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URÆMIA AS A SEQUELA OF DIPHTHERIA.
36 follow him in such heroic measures, or to emulate his he had not the smallest hesitation in granting an’order for example by trying the effect of antipyrin in similar the destruction of the carcases, or for their disposal in such a unlimited doses.’ It is serious enough to cope with an manner as to prevent their being exposed for sale, or used epidemic and its sequelae, without having matters com- for the food of man, but as the case was rather a novel one plicated by ignorant and reckless experimental therapeutics. he would’not inflict any penalty. Notice was’given that the respondent might probably appeal against the decision on the FATAL CHRISTMAS INDULGENCE. EVERYONE has’ had occasion from time to time to pity the helpless plight of infants in the charge of drunken parents. Neglect and mismanagement are the least of the dangers which continually surround these poor little creatures. Accident and even death are ever present possibilities which, as the sequel shows, may very easily be realised. Last week no fewer than nine inquests were held by Dr. Macdonald on the bodies of children who had been overlain and suffocated by their intoxicated parents on the nights of Christmas Day and the days before and after it. This kind of accident is, unfortunately, not unusual. Sometimes it has recurred so regularly in a family as to suggest some doubt whether a purpose did not underlie the evident neglect. In most cases, however, the excuse, faulty though it is, of inadvertence must in justice be admitted. Notwithstanding this allowance, the parent’s conduct, of course, is far from blameless. We should seriously question whether it is not legally punishable. Granted the accident, its import is materially by the fact of intoxication, and further by the previous neglect in failing to provide what the poorest household may easily obtain-a separate sleeping crib of simple structure for the infant. The chief lesson to be learnt from this Christmas catalogue of avoidable deaths, indeed, is that the general introduction of this excellent preventive arrangement is highly advisable for the reason above suggested, and probably also for others besides.
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point of law.
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URÆMIA AS
A SEQUELA
OF DIPHTHERIA.
ALTHOUGH ursemia is not commonly recognised as a possible consequence of diphtheria, it is occasionally found occurring in this way, and Dr. J. Cassel has recently reported in a German journal devoted to the diseases of children two cases which were met with in Dr. Baginski’s policlinic. The first was that of a little girl nearly five years of age, whose urine had contained blood and a considerable quantity of albumen from the fourth day after the commencement of the diphtheria. Death took place on the thirteenth day from urcemic convulsions and dropsy. Shortly before death the child became paralysed on the side. ’At the post-mortem examination, parenchymatous nephritis and oedema of the pia mater were found; but no anatomical cause for the hemiplegia could be detected. The second case was that of a little girl of three years of age. Here not only the throat,.but the vulva was affected by the diphtheria. The local disease passed oir, and the child was apparently recovering when the eighteenth day the secretion of urin suddenly diminished very markedly, and albuminuria and convulsions came on. Death occurred two days afterwards. At the post-mortem examination it was found that there had been in the first place parenchymatous nephritis, and that this hadbeen accompanied by glomerulo-nephritis. There was also fatty degeneration of the heart.
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WISER THAN NATURE.
IT would seem that the athletes of America are trying to cheat Mother Nature by robbing her atmospheric sea for ON the 18th ult. Sheriff Balfour gave judgment at their ownbreathing purposes beyond what she in her Glasgow in a case arising out of an order of the sanitary wisdom has ordained. We are informed that these young authority for the destruction of the carcases of fourteen men, when engaged in the more vehement athletic purbullocks as being unfit for human food. The animals were suits, have taken to wear what may be called a nose part of a consignment arriving at Yorkhill by thes.s. expander. They insert into their nostrils a wire frame, by Alabama, these animals having been bruised on the which the nostrils, widely expanded, take in, as it is suprough passage and condemned as unsound. The beasts posed, more air than they would under ordinary circumwere slaughtered and the carcases set aside, as stated stances, and thereupon the blood is supplied with more in for as manure and evidence, disposal subsequently oxygen, the animal fire is made to burn more actively, and to soap manufacturers. But it would appear that a a greater amount of work, or, as they would call it, play, portion of one of them had been dressed as if for is carried out. The story goes a little further. It is sale as human food, and had been placed in a room reported that some young men, being about to take where carcases intended for human consumption were part in a boat-race, applied to the specialists in the always found. The Sheriff upheld the action taken matter of noses in order to have breathing-holes bored buy the inspector, who, he held, has a right under through their cartilages, so that, like the porpoise, the terms of Section 26 of the Public Health Act to they might get more air. But though this little special enter any premises where meat is being exposed for sale or operation was not done for them, the next best was done, there is probable cause for believing it to be intended for by the insertion of " fine wire spreads " into the nostrils to human food. The respondent in the case held that he secure " a greater wind supply," and as a consequence should have been trusted to dispose of the carcases "more strength and endurance" from the oxygen let into himself, and that it was not his intention to sell their lungs in richer abundance at the dilated orifices. We them for human food. But Mr. Sheriff Balfour remarked have all heard of the dilated nostril of the war horse, and a that the duty of the sanitary authority was "when capital subject, for poetry, it makes; but the dilated nostril they seize the carcases to keep a grip of them," of the football player or oarsman with a wire cage stuck and he pointed out that not only were these parti- into his nose, especially if that organ should happen to be cular carcases found in a place usually devoted to the retro1tssé, as it would often be, is out of the line of poetry sale of human food, but that they had been carefully in the absence of Butler or Peter Pindar. Seriously, these dressed as if for the market. Nor was there any guarantee young experimentalists ought to learn a little more physiothat even when disposed of to a purchaser who procures logy. If they would only take the trouble to study, for a few unsound carcases for the purposes of manure or soap minutes, the pages on the respiratory function which their making he would not, after removing the rancid fat, great countryman Dr. Draper has left in plainest language utilise the rest for sausages or margarine. The Sheriff said their edification, they would soon learn-firstly, that
THE DISPOSAL OF UNSOUND CARCASES.
