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424 ont exactement le même pouvoir antitoxique. Des recherches parallèles faitesit lour demande par M. Nicolle sur le sang de chevaux Immunisés c ’ntre le pneumocoque ont montré que serum et plasma ont également le meme-pouvoir agglutinant. E. Weill et G. Mouriquand.-Antiscorbutic Substances in
of the patient’s statements that their eyes were normal before they were gassed he did not take any notes, and the patients never came for re-examination. But this third case was so definite that he asked me to take notes of the case. I am greatly indebted to Dr. Hill Griffith for permitting me to report this interesting case.
plasma
Germinating Barley. Les auteurs ont fait des recherches sur le moment d’apparition de la substance antiscorbutique et sur les accidents provoqués chez le cobaye par les grains d’orge aux différents stades de leur germination. Les auteurs montrent: (1) Que les grains d’orge germes 3 jours sont scorbutiques. (2) Que l’herbe d’orge germée 10 jours entraine une mort brusque ou rapide. (3) Que l’association de graines germees 3jours à I’herbe de graine germce 10 jours, permet une exoellente nutrition du cobaye.
Medical Societies.
A. Benoit.-The
TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY. The
Treatment of Tuberculous
Glands.
held at the Royal Society society of Medicine on Feb. 24th, Dr. HALLIDAY SUTHERLAND, the President, being in the chair. Dr. H. DE CARLE WOODCOCK, senior tuberculosis officer, Leeds, gave an address upon the treatment of tuberculous glands. He devoted his early remarks to some of the recent work by pathologists upon the different types of the tubercle bacillus, especially the types found in different lesions, in the several age-periods of life, and the possibility of the transmutation of the bovine into the human type. Bovine tuberculosis, so frequent in childhood, he said,,is practically not found after the sixteenth year, the human type being responsible for the adult disease. He considered that as bovine disease tended to run a mild course and eventually to die out, it acted as a form of inoculation, protecting the individual against infection with the human type in later life. In an examination of a large number of elementary school children in Leeds he found 25 per cent. with tuberculous glands, in Edinburgh 33 per cent. had been found, which he thought was probably accounted for by the higher incidence of bovine disease in that city. Of the children sent to the dispensaries as selected cases nearly all had tuberculous glands. The practice of removing all enlarged tonsils and adenoids he thought was not justified and should be limited to those cases where there is definite injury to the associated glands and the general health. He was strongly opposed to the surgical removal of tuberculous glands, in the first place, because with treatment most cases healed spontaneously, and, secondly, because of the danger of opening up fresh channels of infection and causing miliary disease. He advocated aspiration in cases with large masses of glands and injections of the following mixture mi. Oil of Peppermint...... Mv. Ether mvi. Spirit used undiluted in adults, and with an equal part of saline in children. This was useful in cases where softening had begun and was found most satisfactory. He had also practised multiple puncture with the galvano-cautery with favourable results. In conclusion, Dr. Woodcock spoke highly of the value of tuberculin, which approached the position of a " specific," and was followed by a reduction in the size of the glands. Tuberculin was not to be used when chest disease was also present, as this tended to become worse. At the next meeting of the Tuberculosis Society, on March 24th, 8.30 P.M., Sir William Osler will give an address on Acute Pneumonic Tuberculosis. A MEETING of this
was
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SOCIETY
DE
BIOLOGIE, PARIS.-The following is
summary of some of the papers read at the meetings of this society held on Feb. 22nd and March 1st. Bossan et Guieysse-Pellissier.-Penetrating Power of a
Tracheal
Injections.
Les auteurs ont fait des recherches sur la penetration d’une substance medieamenteuse dans le poumnn sain ou tuberculeux par injection tracbéale. Sur des lapins sainsou tuberculeux. une substance médicamenteuse dissoute dans de l’huile est injectee dans la trachée. est recherchée sur des coupes apres action de l’aclde osmique. Chez le lapin sain, l’huile se repand dans toute la hauteur du poumon et peut etre retrouvee dans les atveoles six heures apres. Chez le lapin tuberouleux, on la retrouve dans l’intérieur des nodules et des cavernes.
