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ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF . Arthur Grayling, St. George’s Hospital and Epsom College ; Henry Louis Preston Hardy, London Hospital and private study; George Wm. The followingfollmwiri gentlemen,rtn having passed the requiredea- ex- Hill, King’s College and private study ; Jonathan Hntchmson and amination for the were duly admitted Members David Johu Rygate, London Hospital ; Leonard Frank I’Anson, Fredk. diploma, Herbert Harold and Lockhart Edward Walker of theMe C f the Court of Examiners held Lane, Bailey Shaw, ollege.1 at meetings Stephens, Epsom College; William Thomas Maddison, King’s College: during the last and present weeks Richard Prothero, Medical School and St. Bartholomew’s Arthur, Walter, L.S.A., Oakley-street. Hospital; William Sellers, University of ; Frederick Wallis, Atkey, William T., Chichester. Stoddart, University College, Bristol; St. Clair Thomson, private tuition Bathe, Anthony I., Purton. Wilts, and study. Battle, William Henry, Lincoln. Sacoxn DIVISION.—Alfred James Granville Barker, Pramatha Nath Bennett, Arthur, Stawell, Victoria. Bose, John Roberson Day, Edmund Jesse D bell, Charles D.wning, Berdoe Edward, L R.C.P, Victoria-park.road Sydney John Hickson, William Havelock Hill, t ugene Arthur Laurent, Bigg, George K S.,L.S A.,Wimpole-street. James Samuel McDonagh, Alfred Derw, nt Maitland, Henry Wilkinson Bla(-kman,.Iosi,th G., L S.A., Southampton. Newsholme, and Lauriston Elgie Shaw, University College; William, Budler, Charles F., Cape of Good Hope. Job Collins, John Alfred Gray, Frederic Maude, Arthur Guy Salmon, and Charles St. Bartholomew’s Dobson and Clark, John G., L.S.A., West Hartlepool.* Sanders, Hospital; Juseph Coffin, Thomas W., Earl’s-court-road. James Atkinson Hosker, private study; John Fle cher, Isaac Searth, Collier, Herbert, L.R.C.P. Edin., Turnham-green. and Arthur Thomas Wills, Owens College; Francis Hi kman, Uiliver. Herbert Lister and John Richmond, Coumbe, John H. L R.C.P,, Plymouth.’ sity (f Edinburgh; Joseph Guy’s Basil Leeds Sch ol of Thomas Crip ; s, Charles C., HriRtol. Hospital; Richard Morley, Medicine; Dalton, Charles G., L.S.A., Lincoln. Pemberton Pemberton, Queen’s College, Birmingham; Samuel Rat- Dale, Henry R., St. George’s-square. beth, King’s College; John Alexander Shaw, University College and Davies, Louis W., Carmarthen. private study. De Bertrand Hammersmith.Hammersmith, DeLantour,BertrandE.,Lautour E., APOTHECARIES’APOTHECARIES HALL. -The- The Duncan, John T., Tunbrfdge Wells. fOllowingtOliOWing gentlemen Dunstan, William, L.S.A., Brixton. passed the examination in the Science and Practice of Medi- Edgelow, Samuel H., Savile-row. cine and received certificates to practise on the 26th inst.:- Fraser Greeme B., Weston-super-Mare. Brown, Alexander Stewart, Leamington. , Fulford, John, Melbourne. Collet, Golding Bird, Western Ophthalmic Hospital. Gimlette George H. 0., Southsea, Hants. Devis, Charles James, King’s Heath, Birmingham. Alexander G. P., Lonsdale-square. Harran, James, Nelson-street, Leicester. Chpps,Golland, Alfred, Oxford. Instone, Samuel Vaughan, Addison-road, Kensington. Hadden, Walter B., Liverpool. Stewart, Howard Douglas, St. James’s-gardens-square-creseent. Hammond, Thomas, Whitehaven. Harding, Arthur, Warminster. The following gentlemen also passed the Primary Pro. Harle, William 1. V., L.S.A., Hackney. fesstional Examination:- Hawkins, Caesar F., Bristol. Charles Firmin Cuthbert and James B. Rusher, St. Bartholomew’s Hor- Heath, William L., Totnes, Devon. pital ; Harvey Robins, St. Mary’s Hospital; Leonard W. Sutton and Hinton, James T., Croydon, Surrey. William F. Haslam, St. Thomas’s Hospital. Hodgson, George G., LiverpooL . Holland, Philip A., Oxford. [In the list off gentlemen who passed the Primary Pfo- Hyde, Samuel, Buxton, Derbyshire. feasional Examination at Apothecaries’ H-tll on the 19th Inman, Robert E., L.S.A., Hackney-road. ult., the name "Arthur E. R. Bower" should have been Instone, Samuel V., L.S.A., Addison-road. Jaynes, Victor A., Gloucester. An.Arthur E. B.R. Bowen.jBowen] THE of the Medical of London will Keer,Lowdell, 1. Cordy,Charles L.S.A., G. W., Wickham Wadhurst, Market. Sussex. library Society William be closed from the 6th to the 5th Maberly, H, Leamington. ’ August September. Makern, John, L.R.C.P. Lond., Blackheath. Maybury, Lysander, Frimley, Surrey. DR. GEORGE HARE PHILIPSON, M.A., F.R,.Cr.p,y Miller, Richard s., Lowestoft. