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the nursing and treatment of bad cases. The subject of measles is dealt with in popular lectures which are given from time to time by medical officers of the public health staff. During times of epidemic, also, the aid of the district nursing association is called in, and cases are referred to it for nursing, a grant for this service being made by the corporation. THE STOCKHOLM PÆDIATRIC CONGRESS. THE second International Psediatric Congress will be held at Stockholm on August 18th-21st, as has already been announced in our columns. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden are the patrons of the Congress, and a Swedish organisation committee has chosen the following subjects for discussion :(a) The biological effect of direct and indirect ultra-violet irradiation:
(b) The physiological and pathological significance of the thymolymphatic system ; (e) The psychology and pathopsychology of childhood ; their significance as a branch of psediatric research and teaching, and their application in medico-social work. The names of the introducers of these subjects will be announced in the near future, as well as the names of those announced in advance by their respective national committees as intending to take part in the discussion. Free debate will follow the introductory addresses by the announced speakers. We have also received an intimation that notification of " free lectures " should be in the hands of the organising committee by April 1st. It is evidently expected that, apart from reports and discussions which have already been arranged for, members of the Congress may desire to initiate debates on particular subjects, when, if the committee approve, from 15 to 20 minutes will be allotted to such " free lectures." All communications are to be addressed to Dr. I. Jundell, Second International Psediatric Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, and application for tickets of adherence should preferably be accompanied by the fee, sent as a cheque or money order, and all names and addresses should be printed in block capitals. The fee is 20 Swedish crowns for adherents, and half that sum for accompanying members of their families-a "Swedish crown is Is. I ’5d. For these special pleasure trips have been planned.
quarters to devote the fourth day of the Congress a discussion on the significance of tissue culture
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relation to the culture of bacteria and viruses. suggestions are as yet provisional and any who wish to take part are invited to communicate before April lst with the general secretary of the International Preparatory Committee, Frau Prof. Rh. Erdmann, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Nassauische-str. 17. It is understood that the Histological Institute of Prof. G. C. Seringa in Amsterdam will provide the scientific centre for experimental work.
PRELIMINARY TRAINING FOR NURSES. THE latest gift of the Rockefeller Foundation to University College Hospital is a preliminary training school for nurses, which was opened by Prince George Such a school has been on Wednesday afternoon.
it has been of the number of beds has come a need for more nurses, and the admirable aim of the authorities is to enlarge the theoretical background of practical instruction, and incidentally encourage a better type of entrant. The variety and increasing scope of a nurse’s life make a broad professional outlook more and more desirable, and the Rockefeller Foundation is anxious to support institutions which are likely to turn out competent administrators, teachers, and supervisors who can spread the best traditions and methods. The new school is well equipped for the work it has to do. It is on six floors, with separate dining-room and practice kitchen, a laboratory department, and a demonstration room which is fitted like a ward, so that the students will not feel lost on going into the main hospital. Like the students, nurses in training will have access to the anatomy school. Two sister tutors and a staff nurse will have their quarters in the school, and there is room for 20 students, besides the domestic staff. The period of preliminary training is two months. During the second month the students will visit the hospital daily and engage in ward work, and at the end of their term they will be examined in the theory and practice of nursing. If successful, they will then be accepted as probationers. Provision is to be made for Rockefeller students from abroad, who, having been awarded a year’s Fellowship, come to England for further
in
existence
for many
years,
but
inadequately housed. With increase
