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No pain about the rectum was complained of. No marked distension of the abdomen occurred during anæsthetisation. The President, Dr. Sinclair White, Dr. Gwynne, Mr. Dale James. Dr. Arthur Hall, Mr. Lockwood, Mr. Pye-Smith, Dr. Kite, Mr. Atkin, Mr. West Jones, Dr. Keeling, and Dr. Hargreaves took part in the discussions.
useful book of reference to the sanitarian in that As the Professor of Hygiene at the Madras Medical College, bringing with him from Europe a good knowledge of what a western civilisation regarded as the correct principles and practice of hygiene, his Indian experience and observation afforded him the opportunity of sub.. sequently acquiring the necessary supplementary knowledge of the East. Even a brief residence in India serves. TORQUAY MEDICAL SOCIETY. to indicate the vast differences that exist between that .Dilatation of the Iris.-Oerebral Embolism.-Exhibition of country and Great Britain. The newcomer soon perceives. that he has a great deal to learn and not a little to unlearn S’pecimens. A MEETING of this society was held at the Torbay also. A glance at the summary of contents of this volume Hospital on Dec. 19th, 1894, Dr. T. FINCH, President, being will suffice to show that it would be impossible within any in the chair. reasonable limits of space to go over all the subjects treated. Mr. G. YOUNG EALES, hon. sec., read notes of an unusual After a long introduction, which is well worth reading, case of Dilatation of the Iris, produced presumably by of the The concussion eyeball. patient, aged twenty-one the author takes up for consideration the subjects of air, a was thrown off on the left side of bicycle, falling water, soil, removal and disposal of waste matter, buildings, years, his face, causing superficial scratches and a rather severe climate, and meteorology. The properties and ordinary shaking. Examination thirty-two hours after the accident impurities of air and water form the subject of the first showed great but not full dilatation of the pupil of the right and second chapters. These are well done ; the informa-eye. There was no reaction to light, but slightly so to accomfor modation. Vision was normal distant objects. There tion is brought up to recent date, and includes the diseases were no pain, no evidence of paralysis of branches of the attributable to impure drinking water, with references. third nerve, and no dislocation of the lens or rupture of the to the Pasteur-Chamberland and Berkefeld filters. The choroid. Recovery of accommodation was complete in four on soil, which follows, is also good, and that on the days, and reaction to light five days, after the accident. Mr. chapter and disposal of waste matter strikes us as particularly removal Eales drew attention to the rareness of the lesion and to the fact the so, subject being discussed with special reference to. with the till that the patient noticed nothing wrong sight India. over the chapter on buildings we come to< hours after the ATWOOL had accident.-Mr. Passing thirty-two examined the eye at Mr. Eales’s request, and considered the that on climate and meteorology, which is very exhaustive case to be one of paralysis of the ciliary nerves due to conand full of useful information not to be obtained elsewhere cussion of the eyeball. He had seen two cases at the Royal the same space. The volume, which is published in within London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, but in each case is well illustrated and printed, and furnished with a. India, the dilatation of pupil remained permanent. Dr. POLLARD read notes of a case of Cerebral Embolism useful index. We wish it the success it deserves, for it is occurring in a woman aged sixty years, in which the rapid highly creditable to its author, who must evidently haveestablishment of collateral circulation prevented the onset undertaken a great deal of laborious work in order to produce of softening. There were slight premonitory signs for an a good and reliable Indian manual of hygiene. such followed a semi-comatose condition half an
really
country.
