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834 Medical News. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF FNGLAND. - The following Members passed the required examination and were admitted Licentiates in Midwifery at a meeting of the Board of Examiners on Wednesday last :- Adams, John, Kingsbridge, Devon; diploma of membership dated July, 1872. Anderson, Richard J., L.K.Q.C.P.I., Newry. Jay, Henry Mason, L.R C.P.Ed., Chippenham; April, 1868. Lett, Francis, L.R.C.P.Ed., Woolwich; July, 1868. Oakman, Joseph, L.S.A., Battersea-square; April, 1866. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-The following candidates have passed the recent M.D. Examination:- Alford, Henry James, University College. Ball, James Barry, University College. Bruce, John Mitchell, M.A. Aberd., Aberdeen and Charing-cross i Hospital. , Burgess, Wm. Frederick Richardson, Guy’s Hospital. Carter, Alfred Henry, University College. Griffiths, Thomas. University College. Hall, Francis de Havilland, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Lyell, Robert Wishart, King’s College. Smith, Arthur William, Guy’s Hospital. LOGIC AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY ONLY. Archer, Herbert Ray, St. George’s Hospital. Gibbings, Alfred Thomas, King’s College, Harris, James Alfred, Edinburgh University. Humphreys, John Henry, University College. Langmore, John Wreford, B.S., Univ. Coll. and Middlesex Hosp. M(,rton, John, St. Thomas’s Hospital. Read, Charles, University College. Vachell, Charles Tanfield, King’s College. Wyman, John Sanderaon, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. The following candidates have passed the recent Second M.B. (Honours) Examination :— ,- -, MEDICINE. I FIRST CLASS. - Benjamin Neale Dalton (Scholarship and Gold Medal), ’, Guy’s; Walter Ot’lfy* (Gold Medal), Univ. Coll.; Joseph Henry Philpot, King’s Coll.; William Smith Greenfield, Univ. Coll.; George Harry Bartoot. Univ. Coll. SECOND CLASS. Thomas Jones, Guy’s; Charles Edward Steele Perkins, Guy’s; Rickman John Godlee, B.A., Univ. Coll. * Obtained the number of marks qualifying for the Scholarship. OBSTETRIC MEDICINE. F’IRST CLASS. - Robert Eardley-Wilmot (Scholarship and Gold Medal), King’s Coll.; Wm. Smith Greenfield (Gold Medal), Univ. Coll.; Joseph Hen. Philpot,t Kind’s Coll ; Arthur Mudge Branfoot,t Guy’s; Francis Warner,t King’s Coil.; Thomas Jones,t Guy’s. SECOND CLASS. - Benjamin Neale Dalton and Michael Harris (equal), Guy’s; Leonard Cane, Univ. Coll.; Rickman John Godlee, Univ. Coll. THIRD CLASS.—Alfred Ashby, Guy’s. t Obtained the number of marks qualifying for a Gold Medal. FORENSIC MEDICINE. FMST CLASS.-Michael Harris (Gold Medal), Guy’s; Walter Ottley (Gold Medal), Univ. Coll. SECOND CLASS. William Smith Greenfield, Univ. Coll.; Rickman John Godlee, Univ. Coll.; Benjamin Neale Dalton, Guy’s. APOTHECARIES’ HALL. - The following gentlemen passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medi. cine, and received certificates to practise, on Nov. 28th :- Bevers, Edmund Augustine, Oxford. ]3uck, William Elgar, Leicester. Charlesworth, Henry, Longnor Buxton. Cleghorn, George, York-road, London. Jackson, Richard Atkinson, Lancaster. Moss, Herbert Campbell, Stratford, Essex. Northey, Gilbert William, Tavistock, Devon. Vines, Edward Prince, Reading. Whately, George Frederick, Great Berkhampsted. As Assistant in Compounding and Dispensing Medicines :— Butterfield, Edward, Northampton. The following gentlemen also on the same day passed their Primary Professional Examination:- Isaac Boulger, St. Thomas’s Hospital; James Couldrey, Charing-cross Hospital; James Harman Finemore and Wm. Hurford Todd, London Hospital. THE foot-and-mouth disease is rapidly decreasing in Norfolk and Oxfordshire. THE INDIAN CAMP OF EXERCISE. - Inspector-Ge- neral Beatson, C.B., has been appointed principal medical officer to the above Camp, and Deputy Inspectors-General Drs. Crawford and Best, of the British Medical Service, and Deputy Inspector-General Banister, of the Indian Medical Service, will be in medical charge of the three divisions. Surgeon Stewart, Royal Horse Artillery, super- intends the General Field Hospital. It would seem that these military manoeuvres are to take place ; indeed, as cholera has ceased to make its appearance in India, except - MR. T. A. HANDSLEY has received ’a grant of ae5 13s. 4d. from the Local Government Board for efficient vaccination. ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY, EDINBURGH. - At a meeting of the Society on the 29th ult., the following gentlemen were elected annual presidents :-J. Crauford Renton, L.R.C.S.E. and P.; H. Macdonald Church, B.Sc., M.B., C.M.; John G. Shaw, M.B. and C.M.; Alfred C. E. Harris, M.B., L.R.C.S.E. THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. - The animals drafted into the show will be subject to frequent examination, and, with a view to further comfort and pro- tection, the authorities have again this year resorted to Sir William Burnett’s disinfecting fluid. LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1873.- The first meeting of the Committee on Class 10, "Surgical Instruments and Appliances," for the London International Exhibition of 1873, was held at 3 r.M., on Tuesday, the 26th November, at the offices in Stanhope Lodge, Ken- sington Gore. Mr. Csesar H. Hawkins, F.R.S, was voted into the chair, and among those present were Mr. J. Hilton, F.R.S., Mr. Prescott G. Hewett, Mr. R. Quain, F.R.S., Mr. White Cooper, Mr. J. Luke, F.R.S., Mr. T. W. Nunn, Mr. G. Saunders, Dr. G. T. Gream, Dr. W. S. Playfair, and Dr. H. J. Domville, C.B. Medical Appointments. B]ILL, J. W., L.R.C.P.Ed., L.R.C.S Ed., has been appointed Resident Medical Officer to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, vice F. P. F. Ransom, L R.C.P.L., M.R.C.S.E., resigned. ASHBY, A., M.B., F.R.C.S.E., has been appointed a Surgeon to the West- minster General Dispensary, Gerrard-street, Soho, vice C. Higgens, F.R.C.S.E., resigned. Busrrers, Dr. A. J., has been appointed Public Analyst for the Parish of Camberwell. HUNTER, W., M.B., C.M., has been appointed Medical Officer to the Kil. grammie and Dalquharran Collieries, Ayrshire, vice Alex. M’Lelland, M.B., L R.C.S.Ed., resigned. LEAH, T., M R.C.S.E., has been appointed a Junior Surgeon to the Royal Albert Hospital, Devonport, vice Bazeley, resigned. LYTH, J. B., L.R.C.P.Ed., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Assistant House- Surgeon to the Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary, vice Eagar, resigned. MAC ALISTER, Dr., has been appointed Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Trinity College, Dublin. M’LABBN, J., L.R.C.S.Ed., has been appointed Assistant to the Extra Phy- sicians of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, vice Gerald Bernard, M.D., whose term of office has expired. REID, F., L.R C.P., M.R.C.S., L.M., has been appointed Assistant-Surgeon to the lst City of London Engineers; and Physician-Accoucheur to the Maternity Society, Woburn-square. R033FRTSoN, A. M., M.B., C.M., has been appointed House-Surgeon to the Alnwick Infirmary, vice D. C. M’Vail, L.R.C.P.Ed., L.F.P. & S. Glas., resigned. SMITH, C., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Public Vaccinator for the No. 2 (Worthing) District of the East Preston Union, Sussex, vice Worth- ington, resigned. THOMAS, R. R. G., M.D., L.R.C.P.Ed., M.E.C.S.E., L.M., has been appointed Medical Officer to the Workhouse and the Tiverton East District, and Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the Cadbury and Washfield Districts of the Tiverton Union, vice Wm. Fred. Terry, M.R.C.S.E., resigned. THORNTON, W. P., M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Assistant-Surgeon to the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat. TURNER, G., L.R.C.P.L., M.R.C.S E., has been appointed Resident Medical Officer to the London Fever Hospital, vice Tiley, resigned. WEBSTER, W., M R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for the South District of the King’s Lynn Union, vice Hunter, deceased. WHARRY, C. J., M.B., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Superintendent of the Civil Hospital, Hong-Kong. Births, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS. ADCocE.—On the 15th ult., at Sand gate, Kent, the wife of John Adcock, M.D., Staff Assistant-Surgeon Army, of a daughter. BELL.-On the 23rd ult., at Perry-hill, Catford-bridge, the wife of W. B. Bell, M.D., of a son. BaowN.-On the 29th ult., at Newlands, Ryde, Isle of Wight, the wife of R. Brown, M.D., of a son. GREENHow.-On the 19th of Oct., at Sirdarpore, near Indore, India, the wife of H. M. Greenhow, F.R.C.S.E., Surgeon Bengal Army, of a son. HouGHTon’.—On the 13th ult., at Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, the wife of H. G. Houghton, L.K.Q.C.P.I., of a daughter. STILWELL.-On the 13th ult., at Hillingdon, the wife of H. Stilwell, M.D., of a daughter. ToNGE.-On the 2nd inst., at Harrow-on-the-Hill, the wife of M. Tonge, M.D., of a son.
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834

