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WOOLLEN HEALTH FABRICS.
26 WOOLLEN HEALTH FABRICS.
LIQUOR ANTISEPTICUS.—JEYES’ (CREOLIN) PERFECT PURIFIER DISINFECTANT.
THE
importance of the use of wool as a non-conducting medium for under-clothing has been increasingly appreciated during the last few years. Many old-fashioned people still pin their faith to red flannel, and, provided that the colour is.there, forget to look too closely at the texture. Others have been learning the value of wool from the wide advertisement and curious shape of various descriptions of foreign manufacture, whose employment requires a special education, the fastenings being situated in such unaccustomed localities. Apart .from these small matters, wool is undoubtedly very serviceable for under-clothing owing to the slowness with which it parts with any moisture arising from excessive perspiration, and, the protection it affords against rapid evaporation and consequent chill of the surface of the body. The increasing demand for under-garments made solely of wool has been met by the introduction of several
(JEYES’ SANITARY COMPOUNDS COMPANY, 43, CANNON-STREET.) Both liquids were alkaline. When acidified with sulphuric acid and warmed, a tarry oil separated, which was easily removed by filtration. The filtrate gave a yellow precipitate with bromine water, in which, however, the microscope showed no trace of the crystalline tri-bromo-phenol. The liquid diluted with water yielded smooth emulsions. It is evident that the preparations are made from the acid portion of coal-tar. Carbolic acid is absent, but other phenols of well-known disinfecting power are present in large proportions. From the printed reports by Professor Attfield, Dr. von Esmarch, Dr. Max Körtum, and others, it appears that the active agents are not inferior to carbolic acid in power. The following preparations of the so-called Creolin have been sent to us:—Jeyes’ Sanitary Soft Soap; Household Soap (white, suitable for bath and toilet Jeyes’ forms of health fabrics. Disinfectant Soap; Jeyes’ Perfect Purifier use); Jeyes’ Messrs. Forsyth, of Renfield-street, Glasgow, have sent us " Soap; Jeyes’ Dog and Animal Soap; Jeyes’ Sanitary numerous samples of their Hygienic" Woollen Under-wear, Powder. In each of these the disinfectant can be detected Exwhich was exhibited at the Glasgow International hibition. The elastic woven vests give great choice of without analysis by the smell. SEABURY’S COMPOUND SULPHUR CANDLE. thickness; the very thin ones might be worn without any discomfort in the hottest summer, while the thicker varieties (SEABURY & JOHNSON, NEW YORK.) afford ample protection against cold, and yet retain a This " candle " consists of a metal box containing 11b. of smoothness of texture which prevents any irritating friction. sulphur. In it are inserted several deflagrating wicks by From the " Lanura" Company (Messrs. Hotham and which the sulphur can be ignited and burnt without danger. Whiting, Leeds) we havereceived pattern" and a made-up The idea is an excellent one, for considerable risk attends shirt, which are also smooth and evenly woven, and com- the burning of sulphur in the ordinary manner. It is, posed of pure natural undyed wool. moreover, a great convenience to have a known and suitable Messrs. John Hall and Sons, of Bury, Lancashire, have quantity of sulphur ready for immediate use. The cubic forwarded samples of their new Health Flannel, "Ventnor," area of a room being known, the exact number of candles which is guaranteed to consist solely of wool, and to be free required for its disinfection will at once be evident. from any dye. The samples from these three firms are eminently satisfactory both in texture and colour, and, from the unshrink- SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF INEBRIETY. able character of the material, will be found far more useful for under-wear than most ordinary flannels. They are very A GENERAL quarterly meeting was held in the rooms of gratifying examples of home manufacture, and will probably the Medical Society last Tuesday, the President, Dr. Norman supersede similar articles of foreign importation. Kerr, in the chair. A paper on Inebriety among the Cultured and Educated MESSRS. HAMPSON BROS.’ PATENT LUMINANT Classes was read by Dr. JAMES STEWART, of Dunmurry, Sneyd-park, Clifton, who gave a résumé of observations STOPPER. based on twelve years’ experience in the treatment of A VERY ingenious device has been hit upon by Messrs. inebriates. Dr. Stewart called special attention to the Hampson Bros., of Heaton Chapel, near Stockport, in the pathological condition of the cerebral tissue in inebriety, a hope of diminishing the number of cases of accidental loss of brain substance as real as the loss of a portion of a poisoning. They have patented a new form of "luminant finger sliced off accidentally with a knife. Inebriety was a glass stopper," which practically renders it impossible for a physical disease as clearly marked as many other diseases, wrong bottle to be taken down and used incautiously, since