ABSTRACTS. Pankreon.-Pankreon, according to a report from the "Lancet Laboratory," is prepared from fresh pancreatic glands, the active principle being subsequently combined with tannic acid, the combination being proof against the action of the gastric juice. It has been administered in cases of carcinoma of the pancreas. After giving pankreon daily for six days the absorption of nutrient material is said to have been increased by 50 per cent. and the output of sugar diminished by nearly a third. Opium, too, diminished the amount of sugar, but the absorption of food material was only increased by 10 per cent.-The Lancet, Oct. 20, 1906. Suggestions of a Plan of Organizing a Hospital System for the City of New York-Stephen Smith gives a number of suggestions concerning the organization of a hospital system. He says that the "Department of Hospitals" should be provided for by an amendment of a charter of the city. The Department should create "Hospital Districts," the division of territory being based on the population of the laboring or tenement house classes and the sickness-rate. Certain public hospitals should become "Emergency Hospitals." Emergency Hospitals should be provided for districts where none now exist. One or more Convalescent Hospitals" should be created on ample farm lands located on the water front within easy access of the city. The "Special" and "Contagious Diseases" Hospitals would take their proper places in this organization of hospitals.-Medical Record, January 5, 1907. Report of Two Cases of Dementia Paralytica, One Associated with a Large Hemorrhagic Lesion, the Other with Atrophy of the Optic Tract.-Jessie Weston Fisher presents the results of a careful study of these two cases. There are not many records of dementia paralytica associated with gross focal lesions of the brain. Autopsy showed, in the brain of the first patient here described, an area of hemorrhagic degeneration in the corona radialis of the left hemisphere. This lesion began just anterior to the tip of the anterior horn of the left ventricle, extending posteriorly to the dorsal extremity of the caudate nucleus. The anterior limb of the internau capsule was also involved by this lesion. On examination of the brain of the second patient, there was discovered atrophy of both optic nerves and tracts, and the lateral geniculate bodies of each side were found to be about onehalf normal size.-Medical Record, January 5, 1907. SCHOOL LIFE VIEWED FROM THE STANDPOINT OF are on ONE of the most important papers presented at the Anual Meeting of the British Medical Association at Sheffield was upon the above-mentioned subject and was prepared by a well-known authority, Dr. Francis Warner, of London. The following the headings of the discussion: Clinical Study in Schools: ental and Physical Hygiene; the Children to be Educated. stitutional Differences between Boys and Girls; Subnormal Children; Objective Study of the Child; Nerve-signs Response. Types of Childhood; Healthy Children; Children with Some Degree of Defect in Physical Development; Neurotic Children; Children Showing Brain Disorderliness and Mental Dullness; Children Mentally Feeble. Training and Teaching: The School and the Staff. and MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS. to In A QUESTION was recently asked in the House of Commons as what course the Government proposed to follow in dealing with school authorities who had neglected or postponed indefinitely the duty of providing for the medical inspection of schools. reply, Mr. McKenna, President of the Board of Education, said that steps were being taken both by correspondence and by local investigation to ascertain the manner in which arrangements for medical inspection were being initiated, and a clause had been inserted into the code requiring as a condition of the payment of the annual grant in respect of any school that satisfactory provision should be made for the medical inspection of the chil dren attending the school. Failure on the part of the local authority to comply with the requirements of the Act might thereIfore in addition to, and in substitution of, other statutory reme of, or deduction from, the grant. dies result in the refusal Spe Icial attention had been called to this matter in the prefatory memorandum to the code, and he thought the publicity attaching to the code could suffice to apprise the authorities of its requirements. The Board had no control over the salaries payable by local authorities to officers engaged in medical inspection, except in so far as inadequate remuneration might be found to result in the inefficiency of inspection; and until the various schemes were in working order and the Board had had opportunities of comparing the methods and efficiency of medical inspection in the various areas he should not be prepared to say whether any particular salaries could be regarded as insufficient. He had recently stated to a deputation that inquiries as to the methods or machinery of medical inspection should obviously be addressed to the Board in writing, and if made would receive prompt attention and as far as possible full replies. It was impossible to deal satisfactorily or completely with matters of detail within the limits of an answer in the House, and he should be exposing both the Board and local authorities to risk of misunderstanding if he attempted to do so. TUBERCULOSIS AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN. THE subject of school hygiene has not been overlooked in connection with the International Congress on Tuberculosis. A series of papers is being prepared, which will deal with Medical Inspection of Schools, School Nursing, Prophylaxis of Tuberculosis in School, etc. Dr. Elliott, of Toronto and Gravenhurst, has charge of the paper describing what Canada is doing in the matter. It may well be recalled in this connection that the discussion upon Dr. W. J. Dobbie's paper at the last meeting of the Canadian Hospital Association on Tuberculosis brought out the importance. of carrying the anti-tuberculosis campaign right into our schools. Dr. Gordon's contribution to the discussion was an eloquent and convincing address on this subject, and a resolution was forwarded to the Ontario Educational Association, then in session. The Government of Newfoundland also appreciates the importance of fighting tuberculosis in the schools. They have given a grant sufficient to defray the expenses of all the teachers in the colony, some two hundred and fifty in number, in connection with a Teachers' Anti-Tuberculosis meeting in St. John's, Nfld. This is part of the aggressive warfare now being waged by the Newfoundland Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. This work is badly needed, as the mortality from tuberculosis is said to have. increased 50 per cent. in the last six years in Newfoundland. Garden Party given by the Academy of Medicine Toronto, on Friday, September 18th, 1908, in honor of the French Physicians. Journal of Medicine and Surgery J. J. CASSIDY, M.D.. EDITOR, 43 BLOOR STREET EAST, TORONTO. Surgery-F. N. G. STARR, M.B., Toronto, Associate Professor of Clinica. Surgery, Toronto University; Senior Surgical Assistant Toronto General Hospital; N. A. POWELL, M.D., C.M., Prof. of Medical Juris prudence. Toronto University; Consulting Surge n Toronto General Hospital, etc. Clinical Surgery-ALEX. PRIMROSE, M.B., C.M. Edinburgh Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology-ARTHUR JUKES Physiotherapy-CHAS. R DICKSON, M.D, C.M., Queen's Pharmacology and Therapeutics-A. J. HARRINGTON Pediatrics-ALLEN KAINES, M.D., Toronto; A. R. GORDON, W. A. YOUNG, M.D., L.R.C. P. LOND.. 145 COLLEGE STREET, TORONTO. St. Michael's Hospital, and Victoria Hospital for Sick Public Health and Hygiene-J. J. CASSIDY, M.D., Toronto, Physiology-A. B. 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As one entered into the spirit of cordiality extended to the French Gentlemen, distinguished in the world of medical science, recently visiting Toronto for a day and hours en route to Washington, D.C., to attend the great Congress on Tuberculosis, one again regretted the little mix-up that occurred at the Tower of Babel, and wished a long, long wish for a universal language (with respect to Esper |