hour, by lasting hour, accompanied by convulsive movements of the arms and
after which examination showed motor paralysis of the leg, which gradually passed off, recovery being Medical Nursing : Notes of Lectures given to the Probationers, at the London Hospital. By the late JAMES ANDERSON, complete within six hours. Memory was defective and the patient was slightly dazed for a few days, but subsequent M.D., F.R.C.P. Edited by ETHEL F. LAMPORT. Londonr. H. K. Lewis. 1894. was The recovery complete. premonitory symptoms pointed to gradual occlusion a nd the localised nature of the conIT is now universally recognised that the trained nurse vulsion and paralysis to irritation of part of the motor should be one who, in addition to the experience gained cortex supplied by the second or third branch of the middle cerebral artery. There was marked organic disease of the in the practical exercise of her duties, has had the aortic valves. opportunity of systematic instruction in the principles of Mr. WATSON showed a specimen of a Heart in a case of anatomy and physiology, which alone can give her an sudden death in which there was marked Atheroma of intelligent interest in her daily duties. It is neither almost bony hardness of the Aorta. be in the nor that she should instructed necessary right details of disease and its treatment; but it is most essential that she should have some knowledge of the structure and functions of the body, and of the directions in which they may be altered and deranged, if she is to practise her profession with safety and credit. Amongst the nurse-training The Indian Manual of Hygiene. Being the King’s Madras schools of the metropolis that of the London Hospital has. Manual of Hygiene. Revised, rearranged, and in great recognised this fundamental need, and for many years long part rewritten. By Surgeon-Captain A. E. GRANT, M.B., Indian Medical Service, Professor of Hygiene Madras: the duty of imparting instruction in these subjects has been Medical College. Vol. 1. Madras : Higginbotham and placed in the hands of members of the medical and Co. 1894. surgical staff. The little volume which Miss Lamport ONE of the most useful books for medical officers serving; has edited from the notes of the lectures given by in India was the "Madras Manual of Hygiene," of which the the late Dr. James Anderson, whose untimely death was second edition was, we believe, published in 1880. The a loss to medicine, enables the reader to form some work under notice, of which the first volume was publishedi idea of the plan and scope of the instruction he gave. There in the beginning of the year 1894, is upon an altogetherr are fifteen lectures, the first dealing with some general We owe its authorr observations on the Qualifications of the Medical Nurse, stated more ambitious and comprehensive basis. an apology for the delay that has inadvertently occurredi in homely and plain language. The next lecture, on Feeding in our notice of it. A very large number of authoritiess the Patient, opens with practical advice and then makes and official reports have been consulted, and no painEs clear the physiological facts concerning food and diet which’ seem to have been spared by the author to treat thEe nnderlie the subject of feeding. This naturally leads Lp to a subject in a scientific spirit and to adapt his informa. description of the Function of Digestion, which, together with tion to the special requirements of the Indian climatEe that of Absorption, forms the next two lectures. The Blood and the habits and customs of its people so as to make it :aa and Circulation and some practical remarks on their Disorders
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No pain about the rectum was complained of. No marked distension of the abdomen occurred during anæsthetisation. The President, Dr. Sinclair White, Dr. Gwynne, Mr. Dale James. Dr. Arthur Hall, Mr. Lockwood, Mr. Pye-Smith, Dr. Kite, Mr. Atkin, Mr. West Jones, Dr. Keeling, and Dr. Hargreaves took part in the discussions.
useful book of reference to the sanitarian in that As the Professor of Hygiene at the Madras Medical College, bringing with him from Europe a good knowledge of what a western civilisation regarded as the correct principles and practice of hygiene, his Indian experience and observation afforded him the opportunity of sub.. sequently acquiring the necessary supplementary knowledge of the East. Even a brief residence in India serves. TORQUAY MEDICAL SOCIETY. to indicate the vast differences that exist between that .Dilatation of the Iris.-Oerebral Embolism.-Exhibition of country and Great Britain. The newcomer soon perceives. that he has a great deal to learn and not a little to unlearn S’pecimens. A MEETING of this society was held at the Torbay also. A glance at the summary of contents of this volume Hospital on Dec. 19th, 1894, Dr. T. FINCH, President, being will suffice to show that it would be impossible within any in the chair. reasonable limits of space to go over all the subjects treated. Mr. G. YOUNG EALES, hon. sec., read notes of an unusual After a long introduction, which is well worth reading, case of Dilatation of the Iris, produced presumably by of the The concussion eyeball. patient, aged twenty-one the author takes up for consideration the subjects of air, a was thrown off on the left side of bicycle, falling water, soil, removal and disposal of waste matter, buildings, years, his face, causing superficial scratches and a rather severe climate, and meteorology. The properties and ordinary shaking. Examination thirty-two hours after the accident impurities of air and water form the subject of the first showed great but not full dilatation of the pupil of the right and second chapters. These are well done ; the informa-eye. There was no reaction to light, but slightly so to accomfor modation. Vision was normal distant objects. There tion is brought up to recent date, and includes the diseases were no pain, no evidence of paralysis of branches of the attributable to impure drinking water, with references. third nerve, and no dislocation of the lens or rupture of the to the Pasteur-Chamberland and Berkefeld filters. The choroid. Recovery of accommodation was complete in four on soil, which follows, is also good, and that on the days, and reaction to light five days, after the accident. Mr. chapter and disposal of waste matter strikes us as particularly removal Eales drew attention to the rareness of the lesion and to the fact the so, subject being discussed with special reference to. with the till that the patient noticed nothing wrong sight India. over the chapter on buildings we come to< hours after the ATWOOL had accident.-Mr. Passing thirty-two examined the eye at Mr. Eales’s request, and considered the that on climate and meteorology, which is very exhaustive case to be one of paralysis of the ciliary nerves due to conand full of useful information not to be obtained elsewhere cussion of the eyeball. He had seen two cases at the Royal the same space. The volume, which is published in within London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, but in each case is well illustrated and printed, and furnished with a. India, the dilatation of pupil remained permanent. Dr. POLLARD read notes of a case of Cerebral Embolism useful index. We wish it the success it deserves, for it is occurring in a woman aged sixty years, in which the rapid highly creditable to its author, who must evidently haveestablishment of collateral circulation prevented the onset undertaken a great deal of laborious work in order to produce of softening. There were slight premonitory signs for an a good and reliable Indian manual of hygiene. such followed a semi-comatose condition half an
really
country.
