If “K.” will send name, we will take pleasure in publishing his article
in our next number.
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White physicians in Oriental countries are asked almost daily whether
they cannot prescribe for suffering women without seeing them. Oriental
women, debarred by social custom from consulting male physicians, are
the victims of great and unnecessary suffering. They are thus shut off
from the aid of western medical skill, though they know its value and
are desirous of availing themselves of it. The movement in China and
Japan to introduce female physicians from Europe and America is
conferring great benefit upon the women of those countries and making
brilliant opportunities for skilled women who go there. The hospital for
women recently opened at Shanghai, under the charge of American women,
is already filled with patients. An association has also been formed in
India for training native nurses.
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The new college building of the Medical Department of the Western
Reserve University is being pushed rapidly to completion. The stone-work
is done and the roof is now being placed in position. When once
inclosed, work upon the interior can proceed regardless of the weather.
It is thought that it will be so far completed as to be used for
commencement exercises the last week in February.
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Four cases of trichiniasis were reported to the health officer of
Cleveland, December 23d. All were members of one family and had partaken
of the same uncooked ham. The physician reporting the cases, Dr. J. F.
Armstrong, had his suspicions aroused by the symptoms presented, and at
once examined the suspected meat. His fears were confirmed by finding
trichinæ spirolis in the remaining portions of the ham, and his
observations were verified by the health officer. None of those affected
are as yet seriously ill. It appears necessary to sound a constant
warning against eating uncooked pork.
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“_No Children Allowed._”—The “Solid Comfort” will answer for the
occasion to designate an elegant apartment house opened about two years
ago in a suburb of Boston. It was finished with all modern conveniences
and inconveniences. There were electric bells in a row at the door, so
that the afternoon caller could ring up nine different and peaceful maid
servants before getting into communication with the family she came to
see; there were fire escapes and telephones, and elevators and speaking
tubes; and, in all probability, safety valves and submarine cables. But
the crowning joy of all was the fact that no children were allowed
within its walls. It was built for the accommodation of childless
couples, and to ten childless couples were the suites let. How great was
the quiet and calm of that sheltered retreat, until one ill-starred
morning, when the cry of an infant, shrilly and piteously, broke the
stillness! Horror and indignation upon the part of nine guiltless
couples! And yet, so weak is humanity, that before the end of the second
year there were children in seven of the ten families. The childless
young couples were childless no more; and when the owner of the building
complained to his friends of the unfair treatment he had received at the
hands of his tenants, they all laughed in his face and advised him to
let his apartments to bachelors.—_Sanitarian for November, 1885._
The Cleveland Medical Gazette.
_A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY._