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. Jan. 27, 1872.] THE BRITISH MEDICAL 7OURNAL. 113 2. HDair-pin in the Bladder.-Mr. Bartleet showed a hair-pin which 3. Mr. W. MORRANT BAKER exhibited a Heart, in the left auricle he had lately removed from a female bladder, where it had been five of which was found a globular mass of firm fibrinous material unat- weeks. It was thickly coated in places with phosphates. He removed tached to the walls. it as he had stone on two similar cases. Having chloroformed the 4. Mr. BAKER exhibited a simple instrument, which is in use at the patient and placed her in the lithotomy position, he passed his finger Evelina Hospital, for the adjustment of Weight to the Limbs of down the urethra, at once felt the foreign body, rectified its transverse Children. position, and readily " persuaded" it into the urethra by a little move- 5. Dr. T. R. ADAMS exhibited a specimen of Typhoid Ulceration of ment of the finger. The woman was able, immediately after the opera- the Bowel, which had gone on to perforation, and gave a history of 1tion, to retain her urine. the case. ) 3. Cirrhosis of the Liver.-Dr. James Thompson (Leamington) pre- Tue Dinner was attended by sixteen of those present at the meeting; nted a specimen of cirrhosis of liver removed from the body of a man and the Chair was occupied by Dr. Coles. aged 59. The viscus was much diminished in size, and the section s iowed the yellow corpuscles described by Cruveilhier very well marked. turing.life the symptoms pointed clearly to the disease; the anasarca a d ascites were rapidly developed. As a relief, tapping was resorted REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. -{ ; and four gallons of albuminous fluid were removed with temporary reief. Four days before death ulcers appeared on the cornea of both OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. eyes; and these rapidly passed into total degeneration of the globes. Th'e disease seemed due to the irregular habits of the patient in an WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3RD, 1872. earlier period of life. J. BRAXTON HICKS, M.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 4- Polypus of the Rectum.-Dr. Thompson showed a specimen of pol us of the rectum removed by ligature from a female aged 63. The Change in thze Pedicle of Ovarian Titumour after Ligature.-Dr. patient seemed to be disposed to abnormal growths, as several small BANTrOCK exhibited a specimen obtained at a post miortem examination fatt tumours existed over many parts of the body. The peculiarity was performed twelve months after the operation. When the parts were trai smissible, as two of her children suffered from polypus nasi. The exposed no trace of the pedicle could be seen, and the upper border of pol pus was about the size of a nutmeg when removed, and had existed a line with the fundus uteri; but for early three years. No difficulty was experienced in the removal, the broad ligament formed continuous the patient made an excellent recovery. close to its edge could be felt a small body as large as a hemp seed, 5. Vaginal Shield.-Dr. Thompson also shewed a new form of covered by peritoneum, and about one inch and a-half distant from the vaginal shield for facilitating the application of soothing or astringent uterus. The hard body was found to be formed of the knot of the injections to the vaginal canal. It is formed of soft metal covered with ligature, the loop and ends having disappeared. Dr. Bantock referred vulcanite, oval or heart-shaped, curved on the flat, and with two rings, of Spiegelberg and Waldeyer on this subject, and on each side of the opening for the introduction of the common injec- to the experiments tion-tube, through which the fingers of the left hand of the patient are said that the course of events would appear to be as follows. When passed, thus giving her a large leverage to keep the shield closely ap; the ligature is applied it forms a deep constriction, which, by the bulging plied to the vaginal opening, the curve fitting on the perinaeum. By of the tissues on each side, causes the living to come into contact with this means the vagina may be distended with fluid, and the whole sur- the strangulated tissues; plastic lymph is thrown out, glueing together face of the mucous membrane subjected to the influence of the fluid the opposing surfaces, and its organisation establishes a vital connection injected. between the two, so that sloughing is prevented. This result is also 6. Arrested Develohment of a Kidney.-Dr. Sawyer showed a well- favoured by the fact that displacement of the tissues immediately em- marked example of arrest of development of the kidney from a girl six braced by the loop of the ligature in course of time the loop ceases to years old. The organ, which was normal in structure and lobulated, exert any force; and it is probable that the capillaries ultimately be- was about as large as a filbert. come pervious. Subsequently the absorbents remove, not only such 7. Poisoning by Nitrite of Mercury.