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF FNGLAND. -

The following Members passed the required examinationand were admitted Licentiates in Midwifery at a meetingof the Board of Examiners on Wednesday last :-

Adams, John, Kingsbridge, Devon; diploma of membershipdated July, 1872.

Anderson, Richard J., L.K.Q.C.P.I., Newry.Jay, Henry Mason, L.R C.P.Ed., Chippenham; April, 1868.Lett, Francis, L.R.C.P.Ed., Woolwich; July, 1868.Oakman, Joseph, L.S.A., Battersea-square; April, 1866.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-The following candidateshave passed the recent M.D. Examination:-

Alford, Henry James, University College.Ball, James Barry, University College.Bruce, John Mitchell, M.A. Aberd., Aberdeen and Charing-cross i

Hospital. ,

Burgess, Wm. Frederick Richardson, Guy’s Hospital.Carter, Alfred Henry, University College.Griffiths, Thomas. University College.Hall, Francis de Havilland, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Lyell, Robert Wishart, King’s College.Smith, Arthur William, Guy’s Hospital.

LOGIC AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY ONLY.

Archer, Herbert Ray, St. George’s Hospital.Gibbings, Alfred Thomas, King’s College,Harris, James Alfred, Edinburgh University.Humphreys, John Henry, University College.Langmore, John Wreford, B.S., Univ. Coll. and Middlesex Hosp.M(,rton, John, St. Thomas’s Hospital.Read, Charles, University College.Vachell, Charles Tanfield, King’s College.Wyman, John Sanderaon, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

The following candidates have passed the recent SecondM.B. (Honours) Examination :—- --- -

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MEDICINE. IFIRST CLASS. - Benjamin Neale Dalton (Scholarship and Gold Medal), ’,Guy’s; Walter Ot’lfy* (Gold Medal), Univ. Coll.; Joseph Henry Philpot,King’s Coll.; William Smith Greenfield, Univ. Coll.; George HarryBartoot. Univ. Coll.

SECOND CLASS. - Thomas Jones, Guy’s; Charles Edward Steele Perkins,Guy’s; Rickman John Godlee, B.A., Univ. Coll.

* Obtained the number of marks qualifying for the Scholarship.OBSTETRIC MEDICINE.

F’IRST CLASS. - Robert Eardley-Wilmot (Scholarship and Gold Medal),King’s Coll.; Wm. Smith Greenfield (Gold Medal), Univ. Coll.; JosephHen. Philpot,t Kind’s Coll ; Arthur Mudge Branfoot,t Guy’s; FrancisWarner,t King’s Coil.; Thomas Jones,t Guy’s.

SECOND CLASS. - Benjamin Neale Dalton and Michael Harris (equal),Guy’s; Leonard Cane, Univ. Coll.; Rickman John Godlee, Univ. Coll.

THIRD CLASS.—Alfred Ashby, Guy’s.t Obtained the number of marks qualifying for a Gold Medal.

FORENSIC MEDICINE.FMST CLASS.-Michael Harris (Gold Medal), Guy’s; Walter Ottley (Gold

Medal), Univ. Coll.SECOND CLASS. - William Smith Greenfield, Univ. Coll.; Rickman John

Godlee, Univ. Coll.; Benjamin Neale Dalton, Guy’s.

