1793 a few specialists. Such considerations will weigh with students on Jan. 7th, 1897, and farther donations men of thoughtful mind at the outset of their career to enable them to finish the buildings and furnish as practitioners if plainly put before them ; and I the necessary equipment will be thankfully received by the should like to urge this practical view of the matter committee. Previously to the opening ceremony an address on their attention. But even more strongly should 1 wish to was delivered by Professor Ramsay, F.R.S., in the course of comment on the narrowing subjective effect of exclusive which he alluded to the late Mr. William Gossage, in memory study and of practice within a strictly limited sphere. We of whom the building was raised, as a great inventor in his cannot all be " Admirable Crichtons," it is true, but for in- day, to whom many of the most important features of dividual comfort and well-being in the practice of medicine, the alkali trade are due-for example, the condensation of for the public weal, and for the public interest of the pro- hydrochloric acid instead of allowing it to escape to pollute fession collectively, specialisation should naturally follow, the air, the smelting of pyrites residues for copper, the and not preclude, a wider and more practical general ex- utilisation of caustic mother-liquors of the soda cystals for perience. It could be abundantly shown, were illustration in the manufacture of caustic soda, and the utilisation of the least called for, that the present no less than previous sulphur waste. It is interesting to note in this connexion that generations of general practitioners pre-eminently entitle our Mr. F. H. Gossage has of recent years, followed an invention calling to exalted rank among those advisedly and legiti- of his father, attempted fifty years ago-namely, the manu- mately called the learned professions," and I shall not facture of sodium sulphide, dispensing with the use of lime have encroached so seriously on your valuable space in vain in the Leblanc process, and the conversion of sulphide into if by calling attention to these points I succeed in in- carbonate by carbon dioxide. At the conclusion of Professor duencirig some of those who are about to become the future Ramsey’s address the key of the new building contained generation to emulate the broad basis of activity that has in a richly-chased antique silver casket of the date 17999. the apborne the present and the past. year of Mr. William Gossage’s birth. was presented to Lord I am, Sirs, yours faithfully, Derby by Mr. T. Sutton Timmis. His lordship, followed by Dec.- - 12th, 1896.____ 10...U., F.R.C.S. the rest of the assembly, then proceeded, to the laboratory, unlocked the door, and formally took possession of the building on bebalf of University College, Liverpool. LIVERPOOL. Another Gift to Liverpool Hospitals. Mr. R. P. has offered for distribution (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Houston, M.P., by the Lord Mayor, a sum of C900, which will be allocated to the medical charities of Liverpool. University College, Liverpool : Opening of the William Tlte IT’ant of Accommodation for Lacltatics in Lancashire Gossage Laboratories. County Asylums. Ox Saturday last the Earl of Derby performed the The congested condition of the Lancashire lunatic asylums function of the new William Labora- opening Gossage is a cause of much inconvenience to the boards of guardians tories at University College, the generous benefaction of in this vicinity. At the Mill-road infirmary of the West Mr. F. H. Gossage and Mr. T. Sutton Timmis. at a cost Derby board, owing to the difficulty experienced in finding of £7000, in completion of the chemical laboratories, accommodation for certified lunatics in the county asylums, the first ot which was in and in portion opgned 1886, the wards appropriated to lunatics in that butlding are commemoration of the late Mr. William Gossage. The greatly overcrowded. The clerk to the board (Mr. Cleaver), new the Brownlow-street buildings complete frontage in a somewhat heated address at a recent meeting of that of University College. They include a large laboratory, board, said that the time had arrived when the guardians feet 32 with benches fitted for 60 by feet, up forty- must adopt some very drastic measure (whatever that may four advanced students, an adjacent room provided mean) to obtain accommodation in the county asylums a new form of heated sand bath and other with for their certified cases. The same difficulty is experi- appliances for the service of the main laboratory, enced at the Brownlow Hill workhouse of the parish in the an additional lecture-room to seat and, basement, of Liverpool, but in a minor degree. It appears that on seventy or eighty, a preparation-room, and a gas analysis- Dec. 3rd there were in the Mill-road institution 17 cases room. These five rooms, which are lined with ivory-glazed certified by magistrates for removal to county asylums, bricks, constitute the "William Gossage laboratories. The but who could not be accommodated there for want of new are a with other buildings metallurgical laboratory room ; at Brownlow Hill at the present moment the officials furnaces and other equipments, an important addition to cannot find accommodation in the county asylums