--Dr. Hickenbotham showed the portion of the tissues as are unable to maintain their integrity, but the stomach and oesophagus of a woman aged 30, who had swallowed half ligature itself. The extraperitoneal method by the clamp was the best an ounce of a solution of mercury in nitric acid, used as a dressing for method of treating the peduncle; still, this case demonstrated the safety sheep-rot. Immediately after taking the poison she complained of of the ligature. most violent pains in the throat and stomach; faintness came on, and Emnpye;na in C'zildren.-Dr. PLAYFAIR read a paper on the treat- she died (before medical help could be obtained) in twenty-five minutes. ment of empyema in children. The author described the peculiarities The mouth was white, and the gullet and stomach were corrugated; of pleurisy in children as contradistinguished from the same disease in and in some places the mucous membrane was completely destroyed, the adult. He then referred to the change of opinion which had of exposing the muscular tissue. Dr. Hickenbotham called attention to late years been observed with regard to the operation of paracentesis. the extreme rapidity with which death ensued. This operation in ordinary serous pleurisy evidently stood on a very 8. Aneurism of the Aorta.-Dr. Hickenbotham showed a case of different footing from the same operation in empyema ; since in the aneurism of the aorta, as large as an orange, affecting the innominate former we only sought to relieve the distension by removing some of artery. It was taken from a man who died of cerebral disease, and the fluid and allowing the remainder to be more readily absorbed, while had in life been unsuspected, having produced no symptoms worthy of in the latter the chance of absorption was diminished to a minimum, note. and it would be a great gain if we could effect continuous drainage of 9. Mr. Sampson Gamgee read a paper on Sir Charles Bell and Sir the pleural cavity, and at the same time effectually exclude air. The James Simpson contrasted as Philosophical Inquirers and Practical author then describe'd the method of drainage by Chassaignac's tube, Surgeons. with illustrative cases. He described the method of continuous io. Dr. Fowler Bodington read a fatal case of Acute Mania, with subaqueous drainage, which he advocated, and related the history of notes of thepost mnortern appearances. three cases successfully treated by it. The results of these were very satisfactory.-Dr. HILTON FAGGE had recently had a case in whick the same method had been employed, and in which the pus had made SOUTH EASTERN BRANCH: EAST SURREY DISTRICT its way by the side of the India-rubber tube and continued to discharge. MEETING. It was of great importance that the tube should be tightly grasped by the skin, and for this reason it was better to remove the cannula before A MEETING was held at the Greyhound Hotel, Croydon, on Thursday, introducing the India-rubber tube, which should be of the same dia- December 2Ist. Dr. COLES took the Chair at 4 P.M., and seventeen meter.-Dr. F. T. TAYLER mentioned a case of empyema treated in a members and visitors attended. similar manner. The chest was tapped with a syphon trocar. An NextAMeeting.-It was arranged that the next meeting should be India-rubber tube was affixed to the cannula and carried into a basin of held at the Crystal Palace Hotel in the month of March. water. The cannula and the tube were retained twenty-four hours, and Papers, etc.-I. Mr. S. LEE RYMER read a paper on the Nitrous then a piece of elastic catheter with a smaller India-rubber tube was Oxide Gas. inserted through the cannula, which was withdrawn. The tube 2. Dr. PHILLIPS read a paper on Concealed Accidental Uterine Hae- was retained for fifteen days.-Dr. SEDGWICK approved very much of morrhage, giving in full the history of two cases which had come un- the plan of subaqueous paracentesis. He had himself occasionally der his notice. The paper concluded with remarks on the diagnosis during the last fifteen or sixteen years carried out the same principle. and treatment of this form of haemorxhage. He had used a cannula, the tube of which projected externally an inch Jan. 27, I872.] TIE BRITISH MEDICAL 7OURNAL. The son of a Warwickshire clergyman, for some time Vicar of Strat- ford-on-Avon, Mr. M. H. Clayton entered the profession by apprentice- THE POOR-LAW MEDICAL SERVICE ship to Mr. Thomas Taylor, the present father of the profession in Bir- OF mingham. He pursued his studies at the General Hospital, more especially under the auspices of Dr. Evans and Mr. Joseph Hodgson. GREAT BRITAIN. After some time spent in foreign travel, and in acquiring conversance with the duties of a general practice, as assistant to Mr. Eaton of Grant- DR. JOHN HARVEY, of the Killea Dispensary District of the London- ham, he was taken into partnership by Mr. Edwin Bartleet. Gifted derry Union, has obtained, after forty years' service, a superannuation with a large share ofthose qualities which lead to legitimate success, he allowance of two-thirds of his salary, the maximum allowed by Act of not only maintained but increased the business of the old-established practice, probably the oldest, and, as he has left it, the largest, in Bir- Parliament. mingham. On Mr. Bartleet's retirement his place was supplied by his son, Mr. T. H. Bartleet, one of the surgeons of the General Hospital, THE Board of Guardians of the Narberth Union have, after nine and, for the last seven years, the indefatigable Secretary of the Bir- mingham Branch. With both these gentlemen he worked with the most months' consideration, advanced the salary of the medical officer of the unvaried cordiality. third district from £35 to £45 per annum. Every effort was made to Mr. Clayton's pleasant, frank, genial manner-the outward sign obtain the services of an officer for the former sum, but without avail; of a corresponding disposition-his sturdy Saxon straightforward- therefore, at last it became a matter of compulsion to give the increase. nesss, his energy, his indomitable perseverance, and his decisive prompt- Some instruction may be derived from this brief history of the conclusion ness, soon gainedfor the youngpractitioner the confidence ofhis patients. This confidence experience proved to them to be well justified. There of an instance of municipal meanness, and of which we have before have, consequently, been few men in whose skill their patients have given details. more thoroughly confided, and whom, at the same time, they have more completely trusted and loved as a friend. So much was this the case POOR-LAW SUPERANNUATION. that, strongly as many will feel a selfish regret in losing in time of need a thoroughly reliable and comfortable medical adviser, there are few DURING the-year I870, 82 officers have been superannuated by Boards among his patients in whom their natural feeling will not be completely of Guardians under the provisions of the Act relating to the superannua- absorbed by sorrow for the personal loss of an estimable and genuine tion of Poor-law officers. The officers who were superannuated were friend. as follow :-I clerk to the Guardians; 4 medical officers: i8 relieving officers, of whom 5 were also registrars ; i assistant relieving officer ; 3 With the business faculty, easy to recognise, impossible to define, collectors of poor-rates; 5 assistant-oversers, appointed by Guardians; Mr. Clayton, like most successful practitioners, was amply endowed. At 7 masters of workhouses ; I I matrons ; 3 schoolmistresses ; I assistant the same time, he was not free from a strain of impulsiveness and en- schoolmaster; 2 female industrial trainers; 2 superintendents of labour; thusiasm, which, if it be a weakness, at all events makes a man more a 9 porters; 5 nurses; i shoemaker; 2 tailors; 2 messengers; i man. With these qualifications, considerable administrative capa- laundress; 3 cooks; i assistant needlewoman. city, and an ardent zeal for the Association, it is not wonderful that in a few years Mr. Clayton should have acquired the respect and confidence of his fellows on the Committee of Council. He was only a few weeks ago unanimously elected Chairman of the Committee MR. DYTE AND THE ST. PANCRAS GUARDIANS. which has to arrange for our reception in Birmingham. Those who IT is proper that the profession-or, at least, those members of it who have attended other meetings can well imagine how much he would have may be medical officers of Boards of Guardians-should know under contributed to the success of the coming one by his generous hospitality, how insecure a tenure they hold their various appointments. unsparing activity, and prudent counsels. This success, upon which he In the case of " Dyte v. the St. Pancras Guardians," heard on appeal had set his heart, for indeed he was the originator of the idea of hold. at the full Court of Exchequer on the 2oth inst., it was decided that ing the next annual meeting in Birmingham, he is not spared to the action for breach of contract which the plaintiff had brought against witness. the defendants could not be maintained, because the seal of the Board A sufferer from gout for some years past, he had for some months had not been affixed to it. We say nothing as to the contemptible been troubled with it in an asthenic and somewhat irregular form; and quibble by which this notorious Board has thus been able to evade its just for the last week he had been confined to bed by a more acute attack, and rightful obligations ; but, at all events, other medical officers will do which his medical men hoped would clear up the system. For some well to profit by the experience that Mr. Dyte has so dearly bought. time they had not felt satisfied about the immunity of his circulating There can be no doubt that the medical, and, indeed, the general public system; and though, during the late attack, there had been less reason -for the matter concerns all officers, medical and others-are deeply than formerly to anticipate such an accident, he died on Monday even- indebted to this gentleman for the public spirit which he has shown ing last quite suddenly, in his 47th year. in contesting and obtaining an authoritative decision upon this im- Besides our Association, Mr. Clayton had always taken a warm in- portant question. We regret, however, to hear that the fund raised for terest in the success of the Birmingham Medical Benevolent Society, of the purpose of carrying the case into the Court of Appeal has fallen far which he was for many years an active director. short of the expenses actually incurred by Mr. Dyte in contesting the legal points; but we trust that, having regard to the important nature of the question he has caused to be set at rest, the public will, to some extent at any rate, indemnify him the heavy pecuniary liabilities which MEDICAL NEWS. the untoward result of the trial has cast upon him. Dr. Bathurst Woodman, of 6, Christopher Street, Finsbury Square, has kindly con- ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-The following gen- sented, as hitherto, to receive subscriptions. tlemen passed their primary examinations in anatomy and physiology, at a meeting of the Court of Examiners, on January i6th; and, when eligible, will be admitted to the pass examination. Messrs. Charles F. Jewesbury. Frederick S. Alford, F. Sydney Winkworth, and OBITUARY. George E. Lawrence (Students of University College); C. K. C. Herapath, W. Raymond Cossham, and J. Rowlands Essex (Bristol School); T. Hyde Hills, L. Brereton Ward, and E. Baron Hartley (St. George's Hospital); A. Mortimer Hynes and George Morris (Mancbester School); George H. Key- MARK H. CLAYTON, M.R.C.S., BIRMINGHAM. worth and Charles L. Webb (Guy's Hospital); Joseph Dobson and William IT is with feelings of more than ordinary regret that we have to announce Tyson (Leeds School); Michael Coote, M.D.Univ. of Laval, Quebec, Canada, and Alfred H. Williams (St. Thomas's Hospital); A. Al. S. Hamilton and another blank in the ranks of our Association. The meeting at Birming- Thomas Wallace (Belfast School); George Sargent, M.A.Cantab. (St. Bar- ham will miss the hearty voice and cheery smile of Mr. Mark Hazel- tholomew's Hospital); C. Aikin Brodribb (St. Mary's Hospital); and Clifford L. Drew (London Hospital). wood Clayton. It will also miss, as will the Association at large, and The following gentlemen passed on January i7th. more especially its Committee of Council, the exercise of those quali- Messrs. A. Martin French, A. Norton Taylor, George Wigan, John T. Carey, in a few years, given Mr. Clayton a leading position Robert C. Gibb, Henry A. Collins, Ivor A. Lewis, Edward Bowen, and Russell ties which have, M. Talbot (Guy's Hospital); R. Goldsworthy Tucker, William Owen, Har'ry amongst his colleagues. Dove, Richard Williams, William E. Buck, B.A.Cantab., and George T. I I6 THE BRITISH MEDICAL _OURNAL. [Jan. 27, I872.

Penny (St. Bartholomew's Hospital); Rowland Hill West, B.A.Cantab., and CHELSEA, Parish of-Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the North-Western Joseph McMonagh, M.D. New York (St. Thomas's Hospital); Edward R. District: £8o per annum. Webb (St. George's Hospital); Wm. J. Seward (University College); Ralph DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL, Dorchester-Physician. P. Robey (Birmingham School); John D. Lloyd (Bristol School); John EAST STONEHOUSE UNION, Devon-Medical Officer for the whole Union: Leonard (Guy's and Charing Cross Hospitals); and H. G. T. Strickland ;£55 per annum. (King's College). EAST SUSSEX, HASTINGS, and ST. LEONARD'S INFIRMARY-Assistant- Surgeon. The following gentlemen passed on January i8th. HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Soho Square-Resident Medical Officer. Messrs. Edward J. Morriss, Robert F. Black, John Spear, and J. Menham Pletts KING'S COLLEGE, London-Professor of Obstetric Medicine; Professor of (St. Bartholomew's Hospital); Charles R. Johnstone (St. Mary's Hospital); Forensic Medicine. Herbert B. Dry (Guy's Hospital); William Sewell (St. George's Hospital); KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL-Physician for the Diseases of Women and and T. W. T. Smith (London Hospital). Children. Thirty-four candidates out of the eighty-eight examined having failed KINGSTON-UPON-HULL UNION-Medical Officer for the Western District: to acquit themselves to the satisfaction of the Court of Examiners, £zoo per annum. were referred to their anatomical and KNARESBOROUGH DISPENSARY-Surgeon. physiological studies for three LISMORE UNION, co. Waterford-Medical Officer, Public Vaccinator, and Re- months. gistrar of Births, etc.. for the Ballyduff Dispensary District; £ioo per annum, At a and fees. meeting of the Council, on January ith, Mr. John Buck Sted- MEATH INFIRMARY, Cavan-Apothecary: £52 per annum, furnished apart- man, of Godalming, Surrev, was admitted a Fellow of the College by ments, coal, and lighting. election: his diploma of membership bearing date March 5th, I841. MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL-Assistant-Physician; Resident Obstetric Assistant. NEWARK UNION-Medical Officer for the Clifton District. The following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examina- NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Liverpool-Two Physicians. tions for the diploma, were admitted members of the College at a NORTH WALES COUNTIES LUNATIC ASYLUM, Denbigh-Assistant of the Court of Medical Officer. meeting Examiners, on January 23rd. NOTTINGHAM DISPENSARY-Resident Surgeon, and Assistant Resident Bower, Augustus Edward, Nantwich, Cheshire (King's College) Surgeon: £140 and £I20 per annum, furnished apartments, coal, and gas. Brittin, F. George Morris, Thornhaiugh Wansford, Northamptonshire (LorLdon) OXFORD-Medical Officer of Health: ;o50 per annum. Chambers, Eber, Ryde, Isle of Wight (St. Bartholomew's) PETERBOROUGH UNION-Medical Officer for the Castor District. Deeping, George Davidson, Newark-on-Trent (Guy's) Officer for the No. 2 Meldon Charterhouse POCKLINGTON UNION, Yorkshire-Medical Pocklington Dempsey, Joseph, Square (St. Bartholomew's) District: £40 per arinum, and extra fees. Dobie, Stanley Locker, Irthington, near Carlisle (St. Mary's) ST.J GEORGE'S DISPENSARY, Mount Street, Grosvenor Square-Physician- Dunstan, Robert, Liskeard, Cornwall (Guy's) Accoucheur. Ferris, John Edward Charnock, Cornwall Road, Bayswater (St. George's) ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL-Visiting Apothecary. Garrett, John, Salisbury (London) ST. MARYLEBONE GENERPL DISPENSARY, Welbeck Street-Surgeon. Godfray, Amiraux, Jersey (St. Bartholomew's) SALFORD UNION, Lancashire-Assistant Resident Medical Officer to the Johnstone, John Lawson, Liverpool (Liverpool School) Workhouse. Kelly, Michael James, Talbotstown, Baltinglass, co. Wicklow (Dublin School) East Sussex SHEFFIELD GENERAL INFIRMARY-AssistantHouse-Surgeon: £65 per Langdale, Henry Marmaduke, Hothly, (Guy's) aniium, board, lodging, and washing. Llewellin. George Joseph, Haverfordwest (Guv's) WELLS DISPENSARY and INFIRMARY-Resident House- Moseley, William Arthur, Nassau, Bahamas (St. Bartholomew's) TUNBRIDGE Surgeon and Secretary: £soo per annum, board, furnished apartments, gas, Pigeon, Henry, Red Land (Bristol School) firing, and attendance. Pike, William Rogston, Leicester (St. Thomas's) WEST HAM UNION, Essex-Medical Officer for the West Ham District No. 2: Salmon, Alfred Lidgey, Trtiro, Cornwall (St. Bartholomew's) X,8o per annum. Sarjant, Josiah John, West Ferry Road, Isle of Dogs (London) DISPENSARY-Surgeon. Shearman, William Millar, Gateshead (Manchester School) WESTMINSTER GENERAL Steele, Russell, Reigate, Surrey (University College) Sylvester, Kirwan Francis, Trowbridge, Wilts (St. Bartholomew's) Taylor, Herbert, Kennington Park Road (St. Bartholomew's) MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS. Underhill, Charles Edward, Tipton, Staffordshire (Edinburgh School) Names marked wiMh an asterisk are those ofMembers of the Association. Wallis, Edward Darby, Bodmin, Cornwall (University College) Woodward, George, Bicester, Oxon. (St. George's) *BRETT, Alfred T., M.D., appointed Medical Officer to the London Orphan Asy- lum. The following gentlemen passed on January 24th. CARTWRIGHT, S. Hamilton, elected Lecturer on Dental Surgery and Pathology at Barton, James Edward, Redcliffe Street, Brompton (Westminster) the Dental Hospital, vice *Samuel Cartwright, Esq., resigned. Buchanan, Arthur, The Spa, Gloucester (Guy's) *COOKE, Edward J., B.A., M.B., appointed Resident Medical Officer and Secre- Corrie, Alfred Thomas, Plymouth (St. Bartholomew's) tary to the Newark Hospital and Dispensary, vice T. Appleby, Esq., resigned. Edwards, John Ellis, Aberdare, Glamorganshire (Guy's) *HAYNES, Stanley, M.D., appointed Surgeon-Accoucheur to the Malvern Lying-in Hues, James John, Handsworth, Staffordshire (Birmingham School) and Samaritan Charity. Jackson, James Elwes Corrie, North Reston, Lincolnshire (Charing Cross) LIDBETTER, T. G., Esq., appointed Assistant to the Resident Medical Officer of Jones, Lewis Herbert, Ruthin, Denbighshire (Birmingham School) the Holloway and North Islington Dispensary. Marsh, Walter Alfred, Dante Road, Newington (Guy's) RUCKCLEY, Henry R., Esq., appointed Medical Officer to the Walton District of the Procter, Thomas, Wigan (St. Mary's) Woodbridge Union, Suffolk, vice Covey, resigned. Pugh, Edgar Joseph, Waltham Abbey (University College) Rae, William, King's Lynn, Norfolk (King's College) Rix, Benjamin, East Meon, Hants (Guy's) Rosten, William Martin, Ruthall, Walsall (Birmingham School) BEQUESTS, DONATIONS, ETC.