New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-02
MEDICAL AND SANITARY NOTES.

MASSAGE OF THE HEARTH most remark
able case is communicated by NJ. Tufier TO the
Surgical Society Of Paris. II appears that a young
man OF tWenty-four years had been operated upon
for suppuratve Inflammation OF the appendix ana
the operation at relieved the condition. on the
sixth day however the patient was seized, during
the physicians visit with an attack OF cardiac
syncope, accompanied by total arrest OF the CIR
culation. The ordinary measures completely iai All
cison in the third space d ann rc Go W
the thumb and index finger, and subjected ~ 10
rhy,hmcal compressons After Jew moments
for two or three minutes, and the pulse again be
coming impercepuble, repeution Was reSOI'Vu 70
ever. NJ Tufher was unsuccessful. and the patient
succumbed An autopsy discovered u cloi IN the
pulmonary artery.
EXPERIMENTS IN DENTIsTRY.-It is claimed
by a Moscow dentist that he has solved the prob
lem Of supplying the human mouth with false
teeth-such, namely, will grow into the gums as
firmly as natural ones. DIR. Zamesky. the operator
has been quite successful in this way, In the case
Of dogs as well human beings The teeth for
this process are made Of gutta percha porcelain or
holes are also made upward into the jaw, the tooth
being then placed In the cavity IN shqrt , u me
patients jaw into the holes in the tooth and this
growth gradually hardens and holds the tooth In
is desired position Great confidence is expressed
TO the practical value Of this method. and II Is
stated that # does not matter whether the cavity
in which the tooth is to be placed Is one from which
a natural tooth has been drawn recently or whether
It has long been healed.
FOOD THAT PRODUCES CANCER.-An article
by Dr. w. r. Williams. contributed 10 The Lon
don Lancet" declares that no other disease ex-
hibits such immense increase during the last
half-century as cancer and that probably no single
factor is more potent in determining the outbreak
OF cancer in the predisposed than high feeding.
There can be doubt. he says, that the greed for
food manifested by modern communities is alto
gether out Of proportion 10 their requirements
many indications. in fact point 10 the gluttonous
consumption of meat which is such characteristic
feature OF the present likely TO be especially
tics to show that the consumption Of meat has for
many years been advancing. until IT has now
yearly which Is more than double what II was
half century ago. when the conditions OF Ill llIe
We're really more eNactng and more eoInpati 10
with high feeding Or WIliams TeTnaTks ths
ing forms OF nutriment are inEested by persons
whose cellular metabolism Is defective II seems
parts OF the body where vital processes are sui
ton es may result in generous disease
PRINCIPLES OF ACCLIMATTzATTON.-I a
valuable contribution 10 this foremost topic IN med
ical and political circles well, Robert Ward OF
Harvard University thinks that the problem should
first OF all be considered from the simple but ineyi-
table fact that when the white man goes TO hot
climate he necessarily passes through certain
physiological changes. Adjustment 10 the changed
conditions Is made by the skin ana py the
lungs and the other interior organs; the pores
of the skin also open, perspiration increases
and the surface Of the body is cooled: there
,s Of course an Increase of thirst in the tropics
and while the use OF hard liquor subjects one
tn MANY diseases the OF light wine Is safe
ing "a The tropics confne their drinking to the light
wines 10 which they were accustomed az nome az
foo2 men I'm the North require meat ana Ialty
substances but in the tropics, II they would Keep
,t.GIcf IN firm
NE subject Of disease Briefly Or Ward points Out
that the climatic features OF ihe pi0penh f 4 drv
bnat is no bar 10 living in the tropics the difcuity
hes in tie b ngs IL Is preyened and tie blood
becomes watery and the body IN an uhheAi'hS
condition.
NoTARrE OPERATION IN sURGERY.-A re-
u,rkabIe surgical operation Is reported 10 nave
heen performed upon Adrian Dehertoshe Tnachiil-
g, NJ san Francisco Fifteen yards OF silver WIRE
az large around az ordinary hypodeFhhc Heeu'o'
- ,,.-oducod into and coiled within his aorta'
tho arteral channel leading directly from the hear
and those forty-fve feet OF wire. "hich nave Deen
IN thcre for months, have. the surgeons say Sa'V
his life They were inserted at .liIf from a
areIv injured aorta the patients irouhie nenS
an aneursm. or saculated ,u ra ~ the aorte he
~ iS question OF time with instant DEAN az
The result The snrsiG talo5ired 10 be the highest
The wire was introduced mo the w. III, "a
All formed III Inc a'' "a, T.
eli H. I'D form there a clot. that would IN tlne con.
tract and be there absorbed. thereo! ieA'o'"'s Wv
channel 10 its normal lo''""N'
VENTILATION OF CARs.-The fact seems 10 ue
admitted that while the plan OF ventilatihs 'S
adopted by the Pennsylvania Railroad 'oinphHS =,
a aec,d.d ,n,nrovemcnt IN the interests OF puolic
health m. system has lts deficiencies one OF these
is the admission Of fresh air at the floor IN ioeSr
tIoa OF the largest dust deposit ana IN mann
not Ideally the best because OF the lenuei1th dnst
whose auiescence is on hygenic gt0shnSi,, 80 he
10 desired. more important ~ air used
overcome however Is that OF warming te hlt " a.
FOR ventilation The new system wi. whrt vsn ting
AZ the ION ana bv admitting fyesh air 81 the Do.a
tom through ducts aggregaing s9ns'n ~ air DER
hour may be pa ssed into the car when the CAT -
. Is