The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
MEDICAL POINTERS.
From the Health Monthly.l

FROM int dtdlln NbHllis
IL London a man fell in a drunken
tit and broke his neck. The jury found
out that his grandfather had died OF
broken neck, and brought in their YER
dict, "Died by the hereditary visitation
of God"
The Portland Oregonian is our au-
tnority for the statement that physl-
clan there has been presented with a
stone implement with & double-pointed
projection, said to be curious Indian
relic, its purpose being topunch out the
ewes Of Indian doctors who repeatedly
failed to cure their patients.
PITY the child of the morphine
habitue. A woman addicted to the use
of about three grains of morphine day
endeavored 10 break of the habit while
pregnant. She did not wholly succeed,
and the child when born was emacIated,
suffered from convulsive twltchlngs and
continuous agitation and crying for
sixty hours, during which time he dld
not sleep minute. After that he re-
covered, slept well and acted naturally
AMONG the great advances in the
treatment of the insane is the fact that
non-restraint IS now the custom. once
it was considered that brutal treatment
and severe restraint were the necessary
parts of the treatment of some classes
of insane. But, fortunately, it has been
found that more humane methods Will
suffice, so that at the present time there
are many asyluns IN Great Britain
and America, where the non-restralnt
system prevails.
SIR JAMES PAGET, of London, made
an address at the Health Exhibition
there in which he estimated that the
whole population IN England between
fifteen and sixty five years of age, lose
yearly twenty million weeks of work
owing to sickness. He SAID he would
like to see a personal ambition for re-
nown and health as keen as that for
bravery, for beauty, or for success IN
athletic games, as for national renown
in war, In the arts of commerce.
DR.. TEACKLE, tate vaccine agent of
Maryland. declares that Jenner was all
wrong in believing that there were any
cases of spontaneous cowpox. DIR.
Teackle has obtained no good results
from vaccinations using the virus OBJ
tanned from COWS, supposed to be
affected with spontaneous cowpox, but
he says that fresh and reliable virus
eau always be obtained by directly in
noculating a heller with smallpox virus
He calls this a perfect method, but
English officials have declared it
dangerous and ruled it out.
OUR medical exchanges report two
interesting facts in heredity. \ boy
who had suffered eighteen fractures
daring the first eighteen years of his
life, was the son of a man who suffered
broken bones fourteen times, and the
nephew Cf a man who had suffered
twenty-one fractures. The boys fathers
uncle was also a bonebreaker. This
Illustrates a constitutional family ten
dency to broken bones. But the other
Is, we think, more remarkable if true.
Namely, a case of tattooed woman on
exhibition in Baltimore who gave birth
to boy baby bearing marks upon its
skin similar to those upon the mothers
body.
DURING June last man was carried
to st. Vincent's Hospital, New York
City, with severe fracture of the skull,
permitting of the protrusion of the
gray matter of the brain. 1t seemed
ike hopeless case, but the attending
surgeon bravely sewed together the del
icate fibrous membrane which enclosed
the brain beneath the skull, with cat
gut ligature. Pieces of broken bone
were removed and the parts were left to
heal, which they did remarkably well.
Modern surgery has shown that opera
tions about the brain and abdomen to
assist nature in repairing damage to
these parts are much less dangerous
than was formerly supposed.
INAsMUCH as blindness has frequently
resulted in babies from inflammation
of the eyes following childbirth, the fol-
lowing directions are given to prevent
that disaster: First, Immediately after
the birth of the baby wipe the eyelids
and all parts surrounding the eyes with
soft, dry linen rag, and soon after
wash these parts with tepid water before
anv other part is touched. If any dis
charges appear separate the eyelids with
the finger and thumb and wash out the
matter by allowing gentle stream of
lukewarm water to run between them
from a piece of rag held one, two or
three inches above the eyes. Repeat
this cleansing process every half hour,
for the saving of the sight depends on
the greatest care and attention to clean
illness 1t is the discharge which does
the mischief Rags are better than
sponges and should be destroyed at
once.