Colonel Allin

1496 the superintendent of the medical school, and proceeded toI him with high aims and with correct principles for practice. the board-room, where he presided over a short meeting of! The gathering on Wednesday proved that Lord Lister had the general court. After the members of the medical andl succeeded in both these directions. It is unnecessary to surgical staff had been presented to His Royal Highness a, repeat what has so often been said of the far-reaching effects financial statement was made by Mr. Bonsor showing thati in saving life and diminishing suffering that have resulted the total sum received up to this date in answer to the! from the application of Listerian principles to the every-day Prince’s appeal for a re-endowment fund of the hospital hadl practice of surgery. But the speeches showed how successful amounted to .6194,000. he had been in exerting on his pupils a personal influence An address of welcome was then read by Mr. Howse, thei in setting before them a high ideal, insisting on minute con- senior surgeon, when the Prince proceeded to the hospital, scientious care and humane consideration in the manage- where Dr. Pye-Smith, the senior physician, described the ment of every case that was intrusted to their care. The objects of the building and asked his Royal Highness toI result of his teaching was shown by the eminence to declare the building open. After referring to the positionI which many of those present had already arrived. Among of the voluntary hospitals in England, and the develop-. the old pupils who had assembled to entertain him were ment during the present century of the influence of thei Professor Coats, Dr. Sims Woodhead, Mr. Watson Cheyne, medical schools and scientific teaching, Dr. Pye-Smith wentj Mr. Francis Caird, Dr. Dundas Grant, Dr. Beatson, Sir on to point out how their development must be assisted by, Hugh Beevor, Dr. T. F. Chavasse, Dr. G. A. Gibson, Dr. corresponding increase of facilities for study. But theI D. Burgh Birch, Dr. Heron, Mr. Cheatle, and Dr. St. Clair school and the hospital were separate institutions, and the Thomson. school could not, of course, obtain any of the money, The usual loyal toasts having been duly honoured Dr. subscribed for the hospital. In the absence of Govern-- Hector Cameron proposed the toast of " The Army, Navy, ment or beneficence the staff grants private had, therefore,, and Reserve Forces," referring particularly to the death of only one resource to maintain their school at the proper Surgeon Fyfe, R N., in the Benin Expedition, who was shot ievel, and this was to find the money for themselves. through the heart while giving assistance to a wounded The Prince of then the a Wales declared building open,, comrade, "dying the death of soldier while doing the and delivered a short address in which he spoke ofc work of a surgeon," and the toast was responded to by the immense services to the community that were per-Surgeon Thorpe, R N., and Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant- farmed by laboratories in which the laws of life wereColonel I Allin. investigated. He spoke of the heritage which the Guy’s! Dr. Hamilton Ramsay, as the oldest living house surgeon such men as to then :- student had in the examples of Astley Cooper,, Lord Lister, presented the following address Bcight, Addison, Hodgkin, and Gull, and laid particularc To the Honourable Lord to the stress the and humane not con-. Right Lister, Surgeon Extraordinary upon gentle spirit which, Queen, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery at King’s College, fined to any one school, is the best possession of the medicalL London ; late Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Uni- faculty. He stated, amidst cheers, that after careful inquiryT versity of Glasgow, and Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery in the of he had satisfied himself that 7v3cene2er experiments 1lpon University Edinburgh. .anirnals mere performrd in the school of (hlY’S Hospital theyI My LoRD,-We have had the great honour and privilege of serving under 3 our as House Clerks, or Dressers, and we mCfJ’8 undertaken with the of advances in Lordship Surgeons, object romoting beg leave to offer you on this occasion of your elevation to the peerage or are gnedicine surgery which la7af ly to be of benefit to suffering7 , our affectionate and respectful congratulations. This memorable year humanity, and that such experiments n"efJ’e conducted zcntler. I, of a memorable reign will to all of us be ever associated with the public of work. strict while in recognition your splendid supervision by highly qicaliied investigators, To you, our revered master, we can never adequately express our the animals not in a practice only