New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-12
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL NOTES.

HEMORRHAGE IN AMPUTATIONs.-Pro Es-
march Of Kie has invented and ingenious device
for preventing hemorrhage In amputatons. His mode
OF operating consists in wrapping closely around the
limb elastic bands made OF silk and india rubber, from
below upward to few inches above the place where
putaon is to be performed. There an india
rubber cord is tightly drawn around Tue compression
obtained the bands cmpe the blood vessels on which
they brought TO BEAR and the circular gaure pre-
vents the blood when mas Deen urVen BACK from re-
Stunning its downward course. The bands are then re-
moved the lgature is left in its place. and the parts on
which the surgeon to use his instruments are as blood
less as IL belonging TO dead Douy
ENGLISH MARRIAGEs.-In England and Wales,
between 1861 and 1871 the number Of males married at
the age OF l5 was according to the official statement,
So 2O6 of females, 104998 There were more marriages
at 30 than any other the number OF males at that
age being 24 and of females, 569sl1to these being
added 1878 men and 5l36 women married a second time
at that age There we're II cases in which the woman
was 40 years older than her husband and 80 cases IN
which the difference reached % years Ine cases III
themselves more numerous than the converse.
there born annually "a children In 1871 the num-
FORE the number was 1905 The average duration OF
married life is stated as Is years
FRENCH TREATMENT OF GAsTRALGA.-A
communication by DR.. Joun. in La France M(dicale
advises the following method in treating gastralgia
viz First poutice Of ice for 10 minutes morning and
evening" TO the pit OF the stomach second, mustard
master TO the same spot immediately removing the
ice poutce TO be kept on as long possible; third,
pounded be taking morning and.evening. table
spoonful five minutes for an hour and fourth
mustard bath with two pounds of mustard three times
a week According to this method OF Dr. JOulin the
ice the pOultice is to be chopped up into small DTS
and inclosed in an india rubber bag The ice taken in
ternay must pounded with sugar and must be swal
lowed down suddeuly-n0t Kept In the mouth, as IL
would thus lose its cOldness II tablespoonful prove
roo much AT a time several teaspoonfuls may be taken
instead. The mustard bath DIR. Joulin regards as
powerful tonic.
ACIDS AND ALKALIEs FOR HEADACHE.-Dr.
Lauder Brunton, in a paper published in The Prae-
ttioer states that the administration OF brisk purga
tive or small doses Of EPSON salts, thrice day. is
most efectual remedy for frontal headache when
bned with constipation but II the bowels be regular,
the morbid processes on which it depends seem to be
checked and the headache removed even more efec-
tuay by MISUNDERSTANDING acid, or by alkalies gwen
before meals. II the headache be immediately above
eyebrows the acid Is best; but III IL DE little hgher
just where the hair begins the akaes appear 10 De
the servlceable At the same time that the head
ache removed the feelings OF seeplness and weari-
ness, which frequently lead the patients TO complain
that they up more tired than they lie down. gener
ally disappear DR.. BrunOn's long and careful nvesti
cations in this direction render the results of his
searches Of peculiar interest.
WOUNDS OF THE BRAIN.-Another case of
recovery from wound Of the brain recorded
by Dr. Baldwin in the Richmond and Louisville Medical
youy,al 1t appears that lad, 16 years old, acct
dentally wounded by the discharge OF pistol the
hands of a companion few feet distant. Upon receiv
ing the shot boy fell with violence but did not lose
consciousness. The ball. about the size of a bucksho
entered the right frontal bone inch above the center
OF the eyebrow and passing through the BRAIN lodged
an tho occpital bone near the center OF the occlpta
cross silver probe passed by its own weight 10 the
canter of the b-an, without touching the BALL AS a
nrerautionary he was bled, and EPSON salts
wore administered. The wound healed rapidly, without
any constitutional disturbance and III ten days ne re-
turned 10 his home. He is still living III good health
and has never suffered tho slightest Inconvenience from
the accident.
RESPIRATION OF MoIsr AND DRY AIR.-Ac-
eordiug to Pettenkofers experiments, comparison OF
the loses OF heat by the respiration Of an absolutely
dry and absolutely saturated air. shows that at go and
dry we lose LIZ calorlc units and at $50 and dry we
lose calorc units-a difference OF only TO- but at $40
and saturated 900 oalorc units and at 800 and
saturated 40 caorc units-a difference OF as much as
GAO calorc units The different states OF dryness OF the
air appear thus to be OF greater moment than the differ
ence OF and this Is the reason why our
cations do not always coincide with the thermometer
The working power OF the body depends upon certain
amonn, OF consumption by which certain amount OF
heat unnecessarily created and which has TO leave the
hody in a regular way. The HlndOo who has TO draw
IA he takes less food and creates less heat 10 him
a,v ,rt then his working power Is quite propOrti0nae
10 Inc Total of his consumption The Europeans struggle
ain as long as he has better means OF cooling him
self-say some coDtrlVahce Ny WHICH tne aI ~ 'no
house gould w derived oil wA'es'