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supplied from the Thames, the New River, the Bagshot Springs, the river Dee, and the water of the wells at Watford. The results of this microscopic examination were, that in the river Dee and the Watford water scarcely a living organism was found; whilst in the Thames and New River waters, above seventy species were identified. These results, so far as the Thames and New River are concerned, are similar to those previously ob-
of gratitude, for the protection and security which the charitable institutions of England have so long been permitted to enjoy ;-ablessing vouchsafed to the peaceful ener. gies of this country, which, under Divine Providence, has mainly ensued from the wisdom, the valour, the constancy, and the magnanimity of Arthur, first Duke of Wellington."
knowledgment
,
tained by Dr. Hassall. to Dr. Hassall for first
"
We
taking
are
indebted,"
up this
state the
(COPY.) Strathfieldsaye, Winchfield, Oct. 1,
editors,
1852.
SiR,—My family and myself are most grateful to the Weekly Board [of] Governors for expressions of kindness and sympathy, which we are well aware they require, as well as ourselves, on this occasion of public bereavement. In selecting from among the varied titles to the gratitude of "
subject."
Report of the Proceedings qf the Pathological Socif’ty of London Sixth Session. 1851-52. Foolscap 8vo, pp. 390. London his fellow-countrymen that adorn the character of my illustrious Bentley and Co. father, the support which his conduct has given to charitable inTHE present is decidedly the best, as it is considerably th< stitutions, in common with social virtue and the solid progress of largest, volume yet published by the Pathological Society. It con civilization, you recall to our sorrowing minds the distinguishing tains the history and description of nearly one hundred and thirtJ mark of his beneficent career ; that, while from the exercise of and intelligence, and from the confidence of his sovespecimens of disease, with several illustrative plates, and such industry and the public, his power was greater than that of other reign observations as the history of each case, or the character of each men; his ambition was limited to the indefatigable desire to be specimen, suggests. The names of the authors of these observa. counted the greatest benefactor of his country. tions comprise some of the oldest and most distinguished mem. " Have the kindness to express our thanks to the Weekly bers of the profession, as well as of those by whom eminence Board [of] Governors, and believe me to be, Sir, " Your most obedient, obliged servant, cannot fail to be acquired, when they engage themselves in the DOURo." " (Signed) of for of the cultivation which this that knowledge pursuit Joseph Gunning, Esq., Secretary of St. George’s Hospital. has been founded. We that the observe, too, Society present volume contains several reports" of great value on specimens assigned for special examination to members whose pursuits TREATMENT OF CHOLERA BY SULPHURIC ACID To the Editor of THE LANCET. qualified them more particularly for that duty. The results to be that we to see the conso plan appear satisfactory, hope SiR,—I am somewhat surprised to find, from the communicatinued and still further extended. For the Society itself, we had tion of Dr. Miller, in your last number, that he appears to ignore ago suggested, extensively tried, and anticipated much success. There was abundant room for its the fact of my havingthelong value of sulphuric acid as a remedy in satisfactorily proved, operation, and we saw from the first that the workmen were all Asiatic cholera. At the close of his interesting and valuable that could be desired. Still the success realized has been beyond detail of cases of diarrhoea, treated by that agent, he says, I our anticipations, for the Pathological Society has already taken have so much confidence in it, that should we be visited by that a first rank amongst the learned Societies of the metropolis; and awful scourge, the Asiatic cholera, I should instantly resort to it. I earnestly entreat the Board of Health to give this remedy we feel confident that, with proper management, a high position a trial." will be maintained. Now, Sir, it has already been tried by me. I am not arrogant Iin asserting, that, to the best of my belief, I was the first member The Journal of Psychological Iledicine and Jfental Pathology. of the profession in the British Isles, who used sulphuric acid in Edited by FORBES WINSLOW, M.D. the treatment of cholera. At all events, I was unquestionably THE principal contents of this, the twentieth number of Dr. the first to bring it before the notice of the faculty; and to publish Winslow’s journal, are, articles on Homicidal Monomania, a reports of cases so treated. Indeed, it seems that in so doing I had anticipated the use of the noted Austrian remedy which Mr. curious chapter on German Psychology, the Statistics of Crime, Herapath, of Bristol, analyzed, and showed (see THE LANCET, the Law of Lunacy in France, and on American Institutions for August 9th, 1851) to consist principally of the above-named other contributions of "
11
I
11
....
the Insane, with several number of the journal sustains the so
high
great merit. This character which it has
acid. I beg to refer Dr. Miller to my letters on the subject (LANCET for August, September, and October, 1849, January 26th, 1850, and August 16th, 1851.) Also to reports in several medical journals of a paper I had the honour of reading before the
long enjoyed.