APOTHECARIES’ HALL. - The following gentlemenpassed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medi.cine, and received certificates to practise, on Nov. 28th :-

Bevers, Edmund Augustine, Oxford.]3uck, William Elgar, Leicester.Charlesworth, Henry, Longnor Buxton.Cleghorn, George, York-road, London.Jackson, Richard Atkinson, Lancaster.Moss, Herbert Campbell, Stratford, Essex.Northey, Gilbert William, Tavistock, Devon.Vines, Edward Prince, Reading.Whately, George Frederick, Great Berkhampsted.

As Assistant in Compounding and Dispensing Medicines :—Butterfield, Edward, Northampton.

The following gentlemen also on the same day passed theirPrimary Professional Examination:-

Isaac Boulger, St. Thomas’s Hospital; James Couldrey, Charing-crossHospital; James Harman Finemore and Wm. Hurford Todd, LondonHospital.THE foot-and-mouth disease is rapidly decreasing

in Norfolk and Oxfordshire.

THE INDIAN CAMP OF EXERCISE. - Inspector-Ge-neral Beatson, C.B., has been appointed principal medicalofficer to the above Camp, and Deputy Inspectors-GeneralDrs. Crawford and Best, of the British Medical Service,and Deputy Inspector-General Banister, of the IndianMedical Service, will be in medical charge of the threedivisions. Surgeon Stewart, Royal Horse Artillery, super-intends the General Field Hospital. It would seem thatthese military manoeuvres are to take place ; indeed, ascholera has ceased to make its appearance in India, except

- MR. T. A. HANDSLEY has received ’a grant ofae5 13s. 4d. from the Local Government Board for efficientvaccination.

ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY, EDINBURGH. - At a

meeting of the Society on the 29th ult., the followinggentlemen were elected annual presidents :-J. CraufordRenton, L.R.C.S.E. and P.; H. Macdonald Church, B.Sc.,M.B., C.M.; John G. Shaw, M.B. and C.M.; Alfred C. E.Harris, M.B., L.R.C.S.E.

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. - Theanimals drafted into the show will be subject to frequentexamination, and, with a view to further comfort and pro-tection, the authorities have again this year resorted toSir William Burnett’s disinfecting fluid.LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1873.-

The first meeting of the Committee on Class 10, "SurgicalInstruments and Appliances," for the London InternationalExhibition of 1873, was held at 3 r.M., on Tuesday, the26th November, at the offices in Stanhope Lodge, Ken-sington Gore. Mr. Csesar H. Hawkins, F.R.S, was votedinto the chair, and among those present were Mr. J. Hilton,F.R.S., Mr. Prescott G. Hewett, Mr. R. Quain, F.R.S., Mr.White Cooper, Mr. J. Luke, F.R.S., Mr. T. W. Nunn, Mr.G. Saunders, Dr. G. T. Gream, Dr. W. S. Playfair, and Dr.H. J. Domville, C.B.

Medical Appointments.B]ILL, J. W., L.R.C.P.Ed., L.R.C.S Ed., has been appointed Resident Medical

Officer to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, vice F. P. F.Ransom, L R.C.P.L., M.R.C.S.E., resigned.

ASHBY, A., M.B., F.R.C.S.E., has been appointed a Surgeon to the West-minster General Dispensary, Gerrard-street, Soho, vice C. Higgens,F.R.C.S.E., resigned.

Busrrers, Dr. A. J., has been appointed Public Analyst for the Parish ofCamberwell.

HUNTER, W., M.B., C.M., has been appointed Medical Officer to the Kil.grammie and Dalquharran Collieries, Ayrshire, vice Alex. M’Lelland,M.B., L R.C.S.Ed., resigned.

LEAH, T., M R.C.S.E., has been appointed a Junior Surgeon to the RoyalAlbert Hospital, Devonport, vice Bazeley, resigned.

LYTH, J. B., L.R.C.P.Ed., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Assistant House-Surgeon to the Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary, vice Eagar,resigned.

MAC ALISTER, Dr., has been appointed Professor of Comparative Anatomy,Trinity College, Dublin.

