Issue 10, pp. 753-832, October 1861, SMSJ

—832 Miscellaneous.was employed for five hours on the first day ; for ten and a half hourson the second ;for eleven hours on the third ; for nine and a half hourson the fourth ; for eleven hours on the fifth ; for ten hours on the sixth ;for ten and a half hours on the seventh ; and for nine and a half hourson the eighth—making a total of eighty-five hours, at the end of whichtime the aneurism had become cured. Med. Times 4* Gaz. Jan. 19,1861, from IS Union Med. No. 1, 18G1.A Substitute for the Catheter.—Sir—Some two years ago, 1had under my care a man who had received a fracture of the spine.Inability to micturate was one of the symptoms, and I expected that Ishould in this case, as I had witnessed in some others, have to use thecatheter very frequently.It occurred to me, however, that by pressingover the region of the bladder, the urine might be discharged, and so itproved ; for when any fluid collected in the bladder the patient wasalways relieved by gentle, equable pressure. He never required theuse of the catheter, and, though he survived his accident about threemonths, no urine ever escaped except under pressure.Your obedient servant,J. Wearne, M. R. C. S,Helston, Cornwell, Nov, 18G0. Lancet,On Iodism.—In a recent discussion on iodism at the Academic Imperialede Medecine, M. Velpeau made the following observations : Hehad treated about fifteen thousand persons with iodine either externallyor internally, but he had never seen anything exactly resembling^ constitutionaliodism. He had observed irritation of the digestive organs,pains in the stomach, dyspepsia, roughness of the throat, irritation of themucous membrane of the mouth and nose, ptyalism, &c ,but he hadnever seen cases of rapid emaciation, with atrophy of the breasts andtesticles, and bulimia, or in short, with symptoms of poisoning. M.Velpeau suggests that the difference of the results observed in Paris andGeneva may be due to the difference in the doses employed, or the varyingqualities of the iodized preparations ; but whatever may be thereasons of the discrepancy, he has never seen in Paris any cases of what31. llilliet has called constitutional iodism.—L1Union Medicale,March 22d, 1860.