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Direktor der Klinik und Poliklinik fiir Ohren- und Kehlkopf- kranke in Rostock. Mit einem Vorwort von Ernst von Bergmann. Dritte, vollstandig umgearbeitete und vermehrte Auflage. Price 7s., or M. 7. Appointments. Bericht uber die Neunundzwanzigste Versammlung der Ophthal- Gesellschaft. 1901. Unter mologischen Heidelberg, Mitwirkung Successful Vacancies, Secretaries Public von W. sen., E. von und Th. durch applicants for of Institution8, Hess, Hippel, Leber; redigirt others suitable this are A. Price 8s. or M. 8.60. and poaseasing information for column, Wagenmann. 9d., invited to it to THE LANCET directed to the Sub- Schwindel. Von Dr. Rudolf Ohrenarzt und Oberarzt am jorward Office, Panse, not later than 9 o’clock on the each Diakonissenhaus Dresden-Neustadt. Sonder-Abdruck aus Zeit- Editor, Thursday morning of week, in the next number. schrift ftir Ohrenheilkunde, Band xli. Price Is. 6d., or M. 1.20. for publication Grundriss zum Studium der Geburtshiilfe. In Achtundzwanzig und Bildlichen Vorlesungen Fiinfhundert-fiinfundsiebenzig A. has been Von Dr. Ernst Ord. Professor und ANDERSON, J., M.B., C.M. Edin., re-appointed Medical Darstellungen. Bumm, Officer of Health to the Rural District Council. Direktor der Universitiits-Frauenklinik in Halle A.S. Price Wortley 14s., JEHAN M.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. Lond., has been or M. 14. BARLET, M., Eng., appointed Resident Medical Officer to the French Hospital, 172, Shaftesbury- CHURCHILL, J. & A., 7, Great Marlborough-street, W. avenue, W.C. C.M. has been Medical St. Thomas’s New series. Edited Dr. Hector BROWN, WILLIAM, M.D., Glasg., appointed Hospital Reports. by Officer to the Children’s Home of the Bristol Board of Guardians Mackenzie and Mr. G. H. Makins, C.B. Vol. xxix. Price 8s. 6d. at Staple Hill. BUTLER. G. E., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointed Health GLAisHER, HENRY J., 57, Cavendish-square, W. and Medical Officer for Montagu, Tasmania. Wigmore-street, has been Clinical Illustrations of Diseases of the Tubes and of MCCARROLL, J., M.B., B.Ch., R.U.I., appointed Casualty Fallopian Medical Officer of the Middlesex Tubal A series of with Hospital. Early Gestation. drawings descriptive A. has been text and histories of the cases. Charles J. PEATLING, V., B.A., M.B., B.C. Cantab., appointed By Cullingworth, Medical Officer to the Carshalton Obstetric to St. Honorary Cottage Hospital. M.D., Hon. D.C.L. Durh., F.R.C.P., Physician C. M.B. has been Vaccinator for the Thomas’s . Third Price PIKE, J., Lond., appointed Regis- Hospital, edition, revised. tration District of Tasmania. 10s. 6d. net. Launceston. PURCHAS, FREDERICK MAURICE, M.B. Edin., has been appointed a Port GOOD, CHARLES, AND COMPANY, Burleigh-street, Strand, W.C. Health Officer for the.Port of Kaipara, New Zealand. RIGBY, F. C.M. has been Medici: 1901. a W., M.B., Edin., appointed Certifying Surgeon Religio Religio Scientiæ, Religio Vitee, By under the Act for the District of Lancashire. Student of Science and 1849-1899. 3s. Factory Bacup Medicine, Price 6d. ROWNTREE, C. W., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointed Officer to the Middlesex Unter den Berlin, N.W. Casualty Surgical Hospital. HtxscawazD, AUGUST, Linden, 68, STEWART, J., L.R.C.S. Irel., has been appointed Public Vaccinator for Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen iiber die Ruhr (Dysenterie). the Municipal Districts of Hamilton and Bothwell, Tasmania, and Die Ruhrepidemie auf dem Truppenubungsplatz Doberitz im Medical Officer of Health at Hamilton. Jahre 1901 und die Ruhr im Ostasiatischen Expeditionskorps. VOWELL, CHARLES MARTIN, M.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. Edin., has been in der Zusammengestellt Medizinal-Abtheilung des Koniglich appointed a Public Vaccinator for the District of Opunake, New Preussischen Kriegsministeriums. Price M.10. Zealand. WRIGHT, JOHN ALDRAN, M.A., M.D. Cantab., has been appointed’ KIMPTON, HENRY, 13, Furnival-street, Holborn, E.C. Assistant Physician to Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The Diagnosis of ’Surgical Diseases. By Dr. E. Albert, late Director and Professor of the First Surgical Clinic at the Univer- sity of Vienna. Authorised translation of the eighth enlarged and revised edition by Robert T. Frank, A.M., M.D. Price 18s. net. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin. By John V. Shoe- maker, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Skin and Venereal Diseases in Vacancies. the Medico-Chirurgical College and Hospital of Philadelphia. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Price 21s. net. For further information regaraing each vacancy reference ahozcld be LAXE, JOHN, The Bodley Head, London and New York. made to the advertisement (see Index). The Book of Vegetables. By George Wythes, V.M.H., Head Gardener to the Duke of K.G. with Northumberland, Together BATH ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL.-House £80 on the and of the Surgeon. Salary per- chapters History Cookery Vegetables. By and editor Price 2s. 6d. net. annum, with board, lodging, washing. (Harry Roberts). BEVERLEY EAST RIDING LuNATIC ASYLUM.-Assistant Medical Officer, unmarried. to £ 195 with MASSON ET 120, Boulevard Paris. Salary £165, increasing per annum, CIE, Saint-Germain, board, and Traitement. et E. lodging, washing. Les Ties et leur Par Henry Meige Feindel. BIRKENHEAD UNION INFIRMARY, WORKHOUSE, AND SANITORIUM.- Preface de M. Ie Professeur Brissaud. Price 6 francs. Resident Assistant Medical Officer. Salary £120 per annum, with board, washing, and apartments. REALE ACCADEMIA DEI LINCEI, Rome. BIRMINGHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL.--Three House Physicians, each for Patologia Embrionale Infettiva. Intorno alla Fisiopatologia six months, renewable. Salary at rate of £50 per annum, with dell’ Embrione di Pollo. Memoria I del Corrispondente, Angelo residence, board, and washing. Also House Surgeon for six .Nlaffucei. Price not stated. months. Salary at rate of C50 per annum, with residence, board, and washing. SH’XDERS, W. B., AND Co., Philadelphia and London. BIRMINGHAM QuEEN’s HOSPITAL,-House Surgeon. Salary at rate of Atlas and Epitome of Operative Surgery. By Dr. Otto Zucker- E50 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing. kandl, Privat-docent in the University of Vienna. Second BRIGHTON, HOVE, AND PRESTON DISPENSARY.-Two House Surgeons. edition, revised and enlarged. Authorised translation from the Salary £160 per annum, with apartments, washing, and attendance- German. Edited by J. Chalmers Da Costa, M.D., Professor of BRISTOL ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN AND WOMEN.-HOUSE the Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery in Jefferson Surgeon. Salary 2120 per annum, with rooms and attendance. Medical College, Philadelphia. Price 15s. net. CAMBRIDGE ADDENBROOKE’s HOSPITAL.-Senior House Surgeon for Diseases of the Nose, Pharynx, and Ear. By Henry Gradle, M.D., six months. Salary at rate of ,c50 a year, with board, lodging, and’ Professor of Ophthalmology and 0 tology in the North-western washing. University Medical School, Chicago. Price 15s. net. CHICHESTER INFIRMARY.-House Surgeon. Salary £100 per annum,. Nothnagel’s Encyclopedia of Practical Medicine. Diphtheria, by with board, lodging, and washing. William P. Northrup, M.D.; Measles, Scarlatina, German DEVONPORT ROYAL ALBERT HOSPITAL.-Resident Medical Officer, un- Measles, by Theodor von Jurgensen, M.D., Professor of Medicine married. Salary £110 per annum, with board and lodgings. at the University of Tfibingen. Edited, with additions, by EAST LONDON HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN AND DISPENSARY FOR WOMEN, William P. Northrup, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics in the Glamis-road, Shadwell, E.-Medical Officer for the Casualty University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Department for six months. Salary at rate of ,clOO per annum, Authorised translation from the German, under the editorial and luncheon. Also Assistant Surgeon. supervision of Alfred Stengel, M.D., of Pennsylvania. Price 21s. GRAVESEND HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary £ 90 per annum, with net. board and residence. GREAT NORTHERN CENTRAL HOSPITAL, Holloway, N.