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Friday, May 13. for ROYAL SOUTH LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. Medical Diary the ensuing Week. LONDON POST-GRADUATE COURSE.-Hospital for Consumption, Bromp. ton :4 P.M., Dr. Percy Kidd : Angina Pectoris.-BacteriologicaJl Laboratory, King’s College: 11 A.M. to 1 P.M., Professor Crookshank: Cultivation Methods (Examination of Cultivations).—Charing-cross Monday, May 9. Medical School: 8 P.M., Dr. J. Braxton Hicks: Funis Presentation and Prolapsus. ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1.30 P.M., and on Tuesday, CLINICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.-8.30 P.M. Mr. F. Paul: A case of En. Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at the same hour. terectomy.-Mr. Howard Marsh : A case of Spontaneous Cure of two ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, MOORFIELDS.—Operations Aneurysms of the Femoral Artery, apparently by Inflammatory daily at 10 A.M. Action.-Dr. Francis Hawkins : A case of Non-tubercular Hæmo- ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1.30 P.M., ptysis of four months’ duration occurring in association with Arbuthnot Lane: Two cases of and each day at the same hour. Cirrhosis of the Kidneys.-Mr. Tubercular Disease of the Breast and Glands. CHELSEA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN.-Operations, 2.30 P.M. ; Thursday, 2.30. Axillary HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, SOHO-SQUARE. -Operations, 2 P.M., and on Saturday, May 14, Thursday at the same hour. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. ; and Skin De. METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. partment, 9.15 A.M. ROYAL ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. LONDON POST-GRADUATE COURSE.—Bethlem Hospital: 11 A.M., Dr. CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M., and H. Corner: Melancholia. each day in the week at the same hour. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Ear and Throat Department, 9 A.M.; Thursday, 9 A.M. METEOROLOGICAL READINGS. LONDON POST-GRADUATE COURSE.-Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital: (Taken daily at 8.30 a.m. by Steward’s Instruments.) Affections.-Great Northern 1 P.M., Mr. Wm. Lang : Lachrymal THE LANCET Office, May 5th, 1892. Central Hospital: 8 P.M., Dr. Galloway : Lungs, Tubercle and other Lesions.-Parkes Museum (Margaret-st.,W.):4 P.M., Dr. A. Wynter . Blyth : Sanitary Appliances. ROYAL INSTITUTION.-5 P.M. General Monthly Meeting. SOCIETY OF ARTS.-8 P.M. Mr. Percy F. Frankland : Recent Bacterio- logical and Chemical Research in connexion with the Fermentation Industries. Tuesday, May 10. KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.; Fridays and Saturdays at the same hour. GUY’S HOSPITAL. - Operations, 1.30 P.M., and on Friday at same hour. Ophthalmic Operations on Monday at 1.30 and Thursday at 2 P.M. ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-Ophthalmic Operations, 4 P.M.; Friday, 2p.M. ST. MARK’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. CANCER HOSPITAL, BROMPTON.-Operations, 2 P.M.; Saturday, 2 P.M. Notes, Short Comments, & Answers to WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. WEST LONDON HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2.30 P.M. Correspondents. ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1.30 P.M. Consultations, Monday, 2.30 P.M. Skin Department, Monday and Thursday, 9.30 A.M. Throat Department, Tuesdays and Fridays, 1.30 P.M. Electro. It is especially requested that early intelligence of local therapeutics, same day, 2 P.M. events having a medical interest, or which it is desirabda LONDON POST-GRADUATE 2i0LRSE.-HOSpltal for Skin Diseases, Black- to under the notice the may be send friars : 4 P.M., Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson : Arsenic and Mercury.- bring of profession, Bethlem Hospital: 2 P.M., Dr. H. Corner: Hypochondriasis. direct to this Office. ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY.-Dr. W. H. Dickinson: All communications relating to the editorial bttsinas of ths Renal Dropsy, with especial reference to the Circulation, together journal must be addressed °To the Editors." with some Considerations relating to Pulmonary Apoplexy in Renal and should be assrzttern on Disease (adjourned discussion).-Dr. A. E. Garrod : The Changes in Lectures, original articles, reports the Blood in the Course of Rheumatic Attacks. one side only of the paper. Letters, whether intended for insertion or for private injorma. 