Examination of the chest: mildness of moderate magnitude on percussion at the apex of the right lung. She was ordered to have sinapisms on the neck; also to have a warm foot bath, with mustard. However, Julie managed to evade control and went directly to the river bank.
I found that the lower part of the breast was suppurated, but not yet discharged. A second abscess was forming in the upper part of the same breast, the part tense, hot, red, and glowing. February 12.-The appearance of the eye was favorable; there was very little irritation; sclerotia was normally white; the wound looked healthy and the vision was still improving.
March 12 - Discharged with good, useful vision, the only defect being a small piece of the capsule left in the pupil. Thickening of the iris is a consequence of dilation, therefore it is more in the way of the knife. I further consider it important that after the aqueous humor has been regenerated, the dilation of the pupil partially returns.
This subsequent dilation of the pupil exerts up to a certain point a controlling influence on any irritation of the iris."
ROYAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA
Macadam was one of our first members of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, later the Royal Society. The last volume issued to your members contains the dealings of the Society during the years and 64. At the same meeting I also gave a brief account of the application of spectrum analysis to the celestial bodies.
The comparisons of the human skeleton with that of the gorilla and many other great apes have been discussed at great length. Some fossils brought down from the mouth of the Flinders River by the lords. At the annual closing meeting of the session, some important amendments were made to the laws of the Society, which past experience had shown to be desirable.
Selwyn has been enabled to make several important additions to the geological sketch map of the colony. Argelander, the director of the Bonn observatory, completed the great task of surveying the north. The completion of this undertaking constitutes one of the greatest practical achievements in modern astronomy.
Therefore, I think it will be of interest to you to hear about the progress that has been made in this matter. In speaking of the scientific work going on in the colonies, outside the Royal Society, geodetic and coastal surveys require some notice. With the year's history of the Royal Society of Victoria and of our various scientific institutions, it cannot escape our notice how much progress has been made in the colony at large.
Earthenware and pottery are produced in large quantities, and great improvement is perceptible in the quality of the productions during the past year. Before I conclude, I must not fail to give a brief review of the progress of science in the Western world. Huggins and Thompson and Father Secchi, in Florence, on the spectra of the heavenly bodies, also ripened into most interesting results.
A similar study of Jupiter led Father Secchi to the impression that its atmosphere has a much greater power of absorbing light than that of the Earth. Graham's theory of the diffusion of gases has been most usefully applied to practical purposes.
LOCAL NEWS
This gentleman was again placed on his trial at the High Court, on Monday the 18th ult. Some additional evidence was tendered by the Crown, but no witnesses were called by counsel for the prisoner—Mr. Aspinall who preferred to rely for his success on the facts brought out in question, and on the advantage of not being pursued by the Crown Prosecutor with any final appeal to the jury.
GAS FIRES. — We believe that a few years ago a preparation was patented by which the consumption of coal in the domestic fireplace was supplanted. It never came into widespread use, mainly, it seems, because of the somewhat expensive nature of the metallic medium used to contain and reflect the heat supplied by the gas burners. But the other day they showed us a more economical, and at the same time very simple and ingenious invention, which not only replaces ordinary fuel, but looks like a coal fire, as you might expect anything that is not a coal fire to look like.
It consists of a number of jets of gas, arranged to burn in an ordinary fireplace, which, filled with the vitrified substance commonly known as "clinker," present a glowing mass as long as the gas continues to burn. As an invention only to avoid the use of fuel, this use of gas would require no mention in these pages; but as it represents a very desirable addition to the Infirmary, in which the annoyance of dust and smoke from ordinary fires is very objectionable, we have not thought the description of it inappropriate.
CORRESPONDENCE
SIR, I beg you to do me a favor to publish, if possible, in your next issue the accompanying translation of Professor Scanzoni's Lehrbuclt der Geburtshilfe of his views on the formation of the corpus luteum. 34. If the Graaffian vesicle enclosing the mature ovule is superficial and lies directly under the peritoneal cover of the ovary, a relatively slight hyperemia of its walls is sufficient, if only due to the increase of the fluid in the ovarian cavity. vesicle, to burst the wall of the latter. 34; In this case, where a much greater pressure from the inside out is required to burst the vesicle surrounded by much stronger walls, the mere increase in the normal content of the follicle is no longer sufficient to achieve this goal.
34; But when the ovule has escaped from the Graaffian vesicle, a healing process ensues that is so interesting that it gives rise to the formation of the so-called yellow body, corpus luteum. Both the exudate deposited in the wall of the follicle and the non-absorbable part of the blood clot remaining in the cavity undergo fatty degeneration, the yellow color of which depends on the follicle remnants involved, and the name corpus luteum has been founded. It no longer appears as a sign of earlier conception and pregnancy, but simply as a result of the rupture and apoplexy of the Graaffian vesicle, depending on the periodic maturation of eggs.
I do not intend in this communication to enter into a general history of the origin and nature of this disease, as I am sure all your readers are already familiar with the various forms described by writers, and the countries in which it prevailed more. For nearly two years I lost sight of the matter, until about eight or nine months since, when I was requested to visit him, and then regarded the matter as that of. 34; Elephantiasis Arabica.” To such an extent had emaciation and other disorders of the general system advanced, that any hope of recovery was naturally in vain.
I have never met with a similar case in this colony, although I have now resided here more than twenty-six years, but I know that cases of the Egyptian form have been met with, and even now exist here. In this case no remedy of the kind could have been of any use at the stage when I first found it, and I took the only humane means I could to endeavor to relieve pain and restlessness. I have written to you in a very simple way, but I did not set out, as I have said before, with a scientific description of the disease or with the use of many technical details.
In this case I intended to split the buckle, but found the reduction relatively easy after using the spray, without resorting to the knife. The needle had broken off at its point, leaving the end of the eye embedded in the muscles of the thumb. 34; The members of the Medical Board of Victoria' have any real desire to pass for what they are not; but the manner they adopt greatly favors the impression that they have such a desire.
SIR,—As a layman I write to you for information as to the supposed efficacy of the gas-works atmosphere in the cure of chronic cough. I had no experience with this in my own family, as my children fortunately did not suffer from the need for the procedure.
