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13O; THE-TBJ,[If',-EPCL -,iTOURNALk [Dec. 18847 An inquiry is now issued conceriing the general pondition, habits, THET CHOLER'A. and circumstances, past and present, and the family history, of persons who ha-ve attained or passed the age of 80 years. The replies to this inquiry will be most valuable when given by a INDIAN PILGRIMS IN RBELTION TO CHOLERA OUTBREAKS. medical man ; but the questions have been so arranged that, with the COMMENTING on the sanitary report of Bengal for 1881, the Army exception of some on the last page, they may be answered by another Sanitary Commission says: The chiff agents in augmenting cholera- person. Partial information will be gladly received. mortality were local causes, of the operation of which the following There is also now issued an inquiry as to the occurrence of albu- illustration is given. In a. violent outbreak of the disease in the minuria in apparently healthy persons. town of Burdwan, it was noticed ''' that tho'se who drew their drinking The Acute Gout card, which had been found too elaborate, has been water from the river Barka, a sluggish and filthy stream about 30 feet made a great deal simpler, and is now re-issued. wide, into which several 'sewers open, and the banks of which are Copies of these forms and memoranda are in the hands of all the in some parts' largely-used *for the purposes of nature, suffered the' local secretaries, and will be forwarded to anyone who is willing to most.' fill up one or more of the forms, on application by post-card or other- wise to the Secretary of the Collective Investiagation Committee, STATISTICS OF CHOLERA IN PARIS. 161A, Strand, London, W. C., to whom all applications and corres- RECENTLY published statistics of the cholera-epidemic in Paris show pondence should be addressed. that men have suffered more severely than women. From November July, 1884. 3rd to' the' 9th, there -were 561 male deaths, or 50 per '100,000. During the same period, there were 879 deaths among females, or 33 peat 100 000. The mortality was greater among single men than. BRANCH MEETING TO BE HEL-D. marriedi men. From 25 to 30 years of age, 61 single men -died, and 18 from 30 to 21 35 SOUTH INDIAN BRANCH.-Meetings are held In the Central Museum, Madras, on married; 35, 78 single, married; from to 40, the first Saturday in the month, at 9 P.M. Gentlemen desirous of readinig papers '8 single, 40 married; from 40 to 45, 152 single, 44 married; from or exhibiting specimens are requested to comuiunicate with the Honorary Secretary. 45 to 50, 83 single, 47'niarried'; from 50 to 55, 167 'single, 37 married; -C. SiBTHoRX, Honorary Secretary, Madras. from 55 to 60, 83 single, 57' married ; 'from 60 to 65, 117 single, 46 married; fromn 65 to 70, 89 single, 46 married ; from 70 to 7.5,'55 single, 46 married. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. TREATMENT OF CHOLERA. DR. MAYET; during the cholera-epidenic' in the Arde'che, observed PARIS. that repeated hubeutAneolas ether-injections 'produced reaction in the algide period, when 'it. was .alot hopeless; 'the heart was stimulated, [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRtESPONDENT.] and, the pulse beca ne strongeri. In, thxe gastro-enteric' form, he found The Cholera-bacillius.-The Relation between Cholera and Cholcevnia. iced milk, or the yolk of an egg beaten up in water, and given in small -Parasitic and Infectious Pneumonia. -Chancrous Bubo. -Surgical quantities-about a teaspo6nful' from time to time-was of great Statistics at the Charit6 Hospital. -Researches on Ctucaine. -Ozoneine. benefit. -The Prefect of the Seine, and Lady House-Surgeons. M. VULPIAN has communicated to the Academie des Sciences the result of MM. Nicati's and Rietsch's researches on the physiological effect of the bacillus-ferment found in the stools of cholera-patients. ASSOCIATION INTELLIGENCE. The investigators observed that. this bacillus-ferment, exhaled an odour exactly similar to that of the stools. Cultivation-fluid, from which NOTICE OF QUARTERLY MEETINGS FOR 1885: the bacilli were removed by using Pasteur's filters, were injected into animals, and serious nervous disturbance r6stlted, in some instances ELECTION OF MEMBERS. paralysis. MEETrNGS of thei Council will be held on January 14th, April 8th, Mi. Nicati also sent to the Academy a communication on cholera and July 8th, and October 14th, 1886. Gentlemen desirous of becoming cholemia, in which he expresses a belief that cholera and cholhemia members of: the Association must send in their forms of application are somewhat analogous in their manifestations. In cholera, biliary for election to the General Secretary not later than twenty-one days salts are present in the blood; in cholo6mia, the blood becomes before each. meeting, namely, December 25th, 1884, and March 18th, deteriorated, owing to the presence in it of excrementitious substances, Iun1 17th, and