The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-12 00:00:00

HMALTH AND DUMAN&

Tile 2fpw 4eurfiAl. Hamm AUT.—Or late
the new Lidless Munn Aqi mine Into operation, !Ts
'Neel of the Ast In ramble " tenon' requiring m
04 cid fir illetinguieli saalified front isuiluallied ores,
Vitamin.' There ere nn J 11.0009110 in the 00W law,
The method @mined to he elyfed " The Ventral (knower
Donnell pi Modirai iduriallaa and lenutth
United Singilum, IN to be estriblisired, The rev
medical bathe are tot Ideal MI6 Illenlber, and tier
blaPrely la Uuuneil to nominate ill, The Mel meeting
of lie ileneral Unwell is to rar voltiriu three loultho id
the Ael owning liito hove, The Hume rrourvrary tutu
Appoint the pleas of meeting, Ilgietrars ito to be an.
al Menthes W the Domicil mural' lo eirey oil
the AO. II qualiPed medial own are tu be regletered.
The rotator Is to be immoral*, and non.regratration lo to
preen a madleal inan from reetiverirg hie alerts§
with close, The Ant provales that several usedi
boards may have now altar end also provides fur te
whieellon isermena for mildest prolusion, The
Ate ;nay be regraded ea the Arch step lowarde a refute
In the medical profemilon, errata probet the nubile
from uTillfied practitioners, In Aot It le v°'vlded Ilta every person registered smile the Ara shall
be eolltle ecourillng to hie ouithficalion in any hart tif
Her Mitraely'a dominion§ to -Mediae and to newer In
any Neal of law, " with •full 001111 el snit," reasonable
charges for profiled:nal ordowiree, opti visite mod the
antra of medicines or other medical or surgical appli
Mb... IS II oho provided, that "after the lit day of
Siaussra, 1109, no pewee shill be entitled to roleovar
'hard ivx riii.occ;".
sa▪
ladal or al ma, or r e per °nuance co iny
operatic*, or forrimedielnic whielolie shall have but
prauribel sad a d, unties ha 444 loran ern Ahe
trial that he im tend under this AM. ' The ' testi.
ter" le evidence La all gene,
Imotlian Foot.—At the lut Sittlng of the Academy
• Age(tidue 14'1ra. NoMet road a paper le whith
he Proposed the ntroduotion of iodine into the daily
food of persons labouring uncle any deems" In which
that element Is chiefly presoribed, or etas having %eon.
stittglonal tende to ncy congeal them, Consider that
weal, orelinien, scrotal', ho., arc very rare In hose
f•dittuk Wits* Wins la ebundeathydiffurad through the
air, Ana the% the enemy pf the viral fuorarane is in the
dirge ratio of the quantity of iodine existing In the
animal sioanery, Dr. Borate proposes* iodise breed,
egg, syrup', ka, simply by the introductien of Arab ,
plants ai biturally °oral; imbue, —vra., AU linda of
&rained/ and eruefferous plants; or gee by tieing the I
water of lud y ,er soil. eentalning the moue
prinelple. ITlnderee forms Shp quantity of iodine eid•
ministered* so email is to communfeate no peculiar taste
to the 'Ole indrateose. After 10 years' expeesses,
during which Dr, Boatel hal treated phildm eapeorally
seleraird by a phytiolan of a bureau is bfeci/onee for
their serofuloue habit, he hes WM. to the randuelon
that the diet lie proposer, if preserved in for Wine
months, will not only cure morals, but ulaerous habit*,
&imam of the shin, ophthalmia, ogles of the bones, ko.
The leadeny of Weitiolno he referred Dr. Babel's
Vl*, to a 00UnitialOn 00111p901 of Dn. Chat* and
4TOtlaNall.
Nine TIIIATWINT Or OROUP, —This affection, AO din.
serous In Andrea, Won& bide fair to be oompletely
muttered by 011,4 Praire?* modern. WNW. We men.
Wooed • few nays ago pr, ,Loiveth'fi bald and ingeniora
method of introduoing gut* solutione into the wind.