11. must be authenticated the names and addresses Wednesday, May , tion, by their not NATIONAL ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 10 A.M. of writers, necessarily for publication. We cannot or recommend MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1.30 P.M. ; Saturdays, 2 P.M. Ob- prescribe practitioners. stetrical Operations, Thursdays, 2 P.M. Local papers containing reports or news paragraphs should CHARING-CROSS HOSTITAL.-Operations, 3 P.M., and on Thursday and be marked and addressed "To the Sub-Editor." Friday at the same hour. Letters relating to the publication, sale, and advertsing ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-Operations,1.30 P.M.; Saturday, same hour. departments of THE LANCET to be addressed "To the LONDON HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2P.M.; Thursday & Saturday, same hour. Publisher."’ ST. PETER’S HOSPITAL, COVENT-GARDEN.-Operations, 2 P.M. We cannot undertake to return MSS. not used. SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.-Operations, 2.30 P.M. GREAT NORTHERN CENTRAL HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. ADVERTISEMENTS OF CHANGE OF RESIDENCE. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1.30 P.M.; Skin Depart- A PRACTITIONER advertises in the Hull Daily News a temporary change 1.45 9.15 A.M. ment, P.M.; Saturday, of residence. Such public notices are not called for. It is the ROYAL FREE 2 P.M., and on Saturday. HOSPITAL.-Operations, custom to be satisfied with an announcement on the old of CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, GREAT ORMOND-STREET. -Operations, 9.30A.M. premises the new address. Surgical Visits on Wednesday and Saturday at 9.15 A.M. i LONDON POST-GRADUATE COURSE.-Hospital for Consumption, Bromp’ Mr. Chas. R. Christie,-We believe the appliances in question to be ton: 4P.M.,Dr.PercyKidd: Laryngeal Tuberculosis.-Royal London quack productions, which certainly have never received favourable Hospital: 8 P.M., Mr. A. Quarry Sileock: Myopia. Ophthalmic notice in the columns of THE LANCET. SOCIETY OF ARTS.—8 P.M. Mr. G. L. Addenbrooke : Uses and Appli- cations of Aluminium. Mrs. M. Dudley.-There are sever-al such practitioners in the Medical Register, to which we must refer our correspondent. Thursday, May 12. ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M. Surgical Consultations, PAPILLARY PERITONITIS. Wednesday, 1.30 P.M. Ophthalmic Operations, Friday, 1.30 P.M. To the Fditors of THE LANCET. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE 2 Ear and Throat HOSPITAL.-Operations, P.M. ; of readers be kind to me a Department, 9 A.M. SIRS,—Would any your enough give few LONDON POST-GRADUATE COURSE.-Hospital for Sick Children, Great hints in regard to the treatment of papillary peritonitis in a girl Ormond-st. : 4 P.M., Mr. Edmund Owen: Selected Surgical Cases aged fourteen ? Is an operation of any use ? I should feel greatly from the Wards.—National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic : obliged if anyone having had experience in such C3.ses would reply. 2 P.M., Dr. Beevor : Locomotor Ataxia.-London Throat Hospital, I am, Sirs, yours faithfully, Gt. Portland-st. : 8 P.M., Dr. Edward Law : Examination of Throat May, 1892. PENSNETT. and Nose Cases. INFLUENZA. BRITISH GYNAECOLOGICAL SOCIETY (20, Hanover-square).-8.30 P.M. Dr. G. Cleghorn : Cases of Ectopic Gestation (with pathological report THE following passage from a letter of Lord Chesterfield’s, dated and observations by Dr. Shaw-Mackenzie). Specimens by Mr. July 9th, 1767, is quoted in -tyotes and Queries of April 30th, 1892:- Lawson Tait. " You say that Dresden is very sickly. I am sure London is at NORTH LONDON MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY (Great. Northern least as for there an CentralHospita).—8.30 P.M. Annual General Meeting. 9 P.M. short sickly now, reigns epidemical distemper Address by the President (Dr. Wm. Cholmeley). Dr. H. Campbell: called by the genteel name of l’injluenza. It is a little fever, which Children’s Diseases.-Dr. Rattray : Three cases of Suppurating scarcely anybody dies of, and it generally goes off with a little Kidney. looseness. I have escaped it, I believe, by being here [Blackheath]." 1063

THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION. NEWSPAPER PUFFS OF MEDICAL MEN. A DEPUTATION of representatives of the various medical schools and THE blending of domestic history and professional achievement in the other educational bodies in Scotland was received by Mr. Balfour at following paragraph from Truth is very characteristic of the news- the House of Commons on Wednesday last. The object of the depu- paper puff. We have the- best reason for knowing that the subject of tation was to procure, if possible, the reconsideration of the ordinances it disapproves of it as much as any of our readers can do. issued by the Scottish Universities Commission, which become final "Mr. Dormer, who was so seriously injured some three weeks on the 12th and 18th of this month unless Her Majesty should back whilst riding the Duke of Hamilton’s mare Miss Chippendale withhold her consent. Representatives of the General Council of at Sandown Park, has made a most miraculously rapid recovery, the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, of St. Mungo’s and and is, happily, now almost himself again. The operation of one of Mr. Dormer’s was Anderson’s Colleges, of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and removing eyes performed by Dr. Higgins, who has come very much to the front in recent years. Dr. Higgins of Edinburgh, and of the Reform Association ; repre. Surgeons married some years ago Miss Greenwood, a niece of Mrs. John sentatives in all of twelve educational bodies attended. Mr. Balfour Towneley." however, refused in the meantime to consider the requisition of the Mr. J. Weller.-Our sources of information were the Essex deputation, on the ground that Parliament would.be taking too great Telegraph and the Essex Standard, the names of which were in the .a responsibility upon itself if, after having entrusted the Commission given para- of which our correspondent complains. We may with considerable administrative powers, it should then take upon graph again point out that we did not blame to Mr. whose disclaimer we itself to reject the ordinances which it had framed. The opposition impute Weller, gladly inserted, but to injudicious friends, who no doubt imagined to the ordinances will, we are informed, be pushed forward in Parlia- that in the lay press are of service to medical a laudatory paragraphs ment, and it is understood that motion will be brought forward in ’ men, little recking that but harm can come of such a mistaken pro- the House of Commons on Monday night, asking Her Majesty to with- ! cedure. hold her consent from the ordinances. A. E. Huxtable, M.R.C.S., is thanked for his communication. We Dr. R. H. Bakewell.-The subject of leprosy will soon be brought promi- Mr. i think, however, the newspaper paragraph unworthy of notice. nently before the medical profession, when we hope to deal with the Argus.-Yes. Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode. point mentioned by our correspondent. Cyclops.-We should hope that our correspondent’s account is imperfect PUBLIC VACCINATORS AND BOARDS OF GUARDIANS. or incorrect. A lawyer should be consulted. To the Editors of THE LANCET. M.D. has not enclosed his card. SIRS,—Having seen in THE LANCET of April 30th (p. 991) an account of the behaviour of the Watford Board of Guardians towards a public BACTERIA IN ACUTE RHEUMATISM. vaccinator, I thought my experience in a similar case might be of To the Editors of THE LANCET. interest to your readers, as it differs in the treatment received. I two cases to the Board of Guardiaus last SIRS,—Some time ago I sent you a notice of a bacillus which I had reported Tisbury Thursday where the mothers refused to allow me to take from the met with in certain cases of acute gout. While making further obser- any lymph children’s arms. The without hesitation said vations in reference to this matter, I have examined the blood in a guardians any they would take notice of the and instructed the clerk to number of cases of acute rheumatism, and I have found almost cases, prosecute, invariably that in acute rheumatism the blood is charged with bacteria the summons to be heard at the next sitt ing of magistrates, which is 5th.