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Mosby Medical Book Co., PUBLISHERS. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: ONE YEAR, $1.00; SIX MONTHS, 50c. Remit by Draft, Post Office Order, Postal Note or Registered Letter at our risk. Make all drafts on money orders payable to THE CLINICAL REPORTER, ST. LOUIS. Telephone Connections. BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS for review, EXCHANGES, and matter for the Editor should be addressed to D. M. Gibson, 241 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, Mo. This journal is not responsible for the individual views of contributions. Address all correspondence relating to subscriptions, advertising or business management to G. A. Mellies, M. D., 2839 Cass Ave., St. Louis, Mo. ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. THE "FOWLER-ROBINSON POSITION." Over a dozen years ago Byron Robinson began publishing the results of his original investigations on the peritoneum. He was especially interested in its histology and phisiology. To disclose the function of the peritoneum, he experimented on some two hundred dogs and other animals. Byron Robinson's interest centered in the idea of the lymphatics of the peritoneum, where the significant areas of peritoneal absorption or exudation are located. At the conclu. sion of his experiments he published his book on the "Histology and Physiology of the Peritoneum," now recognized and known as a classic. This book records that Byron Robinson repeatedly demonstrated that the enteronic and diaphragmatic areas of the peritoneum are the special areas of absorption (not exudation), and that colonic and pelvic areas of the peritoneum are the special areas of exudation (not absorption.) Hence, ten years ago Byron Robinson demonstrated by scores of animal experiments that the diaphragm and enteron are the dangerous areas of peritonitis (absorption), and that the colon and pelvis are the safe areas of peritonitis (exudation). Dr. Fowler wrote and advocated that Byron Robinson's experimental labors on the peritoneum had demonstrated its localities of greatest absorption and greatest exudation, and hence suggested that since the diaphragm and enteron are the most absorptive (and least exudative,) and the colon and pelvis ate the least absorptive (and most exudative), he suggested the placing of his post operative peritonitis subjects in an inclined position, so that excessive sepsis would not stream through the diaphragm and overwhelm the patient. Incidentally, some writer eponymized it as the Fowler position. Since the medical profession well know that Byron Robinson's experimental investigation on the peritoneum were the bone and rock on which the so-called Fowler position was founded, I propose that he share in the credited honors, and this inclined post-operative position be called the "Fowler-Robinson position."-T. B. WOOD, M. D., Chicago.-Milwaukee Medical Journal, April 1908. 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Siegel (Deut. Med. Wochenschr., March 12, 1908,) shows by experiments on animals that the presence of bacteria plus the action of cold is not always followed by illness. The action of cold, however, without the co-operation of bacteria, may under certain conditions induce an acute parenchymatous nephritis. Chilling of the feet reflexly causes active constriction of the renal vessels; and the resulting anemia may persist indefinitely, entailing disturbances in the circulation and in the nutrition of the cells, and degeneration of the functional elements, with inflammation as the outcome of the whole process. The decaying cells or the abnormal metabolic products produced by degenerating cells may likewise induce an inflammatory process. The dogs experimented upon invariably developed bilateral parenchymatous nephritis, even when only one foot had been chilled in ice water (the hind legs up to the knee were immersed in water at 39 degrees F.) 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