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I take the liberty to annex a brief prospectus of the Office, G. P. May, M.D. & L.R.C.S. Edin., Maldon, Essex... £1 1 0 from which you will observe that the rates of premium are William Blathwayt, Louth, Lincolnshire...... 1 0 0 particularly favourable to young lives, and the directors William Reckitt, M.R.C.S.L., Boston, Lincolnshire 1 1 0 venture to hope that you may consider yourself warranted in Jonathan Haigh Branfoot, M.D. & M.R.C.S. Edin., recommending the Institution, as opportunity may offer. 1 1 0 I am, Sir, yours most respectfully, L.S.A.,Edmund BrentwoodGeorge, M.D...... Edin., M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., THOMAS BELL, Actuary. Sandgate, ..... 0 10 0 John Sommers, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Coventry...... 0 10 6 MEDICAL REFORM.—THE-FIVE-HUNDRED Henry Emett, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Liverpool...... 0 10 0 POUNDS FUND. Thomas Blasson, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Billingboro’, Lincolnshire ...... 1 1 0 THE following is a list of names of the gentlemen who have William Loney, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A, Hartington, successively communicated to the Editor of THE LANCET Derbyshire ...... 0 10 0 letters announcing their readiness to join in raising a fund to W. Jarvis Highmore, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A, Bradford, 0 place at the disposal of a Committee, which might be ap- Wilts ...... 10 0 M.R.C.S. & the to watch the of measures Frederick Smith Garlick, L.S.A., Halifax, pointed by subscribers, progress Yorkshire. forward in the the medical brought legislature relative to pro - Frederick Bell Hunt, M.D., F.R.C.P. Edin., &c., and to the interests of the of that fession, guard great body Farningham, Kent ...... 2 2 0 profession during the proceedings which may now be expected William Ryan, M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S. &c., Oxford- to take place in Parliament. It will be seen, by referring to street, . Charles A.B. Trin. the last page of the last LANCET, that the Lord Advocate has Wrixon, M.R.C.S.L., Coll., Sey- ...... 0 10 0 announced his intention of a Medical Bill mour-place, Euston-square speedily bringing Richard S. Penkivil, Sampford-Peverel, Devon. before the consideration of the House of Commons: we recom- John Deighton, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Cambridge ... 0 10 6 mend, therefore, to our brethren of the profession who have H.Obre, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Grove-place, Alpha-road. intimated their intention to contribute to the Five-Hundred- James Williams, M.D., M.R.C.S., &c., Leintwardine, near Ludlow ...... 0 Pounds Fund, to organize themselves into an association with- 10 6 C. Wilson Steel, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Lewisham, Kent I 1 0 out delay, and to appoint a treasurer, or treasurers, to receive Isaac Massey, M.D., M.R.C.S., &c., Nottingham ... 010 6 the snbscriptions, and a committee to undertake the more William Bird Herapath, M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S. &c., active duties of the body thus formed. Bristol...... 0 10 0 William Robins, L.S.A., Upper Southwick-street, 1B1. Ryan, M.D., M.R.C.S., Market Drayton, Salop... 010 0 Hyde-park. William Waring Saxton, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A...... 0 10 0 Edwin Hearne, M.B. Lond., & M.R.C.S. &c., South- Richard Tippetts, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., , Kent 2 2 0 ampton. W. F. Lawrence, Surgeon, ditto...... 1 1 0 John Bath ...... 0 10 6 James Rolph, M.R.C.S.E., Bethnal-green-road ... Xl1 1 0 Augustus Lloyd, M.R.C.S., Henry Hadlow, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Jewry-street ... 0 10 0 W.Kenrick Lewis, Wrexham, North Wales...... 0 10 6 M.R.C.S. Exeter ...... 0 10 6 John Currie, L.R.C.S.E., Blackburn, (received) ... 0 10 0 Henry Shaw, &c., William Langston, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Pembridge, William Walker, M.R.C.S. &c., St. John’s-street London ...... 1 1 0 Herefordshire ...... 0 10 0 Road, John Charles Atkinson, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Romney- W. Weaver Jones, L.S.A., Cleobury-Mortimer, Sal op 0 10 0 M.R.C.S. & ditto...... 0 10 0 terrace, Westminster, (received) ...... 1 0 0 Henry Vevers, L.S.A., St. John W. Lucas, M.R.C.S. &c., Louth, Lincoln- Thomas Pope, Surgeon, ditto ...... 0 10 0 shire. George Harvey Betts, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Watford, Herts ...... 1 1 0 Thomas Philbrick, M.D., M.R.C.S., &c., ditto ... 