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B. H. D. Dsms, L.R.C.S.I., has been elected Medical Officer, Public Vacci- nator, and Registrar of Births &c., for the Killybegs Dispensary District of the Glenties Union, Co. Donegal, vice D. Deveny, L.R.C.S.Ed., re- To signed. Correspondents. air. A. DRUMM0ND has been appointed Resident Surgeon-Accoucheur to the General vice Birmingham Dispensary, Thorp, resigned. Hitchin-We have been much gratified by the perusal of a very able and A. EvEBSHED, M.R.C.S.E., has been appuinted Hon. Assistant-Surgeon to the 5th Bedfordshire (Ampthill and Silsoe) Rifle Volunteers. elaborate address delivered by Mr. Foster, surgeon, of Hitchin, at a church Dr. FBTER, L.K.Q.C.P.I., has been appointed Assistant House-Surgeon to conference of the clergy and laity held on Wednesday week last in that St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester. town. We regret that our space does not enable us to transfer to our N. B. has been Medical Officer for the Hock- GRIGG, M.R.C.S.E., appointed columns Mr. Foster’s speech in extenso; but of our readers interested worthy District of the Tiverton Union, Devon. any H. S. HUTCHESON, L.R.C.P.Ed., has been appointed Medical Officer for Dis- I in the subject may gratify themselves in reading it by ordering the Hert- trict No. 7 of the Parish of Lambeth, vice It. Christie, M.R.C.S.E., re- .fordshire Express of Saturday, November 10th. Mr. Foster remarked that signed. he thought it desirable to allude to some of the disadvantages under which has been elected Medical Officer and J. JOHNSTONE L.R.C.P.Ed., Public the poor labour in health, for to these must be attributed much of the Vaccinator for the Nettlebed District of the Henley Union, Oxfordshire, vice W. W. Milligan, L.R.C.P.Ed., resigned. sickness so common amongst them. In a speech of "unadorned eloquence’. A. LEAcn, jun., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for District he pointed out some of these evils. Intemperance and improvidence were Ko. 9 of the Oldham Union, Lancashire, vice T. Morley, L.R.C.P.Ed., the foremost. Then came the wretched dwellings in which they were located: deceased. while the stable, the kennel, and the piggery were constructed on the most E. LLOYD, M.R.C.S.E., has been re-appointed Medical Officer for the South District of the Llandilofawr Union, Carmarthenshire. approved hygienic principles, regardless of expense, the home comforts and B. R. LLOYD, M.R.C.S.E.. has been appointed House-Surgeon to the Peter- ’ conveniences of the poor were too often reduced to a minimum that a land- borough Infirmary, vice H. R. Smith, L.R.C.P.Ed., resigned. lord might have a better investment. With regard to the attendance on the of J. A. LrsH, M.D., has been elected Mayor Salisbury. poor in sickness, Mr. Foster dwelt eloquently on the inadequate payment W. has been elected Medical Public R. PENDLETON, L.K.Q C.P.I., Officer, of Poor-law and met with Vaccinator, and Registrar of Births &c., for the Stillorgan Division of ! surgeons, the little encouragement they from the Black rock and Stillorgan Dispensary District of the Rathaown boards of guardians. He trusted that the efforts now made for the spread Union, Co. Dublin, vice J. F. Pollock, M.B., appointed to the Blackrock of education and moral training would diminish some of these evils. It is Division. only due to the Bishop of the diocese, who presided, to say that he expressed J. P. has been Assistant Medical Officer RicHABDS, M.R.C.S.E., appoiated himself as much to Mr. Foster for his admirable which to the Devon County Hospital. obliged address, B. SIMMONS, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Certifying Factory Surgeon for seemed to have touched the key-note of the subject. the District of Wootton-under-Edge, vice E. A. Kingsley, 3I.R.C.S.E., Young Practitioner.