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446 Vacancies. For further infornzation regarding each vacancy reference should be made to the advertisement (see Index). BRISTOL EYE HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary JE60, with board and residence. CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, Nottingham.-House Surgeon, non-resident, for six months. Salary at the rate of JB100 per annum. CITY OF SHEFFIELD.-Assistant Resident Medical Officer for the two City Hospitals for the Treatment of Cases of Infectious Disease. Salary -e120 per annum, with board, lodging, and attendance. Applications to the Town Clerk, Town Clerk’s Office, Sheffield. HALIFAX INFIRMARY AND DISPENSARY.-Assistant House Surgeon, un- married. Salary £50 per annum, with residence, board, and washing. HEREFORD GENERAL INFIRMARY.-Resident House Surgeon, un- married. Salary -elOO per annum, with furnished rooms, board, washing, gas, coals, and attendance. LINCOLN COUNTY HOSPITAL, Lincoln.-Assistant House Surgeon for Notes, Short Comments, and Answers six months. An honorarium of -e1O and board, residence, and wash- ing provided. LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN.-Assistant House Surgeon, for to six months. Board and lodging provided. Correspondents. MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Resident Surgical Cfficer, unmarried, for twelve months. Salary -e150 per annum, with board and residence. EDITORIAL NOTICE. OWENS COLLEGE, Manchester.-A Senior and a Junior Demonstrator IT is most that communications to the in The stipends will be .E150 rising to -e200, and B100 important relating risingPhysiology. to £150 respectively. Editorial business of THE LANCET should be addressed ROYAL CORNWALL Truro. -House unmarried. INFIRMARY, Surgeon, THE EDITORS," and not in any case to Salary for first year, -e120, increasing by .S10 a year to £150, with exclusively I ITO furnished apartments, fire, light, and attendance. any gentleman who may be supposed to be connected with ROYAL ISLE OF WIGHT INFIRMARY AND COUNTY HOSPITAL, Ryde.- the Editorial staff. It is that attention House Surgeon and Secretary. Salary -eGO per annum, with resi- urgently necessary dence, board, and washing. be to this notice. given - SUNDERLAND BOROUGH ASYLUM, Ryhope, Sunderland.-Resident Clinical Clerk, for six months. Nominal salary, with board and lodging. It is especially requested that early intelligence of local events TEIGNMOUTH HOSPITAL, South Devon.-House Surgeon. Salary E66 per annum, without alcohol. having a medical interest, or which it is desirable to bring under the notice of the profession, may be sent direct to this Office. Lectwres, original articles, and reports should be written on and one side of the paper only. Births, Marriages, Deaths. Letters, whether intended for insertion or for private informa- tion, must be authenticated by the names and addresses of BIRTHS. their writers, not necessarily for publication. ABBOTT.-On Aug. lst, at Pinefield, Addlestone, the wife of W. F. We cannot or recommend Abbott, F.R.C.S.E., &c.. of a daughter. prescribe practitioners. at the BOXALL.-On July 29th, Weymouth-street, Portland-place,W., Local or news should be wife of Robert Boxall, M.D., of a son. papers containing reports paragraphs BROOKE.—On Aug. 3rd, at The Crosses, Thorverton, Devon, the wife of marked and addressed 11 To the Sub-Editor." Frederick Brooke, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., of a son. GILLESPIE -On July 31st, at Walker-street, Edinburgh, the wife of Letters relating to the publication, sale, and advertising de A. Lockhart Gillespie, M.D., of a daughter. of THE LANCET should be addressed ’’ To the the wife of Herbert partments HIRST.-On July 28th, at Aspley, Huddersfield, " Hirst, M.B., C.M., of a son. Manager. LAWSON.—On at the wife of Charles B. July 2nd, Mooltan, Punjab, We cannot undertake to return MSS. not used. Lawson, M.B., A.M.S., of a daughter. McLEARN.-On July 30th, at the Infirmary, Archway-road, N., the wife of Dr. J. Crawford McLearn, of a daughter. O’BRYEN.-On July 30th, at Springfield Lodge, Sydenham, S.E., the wife of Dr. Wheeler O’Bryen, of a son. MANAGER’S NOTICES. THE INDEX TO THE LANCET. MARRIAGES. The Index for the first half-yearly volume for 1896 was BISHOP—ILES.—On July 29th, at St. Jude’s Church, Southsea, Thomas given in the issue of June 27th. The practice of supplying Hill Bishop, M.D., second son of William Bishop, of Stroud, Glos., been to Ethel, third daughter of the late Captain Arthur Irwin Iles, loose copies has been discontinued, the Index having Bengal Staff Corps, St. Perran, Southsea. placed in the centre of the journal, whence it can easily be FEATHERSTONE-McKILMAM.