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AMSTERDAM CONGRESS OF CYTOLOGY. THE second International Congress of Cytology is to. be held in Amsterdam on four consecutive days early in August, either at Amsterdam or Groningen, the precise details to be decided later. The first subject will be the cell and its properties, when i A. Gurwitsch (Moscow) will deal with the problem of mitogenetic radiation, and A. Krontowski (Kiev) will speak on carbohydrate metabolism in tissue cultures and its changes under various conditions. The third subject will be the properties of the living cell, either when stained vitally or on micro-section. Possibly there may be time to take up radio-sensitiveness at the same session, and a film by R. Canti (London) will be shown. On one of the other days A. Timofejewsky (Tomsk) will speak on the properties of the blood and connective tissue in culture, while W. Bloom (Chicago), successor and pupil of Maximow, will take as his chief subject the formation of blood in tissue culture. W. von Möllendorff (Freiburg) will deal with the potency of fibrocytes in culture and tissues. For another session the subject of growth and its relations to differentiation and regeneration has been chosen, and among individual contributors are mentioned H. C. Fell (Cambridge) on bone-tissue in culture, A. Policard (Lyon) on cartilage in tissue culture, and L. Doljanski (Paris) on cultivation of liver-tissue and the maintenance of its properties in culture. The subject will be closed with a contribution by A. Fischer (Berlin) on regeneration in tissue culture. A proposal has been made from various
THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF DEAFNESS. MIDDLE-EAR deafness, or " conduction-deafness,"’ consists of three principal groups, those due to suppuration and its results, those due to chronic non-suppurative middle-ear catarrh, and otosclerosis. Much interest attaches to measures for the relief of deafness due to the last-named disease, for it frequently advances to a very severe degree, and may be accompanied by excessive tinnitus, and is uninfluenced by any form of treatment. In the last two decades of the last century there was a considerable degree of activity in this direction, and numerous intratympanic operations were designed for the relief of all forms of middle-ear deafness, but the distinction between the various forms were not so well understood then as now. The essential lesion of otosclerosis is the growth of new spongy bone in the capsule of the labyrinth, with consequent fixation of the stapes and often also with occlusion of the fenestra rotunda. It is not to be expected that excision of the drum-membrane, or the establishment of a communication between the antrum and the meatus, as suggested by Malherbe in 1899, would achieve any permanent good in such cases, and they have not, in fact, been found to be successful. Kessel in 1876, and Lucas in 1885, reported the result of removal of the malleus and incus ; in cases of stapes ankylosis the ankylosis was in most instances the result of suppurative disease; in deafness due to otosclerosis the results were unsatisfactory. Extraction of the stapes has been tried by many
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the nursing and treatment of bad cases. The subject of measles is dealt with in popular lectures which are given from time to time by medical officers of the public health staff. During times of epidemic, also, the aid of the district nursing association is called in, and cases are referred to it for nursing, a grant for this service being made by the corporation. THE STOCKHOLM PÆDIATRIC CONGRESS. THE second International Psediatric Congress will be held at Stockholm on August 18th-21st, as has already been announced in our columns. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden are the patrons of the Congress, and a Swedish organisation committee has chosen the following subjects for discussion :(a) The biological effect of direct and indirect ultra-violet irradiation:
(b) The physiological and pathological significance of the thymolymphatic system ; (e) The psychology and pathopsychology of childhood ; their significance as a branch of psediatric research and teaching, and their application in medico-social work. The names of the introducers of these subjects will be announced in the near future, as well as the names of those announced in advance by their respective national committees as intending to take part in the discussion. Free debate will follow the introductory addresses by the announced speakers. We have also received an intimation that notification of " free lectures " should be in the hands of the organising committee by April 1st. It is evidently expected that, apart from reports and discussions which have already been arranged for, members of the Congress may desire to initiate debates on particular subjects, when, if the committee approve, from 15 to 20 minutes will be allotted to such " free lectures." All communications are to be addressed to Dr. I. Jundell, Second International Psediatric Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, and application for tickets of adherence should preferably be accompanied by the fee, sent as a cheque or money order, and all names and addresses should be printed in block capitals. The fee is 20 Swedish crowns for adherents, and half that sum for accompanying members of their families-a "Swedish crown is Is. I ’5d. For these special pleasure trips have been planned.
quarters to devote the fourth day of the Congress a discussion on the significance of tissue culture
to in The
relation to the culture of bacteria and viruses. suggestions are as yet provisional and any who wish to take part are invited to communicate before April lst with the general secretary of the International Preparatory Committee, Frau Prof. Rh. Erdmann, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Nassauische-str. 17. It is understood that the Histological Institute of Prof. G. C. Seringa in Amsterdam will provide the scientific centre for experimental work.
