New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-24
MEDICAL NOTES.

~. - v.nr,rxs me Medical Record
some tine since gave approaching review ~ "a
rSuss assay on the Diseases OF hot ci'na'es' Luz 80,
IN an the tropical regions orAsia AFRICA anu 49,
eou America, and finally was physc'sn ~ W tn
80, ant naval hospitals. His experience was i
a.. his cool sense Is pronounced equally So WIN
e. ees,tcn OF the substitution OF qumhe lor
~ II a remarked as doubtful whether his treaheh. !"
,-sa was no, rs good, and in some respects oee'e .
ono hundred years later Fever a" o ag srsSy places
~ England ani infants AZ the breast weS no' si fs
Lina s~a % and we're difficult TO guard against
in impure airtae soil air. aud water or ''ie t,s ar
AT fault ana hard TO coree! all these oe V away o
distilled water very useful In l739 ne sen. I'M hy
two regiments placed on low groaasi anu mics owsy
and not aftcrward taken with neSe u''eS'S
pr,ov,r OF TUE HUMAN ToNGUE.-Dr. II. $. skirVing,
NJ Australia in discussing the treatment OF malignant
Al ase of the tongue says that without donot the enue
member can he removed down TO the epigot'is W "
strictly operation, and that IL the disease 90
RALLY limited to that organ experience would seem W
show that danger of hemorrhage at the operation Is " o
oritv OF cases too much reided and that Subsequent
troubles such as secondary hemogThage ana sePuoo'
,e freauept after the whitehead cutting opei'o IN
S,ew of me possibility Of blood passing down ana i9s
Wow I'm, m tbe lotfis IL is wise prccauton 10 have
tracheotomy tube ready In case Sudden ~ ,he
hon eeeome necessary during the performance OF ,ne
'i,o Again il there special dread OF bieedlng
during the removal OF the tongue ana II noces
rs csr he relied upon slow removal by the simple or
gslvanocaustic ecraseur, is notwithstanding inc oi9oO
lions a wise and satisfactory procecuie
NEW UsIp IN notwithstanding 10 the Statements
made nv Professor Bonafoex powder composed eqnai
ps,s 81 ctlophony CARBON and guin<'rahc possesses
very great degree OF hemosatc power ana Is eaPaoo IL
A. aid Of so aresng the bleeding of large arteries as 10
decidedly seryiceable in important surgical opera
tions The first experiments made by Professor Bohaouh
with this composition the brachia artery III ha,
and ON the smaller the carotid ofthe horse ana
other vessels of the same aIna-au OF these oeis at
tended with marked Ia the prevention Oh con-
sccntive hemorrhage also proves entirely satisfactory
e anncaton lifted in the course OF Two OF three
davs when the vessels found TO DO completely oo
liberated.
GRADUATED Measures FOR MEDIClNIs.-1he heoe9si's
continues 70 be urged by pharmaceutical authorizes o
ra.er caution ia OF ordinary medicine measures
measures Which, though perhaps sufficiently exact IN tht
case Of common medicines should whenever powerful
and dangerous drugs are administered be substituted oy
graduated glass well known that modern taole an'
teaspoons are much lrrger than they were formerly
tablespoon Of the present day containing considerably
moro than half an So, also the teaspoon Is no
longer equivalent 10 a drachm The size Of drop has not
OF course, altered. bat drop Is seldom ever, EQUIV,
lent TO a muim although il Is assumed 70 ne sn-uiu
5ereuds on the fluid aud little on the shape OF u
which il is dr0ppCd "a rule, me uiihl
considerably more bulky than drop, ana mus Whei
sdTapped instead OF being measured III nli
glass the patients doses smaller than uy sh"ulu ne
thus showing the necessity of using graduated measures