THE CALL OF THE LAND 



a tube leading to a rubber bag in the 

 stomach, injects hot water into the stomach, 

 heating the great sympathetic nerve, the 

 brain of the abdomen, when the intestines 

 recover tone and color, and the animal has 

 to be etherized again to prevent conscious- 

 ness. The degree of shock is seen by the 

 color of the intestines. 



Dr. M. M. Johnson, of Hartford, Conn., 

 utilizes this information in treating patients 

 who have been operated on for appendicitis. 

 For twenty-four hours he gives such only 

 warm water. The intestines, in a state of 

 virtual paralysis from the operation, with 

 little or no peristalsis, regain tone; the colic 

 passes off and the patient becomes com- 

 fortable and practically well again. 



In the Lancet for October 10, 1896, is an 

 account of Professor Michael Foster's Hux- 

 ley lecture, then just delivered at the Char- 

 ing Cross Hospital Medical School, on re- 

 cent advances in science and their bearing on 

 medicine and surgery. Professor Foster 

 confined himself entirely to physiology, and 

 chiefly to three points : "The observations of 



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