MEDICAL NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 1514, 9 November 1912, Page 7 (Supplement)

MEDICAL NOTES.

POTTLTICIXt' THK V.AH. T>nrr ticivi? ho ear may seem to W » simple operation, but there »; "Lvertlie a ris'it' and ,VIO,I way ot doing U, and it appear that, the wrong way is thfTw usually adopted. Or Buck ,ay, that iT-t« he-it is 0110 ot the best remedies in Sinful inf!amrn;Uion< •>' the middle ear. S the P<ndtioo is one of th. best metluH \f applvin- heat. i»fl usttnlly put on. the T<, U fe little effect. \Vl.at .lunik, ho fL ho sav.s is iii>t to till th- oxn-rna.i iiflit'ore f.-Mial with lukewarm water, the head resting on the nnalTeetod side upon th* nillo.w.' Then a largo flaxseed ponlttee .« a nnli«l over the car as hot as it can V borne. The column of water is thus kept warm, and nets as a conductor of heat, between the poultice and the inflamed furtace. CAUBVXCLK KATMKN'T. \ successful method in treating; eatpuncles is to fob! n piece of gauzo until it forms a thickness ol six to e.J t lavcrf, the .surface area to he. somewhat larger than the carbon, to bo covered. The <jau7.e i? first thoroughly saturated with 1 ThierschV .olution, lien covered with a laver of a 10 |«T cent, ointment- of icht-hvol," and then applied to the carbuncle. A piece of rubber large enough t« overlap the g.w.o is now p.;u ed on the same to 'hcep in i'e.o moi.-tur,-. A layer .[ cotton is placed on the rubber, and then the bandage' is applied and allowed to #;av on for iwo days. When the patient rctnrnr. to be vehandaged and io liav.- the drcwin.T renewed, the cores are unmd to have separated from their respective walls. »nd at, the rest redrawing. whu'h is again fn two flays, they are found entirely separated. and can he easily and painlessly removed. At the next- visit granulation liar, ,'ws.scd the jirinian- -tage. and healing quickly results, leaving an almost invisible scar. * The only countitutional treatment nrcePsars' is to give cathartics, like fluid .-Ttrac.t, of cri.scara sag rati a. or ettflor oil. and. in individual anicmic or cachetic rases, compoumi .yrun of the hypophosphite.'. FREAKS 0" SOMNAMBULISTS. A gejioleituui w;?s discovered at one o'clock in the morning in a neighbour's garden, engage*! l in prayer, evidently under the, impression thai he w.us in church, but otherwise in a deep sleep. A young man, or whom l?eir«s writer, used to get, up in his sleep, climb on to bis ea/itle b-u,tle-mcjit. »<-at hirosoli astride ot" them, and then spur ur.d whip the wall, under 1 lie T.ipreefion that, he was mounted u(>oii his ste'erl. Pr. Macnish. of Edinburgh, gives an ;iriX)un(, of an Iritdi gentleman who fw-iini more than two mile-s down a river. pot ashore, and was subsequently discovered sleeping by the roadside, altogether unconscious of the extraordinary feat- ho had accomplished. Professor Fifchnell. of Basle, writes of a. young student. of Wurteniburg College who n.-ed to play hide-and-seek while fast asleep. His fellow-students knew- of his propensity, and when he began walking" threw bolsters at him, which he always eluded, jumping over bedsteads and other obstacles plaecd in his way. A young girl, given to sleep-wall;-ing. was in the habit of imitating the violin with her lips, giving the preliminary tuning, and scraping and flourishing with t.he utmost fidelity. She puzzled her" physician a great deal, until he ascertained that, when an infant, the girl lived in a Toom adjoining a fiddler, who often performed on this instrument within her hearing.