-Mr. Emanuel Mocatta, of Bloomfield Thornton, Philip, Norwood (London) Road, Maida Hill, has bequeathed /5°° each to the Cancer Hospital, Tudge, James McDougall, Hereford (Guy's) the Brompton Consumption Hospital, and University College Hos- Five candidates were referred in Surgery, five in Medicine, and William D. formerly of Wood Street, City, eleven were referred to their studies for the pital.-Mr. Laddington, altogether professional has bequeathed /ioo to the Metropolitan Dispensary, Fore Street.- usual period of six months. The Salisbury Infirmary has received /5000 under the will of Mr. Giles Loder.-Mr. Alexander Kinmond has bequeathed /iooo to the Royal APOTHECARIES' HALL.-The following gentlemen passed their ex- Infirmary, Dundee.-Mrs. Robbins has bequeathed /iooo to the Royal amination in the science and practice of medicine, and received United Hospital, Bath.-Miss Herrick, of Beaumanor Park, has be- certificates to practise, on Thursday, January i8th, 1872. queathed /800 to the Loughborough Dispensary, which was built by Dempsey, Meldon Joseph, Charterhouse Square Sarah of Ferris, John Edward Charnock, St. George's Hospital her and her brother several years ago.-Miss Jane Food, Hammond, William, University College Edgbaston, has bequeathed about /700 each to the Queen's Hospital, MIarshall, Lewis Walter, Southville, Bristol and the Children's Hospital, Birmingham.-Mrs. Arkwright has given Morris, Malcolm Alexander. Tavistock Road, Westbourne Park to the Norfolk and Norwich Edmund Higginson Odell, William, Newport Pagnell, Bucks /ioo Hospital.-Mr. has /2000 to the Bath United Hospitel;*/1500 to the The also on the same their first bequeathed following gentlemen day passed for /1000 to the Worcester Infirm- examination. Home Incurables, Clapham Rise; professional ary; to the Middlesex and /400 to the Consumption Clague, John, Guy's Hospital /500 Hospital; Kingcombe, Alfred Partridge, Guy's Hospital Hospital, Brompton.-Mr. Gillott, the eminent steel-pen manufacturer, Welch, William John Joseph, Queen's College, Birmingham has bequeathed ./3ooo to the Charities of Birmingham, and /2000 to As Assistants in compounding and dispensing mediciines. those of Sheffield.-The Worcester General Infirmary will shortly re- Brewster, William, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire ceive about /290 under the will of Mr. Withering, of Bristol, who died Shone, John, Union Square, Islington in 1833, and whose estate formed the subject of a Chancery suit just now ended.-St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, has received /100 each MEDICAL VACANCIES. from General Spencer Stanhope, the Goldsmiths' Company, Mr. Thos. THE following vacancies are announced: Brown, and the Fishmongers' Company. -The Blackrock Convalescent CALNE UNION, Wilts-Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the entire Hospital, Brighton, has received /Ioo "in memory of one who sleeps Union: £2o per annum, and Vaccination Fees. in Jesus"; /5o each from Mr. Robert Hanbury and the Grocers' Com- CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL-Physician for the Treatment of Diseases of the Skin; Assistant-Physician. pany; and numerous small donations. Jan. 27,1872.) THE BRITISH MEDICAL 2OURNAL. II7

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. -Advertisements should be forwarded direct OPERATION DAYS AT THE HOSPITALS. to the Printing-Office, 37, Great Queen Street, W.C., addressed to Mr. F. H. HEATHCOTE, not later than Thursday, twelve o'clock. MONDAY ...... Metropolitan Free, 2 P.M.-St. Mark's, 2.30 P.M.-Royal London THE SPHINCTER OF THE BLADDER. Ophthalmic, II A.M.-Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, 2.30 P.M. SIR,-In an article in the JOURNAL of November i8th, on Paralysis of the Bladder, TUESDAY...... Guy's, 2.30 P.M.-Westminster, 2 P.M.-National Orthopmdic, Dr. Althaus says: "Another result of Budge's researches has been, that the 2 P.M.-Royal London Ophthalmic, I I A. M.-Royal Free, 2 P.M.- muscle hitherto described by anatomists as sAhincter of the bladder, is really no Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, 2.30 P.M. sphincter at all, physiologically speaking-that is, the muscles known as detrusor WEDNESDAY..St. Bartholomew's, 2.30 P.M.-St. Mary's, 1.30 P.m.-Middlesex, urina and sphincter vesicM-serve exclusively for expelling the urine, without I P.M.-University College, 2 P. M.-St. Thomas's, 2. 30 P.M.