-I am, in the form of minute cocci to a point which might almost be called Thursday, May Sirs, yours faithtully, GEO. P. - saturation. These cocci are to be seen after the cover- LONGMAN, easily floating Public Vaccinator, Donhead District, glass upon which the blood is taken, for a period of not less than four May 2nd, 1892. Tisbury Union. hours, in a warm solution of methylene blue. I have examined the Indices of THE LANCET and Britis7t Medical Jozernal for the five past ANTI-VACCINATIONISTS AT GUILDFORD. ’Years, but can find no record of any similar observation. I should THE defeated anti-vaccinationists of Guildford are their be glad to learn If any bacteriological work has been done in refer. losing temper, ence to acute rheumatism. Dr. Maclagan, in a recent article, as they are evidently losing the game. The reappearance of small. assumed the presence of an organism, but did not state if he had pox in the country, and the forebodings that in public opinion and in actually demonstrated the same. The cocci are exceedingly small, the estimation of the Royal Commission the protective power of and require a magnification of 1000 diameters to render them at all vaccination holds its unique ground, explain this mood, though they which is to one-twelfth oil immersion with a No. 8 com- visible, equal do not excuse it. A writer in the Surrey Advertiser calls the Com- pensating eyepiece. With this power they are just visible, and exhibit mission a packed Commission, and says guardians ought to-not a strong disposition to arrange themselves in chains. administer the law of the country, but " carry out the views of those I am, Sirs, yours faithfully, Putney, May 2nd, 1892. EDWD. F. GRTN. that elect them." Government by boards of guardians is a truly imperial idea. But even so, in Guildford common-sense seems to Dr. Mantle of Halifax read a at the British Medical Associa- paper prevail. tion, at the meeting held in Dublin, on the Etiology of Rheumatism Dolores Fleischmann.-We do not know the work in considered from a bacterial point of view. He also published an question. article in 1885 on Rheumatism with Infectious Sore-throat.-ED. L. ’ THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES, AN AUSTRALIAN ADVERTISER. To the Editors of THE LANCET. ’°’ DR. WM. LANGSTON, M.R.C.S. Eng., 121, Collins-street, Melbourne," SIRS,-A daughter of mine, aged twenty-five, who previously had robust about six months showed of diabetes. advertises both his portrait and his great therapeutical powers in all enjoyed health, ago signs The usual treatment of codeia with nux vomica and the gluten bread the ordinary newspaper set of discreditable diseases. Has not the speedily reduced the sugar. But although the usual diet is still strictly of the to deal with such a member on Royal College Surgeons power enforced, the sugar has reappeared, the specific gravity of the urine the score of his advertisements? Be this as it may, he has been having risen from 1019 to 1036. Her weight has, however, not decreased fined £20 for putting M.D. on his plate, he being registered only since the disease was first noticed. No member of the family has been as "M.R.C.S." known to suffer from the disease previously. Can any of your numerous correspondents suggest any further treatment ? Janus.—There are lunatic asylums in various parts of the world under I remain, Sirs, yours truly, the English Government. We would advise our correspondent to Surrey-square, S E., May 3rd, 1892. W. RUMBOLL, M.R.C.S , L.S.A. make application direct to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Downing-street, S.W., for information as to appoint- ALLEGED SCARCITY OF MEDICAL MEN IN NEW ZEALAND. ments &e. IT is reassuring to read that there is one where there is not an "TREPHINING FOR EPILEPSY." plaee excess of medical practitioners. It is said that in spite of a guarantee To the Editors of THE LANCET. of £100 by the Government, and of P200 additional by the settlers in of an SIRS,-Apropos annotation in your issue of to-da.y’s date upon the east coast district of the North Island of New Zealand, a qualified for allow me to mention a case I had in trephining epilepsy, my practice man cannot be found. The climate, too, is said to be pleasant. AU six years ago. the same, we should not advise a rush thither without further A boy twelve years of age was brought to me suffering from " fits." He had been struck with a stone on the forehead four inquiry. years previously. A DISCLAIMER. I found on examination something hard, but movable, under the cicatrix on the forehead. The mother informed me that previously to his fits"" To the Editors of THE LANCET. there was a sharp pain felt in the spot. I had him admitted to our SIRS,-I have this morning had my attention called to a paragraph cottage hospital, and then, on cutting down upon the hard substance, in your issue of the 30th ult. on "Advertising through Hospitals," and found a piece of slate firmly embedded in the tissues. This I removed at once write to disclaim all responsibility in the matter. The adver. by excising the surrounding tissues widely. The boy was under obser- tisement referred to was ordered to be inserted by the secretary of the vation for twelve months, during which time there were no further hospital without any previous intimation to or consultation with me. attacks. I am, Sirs, yours faithfully, I am, Sirs, yours faithfully, Hawick, N.B., April 30th, 1892. JOHN R. HAMILTON, M.D. Birmingham, May 3rd, 1892. F. MARSH. 1064