operations performed 1lpon indebtednessz for all you have taught us and for the example you have of complete anresthesia were. inoculations and hypo-- been to us. We beg leave to hand you the list of those who have had ,dfwmic Finally, addressing the students, he the honour of being intimately associated with your Lordship in the injections. work which you have made the triumphs of modern exhorted them to take care that the to) great by possible great profession surgery, and on behalf of those who have been prevented from joining which you aspire to belong shall, when you leave it, stand as3 us this evening we beg to subscribe ourselves your very grateful and high in the service and in the affection of the public as itt affectionate pupils. does at the time." JOSEPH COATS,COATS. Chairman, present Signed byboy ST. CLAIR THOMSON, Honorary Secretary, The Prince of Wales’s words were received, as might be3 and all the company present. "expected, with the utmost enthusiasm, and all references in the speech of Dr. Pye-Smith to the aid that he had given too Lord Lister, in responding, spoke of the intense gratifica- the endowment fund by placing himself at its head were tion which this spontaneous demonstration of his old pupils loudly cheered, as were allusions to the Jubilee Fund forr had given him and said that he was specially glad that the London Hospitals. Afterwards His Royal Highness re-namedI album, which he should prize highly, should have been pre- one of the wards, which has just been re-opened, " thee sented by Dr. Ramsay, who was not only one of his first Queen Victoria Ward." Subsequently tea was served to thee house surgeons, but had previously been a student of his in visitors, who must have numbered over 2000, and at the endi the extra-mural school of Edinburgh, and mentioned that - of the afternoon the prizes and medals were distributed too Dr. Ramsay was first attracted to the study of medicine from the successful students in the medical school by Mrs. Cosmoo charitably attending cases of cholera during an epidemic in Bonsor. a mining district. Mr. London, an old King’s College student, presented an address from the medical practitioners of British Guiana, BANQUET TO LORD LISTER BY HIS which was suitably acknowledged. FORMER HOUSE SURGEONS Professor Coats, in proposing the toast of the evening in an admirable speech, said that they had not only to congratulate AND DRESSERS. Lord Lister on his elevation to the peerage, but on the world- wide acceptance of the principles of antiseptic surgery which he had laid down. Even before Lord Lister had introduced A.MONG all the manifestations of the satisfactionn profound antiseptic methods into surgery he had by his physiological felt by every member of the medical profession at the and pathological work shown extraordinary capacity, as recognition of the work of Joseph Lister shown by his eleva-1- those who had worked with him at Glasgow would well remember often of Listerian tion to the peerage by Her Majesty, none can have given suchh People spoke antiseptics . as if various forms of apparatus, instead of certain to himself as the of thirty of pleasure unique gathering hissss fundamental principles, were the essentials. Lord Lister, old 1:oa38 surgeons and over a hundred of his old dressers, however, while adhering inflexibly to the principles, had who assembled on Wednesday, May 26th, at a banquet in.n always been ready to adopt new methods or to discard his honour at the Cafe Royal. It is said that no man is a z, apparatus if he thought that asepsis could be as well or hero to his valet ; it is certain that no man is surrounded byy better secured by so doing, and the system had not only more candid and acute critics in the shape of housee survived, but had been triumphant, modifying the whole ’suroq eons and dressers than a surgeon in a teachingIg modern practice of surgery. But, above all, it was the school, and to secure and retain the affection, as wellill personal charm of Lord Lister which endeared him to those as the unqualified admiration, of those who have beenin who worked under him, his high ideals of work, his humanity most intimately associated with him is the happiest lot to his patients, and his gentle consideration for his juniors, that can befall any man who has strenuously tried not onlyly Lord Lister, in using to reply, was greeted with long- to advance his art, but to inspire those who shall come after continued cheering, and was evidently much moved by the 1497 warmth of his reception. He said he was touched pro- Chitral to be of more efficacy in the maintenance of peace foundly to find that the affectionate loyalty which those than a regiment of soldiers would be.

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