L’huile
P. Brodin, G. Loiseau, et F. Saint Girons.-Relative Antitoxic Power of Plasma and Serum. Des recherches effectuées par les auteurs sur le sang de 8 chevaux et 2 chevaux antidiphtériques. il résulte que serum et
antitetaniques
Daily Ration of Nitrogen.
L’auteur a eu l’occasion d’observer quantitativement le regime strict d’un camp d’officiers russes prisonniers en Allemagne. Aveo 1700 calories et 7 a 8 grammes d’azote par jour, la sante et l’activité ae sont maintenues malgré un amaigrissement notable. La proportion d’acldes amines etait conforme aux nécessités physiologiques connues.
,I
Mad sen.-Phagocytosis. Lg vitesse de reaction de la phagoeytose suit la loi des r6aotions bimoléculaires. Les relations entre la vitesse de réaotlon de la phagocytose et la temperature suivent tes )ois de Vant’Hoff-Arrhénius. La phagocytose a un maximum, dependant de la temperature de l’organisme qui a fourni les phagocytes.
DE THÉRAPEUTIQUE, PARIS.-At Iof SOCIÉTÉ meeting this held Dec. llth, 1918, Dr. J. Laumonier a
on society reported a case of Typhoid Fever Treated by Colloidal Iron. 5 c.cm. were injected intravenously every three days, each c.cm. containing 1 mg. of pure iron. Six injections were to have a moderating given in all. The effect upon the fever and to prevent the occurrence of anæmia and leucopenia usually present in typhoid.-Dr. L. Renon and Dr. R. Mignot read a note on the Inefficacy of Injections of Saccharose in Human and Experimental Tuberculosis. A solution containing 5 g. of saccharose and 2 cg. of novocain was injected subcutaneously or intramuscularly in cases of pulmonary or surgical tuberculosis without the slightest improvement being observed after 30 to 40 days’ treatment. Saccharose was also injected into guinea-pigs previously infected with tuberculosis, but the course of the
treatment appeared
disease was not affected, and one of them even died before the controls.-In a paper on the Treatment of Influenza and In fectious Diseases in General by Lymphotherapy and Hæmatotherapy Dr. S. Artault de Vevey stated that lymphotherapy consisted in producing a bulla by any blistering agent and injecting 5 to 6 c.cm. into the patient’s shoulder or buttock. As this process was not very rapid, and as sometimes the patient’s skin was refractory to blistering agents, in cases where a blister did not form at the end of 10 hours the speaker had been in the habit of removing 10 to 15 c.cm. of blood and re-injecting it at once. To prevent clotting 2 to 3 c.cm. of a 10 per cent. solution of sodium citrate was first drawn into the syringe. This operation of hæmatotherapy was easy in the adult, whereas in the child lymphotherapy was the best method. Within a few hours of the injection of serum or blood the patient feels considerable relief; in the simple and abdominal forms the temperature becomes normal in 10 to 12 hoars; and in patients with nervous complications or bronchopneumonia in 36 to 48 hours.-Dr. A. Challamel read a note on Hypodermic Injections of Eucalyptus Oil in the Present Epidemic of Influenza. During the last few months he had been treating soldiers poisoned by mustard_ gas with hypodermic injections of euoalvptusoil (1 in 10) in doses of 2 c.cm. morning and evening. The treatment was started before any signs appeared in the lungs with the object of introducing an antiseptic into the finest ramifications of the bronchi. Eucalyptol was chosen owing to its proved value in the prophylaxis of contagious diseases. The success obtained in this class of case encouraged speaker to adopt the same treatment in influenza with equally satisfactory results.
the
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.-Messrs. P. Blakiston’s Son and Co., of Philadelphia, announce a revised edition of Stitt’s Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases.
PRESENTATIONS
TO
MEDICAL
MEN.-Mr.
