415 than twenty examinations must be attended. 2. A Bristol, are not yet due. The following scholarships granted course of clinical instruction in fevers, consisting of at in 1894 have been exceptionally renewed for a third year :- least ten meetings in a hospital for infectious diseases con- 1. University of Edinburgh-John Carruthers Beattie, B.Se., Uni- taining not less than fifty beds. 3. A practical course of versities of Vienna and Berlin. in of not less than 2. University of Aberdeen-William Brown Davidson, M.A., B.Se., instruction Ophthalmology twenty Universities of Wurzburg and Leipzig. meetings. The course must be conducted in a recognised hospital or dispensary and must include sufficient practical Aberdeen Royal Lunatic Asylum : NeyL Hospital. instruction in the methods of examining the eye. Candidates The new hospital and administrative offices, the contracts are also recommended to attend the following :-(a) Diseases for the erection of which were entered into in August, 1893, of t’hildren, (b) Diseases of the Ear, (c) Diseases of the have now been finished and were opened for the inspection of Throat and Nose, (d) Diseases of the Skin, in short practical the public this week. The total cost has been upwards of courses of at least ten meetings. It is intimated that the f.30,OOO. The new buildings have been described in the University will make the necessary arrangements to enable columns of THE LANCET, and it may be sufficient now to candidates to carry out these recommendations in so far as mention that the hospital has accommodation for 150 they are not at present provided. patient?, and is divided into administrative, observation, and In connexion with the higher degrees of M.D. and Ch.M. sick blocks. The design, as explained by Dr. William Reid, the Commissioners prescribed an examination in clinical the medical superintendent, is that all cases requiring medicine and clinical surgery respectively, but left the scope special attention shall be concentrated in the hospital, where and conditions of this examination to be determined by each there will be one nurse to every five patients. There will be University for itself. The regulations in the University of resident the senior medical assistant of the asylum and a Glasgow for the session 1896-97 are to be as follows :- qualified and experienced lady nurse. All patients on (a,) Doctor of Medicine.-The examination shall for each admission will pass through the administrative division, and candidate consist of a written report and commentary, with those who exhibit any signs of curability will be relegated any oral questions that may be considered desirable upon at to the portion of the observation block designed for the least three medical cases. In the selection of the cases special treatment of their type of case. The sick from all special regard shall be given to the opportunities they afford parts of the institution will be cared for in wards and single for testing the candidate not only in the ordinary methods rooms specially designed for the treatment of the different. of clinical investigation, but also in the more advanced bodily diseases. methods requiring practical knowledge in the application of Aberdeen Volunteer Medical the and in the chemical and University Staff Corps. ophthalmoscope laryngoscope, of this left Aberdeen for microscropical examination of excreta, the quantitative Fifty representatives corps camp, at Aldershot on the 31st ult. are under the command determination and microscopic characters of the chief con- They stituents of blood possessing clinical importance, the of Surgeon-Captain A. Macgregor. recording by instruments of the condition of the circulation, Aug. 4th. the applications of electricity, &c. A candidate may, if he so desires, have one of the cases selected from one of the following departments-viz., diseases of women, diseases IRELAND. of children, mental diseases, diseases, or diseases zymotic (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) of the eye, throat, ear, or skin ; if the candidate specialises in one of these departments he will be ex- pected to show high proficiency in it. (b) Master of The Sale of Poisons by Druggists in Dublin. examination is to include a or Surgery.