Epidemic of 1871-72. Represented. an Opportunity Now Offers Of

444 WE announced that cholera was in recently prevalent TREATMENT OF SUNSTROKE. Murree. By the latest news from India we learn that the To the Editor of THE LANCET. epidemic is abating in the station. There are a few cases have received a note from Dr. Wilmot Power still in the bazaar and the neighbouring villages, but no SIR,—I with reference to the case of sunstroke treated with cold Europeans have been attacked for some weeks. At the cen- and the of quinine. valescent camp, four miles from Murree, there have been a injection Dr. Power’s in the terrible epidemic of fever in few fatal cases. At Rawul Pindee the disease is subsiding. experience the Mauritius in 186667 led him to believe that quinine So far no cases have been from the Peshawur reported exercises a counteracting effect on stagnation of the blood. was Dr. in doses valley. ____ The drug given by Power very large during the coma of the fever, and the mortality in the regiment A VESSEL has recently been dispatched from Rouen to under this treatment was exceptionally low. La Plata, fitted with a system of refrigeration for the pur- Whether in the stagnant condition of malarial fever and of sunstroke acts on the blood or on the pose of bringing home fresh meat. Cold is induced and quinine directly vaso-motor nerves is, of course, a moot but in any up by the and condensation of question; kept vaporisation methylic case the results of Dr. Power’s treatment in the comatose ether, which of water stowed in the refrigerates cylinders stage are very suggestive. around which in hold, the meat is stored. Land and Water, Permit me to state that the whole merit of using quinine describing the scheme, says that, in the event of success, hypodermically in my case of sunstroke was due to the very fresh meat from South America may be sold in Paris at a efficient house-surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, Mr. H. M. Chute. franc the kilogramme, or 9½d. per 2’105 lb. Believe me. Sir, vours faithfullv. Clifton, Sept. 13th, 1876. EDWARD LONG FOX. THE rate of mortality in London last week was 17 per I 1000 annually. The deaths, 1119 in number, included 16 from small-pox, 8 from measles, 50 from scarlet fever, 6 THE KNIEBIS BATHS. from 17 from 21 from different diphtheria, whooping-cough, (From a Correspondent.) forms of fever, and 53 from diarrho3a. So large a mortality from has occurred in week since the small-pox not any one KNOWN to few even of the members of the medical pro- of 1871-72. but if I to a epidemic ____ fession, destined, mistake not, fill prominent position among fashionable health resorts ere the lapse MR. H. CBOOESHANK, M.R.C.S., L.K.Q.C.P., been having of very many years, is this group of watering-places which to the Turkish the appointed surgeon-major Army during is named from its situation in the Black Forest, close to war, left for on present Constantinople Saturday evening the range of hills called the Kniebis, whose summit forms last. ____ the boundary between Baden and Wurtemberg. The main reason for a renown their own A MEDICAL CONGRESS was opened at Turin on Monday prophesying speedy beyond district the dwellers in which, for a or so, these last. The authorities of the city and many foreign phy- (by century health resorts have been greatly frequented) lies in the fact sicians were present. that increased railway accommodation has rendered the locality more accessible. From Appenweier and from Offen- on the Baden run two branch lines into the REPRESENTATION OF THE MEDICAL burg, Railway, interior of the Black Forest, and either from PROFESSION IN PARLIAMENT. Oppenau, which is the termination of the first branch, or from To the Editor of THE LANCET. Hausach, a station on the second branch, can the Kniebis SIR,—Dr. Rogers, in his letter to THE LANCET of Saturday baths be reached. In the first instance we come to the last, has sounded the réveille which I hope will have the most north-westerly point, and in the second to the most effect of awakening sleepers to the important fact that a south-easterly. There can be few pleasanter excursions than from to Hausach, the baths en route. vacancy has occurred in the representation of the Univer- Oppenau taking The consists of five baths-viz., Freiersbach, of Aberdeen and and that a medical man group Antogast, sities Glasgow, Peterstbal, Griesbach, Rippoldsau, and I have enumerated should now them. He should if a represent be, possible, them in what may be supposed to be the inverse order of graduate of one of these universities; but if a graduate is their popularity. Of Antogast I know nothing, but pro. not