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marked, :md differences in method of opc rat- tclligcnt medical superintendent . gratified ing. n.bout a. dozen of th e un fortunate inma tes by

"Cases in which p,in was incr eas ed by the quietly dividing among st them about half an current where those of r ecent inflammation of ounce of tobacco.a th e pe riosteum, or wh ere abscess ,vas present. Mr . Logan alleges that tobacco creates th irst In r egard to the dire ction of the cu rrent of -an assertion whi ch is ope n to objection ; and elect ri c ity, its force as computed by the sensa- th,t its use fr eque ntly lends to that of intoxi­tions of the patient, the po::;ition of the poles, eating drinks, which is not ncccss:lrily the case. and the d ifferent for ms of clcctric,J apparatu s llu t he hits the nrnrk mo, ·c clo se ly wh en he -and curr ents, the commit tee could arrive at no says-nttirmatiYc results; diticrcnces in these re spects "Much time is Jost by smok ing. It is sup ­indicatiug in the main no sp..!cjfic diffe rences iu por ted at !I- great cxpn n:;c . l\Iany working men ~ffcct. spend more up on tobacco alone tlinn would, be -

u I n a final point tl1e committee were un:ini - sides pro\·iding the m with more comfortable mous, that in not one instance did any mcm- dwelling, cna}Jle Urnm to send thei r c_hildrcn to her observe the nearest approac h to loca l anro:s- school, and purcb:1s _c ,t newspaper. I n an arti ­t h csia. At the same t ime, the members we re clc in the Scottislt Re view, entit led 'Liverpo ol , of opinion that the iutermittcut curren t was :ti- its Smoke and .\sh es,' it is sa id- ' At the tim e lowable in certain cases as a means of produ cing of om· visit to Li \·e rpool, tl1ere stood un<lcr the a. diversion of sensation. J3ut as, in a. scie ntific sheds no fewer than si.cteen thousand forge point of \~iew, the electri <!al cu rr ent cou ld not bog.sbcad s of tobacco, and eac h of' the se 1•aying be a.cceptcd as a n ana)st hetic, the committee h.a.d on an :lVcrngc a duty of £ :!00, yielding in al l a. oo data on which to recommend :my specia.l elcc - revenue of £3,200,U UO ! and all this ending in tric:11 appar atus, nor any particular method of smoke, so for as the r ea l co111fo1·t and social and applying electricity in denta l operat ion s." inte ll ectua l improvem en t of t.Jrn people arc cou -

I t has often been remarked that an individual cerned .' ''

So reign Dcµartmmt. regarded in a. private capac ity on th e one hand, nnd as a member of a public body on the other, freq uently presents himself uud cr two different

aspects. T hus, at the wee ting in ques tion , Dr. CONTAcrous NATURE OF nu: SECOND ARY s n1PT 0 ,1s OF Pui·Jand s:iid, that though he, ns one of the com -

Sl'PU{LIS.

M. Auzios Tu rcnne, the or igin at or of S)"phili­zat.ion, bad, _some m.c,nths ago, indu ced tho Mini s ter o f Public Work s tu ask tho Acad­e_my of Med ic.inc of J.Jaris the following qu cs­ttous :-

1. .\ re the secondary symptoms of syp hili s contagious?

. 2 .. I~ave the sec retions o~ th? se symptoms with 111fants, t\S far as cout:1g1on 1s concerned properties di fferent from th ose they po~:ses~ with adults?

mittee, had signed the r eport, _hi s p r ivate prac­tice r e,·ersed his op in ion . H e had tha t morn ­ing extracted seven tee th from a. lady , and she decbrcd that she fe lt no pain. We hn,e, bow­,ever, in tLis iustance, rm expl anation vf the cir­eumstance. '£ he Do cto r went on to observe th:it he must say that he gave no time for her to reply : a s soon as he bad fixed the battery he p laced his foot on the bonrd aud aske d whe the r she folt any pain, a.nd-" sh ,up ·s the word'' with a dentist--before an a.nswer could be re­turned , the tooth was out!

The Academy appointed a committee, com ­posed of M i\t. V clp cau, Ri cord , Dever 1,i e De­

EVIL OF S~IOK~fJ'N,{Ett~?,? AND ITS NA- paul, am! Gib ert, to consider th ese qu":.s(ions and gh•c in a r eport, whi ch ha s be.cu read b;

A controversy is j ust now goi n (Y' on in Glas - M. Gibe r t , at the meeting on the 24th ult. lt gow between Ur. \VilliamL ogana ndDr. l\I'L eod wou ld appear tha t .M. Hi cord desired to he ex.­as to the utility or the e,·il of tob:t cco-smo k- cused from joining th e committee , so as lo be ing. Mr L ogan uses some very forcib le argu- better able to engag e u1>0n the discussion of the mcnt against the emp loyment of the "weed. '' r epo rt . Fr om l\I. Gib ert 1s ex.positiun, ,ve find He says he had lived that the committ ee in s titut ed experiments a.t the

"In London, Leeds, Roc hda le, Bradford, and St. Louis H osp ital, and ha, ·c co1Uc to the con ­Glasgow , for upwards of s1xtc~n years amongst clu s ion to propose, that the que s t.ions a:sked by the humble r cla s~es; an d whilst he bad met tbe Mi nis ter shall be answ ered in the following with thousands of rnveternte smokers, he ne\·e r manner :-found one of them .atte 1~pt to defend smo~ing, l. T he re a.r e second:ny, or con~titutiona l but_ th ey almost mv~r,ab ly r~f~rrcd to 1t, of sy!up~oms of syph i~is which are contagion:;. 'J1he th eir own acc ord, as a bad habit, and regretted principal of these 1s th e mucous pa.pule or flat that they had been foolish enough to l earn i t. tubercle . ' · Th e onl y ?ceasion on which he bad seen tob,c- 2 .. '£his rul e holds goo,! for the nurse and ?~ used with _apparent advantage was _when vis - suckhn g as for other individuals: there is no 1trng, som~ eigh teen mo~t~s ago, the mma.tcs .of reason for supposi ng that, with chi!dren at the the Lun at ic A sy lum at Edmburgb, where them - bre aat, the secretion froci secondary symptom

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