It is indispensable only in the growth of molds; the other two groups can vegetate without it in otherwise favorable conditions. Non-transmissibility of the infection from the infected ship to the ship's crew, free of disease. Outside these centers, epidemics die out, perhaps due to exhaustion of the contagium fungi.
Hygienic Properties of the Atmosphere
Hygienic Properties of the Soil
320 BARON VON MUELLER on Fungal Organisms. enough to allow the free access of the atmospheric oxygen; rain or other moisture, to keep the soil in a wet condition, but not sufficient to wash away the germs; a temperature of about 37° C. 98° F.); the presence of decaying vegetable matter in the soil; groundwater accessible to the atmosphere. The transport and distribution of the miasma fungi is effected by the currents caused by the fall of rain on powdery soil, by the variations of atmospheric pressure, by the wind exerting either a current or a suction on the soil. The entry of the fungi into the atmosphere can be prevented by filtration through a moistened layer of soil of sufficient thickness.
Any vegetation in such soils mechanically prevents the escape of schizomycetes; they are released into the atmosphere by air currents, which can be created in different ways. Soil drainage and drainage of groundwater, if possible. Constant and uniform flooding of such parts of the soil as cannot be drained.
The ground cover either with a dense vegetation or with a layer of clay, humus, etc. or, in the case of buildings, with cement or asphalt to prevent the soil air from escaping to inhabited places. Professor Naegeli concludes his important volume with three extended chapters on the removal of egesta, on the burial of the dead, and on the preservation of health, both in centers of population and in all dwellings.
MEDICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA
NOTES OF A RECENT CASE OF SOFT LIVER CANCER, CO-EXISTENT WITH HYDATID, WITH OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO DISEASES. The matter which I now bring to the attention of the Society is one of interest, both past and future. To establish the nature of the case, a fine trocar was inserted about two inches below the ribs and three inches to the right of the lines alba.
I now come to that part of my notes about the possibility of the connection between these two diseases. In the first place, in many cysts we have a thick jelly-like wall of the usual laminated character;. After seeing a clear echinococcus and hook, of course there could be no doubt about the nature of the matter.
JAMIESON did not know the specific shapes of the bodies on display; yet he begged to say that Mr. No doubt the case was interesting and difficult, and well calculated to test the diagnostic powers of the most experienced. It was recognized that any cell cancer in any part of the body could be similar.
Ralph showed nothing to prove that the cancer had arisen from the hydatid bodies.
THE SURGICAL DEGREES OF THE UNIVERSITY
333 power so readily granted by the Legislature to make the grades sufficient, it is something to be regretted to think that q in a matter of details which are after all of little consequence, there should be a delay in the completion of the arrangements to grant it, seemingly endless. It would be incredible if the facts did not show it, that such a body as the Senate, consisting of two hundred members, could not occasionally assemble a quorum of twenty. It seems to be only when there is an election of a member of the Council that a good attendance can be ensured.
When there is work to be done, and especially work in the interest of the Medical School, nothing can exceed the dereliction of duty. To the conclusion reached in the settlement, by the Council, of the conditions on which the degree of Bachelor of Surgery is to be conferred, we think that little exception can be made. The point of difference in the Council stood at the six months' further hospital attendance, which was insisted upon for those who were already in possession of the M.B.
OCTOBER TERM 1878
EXAMINATIONS IN MEDICINE
A deputation consisting of representatives from Collingwood City Council, Fitzroy City Council and the districts of Jika, Heidelberg and Eltham was presented to the Chief Secretary in November. If it were necessary to have such an institution, some side places would have to be sought. It is not likely that there would be a large number of cases and it might be possible to use one of the hulks in the bay as a reception house.
It would, in his opinion, be a great mistake on the part of the Government to build a hospital on the Heidelberg road site, as there was a large settlement in the neighborhood and they would soon be asked to remove it. Tucker asked if, in the event of the municipal bodies in and around Melbourne conferring on the subject, he would carry out their proposal for a site. The above is an average sample of the local selfishness that reigns throughout this city.
It usually reaches its maximum, we think, in January; and the question arises whether something could not be done to lessen it during the summer months, especially among the children of the poor. The Evening Post—the paper of the late William Cullen Bryant—initiated a Fresh Air Fund' for this purpose with excellent results; and we bring the matter before our readers in the hope that it may produce something of the kind to be attempted here.
REVIEWS
In this case, we can expect that child mortality, which is always the highest during this period of the year, will exceed the average. Tickets for trips to the island are distributed by the town doctors and sanatorium superintendents to poor children suffering from marasmus, teething, or any other non-communicable disease; the ticket entitles them and their nurses to transportation to and from the sanatorium, and to wholesome, plain food while there. In New York, the children of the poor are taken in large groups to Long Island and to some of the windiest villages on the coast, where the more sensitive among them take up permanent residence in houses provided for that purpose. purpose.
If we could find a summer retreat of this kind at Sorrento, Queenscliff, or at Phillip Island, and remove, under proper supervision, two or three hundred little children from the most unhealthy quarters of this city and its suburbs, it would be a beneficial movement, not only in a hygienic, but in a moral and social point of view, because the substitution of healthy and beautiful, for wretched and ugly surroundings, would have a beneficial influence on the minds and future characters of the recipients of the change.". No thoughtful practitioner can take it up without finding anything that puts him in mind. And all this, apart from the wider view it presents in the way of history, reflects the knowledge of the time in an important branch of medical science, and pictures the investigation going on in parts of the world distant from us. He has deviated a little from the tradition which has hitherto governed the production of atlases of skin diseases, namely, by depicting the disease in a larger size than usual, while he has reduced the dimensions of that paper , on which the disease is drawn.
It is not necessary that a large margin should be provided for each board, nor is it essential that a considerable portion of the. They are rid of all technical complications as far as possible, and in the treatment recommended there is quite a fascinating simplicity.
LOCAL TOPICS
They are vivid, expressive and therefore instructive, and arranged in the compact form of an ordinary book, they are necessarily convenient. The illustrations to so necessary a work make it expensive, and the price, ten and sixpence per piece, seems high considering the facilities now in the direction of chromolithography. 339 The Annual Meeting of the Microscopical Society of Victoria was held at 117 Collins-street East on October 31st.
Ralph sat in the chair and gave a speech about the work of the association during the past year. The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society held its regular monthly meeting in the hall of the Royal Society on November 1.
The following publications have been received: - Lancet for 24 August, 7 September 14; The British Medical Journal for August 24, 31, September 7, 14; Medical Press and Circular for August 28, September 4, 11; Studenterbladet for 31 August, 14 September; Glasgow Medical Journal for September; London Medical Record for September 15; Triibner's American and Oriental Literary Record for August; New York Medical Journal for August and September; Medical Communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society, No. 4, 1878; Proceedings of the Medical Society of the County of Kings for September; Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal for September; New York Medical Record for August 31, September What's Killing Our Babies: by C.