for 5 research a store-room for and the laboratory, apparatus cases, The number of insane persons admitted to the Mill- chemicals, a dynamo-room, electric accumulator-room, and a road 1895 amounted to of which 266 " Infirmary during 592, chamber. The main heating William Gossage laboratory were sent to county asylums and the remainder were sent has an open timber roof, supported by five Gothic arched out either recovered or in such a state as not to be dan- of fifteen feet These principals pitchpine, apart. principals gerous to themselves or others. During the past eleven rest on carved Yorkshire stone corbels built into the walls, months 580 cases had been admitted to the Mill-road On the east side skylights are arranged between the purlins,’ Infirmary, and of that number 280 had been sent to county but on the west side the roof boarding comes down to the asylums. enriched wood cornice. The walls are of ivory-glazed bricks Liverpool Milk-supply. with yellow dado. On the west side and at the north Dr. informed the Health that there end there are lofty windows and on each side of the room are Hope Committee glaz9d chambers provided with gas and water and a powerful appeared to him to be no ground for alarm as to the presence draught for the larger operations producing fumes. The of tuberculosis in the Liverpool milk-supply. So far as his had in connexion with milk benches are of polished pitch-pine with teak tops. Beyond investigations gone supplied in milk was found be in excel- a number of minor improvements these benches do not essen- from shippons the city the to a case tuber- tially differ from those in some other similar laboratories lent condition. He had never known of of he except in one important respect-that the half-closed culosis having been traced to that source, consequently rumours which he was informed were in chambers placed in the middle of each bench have a really considered that the efficient draught which carries away all fumes from small circulation were greatly exaggerated. Dr. Hope also said operations without allowing any to escape into the room. that as the work of the Royal Commission now inquiring This result is attained by carrying the whole ventilation of into the question of tuberculosis in milk must necessarily be the room, which normally amounts to 125,000 cubic feet per a protracted one their repoit would probably not be issued hour through these students’ fume chambers and the larger for a year or so. chambers on either wall. The foul air from these passes Death of Mr. W. R. Heath of hoods down to a wide subterranean channel ending at the Southport. base of a tall up cast shaft, where a coke fire maintains a Mr. William Ravenscroft Heath, M.R.C.S. Eng. and strong draught. By no other way can air escape from the L.S.A., one of the best-known practitioners in Southport, laboratory, while a fan forces washed and warmed fresh died on the 14th inst., at the age of sixty-one years, air through flues and gratings in the walls into the after a few days’ illness. Mr. Heath was medical officer room so as to maintain a constant pressure during to the post office and telegraph department at Southport the working day. The laboratories will be opened to and for many years was in the enjoyment of a lucrative 1794 and high-class practice. His comparatively sudden death lata Francis Synge Sillifant, who was formerly an army has come as a gfeat surprise to his many friends in South- surgeon in India, and during the Mutiny particularly distin-- port and Liverpool. guished himself by his devotion to the wounded under fire. e Qualifications of Liverpool Sanitary Inspectors. Memtorittl to the late Mr. E. H. Clarke, M.R.C.S., L. R. C.P. Bristol. Dr. Hope tells me that the sanitary certificates of the Lond., of Victoria University will not displace those of the Sanitary A handsome stained-glass window has just been placed in Institute of Great Britain as qualifying for sanitary inspector- the chapel of the Bristol Royal Infirmary as a memorial of ships under the Liverpool Corporation, but will be accepted the late Mr. E. H. Clarke, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., who had on the same footing as those obtained from that body. recently held the appointment of junior house physician and Dec. 15th.. junior house surgeon to the institution. The subject chosen. is St. Barnabas the Apostle, and underneath the figure is the- text, "A son of consolation." The memorial inscription. reads, 11 To the glory of God and in loving memory of Ethel- WESTERN COUNTIES NOTES. bert Henry Clarke. Born Oct. 25th, 1868 ; died Feb. 17th, 1896." OUR OWN (FROM CORRESPONDENT.) Dec. 15th. ______

