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Reviews and Notices of Books. Culosis That Had Apparently Been Cured by Tuberculin.- Dr 1222 REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOgS. anæsthetic were required, as the psychical disturbance had a bad effect on the patient and the method frequently gave no positive result. He quoted a case of intracranial tuber- Reviews and Notices of Books. culosis that had apparently been cured by tuberculin.- Dr. J. LLOYD ROBERTS of as an spoke temporary aphasia early National Edited Sir SIDNEY in these he had seen three cases.- D6r,tionary of Biography. by symptom conditions ; LEE. Second Vol. London : Dr. R. J. M. BUCHANAN described the method of Supplement. I., Abbey-Eyre. using and Co. 1912. 694. Price 15s. tuberculin at the Kennington Dispensary, where the lobing Smith, Elder, Pp. THE issue of this valuable work of reference con- of leucocytes was taken as the indication for the dosage.- original Dr. N. PERCY MARSH had found among children that lumbar, sisted of 63 quarterly volumes the last of which was puncture gave no result, the relief of symptoms being published in the middle of the year 1900, and in the tuberculin had of no use.- only very transitory; proved course of the following year there came out a First Dr. T. R. Dr. W. B. Dr. W. D. GLYNN, WARRINGTON, in three volumes, the record down to Dr. E. FAIRFIELD THOMAS, and Dr. C. RUNDLE Supplement bringing WILKINS, Jan. of death. The also took part in the discussion, and Dr. CRACE-CALVERT 22nd, 1901, the day Queen Victoria’s replied. Second Supplement, which will be completed in three volumes during the current year, will furnish biographies NOTTINGHAM MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY.- of noteworthy persons who died between Jan. 22nd, 1901, and Dec. 1911. A combined meeting of this society and the Nottingham 31st, division of the British Medical Association was held on Among the 500 names contained in the present volume Oct. 23rd, the President, Mr. W. G. Laws, in the chair.- the most notable is that of his late Majesty King In on Word-Blindness and Allied Conditions his address Edward VII., who was born in London at Buckingham Mr. R. W. gave a sketch of the difference between Doyne Palace on Nov. 9th, 1841, and died there on 6th, 1910. visual and He out that was May acuity sight. pointed sight The characteristic of the is its frankness a very complex phenomenon, and he traced out how a leading biography small inverted image on the retina was communicated and evident impartiality, no attempt being made to disguise to the highest centres of the brain. Here, in the the facts that when Prince of Wales he was now and then centre of visual memory situated in the left cortex of blamed for sharing too much in the frivolous amusements the a record of the was estab- angular gyrus, image of so-called society people, and that after his accession to lished. When this centre was defective the patient was the throne he had some while this said to be suffering from word-blindness "-e.g., a child political disappointments, could see the letter "A." but could not recognise it as is counterbalanced by the subsequent remark : ’’ Probably no such. Such defects are caused by haemorrhages, patches King won so effectually the goodwill of foreign peoples and of de- softening, pathological conditions, and congenital of his own subjects. He was a citizen of the world, gifted ficiencies. In minor this is not a rare degrees very with abounding humanity which evoked a universal and occurs more in The sympathy condition, frequently boys. and On the of his well-known for children are always difficult to teac’i ; when reading is regard." subject anxiety eventually acquired, the difficulty is masked, although the the improvement of the public health and his esteem for the child always reads slowly, and often prefers to learn its medical profession the biography states :— lesson and so the lesson to by reading aloud, committing ’’ The ardour and energy with which at the end of the means of its centre. In other memory by auditory respects nineteenth century the problems of disease were pursued these children are and are generally highly developed quick his alert attention, and he many of his and have memories. Sometimes the exists caught gave proofs good difficulty care for medical research. He regularly performed the only with regard to letters, and not to numbers or musical duties of President of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and learned figures. As regards treatment, these children are better much of hospital management there and elsewhere. He did women than should be to taught by men ; they taught what he could to encourage the study of consumption, and the educate their visual of the word as a whole memory by investigation of cancer interested him. When he laid the means of boxes. The lecturer then dealt with the