REPORTS and ANALYSES T~Il'itgeneral COUNCIL
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Nov. 28 I 96.J THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL. [MrDA,,LJ0oU.A 1579 REPORTS AND ANALYSES tGENERAL COUNCIL AD OF 'DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW INVENTIONS MEDICAL EDUCATION AND REGISTRATION. IN MEDICINE, SURGERY, DIETETICS, AND THE ALLIED SCIENCES. WINTER SESSION, 1896. MALT PREPARATIONS. T'uesday, November 24th. MESSRS. EVANS, GADD, AND Co., of Exeter, have submitted Sir RICHARD QUAIN, Bart., President, in the Chair. %samples of malt extract and malt extract and milk. The malt extract is claimed to contain all the nutritive properties -of the best malted barley, and, having been concentrated in THE sixty-first session of the General Medical Council took vacuo, thus retains all the digestive ferment of the malt. It place at the Council Chamber, Oxford Street. is a very pale concentrated extract, free from candied sugar, Dr. Edward Iallaran Bennett was introduced to the Coun- Jand, according to our examination, it is capable of digesting cil, and took his seat as representative of the University of two and a-half times its own weight of gelatinised starch in Dublin. twelve minutes and a-half at a temperature of about 700 C. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. It has therefore a very high diastasic power. The sample of The PRESIDENT delivered the following address: unalt extract and milk, containing 75 per cent. malt extract CHANGES IN THE COUNCIL. and 25 per cent. of milk, is exceedingly palatable and well GENTLEMEN,-We meet to-day to undertake the duties in- prepared. cident to the sixty-first Session of the Council. In the first instance, we have to regret the absence of one of PALATINOIDS OF RED BONE MEDULLA. our colleagues who has left on our memories an impression MESSRS. OPPENHEIMER, SON, AND Co. (Limited), 14, Worship that will not be soon obliterated. I need not say to you :Street, E.C., have sent a sample of palatinoids containing 5 that I refer to the Rev. Dr. Haughton, who had been a grains of fresh red bone marrow. This method of adminis- member of the Council, representing the University of tration is certainly a very excellent one, for a palatinoid, being Dublin, for nearly i8 years, and who resigned his appoint- za perfectly closed capsule, the marrow is preserved from those ment in consequence of ill-health. We recall his striking influences which under ordinary conditions of keeping tend to personality, his pleasant smile, his cheery laugh. Emi- -cause decomposition. Red bone marrow is not pleasant to nently distinguished for his great literary and scientific take; in this encapsuled form it can be given quite taste- attainments he gave to the General Medical Council the lessly. The contents of the palatinoids give every indication benefit of his learning and experience. No one more -of being in a satisfactory condition for administration. heartily supported a good and just cause, whether it regarded the interests of individuals or of the Council, when he A BINAURAL VESICAL SOUND. believed he was right in the course which he had adopted; ISURGEON-CAPTAIN HEARD (Mardan, Punjab) sends us a and no one more honestly and openly opposed and condemned -description of a new sound made for him by Messrs. whatever he believed to be wrong or unjust. We shall miss Mayer and Meltzer. He states that the sound consists of an his eloquence, his wit and humour, but in regretting his *ordinary solid metal sound, from the handle of which two absence from amongst us we have the gratification of knowing -small metal horns project, to which the india-rubber tubings that his health is so far restored as to enable him to continue -of an ordinary binaural stethoscope are attached after the his routine duties at the University. He desires to " offer .sound has been passed into the bladder. This sound is par- his loving remembrances to his colleagues on the General ticularly useful after stone-crushing operations to ascertain Medical Council, whose unvarying kindness made his visits -whether any small pieces have been left behind or not. He to London part of the rich enjoyment of his life." I am sure has used it in several cases in which he had performed litho- we all earnestly join in the hope that he may yetbe spared many Qapaxy, and has discovered fragments of stone remaining years toremain a valuedmember of the two professions of which which he failed to detect by the ordinary sound. This is par- he has been such anornament. He is succeeded by Dr. Bennett, ticularly the case when the bladder mucous membrane has who has joined our ranks to-day, a distinguished professor become hypertrophied, and is inflamed and irritable. Frag- in Trinity College and an eminent member of the surgical 'ments of stone are detected so readily by this means that profession in Ireland. No doubt he will be a worthy suc- smuch harmful feeling about with the ordinary sound is cessor to the two representatives of Trinity College who have avoided by inexperienced operators. It is a decided improve- preceded him, for there have been only two previous appoint- .ment on the ordinary sound in examining for stone in the ments made by the College, the eminent chemist, Professor bladder or prostate in the first instance, and gives more Apjohn, being the first representative appointed by that -definite information as to the hardness, etc., of the stone. A body, and Dr. Haughton the second. phonendoscope may be used in ,lieu of a stethoscope, when the THE APOTHECARIES' HALL, DUBLIN. 