A few Remarks on the diseases of Seamen. 26% 



Apoplexy. — The patient was admitted insensible, and died in 

 half an hour. Post-mortem examination shewed only enlarge- 

 ment of the liver, which was of a light colour and fatty. There 

 was nothing in any degree abnormal in the contents of the 

 cranium. 



Rheumatism. — The cases were chiefly chronic and articular ; 

 one was gonorrhoeal, and another was accompanied with 

 secondary symptoms. 



Abscess. — The fatal case was a huge deep-seated abscess 

 in the thigh of a boy convalescent from fever, which had 

 separated all the muscles from their attachments to the femur. 

 There was considerable difficulty in getting at the seat of the 

 abscess, and on its contents being evacuated, he sank. 



Inflammation of the eye. — The cases were, one of ordinary 

 conjunctivitis, one of syphilitic iritis, which came on six weeks 

 after a trifling sore on the prepuce had been healed, and one of 

 concussion of the globe with extravasation of blood into its 

 chambers, from a bottle being thrown at the head. Though 

 there is now no difference in the appearance of the two eyes, 

 save a slight irregularity of the iris, all useful vision is destroyed. 



Lumbrici are common in seamen, but they do not appear to 

 be more frequent in diseases of the digestive organs, than of 

 others. 



March 22nd, 1845. 



Report on the Collection of Fossils from Southern India, presented by 

 C. J. Kaye, Esq., F.G.S., and the Rev. W. H. Egerton, F.G.S. 

 By Professor Edward Forbes, F.L.S. 



(From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 1.) 

 In the descriptive catalogue accompanying this report, and refer- 

 ring to the remains of invertebrate animals in the valuable collection 

 of fossils from the South of India, presented to the Society by Mr. 

 Kaye, and increased by an extensive series of specimens collected 

 in the same localities by Mr. Egerton, 1 68 species of Mollusca are 

 enumerated, 156 of which, as far as can be ascertained, are unde- 

 scribed forms. There are also a number of species of Radiata. 



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