{"title":"ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL: ENDOCARDITIS: ANAEMIA: REMARKABLE SLOWNESS OF PULSE: WITH REMARKS.","authors":"G G Rogers","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88830,"journal":{"name":"Association medical journal","volume":"4 206","pages":"1049-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1856-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29224753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Periscope.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88830,"journal":{"name":"Association medical journal","volume":"4 206","pages":"1061-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1856-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440232/pdf/assomedj00258-0013.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29224756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SALARIES OF POOR-LAW MEDICAL OFFICERS","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88830,"journal":{"name":"Association medical journal","volume":"69 1","pages":"1066 - 1066"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1856-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78804507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ENCOURAGEMENT OF HOMŒOPATHY BY LEGITIMATE PRACTITIONERS","authors":"J. Humphreys","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1065-a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1065-a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88830,"journal":{"name":"Association medical journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"1065 - 1065"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1856-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89379893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FATAL CASE OF POISONING BY ESSENCE OF ALMONDS","authors":"T. R. Heywood-Thomson","doi":"10.1136/BMJ.S3-4.206.1055-A","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/BMJ.S3-4.206.1055-A","url":null,"abstract":"condition would have become mueh improved; for it is a notorous fact that ill fed, half starved recuits rapidly improve in condition and dtamina by regular duty, a substantial mess, and habits of cleanlines. The reduction in the army at present going on will doubtless free the ranks of numbers who, except from the emergency of the war, could never have gained admission. The Guards are now sending their undersized men back to their homes; and the Act for limited enlistment (for two years) causes a further reduction. It has often been the fashion to sneer at and ridicule the physical appearance of a manfacturing population like that of the West Riding; but, after seeing some of the metropolitan and southern regiments of militia, I will undertake to show as fine a body of soldiers in the Yorkshire regiments as any in the kingdom, and in a state of discipline surpassed by none. In my next paper, I propose to speak of the prevalent dieases of militiamen, as furnished by the rethrns from my own regiment; and on other matters.","PeriodicalId":88830,"journal":{"name":"Association medical journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"1055 - 1056"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1856-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88829530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REMARKS ON THE STATE OF EDUCATION, THE PHYSICAL CAUSES OF DISQUALIFICATION, AND LIABILITY TO DISEASE, OF RECRUITS FROM A MANUFACTURING POPULATION","authors":"J. Ikin","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1053","url":null,"abstract":"a ane cused by preious peritonitis (a frequent aoueof obstrution of the bowels)and where,Unfortunately, at the after death inspection, all teir anticipations wer but too forcbly verified, as strong cords wer obgerved, which td down the intestine at more than one point. Nothig Will withstand these cords and fibrinous bridles of inflammatory lymph; the spine itself will be bent by them; the thorax, in ome cases of pleurtis, wiU be contracted; while in the peritoneum (only that idiopathic peritonitis, in Dr. Addison's experience, is one of the rarest of our diseases) fatal obstruction of the bowels would be most frquent, as superveamg on these effusions. Dr. Addison, in the majority of oa of obstinate obstruction of the bowels, is an advocate for treating them almost like strangulated hernia. Violent dratic purgatives, fluid mercury, etc, should be used with the utmost circumspection, if not entirely forbidden. Indeed, when such cases are under care in hospital, an oppoSite line of treatment gives the best chance of cure. The upper or obstructed part of the gut is mostly in a state of irritation, if not of active hypersemia, from the incessant previous deluge of purgatives. In the present case, Dr. Addison prescribed a mild aperient in conformity in some measure to ordinary routine; but he believes that opium, chloroform, fomentations of the abdomen, enemata of warm water; and occasionally bleeding, were likely to relieve the aymptoms. In the present instance, though now somewhat unavailing, it would seem as though if Amussat's operatiou had been tried, or if O'Beirne's tube had been put in requisition, a better chance of core might have been with almost certainty predicted. The valve at the ilio-cmeal pouch of the intestinal tract, Dr. Addison finds by direct experiment is a true valve under ordinary circumstances of health; but in this case, and others similar co it, the valve is overcome by the enormrous force a tergo; yet if you relieve the valve, the vomitings of feces cease.","PeriodicalId":88830,"journal":{"name":"Association medical journal","volume":"121 1","pages":"1053 - 1055"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1856-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84838981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hospital Cleanings","authors":"Absociation Miical","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1052","url":null,"abstract":"soan the nAt eye of a patient named Thomas, nealy two ago, by etaction, the lens being had, and the capsue (len?) aecd. The capsule (lens ) of the left eye ws distinctly opaque at its circumference, as in Plate iii, Fig. & On exam.iing the eye lately, having previously dilted the pupil by the belladouna, the capsle was free from opacity. \" I have, seen the same disappearance of an incipient opacty in two other cases, and in one of these I had reason to suspect a commencing opacity of the lens.\" Mr. Guthrie believed the incipient opacities in these eas to have been seated in the capsule. His drawing, however, proves beyond a doubt that some of the superficial ibres of the lens, and not the capsule, were the seat of cstaract. In fact, this observing surgeon appears to have had doubts, at a later period of his experience, in regard to the accuracy of his diagnosis; and has, with that love of truth which characterised his whole professional life, expressed them in a foot-note to pages 243-4 of the work I have quoted. Mr. Guthrie was opposed to operative interference in eases of single cataract. Although he records four cases in which an operation upon a fully formed catarat did not pvent the progress of an incipient one in its companion, he declares in another page of his work (276): \"1 am satisfied that, in some instances, the removal of a cataract in one eye by operation will cause the disappearance of an opacity in the other. I am led to this conclusion from having seen it in a sufficient number of instances to establish the fact.