-Churchill’s Manual of Midwifery; Dr. Hassall’s. deceased. W. T. Y. SMITH-, L.R.C.P.Ed., has been appointed Medical Officer to the THE NAVAL MEDICAL SERVICE. Barnsley Union Workhouse, vice R. Ibeson, M.R.C.S.E., deceased. J. SWINDALE, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for the Din- To the Editor of THE LANCET. field District of the Easthampstead Union, Berks, vice W. H. Blenkin- SIR,-I have been informed on reliable authority that the recent Medica sop, L.R.C.P.L., resigned. Warrant, incomplete and unsatisfactory as it is in many respects, is rendered H. TAYLOR, M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer for the Yarmouth Dis- far more so in consequence of one very important clause not having been trict of the Isle of Wight Union, vice E. E. Meeres, M.D., resigned. acted up to, and in fact being altogether ignored, in ships where the officers W. TERRY, M.R.C.S.E , has been appointed Medical Officer for the Grassing- are compelled to reside on shore-as, for example, the drill ships of the naval ton and Kettlewell Districts of the Skipton Union, Yorkshire, vice F. B. reserve. Pring, M.R.C.S.E., deceased. I allude to clause 5, which provides that medical officers are to receive R. P. TicKLBB, L.R.C.P.Ed., has been appointed Medical Officer for the lodging and other allowances in accordance with their relative rank. Yoa West Butterwick District of the Gainsborough Union, Lincolnshire, vice and your readers will see how this clause is carried out by examining the W. M. Trousdale, F.R.C.S.E., resigned. following scale of allowances to officers serving in drill ships, which was ia W. L. WATKINS, L.K.Q.C.P.I., has been elected Medical Officer, Public Vac- existence previous to the issue of the recent Medical Warrant, but which is t( cinator, and Registrar of Births &c., for the Drumlish Dispensary Dis- be adhered to in obedience to their Lordships’ circular, dated 9th October trict of the Longford Union, vice It. C. Gwydir, M.R.C.S.E., resigned. 1866. H. W. WATSON, F.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for the Tan- To Comnaanclera (relative rank, Staff Surgeons). field District of the Lanchester Union, Durham, vice G. S. Thompson, M.R.C.S.E., deceased. Births, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS. On the 12th of Sept., at Port Elliott, South Australia, the wife of Jame! Todman, M.D., of a son. On the 24th of Sept., at Victoria, Hong-Kong, the wife of J. 1. Murray, M.D. It is earnestly to be hoped that in the new Medical Warrant, which is said Colonial Surgeon, of a daughter. to be forthcoming, there will be no evasion in granting these allowances in On the 4th inst., at Weston-super-Mare, the wife of E. E. Earle, M.R.C.S.E. full; otherwise it will be but an additional proof that Admiralty Medical of a son. Warrants are to be still considered as mere delusions and snares to entice On the 5th inst., at Albion-road, Dalston, the wife of R. Barlow, M.R.C.S.E. unfortunate and unsuspecting candidates for the naval medical service. of a daughter. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, On the 6th inst., at Ivy Lodge, Hornsey-road, the wife of A. J. Barker, M.D. London, November, 1866. ANTI.-HUMBUG. prematurely ofa daughter, still-born. On the 6th inst., at the Royal Xaval Hospital, Plymouth, the wife of T. A J. C, W .-It is certainly an act of incivility in a case where a medical practi- Roe, M.D., Surgeon-Superintendent of the British Hospital at Callao, o tioner has a patient in a house where another practitioner is the family a son. attendant, on a consultation being requested by the family, to refuse to On the 8th at the wife of Dr. W. M’Donald, of a son inst., Marvhill, Glasgow, attendant on the of his a On the 10th inst., at Gillingham, Dorsetshire, the wife of E. J. Miles, M.D. meet the family ground being young man. in is no such Sir of a daughter. A Stranger England.