1 0 0 Samuel & Frederick Tate, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., ditto ...... 1 0 0 Gower, M.R.C.S. L.S.A., Hampstead,Mid- & dlesex. Edmund Whitfield, M.R.C.S. L.S.A., Tolleshunt- ___ D’Arcy, Essex ...... 010 0 William Smyth, M.R.C.S.E. & L.A.C.D., ditto ... 010 0 Caleb Richardson, L.R.C.S. Edin., Skerlaugh, near medical News. Hull ...... 0 10 0 John Bartlett, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Rushall, Pewsey, APOTHECARIES’ HALL.—Names of gentlemen who passed Wilts ...... 1 0 0 their examination in the science and practice of medicine Luther Owen M.R.C.S.E. & Fox, L.A. C., Broughton, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, Hants ...... 0 10 6 Henry Hanson Dearsly, M.R.C.S. & L.A.C., Bridge- May 10th, 1849. NATHANIEL PHILIP. terrace, Harrow-road ...... 0 10 0 BETTS, Henry John Gore, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Worthing... 1 0 BROWN, EDMUND. Llewellyn Llewellyn, M.R.C.S.E., Whitechapel- EVERET, THOMAS DENNY, Stepney-green. THOMAS road, London ...... 1 1 0 HARDING, MASSEY, Ludlow, Salop. R. A. Ridley, Surgeon, Hereford ...... 1 0 0 HARPER, ROBERT, Brighton. William W. Morgan, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Newport 0 10 6 JONES, JOHN WILLIAMS, Dolgelley. J. J. Ayre, Surgeon, Colne...... 1 0 0 SAUNDERS, DANIEL, Carmarthen. William Roden, M.D., M.R.C.S., &c., Mayor of the TESTIMONIAL To DR. FORBES.—A meeting of the subscribers Borougli of Kidderminster ...... 0 10 0 to this testimonial took place lately, for the purpose of Theophilus C. Lewis, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., New Kent presenting to the above-named gentleman a very handsome road ...... 0 10 0 piece of plate, designed and executed by Messrs. Smith, of W. Philpot Brookes, M.D., M.R.C.S. &c., Chel- Duke-street. Upwards of one hundred gentlemen attended on tenham...... 1 1 0 the occasion. Mr. Stanley, President of the Royal College of John T. Waller, M.R.C.S.L., Flegg-Burgh, Norfolk 010 0 Surgeons, read an address, which had been prepared by the W. Home Popham, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Judd-street, committee. The address stated that the testimonial was London ...... 0 10 6 intended to mark the approbation of many of his professional Edwin Moss, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Wimpole-street, brethren for the manner in which Dr. Forbes had conducted London. the British and Foreign Medical Review, and, also, as a token Paul Jackson, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Thayer-street, of esteem for his manly, disinterested, and truthful character. Manchester-square. To carry out these views, it was mentioned, that many of the George Beaman, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., King-street, most eminent members of the profession, not only in Great Covent-garden. Britain, but in America and the Colonies, had come forward William Harrison, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Gargrave, on the occasion. After presenting the address, Mr. Stanley Yorkshire ...... 1 0 0 proceeded to say, that he most cordially concurred in its con- Isaac Hargreaves, M.R.C.S. &c., Tunbridige Wells, tents, and that he was gratified at having been chosen as the Kent ...... 2 2 0 organ of the committee. Dr. Forbes replied in a compli- Frederic Cripps, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Soho-square, mentary speech, in which he stated, that while the committee Liverpool ...... 0 10 6 had done him no more than justice in attributing to him the 548 best intentions in conducting the British and Foreign Medical for administering medical galvanism, requests any of our correspondents Review, yet he could not accept for himself the eulogistic to favour him with " practical information for or against its use, apart terms in which the character and influence of that journal from the exaggeration of interested parties." had been alluded to. It was chiefly to his excellent contri- To the Editor of THE LANCET. butors that the literary merit of the work must be ascribed. SIR,—In a late number of THE LANCET, Dr. W. P. Brookes informed your readers that his of M.D. at St. Andrew’s cost him £105. I His duties had been as a to degree ques- restricted, general rule, supervision tioned the statement; the doctor repeated his assertion, in not over- and correction; it was only occasionally he had appeared as temperate language. I have since then written for the authoritative in- an original contributor. Yet he took credit to himself for formation of the librarian at St. Andrew’s, and beg to enclose to you his from readers will I was correct in £25 having taken the utmost pains to ensure not only able reviews, reply, which your see, that stating 38. but honest unbiassed of as having been the full amount paid by Dr. W. P. Brookes. In conclusion, ones,-reviews by personal feelings I would only express my astonishment that any man of common sense any kind, and dictated by no friendly or unfriendly feeling. could stoop to the attempt to make the profession believe that he paid The editorship of the British and Foreign Medical Review had £105 for what cost him exactly £ 25 3s. Respectfully yours, 5th, 184g. M.D. been to him no ungracious and oppressive task; on the con- May trary, it had been a source of the highest pleasure, a true SIR.