-Lon- having the least effect in closing up the orifice of the viscus." Again, he says, don, 2 P. M.- Royal London Ophthalmic, I I A. M.-Great Northern, "the muscles mentioned (the constrictor urethrm and bulbo-cavernosus muscles) 2 P.M.-Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children, 2.30 habitually close the bladder by means of their reflectory tone." That these P.M.-Cancer Hospital, Brompton, 3 P.M.-King's College, 2 P.M. muscles, when exerted artificially, will obstruct the flow of urine, it is easy to be- 2. P. M. lieve; but that they do so in the ordinary state of things during life, I venture to -Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, 30 doubt, and to suggest two difficulties. THURSDAY... St. George's, x P.M.-Central London Ophthalmic, I P.M.-Royal I. In operations where these muiscles are cut through, and not the neck of the Orthopxdic, 2 P.M.-Royal London Ophthalmic, ir A.M.-Hos- bladder, we do not get incontinence of urine. pital for Diseases of the Throat, 2 P.M.-Royal Westminster 2. When there is any urine in the bladder, it must likewise exist in the prostatic Ophthalmic, 2.30 P.M. urethra, and would be mixed with the seminal fluid in the act of coition, which FRIDAY ...... Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, 2.30 P.M.-Royal London would probably interfere with its impregnating power. I am, etc., X. Y. Z. Ophthalmic, ir A.M.-Central London Ophthalmic, 2 P.M.-Royal South London Ophthalmic Hospital, 2 P.M. WE are indebted to correspondents for the following periodicals, containing news, reports, and other matters of medical interest:-The Liverpool Albion, Jan. 20th; SATURDAY.... St. Bartholomew's, 2.30 P.M.-King's College, 2.30 P.M.-Charing The Scarborotigh Express, Jan. 20tb; The Lincoln Gazette, Jan. 20th; The Cross, 2 P.M.-Lock (Clinical Demonstrations and Operations), Bournemouth Visitors' Directory, Jan. 20th; The Salopian, Jan. 20th; The Bath I P.M.-Royal London Ophthalmic, It A.M.- Royal Free, 2 Express and County Herald, Jan. 20th; The Malvern News, Jan. 20th; The P.M.-East London Hospital for Children, 2 P.M.-Hospital for Western Times, Jan. sgth; The Bradford Observer, Jan. 17th; The Birmingham Women, 9.30 A.M.-Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, i. 3o P.M.- Morning News, Jan. 24th; The Birmingham Dailv Post, Jan. 24th: The Bir- St. Thomas's, Q.30 A.M. mingham Daily Gazette, Jan. 23rd; The Lynn Advertiser, Jan. 2oth; The Western Telegraph, Jan. 24th; etc. MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES DURING THE NEXT WEEK. COMMUNICATIONS. LETTERS. ETC., have been received from:- Dr. George Johnson, London; Mr. Lawson Tait. Birmingham; Dr. Jagielski, T. H. Bartleet, Birmingham; Dr. Rogers, London: The Secretary MONDAY.-Medical Society of London, 8 P.M. Mr. Henry Lee, "On some London; Mr. Cautions necessary to be observed in the Use of the Calomel Vapour Bath"; of the Manchester Medical Society; Mr. G. G. Gascoyen, London; Surgeon-Major Dr. Richardson, "On the Science and Art of Healing Wounds." Ross, Budleigh Salterton; Dr. Nicol, Bradford; Mr. Dale, Scarborough; Our Glasgow Correspondent; Mr. G. Green, Hartlepool; Dr. Martyn, Bristol; Dr. Lalor, Dublin; Dr. Greenhill, Hastings; Mr. E. Lloyd, London; Mr. Todd, NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. Hull; Dr. Habershon, London; Dr. Marcet, Nice; Dr. Dyce Duckworth, Lon- don; Mr. Sealy, Weybridge; Dr. A. B. Steele, Liverpool; Mr. Fairlie Clarke, Mr. Wood, North ALL Letters and Communications/or ike JOURNAL, to be addressed to the EDITOR London; Mr. Holmes, London; Dr. Braxton Hicks, London; 37, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. Dalton; Mr. Greene, Bristol; Dr. Leeds, Sheffield; Dr. Elam, London; The CORRESPONDENTS not answered, are requested to look to the Notices to Corre- Secretary of the Clinical Society; Mr. H. Cautley, Hedon; Mr. J. Meehan, spondents of the following week. Limerick; Mr. E. Noble Smith, Paddockhurst; Dr. B. W. Foster, Birmingham; To PURCHASERS.-TO insure attention, it is requested that all orders sent to the Office The Registrar-General of England; The Secretary of Apothecaries' Hall; The for extra copies of the JOURNAL, be accompanied with hal/penny stamps for the Registrar-General of Ireland; Mr. T. M. Stone, London; The Registrar of the amount. Medical Society of London; Mr. Bassett, London; Mr. Foster, London; Dr. J. WE CANNOT UNDERTAKE TO RETURN MANUSCRIPTS NOT USED. Simpson, Plymouth; Mr. S. Wood, Shrewsbury; Mr. J. Hughes, Middlewich; FOR replies to questions concerning Poor-law medical questions, see Poor law Medical Department, under charge of Mr. Benson Baker, London, and Dr. Dr. Land, Exmouth; Mr. Board, Clifton; Mr. Egan, Dublin; Dr. Bateman, Maunsell, Dublin. Whitehurst; Dr. R. W. Smith, Dublin; Dr. Tilt, London; Mr. Fleischmann, CORRESPONDENTS, who wish notice to be taken of their communications, should Cheltenham; Dr. Whitelaw, Kirkintilloch; Mr. Holland, London; Mr. Blackett, authenticate them with their names-of course, not necessarily for publication. London; Dr. Fothergill, Vienna; Dr. J. Wickham Legg, London; Mr. Osmai Vincent, London; Dr. Lanchester, Croydon; Mr. W. Dalby, London; Mr. E. MR. H. RoE:.