M’LABBN, J., L.R.C.S.Ed., has been appointed Assistant to the Extra Phy-sicians of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, vice GeraldBernard, M.D., whose term of office has expired.

REID, F., L.R C.P., M.R.C.S., L.M., has been appointed Assistant-Surgeonto the lst City of London Engineers; and Physician-Accoucheur to theMaternity Society, Woburn-square.

R033FRTSoN, A. M., M.B., C.M., has been appointed House-Surgeon to theAlnwick Infirmary, vice D. C. M’Vail, L.R.C.P.Ed., L.F.P. & S. Glas.,resigned.

SMITH, C., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Public Vaccinator for the No. 2(Worthing) District of the East Preston Union, Sussex, vice Worth-ington, resigned.

THOMAS, R. R. G., M.D., L.R.C.P.Ed., M.E.C.S.E., L.M., has been appointedMedical Officer to the Workhouse and the Tiverton East District, andMedical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the Cadbury and WashfieldDistricts of the Tiverton Union, vice Wm. Fred. Terry, M.R.C.S.E.,resigned.

THORNTON, W. P., M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Assistant-Surgeon to theHospital for Diseases of the Throat.

TURNER, G., L.R.C.P.L., M.R.C.S E., has been appointed Resident MedicalOfficer to the London Fever Hospital, vice Tiley, resigned.

WEBSTER, W., M R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for the SouthDistrict of the King’s Lynn Union, vice Hunter, deceased.

WHARRY, C. J., M.B., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Superintendent of theCivil Hospital, Hong-Kong.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

ADCocE.—On the 15th ult., at Sand gate, Kent, the wife of John Adcock,M.D., Staff Assistant-Surgeon Army, of a daughter.

BELL.-On the 23rd ult., at Perry-hill, Catford-bridge, the wife of W. B.Bell, M.D., of a son.

BaowN.-On the 29th ult., at Newlands, Ryde, Isle of Wight, the wife ofR. Brown, M.D., of a son.

GREENHow.-On the 19th of Oct., at Sirdarpore, near Indore, India, thewife of H. M. Greenhow, F.R.C.S.E., Surgeon Bengal Army, of a son.

HouGHTon’.—On the 13th ult., at Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, the wifeof H. G. Houghton, L.K.Q.C.P.I., of a daughter.

STILWELL.-On the 13th ult., at Hillingdon, the wife of H. Stilwell, M.D.,of a daughter.

ToNGE.-On the 2nd inst., at Harrow-on-the-Hill, the wife of M. Tonge,M.D., of a son.

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MARRIAGES.Joy—GRiFfur.—On the 3rd inst., at the Parish Chnrch, Banningham,

Frederick William Joy, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., of Northwold, to EmilyElizabeth Griffin, of Banningham Hall, daughter of the late JohnCancy &bgr;riffio, Esq.

SANDERS-FLOwER.-On the 31st of Oct., at Bombay, Edwin Sanders,Assistant-Surgeon 2nd Sihk Infantry, to Edith Waters, daughter ofEdward Flower, Esq., of St. Helier’s, Jersey.

STAPLE—LAMBBiRD.—Un the 19th ult., by special licence, at Feltrim,James Francis Supple, Staff Assistant-Surgeon H.M.’s Service, to JuliaMary, eldest daughter of the late Robert Lambbird, Esq., J.P., ofCork.

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DEATHS.BuBB.-On the 13th of Sept., at Gulgong, New South Wales, H. W. Bubb,

M.D., aged 39.CtEMB!fTS.—On the 28th ult., on board the Steamship " Antenor," home-

ward bound, George Clements, Esq., Senior Medical Officer to theCholton Union Hospitals, Manchester,aged 28.

HABWOOD.—On the 18th ult., at Emmanuel-road, Cambridge, Alfred Har-wood, M.R.C.S.E., of syphilis (contracted whilst attending a diseasedmarried woman in labour) and pulmonary phtbtsis, aged 29.

PowNAn.—On the 18th ult., John Pownall, M.R.C.S.E., of High-bank,Altrincham, Cheshire, aged 68. ’,

SEWELL.-On the 30th of Aug., on board the " Clarence," on a voyage toMelhourne, A. Sewell, L.R.C.P.Ed., M.R.C.S.E., aged 26.