-Senior House- SCOTTISH MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOUBXAL, THE, LIMITED, Edinburgh. Surgeon for six months. Salary at rate of E60 per annum, with The Scottish Medical and Surgical Journal. Edited by Norman board, lodging, and washing. Also Junior House Physician fo Walker, M.D., F.R.C.P. Edin., and Harold J. Stiles, M.B. three months. Salary at rate of £30 per annum, with board F.R.C.S.Edin. Vol. x. (January to June). Price not stated. lodging, and washing. HAMPSTEAD HOSPITAL.-Resident Medical Officer for six months. SrOcK, ELLIOT, 62, Paternoster-row, E.C. Salary at rate of ,c120 per annum, with rooms, coal, and gas. A Lady Nurse of . By Frederick James Gant, F.R.C.S., HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, Virginia Water, to the Free Vice-President Surrey.-Junior Assistant Medical Officer. Salary ,c150 per annum, Consulting Surgeon Royal Hospital, to and attendance. of the Royal British Nurses’ Association. Price Is. net. rising £200, with board, lodging, HOSPITAL OF ST. FRANCIS, New Kent-road, S.E.-Two Casualty Medical Officers. J. AND IL, 54, North, TAYLOR, Tenby-street Birmingham. HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, Great Ormond-street, London, W.C.- The Key to Sight-testing: A Supplement to the Practical House Surgeon, unmarried, for six months. Salary ,c20, washing Optician’s Guide. By Harry L. Taylor (author of the Practical allowance J32 10s., with board and residence. Optician’s Guide) and William S. Baxter. Price not stated. HULL ROYAL INFIBMARY.—Casualty House Surgeon for not less than six months. Salary B80, with board and lodging. WILLIAMS AND NORGATE, 14, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, W.C. HUNTINGDON COUNTY HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary at rate of Studies in Heterogenesis. By H. Charlton Bastian, M.A., M.D., E50 or ;E60 per annum (according to stay), lodging, and allowances. F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of the Principles and Practice of INGHAM INFIRMARY AND SOUTH SHIELDS AND WESTOE DISPENSARY.- Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in University College, London. Junior House Surgeon. Salary £75 per annum, with residence, Second Part. Price 7s. 6d. - board, and washing. -, 124

LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY.—Resident Ophthalmic Officer. Salary £50 a year, with board and lodging. LIVERPOOL, CITY OF, INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITALS.-Two Assistant Resident Medical Officers, unmarried. Salary £120 per annum each, with board, washing, and lodging. Notes, Short Comments, and Answers LIVERPOOL DAVID LEWIS NORTHERN HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon. Salary R70 per annum, with residence and maintenance. Also Honorary Anaesthetist. to LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.—Assistant Surgeon, unmarried. Salary ;EI00 Correspondents. per annum, with board and apartments. LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL, Liverpool-road, Islington, N.-Physician. A PLEA FOR THE FINAL YEAR STUDENT. Also Assistant Phvsician. LONDON HOSPITAL, Whitechapel, E.-Assistant Physician. To the Editors of THE LANCET. "LONDON TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL.-Assistant Resident Medical Officer SIRS,—It was with a feeling of disappointment that I read the for six months. Honorarium at rate of 50 guineas per annum, criticisms on my former letter by Dr. N. F. Stallard. I had hoped with board, residence, and washing. MANCHESTER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, Pendlebury.- Medical Officer. that if an adverse expression of opinion were necessary some senior member our Salary ,c180 per annum. of profession would have given it, but this NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYSED AND EPILEPTIC (Albany maintained silence leads me to believe, possibly with presumption. Memorial), Queen-square, Bloomsbury.