Scott
Riddell, M.V.O., C.B.E., who has retired after 27 years’ service for the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, having been for 20 years full surgeon in charge of the wards, was on Feb. 12th presented on behalf of the medical staff with an illuminated address.-Mr. Lockhart Stephens, medical officer of health for Warblington and county director for Hampshire British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John, has received from his colleagues of the auxiliary hospitals in the county an illuminated address on the occasion of his retirement from the post of county director. Mr. Stephens was one of the early pioneers of the county association movement, with which had been connected since 1909.
he
of the patient’s statements that their eyes were normal before they were gassed he did not take any notes, and the patients never came for re-examination. But this third case was so definite that he asked me to take notes of the case. I am greatly indebted to Dr. Hill Griffith for permitting me to report this interesting case.
plasma
Germinating Barley. Les auteurs ont fait des recherches sur le moment d’apparition de la substance antiscorbutique et sur les accidents provoqués chez le cobaye par les grains d’orge aux différents stades de leur germination. Les auteurs montrent: (1) Que les grains d’orge germes 3 jours sont scorbutiques. (2) Que l’herbe d’orge germée 10 jours entraine une mort brusque ou rapide. (3) Que l’association de graines germees 3jours à I’herbe de graine germce 10 jours, permet une exoellente nutrition du cobaye.
Medical Societies.
A. Benoit.-The
TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY. The
Treatment of Tuberculous
Glands.
held at the Royal Society society of Medicine on Feb. 24th, Dr. HALLIDAY SUTHERLAND, the President, being in the chair. Dr. H. DE CARLE WOODCOCK, senior tuberculosis officer, Leeds, gave an address upon the treatment of tuberculous glands. He devoted his early remarks to some of the recent work by pathologists upon the different types of the tubercle bacillus, especially the types found in different lesions, in the several age-periods of life, and the possibility of the transmutation of the bovine into the human type. Bovine tuberculosis, so frequent in childhood, he said,,is practically not found after the sixteenth year, the human type being responsible for the adult disease. He considered that as bovine disease tended to run a mild course and eventually to die out, it acted as a form of inoculation, protecting the individual against infection with the human type in later life. In an examination of a large number of elementary school children in Leeds he found 25 per cent. with tuberculous glands, in Edinburgh 33 per cent. had been found, which he thought was probably accounted for by the higher incidence of bovine disease in that city. Of the children sent to the dispensaries as selected cases nearly all had tuberculous glands. The practice of removing all enlarged tonsils and adenoids he thought was not justified and should be limited to those cases where there is definite injury to the associated glands and the general health. He was strongly opposed to the surgical removal of tuberculous glands, in the first place, because with treatment most cases healed spontaneously, and, secondly, because of the danger of opening up fresh channels of infection and causing miliary disease. He advocated aspiration in cases with large masses of glands and injections of the following mixture mi. Oil of Peppermint...... Mv. Ether mvi. Spirit used undiluted in adults, and with an equal part of saline in children. This was useful in cases where softening had begun and was found most satisfactory. He had also practised multiple puncture with the galvano-cautery with favourable results. In conclusion, Dr. Woodcock spoke highly of the value of tuberculin, which approached the position of a " specific," and was followed by a reduction in the size of the glands. Tuberculin was not to be used when chest disease was also present, as this tended to become worse. At the next meeting of the Tuberculosis Society, on March 24th, 8.30 P.M., Sir William Osler will give an address on Acute Pneumonic Tuberculosis. A MEETING of this
was
:—
...............
...............
SOCIETY
DE
BIOLOGIE, PARIS.-The following is
summary of some of the papers read at the meetings of this society held on Feb. 22nd and March 1st. Bossan et Guieysse-Pellissier.-Penetrating Power of a
Tracheal
Injections.
Les auteurs ont fait des recherches sur la penetration d’une substance medieamenteuse dans le poumnn sain ou tuberculeux par injection tracbéale. Sur des lapins sainsou tuberculeux. une substance médicamenteuse dissoute dans de l’huile est injectee dans la trachée. est recherchée sur des coupes apres action de l’aclde osmique. Chez le lapin sain, l’huile se repand dans toute la hauteur du poumon et peut etre retrouvee dans les atveoles six heures apres. Chez le lapin tuberouleux, on la retrouve dans l’intérieur des nodules et des cavernes.
L’huile
P. Brodin, G. Loiseau, et F. Saint Girons.-Relative Antitoxic Power of Plasma and Serum. Des recherches effectuées par les auteurs sur le sang de 8 chevaux et 2 chevaux antidiphtériques. il résulte que serum et
antitetaniques
Daily Ration of Nitrogen.
