James Galloway

CUTANEOUS INDICATIONS OF ALIMENTARY TOXAEMIA.

of us may recollect the occasion when we were called the casualty department late on a Saturday evening found awaiting our services a vigorous looking young whose features were scarcely recognizable on account an outburst of severe urticaria. We found on inquiry hlis week-end dissipations had been stimulated by a stout and winkles, and our judgement as to the cause the urticaria was sulpported when we found that treatment in suclh cases was the administration emetic, followed by a copious black draught. No doubt remained in our minds that the urticaria was alimentary toxaemia, caused by poisons absorbed alimentary tract. In suchi a case as this the relation in time between disturbanice of the alimentary tract and tbie visible indication of disease is so close that their causal relationshlip is admitted by all. But inthe case of most other tions of intestinal and visceral disturbalnce the relationslhip

An Address ON ERYTHEMATA AS INDICATORS OF DISEASE: Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Dermatological Society of Great Britain and Ireland

PERHAPS the most satisfactory way for the present of considerinlg this group of eruptions is by dividiiig tlhemii inlto a group of siimple erytliexnata, the result of hiyperaemia, tranisienit in chlaracter as a rule, anid causinig Ino clalige of a permnansent nature ini the structure of the skiiiaiid the exud[ative erytlienmata in wlhiel as tlhe result of liyperaemia, transudation aiid exudation as well ats of actual inflamimation, (Ihianiges in the structure of th1e ski1 occur, which are alpt to b)e of some dur-atioii, or in certain1 cases per1man1enit.

A British Medical Association Lecture ON THE WAR PHYSICAL CENSUS : Delivered at Aylesbury, May 11th, 1920.

(JhFTLEMEN,-Meetings of the British Medical Association ~siich as this give an opportunity for discussing subjects of initerest to the community at large as well as the problems of diagnosis and treatment of sick folk. I lhave been informed that there will be present at our conference to-day not only medical men of the district in general practice, but also medical officers of schools and others englaged in carrying out the work of the Ministry of Healtlh and the Board of Education; I venture, tlherefore, to draw atten-tion to the record of tho plhvsical condition of the people now being publislhed by the Government, derived from an analysis of the medical examinations carried out for the purpose of forming and reinforcing our armies during the war.