—In answer to your inquiry of the 28th of April, I beg to state to labour of love. But had it been he would have you, that Dr. William Philpot Brookes, who graduated in this university on otherwise, the 3rd of May, 1842, paid to me, as clerk to the University of St. Andrew’s, been recompensed by the great honour which had now been £25 3s. for his diploma, being the sum required by the existing regulations. paid to him-an honour, the remembrance of which he should I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, cherish to the latest period of his life. University Library, St. Andrew’s, May 2nd, 1849. JAIVIES McBEAN. TESTIMONIAL To JOHN FOWKE, Esq., F.R.C.S.E.-At a meet- L. E. A.-The period is uncertain. We had previously received an account ing of the friends of Mr. John Fowke, held at the Swan Hotel, of the "bungling operation." The details are truly disgusting. Wolverhampton, on Tuesday, January 23rd, 1849,-George A Student, (Birmingham.)-One College will be sufficient for such an ap- Monckton, Esq., of Somerford, in the chair,-a resolution was pointment. - unanimously adopted, for raising a subscription for the purpose Mr. Pyke. -We cannot discover the utility of continuing the discussion in the case of which in is of no whatever. It of presenting that gentleman with a testimonial on his retire- ’, LOBO, case, fact, value does ment from the Wolverhampton General Dispensary. The not settle or establish anything. committee appointed for carrying into effect the objects of the THE proceedings of Mr. Bartlett are to be much deplored. If continued, meeting, have lately announced a total subscription of £ 1583, they will attract a degree of notice which may prove highly injurious to him. The distribution of such a" and it to which was appropriated in the following manner:-Silver circular," addressing females, salver, with engraved, £ 50; papier maché box, to are acts which cannot be too strongly condemned. This, in reply to the inscription excellent note of Mr. J. W. of the Commercial-road. contain list of subscribers, written on parchment, X7 10s.; ad- T., A Junior M.D.-Such conduct on the of the dentist is at vari- vertising and incidental expenses, £617 10s.; cash to Mr. John part utterly ance with the etiquette which is observed in the profession, and towards Fowke, .E1508. The inscription on the salver was as follows: - To John Fowke, Esq., Fellow of the Royal College of Sur- the profession. The operator could not have known that the lady was of to the South Stafford- the wife of an M.D. geons , Consulting Surgeon I To the Editor of THE LANCET. shire General Hospital, and late Senior Surgeon to the Wol- SIR.—Will you kindly inform me what are the benefits or ac- this Salver was advantages verhampton Dispensary, presented, together cruing to a non-licentiate taking out his freedom at Apothecaries’ Hall ?-the with fifteen hundred pounds, on his retirement from the Wol- privileges to which a person so circumstanced would be eligible on being verhampton Dispensary, not less as a mark of gratitude for his admitted to the freedom of the Society ? I should state the party was at the and a Subscriber of Fourteen disinterested services to that institution a of apprenticed Hall; thereby oblige, Sir, during period Years, fifteen years, than as a proof of the affectionate regard enter- j , May, 1849. SIGTSIIUND BENNET. tained for him, and the unqualified esteem in which he is held *,* We hope that one of the freemen of the Society will answer this all those who have the of his by enjoyed happiness friendship, , question. -or experienced the benefit of his medical skill. 1849. Mr. W. Hunt, (Yeovil.)-The letter shall be published. Probably it will FILTERED is a WATER.