L’auteur a eu l’occasion d’observer quantitativement le regime strict d’un camp d’officiers russes prisonniers en Allemagne. Aveo 1700 calories et 7 a 8 grammes d’azote par jour, la sante et l’activité ae sont maintenues malgré un amaigrissement notable. La proportion d’acldes amines etait conforme aux nécessités physiologiques connues.
,I
Mad sen.-Phagocytosis. Lg vitesse de reaction de la phagoeytose suit la loi des r6aotions bimoléculaires. Les relations entre la vitesse de réaotlon de la phagocytose et la temperature suivent tes )ois de Vant’Hoff-Arrhénius. La phagocytose a un maximum, dependant de la temperature de l’organisme qui a fourni les phagocytes.
DE THÉRAPEUTIQUE, PARIS.-At Iof SOCIÉTÉ meeting this held Dec. llth, 1918, Dr. J. Laumonier a
on society reported a case of Typhoid Fever Treated by Colloidal Iron. 5 c.cm. were injected intravenously every three days, each c.cm. containing 1 mg. of pure iron. Six injections were to have a moderating given in all. The effect upon the fever and to prevent the occurrence of anæmia and leucopenia usually present in typhoid.-Dr. L. Renon and Dr. R. Mignot read a note on the Inefficacy of Injections of Saccharose in Human and Experimental Tuberculosis. A solution containing 5 g. of saccharose and 2 cg. of novocain was injected subcutaneously or intramuscularly in cases of pulmonary or surgical tuberculosis without the slightest improvement being observed after 30 to 40 days’ treatment. Saccharose was also injected into guinea-pigs previously infected with tuberculosis, but the course of the
treatment appeared
disease was not affected, and one of them even died before the controls.-In a paper on the Treatment of Influenza and In fectious Diseases in General by Lymphotherapy and Hæmatotherapy Dr. S. Artault de Vevey stated that lymphotherapy consisted in producing a bulla by any blistering agent and injecting 5 to 6 c.cm. into the patient’s shoulder or buttock. As this process was not very rapid, and as sometimes the patient’s skin was refractory to blistering agents, in cases where a blister did not form at the end of 10 hours the speaker had been in the habit of removing 10 to 15 c.cm. of blood and re-injecting it at once. To prevent clotting 2 to 3 c.cm. of a 10 per cent. solution of sodium citrate was first drawn into the syringe. This operation of hæmatotherapy was easy in the adult, whereas in the child lymphotherapy was the best method. Within a few hours of the injection of serum or blood the patient feels considerable relief; in the simple and abdominal forms the temperature becomes normal in 10 to 12 hoars; and in patients with nervous complications or bronchopneumonia in 36 to 48 hours.-Dr. A. Challamel read a note on Hypodermic Injections of Eucalyptus Oil in the Present Epidemic of Influenza. During the last few months he had been treating soldiers poisoned by mustard_ gas with hypodermic injections of euoalvptusoil (1 in 10) in doses of 2 c.cm. morning and evening. The treatment was started before any signs appeared in the lungs with the object of introducing an antiseptic into the finest ramifications of the bronchi. Eucalyptol was chosen owing to its proved value in the prophylaxis of contagious diseases. The success obtained in this class of case encouraged speaker to adopt the same treatment in influenza with equally satisfactory results.
the
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.-Messrs. P. Blakiston’s Son and Co., of Philadelphia, announce a revised edition of Stitt’s Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases.
PRESENTATIONS
TO
MEDICAL
MEN.-Mr.
Scott
Riddell, M.V.O., C.B.E., who has retired after 27 years’ service for the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, having been for 20 years full surgeon in charge of the wards, was on Feb. 12th presented on behalf of the medical staff with an illuminated address.-Mr. Lockhart Stephens, medical officer of health for Warblington and county director for Hampshire British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John, has received from his colleagues of the auxiliary hospitals in the county an illuminated address on the occasion of his retirement from the post of county director. Mr. Stephens was one of the early pioneers of the county association movement, with which had been connected since 1909.
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