Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL.
., ..\ 1 1 .1 *i A-r u^.. Maniacal-Depressive *^ Insanity.— Bolton
therapy ) deals Willi these conditions when
^ doiioh
treated with Spermin Essence as a catalytic '" Brain, London, concludes that the maa?eut
and coeiEcient of vital energy. Sper- "'acal depressive generalization is mitenamin
is the stimulant of the alkalescence of ble as a description of a special kind of
the blood, or rather it brings back to the mental disease. He welcomes it as indinormal
state, as Loewv, Richter, and Poehl dative of^ a tendency to decrease the numhaveshown.
The organic acids which are ber of mental diseases," and thereby to
formed by over-fatigue and over-excitement make a further advance towards the conof
the nervous cells are oxidized, the pro- ception that insanity is one disease. This
ducts of change of substance made non- disease is due on the one hand to various
toxic or rendered soluble, and thus elimi- Shades and forms of cerebral subevolution,
nated from the cells.
^""^ °" 'be other hand to various grades to
If we accept the condition of "being cerebral involution and dissolution.
^^
tired" as within the sphere of therapeutic He does not regard the recurrent or cirtreatment,
and as being brought about by cular" type, as idiopathic m maniac-deauto-intoxication,
Poehl's catalytic agent,
pressive insanity or m anything else.
Spermin, seems indicated as a ferment of While certain types are developmental
the oxidUion of the cells
rather than obscure or accidental in origin,
The Souclion Museum ol Anatomy at he believes we are "circulaires," whether
TuBanc University.- By resoulution of the saue or insane, on account of the functional
Board of Administrators of the Tulane Edactivity
of the cerebrum,
ucational Fund, the Museum of Anatomy ^he writer regards insanity as onedisease
of the Medical Department of Tulane m which there are various clinical forms,"
University was named the Souchon Mu- ^^^ich he divides into two groups: (1)
seum of Anatomy, in honor Dr. Edmund f^ases which may be regarded as sane or
Souchon, professor emeritus of anatomy normal" in the intervals. (2) Cases of
at
the university. This museum occupies
greater cerebral degeneracy. The former
a
large room, eightvfive bv thirty-six
group includes all types of recurrent cases,
feet,
in the new Richardson Memorial Building,
whether capable of recovery or not.
and is well lighted by means of numerous ^^e latterincludes the fo lowmg general
windows and skvbghts. A unique feature ^YPes: (a ) Moral cases, (b) simple emoof
the museum is that the preparation
^'onal
stand
chronic mama, (c) chronic mania
in large glass jars on tables arranged in
^'"^ delusions, (d)
r* '"'^"•^^T'^^
rows, instead of being in cases against the ^""^ asy urn curiosities,
'^J,^"'^^"
wall. All these specimens are real, the ^^e cases in these c iii.cal subclasses
,
dissections having been made after a new
^bow: Alteration of moral sense, alteration
method, elabyrated by Dr. Souchon. There °^ emotional or intellectual control, rapid
are sixtv-seven jars
^"^^
with preparations
uncontrolled association of ideas, ster-
on
osteology, forming a very complete
eotyped, symolical or grotesque association
collec"
tion, unequalled by any medical
ideas.
schhol,
except Harvard. Next come four hundred Tumors of ttie Vermiform Appendix.—
large jars containing dissections showing Losselin de Long ( Mittlg. aus d. Grenzgeb.
the permanet color of muscles, vessels, d. Medico Chir. ) says that there are on renerves,
and organs. Of these, two hun- cord sixty cases of carcinoma of the appendred
aregoodand two hundred have to be dix, a very small number as compared to
made over, as it is believed that they can the frequency of inflammatory affections
be made very much better by the improved of the appendix. This fact alone renders
method. The two hundred good ones the probability of an internal connection
comprise the articulations, muscles, arteries, between the inflammation and the developveins,
lymphatics, nerves, spinal cord, meiit of the carcinoma extremely improbbrain,
and surgical anatomy; all with permaiient
color. The other two hundred reable.
There is more to be said in favor of
Cohnheim's theory; for embryonic separalate
almost entirely to visceral anatomy and tions of epithelium are naturally very apt
will be completed withih two or three years,
The great value of this museum is to prepare
to occur in the genesis of the organ, especially
at the base and at the tip, where the
students for the dissecting room,
assist them in making dissections.
and to tumor is almost exclusively met with. The
It will relatively youthful age of an average of 24
also enable them to review their work in years, in which simple cancer has been noanatomy
rapidly. It has been suggested by ted, points in a similar direction; whereas,
Dr. Souchon that two or three hours a week the much less coiumon cylinder-cell carcishould
be allotted to the study of the pre- noma, which originates from the mucosa,
parations by the students, and that a quiz does not appear until the average age of 52
on these preparations should constitute a years. The prognosis of the operation in
part of the examiuatiou in anatomy. carcimona simplex is rather favorable. Me-