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suppuration continued for five months, and did not ceasetill a large sphacelus of connective tissue had been expelled.The case is interesting from a practical surgical point ofview; unusual complications no doubt presented themselves, ’,,but the question remains whether the entire removal of the I’kidney was called for. --

HIGH NURSING AND HYPODERMIC INJECTIONS.

THE lay press is happily, though alas that it should benecessary, calling attention to the inexpediency of allowinghypodermic needle apparatus to pass out of professionalhands. It is one of the drawbacks of high nursing thattrained attendants on the sick are not content to limittheir ministrations to the simpler duties of preparing andadministering food, giving medicine, &c., as specificallydirected, dressing wounds, and generally tending the sickwith gentleness and intelligence. We have again and againprotested against the folly and, as we believe, danger ofpermitting nurses to carry and use hypodermic injectors.The use of the hypodermic syringe by non-medical handsought, we are convinced, to be peremptorily and formallyinterdicted.

THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

THE fifty-fourth annual meeting of the British MedicalAssociation will be held at Brighton on Aug. 10th and threefollowing days. An address in Medicine will be read byJ. G. Billings, M.D., of Washington; an address in Surgery byMr. F. A. Humphry, surgeon to the Sussex County Hospital;and an address in Public Health by Dr. E. D. Mapother,consulting medical officer to the city of Dublin.

TWO NEW BURSÆ AT THE KNEE-JOINT.

M. POIRIER demonstrated, at a recent session of the ParisAnatomical Society, the existence of two new serous bursseat the knee. They are situated, the one between the internallateral ligament and the femur, the other between this sameligament and the tibia, and are separated from each otherby the insertion of the internal ligament into the inter-articular cartilage. There is generally considered to be aprolongation of the articular synovial membrane at this

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INDIAN HEMP IN DENTAL OPERATIONS.

INDIAN HEMP is recommended by Dr. Aarousin as an

anesthetic during dental operations. The tincture is dilutedwith from three to five times its volume, and applied bymeans of a plug of cotton-wool to the cavity of the tooth,and, in addition, is painted on the gum in the neighbourhoodof the diseased tooth with a brush. The top of the tooth,too, may be similarly treated. ,

MR. JESSOP, whose injury by a carriage accident we noted II,in our last issue, is, we are glad to learn, recovering. The

brougham in which Mr. Jessop was seated was broken up, andthe injuries he sustained were undoubtedly reduced to aminimum by his presence of mind in retaining his seatinstead of obeying the first impulse to leap out when thehorses escaped from the control of the coachman.

A COMMITTEE of twenty-five members has been appointedin Vienna for the purpose of making arrangements for theforthcoming International Congress to be held there in 1887.

A COURSE of Bacteriology is announced to be given inMadrid by Don Santiago Garcia Fernandez, who has studiedin Berlin and Munich.

DURING the remainder of the Summer Session, lectureson Diseases of Children will be delivered at the Children’s

Hospital, Great Ormond-street. A prospectus of these lec-tures can be obtained by application to Dr. Sturges or theSecretary at the hospital. The lectures are not intendedfor students only, but also for practitioners. The practiceof the hospital is likewise open free to practitioners andsenior students. Two lectures by Mr. Cartwright will bedelivered on "Lesions of Dentition, their Surgical andMechanical Treatment," on June 16th and 23rd, at 9.30.Dr. Lubbock will deliver two lectures on " Diseases of theRespiratory Organs in Children" on June 25th and July 2nd,at 3.30 P.M. Dr. Sturges will lecture on July 7th, at

3.30 P.:U., on "Body Heat in certain Diseases of Childhoodand its Significance." The Children’s Hospital thus bids fairto become a centre for teaching on diseases of childhood.Already the hospital has been well attended by both prac-titioners, including medical men from the colonies, andstudents. The development of a school for teaching diseasesof children systematically is a need in London, and theeffort made by the staff of Great Ormond-street Hospitaldeserves every encouragement.

THE success which attended the action of the Council ofthe Sanitary Institute of Great Britain in publishing anabstract of the late Dr. Farr’s works, and the approval whichthat volume has’obtained from workers in hygiene, have ledthe Council to undertake the publication of the writings ofMr. John Simon, C.B., F.R.S., formerly medical officer to thePrivy Council and Local Government Board. Many of Mr.Simon’s papers are of immense importance at this juncture,when various social questions connected with the housing,occupations, and feeding of the poor are coming intothe field of practical politics, and we heartily wish theCouncil success in the execution of their design. Dr.Edward Seaton has been chosen as editor, and the workwill be revised by the author.

ON June 16th, Dr. Acland gave a demonstration at theBrompton Consumption Hospital of the micro-organismsfound in diseases of the lungs. He exhibited a large num-ber of cultivations as types of various species of organisms,as well as microscopical specimens of aspergillus mycosis,woolsorters’ disease (anthrax), septic pneumonia, pus fromempyema, diphtheritic membrane, and actinomycosis of thelung in man and animals. The next demonstration will beon June 26th, at 4 P.M., when the organisms found in pneu-monia and tubercle will be shown, and the subject will beillustrated by many of Dr. Crookshank’s micro-photographs.

THE Journal of Reconstl’ucti-ves is the title given to aquarterly publication dealing entirely with dietetics, theonly paper in the world devoted to this subject. The currentnumber contains an article by Dr. Milner Fothergill on"The Dietary in Digestion," and one by Dr. W. S. Playfairon

" Constitutional Treatment in certain forms of Diseasein Women."

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THE health of the British troops quartered at Assouanand at other stations up the Nile is very unsatisfactory. Noless than 150 deaths are stated to have occurred lately fromenteric fever and heat apoplexy, while 710 invalids wereunder orders to leave for Cairo on the 17th inst.

THE Paris Academy of Sciences having to appoint a suc-cessor to M. Desseignes, late corresponding member inthe chemical section, has shown its large-heartedness innominating in the place of the deceased French savant aGerman, Dr. von Baerger, Professor of Chemistry in Munich.