PIP+ u we hare now to tegieter another mums recently
raininuniostsa to the Arathony of Seepage by Dr, Wu'
shut, Some time ego the rains genii men ennouneed
that when asphyaisle Imminent in croup the. patient Ic
In an auesthelle AkWir, in other worde, Memel*, to pain.
This stele Dr. Bouchut token advimtege of in order to
Introduce a tube Into the glottis. To effect thie opera.
lion a probe ef 6,74. erarametion is used the tube
Lafrom 1 In oil tree,is diemelgr ,And from 111 to
it hi length it Is ea nod to two ell en OOKIco by whifli
it le meee le ray, le eollra outside, to keep It In
llp plate, might bloomed WI the lerynoi which
ii io Irritable that a nine atop a wain' or a crumb
going the wrong way, asoordingillo the twitter eepreathilii
will uuee etheiderabra Neigh , amid hardly brae the
perrnent ranter, of fueli a oho I but Dr, fraiiihut
bra oand experienee thAt the 111110010 membrane of
the arms *wily get, roeuelomed to ealernAl
Anil 11141641mi1a tolerate Wro lube very well, It bhspt
hi for ay or two untif the piienoinena of Aerie s
have &Appeared, The (ONO membrane. In the roe
are thruleed through tribe hy espeelorstion, an the
seal of the &pro may t. dirrally acted upon thralls!'
It by the ineueration of hioerhonste ot ai or by intro.
diming proper inatromente with ethic to clear the wind.
ripe, Ina iubsequent paper, reed al the aet Wien" Of
the Aseleiny of Milinera, lip, Nouchut ratelillAhee
site elediritioil ladle rtnewning this &ow& From l.
tAblaa lie had ilotruti i I That impli
mirth more frequent in melee than ip lennaisi , That
it irommite Its steeled revagep at Ore age. of two and
L That from Dpif to DIU the mortally Sy orny
In ranee for only 1,00) tobliolio naa/l, del
4, That fraln tier to DOI Was re 110111 kept than
Iri 14011, b. Thee the mon rof death, by this Affedlon
throogliout all Freira during the ital MI year' le 11044,
Now, as It @An be toured that le @ace of wimp have
Inetearadourln that period In a milli@ or fivefold ratio,
Dr, Nomehut a Abide§ 111 IN IhOreiterlee mo th ortallts to
readier of treetl
reototny, %thigh bie some more Deviant
plus 1440, ho worrienuenee of 101 r, r rouiramee learned
berates en that operellou, Dr, flouellut Is by no meats
led to infer from WO cireirmetene treretoilir is
useless or hurtful bat he contendstud ill, hail Newer
to long before the patient's sae is boogie* by any other
ineem. If II were preollttat the siege, %Menthe
patient hae beentne Insert ,It 'night tat* a child an.
[Mod kJ the risk of all but eartaln death i but when per.
formed vrle theresre It. of enlibration without anaithi
eels It will sauce the hof diet patient* who might still
have a shalt.. of a "pentangle oure,—Unilarcono/
Meseeticee.
114,1411 1,11011 Outosoroms—Os Monday thermion
a long Inquiry took plus *dors Ms, W, Payne, the city
peciner, at the Royal London Opthelmle Institution,
Moordelds, reepestiug the death of Daniel Pheby, god
eight years. It appeared Ohre the demised, who hada
"east" In both eye., attended at the ftiabitution on Fri.
day to undergo an operation for the removal of the
deformity, He was anompanied by his father who left
the lad at the eotrenee to the openaleproote At the
acpiration of nearly an hour the father was informed by
Mr. Metier, the hones surgeon, that his son had died
from chloroform adminiatered to him previous to the
operation' Mr. Maher dated that the ehloroform was
adininiatered by Mr. Lloyd, a medical practitioner; it
was dropped In a piece of lint, which was held to the
mouth and nostril, of the patient la suet a manner as
to allow the passage of a current of air. Another ;midi
-
cal gentleman watched the patient'. pule, and two
medical leen were ;awls engaged in the admitthitration
of ohlorofotm. A post martens examinetion sho wed that
deceased's brain waa highly unseated, and his death had
undoubtedly been gamed Vibe effects of the gloroforin.