procurable, any medical gentleman of position with pose to give a slight sketch of the other four. At each of these baths there as is usual at such abilities and eloquence sufficient to represent a learned pro- are, three or four is fession. I trust immediate action will be taken in this places, different springs, and it probable that in the Kniebis district there may be thirty or forty, or matter, for, if not, we shall have a can- speculative lawyer even more, healing fountains; for it may be said, with some the who is sure to obtain a sufficient vassing constituency, truth, of mineral waters that it never rains but it pours." number of promises to mar the return of a medical candi- The truth of this would be admitted in the Nassau date. should be formed in certainly Committees, therefore, London, district, and as certainly in this district of the Black Forest. and circulars should be sent and ’Glasgow, Aberdeen, out, The wells here are all very similar in composition, the every possible means used to secure the constituency. chief ingredients being bicarbonates of lime and magnesia Let us remember that every profession and trade is well (the former in considerable quantity), sulphates of soda, and of them more than in represented, many represented, potash, and magnesia (in not very large quantity), car- whilst we are mis- Parliament, unfortunately frequently bonate of iron sufficient to give a very decided chalybeate An now offers of a represented. opportunity procuring taste, and large amount of free carbonic acid. They are medical and it will be a misfortune if the member, great indicated for all cases requiring iron, but especially for is allowed to our bands. In this opportunity slip through those cases of anaemia and chlorosis with a tendency to instance all differences should be allowed to sink in political constipation, a tendency which the contained Glauber’s salt the one common object-namely, the returning a medical is sufficient to counteract. man to represent us in the Commons House of Parliament. The elevation above the sea-level varies from 1000 to 2000 Some time ago Mr. Gladstone said that a great future was feet, Rippoldsau being the most elevated. The prevailing to the medical Let us now endeavour, open profession. by tree is the black pine, and, in fact, on the higher elevations a to to assist in sending proper representative Parliament, there is nothing else, but in the lower valleys a great variety making that future sure. of trees is to be found,-oak, limes, plane-trees, mountain- I obedient remain, Sir, your servant, ash, chesnuts, &o. For those who require a pure forest Lincoln, September 18th, 1876. WILLIAM O’NEILL, M.D. air, and wish to inhale the fresh mountain breezes, redolent 445 of the sweet odour of the pines, there can be no more de- ever so short a space, "far from the madding crowd." The sirable locality than these mountain baths. On the very six or eight enormous hofs, or mansions, which constitute summit of the Kniebis hill, more than 3000 feet above sea- Bad Rippoldsau are situated in a valley, the natural beauties level, at the very comfortable although homely " Gasthaus of which would strike the most blasé of travellers. Richly- zum Lamm," I encountered a consumptive gentleman who wooded hills ; meadows, even during the scorching weather had been sent here to breathe the mountain air according to of the past August, literally green as emeralds; a babbling the present ’° fashion " (and fashion one must call it until water-course making sweet music as it tumbles Rhineward we have more definite knowledge on the point) of treating down the valley; a variety of foliage difficult to surpass; a. consumption. His life certainly was a happy and a com- profusion of the gayest flowers; peasants, both male and fortable one here, and, although seriously ill, he seemed able female, decked in the smartest of costumes; houses remark- to enjoy it. The air was keen and exhilarating, and the able for their neatness and picturesque homeliness ; these, depths of the forest afforded a protection against the terrible together with the lights and sounds which are character- fierceness of the sun, as well as against the violence of the istic of rural existence, go to make up a picture which can- wind; and here, in a hammock slung from two pine trees, not but be pleasing to the lover of nature, and doubly so to inhaling the pine-laden air, lazily dozing, reading, or writing, one who has been working amidst the murkiness and the this patient spent his days most happily, and indeed I noise of some manufacturing or money-making Babel.

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