PRELIMINARY TRAINING FOR NURSES. THE latest gift of the Rockefeller Foundation to University College Hospital is a preliminary training school for nurses, which was opened by Prince George Such a school has been on Wednesday afternoon.
it has been of the number of beds has come a need for more nurses, and the admirable aim of the authorities is to enlarge the theoretical background of practical instruction, and incidentally encourage a better type of entrant. The variety and increasing scope of a nurse’s life make a broad professional outlook more and more desirable, and the Rockefeller Foundation is anxious to support institutions which are likely to turn out competent administrators, teachers, and supervisors who can spread the best traditions and methods. The new school is well equipped for the work it has to do. It is on six floors, with separate dining-room and practice kitchen, a laboratory department, and a demonstration room which is fitted like a ward, so that the students will not feel lost on going into the main hospital. Like the students, nurses in training will have access to the anatomy school. Two sister tutors and a staff nurse will have their quarters in the school, and there is room for 20 students, besides the domestic staff. The period of preliminary training is two months. During the second month the students will visit the hospital daily and engage in ward work, and at the end of their term they will be examined in the theory and practice of nursing. If successful, they will then be accepted as probationers. Provision is to be made for Rockefeller students from abroad, who, having been awarded a year’s Fellowship, come to England for further
in
existence
for many
years,
but
inadequately housed. With increase
experience.
____
AMSTERDAM CONGRESS OF CYTOLOGY. THE second International Congress of Cytology is to. be held in Amsterdam on four consecutive days early in August, either at Amsterdam or Groningen, the precise details to be decided later. The first subject will be the cell and its properties, when i A. Gurwitsch (Moscow) will deal with the problem of mitogenetic radiation, and A. Krontowski (Kiev) will speak on carbohydrate metabolism in tissue cultures and its changes under various conditions. The third subject will be the properties of the living cell, either when stained vitally or on micro-section. Possibly there may be time to take up radio-sensitiveness at the same session, and a film by R. Canti (London) will be shown. On one of the other days A. Timofejewsky (Tomsk) will speak on the properties of the blood and connective tissue in culture, while W. Bloom (Chicago), successor and pupil of Maximow, will take as his chief subject the formation of blood in tissue culture. W. von Möllendorff (Freiburg) will deal with the potency of fibrocytes in culture and tissues. For another session the subject of growth and its relations to differentiation and regeneration has been chosen, and among individual contributors are mentioned H. C. Fell (Cambridge) on bone-tissue in culture, A. Policard (Lyon) on cartilage in tissue culture, and L. Doljanski (Paris) on cultivation of liver-tissue and the maintenance of its properties in culture. The subject will be closed with a contribution by A. Fischer (Berlin) on regeneration in tissue culture. A proposal has been made from various
THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF DEAFNESS. MIDDLE-EAR deafness, or " conduction-deafness,"’ consists of three principal groups, those due to suppuration and its results, those due to chronic non-suppurative middle-ear catarrh, and otosclerosis. Much interest attaches to measures for the relief of deafness due to the last-named disease, for it frequently advances to a very severe degree, and may be accompanied by excessive tinnitus, and is uninfluenced by any form of treatment. In the last two decades of the last century there was a considerable degree of activity in this direction, and numerous intratympanic operations were designed for the relief of all forms of middle-ear deafness, but the distinction between the various forms were not so well understood then as now. The essential lesion of otosclerosis is the growth of new spongy bone in the capsule of the labyrinth, with consequent fixation of the stapes and often also with occlusion of the fenestra rotunda. It is not to be expected that excision of the drum-membrane, or the establishment of a communication between the antrum and the meatus, as suggested by Malherbe in 1899, would achieve any permanent good in such cases, and they have not, in fact, been found to be successful. Kessel in 1876, and Lucas in 1885, reported the result of removal of the malleus and incus ; in cases of stapes ankylosis the ankylosis was in most instances the result of suppurative disease; in deafness due to otosclerosis the results were unsatisfactory. Extraction of the stapes has been tried by many