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1360 PARIS.-BERLIN. Bois de Boulogne. When the Empress Eugénie quitted the Tuileries on Sept. 4th, 1870, she went in a cab to his house where she stayed the night and next day he travelled with ’:J1er in a carriage to the coast. She then succeeded in escaping from France in a small vessel which landed her at Ryde. Dr. Evans’s practice was very select and several crowned heads availed themselves of his skill. He was the proprietor of the American Register. Nov. 16th. BERLIN. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Professsor Virchow’s Jubilee. THE fiftieth anniversary of Professor Virchow’s joining the teaching staff of the Berlin University was celebrated on Nov. 6th. In 1847 Professor Virchow, who had previously belonged to the Army Medical Staff, was appointed a privat- docent at the University, but political considerations were all- powerful after the revolutionary troubles of 1848, and as he was known to hold democratic opinions he was under the :necessity of leaving Berlin and accepting a professorship at Wurzburg, in Bavaria. His exile, however, did not last very long, for as far back as 1856 he was elected Ordinary Professor ’of Pathological Anatomy in Berlin, an appointment which he still retains. On account of Professor Virchow’s infirm state of health the jubilee proceedings were of a more .,private character than would have otherwise been the case, being limited to addresses of congratulation delivered by the rector of the University and the dean and professor of the medical faculty. The rector, Professor Schmoller, referred to Professor Virchow’s achievements not only as a physician and a pathologist, but also as a biologist and ,as a savant whose methods of research had influenced every branch of human knowledge. The dean, Professor Heubner, eulogised him as a privat-docent of an altogether superior order-a teacher not only of students but also of professors. At an age when young men were, as a rule, far from having mastered what had been already discovered he had succeeded in solving the most difficult problems of biology. Professor Virchow in his reply pointed out that he was happy in the knowledge that a body of men now existed in German universities strong enough not only to maintain the principles laid down by him but ;also to continue the work in the light of modern develop- ments. He felt that his work was done and that he was now entitled to retire from his academical position, especially after having succeeded in obtaining a promise from the Government that a new and modern pathological institute and museum would be constructed after his designs. A great ; number of telegrams, letters, and other marks of Professor Virchow’s great popularity were received by him during the - day. The Training of Nurses and the Removal of Hospital Patients i in London. In the "Verein fiir Innere Medicin," a paper has been read by Dr. George Meyer on the Medical Institutions of ’London. The author, who had spent several weeks in the a English metropolis at the time of Queen Victoria’s Diamond .Jubilee, first mentioned the display of nursing appliances in connexion with the Victorian Era Exhibition at Earls Court, I which, he said, offered an opportunity of realising the high v standard of nursing in England. In his opinion nurses were c ’very well trained in England, the length of service required from probationers enabling them to get a more perfect a knowledge of their duties than in other countries. He gave a particulars of the different training schools, spoke of hospltai f - curses, private nurses, and district nurses, and showed t specimens of the rules and regulations of several nursing n institutions. He then passed on to the First Aid and t ambulance arrangements made by the St. John Ambulance t .Association, which he had seen at work on the occasion of v the Jubilee procession. The principal feature of Dr. Meyer’s v paper was an account of the mode of removing infectious t] cases. He had for a long time urged the necessity of reform d in the ambulance arrangements in Berlin, and he now n described the ambulance vehicles belonging to the different tl London hospitals and showed photographs of some of them. s] He also described the mode of notification of infectious disease and the duties of the medical officers of health in connexion with the disinfection of dwellings. He specially commended the mode of conveying patients to hospital and the consideration with which their friends were informed both of their condition and of the appearance of dangerous symptoms ; the printed forms used for this purpose were also shown to the society. Dr. Meyer concluded his remarks by expressing his thanks to the hospital managers, and to the medical officers who had kindly assisted him in his inquiries. Dr. CaZot’s Treatment of Spondylitis. Dr. Calot’s method of treating spondylitis by "brisement forc6 " of the vertebral column has been tried by some German surgeons and orthopaedists, and in the Deutsche Medieinische Wochenschrift Professor Lorenz, of Vienna, discusses the subject from a theoretical point of view. He says that the risks of this method are very great, for not only may the spinal cord be injured, but prasvertebral abscesses may burst and discharge their tuberculous contents into the surrounding tissues. But even if these apprehensions are unfounded (as they are, in fact, in Dr. Calot’s opinion) the success of the treatment must obviously depend upon the regenerative power of the broken vertebra. The question is whether this power is strong enough to form so much new osseous substance that the cavity in the vertebra produced by the tuberculous process may be filled up for without a sufficient formation of new osseous substance a relapse must of course occur sooner or later. Professor Lorenz therefore warns patients and medical men not to entertain too great expectations, especially as little more than a year has elapsed since Dr. Calot began his treatment, and this time is too short for the formation of a decided opinion. The procedure des- cribed by Dr. Calot consists in forced traction of the vertebral column by two assistants who seize both ends of the trunk whilst the surgeon himself produces a "brisement" of the deformity by making firm pressure on the prominent point of the vertebral column. This procedure is rather rough, and will undoubtedly be replaced by the use of instruments which will allow the force exerted in traction and pressure to be graduated according to the individual case. Professor Lorenz has hitherto treated only one case after the new method, the patient being a boy, ten years of age, who had suffered from spondylitis for three years. A year agoaslight paresis of both legs developed, sensibility and the control of the bladder and rectum remaining normal. There was no pain and the boy’s general state was comparatively good. The " redressement" was performed strictly in accordance with Dr. Calot’s directions, chloroform being administered during the operation. Professor Lorenz found it easy to straighten the curvature and to apply the plaster bandage ; but when the patient recovered from the anaesthesia there was total paralysis of the lower extremities, together with anuria and paralysis of the rectum. Control of the bowels and bladder was regained after a fortnight, but the paraplegia still persists. The plaster bandage was, of course, at once removed, and the curvature is now, two months after the operation, nearly the same as before. Professor Lorenz is far from judging the method by the result of only one case, but obviously the operation is not so harmless as its author alleges.-The same subject was recently discussed at a meeting of the Medical Society of Hamburg. Professor Krause mentioned that Dr. Calot in thirty-seven cases had only once observed a slight paresis following the operation, and he sug- gested some modifications of the plaster bandage, by which it might be made less irksome to the patient. He allows patients to leave their beds very soon, a matter which is very important for their general health. Two cases were shown. One of these patients was a girl, six years of age, with lumbar spondylitis and a chronic pelvic abscess on the left side. The abscess was treated by puncture and injections of iodoform. The "redressement" required Mty minutes, considerable force being necessary to overcome the deformity, and the application of the bandage occupied learly the same time. The patient could leave her bed after hree days. The other patient was a boy, aged ten years, and ihe operation was finished in twenty minutes. Both patients vere shown to the society and were able to walk freely vith the bandage. In the discussion Dr. Kummel stated hat one of his cases, a child, was insensible for three lays after the operation, but eventually recovered and iow felt quite well. He proposed the adjournment of he discussion for a few months till more ample experience hould be accumulated. Nov. 15th.