hour, by lasting hour, accompanied by convulsive movements of the arms and
after which examination showed motor paralysis of the leg, which gradually passed off, recovery being Medical Nursing : Notes of Lectures given to the Probationers, at the London Hospital. By the late JAMES ANDERSON, complete within six hours. Memory was defective and the patient was slightly dazed for a few days, but subsequent M.D., F.R.C.P. Edited by ETHEL F. LAMPORT. Londonr. H. K. Lewis. 1894. was The recovery complete. premonitory symptoms pointed to gradual occlusion a nd the localised nature of the conIT is now universally recognised that the trained nurse vulsion and paralysis to irritation of part of the motor should be one who, in addition to the experience gained cortex supplied by the second or third branch of the middle cerebral artery. There was marked organic disease of the in the practical exercise of her duties, has had the aortic valves. opportunity of systematic instruction in the principles of Mr. WATSON showed a specimen of a Heart in a case of anatomy and physiology, which alone can give her an sudden death in which there was marked Atheroma of intelligent interest in her daily duties. It is neither almost bony hardness of the Aorta. be in the nor that she should instructed necessary right details of disease and its treatment; but it is most essential that she should have some knowledge of the structure and functions of the body, and of the directions in which they may be altered and deranged, if she is to practise her profession with safety and credit. Amongst the nurse-training The Indian Manual of Hygiene. Being the King’s Madras schools of the metropolis that of the London Hospital has. Manual of Hygiene. Revised, rearranged, and in great recognised this fundamental need, and for many years long part rewritten. By Surgeon-Captain A. E. GRANT, M.B., Indian Medical Service, Professor of Hygiene Madras: the duty of imparting instruction in these subjects has been Medical College. Vol. 1. Madras : Higginbotham and placed in the hands of members of the medical and Co. 1894. surgical staff. The little volume which Miss Lamport ONE of the most useful books for medical officers serving; has edited from the notes of the lectures given by in India was the "Madras Manual of Hygiene," of which the the late Dr. James Anderson, whose untimely death was second edition was, we believe, published in 1880. The a loss to medicine, enables the reader to form some work under notice, of which the first volume was publishedi idea of the plan and scope of the instruction he gave. There in the beginning of the year 1894, is upon an altogetherr are fifteen lectures, the first dealing with some general We owe its authorr observations on the Qualifications of the Medical Nurse, stated more ambitious and comprehensive basis. an apology for the delay that has inadvertently occurredi in homely and plain language. The next lecture, on Feeding in our notice of it. A very large number of authoritiess the Patient, opens with practical advice and then makes and official reports have been consulted, and no painEs clear the physiological facts concerning food and diet which’ seem to have been spared by the author to treat thEe nnderlie the subject of feeding. This naturally leads Lp to a subject in a scientific spirit and to adapt his informa. description of the Function of Digestion, which, together with tion to the special requirements of the Indian climatEe that of Absorption, forms the next two lectures. The Blood and the habits and customs of its people so as to make it :aa and Circulation and some practical remarks on their Disorders
legs, aim
and
Reviews
and
Notices of Books.
,
-