They took place several years ago, at a time when I felt less skeptical than I do now about the merits of this practice. Phillip, on the use of very small doses of mercury (especially, as I would add, in combination with small admissions of blood), applies with great force to the treatment of the chronic form of dysentery. The study of these modifications now forms one of the most interesting parts of our science.
The septal cartilage was destroyed almost at the plate of the vomer and perpendicular to the ethmoid bones. Czermak, in his work, gives an excellent illustration of the value of rhinoscopy in correcting an erroneous diagnosis. A young man, deaf on the left side, was found to have a tumor at the back of the nostril, which gave the impression of a polypus on the finger.
Surgery was considered, but rhinoscopic examination revealed constricted mucosal swelling, almost identical. The mucous membrane was thickened all over the upper part of the pharynx, and several other small granular ulcers were seen scattered about. The surface at the time of examination was covered with a discharge as she described it.
I therefore had no doubt that this was the situation of the squishy formation which had annoyed her for so many years.
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The vertebral bodies seemed to be softening rapidly, as he had deteriorated greatly over the past two months. In this position they wheeled about most of the day in the open air and bathed in addition. These, with other measures to improve general health, according to him, can be of great benefit.
The following paper was to be read at the meeting of the association on the 6th st. The testis could be felt and seen protruding at the lowermost point of the tumor. The softness was not caused by edema, as water was not leaking from any part.
Accordingly, I applied it with a camel hair pencil adjusted in curvature to fit the furrow condition. BLACK wanted to know if the rapid breathing became easier immediately after the secretion was expressed. However, it was satisfactory to note that the treatment in this case was followed by separation of the membrane.
MARTIN thought that whatever the nature of diphtheria might be, the writer of the paper was to be congratulated on the. Blair how far the other means employed were concerned to facilitate the removal of the cast. Gillbee, that in the case of the election of members living at a greater distance than ten miles from Melbourne, the entrance fee be refunded.
Of the necessity of such a combination every physician in the colony has long been convinced. A conversation ensued, and it was finally decided to limit the number of the committee to the following six—Mr. "The creation of a better understanding between members of the profession in their various relations with each other.
The establishment of a judicial medical court to which disputes between members of the profession can be submitted for arbitration. The following Medical Degrees were conferred at the Annual Commencement of the University of Melbourne, on the 18th ult.
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Robertson responded on behalf of the medical lecturers, stating that he had observed that medicine as a profession was not looked upon with the same degree of favor as law, and that the medical school met with opposition not only from members of the profession, but even from members of the University. SIR,—Can any of your readers recommend a remedy for removing the blue or black spots, or rather scars, so often seen on the faces of gold and coal miners, especially the latter?
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Gillbee presented the report of the Drugs Committee, presenting a new and revised edition of the Pharmacopoeia. On Thursday, April 16th, a pleasant evening's entertainment was provided at the Collingwood Lunatic Asylum, on the occasion of the departure of Dr. .
Almost all the patients, as well as the entire staff and a large number of visitors, were present and danced with great spirit; and when in the course of the evening mr. In a Wood's Point paper, published twice a week, a medical man practicing there was abused in every issue except ten, during twenty-eight months. If the mere printing of these cases had to be paid for, it would have cost £400.
The result was to advertise the doctor thoroughly, and so largely to increase his practice. A correspondent of the Port Denison Times, writing from Burketown, says that two medical men who had recently gone there in the hope of making a fortune from the large practice to be obtained from the ever-prevailing endemic fever, had the left profession and is now keeping respectively a public•house and looking after a multitude of "Kanakas", whatever these last may be. A WELL-DESERVED HONOUR.-The "International Society for Aid to the Wounded in War" awarded Mr.
Condy, of Battersea, their medal in recognition of the importance to military surgery and the great sanitary value of Condy's Fluid, as proved by the experience of the Prussian army surgeons during the late Bohemian war.-Lancet, Dec. Cosa. April 25, at Brunswick, Melbourne, aged seven months, John Hooper Goldsboro', youngest child of John Frederick Cobb, M.R.C.S.E. DU.-On the 4th inst., at 111 Collins-street East, Amy, third daughter of Richard Youl, M.D., city coroner.
Goonwrx.-On the 14th of April, at South Yarra, John Power, infant son of Staff-Assistant Surgeon Goodwin.