-There medicine. A. Cooper never On the 12th inst., at Totnes, the wife of Thos. E. Owen, M.R.C.S., L.S.A. identified his name with a secret remedy. of a son. _____ THE cases of Tetanus by Dr. James More (Rothwell, Northamptonshire) shall MARRIAGES. appear shortly. Enquirer._Yes, the cholera has broken out at the place named. On the 8th inst., at Surbiton, Charles Ignatius Mason, L.R.C.P.L., &c., o to arah second of the lat Surbiton-hill, Surrey, Henrietta, daughter THE VACCINATION ACT. Rev. Chas. Thos. Dawes, Vicar of Dilharne, Staffordshire. On the 8th inst., at Melksham, Chas. Wm. Baines, M.D., of Dursley, to Ann ’I To the Edttor of THE LANCET. Isabella, daughter of John Baines, Esq. SIR,-1 to draw your attention to what I consider an important defect t beg On the 10th inst, at Greenwich, Patrick Kavanagh, M.D., of Deptford, in the Vaccinator’s Register for Scotland (and I am not very sure but the Frederica Ellen, daughter of J. M. Friedburg, Esq. same defect is in the Vaccinator’s Register for England also)-viz., there is M.R.C.S.E. On the 14th inst., at the Parish Church, Whitby, Jas. W. Smith, no space left to insert the residence of the child or its parents, so that it is in L.R.C.P., of Coxwold, son of BV. 13. Smith, Esq., to Martha Anne, eldes its present state comparatively of little use as a reference either to the vacci- daughter of Thos. Thistle, Esq., of Whitby, Yorkshire. nator or the registrar. For illustration: In my district there are several parties of the same name, and not unfrequently it happens that two fathers DEATHS. of the same name get their children vaccinated at or about the same date, their children being also of the sume name. Thus George Morton No. 1 gets On the 12th of Sept., at Jubbulpore, C. F. Hutchinson, L.K.Q.C.P.I., Sta1 his son George Morton vaccinated on the 28th October, 1866, and George Assistant-Surgeon :3rd Foot, sun of Dr. W. Hutchinson, of Carrick-on Morton No. 2 gets his son (also) George Morton vaccinated on the 28th Shannon, aged 28. October, 1866. Now, on referring to these a twelvemonth hence, could any- On the 26th of Sept., Robert Ibeson, 31.R.C.S.E., of Barnsley, Yorkshire. one be certain which was the George Morton re!erred to ? Perhaps the On the 7th inst., Robert Jones, M.R.C.S.E., of Bron Hendre, Carnarvonshire registrar has it correct in his bok; but as far as my register is concerned, aged 53. one registration might do for both. But it might happen that one was vac- On the llth inst., at Argyle-street, Rothesay, Dr. John Robertson. cinated a few days before the other; and nnless the parents can tell the exact On the llth inst., J. X. Walsh, L.K.Q.C.P.I, of Bal1anahiJJ, Queen’s Count3 j date, it is impossible for the vaccinator to decide the exact date by the aged 60. register as it is at present, simply because the residence is not mentioned in On’the 13th inst., at Linton, Cambridgeshire, Charles Edward Howard, lat tbe register. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Student at the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, Paddington, aged 24. i November 5th, 1566. A PuBLic VACCINATOR 568

Itr Amicus had carefully perused THE LANCET for several weeks past, he X. Y. Z., Ignoramus, and othera.-Is it really a matter of any importance would have found that the question of titles had engaged much of our I what Dr. B. thinks and writes about cholera and choleraic diarrhæa? attention. The deficiencies of the Medical Act upon this important point Newspaper paragraphs are often inserted by injudicious friends. It would were probably owing to the anomalous state of the profession at the time be dealing too harsbly with supposed offenders against public taste if we that it was enacted. The framers of it would appear to have been afraid held them responsible for the foolish puffs of those who, in seeking to to grapple with a question which involved so many difficulties. They serve a medical friend, really injure him in the estimation of the public steered, as it were, a middle course, and unfortunately their conduct offers and the profession. an exception to the rule, in medio tutissimus ibis. Nothing could be "A CRY ron HELP." more indefinite than the 40th clause of the Medical Act; nothing more THE following contributions have been further received on behalf of the vague or uncertain. Better to have cut the Gordian knot than to have left above :- it not only untied, but so complicated that the ablest lawyers differ in opinion about it. In any amendment of the Act, the clause in question must receive primary consideration. Dr. Vinen.-Thanks.