for
aggravated
point of law.
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URÆMIA AS
A SEQUELA
OF DIPHTHERIA.
ALTHOUGH ursemia is not commonly recognised as a possible consequence of diphtheria, it is occasionally found occurring in this way, and Dr. J. Cassel has recently reported in a German journal devoted to the diseases of children two cases which were met with in Dr. Baginski’s policlinic. The first was that of a little girl nearly five years of age, whose urine had contained blood and a considerable quantity of albumen from the fourth day after the commencement of the diphtheria. Death took place on the thirteenth day from urcemic convulsions and dropsy. Shortly before death the child became paralysed on the side. ’At the post-mortem examination, parenchymatous nephritis and oedema of the pia mater were found; but no anatomical cause for the hemiplegia could be detected. The second case was that of a little girl of three years of age. Here not only the throat,.but the vulva was affected by the diphtheria. The local disease passed oir, and the child was apparently recovering when the eighteenth day the secretion of urin suddenly diminished very markedly, and albuminuria and convulsions came on. Death occurred two days afterwards. At the post-mortem examination it was found that there had been in the first place parenchymatous nephritis, and that this hadbeen accompanied by glomerulo-nephritis. There was also fatty degeneration of the heart.
right
on’
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WISER THAN NATURE.
IT would seem that the athletes of America are trying to cheat Mother Nature by robbing her atmospheric sea for ON the 18th ult. Sheriff Balfour gave judgment at their ownbreathing purposes beyond what she in her Glasgow in a case arising out of an order of the sanitary wisdom has ordained. We are informed that these young authority for the destruction of the carcases of fourteen men, when engaged in the more vehement athletic purbullocks as being unfit for human food. The animals were suits, have taken to wear what may be called a nose part of a consignment arriving at Yorkhill by thes.s. expander. They insert into their nostrils a wire frame, by Alabama, these animals having been bruised on the which the nostrils, widely expanded, take in, as it is suprough passage and condemned as unsound. The beasts posed, more air than they would under ordinary circumwere slaughtered and the carcases set aside, as stated stances, and thereupon the blood is supplied with more in for as manure and evidence, disposal subsequently oxygen, the animal fire is made to burn more actively, and to soap manufacturers. But it would appear that a a greater amount of work, or, as they would call it, play, portion of one of them had been dressed as if for is carried out. The story goes a little further. It is sale as human food, and had been placed in a room reported that some young men, being about to take where carcases intended for human consumption were part in a boat-race, applied to the specialists in the always found. The Sheriff upheld the action taken matter of noses in order to have breathing-holes bored buy the inspector, who, he held, has a right under through their cartilages, so that, like the porpoise, the terms of Section 26 of the Public Health Act to they might get more air. But though this little special enter any premises where meat is being exposed for sale or operation was not done for them, the next best was done, there is probable cause for believing it to be intended for by the insertion of " fine wire spreads " into the nostrils to human food. The respondent in the case held that he secure " a greater wind supply," and as a consequence should have been trusted to dispose of the carcases "more strength and endurance" from the oxygen let into himself, and that it was not his intention to sell their lungs in richer abundance at the dilated orifices. We them for human food. But Mr. Sheriff Balfour remarked have all heard of the dilated nostril of the war horse, and a that the duty of the sanitary authority was "when capital subject, for poetry, it makes; but the dilated nostril they seize the carcases to keep a grip of them," of the football player or oarsman with a wire cage stuck and he pointed out that not only were these parti- into his nose, especially if that organ should happen to be cular carcases found in a place usually devoted to the retro1tssé, as it would often be, is out of the line of poetry sale of human food, but that they had been carefully in the absence of Butler or Peter Pindar. Seriously, these dressed as if for the market. Nor was there any guarantee young experimentalists ought to learn a little more physiothat even when disposed of to a purchaser who procures logy. If they would only take the trouble to study, for a few unsound carcases for the purposes of manure or soap minutes, the pages on the respiratory function which their making he would not, after removing the rancid fat, great countryman Dr. Draper has left in plainest language utilise the rest for sausages or margarine. The Sheriff said their edification, they would soon learn-firstly, that
THE DISPOSAL OF UNSOUND CARCASES.
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