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Science in Medicine, after which Dr. Benjamin Moore,professor of bio-chemistry and Dean of the Medical Facultyin the University of Liverpool, delivered a lecture on Univer-sities, Ancient and Modern, in which he said his solution ofthe university question in Ireland would be a University ofBelfast and a sectarian one for the Roman Catholics inDublin with divinity schools well outside their walls, and hewould make Trinity College reform itself. A vote of thanksfollowed to the lecturer.

Health of Belfast.At a meeting of the public health committee held on

Nov. 14th it was reported that three cases of typhus feverhad occurred, the patients coming from a street where over-crowding and filth seemed to have been the predisposingcauses. With reference to the communications from Mr.N. Strauss to the effect that his plant for pasteurising milkonly required 12,000 cubic feet with steam connexion, andif this was unprocurable that he would donate boiler withplant, the only nominal expense being the running plant, itwas pointed out that the corporation had no legal authorityto expend any part of its funds in operating such a plantor acting as retailers of milk, there being no provision in thePublic Health Acts empowering it to do so.

The Zieberculosis Exhibition in Belfast.The Tuberculosis Exhibition is to be opened in the old

town hall, Belfast, on Friday, Nov. 22nd, by Sir R. DouglasPowell, President of the Royal College of Physicians ofLondon. The exhibition will remain open for two weeks andduring this time lectures will be given each evening byvarious members of the medical and veterinary professions.The members of the veterinary section are taking the utmostpains to make their department interesting. Among thelecturers will be the President of the Ulster Medical Society(Dr. John McCaw), Sir Robert Matheson, LL.D. (Registrar-General), Professor Mettam, M.R.C.V.S. (President of theRoyal College of Veterinary Science), Professor J. A. Lindsay,Dr. W. Calwell, Dr. F. H. Sinclair, Professor T. Sinclair,and Dr. D. Lawson (Banchory, N.B.).Nov. 19th.

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PARIS.(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

A Case of" Hancke a Beuort."AT the Academy of Medicine on Nov. 5th M. Nelaton

read a note on a new method of treatment for the affection ofthe hip known as" hanche ressort." This is a little-knowncondition which is sometimes so severe as to make walkingvery difficult, especially on going downstairs. A sharp pain isproduced which is relieved when the patient remains still.The symptom depends on the internal rotation of the thighand the operation consists of suppressing that movement bytransplanting the tendon of the semitendinosus. There hasbeen no relapse in the two years which have passed since theoperation on a case under the care of M. Nelaton.The Ocoasional Rkewmatic Origin of Exophthalmic GoitreM. Vincent read a paper on this subject before the

Biological Society on Oct. 26th. It is some time since heboth maintained and proved that in the course of acuterheumatic fever the thyroid gland is often swollen andpainful on pressure; this fact has led him to study thebehaviour of the same gland after the rheumatism has beencured. As a rule, it speedily returns to its normal statebut sometimes partial atrophy of the organ occurs

and in these cases the rheumatism seems to becomechronic. On the other hand, the enlargement of thethyroid body may persist after the rheumatism has clearedup. M. Vincent has had the opportunity of observingin a certain number of cases the evolution of a typicalexophthalmic goitre in the course of a few weeks. Thisthyroid reaction may be met with in most of the infectivedisorders, but much less markedly than in acute rheumatism.In both cases the development of Basedow’s disease has asimilar explanation-namely, that it is an exophthalmicgoitre of glandular origin and not like those cases of nervousorigin which are due to functional disturbance or a lesion ofhe cervical sympathetic cord (moelle allongge).The Development of the Volume of the ’Voice by llespiratory

Exercises.In a note communicated by M. d’Arsonval to the Institute

Dr. Marage describes the methods of developing the volume

of air which escapes from the lungs, the prime factor indeveloping the volume of the voice. For this purpose thethoracic capacity must first be increased. Town-bredchildren have narrow chests and most of them do notknow how to breathe properly, the apices of their lungs donot expand, and are, of course, the first seat of tuberculousdisease. Dr. Marage advises three exercises chosen from therepertoire of the gymnasium which, if repeated daily forten minutes, are sufficient to bring the thoracic cageto its proper size in a few weeks. These exercises are

very simple and can be learnt in a few minutes ; theyhave the additional advantage of giving tone to the musclesof the abdominal wall; and they soon do away with the bigovoid belly which is so often seen in adults. The chestmeasurement and volume of air expired are recorded monthlyand the exercises can be checked by the tables which havebeen drawn up of the relations which ought to exist betweenthe height and the weight of the subject and the relationsactually obtained. In this way the maximum of efficiencymay be obtained.

Albunainuria in Mo7phino7naniaes.The albuminuria which sometimes arises in the course of

an attack of morphinomania is an indication of a weakenedkidney, if not of an actually diseased one, and is a sign thattotal withdrawal of the drug must be hurried on. Albumin-uria occurring during the course of weaning the patient fromthe drug constitutes a grave danger which demands theutmost care and watchfulness. It is characterised by itsrapid evolution, the excessive amount of albumin, and arapid increase in the amount of the same. Whether or notit has existed previously to the weaning from the drug havingbeen begun it ordinarily disappears coincidently with thedisappearance of the morphine intóxication, of which it isonly an indirect complication. It is, in fact, not a morphinealbuminuria. These statements were laid before the meet-ing of the Societe de l’Internat des H6pitaux de Paris onOct. 24th by M. Sollier.

I JJistu’l’barwes at the Faculty of Medicine.The Congress of Practitioners which was held in Paris

during last spring passed a resolution that the professors atthe Faculty of Medicine should be nominated only fromamong those who had no private practice (qui n’eaeercent pasla clientele medicale) and who could therefore give theirwhole time to looking after the studies as well as the dutiesof the professorship. Accordingly when the two most recentvacancies occurred two very well-known men were nominated-namely, Professor Prenant of Nancy to the chair ofhistology in the room of Professor Mathias Duval, andProfessor Nicolas, also of Nancy, to the chair of anatomy inthe room of the late and much regretted Professor Poirier.These two nominations, however, although in conformitywith an expressed wish, did not satisfy everyone, notably theagreges of the Faculty, who objected to the nomination oftwo provincial men and who stirred up the students to protest.On Nov. 8th, which was the date fixed for the openinglecture by Professor Prenant, the students arrived in largenumbers in the theatre and greeted the professor with yells,opprobrious epithets, and cat calls, despite the presence ofthe Dean of the Faculty, Professor Debove. All kinds ofthings were thrown at him, and finally one enthusiast threwa small bomb (fusée) which burst at the professor’s feet.He and the dean then withdrew, finding it impossibleto make themselves heard. The day following should haveseen the opening lecture of Professor Nicolas and thestudents were warned against repeating their behaviour unlessthey wanted to see the Faculty closed. Nevertheless, muchthe same scenes occurred and the professor was greeted withshowers of tomatoes and eggs which burst round him likeshells, and he, too, retired without being able to make him-self heard. The committee of the Faculty and the Dean havetherefore decided to close the Faculty until Dec. 31st.Those students, however, who should complete their studiesby Dec. lst, and who if they fail to do so will have to com.plete another year’s military service, will be admitted toexamination.

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BERLIN.(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Th6 German Public Health Association.THE German Public Health Association held its annual

meeting recently in Bremen, Dr. Lentze, mayor ofMagdeburg, being in the chair. Professor Fliigge of Breslau