-On July 29th, at the Alexandra Hall, Blackheath, Joseph Arthur Featherstone, M.B., C.M., Morningside, detached, and placed either at the beginning or at the end Edinburgh, to Helen Jane, the second daughter of Robert of the volume. McKilliam, M.D., C.M., Ballandalloch, Blackheath, London. ___ HORNER-HAYTER.-On July 29th, at St. Nicholas, Brighton, Charles Julian son of Horner, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S. Lond., fourth William VOLUMES AND CASES. Sims Horner, of Walthamstow, Essex, to Mabel Winifred Randall, fifth daughter of the late Frank Hayter, of Lewisham. VOLUMES for the first half of the year 1896 are now WILLOCK-WEEDON.-On July 29th, at St. George’s, Campden-hill, Richmond Cotts Willock, M.D., of Golden-square, Aberdeen, to ready. Bound in cloth, gilt lettered, price 18s. Lucy, daughter of the late Frederic Price Weedon, of Glynfield House, Willesden, N.W. Cases for binding the half-year’s numbers are also ready. - Cloth, gilt lettered, price 2s., or post free 2s. 3d. DEATHS. To be obtained on application to the Manager, accompanied EDWARDS.—On Aug. lst, at Amesbury, Wilts, Joseph Albert, L.S.A., remittance. by - second son of the late Richard Edwards, of Constantinople, aged 27M GRANT.-Suddenly, at Bridge of Allan, N.B., James A. S. Grant, Bey, M.D., LL.D., of Cairo, Egypt, third son of the late William A RECORD RAINFALL IN IRELAND. Methlick Aberdeen. Grant, Villa, JULY was an exceptionally wet month in Ireland, as rain fell on te-entr MADELEY.—On July 31st, at Cliftonville, George Henry Madeley, Fleet three and the rainfall was 7’74 which beats all Surgeon R.N., aged 54 years. days, inches, previoas POTTS.—On July 31st, at Albert-terrace, Regent’s-park, William records in the north of Ireland. Most of the rain fell with aW Potts, F.R.C.S., in his 81st year. or S.W. wind. The total number of inches of rain for 1896 is &3’EI!. which is exactly 2l inches over the average to the present date. Not N.B.-A fee of 5s. is charged for the insertion of Notices of Births, withstanding the unusually great rainfall little harm to crops tas Marriages, and Deaths. been reported. 447 PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE USE OF THE VISITING CARDS. "MEDICAL DIGEST." To the Editors of T H E L A N C E T. THE LANCET. To the Editors of SIRS,—I would be much obliged if you could inform me what is the SIRS.—Mr. Leggatt reports an interesting case of nerve disorder usual and correct form of visiting card for a medical man. I do not subsequent to gonorrhoea, and remarks in THE LANCET of July 25th, know whether you will consider this subject within your province or Mge 240, that he can find no notice of such attacks. A reference to the not, but I should be glad of some information in the matter, as there :’Medical Digest." Section 1173 : 1, will guide him to an interesting does not seem to me to be any definite rule in connexion therewith. .-Me reported by of Dr. Althaus in 1876, and a further reference to the Thanking you in anticipation, I am, Sirs, sincerely yours, same section in the last Appendix will enable him to find other cases in L.B.C.P.. M.R.C.S. similar to his own. I many respects *** There is no rule. We shall be glad to hear what our readers think Mr. Stevenson, at page 240, remarks that he can find no case of on the subject as a whole. It is unnecessary to say that the use of :èt3TIUS neonatorum healed by antitoxin. Here again a reference to of on the card Section 1330 : 6 of the Appendix to the "Medical Digest will enable the title " Dr." visiting by any medical practitioner save a in medicine is L. sm to study some unsuccessful cases. graduate wrong.-ED. At page 246 a strainer for the tail valve of an enema tube is depicted. W. H.-The paper is marked for insertion. 1 piece of coarse net tied over the orifice forms a very efficient and easily procurable means of avoiding plugging of the valve by the COMMUNICATIONS not noticed in our present issue will receive attention of entance foreign bodies.—I am, Sirs, yours faithfully, in our next. RICHARD NEALE, M.D. Loud. ’I Boundary-road, N.W., July 31st, 1896. Mr. A. H. Hutton.-We have not misunderstood our correspondent’s communication. We entirely sympathise with his trouble, but it is Medical Diary for the ensuing Week. one in which he should call in his medical attendant to assist him. T’ne condition is perfectly well known, and if further advice be OPERATIONS. required the medical attendant will be able to suggest the name of the most fitting consultant. METROPOLITAN HOSPITALS. MONDAY St. Bartholomew’s St. L. S.-The books hardly constitute a complete enough course. We refer (1Oth).-London (2 P.M.), (1.30 P.M.), Thomas’s 1.15 our correspondent to the Students’ Number of THE LANCET of 1895, (3.30 P.M.), St.