The tendency of the objections which I have combated is also against the opinion that the disease is of an infectious nature. Fetherston could only get the tip of the finger into the ox, and he felt a placental presentation. I will no doubt be expected to make some remarks on the progress of the Medical Profession in Australia.
I was the first to perform most of the important operations in surgery in this colony. The hospital gradually increased in proportion to the needs of the community, until it reached its present large dimensions. Watson, an officer in H.M.S., and the medical care of the patients was entrusted to Mr.
Special meeting to make a protest to the University Council, against the recently established curricula for medical students. Fitzgerald read a paper on ankle amputation and referred to a case in which he had performed it. The subject was placed on the table for member inspection and the rupture appeared.
We owe this to the strenuous efforts of the Chancellor, Sir Redmond Barry, and that of the Vice-Chancellor, Dr.
People were also concerned with a functional disorder of this organ, from disorders of the digestive system. It has existed here ever since, and is regarded as one of the most destructive scourges of all the diseases that prevail here. I would refer you to the Melbourne Hospital as to the correctness of this statement, where you will find that at least a quarter of the medical cases are phthisical.
When they occur in the lungs, they usually burst into the bronchi, discharge themselves, and after a long period of suffering from a troublesome cough, throwing up parts of the cyst, the patient, if otherwise healthy, eventually recovers. general. WOLFENDEN, one of the permanent staff of Melbourne Hospital, was elected a member of the Society. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, Since there has been some discussion as to the nature of the fever brought here by the ship.
He states that he arrived on the morning of the 14th from the ship Golden Empire, that yesterday morning he was seized with rigors, headache, loss of appetite and great thirst. Sectio Cadaveris.-He found the membranes and blood-vessels of the brain very congested, the heart soft and weak; the liver, kidneys and spleen are tender; the stomach, duodenum, and lower part of the ileum are very congested, but they could find no thickening or ulceration of the Peyer's glands. I have not a full report of this case, but I believe that the characteristic symptoms of the fever were the eruption of the mulberry.
I will now report some cases of patients who were admitted to the hospital before the arrival of the Golden Empire, and also some cases admitted during the time when the cases from the Golden Empire were in the hospital. October 22.—Beat rate 120; the tongue is dry and red; audible friction sound over apex of heart. Stool is more liquid; over the lower part of the sacrum and also over each trochanter several furrows formed.
Sectio Cadaveris.-On examination of the chest he found a tubercular deposit at the apex of the left lung, and lymphatic effusion over the middle and anterior portion of the same lung. Sectio Cadaveris.-He found the membranes and blood-vessels of the brain compressed; empty and soft heart; congested posteriority of the lungs; spleen very enlarged, very tender; soft kidneys and liver; ulceration of the Peyer's glands in the lower part of the ileum, as well as of the glands in the ccectun. We have somewhat delayed the publication of the journal, to include the very important paper read by Dr.
Mackenzie, at the last meeting of the Medical Society; for both the public and the profession were concerned with the solution of the question as to the true character of the fever introduced into the colony by the Golden Empire. In the minds of the members of the profession who have seen the cases reported by dr.
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We trust, therefore, that the subject will not be dismissed without a further and more analytical examination, having special reference to the modifying influences by which the poison of fever is prevented from assuming that rapid epidemic form under which it appears. so often in the northern hemisphere. Mackenzie, lately one of the resident staff of the Melbourne Hospital, has been elected Dr. STABILITY OF LIFE IN THE LAW.--- The Majorca and Carisbrook Independent gives the following example of the consistency of a leader: formerly Mr.
Pottz saw his dog smelling a hole, but paid no particular attention to the circumstances. Three days after this incident, some diggers discovered the steering wheel in the hole that the dog had been sniffing at. The poor animal was immediately freed, still alive, but in a very exhausted state - after being in the hole for 17 days, without food or water.
The wheel is now in excellent condition, the only sign of its late accident being the absence of hair on the parts covered with silt.” EAR-WORMS.— The Kyneton Guardian recently related the following curious history. :—" On New Year's Day, a boy about 10 or 11 years old, the son of a shoemaker who lived near Koliban, while returning home in the afternoon, complained of an acute pain in his right ear. The next morning the child's face was very swollen, and in the evening the agony he suffered was so great that his parents decided to send him to Kyneton Hospital.
Shortly afterwards, two others of the same kind were taken out and the next day the boy had completely recovered and all the symptoms of the terrible pain he had suffered had completely disappeared. It is suspected that he must have laid down in the grass on New Year's Day and that the worms got into his car in that position.' More recently, Mr. Preshaw of Castlemaine, according to the Mount Alexander Mail, removed more than twenty maggots from the ear of a little boy to whom he had been called, who was in excruciating pain in that region.
TOLERANCE OF FOREIGNERS IN THE DIGESTION - A man who was recently brought before the magistrates in this city for uttering a common coin was so adept at swallowing money that it was impossible to convict him, as it is probable that when he was apprehended , swallowed all the fake coins like oysters, and there did not appear to be any ill effects following these extraordinary feats of swallowing. The stone was largely composed of ammonia in layers of varying thickness, which WAS deposited in the colon about 18 in. The operation was desperate, as was the disease which threatened the sudden death of one of the most valuable heavy horses in the colony.
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