\"","PeriodicalId":88830,"journal":{"name":"Association medical journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"1052 - 1053"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1856-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78156783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviews and Notices","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s3-4.206.1056","url":null,"abstract":"ute beore 1 P.m to enter the back kitchen with a cup in her hand, and was soon after found leaning apit the door, from which she slid down on the floor, as if im a fainting fit. A convulsion was described to me as having taken place, but this was not properly substantiated. The fellow-sevant, who saw her fall, immediately squired if she felt sick, to which no reply was made; and others coming in, she was carried up stairs to the bed where I foundier. The strong odour directed the servants to exame the bottle of almond essence kept by the cook in the kitchen cupboard for culinary purposes, when it was discovered that this, known to have boen previously full, was then almost empty; and a cup was afterwards found in the scullery, immersed in water, smelling of the almonds. On examining the bottle at my house, I found it would contain six drachms. There was no vendor's name -no warning label of \" poison \" on it-simply \" essence of almonds\"', stating that \"a fetw drops\" (not how many) to be used to flavour puddings and custards. Seventy minims remained in the bottle. As the case was so clear, no post mortem examination was demanded; but, on testing the contents of the stomach as drawn off by the pump, there was a powerful odour of the essence of almonds, confirmed by vapour-tests-placing thin glass, damped with solution of nitrate of silver, over a bottle of the fluid, with the temperature slightly raised, when the characteristic white film appeared; green, and subsequently blue, on the potassa sulphate of iron, and dilute vitriol. The white precipitate on the addition of solution of nitrate of silver, was dissolved out by heated strong nitric acid; the acid while cold having apparently no effect upon it. I mention this to confirm the observation of some toxicologists. The cup, which was brought to me some hours afterwards, had a less odour of almonds, having been some time in water in the sink; on one side covered with a whitish coating, which the family supposed might be arsenic. There was, however, only proof of the essence of almonds-not a trace of any mineral poisoning, on using sulphuretted hydrogen; while the white powdery stuff on the outside was found, under the microscope, to be starchgranules,from some amylaceous mixture with sugar,and displaying the characteristic tint on adding dilute tincture of iodine. My other occupations not admitting of my ascertaining the actual quantity of prussic acid contained in this precious \"almond essence\", I tried the more expeditious mode of administering ten drops to a full-;rown male rabbit; in less than a minute, the poor creature gave a piercing scream, such as I never heard from rabbit or hare in my sporting days; was then slightly convulsed, dropped slowly on its side, and, after a few heavy respirations and a little frothing from the month, expired; the pupils continuing widely dilated, and the muscles flaccid, even those of the lower jaw. On making an examination after it had been allowed to remain ","PeriodicalId":88830,"journal":{"name":"Association medical journal","volume":"136 1","pages":"1056 - 1058"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1856-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79601437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviews and Notices","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s3-4.205.1036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s3-4.205.1036","url":null,"abstract":"ELEMENTS OF A4.ATOMY, by JONES QUAIN, M.D. Sixth Edition, edited by WILLIAMI SHARPEY, M.D., F.R.S., and GEORGE VIriER ELLIS, Professors of Anatomy and Physiology in University College, London. Three volumes. London: Walton and Maberly. 1856. DzMoxST&ATIONS oF ANATOMY: A GUIDE TO THE1KNOWLEGE OF THE HUMAN BODY BY DISSECTION. By GEORGE VNER ELLIS. Fourth Edition. pp. 832. London: Walton and Maberly. 1MU5f. HANDBOOK OiF PHYSIOLOGY. By WILLIAM SErNOUSE KIRKES, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Assistant-Physician to, and Lecturer on Botany and Vegetable Physiology at, St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Third Edition. pp. 738. London: Walton and Maberly. 180G. The student who has just commenced his career in the Lndon hospitals, is to be congratulated on the appearance of the new editions of the works whose titles are given above. They are not, it is true, new works, and therefore require none of the obstetric aid of the reviewer to bring them into the literary world. But as books, like all things in the world, have their periods of glory anad of decadence, we must say that the works on Anatomy and Physiology before us have as yet no superiors in our country; and that the present editions are fully entitled to all the favour which has been bestowed on their predecessors. In the Elements of Anat0omy, the part on General Anatomy has been carefully revised, and brought down to the state of knowledge at the time of publication, by Professor SHARPEY. The Descriptive Anatomy has been revised by Professor ELLIS; the former co-editor, Professor R. Quain, being prevented by his professional avocations from giving that attention to the work which its importance demands, and which he so ably bestowed on it on a previous occasion. In this department, ib is true, much novelty is not to be expected; but we are much gratified at observing that the editors have adopted the views of Professor Owen with regard to the structure of vertebra. This is, we believe, a new feature in anatomical works, excepting the monograph of Mr. Holden on Human Oae*oto,y. The present edition is published in small octavo-a. much more eonvenient size than that of the former editions; the price is also lower. Mr. ELLIS'S valuable aid to the dissector has undergone a careful revision, and is brought down to the present state of knowledge. We observe with satisfaction an inclination on the part of the author to eschew the absurd practice of giving Latin names to parts and structures, for which a sufficiently expressive Saxon appellation exists. Thus the word \" axilla\" is displaced in favour of \" armpit\", and the \" extremities\" are called \"limbs\". A little more simplification in our medical nomenclature would be desirable. Dr. KIRKEs'S Handbook is, as it has always been, an excellent epitome of our knowledge of physiology. Containing an epitome of the leading doctrines of the science, and written in a generally readable style, it cannot fail to give a very fair insight into the functions","PeriodicalId":88830,"journal":{"name":"Association medical journal","volume":"16 1","pages":"1036 - 1038"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1856-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88582033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}