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has been placed upon the Com. Neale, John E., St. John’a-wood. mission of the Peace, for the town and County of Newcastle. Neylan, John, Ennis, Co. Clare.- upon.Tyne. Niekoll, John S., Mrlton, near Gravesend. Norman, Reginald, Manton, Rutlandshire. AT a specials eczal meetingmeetin of the governorsovernors of thCthe Norton, Ritchie R., Carmarthen. Brighton and Hove Provident Dispensary, held at the Town- Pain, Alfred, Bridgewater. a resolution was to extend its Pemberton, Robert, Madras. hall, Brighton, ptissed opera- Pinder John W., Cleethorpe, Lincoln. tions so as to include the e whole 0 the parish of Preston Potts, Lawrence, L S.A., Beckenham. situated within the borough. Dr. Wooldridge was appointed Thomas E. L.R.C.P. Prideaux, 1’., Lond, Scarborough. the medicalmedica.! ofiicerofficer fortor the new district. Proctor, S. Fitzgerald, L.R.C.P. Edin., West Indies. Trinidad, ’ Quicke, William J., 1,.S.A, Exeter. Ross, Richard A., Brighton. --- Sheldon, Thomas S., Congleton, Cheshire. Sheppard, Charles E., Addison-gardens. Shilpton, Arthur. Buxton. Smith, Hugh, L.S.A., Wimpole-street. Medical Appointements. Stock, Gregory, Bristol. Sutton, Thomas S., L.S.A., Thame, Oxon. BENNETT, A., M.B., C.M., L.R.C.P.L., M.R.C.S. & L A.C., has been appointed- Taylor, Harold G, Queen’s-road. House Surgeon to the London Hospital, vice Price, resigned. Tritton, William P, Kilburn-park. BRABAZON, A. B., M.D., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Healtll Vachell, Edward S, Bath. for the Bath Urban Sanitary District for one year. Vachell, Herbert R., L.S.A., Llandaff. CANTLIE Dr. J., has been appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Verdon, Michael John, Craven-street. Charing-cross Hospital Medical School vice Godlee, resigned. Von Beverhoudt, William T. H., Plymouth. CEELY, R. W., M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A.L., has been appointed Assistant Medical Wagstaffe, John P., L.S.A., Dalston. Officer to the Haydock Lodge Lunatic Asylum, near Newton-le- Wallis, Percy E, Hartfield, Sussex. Willows. Weller, John, L.S A., Amersham. CURWEN, C., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed House-Surgeon to the Malt Weekes, F. Henry, L,S,A., Auckland, New Zealand. Lock Hospital, vice Cooper, resigned. Wilmot, Thomas, L. H.C. P. Edin., Fenton, Lincolnshire. DEAN, T. N., M.R.C.S.L., L.S.A., has been appointed Consulting- Surgeoll Wishart, John, Ontario, Canada. to the Ardwick and Ancoats Hospital and Dispensary, Manchester, at Woods, Arthur A. Belfast. resigning as Honorary Surgeon. Yoshida, Kenzo Hidenari, Japan. DOUGLAS, C., L.R.C.P.L., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for the No. 1 District of the Leicester Union, vi e Derington, resigned. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—The following is a lisj.FITZGERALD,of D. L., M.B., C.M., has been appointed Medica] Officer, Publie the candidates ho have the recent Vaccinator, &11., for the Templemichael Dispensary District of the passed Preliminary vice Scientific E?tu,sninatiW :- Youghal Union, Garde, resigned. (M B ) FziEND, F. W., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for the FIRST DIVISION. — Edwin Leonard Adeney, Harry Poole Berry, Oswald Hoxne District of the Hoxne Union, Suffolk. James Currie, Charles txross Charles Skinner Harper, William Lane, HANNAn, N., L.R.C.P.E., L.F.P.S.G., has been appointed Medical Officer Michael O’Kane, John Srttith, and Joseph Jas. Udale, Guy’s Hospital; and Public Vaccinator for the Ashton-in-Makerfield District, Wigan Charles Alfred Ballauce and Arthur John Jefferson, St. Thomas’s Hos- Union, vice Mather, resigned. pital ; Alex. Barron, Joseph Clegg, Wm. Radford Dakin, Thomas Harris, JOULE, Mr. J. S., has been appointed