SKiNNER.-On the 12th ult., Geo. Skinner, M.R.C.S.E., of Bath, aged 75.SUPPLE.-On the 28th ult., at St. Stephen’s-road, Shepherd’s-bush, Dr. Jas.

Supple, late Madras Army, aged 63.WATERsoN.-On the 18th ult., at Newburgh, A. Waterson, L.R.C.P.Ed.,

aged 35.WniTAKEB.—On the 3rd inst., J. S. Whitaker, M.R.C.S.E., of Betah Cottage,

Kingsland-road, aged 67.

Medical Diary of the Week.Monday, Dec. 9.

ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, MooRFiBLDs.—Operations, 10 A.M.ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.ST. MARK’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.-8 P.M. Dr. Sansom, "On a Case of Infantile

Paralysis treated by the Continuous Current." - Mr. Thomas Bryant, (President), "On a Case of Disease of the Shoulder-joint." - Dr. E. N.

Durantz, of Marseilles: "Clinical Notes on Soft Tumours of theLarynx" (communicated).

Tuesday, Dec. 10.ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 P.M.Gur’s HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.WESTMINSTER HoSPITAL.-Operations, 2 p.M.NATIONAL ORTEopDio H08PITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.WEST LONDON HoSPITAL.-Operations, 3 P.M.ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SooiETY.—8 P.M. Dr. George Johnson,

" On the Pathology of Chronic Bright’s Disease, with ContractedKidney, with special reference to the theory of ’Arterio-CapillaryFibrosis."’ "

Wednesday, Dec. 11.MIDDLESBX HosPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.ST. GEORGE’s HOSPITAL.-Ophthalmic Operations, 1 P.M.ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 111 P.M.ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1l P.M.ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.—Operations, 14 P.M.ST. THOMAS’S H09PITAL: Operationa, 1 P.M.KING’s COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HosPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.LONDON HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL 1?01& WOMEN AND CHILDREN.-Operations, 212 P.M.CANCER HospiTAL.—Operations, 3 p.M.EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. - 8 P.M. Dr. Mouat, "On Medical Statistics,

with especial reference to Cholera and Syphilis."

Thursday, Dec. 12.ST. GEORGE’s HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, H P.M.UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.ReYAL ORTHOPEDIC HospiTAL.—Operations, 2 P.M.CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.

Friday, Dec. 13.Guy’s HOSPITAL.-Operations, H p.M.ROYAL SOUTH LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2 P.M.QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB.-8 P.M. iCLINICAL SOCIETY op LONDON. - 8 P.M. Dr. C. Theodore Williams, On

Cases of the Pyrexia of Phthisis treated by Cool Baths." - Dr. TilburyFox, " On a singular Case of Fibroma."-Mr. W. B. Dalby, " On Woundof the Portio Dura, causing Facial Palsy." - Dr. Loekhart Clarke,"On a Case of Cysts in the Cerebellum."-Dr. Edis, "On a Case ofRight H emiplegia occurring during Pregnancy, with rapid Convalescenceafter Parturition."

Saturday, Dec. 14.HOSPITAL pop W OMBN, Soho-sqnare.-Operations, 9î A.M.ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.—Operations, 11 P.M.ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, MOORFIELDS.-Operations, lOt A.M.ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1½ P.M.ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HosPITAL.-Operations, lit p.M.KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1½ P.M.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 p.M.CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.--Operations, 3 p.M.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answers toCorrespondents.

GEOPHAGIE OR DIRT-EATING., DR. GALT, in his "Medical Notes of the Upper Amazon," published in a late. number of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, has furnished