Facts and Observations on the Physical Education of Children, ct-c. 8vo, pp. 71. London. By SAMUEL HARE, F.R.C.S., &c. MR. HARE’S work is sufficiently commonplace, and is written chiefly for the public. Many of the directions which are laid down, however, may be advantageously followed ; but some of his plans of cure are too purely mechanical.
Epidemiological Society, on January 5th, 1852. Of course I am speaking with reference entirely to cholera, and I remain Sir, yours obliged faithfully, not to diarrhoea. Kensal Town,
HEY SOCIETY
.
’
Dr. WILSON, seconded
by Colonel
the Hon. JAMES
" That the Weekly Board of the Governors of St George’s Hospital, while lamenting, in common with all classes of her Majesty’s subjects, the irreparable loss which the public interests have sustained by the death of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington. desire more especially, on this the first occasion of their meeting, to express their feeling of deep and lasting regret in being no longer associated, as Directors of a great Metropolitan Charity, with their late most illustrious Vice- President. "
(LEEDS.)-The
WILLIADI J. Cox. WILLIAM COX.
first
meeting
of the
members. The address was given by Mr. J. N. Radcliffe, and embodied a complete sketch of the philosophy of the sciences of organization; and while he regretted that the absolute necessity for the study of these sciences in their totality and their relation to physical science, was not more fully explained in the ordinary course of tuition in our schools of medicine, he urged that it was incumbent upon every student of medicine, and that it was perfectly conipatitle with his ordinary course of study, to make himself acquainted at least with the researches of Owen, Maclise, Radcliffe, Groves, and Carpenter; and he laid peculiar stress upon the valuable results which must accrue to medicine from the views which had recently been unfolded by Mr. Groves, Dr. Radcliffe, and Dr. Carpenter, on the correlation of the physical and viral forces, referring particularly to the works of the two previous gentlemen, and to the paper of the latter gentleman on the 11 physical and Vital
president,
St. George’s Hospital, Wednesday, 22nd Sept, 1852.
by
Oct. 1852.
Hey Society, for the session 1852-3, took place at the Infirmary, Leeds, on Wednesday evening. There was a full attendance of
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
Moved KNOX.
Middlesex,
,
opening
wish moreover, in this hour of national mourning for Forces," in the Philosophical Transactions. - The address occutheir yet unburied neighbour and benefactor, to place on record, pied about an hour, and after the transaction of some private among the earliest tributes to his life of public service, an ac- business the meeting adjourned.
They
I
supplied from the Thames, the New River, the Bagshot Springs, the river Dee, and the water of the wells at Watford. The results of this microscopic examination were, that in the river Dee and the Watford water scarcely a living organism was found; whilst in the Thames and New River waters, above seventy species were identified. These results, so far as the Thames and New River are concerned, are similar to those previously ob-
of gratitude, for the protection and security which the charitable institutions of England have so long been permitted to enjoy ;-ablessing vouchsafed to the peaceful ener. gies of this country, which, under Divine Providence, has mainly ensued from the wisdom, the valour, the constancy, and the magnanimity of Arthur, first Duke of Wellington."
knowledgment
,
tained by Dr. Hassall. to Dr. Hassall for first
"
We
taking
are
indebted,"
up this
state the
(COPY.) Strathfieldsaye, Winchfield, Oct. 1,
editors,
1852.
SiR,—My family and myself are most grateful to the Weekly Board [of] Governors for expressions of kindness and sympathy, which we are well aware they require, as well as ourselves, on this occasion of public bereavement. In selecting from among the varied titles to the gratitude of "
subject."
