week, twice with human, and twice with vaccine, everybody can he vaccinated there gratuitously ; and on demand the lymph is sent everywhere over Four times every
animal
the whole country without remuneration. The variola tality in the population of Holland, 3,500,000, wa3 in
1,413
; in
1867,
542 ;
and in
1868,
143.
The Medical Chaeities of Calcutta have
benefited
from the recent visits of the Native Princes to the
Maharajah
mor-
1866,
largely Capital. Tho
Scindia, tho Maliarajahs of Kewah and of BhurtBegum of Bhopal were the largest contributors.
pore, and the
hospitals were seen and inspected, and admirexpressed at their size and completeness in every way. trust the impressions thus created will not be forgotten
Many ation We
of the
was
when the Cheifs return to their
own
territories ; but that the
remembrance of what they have witnessed may be applied to the extension of dispensaries already in existence, and the creation of new ones, for the welfare of the poor in their towns and districts.
A Coeeespondent IN England sends the "
The
appliances they
have in
a
following remarks :? hospital, and tho
London
skilled assistance that can be commanded in the treatment of
patients, should make a vast difference in the effects of practice. Our results in India, however, are, I believe, better than theirs, from the more favorable condition of our patients. In one respect our sick in India are certainly better off than the hospital patients in England, tliey are not exposed to tho cold of the great wards ventilated to a killing extent in this the
cold weather and country. " Lvster's carbolic acid (theory and practice) i3
a subject of going from hospital to hospital. Its Glasgow origin, and Syme's patronage of it, do not Most men are using it in a greater seem to favor its reception. or less degree, but sulphurous acid, nitric acid, and one or two other antiseptics are by some pronounced equal or superior to carbolic acid. It is instructive to notice that tho water dressing
interest and amusement to
of former
days
a
man
is almost laid aside for one or other of these
detergents. as a diagnostic highest value. A neat and handy sort for the coat pocket is sold by Casella, of Hntton Gardens. This man's work may be relied on, and it is the only perfect article of the kind, that is worth having; it costs about seventeen shillings. These thermometers are of infinite service in children's diseases, telling when severe mischief is going on, which would otherwise probably escape attention.
The clinical thermometer is in constant use
instrument of the
"
Speaking
of children's diseases, I would recommend a book " wasting diseases of infants and children,"
with tho title of the
SMALL-rOX AND VACCINATION IN HOLLAND.-.?The Medical Times and
Gazette,
in a
communication from Dr. Ballot, Rotterdam, society for promulgating vaccina-
relates that there has been a
tion in that city since the year 1799.
by Eustace Smith, Physician Extraordinary to His Majesty the King of the Belgians, and Physician to a Dispensary for Sick children, &c. Many will remember seeing him in India two years ago with the then Duke of Brabant, now King of the Belgians. He does not, I think, give ipecacuan its due place in bowel complaint, or in chest affections. He has had, I fancy, no experience of the injection of ipecac in dysentery, and the use of hot spongio-piline jackets in bronchitic attacks. Other points practical
men
principles
in India will miss, but
as a
well-written resume of tho
of treatment, the book is the best I have read.
Febeuaky 1, 1870.] "
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS.
see how, in so many of the London hospital?, fever, typhus, &c., (I liavo not seen small-pox) are admitted into the general medical wards. No physician that I have spoken to, but allows that these diseases do spread sometimes. In some hospitals the beds set aside for them are
It is
cases
put in is
strange
to
of scarlet
corners
provided
or
behind screens, and in some, special ventilation This last, I should think, must bo a
for them.
fruitful
source of the mortality by bronchitis, &c., -which a party profession so stoutly mantains to be a necessary effect It does seem to be unfair to our large hospital system.
in the of
expose the poor to the risk of infection from a deadly disease when I hey come with all confidence to hospitals to be cured of
ordinary maladies."
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animal
the whole country without remuneration. The variola tality in the population of Holland, 3,500,000, wa3 in
1,413
; in
1867,
542 ;
and in
1868,
143.
The Medical Chaeities of Calcutta have
benefited
from the recent visits of the Native Princes to the
Maharajah
mor-
1866,
largely Capital. Tho
Scindia, tho Maliarajahs of Kewah and of BhurtBegum of Bhopal were the largest contributors.
pore, and the
hospitals were seen and inspected, and admirexpressed at their size and completeness in every way. trust the impressions thus created will not be forgotten
Many ation We
of the
was
when the Cheifs return to their
own
territories ; but that the
remembrance of what they have witnessed may be applied to the extension of dispensaries already in existence, and the creation of new ones, for the welfare of the poor in their towns and districts.
A Coeeespondent IN England sends the "
The
appliances they
have in
a
following remarks :? hospital, and tho
London
skilled assistance that can be commanded in the treatment of
patients, should make a vast difference in the effects of practice. Our results in India, however, are, I believe, better than theirs, from the more favorable condition of our patients. In one respect our sick in India are certainly better off than the hospital patients in England, tliey are not exposed to tho cold of the great wards ventilated to a killing extent in this the
cold weather and country. " Lvster's carbolic acid (theory and practice) i3
a subject of going from hospital to hospital. Its Glasgow origin, and Syme's patronage of it, do not Most men are using it in a greater seem to favor its reception. or less degree, but sulphurous acid, nitric acid, and one or two other antiseptics are by some pronounced equal or superior to carbolic acid. It is instructive to notice that tho water dressing
interest and amusement to
of former
days
a
man
is almost laid aside for one or other of these
detergents. as a diagnostic highest value. A neat and handy sort for the coat pocket is sold by Casella, of Hntton Gardens. This man's work may be relied on, and it is the only perfect article of the kind, that is worth having; it costs about seventeen shillings. These thermometers are of infinite service in children's diseases, telling when severe mischief is going on, which would otherwise probably escape attention.
The clinical thermometer is in constant use
instrument of the
"
Speaking
of children's diseases, I would recommend a book " wasting diseases of infants and children,"
with tho title of the
SMALL-rOX AND VACCINATION IN HOLLAND.-.?The Medical Times and
Gazette,
in a
communication from Dr. Ballot, Rotterdam, society for promulgating vaccina-
relates that there has been a
tion in that city since the year 1799.
by Eustace Smith, Physician Extraordinary to His Majesty the King of the Belgians, and Physician to a Dispensary for Sick children, &c. Many will remember seeing him in India two years ago with the then Duke of Brabant, now King of the Belgians. He does not, I think, give ipecacuan its due place in bowel complaint, or in chest affections. He has had, I fancy, no experience of the injection of ipecac in dysentery, and the use of hot spongio-piline jackets in bronchitic attacks. Other points practical
men
principles
in India will miss, but
as a
well-written resume of tho
of treatment, the book is the best I have read.
Febeuaky 1, 1870.] "
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS.
see how, in so many of the London hospital?, fever, typhus, &c., (I liavo not seen small-pox) are admitted into the general medical wards. No physician that I have spoken to, but allows that these diseases do spread sometimes. In some hospitals the beds set aside for them are
It is
cases
put in is
strange
to
of scarlet
corners
provided
or
behind screens, and in some, special ventilation This last, I should think, must bo a
for them.
fruitful
source of the mortality by bronchitis, &c., -which a party profession so stoutly mantains to be a necessary effect It does seem to be unfair to our large hospital system.
in the of
expose the poor to the risk of infection from a deadly disease when I hey come with all confidence to hospitals to be cured of
ordinary maladies."
45
