Greaoral News

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4574, 1 September 1883, Page 2

Greaoral News

A. French surgeon says, that on chloroforming some mice and lifting them by their tails, they try to bite, button lay« ing them again in a horizontal position, they resumed insensibility. Acting, oo this hint, when a patient showei signs of collapse under a dose of chloroform, he dropped the patent's head over theiedside and raised his feet quite high.flPhe patient at once became conscious, ■fifen laid straight on the bed he becadr insensible again, and a return to lowering the head and rising the feet for tea minutes was required to counteract the choloroform. It is thought that by ibis treatment anaesthetics may be used with great safety.

The San IjWaisco Bulletin, asserts that most of the Protestant churches in California are to day very poor. The exm ceptioos are in some of the large cities and towns. But in most part the Protestant churches of this coast cannot afford tQ pay a minister of sterling talent such" a sura as is competent for bis support and for an unhindered work among his people* It will be seen from the following extract from the London Weekly Despatch, of the Ist of July that the Recorder and Grand Jury of Portsmouth both strongly regret tho suspension of tha-O.D. Act:—"At the Portsmouth qoarter sessions to-day the Recorder strongly animadverted/on the susp.9»aion of the Contagious Disease! Act*, and asked if it were intended to revert to the old condition of things, when women were nncared for, and died like dogs in tho street, or to continue the work «f the last ten years, daring which 800 women we*e reclaimed in our borough? The women were better dressed, took more pride in themselve* and were more orderly and decaafr .Disease was reduced to a minimum, tnds clandestine vice was almost eatirelv extinguished. Tha Grand Jury mously passed a resolution endorsing th* observations of the Eeoorder. an* nl quested that the resolution might fejtorwarded to tUe Home Secretary"