! The coroner haring expressed an opinion that during
I the administration of chloroform It was deelrable that
one medical man should wake most attentively the he
tion of the patient's pulse, the jury returned a verdiet,
That the deceased had died from the effects of
ohloroform."----A. corrupondent of the Tines thus
remarks upon the above ease :—" I have beet road the
proceedings at the inquest on the poor child Daniel
Pheby, aged eight years, with a cost in hie eye, who fell
a mean to chloroform You will probably deem the
' following remarks of sufficient public interest to warrant
my addressing them to you, instead of asking a plane for
, them in the medical journals. I firmly believe that if
you were called upon to reoord deaths fr.m hydropho.
him as frequently es you are deaths from chloroform that
an universal cry would go forth for the destruction of
the whole *nine rag. Not a week passes but your
readers are pained by the relation of " another death
from chloroform." Is there no remedy for this state of
thing ? I am oonfident there is, if the following sus.
, sestwai were acted upon by the profession on the one
hand and by tie public on the other. And, first I
Iwould ask, why one an anesthetic in surgical operations
stall? The answer, of course, will be, "to prevent pain."
Though the wisdom of counteracting a provision of
nature, which pain undoubtedly is, may be questioned,
! we will accept the answer IA suflionent, and pass on to
another question. Why use a dangerous anesthetic
I when • sate one, equally efficacious, come t Why use
' chloroform which so frequently produces death, while
ether, equally powerful, has no such dreadful etigma
attached to it I have asked this simple question in
the medical journals cod could never got a reply, hot I
can myself give an answer, though I doubt if it will be
satisfactory. Chloroform is cheap compared with ether,
, and the patient is more easily brought under its infra.
enoe ; that is to say, less time is required in the ad.
ministration. Let um not, however, dwell upon this
question, but pass an to another. Why administer an
anegnetic of any kind to • patient who.. mind led..
pressed by the action of intense tsar? On this question
hinge, the argument with respeot to the poor little child
"Daniel Pheloy, aged eight years, with a cast in his eye."
No observant surgeon coax fall to have remarked
that the result of a capital operation is greatly influenced
by the buoyant or dummied gate of mind of the patient
prior to its being undertaken. No judicious surgeon
would think of operating upon a paten* whose mind
hhd been made up to a fatal termination. In my pupil-
lage I saw • poor young fellow, of • robust and muss.
glar frame, but with a dislocated hip, die on the opera-
ting table, his mind previously imbued with the preen-
*neat, openly expressed, of such • result. Fear of the
suffering to be undergone in the promise of reducing the
dislocation prostrated his nervous system; the depres-
sing Wrens of bloodies, tartar emote, and the warm
bath completed the tragedy. lalo with the poor little
timid Daniel Pheby—intense fear had been excited in
hie mind at the eight of blood flowing from another
patient who lied just been operated upon. The fury by
their.vudiot very properly condemned the preetice of
allowing bleeding patients to be leen by those about he
terderat,he rams ordeal. Adults even are frequently
lerriff and ,ft4nt hh the eight of blood. The erat in
Ihe eye iad batter been left alone; in ones° young it
might have rectified itself, but the operation when re-
sorted to to not sufficiently painful to luetUy the employ.
anent of an anesthetic. From all these ,ralleotions, then.
I would suggest that anesthetics should be employed
only in, the most painful operations. 2. That ether
shook{ in all cage be administered,* lieu of obloratorm.
3. That the patinnt'a snind phould be free from all ap.
prehension before inhaling it. And lastly, that be
should have the choice of the anesthetio to he oradilll
being eXplatned to him that chloroform sometime' pro-
duceideath, but that ether never does irilOW not'
whether ra he teas, adds another oorrespondent of the
Tioras relative the alarmingly4atal two of shlsmaferm,
but I.hav,e, been, informed that rinse It. istrodoetraeas
itt enpetheticiitevielima ere to beeosated. hp Wad sadri
°rat:: hbi/ -thflOrdc.i.tbiat Martell otte raj .woty te
the pule p n ; and tha In she xegetrar e
amount of the deaths other causes are epseified—the
disease, or accident, for instance, for which the opera-
, Mon was required.