. Constant Subscriber.-The maker of artificial eves to whom our corre- spondent alludes is M. Boissonneau. His address is 7, Rue de Monceau, Paris. NOISES IN THE EARS. To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,-I have been suffering similarly to " Chirurgans," and can quite czym- pathize with him. My attack was, I believe, the first symptom of a slight attack of typhoid fever, which was very prevalent in my immediate neigh- bourhood seven years ago. It came on quite suddenly, and has continued without intermission ever since, and I expect to carry it with me to the .grave. There is no doubt of its purely functional character, and that it arises from exalted polarity of the auditory nerves. I fancy that the rush of air through the Eusta hian tube being heard by the morbidly sensitive nerve is the cause of the sound, it so much resembles the noise heard on applying the ear to an empty shell. I cannot give my experience of the effects of any remedy on myself. I never found any medi; ine benefit my patients. The late lamented Mr. Toynbee lost his life by trying the effects of chloroform in diminishing the sensibility of the auditory nerve. I think it would be sheer madness to attempt any operation. Whatever gives tone to the nervous sys- tem always relieves. Deranged digestion, worry, or overfatigue always aggra- Tates this very distressing malady. The cold shower-bath every morning, resignation, and a determination not to think of it or listen to it is the best advice I can give. Anesthetics could only afford temporary relief.£ I am, Sir, your obedient servant, November, 1866. MEDICUS. *** In a letter on the same subject from Dr. Skinner, published in our last number, a printer’s error occurred, which we take this opportunity to correct. The small quantities of mercury, rhubarb, and ipecacuanha there mentioned obviously should form but one pill, twelve of which were to be made, and given as indicated.

Mr. Rumsey’s important letter on the Visitation of Examinations" is una- voidably postponed. Studens (University College, London) is desirous of knowing how he can obtain Dr. Pick’s views with regard to memory.

THE MEDICAL CLUB. To the Editor ofTHE LANCET. SIR,-Through the kindness of Sir Charles M’Grigor, I beg to inform your readers that, until the Club-lionse is opened, the business of the above Club will be conducted at 17, Charles-street, St. James’s, S.W., where all commu- nications must in future be addressed. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, November 9th, 1866. LoRY MARSH, Hon. Sec. Peter, we think, has no reason to complain of the hours in which he is placed on duty, with a proviso that he is not subject to calls at night. PANCREATIC EMULSION. IN reply to "Colonial’s" query in our impression of October 20th, Messrs. Savory and Moore state :- "The emulsion as now prepared by us may be safely exported to any of the colonies, and will keep good for any reasonable length of time. Our agents in Canada, Messrs. Cundill and Co., of Montreal, are kept constantly supplied with fresh emusion, and we have sent large quantities to other parts of the world." L.S.A., (North Shields.)-The question is of so doubtful a character, and the law so undefined on the subject, that it would not be safe to adopt the title. Av ACEPHALOUS MONSTER. M. B., (Chertsey.)-An excellent article appeared some time since in the To the E, ditor of THE LANCET. Counnty Times on the subject. Our correspondent cannot do better than M. W-, single, aged thirty-five, was taken in labour with her second write to that journal. We have no doubt many sanitary improvements child in the evening of October 31st, 1866. At four A.M on November 1st, might be effected in Chertsey. an was the and on the hand ear, large and thick, presenting part, passing An Enquirer.-The summer session of medical lectures at St. Luke’s is per- into the so that the could reach the os little vagina finger uteri, difficulty the best. to Dr. Monro. was experienced in distinguishing the neck and shoulders, and also the e) es, haps Apply nose, and mouth of a fcetus. The left ear continued to advance, and in due " Brotherly Lote," (Lincoln.)