The American Practitioner Volume 11-12 (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. 1891 Excerpt: ...had died suddenly; he refers also to some well-known facts concerning negroes in a state of slavery, and to the occasional occurrence of jaundice after fright. He hopes that these hints may induce medical officers of prisons and others to study both clinically and anatomically this by no means uninteresting or unimportant subject.--Qaiilard'a Medical Journal. A Domestic Sterilizer.--There are few houses in which a ready sterilizer is not at hand, namely the kitchen oven. The heat which can be generated in this culinary appliance would be more than sufficient to destroy those forms of germ life which are inimical to wound treatment. With a clean receptacle at hand, into which towels and other appliances required for the purposes of an operation could be placed, the kitchen oven could be relied on to effect the necessary sterilization of these with convenience and dispatch. Thus as an improvised "sterilizer" we can easily conceive of the occasions when a surgeon would be glad of the asistance of the kitchen oven.--Medical Press and Circular. The Committee On Hypnotism.--The committee appointed by the Section of Psychology at the annual meeting of the Association in Birmingham has held its first meeting. Dr. Need ham, the president of the Section, was unanimously elected chairman of the committee. The following headings were decided upon as a basis for carrying out investigations: (1) The Nature of Hypnotism and its Nervous and Mental Relations. (2) Its General or Limited Applicability as a Therapeutic Agent in different classes of disease. (3) The Degree and Mode of its influence on Morbid Condition. (4) Its Dangers and the necessnry Safeguards. At the request of the committee Dr. Kingsbury, of Blackpool, consented to visit various centers to meet m...