Report of the Proceedings qf the Pathological Socif’ty of London Sixth Session. 1851-52. Foolscap 8vo, pp. 390. London his fellow-countrymen that adorn the character of my illustrious Bentley and Co. father, the support which his conduct has given to charitable inTHE present is decidedly the best, as it is considerably th< stitutions, in common with social virtue and the solid progress of largest, volume yet published by the Pathological Society. It con civilization, you recall to our sorrowing minds the distinguishing tains the history and description of nearly one hundred and thirtJ mark of his beneficent career ; that, while from the exercise of and intelligence, and from the confidence of his sovespecimens of disease, with several illustrative plates, and such industry and the public, his power was greater than that of other reign observations as the history of each case, or the character of each men; his ambition was limited to the indefatigable desire to be specimen, suggests. The names of the authors of these observa. counted the greatest benefactor of his country. tions comprise some of the oldest and most distinguished mem. " Have the kindness to express our thanks to the Weekly bers of the profession, as well as of those by whom eminence Board [of] Governors, and believe me to be, Sir, " Your most obedient, obliged servant, cannot fail to be acquired, when they engage themselves in the DOURo." " (Signed) of for of the cultivation which this that knowledge pursuit Joseph Gunning, Esq., Secretary of St. George’s Hospital. has been founded. We that the observe, too, Society present volume contains several reports" of great value on specimens assigned for special examination to members whose pursuits TREATMENT OF CHOLERA BY SULPHURIC ACID To the Editor of THE LANCET. qualified them more particularly for that duty. The results to be that we to see the conso plan appear satisfactory, hope SiR,—I am somewhat surprised to find, from the communicatinued and still further extended. For the Society itself, we had tion of Dr. Miller, in your last number, that he appears to ignore ago suggested, extensively tried, and anticipated much success. There was abundant room for its the fact of my havingthelong value of sulphuric acid as a remedy in satisfactorily proved, operation, and we saw from the first that the workmen were all Asiatic cholera. At the close of his interesting and valuable that could be desired. Still the success realized has been beyond detail of cases of diarrhoea, treated by that agent, he says, I our anticipations, for the Pathological Society has already taken have so much confidence in it, that should we be visited by that a first rank amongst the learned Societies of the metropolis; and awful scourge, the Asiatic cholera, I should instantly resort to it. I earnestly entreat the Board of Health to give this remedy we feel confident that, with proper management, a high position a trial." will be maintained. Now, Sir, it has already been tried by me. I am not arrogant Iin asserting, that, to the best of my belief, I was the first member The Journal of Psychological Iledicine and Jfental Pathology. of the profession in the British Isles, who used sulphuric acid in Edited by FORBES WINSLOW, M.D. the treatment of cholera. At all events, I was unquestionably THE principal contents of this, the twentieth number of Dr. the first to bring it before the notice of the faculty; and to publish Winslow’s journal, are, articles on Homicidal Monomania, a reports of cases so treated. Indeed, it seems that in so doing I had anticipated the use of the noted Austrian remedy which Mr. curious chapter on German Psychology, the Statistics of Crime, Herapath, of Bristol, analyzed, and showed (see THE LANCET, the Law of Lunacy in France, and on American Institutions for August 9th, 1851) to consist principally of the above-named other contributions of "
11
I
11
....
the Insane, with several number of the journal sustains the so
high
great merit. This character which it has
acid. I beg to refer Dr. Miller to my letters on the subject (LANCET for August, September, and October, 1849, January 26th, 1850, and August 16th, 1851.) Also to reports in several medical journals of a paper I had the honour of reading before the
long enjoyed.
Facts and Observations on the Physical Education of Children, ct-c. 8vo, pp. 71. London. By SAMUEL HARE, F.R.C.S., &c. MR. HARE’S work is sufficiently commonplace, and is written chiefly for the public. Many of the directions which are laid down, however, may be advantageously followed ; but some of his plans of cure are too purely mechanical.
Epidemiological Society, on January 5th, 1852. Of course I am speaking with reference entirely to cholera, and I remain Sir, yours obliged faithfully, not to diarrhoea. Kensal Town,
HEY SOCIETY
.
’
Dr. WILSON, seconded
by Colonel
the Hon. JAMES
" That the Weekly Board of the Governors of St George’s Hospital, while lamenting, in common with all classes of her Majesty’s subjects, the irreparable loss which the public interests have sustained by the death of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington. desire more especially, on this the first occasion of their meeting, to express their feeling of deep and lasting regret in being no longer associated, as Directors of a great Metropolitan Charity, with their late most illustrious Vice- President. "
(LEEDS.)-The
WILLIADI J. Cox. WILLIAM COX.
first
meeting
of the
members. The address was given by Mr. J. N. Radcliffe, and embodied a complete sketch of the philosophy of the sciences of organization; and while he regretted that the absolute necessity for the study of these sciences in their totality and their relation to physical science, was not more fully explained in the ordinary course of tuition in our schools of medicine, he urged that it was incumbent upon every student of medicine, and that it was perfectly conipatitle with his ordinary course of study, to make himself acquainted at least with the researches of Owen, Maclise, Radcliffe, Groves, and Carpenter; and he laid peculiar stress upon the valuable results which must accrue to medicine from the views which had recently been unfolded by Mr. Groves, Dr. Radcliffe, and Dr. Carpenter, on the correlation of the physical and viral forces, referring particularly to the works of the two previous gentlemen, and to the paper of the latter gentleman on the 11 physical and Vital
president,
St. George’s Hospital, Wednesday, 22nd Sept, 1852.
by
Oct. 1852.
Hey Society, for the session 1852-3, took place at the Infirmary, Leeds, on Wednesday evening. There was a full attendance of
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
Moved KNOX.
Middlesex,
,
opening
wish moreover, in this hour of national mourning for Forces," in the Philosophical Transactions. - The address occutheir yet unburied neighbour and benefactor, to place on record, pied about an hour, and after the transaction of some private among the earliest tributes to his life of public service, an ac- business the meeting adjourned.
They
I