and must, to be successfully treated, be with in as the shape of the stopper is readily recognisable both by scientific a manner as these other maladies. New night and day. It is distinctly a happy thought to make and sound brain tissue must be built up before a cure the position of the bottles containing poisons so readily could be effected. This required a considerable time, months. Dr. Stewart the shortest term being apparent in a dark room. concluded by stating as his opinion that (1) inebriety a lesion of the brain which has gone so far as to affect the will power; (2) successful treatment based on this pathological dictum must include the absolute cessation of alcoholic drinking; (3) there is no danger in the sudden and complete withdrawal of alcohol if the case, no matter how GLUTEN BREAD.—GLUTEN WHOLEMEAL BREAD. severe, be in the hands of a skilful physician able to per(G. VAN ABBOTT & SON, DUKE-ST. MANSIONS, GROSVENOR-SQUARE.) sonally direct the hourly treatment from the first; (4) the WE have analysed these samples, and compared them physician undertaking the charge of such cases ought to be himself a total abstainer, so that moral treatment by with ordinary bread, with the following results. The breads example might supplement therapeutic remedies; (5) perare light and spongy and excellently prepared. Microscopic manent recovery need not be hoped for.unless both lines of analysis showed that the starch was much less in quantity treatment be pursued systematically during an uninterrupted than in ordinary bread. This was confirmed by direct period of twelve months in a " home" from which alcohol colorimetric determination by standard iodine. The starch is entirely excluded; (6) so-called cures effected by bark, was found to amount to about one-quarter of that in ordinary strychnine, iron, and other specifics have not proved perbread. These preparations deserve the highest commenda- manent ; (7) the permanence of a cure depends greatly on tion. They are admirably adapted to the purpose for which the after-treatment pursued subsequently to the patient the " home." The family of the inebriate should all they are intended, and may be used with confidence. The leaving become total abstainers, no alcohol being allowed under small proportion of flour, and particularly of wholemeal any circumstances into his or her house except as a drug liour, will tend to avert the danger of constipation, which is prescribed by a medical man, and dispensed in a medicine the chief dilliculty in the use of gluten bread. bottle.
dealt
twelve
is
Analytical Records.
LIQUOR ANTISEPTICUS.—JEYES’ (CREOLIN) PERFECT PURIFIER DISINFECTANT.
THE
importance of the use of wool as a non-conducting medium for under-clothing has been increasingly appreciated during the last few years. Many old-fashioned people still pin their faith to red flannel, and, provided that the colour is.there, forget to look too closely at the texture. Others have been learning the value of wool from the wide advertisement and curious shape of various descriptions of foreign manufacture, whose employment requires a special education, the fastenings being situated in such unaccustomed localities. Apart .from these small matters, wool is undoubtedly very serviceable for under-clothing owing to the slowness with which it parts with any moisture arising from excessive perspiration, and, the protection it affords against rapid evaporation and consequent chill of the surface of the body. The increasing demand for under-garments made solely of wool has been met by the introduction of several
(JEYES’ SANITARY COMPOUNDS COMPANY, 43, CANNON-STREET.) Both liquids were alkaline. When acidified with sulphuric acid and warmed, a tarry oil separated, which was easily removed by filtration. The filtrate gave a yellow precipitate with bromine water, in which, however, the microscope showed no trace of the crystalline tri-bromo-phenol. The liquid diluted with water yielded smooth emulsions. It is evident that the preparations are made from the acid portion of coal-tar. Carbolic acid is absent, but other phenols of well-known disinfecting power are present in large proportions. From the printed reports by Professor Attfield, Dr. von Esmarch, Dr. Max Körtum, and others, it appears that the active agents are not inferior to carbolic acid in power. The following preparations of the so-called Creolin have been sent to us:—Jeyes’ Sanitary Soft Soap; Household Soap (white, suitable for bath and toilet Jeyes’ forms of health fabrics. Disinfectant Soap; Jeyes’ Perfect Purifier use); Jeyes’ Messrs. Forsyth, of Renfield-street, Glasgow, have sent us " Soap; Jeyes’ Dog and Animal Soap; Jeyes’ Sanitary numerous samples of their Hygienic" Woollen Under-wear, Powder. In each of these the disinfectant can be detected Exwhich was exhibited at the Glasgow International hibition. The elastic woven vests give great choice of without analysis by the smell. SEABURY’S COMPOUND SULPHUR CANDLE. thickness; the very thin ones might be worn without any discomfort in the hottest summer, while the