Accidents to Medical Men. SCOTLAND. MR. SAMUEL FARRANT, M.R.C.S. Eng., surgeon to the Taunton and Somerset Hospital, who is also a member of the (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) Somerset county council and an ex-mayor of Taunton, met with a serious accident on Saturday evening, Dec. 5th, while to see a Mr Farrant was thrown out of his driving patient. Medical Classes. trap, and fell heavily upon his head, with the result that con- Edinburgh cussion of the brain was produced. A scalp wound of about THE medical classes in Edinburgh rise for the Christmas three inches long was inflicted and one of his collar-bones was vacation on Friday of this week. Two important events fractured. Another caniage accident occurred near Gloucester will happen before that, the kitchen concert at the Royal on Dec. 10th. It appears that Mrs. and Miss Ellicott (the Infirmary and the annual dinner at the Royal College of wife and daughter of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol) Physicians. were from Bowden whither Mr. E. D. returning Hall, Bower, Tlte M.R.C.S. Eng., surgeon to the Gloucester General Infirmary, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. was proceeding, and the carriages collided. The pole of the Considerable ingenuity is being displayed by those bishop’s carriage went through Mr. Bower’s brougham and interested in retaining the hour from 11 to 12 o’clock for overturned it, the coachman being injured. Mr. Bower him- clinical work, in proposing the re-arrangement or class hours. self escaped injury, making his exit through the roof of the It is to be hoped that the difficulties at present in the overturned brougham. The bishop’s horses bolted and upset way may be removed. Dr. Joseph Bell’s tenure of office on the carriage and it occupants into a field, but, fortunately, the board of management having expired, his place has been beyond suffering considerably from shock the ladies were taken by Dr. UnderhiU. unhurt. The Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society. The Cardiff Sanatorium. This society will hold one of its afternoon meetings At the meeting of the Cardiff health committee held on to-morrow, and from the number of items on the programme its Dec. llth the chairman stated that additional accommoda- ought to be a very successful one. tion was urgently needed at the sanatorium. Dr. E. Walford stated that there were now sixty patients in the institution The Vacant Chrcir in the Edinburgh University. and that patients had been refused admission during the last It is understood that Professor Matthew of Aberdeen, two or three weeks owing to want of accommodation. On Hay, the motion of Dr. J. J. Buist, the and the is a candidate for the chair of medical jurisprudence and borough engineer health in the medical officer were requested to report to the next meeting public Edinburgh University. of the sub-committee of the sanatorium. Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. The Lady Guardians of Newport, Mon. A joint committee representing the Faculty of Physicians That the lady guardian has in most instances greatly and Surgeons and the University of Glasgow has been with a view to establish a memorial to the added to the comfort of the pauper is well known, and the apointed brothers, William and John Hunter. influence of those at Newport is no exception to the rule. The guardians possess a wagonette in which the old and Glasgo7v Central Dispensary. infirm are taken for drives in the country, and now the lady guardians are collecting money to purchase a piano for the At a meeting of the committee of management of the benefit of the in-door poor. Lord Tredegar has headed the Glasgow Central Dispensary on the 9th inst., Dr. J. B. Russell subscription list and the instrument will in all probability being in the chair, the following appointments were made:- shortly be procured, when it will doubtless help to relieve Mr. Jno. Gilchrist Gray, M.B., C.M. Glasg., to be one of the the weary monotony of pauper life. physicians, and Mr. J. Wyllie Nicoll, M.B., C.M. Glasg., to be physician to the department for diseases of children. Destruction of ° Druidical " Rermains on Dartmoor. Some interesting I Druidical " remains on and around Scientific Societies, Glasgow. Dartmoor have been destroyed by the contractors of the . At a meeting of the Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society Newton rural district council, who have broken up the stones on the llth inst., Dr. F. W. Pavy of London gave an address for repairing the surface of the roads. The remains known on Some Points in the Pathology and Treatment of Diabetes. as the Stone-avenue, at Bel Tor corner on Sherberton- The meeting was largely attended, and, on the proposal of common, have been demolished and several hut circles " and Dr. W. L. Reid, seconded by Dr. Middleton, a hearty vote of "mainhir" " have completely disappeared. Fortunately the thanks was awarded to Dr. Pavy for his address.-On the work of destruction has been now stopped by the energetic same evening Dr. Thomas Reid gave an address and lantern action of Exeter antiquaries, but the loss of these interesting demonstration to the University Medico-Chirurgical Society relics is much to be deplored. illustrating the Behaviour of the Protoplasm of the Cornea under Various Irritants. -At a recent meeting of the Memorial to a late Distinguished Army Surgeon. Queen Margaret Medical Club Dr. James Finlayson read a and a demonstration On Nov. 29th an ornate and paper gave bibliographical illustrating exceptionally finely sculptured the of the medical in reredos, with a massive high altar and super-altar with hang- history profession Glasgow. were unveiled before a at Colebrook ings large congregation Testivionial to Ex-Couneillor Church, North Devon, by Mr. A. O. Sillifant, ex-high sheriff Cra,7vford, Glasgow. of Devonshire. This has been erected as a memorial to the Councillor Crawford, who has recently retired from the