Physician’s-Assistant and Pathologist Wm. Heaton Horrocks, Wm. Henry Horrocks, Hyde Marriott, John to the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital, vice Pinnell, Thomas Rogerson, and Malcolm Webb, Owens College ; John Williams appointed House Physician. Batterham and Desmond Ernest John Mortimer, Westminster Hospital ; LAVER, H., M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A.L., has been appointed a Surgeon to the Isaac Blore, The Leys, Cambridge ; Chas. Edw. Cassal, Lewis Humfrey Essex and Colchester Hospital, vice Partridge. Edmunds, Philip Rhys Griffiths, F. Matthew Holman, Arthur Hamilton LILLEY, G. H., M.D., M.R.C.P.L., has been appointed Assistant Medical Nicholson Lewer, Siduey Harris Cox Martin, Herbert Percy Miller, Officer to the Warwickshire Luuatic Asylum, Hatton, vice Jones, Paul Frank Moline. Lionel Philip Purton, Richard Pritchard Roberts, resigned. Edgar March Crookshank, and George Henry Whitelegge, University McDBEMOTT, W. L., M.D., L.R.C.S.Ed., has been appointed Medical Officer, College ; Henry Francis Corbould and Henry Hoole, Charing-cross Public Vaccinator, &c., for the Ballyfeard Dispeusary District of the Hospital; Donald Douglas Day, George Parsons Naylor Dixon, John Kinsale Union, co. Cork. Hughes-Junes, Rubert Jones, Bernard Rice, Edward Rice, Francis NUNN, T. W., P.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Consulting Surgeon to tht Harper Treherne, and John Whiting, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; City Provident Dispensary and Surgical Appliance Association. 185

PALMER, T. D., L.R.C.P.’Rd., L.F.P.S.G., has been appointed Medical Attendant to the Royal Irish Constabulary, Sligo, and Surgeon to the Duke of Connaught’s Own Artillery Militia, vice Devany, deceased. Notes, Comments, and Answers to PARTRIDGE, J. H., M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A.L., has been appointed a Consulting Short Surgeon to the Essex and Colchester Hospital, upon retiring in ac- cordan·e with Ih,. rules. Correspondents. RIORDAN, T. F., M.D., has been appointed Resident Medical Officer and Apothecary to the Cork Union WOl’khouse, vice Hayes, resigned. PAPER SPLINTS. ROLSTON, P. W., M.R.C.S.E. & L.M., L.S.A.L., has been appointed Medical Officer and Pnblic Vaccinator for the No. 4 District of the St. German’s DR. M. R. SPEARE, of Rochester, New York, calls attention in the American Union, and Medical Officer f Health f r the No. 4 Sub-district of the Journal of the Medical Sciences, for July to his fixed splint for fractures St. German’s Rttrai Sanitary District, vice Littleton, deceased. of the lower extremity and sprains of the ankle joint. For the purpose he & has been Medical WHITE, W., L.K.Q.C.P.I. L.M., L.R.C.S.L, appointed employs strong Manilla-paper and bookbinders’ starch, which consists of Officer to the Workhouse, Celbridge Union, co. Kildare, vice O’Kelly, deceased. flour and water boiled to the consistence of,jelly. The piper is prepared by cutting it into strips long enough to encircle the limb at its greatest cir- cumference, and varying from half an inch to an in h and a quarter in width. An assistant with the starch and a brush being at hand, a flannel Births, Marriages, and Deaths. roller is applied as far as the splint is intended to reach; the roller is then smeared with the starch, the strips of paper are applied-after star,hing- BIRTHS. like a many-tailed bandage, and layer upon layer of starch is applied until the requisite thickness is obtained. When the apparatus is dry, which BUTTERCASE.—On the 27th ult., at Dudley, Northumberland, the wife of will take two or three hours by the aid of hot bricks or sand-bags on each Robert Buttercase, M.B., C.A!.. of a daughter. FINNY.—On the 30th ult., at Lower Baggot-street, Dublin, the wife of John side of the splint, it is, Dr. Speare says, very light and comfortable, fitting Magee Finny, M.D., ot a son. like a stocking, and is as firm as the same thickness of wood. It is claimed FRANKLIN.—On te 28th ult., at Leicester, the wife of George C. Franklin, for the paper splint that it is superior t either plaster of Paris or the of a son. F.R.C.S., starch bandage ; also that it can be cut open as it GAFF.