thicker varieties (SEABURY & JOHNSON, NEW YORK.) afford ample protection against cold, and yet retain a This " candle " consists of a metal box containing 11b. of smoothness of texture which prevents any irritating friction. sulphur. In it are inserted several deflagrating wicks by From the " Lanura" Company (Messrs. Hotham and which the sulphur can be ignited and burnt without danger. Whiting, Leeds) we havereceived pattern" and a made-up The idea is an excellent one, for considerable risk attends shirt, which are also smooth and evenly woven, and com- the burning of sulphur in the ordinary manner. It is, posed of pure natural undyed wool. moreover, a great convenience to have a known and suitable Messrs. John Hall and Sons, of Bury, Lancashire, have quantity of sulphur ready for immediate use. The cubic forwarded samples of their new Health Flannel, "Ventnor," area of a room being known, the exact number of candles which is guaranteed to consist solely of wool, and to be free required for its disinfection will at once be evident. from any dye. The samples from these three firms are eminently satisfactory both in texture and colour, and, from the unshrink- SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF INEBRIETY. able character of the material, will be found far more useful for under-wear than most ordinary flannels. They are very A GENERAL quarterly meeting was held in the rooms of gratifying examples of home manufacture, and will probably the Medical Society last Tuesday, the President, Dr. Norman supersede similar articles of foreign importation. Kerr, in the chair. A paper on Inebriety among the Cultured and Educated MESSRS. HAMPSON BROS.’ PATENT LUMINANT Classes was read by Dr. JAMES STEWART, of Dunmurry, Sneyd-park, Clifton, who gave a résumé of observations STOPPER. based on twelve years’ experience in the treatment of A VERY ingenious device has been hit upon by Messrs. inebriates. Dr. Stewart called special attention to the Hampson Bros., of Heaton Chapel, near Stockport, in the pathological condition of the cerebral tissue in inebriety, a hope of diminishing the number of cases of accidental loss of brain substance as real as the loss of a portion of a poisoning. They have patented a new form of "luminant finger sliced off accidentally with a knife. Inebriety was a glass stopper," which practically renders it impossible for a physical disease as clearly marked as many other diseases, wrong bottle to be taken down and used incautiously, since and must, to be successfully treated, be with in as the shape of the stopper is readily recognisable both by scientific a manner as these other maladies. New night and day. It is distinctly a happy thought to make and sound brain tissue must be built up before a cure the position of the bottles containing poisons so readily could be effected. This required a considerable time, months. Dr. Stewart the shortest term being apparent in a dark room. concluded by stating as his opinion that (1) inebriety a lesion of the brain which has gone so far as to affect the will power; (2) successful treatment based on this pathological dictum must include the absolute cessation of alcoholic drinking; (3) there is no danger in the sudden and complete withdrawal of alcohol if the case, no matter how GLUTEN BREAD.—GLUTEN WHOLEMEAL BREAD. severe, be in the hands of a skilful physician able to per(G. VAN ABBOTT & SON, DUKE-ST. MANSIONS, GROSVENOR-SQUARE.) sonally direct the hourly treatment from the first; (4) the WE have analysed these samples, and compared them physician undertaking the charge of such cases ought to be himself a total abstainer, so that moral treatment by with ordinary bread, with the following results. The breads example might supplement therapeutic remedies; (5) perare light and spongy and excellently prepared. Microscopic manent recovery need not be hoped for.unless both lines of analysis showed that the starch was much less in quantity treatment be pursued systematically during an uninterrupted than in ordinary bread. This was confirmed by direct period of twelve months in a " home" from which alcohol colorimetric determination by standard iodine. The starch is entirely excluded; (6) so-called cures effected by bark, was found to amount to about one-quarter of that in ordinary strychnine, iron, and other specifics have not proved perbread. These preparations deserve the highest commenda- manent ; (7) the permanence of a cure depends greatly on tion. They are admirably adapted to the purpose for which the after-treatment pursued subsequently to the patient the " home." The family of the inebriate should all they are intended, and may be used with confidence. The leaving become total abstainers, no alcohol being allowed under small proportion of flour, and particularly of wholemeal any circumstances into his or her house except as a drug liour, will tend to avert the danger of constipation, which is prescribed by a medical man, and dispensed in a medicine the chief dilliculty in the use of gluten bread. bottle.
dealt
twelve
is
Analytical Records.