'ound is even sore intensified, Next, it will be well for me to inform the Council briefly of and the pmallestparticle of the principal incidents which have occurred since its last ,stone cnbe, deteted. With the 0 meeting in June. On June 13th, 1896, it was my dutv to com- etethosoope i= the ears the i municate to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the hands ate perfectly free. It Apothecaries' Hall, Dublin, and at the same time to the is peesibleit might be of use Privy Council, the resolution adopted by the Council on iscertain cases of tumours of 1,1)' June 8th, I896: " That the Council defers for the present the the bladder. also. The sound i ( expression of an opinion on the application of the Apothe- can be obtiined fromi Messrs. .lPA'fbiN/ caries' Hall of Ireland for the appointment of assistant Mayer a'ndMeltier, London.-- examiners in medicine and surgery, and directs com- munications to be made to the Apothecaries' Hall AII and to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, with the view to their reconsideration of their respective positions, so that such a combination may be effected between them as may ensure that an efficient standard of K examination shall be maintained by the General Board of Examiners which will be satisfactory to the General Medical Council." As a result of this proceeding replies were received from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, declining to t~~~~~~~ill'I act in the manner suggested, and from the Apothecaries' Hall, ;2 Tzo BArme AL 58 KDiAJouDIL TI-IE GENTERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL I NOV. 28, 1896.i 896. Dublin, accepting the suggestion of the Council. These am confident that the Council, with their assistance and ad- answers were forwarded to a11 the members of the Council vice, will come to just and safe decisions on the cases sub- and to the Privy Council qn July ist, I896. The subject will mitted to them. be brought before the Council in due course in connection with an application from the Apothecaries' Hall, Dublin, for PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF THE IRISH COLLEGES. the appointment of examiners in medicine and surgery, and The resolution of the Council recommending that the, a request from the Privy Council for a decision by the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons in Ireland should Council. discontinue their Preliminary Examination was communi- DiSCIPLINARY cated to these bodies, and their replies offering reasons POWERS OF QUALIFYING BODIES. for not accepting the recommendation were placed in the The Report on the Disciplinary Powers of the several hands of the to the Universities and Colleges adopted by the Council was com- Education Committee, which will report municated to each of these institutions, to the Privy Council, Council. and to Lord the Chairman of the Scottish Univer- Kinnear, THE DUTIES OF THE COUNCIL IN REGARD TO MEDICAL sities' Commission. The replies, which are not as satisfac- tory as they might be, will be found in the programme of EDUCATION. business of the Executive Committee. In connection witb I may now here very brieflv refer to some of the other this matter I would call attention to the fact that the Uni- subjects which will come under your consideration during versity of Cambridge has informed the Council that it has the present session. Reports from the Education andExami- obtained a statute nation Committees will be submitted to the Council. I can- disciplinary enabling it to deprive of his not refer to this point without dwelling for a moment degree any graduate guilty of an offence punishable by on these subjects, which are really the most important imprisonment. This statute has enabled the University to functions which claim the attention of the Council, and deprive a person who is at present in prison convicted of with the mention of which interests of the greatest im- felony of his degrees and all privileges enjoyed by him as a Graduate. I would suggest that the replies which have been portance suggest themselves. Prior to 1867-that is, during received should be referred to the subcommittee of the the first eight or nine years of the Council's existence- Executive Committee which prepared the previous report, there was nothing like uniformity in.the subjects that were with a view of such further as taught in the medical schools, nor in the qualifications that taking steps may be required.