-Surely Mr. Paterson’s card is hardly worthy course she was delivered of a female child, perfect and thoroughly well grown of serious comment. from the toes to the base of the skull: this was covered closely with in- Dr. Stewart, (Belfast.)-The notice shall be published. tegument thickly set with dark hair from the superciliary ridge to the foramen at which was a of cerebral matter, the size magnum, spot protrusion A HINT FOR THE SICE ROOM. of a walnut, covered with a vascular, biood-stained serous membrane. This was the entire development of the urain and its coverii),-3. The umbilical To the Editor of THE LANCET. cord was pulsating vigorous:y at the time of birth. I divided the cord with- SIR,-The discordant clatter caused by the rattling of the iron shovel in out previously tying it. Was I justitied under the circumstances in doing the metal scuttle whenever coals are put on is a most irritating disturbance this ? in the room of a sick person; and as anything tending to the comfort and I ascertained from the patient’s mother that the father of the child had quiet of an invalid is always welcome, I snggoest the following simple plan, severely beaten the woman’s head against the edge of a well when she was which prevents all noise, and costs nothing :-Fill the scuttle or coal-box with two or three months pregnant, and that she complained for some days of the the coals screwed up in paper, each screw or packet containing about half a pain caused by his savage treatment. The patient, of course, screens the pound; the screw part of the paper to be put on downward. The fire can thus man on this subject. Will not married women be duubly jealous under like i be attended to without using the shovel, without soiling the hands.and copditions ? I am, Sir, yours. &e., without the slightest noise. Yours truly, Framlingham, Nov. 4th, 1866. GEO. E. JEAFFRESON, Surgeon. November, 1S66. G. E. 569

D. D. D._Not legally. At all events it is so doubtful that we should not COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, &e., have Leen received from-Sir W. Fergnsson ; recommend the assumption of the title. In equity, we believe, he would Prof. Syme; Mr. Baker; Mr. Lowe; Mr. Wickers; Mr. Harvey ; Mr. Brown; be absolved; but law is not always equity. Legally he might be an Mr. Hutchison, Kingstown; Dr. Armstrong, Gravesend; Dr.Greenhalgh offender; iu equity not so. Mr. Graham, Stirling; Mr. Grosvenor; Mr. Hawkes; Dr. Ayre, Colne; Norman.-They do so by courtesy. Prof. Owen; Dr. Eames, Queenstown; Mr. Wallis; Dr. Balman, Liverpool; J S., M.D. — 1. The office of colonial surgeon. - 2. By direct application to Mr. Crossley; Mr. Winstanley; Dr. Fuller; Mr. Devonald, Cwmarman; the Secretary for the Colonies. Mr. Hornibrook; Mr. Anderson; Mr. Chambers; Mr. Barker; Mr. Coales; Dr. Walford, King’s Lynn; Mr. Erichsen; Mr. Cooke; Dr. Hall, Brighton; WORKHOUSE MEDICAL OFFICER’S ‘‘ ORDINARY DAILY DurIEs." Mr. Evershed, Ampthill; Mr. Cornfield; Mr. Teague; Dr. Smith, Preston; To the E, dito2- of THE LANCET. Dr. Robert Barnes; Mr. Castle; Dr. Bird, York; Dr. Britton, Driffield SIR,-The annotation on the Birmingham Workhouse iu your journal of Mr. Meredith; Mr. Porter; Mr. Parker, Bath; Dr. Hassall ; Mr. Milson ; November 3rd induces me to send fur your amusement and that of your Dr. Tilt; Messrs. Savory and Moore ; Mr. Bigg; Dr. Dunn; Mr. Argles;- the list of readers enclosed " ordinary daily duties" required of the medical i Mr. Smith, Mr. Jones, Dr. Mr. officer of that workhouse. Yours truly, Whitby; Beaumaris; Jeans; Henry Lee; November, 1866. Y. Dr. Gill; Mr. Stannard; Mr. Harold, Bockley; Dr. Corner; Mr. Ward; Mr. Savory; Mr. Graeme ; Mr. Lingham ; Mr. R. Smith; Mr. H. Clarke; The Duties Medical Workhouse. Ordinary Daily of the Officer of the I Dr. Garland, Yeovil; Mr. Solly ; Mr. Hardy; Mr. Christopher, Wadebridge; The daily routine of the present medical officer of the workhouse is com- Dr. Guppy, Falmouth; Dr. Phillips; Mr. Berkeley Hill; Dr. Oweu Rees; menced by prescribing for the inmates in the general budy of the workhouse Mr. Jackson; Dr. More, Rothwell; Dr. Henchley; Mr. Hutchinson; who are under all sorts of complaints and maladies of a labouring minor ’i Mr. Mr. Little; Dr. Andrew Clark; Mr. Crews; Mr. nature not sufficiently acute or important to cause them to be admitted