reading foundation-stone of the new wing of Brompton Consumption of the brain as a and lamented the teaching whole, present in 1881, he asked if the disease were of education He out that the Hospital preventable, system by cramming. pointed why it was not prevented. On Dec. 21st, 1888 [an obvious winner of was in other a dull scholarships respects boy, blunder for 1898], he called a meeting at Marlborough House and possessed only a second-class brain. The owner to found the National Society for the Prevention of Con- of a first-class brain far more and possessed judgment sumption....... He was always on good terms with doctors. discrimination. Through his friendship with Sir Joseph Fayrer, who had accompanied him to India, lie was offered and accepted the unusual compliment of being made Honorary Fellow of the THE annual dinner of the Royal Navy Medical Royal College of Physicians on July 19th, 1897." Club will be held at Princes’ on Restaurant, Piccadilly,. This last sentence might have been supplemented with a Nov. 9th, at 8 P.M. clause to the effect that in 1900 he was also made Honorary SIR HENRY CRAIK ON THE MEDICAL CLAUSES Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Else- are OF THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT.-Sir Henry Craik, M.P., where in the article appropriate references made to his , was the guest of the East Lancashire Graduates of the serious illness from enteric fever in 1871, to the postpone- of Aberdeen at Blackburn on Oct. and in University 25th, ment of the Coronation in the summer of 1902 on account of the course of a said that there was no to the speech parallel his attack of perityphlitis, and to his inauguration in 1897 political position in which the author of a measure had been of the Prince of Wales’s Fund for which so far out of his calculations as to require to ask for an Hospital London, arclitional grant of .61,650,000 a year (which meant a capital on his accession to the throne was renamed King Edward VII. of 50,000,000) upon which the House of Commons had Hospital Fund. nsver been consulted. The latest offer would ’ require Passing now to the medical biographies, one of the first in careful consideration from medical men. New duties were alphabetical order is that of Sir Thomas McCall Anderson, pro- to be laid on the medical profession. The profession would fessor of of medicine in the of do its duty as in the past, but did not intend to become practice University Glasgow. statistical clerks. The payment for scientific skill should The son of a medical man in Glasgow, where he was born in not be affected by the cost of drugs-their price being 1836, he studied medicine at the university there, and in to commercial conditions-which it was subject entirely 1858 graduated M.D. with honours. After two years spent out of the of the medical to affect. The power practitioner in further medical study in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna he essential vice of the Act was that it attempted to lower all became one of the to the classes of insured persons to the lowest class, and to make physicians Glasgow Royal them merely recipients of something like charitable medical Infirmary and a lecturer in the extra-mural school known relief. as the Andersonian Institute. In 1861 a hospital for diseases REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 1223 of the skin was founded at Glasgow ; he was one of the he settled in general practice in Notting Hill and engaged in first two physicians, but his colleague died in 1865, and for literary work on THE LANCET. He graduated as M.D. Lond. 47 years Anderson bore the main share of the duty. Iniin 1848 and was admitted F.R.C.P. Lond. in 1859. From 1900 he succeeded Sir William Tennant Gairdner in the 1863 to 1875 he held the position of obstetric physician chair of practice of medicine in the University. He was the, firstly to the London Hospital and secondly to St. Thomas’s author of several monographs and text-books. In 1903 he, Hospital; in 1875 he left St. Thomas’s Hospital to become was appointed university representative on the General: obstetric physician at St. George’s Hospital, where he was Medical Council, was knighted in 1905, and died in January, elected consulting obstetric physician in 1885. He took a 1908. Thomas Annandale, the son of a medical practitioner. prominent part in founding the Obstetrical Society of in Newcastle-on-Tyne, studied medicine at the University of London in 1858, and was president in 1865-66, but a dispute Edinburgh, and graduated as M.D. in 1860 with the highest, with the council of this society led him in 1884 to establish honours, receiving the gold medal for his thesis ’’ On the the British Gynæcological Society, of which he was honorary Injuries and Diseases of the Hip-joint." In 1863 he was president until his death in May, 1907.
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