—On the 29th ult., at Ardrossan, the wife of James Dobbie Gaff, M.D., ordinary easily get. a of a son. loose, and, after taking away strip, may again be applied, and held by MOORE.—On the 30th ult., at Portpatrick, the wife of J. T. Moore, M.D., of adhesive plaster. of a Glasgow, daughter. Mr. Arthur Richardson will find the letter inserted in our present number. RAYNER.—On the 23rd ult., at Tiviot Dale, Stoekport, the wife of Edwin Rayner, M.D., f a daughter. SEAMAN.—On the 22nd ult., at Ramsgate, the wife of W. C. Seaman, M.D., ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE. Deputy Insp ctor-General of Hospitals, of a daughter. To the Editor of THE LANCET. THALE.—On the 26th ult., at Belvoir-terrace, Scarborough, the wife of John W. Teale, ot a daughter. SIR,—I venture to think that the army doctors are far from being wise In WILKINSON.—On the 24th ult., at Silver-street, Lincoln, the wife of Thomas their generation. They have had their wrongs and their grievance3 no doubt. .M. of a son. Wilkinson, L.R.C.P.Ed., But to what is a continuance of this grumbling likely t) lead ? Let UJ suppose that the medical service’fails to attract a how on earth i. MARRIAGES. single candidate, that to improve the condition of the existing doctors Mr. Hardy may BARNES—MARTEN.—On the 31st at St. ult., George’s Church, Canterbury, double or the pay he oflers t int candidates, or do any other the Rev. Waterman Gardner Curate of quadruple ending by Waterman, M.A., Harrietsham, most of all for him to assisted by the Rev. N. H. illcGaclien, Rector of the Parish, Arthur improbable thing ; but the improbable thing would be Richard Harne-, M.B., of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, fifth son of do anything more for those already in the service so long as this grumbling the late Henry Barues, Esq., of Faveraham, to Mary Elizabeth, youngebt spirit continues. One of two things-a sufficient number of men to fulfil the daughter of Peter Marten, Esq., of Canterbury, and Beach House, present requirements of the service, or the’ ontraction of these requireme ;.ts to Deal, J. P. & L. D. enable him to get them fulfilled by those he doss get. I do not think it would McLEOD—AITKEN.—On the 26th ult., at St. John’s Episcopal Church, be difficult to hazard a surmi:e a, to how the latter might be e ected. Spite Edinburgh, by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Edinburgh, assisted by of much of which I may not approve in the tone 0: Mr. Hardy’s speeches, I the Rev. Henry Maamara, uncle of the bride, Surgeon-Major Kenneth believe that he has strivEn to do his best to content the medical service, and McLeod, Indian Medical Service. to Jane Christie, eldest daughter of it is possible that if we are dissatisfied with the best o ered by a Conservative the late John Chriatie Aitken, Esq., of Christchurch, New Zealand. Government, we may one day have again to taste the worst from a Liberal No cards. Government. I conceive the course that is to be and ____ being adopted impolitic suicidal when regarded from a low point of vie and as worse when regarded -DEATHS. from a high one. The State has surely a perfect right to adopt any organi- sation it and however or har unification have been BRALEY.—On the 23rd at John likes, unwisely hly may ult., High Bentham, Yorkshire, Bradley ell’ected Lord the has been what is now 33. by Cardwell, thing done, and, more, M.R.C.S.E., aged that it is it is for the of the servi:e as a whole. The Government CARRUTHERS. —On the 24’h at done, good ult., Hartwell-park, Northamptonshire, in said to " Here are our We make Thomas late of 27. has, effect, us, requirements. you respon- Carruther-, L.R.C.P.Ed., Elton, Lancashire, aged sible for the which is of too technical character for us to DALGAIRNS.—On the 25th at St. Dr. Charles work, understand." ult., Mildred’s, Weston-on-Sea, And we us su h and su:h and Anderson 52. say, "Very go,,,d; give implements-men Dalgairns, aged leave us alone." To which the Government and set! DAVIES.