New-York tribune., 1890-03-29
MEDICAL IND SANITARY NOTES.

-v,r rprp,,rxr Observation-Disclosures Sou
ehor NJ Tulane University, proposes the exploration
~ the brain through capillary holes instead oi IT,
sorting to the trephine. According 70 this aer '"'
hair has been shipped from the selected spot oy sharp
scissors and the scalp has been rendered aseptic'
role to be made through the soft parts Of the scalp
with n shsrp-pontcd asepc bstoury through tAis
The hit of watchmakcrs drill is to be INTRODUCED ana
hole drilled through the SKULL the bit being guaroeo
10 prevent 1t penetrating into the BRAIN SUBSTANCE
This bit being withdrawn the needle OF nyRooerma ao
hc introduced into the brain: II tumor Is present.
ihe needle will convey feeling OF resistance H. now
no orced more and more deeply into the BRAIN
The piston being etraccd at intervals IN oiuer tnae
d end examined Professor souchon has convinced him
se that such Is qne % saie s.. hran NAV
thus be explored at the sitting he also thinks
the day win come when the skull! will be SrilifG S'o N
the case Of cerebral hcmorrlace. ana the o'oo'
asprated here as in other situations.
CocoANur IN THERAPEUTICs-It is stated by
Professor Paresi Of Athens that. when in Abyssina
he casually discovered that ordinary cocoanut pos
scsses vcrmfugc qualities in a remarkable degree He
took one day. quantity OF the juice ana pup ana
shortly afterwad felt some gastric disturbance whch
however, passed of in few hours; subsequently ne
had diarrea and surprised to find that there nan
been expelled complete tapeworn. head and ALL quite
dead After returning to Athens. lie made number
NJ observations in this Iinc which most salts
factory. the tapeworm being always passed an ana % en
trely dead. lie therefore order, the mix ana pup
Of one cocoanut to be taken cary IN the morning m
fasting. no purgativc confinement TO the mouse
being required 1t is stated in one OF the pharmace
fical Journals that the cocoanut las been USED as
vermfugc in India for probably forty generations ny
the beef eaters of the country. and Is nniversany
known there as a OF expclling the nat worm
when properly prepared and administered II is equay
efHcaciOus and not so offensive as male fern, pome'
granate root turpentinc, etc.
SOURCES OF PIITHISIS.-It would seem from 1er'
man investigations that house sweepings constitute
fruitful source Of phthisis. According 10 ''e
.Munchencr Medcinshe Wochenschrft,' Garnet IS
reported as having experimental in the most thoroue
manner with the dust obtained from the walls anu
floors of various dwellings in which tubercuons pa
tients have been noculatng guinea pigs with H. anu
carefully excluding all possibility of infection 1ro
outsde sources In this way, the considerable numOea
of fwenfy-onc rooms in seven Berlin hospltas "ev
examined and bacili found 70 have been present IN
tje dnst from most of them. Positive results VIZ
iikewise obtained with the dust from insane asy
and nenitentaries The dwellings OF hfty-tnree tuDcr
cnlar patents were Investigated III the same wa.
end the dust in the neghborhood OF twenty paut,nts
Sonnd to he virulent: it the case WIN aDsoIusc
familiarity that the dust always virulent when le
afient had been habituay splitting on the neor, OF
In A handkerchief, while IL was never 81 "nen '"h
had been employed for the purpose