RESIGNATION OF THE BEDELL OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF Son, Manchester ; Messrs. Stern, London; Messrs. Smith, Elder, and PHYSICIANS. Co., London; Mr. Smith, Westgate-on-Sea ; Messrs. G. Street and London; Dr. G. A. Sutherland; Mr. A. C. Messrs. WITH the of Mr. Gurner of Ms of bedell of the Co., Shoppee; Shelley resignation appointment and Co.; Mr. H. A. Schlesinger ; Mr. Philip Skene ; Messrs. S Smith Royal College of Physicians a familiar landmark of the College and Co., Bow ; Mr. Taberner, Wigan ; Rev. A. Tooth ; Mr. Lawson passes away. Mr. Gurner has served the College during a period of Tait; Dr. A. S. Tindal, Glasgow ; Mr. Spencer Todd; Messrs. J. and twenty years, and he is therefore well known alike to Fellows, Members, T. Usher, Bristol; Mr. Vickers, London; Messrs. Wright, Layman, and and Licentiates of the College. The office of bedell carries with it Umney, Southport ; Mr. Wood, Leicester ; Mr. J. Weller ; Dr. Wynn certain grave responsibilities, as may be inferred from the fact that Westeott ; Mr. Williamson, Lincoln ; Mr. Walsh, Burslem; Dr. Roger he is required to provide heavy securities for his faithful care of all Williams, Preston; Mr. Wand ; Mr. Wilson, Dublin ; Mr. Walter L. the property and goods and chattels of the College entrusted to him. Woolcombe, Plymouth ; Alpha, Yorkshire ; G. G., Pembrey; Sani- Wood Wool Bristol; He has to issue all notices and summonses relating to the various tary Co.; Onyx; M.D.; Surgeon, Lapis; Manager, Durham Advertiser; Presto, London; Cyclops; Pensnett ; of the and to act as under the direction meetings College, secretary Reuter’s Telegram Co., S. C. S., Ealing ; Burrow’s of the London; Drug the registrar. At meetings of the College he has to carry Stores, London. mace, and he has to be in attendance at all lectures delivered in the LETTERS, each with enclosure, are also acknowledged from-Dr. T. He also has over the entire household, and has to College. authority Jones, Bridgend; Mr. Wheeler, Manchester ; Messrs. Whitworth and for of direct, superintend, and be responsible the proper performance Stuart, Manchester ; Mr. Piggott, Cambridge ; Messrs. Wright and the several duties of each member of the household. These manifold Co., Bristol ; Dr. Wittington, Yorks; Messrs. Fletcher, Fletcher, and duties Mr. Gurner has fulfilled with such regularity that his resigna- Co., London; Mr. Ideson, Colne; Mr. Brookes, Salop; Messrs. Hardy tion will cause a blank in the meetings of the College. It is to be and Co., Manchester ; Mr. King-Lewis, Devon; Messrs. Hooper and’ hoped that the Finance Committee, to whom the question of a pension Co., London; Dr. Humphreys, Montgomery; Messrs. Savory and has been referred, may see their way so to recognise Mr. Gurner’s Moore, London; Mrs. Tyte, Minchinhampton; Messrs. Margrave services as to place him beyond anxiety in his advancing years. Bros., Llanelly ; Mr. Knight, Northampton; Dr. Williams, Totten. ham ; Mr. Evans, Llanbetis ; Mr. Elliott, Strabane ; Dr. Redwood,. Senator.-A select committee of the Cape House of Assembly was Rhymney ; Mr. Brew, Kerry ; Mr. Fiske, Norfolk; Mr. Eyre, East. on " To into and the appointed July 25th, 1883, inquire report upon wood ; Dr. Owen, Doncaster ; Mr. Thin, Edinburgh ; Mr. Owen, Llan- spread of leprosy at the Cape." A Leprosy Repression Act was idloes ; Mr. Maxwell, Banbury ; Mr. Hannay, Grasmere ; Mr. Keay,. passed by the Cape House of Assembly in 1884. Eastbourne; Mr. Norman, Ashburton ; Mr. Agar, Peterborough; Mr. Millendorp, Groningen ; Mr. Utting, Liverpool; Mr. Brocklesby, COMMUNICATIONS not noticed in our present issue will receive attention Grimsby ; Mr. Williams, Oxford ; Mr. Hardy, Huntley; Mr. Ralph, in our next. Walthamstow ; Mr. Lloyd, Llanarthney; Messrs. 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