in question may be rescinded, or that a certificate of proficiency Secondly, because the public is led to believe that particular in vaccination from a duly-qualified surgeon may be recognised classes of disease can be more successfully treated in the small by the Council, as is the case with the certificate of practical special institutions than in the general hospitals-an assump- midwifery. And your Memorialists will ever pray, &c. tion directly contrary to evidence; the fact being, that the (Signed.) resources of the general hospitals are in every respect superior to those of the special institutions alluded to. Thirdly, because it is essential for the interests of the public, with a view to the efficient education of students preparing SPECIAL HOSPITALS. themselves for the practice of the medical profession, that all forms of disease should, as far as possible, be collected in the WE, the undersigned, are of opinion that much detriment to general hospitals to which medical schools are attached. the public and to the medical profession arises from the modern As an example that the evil referred to is increasing, we practice of opening small institutions, under the name of hos- regret to observe that an attempt is being made to set on foot pitals, for particular forms of disease, in the treatment of which a Special Hospital for the treatment of Stone and Diseases of no other management, appliance, or attention is required than the Urinary Organs. We desire to express our opinion that is already supplied in the existing general hospitals. such an institution is especially unnecessary; the existing The practice is injurious, first, because in the maintenance ofgeneral hospitals provide ample accommodation for the treat- numerous small establishments the funds designed for the direct ment of all these maladies; no case is ever refused admission relief of the sick poor are wasted in the useless multiplication into them there are no diseases which receive more care, of expensive buildings, salaries, and hospital appliances, and attention, and skilful management; and there are no men in in the custom of constantly advertising to attract public at- this or any other country who have greater experience in treat- tention. ing them than the surgeons of our general hospitals. London. London continued.)) London-(continued.)) London-(continued.)) Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., Edward Cock. Francis Hird. T. B. 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over old yet the connexion between PARISIAN MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE. again by practitioners, these separate symptoms or elements had never been estab- (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) lished, or even suggested, until the year 1833. At this period, and now only twenty-seven years ago, Dr. Graves, in Ireland, A VERY interesting clinical lecture was delivered last week Dr. Basedow, in Germany, simultaneously, and unknown to existence of the at the H6tel Dieu, by Professor Trousseau, on a complaint in- one another, announced to the profession the above-named hitherto unobserved, or both for its rarity of occurrence and from the singular pathological condition, teresting at all events and unnamed. The symptoms which concatenation of its This disease, " exophthalmic unrecognised symptoms. characterize this peculiar affection are met with in three organs as is seems for to have goitre," it styled, many years escaped which have to all appearance but little in common: the eye, the notice of clinical observers; and although the separate ele- the thyroid, and the heart, all undergo more or less extensive ments of which it consists had no doubt been seen over and changes, partly functional and partly organic in all. The eyes 575