-Pathologist. Honorarium that part, if not the whole, of my letter has found favour in their 50 annum. guineas per eyes. With your kind permission I shall endeavour to reply to NEWPORT AND MONMOUTHSHIRE HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary those criticisms. As regards pharmacy I still adhere to my opinion ,clOO per annum, with board and residence. that two hours’ work in that could make a student of NORTH-EASTERN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney-road, N.E.- subject House Surgeon for six months. Salary at rate of ,cSO per annum, average ability prescribe with facility any necessary drug, as the art with board, residence, and laundry. of combining medicines belongs more to materia medica than NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE INFIRMARY AND EYE HOSPITAL, Harthill, to pharmacy and a knowledge of their properties must be acquired House for six months. Stoke-upon-Trent.-Assistant Surgeon prior to their use. If. as Dr. Stallard asserts, we would be at the and and at least £25 as honorarium. Board, apartments, washing, of the I fail to see in NORTH-WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Kentish Town-road. - Assistant mercy dispensing chemist, any humility Surgeon. appealing to the judgment of men who are, and have to be, better NOTTINGHAM GENERAL DISPENSARY.-Senior Resident Surgeon, un- versed in the art of pharmacy and materia medica than the average married. Salary JB200 per annum, increasing by R15 every year. medical man, and in this country more attention is, as a rule, paid to Also Assistant Resident Surgeon, unmarried. Salary ,c160 per prescribing what will relieve and cure a patient than to elegance in R10 with annum, increasing by every year, apartments, attendance, writing prescriptions, which latter accomplishment involves very slight and fuel in each case. light, brain exertion on the of the writer. His and com- -ST. GILES (CAMBERWELL) INFIRMARY, Havil-street, Camberwell, and part argument WORKHOUSE at Gordon-road, Peckham.-Assistant Superintendent. parisons as to biology and pathology constituting the A B C of our Salary ,c150 per annum, with apartments, board, and washing. professional training are really too absurd, as pathology, which is Also Third Assistant Medical Officer. Salary £50, with apartments, rendered compulsory in the final of most curricula, could hardly for board, and washing. that reason lay claim to a position in the medical alphabet, and the ST. MARY’S W.-Assistant HOSPITAL, Paddington, Ophthalmic too numerous from its matter must Surgeon. divergent opinions arising subject SALOP INFIRMARY.—Assistant House Surgeon for six months. Salary always prohibit it from being standardised. In the same way biology, at rate of R50 per annum, with board and apartments. which only within the past few years has become a part of the SOMERSET AND BATH ASYLUM, Cotford, Taunton.-Assistant Medical curriculum, and did not enter into the studies of most of our present day Officer, unmarried. Salary ;E160 per annum, rising to JB200, with teachers, cannot, with justice, lay claim to being part of the early &c. apartments, board, foundation of a science which has been known and practised for HANTS AND SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL.--Junior House SOUTH (ROYAL) centuries. In should be called the Surgeon for six months. Salary JE60 per annum, with rooms, my opinion anatomy rightly alphabet board, and washing. of the profession. I admit that I have indeed heard of the serum BTOCKPORT INFIRMARY.-Junior Assistant House Surgeon for six treatment of diphtheria but, personally, I have little faith in it, as, if months. Salary at rate of £40 per annum, with board, washing, one hears of pneumonia, pertussis, and follicular tonsillitis, &c., being and residence. diagnosed and treated with the now familiar " needle in the back" and STROUD GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House ,cSO per annum, Surgeon. Salary serum and with, needless to brilliant results, one with board, lodging, and washing. injection, observe, SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL, Brighton.-Second House Surgeon and can hardly wonder at the astonishing numerous statistics adduced in Anaesthetist, unmarried. Salary ;ESO per annum, with board and its favour. For the benefit of Dr. Stallard’s future experience let me residence. say that real genuine diphtheria is a comparatively rare disease, and, ’SWANSEA GENERAL AND EYE HOSPITAL.