Medical Review Volume 30 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...that can be posted in every hospital and be in the hands of every midwife, or any one who may be liable to see asphyxia, such as those who give anesthetics and those called to cases of drowning, etc. It has been tried a great deal in France in the last two years in all sorts of cases of asphyxia, by drowning, electric shock, lightning stroke and in the cases of apparent death in the newly-born. Some sixty-three cases are given where patients were recalled to life by this method. The Late Congress at Rome.--The Lancet for August 4 points out the fact that an unusually artistic set of photographs has been prepared by a Roman artist, Cardilli, not only of the nineteen Sections of the Congress, but of the principal speakers in the open conferences. The Lancet specifies the portraiture of Virchow, of Koch, of Pasteur, of Lombroso and of President Bacelli himself as being very successful in depicting the features and characteristic expression of those leaders of modern medicine. Dr. Bacelli has been presented with a "first copy" of the album, or collection of photographs, and has expressed his approbation thereof and his hope that the fine work shall have as wide a diffusion as possible. The name of the artist is Giovanni Cardilli. The cost of the album to intending purchasers in not mentioned in the Lancet article.--Jour, of the Amer. Med. Ass'n. Cauterizing Ovaries Instead of Removal of Them.--Dr. Pozzi, at Hopital Broca, has now practiced cauterization of painful ovaries for over two years, and considers the plan very successful. In one case, in which he operated upon both ovaries, the woman has since given birth to a child. He performs his laparotomies in the ordinary recumbent position; draws the ovaries out of the abdominal opening. If the ovary i...