-The report IT seems that chloroform is not the on three strange among commentary surgical cases, surgical anatomy, which are to enter in ’’ the and The candidate in the poisons druggists compelled operative surgery. may specialise sale of book," and this in the law is diseases of women or in diseases of the or poisons deficiency surgical eye, a lamentable which or ear. For each the usual thesis is demanded prominently exemplified by fatality throat, degree occurred in Dublin. The facts as at the and candidates must enter their names Oct. 1896. recently deposed by 10th, were as follows. Mrs. suffered The examination is to be held before the Christmas inquest briefly Kerrigan holidays. from toothache or and after The immediate interest of these new arises from severely neuralgia using regulations without effect sent a little with the fact that in medicine and under laudanum, &c., locally girl graduates (M. B. C. M.) a written to a Please bearer small old to the M.D. if message druggist-" give the regulations may proceed degree they bottle of chloroform,’’ A. The so desire it under the rules as formulated above. It has been signed Kerrigan." druggist asked the whether it was required for toothache that a class in shall be girl arranged post-graduate pathology and on an affirmative hur a conducted the autumn Professor Coats. receiving reply gave during by Joseph small bottle containing half an ounce of chloroform. Science Research Scholarships. This, it appeared, was mixed by the deceased with a small quantity of whisky and swallowed. Some hours later she Her Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 Majesty’s was found in a comatose state, and before she reached the have made the to Science Research following appointments hospital was dead. At the inquest it was stated that the for the 1896 on the recommendation of the Scholarships year druggist was quite within his legal in selling half an authorities of the universities and The right respective colleges. ounce of pure chloroform without an order from a medical are of the value of £150 a and are ordi- scholarships year, man, and the coroner in his address to the jury acknow- tenable for two to a narily years (subject satisfactory report ledged this, but remarked that a man might act within his at the end of the first in at home and year) any university legal rights and yet might be sufficiently incautious as to abroad or in some other institution of the Com- approved by incur severe criticism. He further stated that in his opinion missioners. The scholars are to devote themselves exclu- no drug of the insidious character of chloroform should be sively to study and research in some branch of science, the sold in large and doses without restriction. The extension of which is to the industries of the poisonous important jury, after finding that death was due to accidental poison- country. A limited number of the scholarships are renewed ing by chloroform taken to relieve neuralgia, added to, for a third year where it appears that the renewal is likely to their verdict the " We consider that the sale result in work of scientific following: directly importance. of chloroform under circumstances such as were detailed in 1. of University Glasgow-William Craig Henderson, M.A., B.Sc. this case without an order from a doctor is and 2. University of Aberdeen-Alexander M.A.., B Sc. dangerous ugg, ought to be discouraged." The following scholarships granted in 1895 have been con- tinued for a second year on receipt of a satisfactory report of The Coombe Lying-in Hospital, Dublin. work done during the first year :-- From the purely sanitary point of view this hospital seems 1. University of Glasgow-Walter Stewart, M.A., B.Sc., Universities to be in a very unsatisfactory condition. At the annual of Glasgow and Berlin. of its friends and which took last 2. of St. meeting supporters place University Andrews-Henry Charles Williamson, M.A., month of the B.Sc, Marine Laboratories, Napies and Kiel. Mr. Edward Fottrell alluded to the overflow 3 Uni,.ersity College, Dundee-James Henderson, B.Sc., Poly- Poddle river and the consequent flooding of the basement of technicum. Munich. the hospital. When it is remembered that this subterranean The scholars from the University of Edinburgh and the stream, which traverses the south side of Dublin to open into. Owens College, Manchester, have resigned cn obtaining the Liffey, is practically one of the city sewers, the serious pli,::c appointments. The reports ;of the scholars from the character of the nuisance will be apparent. It was stated, Mason College, Birmingham, and the University College, moreover, that the corporation could do but little to remedy 416 the state of things until the new system of drainage )rofessional professors. They had an interview with Mr. - came into operation. All that was possible for the time herald Balfour and also with Mr. Hanbury, Financial was to frequently wash out and clear the river by Secretary to the Treasury. They also interviewed influential opening a sluice occasionally, and this was being done. Members of Parliament irrespectively of party, and I under- The chairman said that he should be glad to see the main ;tand that they so thoroughly impressed those gentlemen drainage works commenced, for the contract had been now with the justice of their claims that it has been decided advertised for a long time, and it was quite impossible to ade- to send a deputation of Members to the Chief Secretary in quately deal with this very serious drawback to the hospital support of their action.