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depressed cicatrix corresponding to the position 
of the upper portion of the ascending parietal 
convolution. There was also bilateral concentric 
narrowing of the field of vision, diplopia on look- 
ing to the left, and sensory and motor paresis of 
the left side. The cicatrix was excised, a peri- 
osteal flap raised, the depressed bone removed, 
and the healthy non-adherent dura incised, show- 
normal brain cortex. The dura was sutured ; on 
the fourth day it was found united. A polished 
celluloid plate was now fitted over the trephine 
opening, the periosteum was stitched over this, 
and finally the skin wound was sutured. Heal- 
ing was prompt and all brain symptoms ceased. 
Two other successful cases were also reported 
where celluloid plates were used in a similar 
manner. 
+♦+ ■ 
MEDICAL MISCELLANY. 
Opehation on a Centenarian. — It is so sel- 
dom that we hear of a centenarian undergoing a 
surgical operation that the fact deserves to be re- 
corded that a man of 102 has submitted himself, 
at the York County Hospital, to an operation for 
a growth on the upper lip. The old man was not 
chloroformed. A glass of brandy before the op- 
eration was all he got, and he never winced or 
showed a sign of pain. He made a good re- 
covery. 
A Druggist's Slight Error. — Customer: 
"You made a mistake in my prescription the 
other day. It called for ten grains of opium, and 
I got a small package containing magnesia." 
Druggist : ''Are you sure about it?" 
Customer : " Yes ; here is a duplicate prescrip- 
tion from the physician. Now the question is, 
who got the opium?" 
Druggist: "Dear me, that's so;" (to the pre- 
scription clerk) "James, who's dead in the neigh- 
borhood?" 
No bocTOR's Bill in Japan.— When a rich 
man calls in a physician he does not expect that 
he will be presented a bill for medical services. 
In fact, no sucli thing as a doctor's bill is known 
in Japan, although nearly all the other modern 
practices are in vogue there. The doctor never 
asks for his fee. The strict honesty of the people 
does not make this necessary. When he is through 
with a patient a present is made to him of what- 
ever sum the patient or his friends may deem to 
be just compensation. The doctor is supposed to 
smile, take the fee, bow, and thank his patron. 
The Electro-Magnet in Eye Surgery.— The 
London Electrician describes and illustrates an 
electro-magnet for use in eye surgery. It is about 
two inches and a half long and weighs five ounces. 
It has been successfully used to ascertain whether 
the foreign body is of steel or of a non-magnetiza- 
ble metal ; to move the fragment from au inacces- 
sible part of the eye to one favorable for its ex- 
traction, and to remove it from the surface or 
even the retina of the eye without cutting or 
lacerating the delicate tissues. In the most seri- 
ous case recorded, a blacksmith in a South Wales 
colliery was recently, while stamping a new pick, 
struck in the eye by a fragment of steel. The 
patient, whose other eye was aftected through 
sympathetic irritation, was put under the influ- 
ence of ether, the orifice of the wound slightly 
enlarged to enable the pole of the electro-magnet 
to be introduced, and the latter inserted in the 
direction which the fragment presumably had 
taken. On the withdrawal of the magnet the 
second time, the piece of steel came readily 
through the wound attached to it. 
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