into Spencer; Watson; i Dr. Mr. C. Mr. the wards of the infirmary. i Ryan; Mr. Maloney, Kingstown ; Hunter; Levy; Dr. Blake; Two hours are thus occupied in prescribing (in different departments) for ’i Mr. Bennetr, Andover; Mr. Fitzgerald; Mr. Mayne; Dr. T. K. Chambers; the able-bodied women, the aged women, women with young children, able- Mr. Sturges, Boston, Mass.; Mr. Fowler ; Mr. Wilson, Durham ; Dr. Jones ; bodied old and bedridden inmates. men, men, Dr. Payne ; Dr. Wilk; Mr. Ii,owe, Lyme Regis; Dr. Inglis, Edinburgh; Also malingerers, and those who may have taken to bed since the previous I, day have ?0 be hunted up if not really ill,, of-to be removed into the wards for ’i Mr. Paget; Mr. Harrington; Mr. Rogers, Manchester; Dr. Geo. Johnson; the Mr. Davidson; Dr. Ramsay, Cheltenham; Dr. Daubeny; Mr. Kirwan; The- generam sick Have then to Be visited, and to receive ntt’enthm. The . Dr. Monckton, Rugeley; Mr. Cooper, Canterbury; Mr. Hill, Worthing; number of in the dift’erent wards of the is average daily patients infirmary Mr. Holthouse; Dr. Skinner, Mr. R. R. Lloyd, about two hundred and eiglity, including some seventy epileptics and itch Liverpool; Peterborough; Mr. Dr. cases.* Mr. Walsh; James; ;’,lr. Woodley; Mason, Surbiton; Mr.Gardner; At intervals during the day the reception-room for the admitted paupers Dr. Stewart, Belfast; Mr. Freebody; Dr. West; Dr. Vinen; Dr. Edwards; has to be visited ; those who come into the house in a sick or unclean state Dr. Maudsley; Dr. Wood; Mr. Dr. Shapter, Exeter; Mr. Moore; to be removed to the admitted children Berry; having appropriate wards; having Mr. Trible, Thornbury; Mr. Bevan; Mr. Greene, Oaken Gates; Mr. also to be examined as to whether or not they have undergone vaccination, Locke ; and also having to be duly vaccinated previous to their quitting the proba- Mr. Clarke, Mold; Mr. Richards, Stockport; Mr. Isaacson; Dr. Wallace; tionary wards. Dr. Taylor, Corfe; Mr. Griffiths; Studens; Medicus; Ignoramus; B. A.; Admissions continue up to an advanced hour in the evening. A Non-Medical Reader of THE LANCET; X. Y. Z.; J. S., M.D.; J. C. W.; The various of the school have also to be the child- departments visited; Water A Practitioner; W.M.D.; ren being well watched as to their freedom from itch, scald liead, &c. Southport Company; Young Norman; All children born in the lying-in ward have to be vaccinated before leaving M. A.; A Stranger in England; Brotherly Love; Verax; D. D. D.; J. S. A.; that department. Odontological Society; A Civilian, RN.; Beta; Amicus; M. B.; S. E. A.; The daily diets of all the sick inmates, with the dates of visits to each, have A Civil Medical Officer; G. E.; A Constant Reader; F.R.C.S. Eng. ; &c. to be entered in the medical relief book after each the day’s round;" THE the Dublin the Thanet alterations ordered during such round" being specified. Hertfordshire Express, Evening Mail, G?4ardian, regularly Chatham At the commencement of every week the names of all sick paupers have to the News, and the Halstead Gazette have been received. be re-entered in the same book. A shorter evening visit is necessary to the more urgent of the sick cases, and for the sake of attention to patients who have been newly admitted into the sick wards during the day, subsequently to the morning’s "romn!l." The removal of all admitted lunatics has to receive early attention, the Week. proper documents having to be written and prepared. Medical Diary of the A weekly summary of all the medical relief cases of the parish has to be made up every Tuesday evening; also a list of all infectious diseases in the Nov. 19. ) workhouse has to be submitted to the clerk at the end of each week. Monday, These, with the superintendence of the surgery and the drugs, are the ST. MARK’S HOSPITAL FOR FISTULA AND OTHER DISEASES OF THE RECTUM.—’ More ordinary daily duties of the resident medical officer at the Birmingham Operations, 9 A.M. and 1; P.M. Workhouse. ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, MOORFIELDS.-Operations, 104 AiL A midwife being kept, the practical attention of the medical officer is only METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. required for special obstetric cases. Tuesday, Nov. 20. Brahee.