—Resident Medical Officer, in my opinion, fatal in children of tender years; after puberty the with and attendance. Salary .E75. board, apartments, washing, anatomical changes in the throat render a more favourable prognosis WESTON-SUPER-MARE HOSPITAL.-House ,clOO r Surgeon. Salary per for the sufferer. The of the bacillus of tuberculosis in a annum, with board and residence. recognition phthisical patient is, to my mind, of practically no importance for the following reasons-viz., the bacillus can do no harm unless the host has an hereditary predisposition to the disease and, also, once phthisis has developed under the same conditions, very little except of a Births, Marriages, and Deaths. palliative nature can be done for the patient. It has yet to be proved to my satisfaction that phthisis is curable and that the bacillus is the BIRTHS. direct cause of the disease, which some pathologists imagine it to be. AUSTIN ROBINSON.-On June 8th, at The Sanatorium, Durban, Natal,t. As regards sending a consumptive to a sanatorium, fully as much Dr. Lilian, wife of F. Austin Robinson, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., &c., of benefit, in my opinion, can be derived from sending him or her to the a daughter. seaside, or on a sea as it is a well-known fact that GREENWOOD.—On July 2nd, at Grantham, the wife off long voyage, phthisical Corby, under those conditions a certain amount of health and A. C. Greenwood, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., of a daughter. subjects regain MACKINTOSH.—On July 6th, at Corner House, Platts-lane. Hampstead,) may live for a score of years, and that being so, why make a speciality the wife of J. S. Mackintosh, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., of)f of the "open-air treatment"? I venture to predict that after a few a son. years’ busy practice Dr. Stallard will considerably modify his views on MAIN.-On June 25th. at Brook House, Bollington, Cheshire, the wifes certain points and begin to think that, after all, certain diseases are of D. W. of a son. Main, M.B., Ch.B.Vict., in so formidable as are in and if he Ross.-On June 30th, at Edith-road, West Kensington, the wife of not, practice, they depicted theory, and treats his cases more from a clinical than from a microbic Alfred Ross, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Edin., of a son. views STABB.—On July 2nd, at 57, Queen Anne-street, W., the wife off standpoint he will have better results in his practice. With reference to Ewen C. Stabb, F.R.C.S., of a son. the use of antiseptics I may add, en passant, that I would use them under no conditions as they are entirely unnecessary where there is MARRIAGES. an abundance of clean water and soap present. Apologising for this BOOKER—MAY.—On July 5th, at St. Mary’s, Kelvedon, , Charles lengthy letter, I am, Sirs, yours faithfully, William Booker, F.R.C.S. Eng., of Witley. Surrey, to Ada R. H. D. POPE, L.R.C.S. Irel. Constance, third daughter of the late George May, Tiptree Hall. Belfast, June 16th, 1902. HATHAWAY—BUNYARD.—On July 2nd, at St. Mary Magdalene’s St. the Rev. Edward Church, Leonards-on-Sea, by Clowes, rector, THE OF IRISH assisted by the Rev. Morris Roberts, vicar of St. Matthias, Poplar, HOLIDAYS POOR-LAW MEDICAL OFFICERS. Frank John Hathaway, M.B., Ch.B. Edin., of Mottingham, Kent, To the Editors of THE LANCET. youngest son of the late J. Hathaway, Esq., of Allahabad, to Rose Mabel, third daughter of Thomas Bunyard, Esq., cf St. Leonards- SIRS,-I see in your issue of June 28th, p. 1868, a notice of the on-Sea. correspondence, &c., which I forwarded to you relative to my RUSBY—WEIGHT.—On the 3rd inst, at St. John the Divine, , difficulty in obtaining annual leave from the Abbeyleix board E. L. M. Rusby, M.B. Lond., to Katherine Helen, daughter of of guardians and the Local Government Board, which I beg leave Mr. G. Wright. to thank you for having inserted in your journal At the same time I must draw attention to some on which DEATH. your points you appear to be under misapprehension. First, the heading under -