New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-19
MEDICAL IND SURGICAL NOTES.

DRINKISG HABITS OF DIFFERENT NATIONS
Dr. sohosser OF Holland has found that his own couD-
.rymen are the OF coffee in the world
and next 20 them, the BegIans In England. the an
ouaI consumption of coffee bv each person is and
rneeChth pounds; IN France Two ana onehail; ia i
Germany. four; in Denmark, hve and one-half IN
pium eight and one.half; Holland ten and one half
Ii is 10 considered however. that the English are
VIGOROUSLY teaduukng people preerrne u 10 conee
NOT only for the evening meal but for breakfast we'll
SAFETY OF ANEsrHETICs.-lt the force OF
statistics be any value, ether appears, beyond qnes
ton 10 be the safest anasthetc. BY combining Amer-
can and British relating to this question: the result
shows eonclusivey that choroform is eight times as
dangerous as ether twice dangerous az mixture oI
.hloroiOFm and ether. and AS FAR as experience eocs II
DANGEROUS Than bichloride OF inetnyemec ine
report OF London Chloroiorm COMMITTEE appointed
to investigate this subject states that mol Only is ether
care and the most xact dution Of the choroiorm
skilful hands. the state OF lnsensbly may
pass in a few moments INTO one o! imminent death
Uor SAND Birthstone of the most attractive
therapeucal novelties for some time past.in London
recently introduced from the III the
erection OF establishments for administering hot sand
baths as a remedy for rheumatism, recent cases OF
nervous disorders. affections OF the kidneys, aud all
where heat is needed the chief remedial agent
TIE advantages claimed IN behalf OF inns method OF
, @ ARE .h, h ~ I ,neT p ns IT. and does not
interfere with the respiration after the manner OF The
bath Turah bath. IL rs found mat the Oody
eau endure the influence OF this KIND OF bath much
longer time. and much higher temperature can be aIr
ped.
SPREAD or CERTAIN DISEAsEs.-lt is to be
regarded settled fact that diseases OF contagious
caused and spread by influences largely
within the sphere of control This fact has recently
been strongly urged by DR.. Symes Thompson, well
known English physician, in lecture delivered by nm
IA London Every form of infectious fever he asserts
has its idOsyucrasy. Thus entcrc fever ana cholera
tend chiefly to disseminate themselves through "aer
passing into the wells aud fountains Of daily sup
ply scarlet fever hhernates IN drawer ana, aier
long months. comes iorh WIN some ora anu @
garment 10 he thrown with around the throat or mead
OF some new VicfiID and start thence upon iresh
career; typhus fever cTaws sluggShy from mana 10
itself where fifth, OvercrO" ding. and impure hdnlts OF
life prevail. well known are these ldlOsVncrasler
and The means Of control tha the GAisence OF spread
such diseases directly Attributable 10 neglect o the
most simple laws of prevention.
An IMPORTANT MEDICAL QUESTION IN COURT.
In capital lately tried before the Supreme Court
OF Massachusetts,, medical evidence given on one
side showing that it impossible 20 distinguish with
certainty blood from that of horse and, on the
other side, given showing that the differ
eucc between these two kinds OF blood Is distinctly re-
veaed by the microscope. The remarkable fact here
involved presents itself in the light Of the Inveslisa
lions made IN eminent men OF science IN Europe, and
with concurrent results showing that, though there are
beyond question, differences OF sze deleInihdoie py
careful nIcrOmetTiC measure mcnt-the human cor
pusces thus appearing 10 We on an average larger than
those OF the borse-Nc even ia lIcsh DlOou hesc ull
have been found 80 slight as 20 DC recognized Only
with extreme difculV. In human blood the corpnsccS
scento II m $500 20 5000 IN an lhch the average
beng $500 horse blood the variations exist,
the average being 10000 that small human cor.
pnsces and very large horse cOrpusces might be placed
blood I'm dried blood the differences are almost dotted
OUT that II has been universally agreed mat wnen
pusb with certainty the blood OF mammal from that
Oi another