us with some curious information on a subject that does not usually comewithin the range of professional notice-viz., the strange practice knownas "dirt-eating," or "geophagie." This disease, according to Dr. Galt,now enters as one of the chief endemic complaints of all tropical America,and at the distance of over two thousand miles from the sea, on theAmazon valley, where the negro is a rarity, being merely a waif fromBrazil or the Pacific coast, it is the most important disease among thechildren and women of the country. Here, on the Maranon, the half-breeds are mostly addicted to the practice of dirt-eating-neither thepure savage nor the more cultivated being so often the victims. Theaccounts about the tyranny of this habit of dirt-eating on the victimsof it would seem almost fabulous, Dr. Galt says, were there notevidences all around one to give sanction to them. Children commencethe practice from the time they are four years old, or less, and frequentlydie from the results in two or three years. In other cases they grow tomanhood or womanhood; and Dr. Galt speaks of having himself seen inthe case of a Mestizo soldier, who was dying from the dysentery whichsooner or later supervenes on this habit, the poor creature, half an hourbefore his death, detected with a lump of clay stuffed in his sunkencheeks. Officers who have the Indian or half-bred children as servants intheir employ sometimes have to use wire masks to keep them from puttingthe clay to their mouths; and women, as they lie in bed sleepless andrestless, will pull out pieces of mud from the adjoining walls of theirroom to gratify their strange appetite, or will soothe a squalling brat bytempting it with a lump of the same material. If persisted in, the effectsare surely fatal, at varying terms of years, some living tolerably to middleage, and then dying with dysentery. In children dropsy usually appearsto be the most prominent cause of decline and death.

Pero will probably find Horses and Stables, by Colonel Fitzingram (pub-lished by Messrs. Longmans), and Williams’s Principles and Practice ofVeterinary Surgery, the most useful works for his purpose.

4748.—We do not see the name in question in the Medical Register.

PSORIASIS.

To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-Much has been said and written on skin diseases in general, and onthe squamous class in particular, and much yet remains to be written andsaid respecting them.Of the numerous and multiform progeny of syphilis, there is none, per-

haps, with which we have to deal that proves more clearly the devitalisingaction of its virus upon the economy than psoriasis. While the commonvariety of the disease, dependent upon a diathesis, hereditary or acquired,other than specific, is characterised by an eruption confluent in form(psoriasis diffusa), or arranged in spiral (psoriasis gyrata), and which gene-rally seeks certain favourite regions for its development, the squamoussyphilide (psoriasis punctata) is scattered indifferently, and, as it were,broadcast over the whole surface of the body. In the one, the silvery scales

repose upon a bright, rosy couch, rounded at the summit, and bevelled atthe circumference ; in the other, they lie, ill at ease, upon a brownish orcopper-coloured base, depressed at the centre, and somewhat elevatedtowards their edges. Should the scales themselves be examined intimately,they will be found to present certain peculiarities dependent upon theirpathogenic origin, and which may materially serve in doubtful cases todifferentiate the diagnosis of both affections. While the scales of the simpleform may be removed or fall off in comparatively large and coherent flakes,showing that even in death or their caducous state they still retain theimpress of vitality, those of the syphilitic variety crumble into a shapeless,furfuraceous powder. It would be, it seems to me, an interesting subject toinvestigate, and one perhaps of great importance, as well in a histologicalas a pathological point of view, to see whether the epithelial cells of thatportion of the rete Malpighii immediately involved in the eruption differ inshape or volume from those of the sound mucous layer of the epidermis.Perhaps, as in the case of the corpuscles of Lostorfer, they, too, may revealtraces of organic deformity in their natural configuration.The form of psoriasis (so denominated by dermatologists) affecting the

palms of the hands (psoriasis palmaris), and commonly called grocers’itch," I believe to be a misnomer in every sense of the term. It has nothingin common with the eruption of that name, if we except a scabrous condi-tion of the epiderm, and, if possible, bears less analogy to the one withwhich it is popularly confounded, save the intolerable pruritus which fre-quently accompanies it. The scales, instead of being superincumbent oracuminated, as in all forms of psoriasis, are flattened, irregular, generallydefined by the creases of the hand, and are sometimes imbricated, somewhatafter the manner of those in ichthyosis. That the disease is a species ofchronic eczema, I have little reason to doubt, both from the characters justmentioned, as well as from the fact that it is quite amenable to topical

treatment alone. Now this cannot be said, so far as I am aware, of anyvariety of psoriasis, whether common or specific. The vesicles, which werethe affection located in almost any other region of the body, would not failto be formed and run their ordinary course, are here early compressed,aborted, in a word, from the friction unavoidably exerted upon them.Hence the pseudo-squamous appearance they assume, and the error indiagnosis necessarily arising from it.My desire for diffusing correct views on the diseases in question is theonly adequate apology I can offer for trespassing so far upon your valuabletime and space. Yours truly,

. November, 1873. XENOS.


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