-Avoid all such quack preparations, and consult a respectable mcdical Bellamy, London; Dr. Drury Lavin, Bushey; Mr. Stone, London; A Governor; man. The cure is probably easy enough. Dr Ferrier, London; Mr. John Wood, London; Mr. Soutter, London; Mr. J. N. MR. EGAN (Dublin).-Thanks. To Mr. Francis Fowke, 37, Great Queen Street, Stevens, Plymouth; Dr. Maurice Evans, Narberth; Dr. Campbell, Stanton; etc. London, W. C. DR. WVOODWARD of Worcester requests us to convey his thanks to those gentleman who have kindly responded to his application for vaccine lymph, and to say that he has now an ample supply. BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. W. A. V.-The only University which can grant the degree of M.D. under the conditions stated is that of St. Andrew's; and the number that can be thus The Year-Book of Pharmacy: comprising Abstracts of Papers relating to Pharmacy, admitted annually is ten, who must be forty years of age. The diploma of Materia Medica, and Chemistry. London: 287I. L. R. C. P. allows the holder to dispense medicines for the use of his patients, and General Report, with Statistical Tables, on the Patients under Treatment in the to charge for them. Wards of the Highgate Infirmary, from October ist, I870, to September 3oth, MR. GREEN shotuld address the Editor of the Veterinarian. 187I. By Thomas Stretch Dowse, M.D. London: I871. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy. By A. P. Deschanel. Translated PROSTATIC GLEE:T. and Edited by J. D. Everett, M.A., D.C.L. Part III: Electricity and Mag- SIR,-I would advise vou-r correspondent A.B., M.A., to give his patient every night netism. London: Blackie and Son. 2872. at bed-time, for a week or ten days, the following pills;-Camphorx gr. v; ex- The Prince's Illness: and its Lessons. A Lecture on the Prevention of Disease. By tract. belladonnae gr. jss; extract. hyoscyami gr. iij; and the following three BalthazarW. Foster, M.D., M.R.C.P.(Lond.) London and Birmingham: 2872. times in the day:-Zinci valerian. gr. ij ; quiina sulphat. gr. j ; extract. antheridis Diseases of Hair: a Popular Treatise, By Benjamin Godfrey, M.D. London: J q. s. With this, for a few days in succession, a full-sized catheter should be passed. and A. Churchill. 2872. Its introduction may cause a considerable amount of pain, more especially on its Notes on Syphilis: with an Appendix on the Unity of the Syphilitic Poison. By S. arrival at the prostatic portion of the urethra; but I have invariably experienced Messenger Bradley, F.R.C.S. London: J. and A. Chturchill. 2872. mtuch benefit from its use. Of course, it will be prudent to examine well the Spectrum Analysis in its Application to Terrestrial Substances and the Physical urine, and correct any morbid state that may exist in seminal debility. The pre- Constitution of the Heavenly Bodies. By Dr. H. Snellen. Translated, from sence of a large quantity of lithates is a very common occurrence. the Second enlarged and revised German Edition, by J. and C. Lassell. Edited I am, etc., OCTAVIAN N. ROYLE, M.D. with Notes by William Huggins, LL.D. London; Longmans, Green, and Co. Milnthorpe, Westmorland, January I872. 2872. DR. ROOKE'S communications are more likely to do harm than good. The Eighth Annual Report of the Royal Albert Hospital, the Eye Infirmary, and Children's Ward, for Devonport, Stonehouse, Cornwall, and West Devon, DR,. GULLY'S observations do not seem to us to call for a reply. I870-7I. Devonport: 187I. WE regret to have been unable to find space to comment on the Worthing Dis- Transactions of the Odontological Society of Great Britain. Vol. iv. No. 2. New pensary election. Series. London: I87r. List of Members of the Odontological Society of Great Britain. London: 187I. MiR. DALE (Scarborough'.-Having given us so much trouble with his first MS., Homcnopathy compared with the Old School. Report of Medical and Surgical Mr. Dale can scarcely expect us to insert a reply to comments made elsewhere. Cases successfully treated. By David Jones, M.D. London: 187I. A. A. D. -It was Southey who said " Man is a dupeable animal. Quacks in medi. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British and cine, quacks in religion, and quacks in politics, know this, and act upon that Continental Medicine, and of the Progress of Medicine and the Collateral Sci- knowledge. There is scarcely any one who may not, like a trout, be taken by ences. Edited by William Domett Stone, M.D., F.R.C.S.(Exam.) Vol. LIV, tickling. July-December, 1871. London: 1872.