New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-31
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL NOTES.

MILITARY SURGERY. -ConsideIvblc dScussto.'
has been going in the foreign journals by eAper@
In military surgery to the likely result III hi''o"
and wounded Of any future European war anu ho",
the fact that England, France Germany Au9"'a anu
switzerland have now adopted rifles of small caore'
with CORES ponding smaller pro)ectiles OF haiu o'
snd that Russias and ItLys nciinatons are III inc "0
line surgeons are anxious 10 know what Will be inc
nature OF the wounds nnicted-how Will they u'"et
from those previously caused by 'he large sun me-
bullets which soon expanded aud broke up upon IN
pact carrying often into the wounds fragments 90
Clothing tearing the vessels, causing comhlnutten
fractures OF the homes, the injuries Delng -
long continued suppuratiOns ana conuluoiio ,nr.e
set ND that often led death or sdclllce ol niJ
The deductions made up to me present .hIo ii al,
results OF trials with the Lebel rne AT VdllVLs 49,
iauces appear 10 be while the proportion vi ue,
on the battlefield Will be greatly REDUCED, one n n
confidently expect that the hunter Oh men %,xvcen
and mt hOrs de combat IN any fdturc war Detwoon
European powers will be much greater than mas e'c'
before been experienced
USE OF LIGHT AS STlMULANT.-A'teh.on H., i
called In Mature to the interesting lact 'ha'' "
usual well.known ways Of stimulating h"e'il' W
contraction viz electrical, thermal mechanical anu
chemical NJ D'Arsonval has now added That 10y means
ot light He could not. il appears, get any coht'"o'
lion in a fresh frog muscle when he suddenly 'hie"
bright light on il in dark chamber Du' hdNihe "'
In darkness stimulated a muscle with lhuuouon '0
rents too weak 10 give visible erect anu '"Vi '"N
denly Illuminated the muscle win an arc th fn ,hiS
nncls,ye however he attached a muscle to the mid
die OF piece OF skin stretched on i1nn t 1 niece Of
india.llIbber tube with Tie ear, ana tiI NUS hoard
now subjected TO intense intermittent Hgnt. ne ti
"a tone CORES pondng TO the period OF lliunin"to'
and this ceased when the muscle was nlea W "L Ions
Arc light was used, which was concentrated Dh In
and passed through an alum sou'ion " s'Op WV "
rays.
HEALTH AFFECTED BY THE FUMES OF EN-
PLOSIvEs Complaints having been made Dy 'noSe
engaged in the English coal mines where modern me-"
explosiyes are used for blasting that the FUMES pro
duced by the explosion of these bodies are deeteou'
n committee consisting of masters ana opera"Ncs'
together with the official inspectors OF mines mas uc
a thorough Investigation of the subject Win speol"l
reference to the combustion Of tonie and robure inc
fcts and evidence being submitted to professional
advisers. The general conclusions arrived az are e
the fumes produced by tOne and roburite are n9t 4e
dan geros than those from gunpoWder, Una. lit 80
is apparently produced by the coin1u Is t
roburte that the carbon monoXde produced Is prcseS
only in traces that an Interval Of nve minutes snoa
be allowed elapsc before the hewers re cutcI a.,
scene ~ firing and that as portion Of the gases IN
the fumes comes the fuse, the charges should NC
fred by electricity.
NEW SOURCE OF QUINlNE.-Accordlns to
Paris correspondent OF The Lancet artificial dumho
NAV be considered one of the notable discoveries OF
late in medicine the synhesis of that useful inds
pensabe substance which has long been desldera'
tum has now been realized through the researches oil
NM Grimeaux and Arndud, the former professor OF
chemistry at the Ecole PolyechnQuc and the latter
at the Museum dIIlstOre Naturele. The method
adoped In this case consists in treating with sodium
the base cuprein contained in the shrub known as
remjia pednncuata7 growing in Brazil then the com
hination thus obtained with chloride of melhyl The
product is Qunine, absolutely iuehuCai WIN the .
Stance Familiarity known such. 1t Is Thought 700
that the discovery presents further interest IN mat
by the substitution in the foregoing process OF com,
inethyl new bodies analogous to qdnine may be pro-
duced.