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PARIS. Academy of Sciences, October 5.—M. P. Appell in the chair.—G. Bigourdan: The passage of Mercury across the sun of November 7, 1914. Precautions are suggested for the observations of the forthcoming transit of Mercury.—J. Boussinesq: Addition to a recent note on the coefficient of filtration with sand with more or less fine grains. Calculation of the coefficient for the hterogeneous sand used by Darcy in his experiments.—L. Landouzy: The auxiliary hospital of the institute, No. 265.—A. Laveran: Experimental infection of mice by Leishmania troica. Twelve white mice were inoculated, eight males and four females. None of the latter were infected, but six out of the eight males developed the disease, of which full details are given.—E. Delorme: General considerations on the treatment of wounds received in battle. Disease in the French Army is almost non-existent, dysentery and typhoid fever scarcely reaching the figures in times of peace. The conditions under which the present campaign is being carried out differ from those in 1870 in that battles are carried on continuously for days and weeks, and prompt removal of the wounded from the firing line is impossible. It follows that by the, time the wounded are received at the rear suppuration has in many cases already set in. This especially applies to wounds caused by shrapnell and fragments of shell, in which infection by earth is common. As a result cases of gaseous gangrene and tetanus are widespread, and necesitate a complete change in the surgical practice at the front. Hospitals must now be concentrated as close to the firing line as possible, and the work to be done at these hospitals is sketched out. The frequency of complications due to gaseous gangrene and tetanus is specially mentioned, and the best means of dealing with them close up to the firing line discussed.—Remarks by A. Laveran on the preceding communication. Suggestions as to the best means of using anti-tetanus serum.—Observations of M. Roux. Remarks on antitetanus serum.—Reply of L. Landouzy to the communication of E. Delorme.—E. Maurant: Ephemeris of the Delavan cornet, 1913f.—Charles Rabut: New projective invariants.—P. Helbronner: The complementary geodesic triangulations of the high regions of the French Alps.—Aug. Chevalier and Olivier Rœhrich: The botanical origin of cultivated rice.—M. Rollet: The extraction of German bullets and fragments of shell by the aid of apowerful electromagnet.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 94, 219–220 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094219b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/094219b0