425 the subject, that the contagion has not propagated itself beyond vaccinated by me in three places on the left arm, September, the persons first attacked-they have not communicated it to 1859. Each puncture succeeded well. No lymph was taken others. from either. All the vesicles went through the ordinary stages, Another curious circumstance to be mentioned is the follow- and disappeared. One month ago all three reappeared in the ing :-A vessel arrives in this port with most of the crew spots as in the first instance, and went through the succes- sickly, suffering from dysentery and other diseases, all appa- samesive stages as before. The child’s health is affected thereby, rently arising from filth, overcrowding, bad ventilation, and having slight fever, thirst, no appetite, &c.; secretions regular. insufficient clothing, but not having fever on board either The skin eruption has not taken place in any other part of the during its passage or its stay in port, but giving rise to it here. body. That these sailors leave again apparently in good health in William 0-, aged seventeen months, was vaccinated by another vessel, and that during the voyage fever breaks out me in three places, a year ago, on the left arm. All the punc- amongst them, and proves very fatal both to the Europeans tures were successful; neither was interfered with; disappeared and to the Egyptians on board. ’ at the usual time. About eleven days ago one vaccine vesicle That such has been the case we learn from The Times’ cor- appeared on the other arm (the right), and has gone through respondent at Alexandria, where the vessel had arrived, in a the usual stages. Child’s health unaffected. letter which appeared in that paper on the 22nd instant. Tam. Sir vrmr obedient servant. As all the facts connected with this epidemic may prove FREDERICK G. WHITE, L.R.C.P.E. useful, I will endeavour to obtain further particulars as to the latter circumstance, and, if successful, will be happy to furnish you with them. I am, Sir. vours respectfully. ROBERT HAMILTON, M.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Southern Hospital, Liverpool. Medical News. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.-At the SURGICAL DAMAGES. Comitia Majora, held on Monday, the 15th instant, the follow- the T’O THE LANCET. ing gentlemen, having undergone necessary examination, the Editor of I and satisfied the College of their proficiency in the Science and SIR,-In your issue of last week you have made allusions to Practice of Medicine and Midwifery, were duly admitted to certain portions of a letter sent by me to you under date practise Physic as Licentiates of the College :- was intended to 31st March, 1861; which letter convey an Booth, John Gregory, Padiham. idea of my own theory as to the case of Quale, the miner. If I, Brooks, Bransby, Henley-on-Thames. you think proper to do so, you have my permission to publish i Davey, Alexander George, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. the letter in its not the Ellam, John, Sneinton, near Nottingham. entirety, omitting words " private" Ewens, John, Milton Abbas, near Blandford. and " was confidential" with which my said letter impressed. Foulds, Samuel, Staveley, near Chesterfield. You state in reference to me that "in the first place he ap- Granville, Joseph Mortimer, Bristol. to have communicated to the of a brother Jones, Philip W., Wakefield. pears patient practi- Mead, Borwick, Newmarket. tioner he been I am George that had grossly ill-treated." sorry you Middleton, John William, Westminster Hospital. should have vented such a conjecture, when perusal of a cer- Pilkington, William Henry, Enfield, Acerington. tified report of the recent Nisi Prius trial would have shown, Rayner, Thomas, M.D., Manchester. with other that the in said cause was an Savage, Thomas, Birmingham. along facts, plair4tiff Scott, Henry Thomas, Bedford-place, Old Kent-road. utter stranger when he applied to me, eight or nine weeks Thompson, Charles, Leicester. after the accident (it is now five years since), for a professional Turton, Frederic, Wolverhampton. opinion merely. In doing this he satisfied me that " he had Woodward, William, Worcester. no medical attendant" did he name and that he (nor anyone), ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.-The following gentla- did not seek advice nor treatment from in me; nothing, short, men, having undergone the necessary examinations for the was wanted but Had he said that he was under my opinion." diploma, were admitted Members of the College at a meeting care of the defendant in the late or of other trial, any qualified of the Court of Examiners on the 18th inst. :- medical gentleman, I should at once have refused compliance with his Ballard, Charles, Maidstone. request. Batten, William Smith, Shaftesbury. In the unpleasant duty which I have on a recent occasion Bowes, William, Elham, Canterbury. been to perform I have been as innocent as I am Brunjes, Martin, Bow. compelled John Cheisea. of an unkind towards bro- Cartwright, Edward, Margaret-terrace, incapable entertaining feeling any Eddowes, Edward, Cambridge-street, Pimlico. ther practitioner. Furse, Edwin, South Molton, Devon. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant. Green, Edward, Brixliam, Devon. J. MAYNE, M.D. Hope, William, Halifax, Yorkshire. Morgan, Herbert Major, Lichfield. *"* The materials are fully before the profession for forming Mortimer, William, Trewellwell, Pembrokeshire. Neatby, Thomas, Barnsley. a judgment of Dr. Mayne’s conduct. It is solely a question Newby, Thomas, Grimsby, Lincolnshire. of and taste. We at the first to Ninnis, Belgrave, Surrey-square. good feeling good regretted Richardson, Timothy, Commercial-road East. see Dr. Mayne’s conduct and opinions as described by him- Rowland, Henry Orford, Ipswich. self in his evidence against his fellow-practitioner, Mr. Hall, at Swales, Peter, Sheerness. The were admitted Members on the the trial; still more disagreeable was the impression created following gentlemen 20th inst.:- by the fact that he subsequently addressed to us, sponte Anderson, Henry Bunting, East India-road, Poplar. ,3ud, protests against the indulgence which he considered Barham, Herbert Frederic Henry, Maidstone. us to show, and statements to inculpate his brother Bazeley, William, Plymouth. tending Blackett, George Price, Durham. surgeon. It is an aggravation of the offence that he evinces Brook, Charles, Lincoln. of rather than of Dr. Mayne Fielden, Samuel, Bishop Auckland, Durham. signs persistence repentance. Green, Thomas Foulds Horsfall, Burnley, Lancashire. lays great stress on the fact that Quale had no medical atten- Haslewood, John Austin, Darlington. dant at the moment when he consulted him. Yet it Hodges, Britton, Watton, Herts. surely Hodson, John Clayton, London. did not require great sagacity to suspect that some one’s repu- Hurlstone, Michael Oscar, Cheltenham. Madras. tation was involved. It is not thus that he will the Lyons, William, persuade Milburne, Thomas Dodd, Ryton, Newcastle. profession that he has acted against his fellow-practitioner un- Morgans, John, Cross-hill, Nebo, Aberystwith. and with decent Overton, Arthur, Coventry. _ willingly reluctance.-ED. L. Phillips, George Bagster, Clapham. Schofield, Frank, Saddleworth, Manchester. Southey, Albert James, Frognal, Hampstead. REAPPEARANCE OF VACCINE VESICLES. Waller, Charles Beaumont, Finsbury-square. To the Editor THE Williams, Samuel White Duckworth, Gloucester. of LANCET. Williams, William Griffith, Haverfordwest. SIR,-If you consider the following facts worth a place in Yeo, Isaac Burney, Stonehouse, Devon. your journal, please insert them :- ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. - The following gentlemen Elizabeth R. H-, aged two years and four months, was passed their primary examination in Anatomy and Physiology 426 on the 23rd inst., and when eligible will be admitted to the APPOINTMENTS.-At the annual competitive examination pass examination:- at the Westminster Hospital, Frank H. Hensman, Esq., was Barker, Edward Robert, Dublin. elected House-Physician, and Thos. Rutherford Adams, Esq., Bowen, Josiah Archer, to that Coates, Frederick William,Liverpool. Edinburgh. House-Surgeon hospital. Compson, John Charles, Edinburgh. DR. HENRY BENNET.-It affords us much pleasure to Dalgliesh, Jonathan, Newcastle. state, that Dr. Henry Bennet, after two years’ residence in Dawson, Edward, Manchester. - recovered Deane, Henry Italy,ital is is sufficiently recovered to return to the active duties William, King’s College. Farwell, Richard, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.._ of his profession. Fox, Edward Lloyd Harries, University College. Freeman, Samuel George, St. George’s Hospital. PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. -LordLord Burghley,Burg hley on Hanks, William, Liverpool. the 16th inst., moved for returns of the sums actually paid to Hawthorn, John, Newcastle. Militia surgeons and civil practitioners for the medical exami- Haynes, Stanley Lewis, Edinburgh. for the andand Jones, William, Edinburgh. nation of recruits for Household BrigadeBri ade Line, includ.includ- Land, Robert Turner, Edinburgh. ing the recruits for the Indian Army, for the years 1857-58, Lattey, James, St. George’s Hospital. 1858-59, and 1859-60; and Mr. Crawford, on the 23rd inst., Leigh, Thomas, St. George’s Hospital. for copies of a memorial, dated April 4th, 1861, addressed Long, Arthur, Westminster Hospital. -’ -, Mann, John Dixon, Manchester. by Muncherjee Beramjee Colah, to the Secretary of State for Newton, Henry William, Newcastle. War, with reference to the admission of natives of India to the Osbaldiston, Lyttleton Frederick, Middlesex Hospital.