September24th,'1885, in accordance with the regulation which are among the constituent parts of the bile; they-accumulate for the elebtion'of members passed at the meetiig of 'the Committee of in the blood in certain diseases of the parenchyma of th;e liver. Council of October 12th, 1881. AI. Germain See, in a pamphlet on parasitic and infectious Fw,.cis FOWKE, General ,Secretary. pneumonia, describes its characteristics as analogous to those of epi(demics. All the members of a family have in succession COUNCIL. been attacked by this form of pneumonia; a whole district has been invaded by it. Friedlander,: in Germany, and Talamon, of the Hotel NOTICE OF MEETING. Dieu, have discovered a special bacillus, which is always present in A MEETING of the Council will be held in the Small Hall, the pathological growths of this form of pneumonia. Inoculation Exeter Hall, Strand, London, on Wednesday, the 14th day of January made with fluid effused in infectious pneumonia provoked, in the next; at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. animals experimented on, pulmonary inflammation analagous to prieu- FRANcIs FoWKE, General Secretary. monia in the human subject. M. S6e considers that c6ld ought not to 161A, Strand, December 18th, 1884. be included in the etiology of pneumonia, and that this affection ought to be classed among infectious diseases. As a logical sequence of his theories, M. See suggests that the treatment of pneumonia be COLLECTIVE INVESTIGATION OF DISEASE. changed; the administration of antimony and bleeding, he maintains CARDS for recording individual cases of the following diseases have are irrational. 'Tonics and suitable diet are all that is necessary. M. bexen prepared bv the Committee; they miay be h.ad on. application Vulpian, in communicating M. See's work to the Academie des to the Honorary Secretaries of the Local Committees in each Branch,. Sciences, observed that the author's conclusions were the natural re-' or'on application to the Secretary of the Collective Investigation Com- sults of his theories, but numbers of medical men would dispute their mnittee. validity. I. Acute Pneumoni. VIi. Puerperal Pyrexia. M. Ricord has taught that two kinds of bubo can appear during the iI. Chorea. Vill. Paroxysmal h moglobin- evolution of soft chancre: a non-specific bubo which is inflammatory III. Aout,e Rheumatism. uria. qnd sympathetic, and a specific bubo which is virulent and chancrous. iv,. Diphtheria, clinical. x. Habits of Aged Persons. M. Strauss, at a recent meeting of tlie Biological Society, stated that, xIva. Diphthe'ria, sanitary. xi. Albuminuria in the Appa- by a series of researches, he had obtained -results diametrically v: Syphilis, acquired. rently Healthy. oppomed to those of M. Ricord. Pus was removed from forty-two -v".: ,,- inherited. Xii. Sleep-walking. bubbs, 'at three different /periods, when nwa.cent, when mnture,' and vI. Acute Gout. whin the skin was on the point of breakiug: The area of the incision N. 2i, M'I T15 the piGric aid prooea.vs to add to about 1 drachmn of uriPA equal poIitankasrspittJZ.wIii*,hxd -.inreas_4 4Oro. to 1Q27 in volume of a saturted solation of picric acid and half Laithm of thef6ve rcedimiweeks wt l srtur4yaYl_ .t,hidt ssioa liquor potassae (P.B.). If after boiling this mixture for about 30 which, in the thrbe previous weks had l149 228,ap4 W3, &e- seconds, any red colour is visible through the column of liquid in the clined to 120 last week. The death-ra' from.. disease of. tb respi- test-tube, the urine contains less than 2 grains of glcose per ue- ratory organs in London -was, equal to 69.9 per 1,000, andmwas;con- or 2 grains to the ounce aqueous solution of gln'cose tkeated in the siderably below tlie'aveAge. The -lauses 6f 106,, or 2.8 per cent., of same manner, results in so dark a liquid t4iat no red colour s trans- the 3,798 deaths registered -last week in tho6e.twenty-eight towns mitted. In estimating the colour which results' from boiling utidi- were not certified, either by registered medioal, practitioners or by luted urine with picric acid and potash,.any turbidHty resulting from coroners. '_._..___ precipitated phosphates should be remoyed by, subsidele or, by fiAltratioii.. UhALTI O6 SCO To Is.-t 'the eight puipilSth town, As I have. elsewhere stated,. so constanit is the shadc of colour- when having an estimated population of 1,254,607Tetsons, 838"births, and normal urine is boiled with picric acid and potash in tlh proportions 768 deaths were registered during ` the week ending the! 18th iinstant. above mentioned, that it might, be used as an approximately accu- The annual rate of mortality, whic had risen in the fouir pVrece'ding rate quarter grain to the ounce standard for making a quiantitative weeks from 22.3 to 31.8 per 1,000, declined last week to 28.3, and analysis of a saccharine liquid.-I am, &c., exceeded by as much as 6.7'.6pt1,000 ffiv<asrage rate for the same GEonR"-'JoHNaoN.