. The Medical and surgical reporter . ch the collars on theknees are held fast by an attachment to thepart of the table under the patients head, isone of the best. Fritschs apparatus, and other similarforms, are convenient in clinics and hospitals ;but made as they are of iron rods and clamps,they can hardly claim the merit of beingportable. I believe that the form which I describehere, and which is in use in my private hos-pital, answers all the requirements as to fix-ation as well as any holder in use, and inother important particulars is superior to anyin use. It is simply two broad, well-p
. The Medical and surgical reporter . ch the collars on theknees are held fast by an attachment to thepart of the table under the patients head, isone of the best. Fritschs apparatus, and other similarforms, are convenient in clinics and hospitals ;but made as they are of iron rods and clamps,they can hardly claim the merit of beingportable. I believe that the form which I describehere, and which is in use in my private hos-pital, answers all the requirements as to fix-ation as well as any holder in use, and inother important particulars is superior to anyin use. It is simply two broad, well-padded collarsof muslin, large enough to slip easily upany leg above the knee, and a broad strapmade of the same, well padded with hair-cloth. At each end of the strap is a snaphook, and at eight and ten inches from thecentre of this strap, on the inner side, arefastened galvanized rings an inch in diam-eter. The method of application is this: Slip the collars first above the knees, and pullboth knees as high up on the belly as possi-. ble. Then take up the strap and snap onehook into a ring which is on the collar, carrythe strap up under the arm and shoulderof that side, and around the back of theneck down over the shoulder of the oppositeside, and snap the hook on the other end ofthe strap into the collar of that side. Ifthis leaves the legs lax and hanging low, thehooks can be unsnapped and pulled throughthe collars, and snapped on the rings spokenof on the strap. The cost of the apparatusis $ I will remark finally that the strap, pass-ing as it does to the sides, sufficiently sep-arates the knees, and I have found no needfor complicating this simple device, whichcan be carried in the coat pocket by thecross-bar of the Clover crutch. 2134 Hancock street. Medical Societies. THE BALTIMORE ACADEMY OFMEDICINE. At the May meeting of the Academy twovery interesting discussions occurred, one ontube-casts of albuminuria, and the other onthe choice of anaesthetics. The first was
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