. Annals of hygiene. do.—Boston Medical amd Surgical Jouryial. Poisoning by Flutes. Dr. J. H. Smith, in a paper read at a meeting of the Homoe-opathic Medical Society of Massachusetts, reports several casesof flute-poisoning. Grenadille, or cocus wood, has for manyyears been employed in the manufacture of this musical instru-ment, inasmuch as it gives a brilliant and powerful sound, whichmellows and becomes more flexible with the age of the instru-ment. Dr. Smith says, There is most trustworthy testimonyfrom Germany, England, and America to the fact that cocuswood, and no other material, is fo
. Annals of hygiene. do.—Boston Medical amd Surgical Jouryial. Poisoning by Flutes. Dr. J. H. Smith, in a paper read at a meeting of the Homoe-opathic Medical Society of Massachusetts, reports several casesof flute-poisoning. Grenadille, or cocus wood, has for manyyears been employed in the manufacture of this musical instru-ment, inasmuch as it gives a brilliant and powerful sound, whichmellows and becomes more flexible with the age of the instru-ment. Dr. Smith says, There is most trustworthy testimonyfrom Germany, England, and America to the fact that cocuswood, and no other material, is found by certain susceptible flu-tists capable of producing serious irritation of the lip, necessitat-ing the use of a crescent-shaped silver or gold lip-plate, shellacedto the mouth-hole or embrasure. The author describes themalady as a lip excessively swollen, extremely red, with largeblotches covered by vesicles. Relief is had by the application ofa mild solution of nitrate of lead in water.—Popular Backache. It has never been in evidence why a womans backache shouldgenerally be attributed to pelvic disease. Men have backaches,and they are not uniformly attributed to genito-urinary seems that the practitioner might treat the owner of a backacheas a patient, not as a woman.—Kansas City Medical Index. ^New Process of Sterilizing: Manuscripts, Books, etc. Articles that cannot be exposed to a high temperature canbe treated with the gas formed from formic aldehyde by a newprocess, described at a late meeting of the Academic des Sciences,and reported in full in the Gazette Medicate de Liege of Febru-ary 27. The gas can be generated in another room and broughtin through a tube. This process avoids the inconveniences ofHofmanns, and is much less expensive. Sanitation in tlie Sixteentli Century. We read in the Ayinales de la Societe Medico-Chirurgie deLiege, February, 1896, that the city of Lyons, France, possessseda bureau of health three hundred years a
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