VIENNA. George of Hanover, Contrary to the Expectations of the Court Physicians, [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] He Regarded the Operation As Useless and Hopeless

112 THE BRITISrH MEDICAL 7OURNAL. [Jan. 27, 1872. cordance with these views, the sanitary authorities have been organising eye-practice. A large and flourishing private practice was Jager's re- a more systematic vaccination and revaccination. ward for his labours. He was an esteemed friend of the famous Prince The annual meeting of the contributors to the funds of the Eye In- Metternich, who consulted him on other matters as well as eyes, and firmary was held on the i9th instant, and a matter of great importance introduced him to all foreign diplomatists here. This acquaintance was before the meeting. On a former occasion it was resolved to erect with Prince Metternich commenced byhis being consulted by the Princess a new hospital in the west-end, the present institution being incon- Metternich for obstinate constipation, for the cure of which she had veniently placed for many, and containing only twenty-five beds. In tried many remedies and many physicians, and was at that time under the interval a very convenient site has been secured, and the plans are the medical care of a homceopathist. One awkward stipulation which being prepared by Mr. Burnet, the architect for the new University she made was, that she should not have to take any unpleasant medi- Hospital. It is intended to erect a building to contain seventy beds, cine; and as this was before the days of gilded pills and Trousseau's with accommodation for out-door treatment. The -entire cost of the favourite soap-suppositories, Jager's tact was somewhat taxed. With building is expected to be about /8,ooo, of which more than the half great judgment, he wrote for the lady a pleasant tasted placebo, and is already subscribed. This new building is not intended, however, to then handed to the lady's maid a saturated solution of senna, without supersede the old one at the other end of the city, but it is proposed to the resin, and directed her to add every morning two teaspoonfuls of keep both of them open, so as to meet the wants of the different parts this to her lady's black coffee. The cure was speedily and pleasantly of the city. WVe are glad that this excellent institution, with which the effected, and Jiager acquired two life-long friends in the important per- name of Dr. Mackenzie will always be coinnected, and which possesses sonages of the great prince-diplomatist and his lady. Jager was very such an accomplished surgeon as Dr. Thomas Reid, shows such signs popular with his profession for two reasons; he was always considerate of vigour. of the opinion of other medical men, and always ready to give his help willingly. Still he was very decided and firm in maintaining his opinion when necessary. On the occasion of his being called to see Prince VIENNA. George of Hanover, contrary to the expectations of the court physicians, [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] he regarded the operation as useless and hopeless. Being pressed to operate, it was only after having first recorded his prognosis in writing Graduation-day.- Life-/histo;y of Cttgcr.case ofPrince George of C6'm- that he operated, performing the operation with his usual dexterity ; un- berZanzd.-Afichiael Ola enzovilcl's Scale of Fees.-Professor Schnleider. fortunately, however, the results exactly coincided with the written THE last act previous to the Christmas vacation here in connection with prognosis. medical matters, was the conferrinc of the degrees upon the graduates. Jager was the private friend of his distinguished patients, one of This ceremony is in no sense a public one, and is quite privately con- whom was the famous Prince of Servia, Michael Obrenovitch. After ducted, at 6 P.MI., in the ancient University of Vienna, in the Stadt. operating for cataract on one eye, he received the munificent fee The different degrees are all conferred at the same ceremonial, and of a sum equal to a thousand guineas, and a handsome set of jewellery this takes place twice yearly. The candidates, on arrival, are all for Madame Jager. Some time afterwards, he operated on the other shown into a room, one for each department, by a most imposing- eye, and received only half the first fee. Jager said nothing; but some looking official, with a sword and a cocked hat. There is no robing, time afterwards at dinner with the Prince, he asked why he had so however, no doctor's gown and hood; and altogether the ceremony changed the fee, knowing the Prince's partiality to a joke. The reply falls far short of the similar ceremonial in the Assembly Hall in Edin- was: " If I had had a third eye to be operated upon, I should have burgh. The conferring of the degrees is conducted in a large and paid the same fee the second time as the first." After a long period of handsome chamber, containing a few chairs for the spectators, who prosperity, age palsied the wonderful hand which performed these feats; were four in number, and a long table, at the head of which sat a and beinff naturally generous and thoughtless about money, Jager gradu- handsome-looking gentleman, the Rector of the University; aroutnd ally fell into straitened circumstances, and became acquainted with sor- sat a Dean from each Faculty. The number of candidates was only rows. The popularity of the name passed away, and now the Viennese twenty-two. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was first conferred students themselves invariably almost attend the instructions of Arlt, on one; then four were made Doctors of Law; a fair boy, in a gown while the class of the younger Jager consists chiefly of Hungarians and of black moire antique, witlh ribbons of blue, was made a Doctor of foreigners. Theology, and the hard features of the two ecclesiastics at the table Professor Schneider is recovering from the effects of his recent explo- softened for a moment while he was presented to the Rector. Then sion, and hopes are entertained that some sight may yet be preserved. came sixteen medical candidates, ten Ilungarian and six German. The medical oath contains, as its two primary conditions, that the M.LD. shall not divulge anything confided to him by a patient; and, next, that ASSOCIATION INTELLIGENCE. he will not divulge the nature of the complaint under which the patient suffers, unless when required to do so in a court of law. The diploma -by which, as it is said here, the graduates "are let loose on the MIETROPOLITAN COUNTIES BRANCH. world", a significant phrase as indicating the German faith in the use- AN Ordinary MIeeting of this Branch will be held at the rooms of the fulness of medical men-is itself a piece of an imposing-looking parch- Medical Society of London, 32A, George Street, Hanover Square, on ment, with the ancient seal of the University in its primitive wooden- Wednesday, January 3Ist, at 8 P.M., when a paper will be read by turned box, and is wrapped, or rather folded, altogether in a piece of ERNEST HART, Esq., on Recent Lessons for Sanitary Legislators. coarse common paper, which shows how close an imitation of the A. P. STEWART, M.D. X Honorary Secretaries. material of a wasp's nest the early paper was. The newly made doc- ALEXANDER HENRY, M.D.) tors having received this, went down stairs into another room, and London, January 17th, 1872. went through the final act of fee-paving, a process which attains its maximum development in Austria at Christmas. The Christmas vacation was of ordinary interest, save in the loss of BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND COUNTIES BRANCH: one of the great celebrities of that past generation who made Vienna so GENERAL MEETING. renowned. On the morning of the 27th, died the well-known Frede- THE fourth general meeting of the present session was held at the rick Jager, at the age of 88, having outlived his generation and his Midland Institute, Birmingham, on Jan. II. Present: THOMAS En- greatness; lying paralysed and in comparative penury, a remnant of BAGE, Esq., President-elect, in the chair, and forty-one members and the past. Jager was the son of the private physician of the Prince of visitors. Wurtemburg, and studied at Wiirzburg, and, after the transference of z-ew Akemzbcs.-The following were elected :-Mr. Priestley Smith, the old University of Ingolstadt to Landshut in I800, at the latter Eye Hospital-; Mr. Farncombe, Birmingham; Dr. W. H. Jennings, University, of which in I8o8 he became a graduate. He then moved Stratford-on-Avon ; Dr. A. H. Carter, Wolverhampton; Mr. James to Vienna, where he practised, and married the daughter of Beer; to Beasley, Rowley Regis. and in i8i8 was made an M.D. of Vienna. He turned his attention Tie Case oj Mfr. Grubb.-A memorial to the Local Government ophthalmology especially after this ; and when an outbreak of Egyptian into the case of MIr. Grubb, of Warminster, was ophthalmia occurred in a regiment on the Austrian military frontier, he Board praying inquiry was deputed to visit it and report on the disease. After this, a Pro- signed by the members. fessorship of Ophthalmology was founded in the Josephinum, the mili- Commutnications.-I. Dislocationt i, C(ironzic hkeunatic Arthritis.- tary hospital now about to be abolished, and Jager was made first Pro- Mr. Furneaux Jordan showed a specimen of subcoracoid dislocation of fessor. Under him this department flourished, and students from all the shoulder-joint, the result of, and associated with, chronic rheumatic parts of the globe came and carried away the foundations of modern arthritis.

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