—It fact that water, by the process of , appear next week. filtration through sand &c., loses a great portion of the atmo- lJ1r. Thorn will observe that we have referred to the matter elsewhere. It spheric air it naturally contains. To remedy this inconvenience is a very disgraceful proceeding. M. Castelnau has devised a filtering machine, which is so A Sufferer should apply to a respectable surgeon, and describe, not only his contrived as to restore to the water the air it has been deprived ’ disease, but the condition of his pecuniary circumstances. Amongst no men on earth will he find a of benevolence of. He maintains, in his communication to the Academy of , stronger feeling prevail, Sciences of Paris on the subject, that his aeriferous fountain than in the ranks of the medical profession. will yield much more salubrious water, and more favourable THE papers of Mr. Rogers on a case of Ruptured Perinoeum, and of Mr. Eves, to digestion, than the ordinary ones. of Cheltenham, on a Suicidal Wound of the Throat, successfully heated, AN ANTICONTAGIONIST FACT.—M. Stienard, of Valenciennes, will appear in the ensuing number of THE LANCET. mentions in a paper addressed to the Academy of Medicine, WE shall be happy to receive the papers to which Dr. Miller refers. of Paris, (May 1st,) that a child violently attacked by cholera X. Y. Z. should apply to a qualified physician or surgeon ; by no means to was kept warm by its parents by being put into bed with them. a "patent medicine-vendor or advertising doctor." By this means the child resisted the algide period, eventually WE share in the indignation of A General Practitionei-;, but without a to the evil recovered, and the parents never had a bad symptom. stringent penal enactment, which parliament appears opposed, will continue. MEDICINE IN MODERN GREECE.- We perceive that Dr. inevitably IF Un will send us his name and address, he shall receive a ’Chomel’s work on the Principles and Practice of Medicine has Frangais pri- been into modern and to the Aca- vate note. translated Greek, presented To the Editor of THE LANCET. of Medicine of Paris. demy SIR,—I remember reading some remarks by you respecting a chemist OBITUARY.-We regret having to announce the death of using the name of Sir J. Clark to some cough pill, and also Holloway the Dr. STREETEN, late editor of the Provincial Medical and Surgical quack using Dr. Bright’s name, but I do not remember, and would thank to inform me in notices to whether on 10th. The Provincial Journal of you your correspondents, Dr. Bright, Journal, Thursday, May SirJ. or Dr. have made to the the " Clark, Locock, attempts prevent surreptitious present week informs us: Dr. Streeten had been suffer- use of their names, and in what way ? ing for some months from a bronchial affection, the conse. I am, Sir, your obedient servant. quence of an attack of influenza, which seized him in the EDWARD JOSEPH. Great Marylebone-street, Portland-place, May, 1849. early part of the month of January. This left him in a very *"* Sir James Clark resorted to legal measures ; Dr. Locock consulted his weak state of health, for which lie was induced to try the air legal advisers, but did not proceed farther; Dr. Bright did not, as far as we of here, however, a new train of symptoms super- Torquay; are aware, taking any steps to prevent the u-e of his name by Holloway. vened, the canal. For some he implicating alimentary days Xo&rgr;&tgr;o.—The circular shall be sought for. Could our correspondent favour was distressed with continual which seemed to vomiting, us with another copy of his observations on the subject. relieve the bronchial but never entirely left him, symptoms, Communications have been received from - Mr. L. Sympson; Mr, Wins- and he gradually lost flesh and up to the of his strength day low ; Argus; Mr. Alger ; Mr. James Smethurst; Mr. C. H. Mr. W. which took on last." Bull ; jdecease, place Thursday evening Hunt, (Yeovil;) Mr. Harrison; Mr. Thorn, (Ilarrow-road;) Anti.Quack; Un Franais; Mr. Langley; Mr. Todd, (Evenwood;) Mr. M. Morgan; Medicus; Mr. Lord, (Convention of Poor-law Medical Officers ;) An TO CORRESPONDENTS. Injured M.R.C.S.; Mr. Griffith; Nemo; Mr. W. J. Cox, (Poplar;) A THE Petition of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in Young One; Dr. A. Hall, (Glasgow;) M.D.; A General Practitioner; favour of the claims of naval assistant-surgeons arrived too late for pub- Mr. Sutton, (Islington;) Mr. Stuart, (Douglas, Isle of Man ;) Mr. Rankin, lication this week, but it shall appear in the next LANCET. (Carlisle;) Mr. Eves, (Cheltenham ;) X. Y. Z., (Bolton.) THE paper of Mr. Griffith is in the hands of the printer. The " Report of the Lunatic Asylum" for the North and East Ridings of A Young Medical Practitioner, "afflicted with paralysis, and not over- Yorkshire; the "County Expenditure Circular," (;) and The burdened with means," and who wishes to obtain a second-hand apparatis ,Lincoln, Stamjord, and Rutland Mercury, May 11th, have been received,