RT Journal
A1 G. O. M.
T1 LEtter from london.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1889
FD August 3
VO XIII
IS 5
SP 177
OP 178
DO 10.1001/jama.1889.02401040033010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1889.02401040033010
AB (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)The Father Damien Memorial Meeting at the Mansion House—Picrotoxin as an Antidote to Morphine—Honors to Sir Andrew Clark—The Lord Mayor Inaugurates a Fund for the Pasteur Institute—A New Method of Disposing of the Dead—A New First Field Dressing—The New Commissioner in Lunacy—Consumption can be Transmitted to Human Beings through Milk.The first meeting of the committee for promoting a memorial of Father Damien has been held at Marlborough House, under the presidency of the Prince of Wales. The proposal is to erect a monument to the deceased missionary over his grave at Molokai, to establish a leper ward in one of the London hospitals, to endow one or two traveling studentships for the special study of leprosy, and finally to set on foot a full and exhaustive inquiry into the whole question of leprosy in India. It is calculated that there are in the Indian Empire