-Some time since a communication was inserted in this journal re- ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, MOORFIELDs._Operations,10½ A.M. specting the supposed virtues of Brahee sugar. We have reason to believe Guy’s HOSPITAL.--Operations, 1½ P.M. that this remedy is really worthless as a medicine. A teaspoonful of com- WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. NATIONAL ORTHOPÆDIC 2 P.M. mon sugar is as efficacious in the treatment of disease as a tea- HOSPITAL.-Operations, probably PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—S P.M. of Brahee. spoonful ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—8 8 P.m. Prof. Huxley, "On the Skull AND PEPSDTE PANCREATINE. - of a Patagonian:’ Dr. Mann, " On the Zulu aud other Caffre Tribes of£ W. 3f. D. says --" Will you allow me to ask your readers who have had per- Natal: ’ _ Mr. John Cr,wcfurd, " On the Ethnological Results of the sonal experience in the above medicines, whether they have answered their Arabian Conquest of Spain." expectations, and can be relied on in cases of weak digestion associated ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—S P.M. with flatus ?" Nov. 21. A CORRESPONDENT asks "when the Commission on Venereal Diseases will Wednesday, finish their Report ?" ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, MOORFIELDS.—Operations, 101 A.M. MIDDLESKX HOSPlTAL.-Operations, 1 P.M. -L. S. A.-Unless there is a to the the assistant is specific agreement contrary, ST. MARY’S HOSPlTAL.-Operations, 1½ P.M. entitled to a quarter’s notice. Sr. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1½ P.M. Dr. Wardell’s communication shall appear in an early number. ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL._Opérations, 1: P.M. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 p.M. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. FRACTURE OF THE FEMUR IN UTERO. LONDON HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. To the Editor of THE LANCET. SiR.—The following case I think worthy of note from its rarity, and as Thursday, Nov. 22. the in so an infant :- exemplifying reparative process young ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, 104 A.)t. On the 13th I was sent for to attend L. C- in her sixth :MOORFIELDS_Operations, December, 1864, CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 P.M. confinement. The labour terminated in an hour after arrival my (without ST. GEORGE’S 1 P.M. any assistance on it was not caused "meddlesome mid- HOSPITAL.-Operations, my part, proving by LONDON SëRGICAL 2 P.M. a fine male child born with its left HOME.-Operations, wifery"), being (natural presentation), LONDON 2 P.M. femur fractured in its thild. WEST HOSPITAL.—Operations, upper ROYAL ORTHOPAEDIC 2 P.M. The mother gives the account that a fortnight before her confinement she HOSPITAL.-Operations, threw the whole weight of her body on the top of a low wall to reach over to pick up something, and most probably it was then that the fracture took Friday, Nov. 23. place. RoyaL LONDON OPHTHALMiC HospiTAL, -MOORFIELDS.--Operations, 10½ A-M. The in treatment was to to tell on the difficulty get anything sufficiently WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1½ P.M. upper fragment; but a letter L-shaped splint of gutta-percha, moulded to fit Touud the loins, answered the and with the best union purpose, result, taking Nov. 24. place in three months; and at this date the limb is nearly half an men longer Saturday, ’than the other. Some trouble beiner met with in keeping the parts free from Sr. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL_ Operations 9= A.M. excoriation, the limb had to be entirely unbandaeed ever other day, in order ROYAL LoxDof OPHTHALMIC HOSPlTAL. MOORFIELDS.-Operations 10½10½ A.M to cleanse the parts and bathe the nates &c. in spirit, which accounts for the Sr. BARTHOLOMEW’S- HOSPITAL.-Opérations., 1½ p.x. length 01 time the case was under treatment. KING’s COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations I’ P.lf. I remain, Sir, yours truly, ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.--Operations 1½ P.M Sleaford, Lincolnshire, Xov. 5th, 1866. THOMAS E. JACOBSON. CHABING-CROSS HOSPITaAL.-Operations P.M.