—On the 23rd at John House- material,-and agrees, ulr,., Holywell, Davies, formerly’ about us in earnest whh the r. to Is and the at the Flint-hire 35. supplying good quisite requisite Surgeon Dispensary, aged to our work in our 1 our DENNE.—On the 15th at John authority carry on way. contend that it is both ult., Winslow, Hucks, Denne, M.R.C.S.E., and our interest to that and do cur or leave the 65. duty accept position, bes’, aged service. Life is not " all beer and skittles" to the best of men under the best the 22nd at in FooT.-On ult., Ludwell, Wilts, Stephen Foot, Surgeon, of but it is made intolerable the and dis- to 80. circumstances; simply by captious practice prior August, 1815, aged contented. The tide is I think. Reasonable who want ex- FORBES.—On the 2lth at turning, men, ult., Greenbank, Auchterarder,,Alexander Forbes, and a few other modifications of 67. changes (properly guarded against abuse) M.D., aged are sick of the and and the GIMLETTE.—ON the 1st at Hart Fleet- existing conditions, grumbling contention, inst., Southsea, Gimlette, M.D., that is made out of a few and discontented aged 54. capital it, by designing men, Surgeon R.N., because cannot better their own are all can to NICHOLSON.—On the 8th at the Hon. Thos. who, they case, doing they ult., Antigua, Nicholson, M.D., injure their neighbours. for many years a Member of the Executive Council, aged 77. Taken as a whole, the new organisation is a really good and wholesome REDFERN.—On the 1,;t ult., at Equimalt, Vaacouvers, Thos..Eedfern, M.D., and of and into far better. H.M.S. 37. change, capable growth development something Surgeon Rocket, aged If the Government can men on their short-service it is TICEHURST.—On the 20th ult., at Hastings, where he had practised for, get system, nothing to us. Meanwhile, if they do not get them, it w 11 fall on us to do their forty-five years, Frederic Ticehurst, Esq., J.P., M.R.C.S.E., in the 68th - work in addition to our own. Yours obediently, year of his age. 1877. AN ARMY DooToR. WEISS.— On the 16th ult., at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, Dr. July, Weiss. Benjamin Dr. N.--The advantages of a.voyage to the colonies have already been dia- WILLIAMS.—On the 24th ult., at St. Martin’s, Colchester, Edward Williams,’ cussed in these columns. We cannot undertake to notice ,any thing in the M.D., aged. 69. ____ shape of a commercial prospectus relating to the subject. is the insertion -Notices [N.B.—A fee of 5s. charged for of of Births, M.B.—Mr. Smith and .Mr. have written treatises on the Marriages, and Deaths.] Henry Allingham subject. "A HINT TO VACCINATORS." To the Editor of THE LANCET. BOOKS ETC. RECEIVED. SIR,—In reply to Dr. JeaSreson’s question, I wish to state that my patient was successfully vaccinated about twenty years prior to last December. Transactions of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia,. He was then unsuccessfully vaccinated from points by a subur an practi- July, 1877. tioner. In February he was vaccinated from a child’s arm by a public vac- Cassel!’s Histnry of India. Part’XX. cinator in town. There was slight irritation, which disappeared, within a W. A B. Grohman: Tyrol and the Tyrolese. week, leaving no marks. In April he ca e to me, and, at the same time - Mary Putman Jarobi, M.D., on the Question of Rest for Womerthat I made the successful blisters, I vaccinated him in the ordinary way in during Menstruation. t.vo places, neither of which had any e .ect. 1 think this history proves, not The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology. July. that my patient was insusceptible to va cination, but that he was insllscep- Dublin University Magazine. August. tible to vaccination done in the usual ma Iller. The American Journal. July. 1 certainly fail to see that your correspondent’s cases " show insuscep- Cassell’s Domestic Dictionary. Part I. tibility." They simply prove the well-known fact of the uncertainty of Monthly Microscopical Journal. August. ordinary vaccination, which uncertainty I claim to be greatly reduced by the Monthly Homeeopathio Review. August. blistering method. Your obedient servant, Folaom: Disease of the Mind. Twickenham, July 30th, 1877. ALBERT BENTHALL.