahlfors has been nominated ProHelsingfors.-Dr. F. Baden Benger. In his address, the President dwelt upon fessor of Ophthalmology. Extraordinary the great development of the Association, and the increasing 7M.9&rMcA.—Dr. Hermann Klotz has been promoted to interest shown in its proceedings by those attending the the rank of Professor Extraordinary. meetings. The relation of pharmacy to pharmacists, and Jena.-Dr. Wilhelm Biedermann, Extraordinary Prothe education and training most likely to improve this fessor in has accepted the chair of Physiology relationship, formed the main topics of the address. Con- vacated Prague, the resignation of Professor Preyer. by of as field for the a practical application sidering pharmacy - ZV
atmosphere
____
1B
Hygiene. EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY IN iviAT’i’NRS or medical InljereSt oiten
vortex of
while
get
FICTION.
wninea inro tne
fiction, and frequently mystify the general reader
the profession. In "Tracked Out" Bristol Library) the author has very ingeniously made experimental physiology lend valuable service. In fiction an author may well be allowed to obtain results beyond those of the laboratory, but Mr. Arthur à Beckett is to be congratulated upon his moderation. He has only made a head speak four words after its severance from the body, hence there is much to be elucidated after
they
amuse
(Arrowsmith’s
these post-mortem utterances. DR. WOLTERING ON
GLUTEN
-
THE Roman cemeteries, recently the subject of animated controversy in some of our lay contemporaries, are about to receive an addition-the Monte Mario on the Janicular, to the north-east of the city, being the spot selected. A
hygienic commission has just approved the acquisition of the ground; and one objection to it--namely, the possible filtration from the cemetery into the Acqua Paolina-has been shown to be futile by the special investigations of the engineer, Signor Vescovali, and of the geologist, Signor Zensi. The view commanded from the Monte Mario is in finest in Europe.
some
respects the
BREAD.
THE Italian Commission on the Prevalence of Pellagra in the Provinces has just concluded its report, with the gratifyDR. WoLTERING, of Miinster, in Wurtemburg, writing announcement that (thanks to the intervention of the ing in the Allgemeine 1Yfedicinische Central-Zeitqtng, strongly recommends the more extensive use of gluten as an State) the disease is greatly on the decrease. In 1882 the article of diet, both on account of its extremely nutritive pellrcgr-osi were 13,663, in 1886 they amounted to 8734, qualities and of its very low price. He shows, by means and in 1887 to 6653-and this notwithstanding the augof tables of analyses, that pure gluten bread is some mented population. three times as nourishing as meat, and that bread made THE death is announced of Dr. Josef Fabricius, Professor with the addition of 40 per cent. of gluten contains more albumen than hare or chicken of the best quality. Ophthalmology in Buda-Pesth, at the age of fifty-three. -
I of