The sinus now closed, and the union between the sides of the jaw became gradually stronger. She died in seven days, but not from the actual diphtheria, but from the spread of the inflammation in the lungs. The front of the tumor was then found, under pressure, to be parchment-like and released.
MEDICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA
In addition to human blood, he had the blood of chickens, cats, dogs, and other lower animals examined. But, he thought with certainty, he could distinguish human blood from that of the lower animals, if it were quite fresh. When this is done, the two ends of the wire are passed through the hole in the center of the base of the instrument and the wire is pulled taut by hand.
The base of the instrument is placed against the scrotum, and the cord secured well round the top of the thumb screw, where there is a notch to receive it. A half turn of the thumbscrew may be necessary if it is not tightened sufficiently, at the discretion of the operator. THOMAS was satisfied with the simplicity of the instrument; but he believed that the operation could be even more simplified.
GILLBEE had no doubts about the desirability of legislation on the subjects raised by Mr. GIRDLESTONE was introduced, in reply could not see how the actions of the Society should interfere with the pharmacies.
THE ALFRED HOSPITAL
305 If all the persons to whom such appeals are addressed were intelligent enough to decide on the merits of the applicant and not on some ground unrelated to his merits, it might be better to refer to the decision of the wider electorate units. Another unimportant clause in the rules is that which provides for the doctors to form a separate committee "to advise the weekly" committee in relation to the purchase of medicines and instruments, and on all medical questions or other matters which may be referred to them, on the welfare of the institution'. We admit that the presence of doctors on the main board of the hospital is "a source of many misunderstandings". Lay members almost necessarily seem to interfere with staff functions, and staff necessarily resent interference, so unpleasant differences are almost certain to arise.
It does neither the efficiency of a charity's work nor the professional dignity of staff for them to be embarrassed by tasks that do not properly belong to their office. Medical personnel should be selected on the principle of a faculty; that is to say, ten practitioners must be appointed, and the only conditions of qualification insisted on are that the candidate's name be on the Register of the Medical Board, and that his degree be obtained from some college or body. which requires four years of study to obtain it. This innovation in dividing Tong's staff into physicians and surgeons is bold; and it belongs so far to the temporary committee which prepared the rules, that it shows that they did not merely borrow the Rules of other charities, and thoughtlessly adopt them, but worked out their scheme with forethought and intelligence. .
In the formulation of the rules, it will be noted that the term "honorable" is not used in the designation of personnel. Medical officers are referred to as "resident" and "non-resident". We do not notice in any part of the Regulation that the payment of non-resident personnel is foreseen, but due to the absence of the term of honor, such an arrangement is still possible. Perhaps the interim committee thought of the further innovation of the remuneration of all staff. In this case, their intelligence and the desire to move with the advancing spirit of the time will have appeared even further.
A PHARMACY ACT
It is a question, however, whether it would not be a prime duty of the staff to give their attention at an early period of their career to such a division of duties, which a strictly scientific, rather than an arbitrary, principle of classification. Casey should be divided into six doses; but, through an inadvertence in the prescription, the number of doses was reduced to two. The dispenser, not without some reason, said that he made up the prescription literally, because, being for a Chinaman, he did not think the dose large, Chinese people being accustomed to take opiates in full quantity .
The complaint against the distributor was that he should have delivered the recipe to the prescriber before he made it up, and out of this complaint grew a movement that a distributor's business should be entrusted only to legally qualified hands. As an abstract proposition it is of no use, though the circumstances which led to the agitation of the question are curiously unimportant, so far as the necessity of a Pharmacy Act is concerned. The opportunity was, however, favorable to make it a matter to be debated by the Medical Society, and the fear that the pharmacists would regard the action taken by the Society as an undue interference with their rights and functions, is not without much reason. to be considered. .
Girdlestone's intention in presenting the matter to the Society was, we are quite sure, simply to create an interest in the question in the Society, as a matter of little interest to the profession; and if the apothecaries themselves can secure the co-operation of the society in obtaining a law giving them legal rights and privileges, they will scarcely be disposed to complain of this interference. There is no reason why apothecaries should not take up the position vacated by the old apothecaries, who long ago formed a part of the regular profession, and if the measure now begun should result in a more complete definition of the duties of the physician, the prescriber, and the dispenser, compounding, the general result will be a more thorough harmonization of their several functions, though very properly maintaining the distinction of degree, of those engaged in the joint study of pharmacy and its allied sciences.
A LETTER FROM ENGLAND
The case turned out to be a simple unilocular cyst, and the size and shape of the pedicle, and indeed all points of the case. It is quite impossible to convey a sufficiently adequate idea of the beauty, the perfect completeness of this operation. This paper was the result of a debate at the previous meeting of the society, between Dr.
311 illness, and it was clear that this meeting was looking forward to a furious renewal of the dispute. Kidd, one of Dublin's rising lights; and he was supported by Dr. While in Dublin I spent a pleasant day with Sir Dominick Corrigan, at his home in Dalkey, on the shore of the bay.
The town is full of doctors and the authorities and the generally good people of the town are going madly hospitable. This was mitigated by the execution of the assassin, but the public desiring to express their gratitude to the Almighty for the recovery of the Duke of Edinburgh, subscribed upwards of £20,000.
REVIEWS
34; In reality we do not see the natural phenomena themselves by which we are surrounded, but only the peculiar effects of the brain cells, which are evoked by impressions from without. Thus many things may exist in nature of which we have no knowledge." This will remind our readers of Huxley's reduction of everything to states of consciousness, to the great mystery of the uninitiated. All anatomists are aware of the consists of several kinds of cells, differently arranged in the cortical substance of the hemispheres, and with our author it is not unreasonable to suppose that they have different functions, and that they communicate more or less with each other by means of the five tubular fibers.
That different faculties reside in different parts of the hemisphere, he considers as an indisputable fact, and that the anterior part of the cerebrum is the seat of the higher intellectual faculties. On the other hand, in melancholia, where anxious restlessness and feelings of heat and pressure arise, and where the feeling suffers more than the intellect, pathological changes are found rather in the folding of the upper and obstructing lobes." can only lie in the organization of the brain, in another quality of the cell, by means of which the necessary impressions, ideas, and images are excited.
The influence of the body on the mind is well considered and he again insisted on the importance of proper oxidation. Who does not feel the depression of the north wind, the elevation of the south wind in these climates.
LOCAL TOPICS
As your Committee are very anxious to commence operations with as little delay as possible, they hope to obtain from the Council of the University of Melbourne the loan of suitable glasses, and if so, a supply of spirits will be easily obtained. Smith, Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University of Melbourne, who has expressed his willingness to place his services at the disposal of the Hospital Committee, and your Committee have great pleasure in recommending that his offer be accepted with the fee enclosed. The patient is visited, and at the same time bail is accepted for the release of the prisoner-patient.".
A meeting of the chemists of Victoria was arranged to be called at an early day, to carry forward the objects of the society. It is thought by some of the lepers themselves that the disease of leprosy has been transmitted to fowls, and this certainly suggests the still unsolved question whether leprosy is infectious or not. It is also said that an unnatural-looking specimen of the dog tribe, which the lepers have made companions, exhibits similar symptoms."
By the last post came the announcement that Professor Halford had been admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, a distinction as well deserved as it will be honorably worn. The Melbourne Free Hospital for Sick Children has been removed from the undesirable premises at the corner of Romeo Lane, to 39 Stephen-street South.
