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Medical IntelligenceSource: Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal (1844-1852), Vol. 16, No. 7 (Mar. 31, 1852), pp.183-184Published by: BMJStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25493348 .

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* MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE. 183

THE NEW MEDICAL BILL.

To the Editors of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal.

Gentlemen,?I stated to the Council of the Bath

and Bristol Branch of the Association, that I considered

the Medical Reform Bill, as first brought out by the

Association and published in the Journal, was the

nearest perfection of any that had been brought before

the public and the profession; and with this I should

have been content, had I not seen your remarks on

the subject in the last Journal. I cannot agree with you that because Sir George Grey has left the

Home Office, that " we have no hope of proceeding with the measure during the present Parliament." If we can frame a bill to the satisfaction of ourselves, I do not think we have to fear the opposition in either

House of Parliament. Our opponents are the interested in our own body; and if the corporate bodies and

colleges are satisfied, the bill ought to be immediately

brought before the House of Commons, and should

they sit long enough, we may have a fair chance of success. Xhere are not two men in the House of

Commons or the country, who know the wants of the

profession, and understand the subject of Medical

Reform better than two Secretaries of State for the

Home Department, Sir James Graham and Sir George

Grey, who are both in the House of Commons. Let a

communication be opened with them at once, and urge one of them to take charge of the bill; they will not

require much prompting. Mr. Bell seems to be going on with his Pharmacy Bill. This should stir us up to be looking to ourselves and our own interest.

I am, Gentlemen, yours, &c, GEORGE KING, !

Bath, March 22, 1852. j

3flrtttal SttWiigettrt LEICESTER MEDICAL BOOK SOCIETY.

The President of the Leicester Medical Book Society has forwarded to us the following resolution, which was

unanimously adopted at a large meeting of the Society, on the 1st of March instant.

Resolved unanimously, 11 That the Society views with satisfaction the declara

tions of several professional bodies against homoeo

pathy, and pledges its members alike to repudiate the nonsensical doctrines of Hahnemann and of Priesznits; and to decline consulaflfc. with those who profess such

deceptive absurdities."

MEDICAL BENEVOLENT FUND.

The dinner in behalf of this Fund is announced to

take place at the London Tavern on Thursday, May

20th; and from the first list of stewards already pub

lished, we feel confident that it will receive the support :

of the entire profession.

MEDICAL CANDIDATE FOR PARLIAMENT.

Mr. Hartley Kennedy, the author of the well-known work on Cholera, and lately holding a high position in

the medical service of India, is a candidate for the

Inverness Burghs. The medical gentlemen of the

district, it is to be hoped, will cordially support him.

PRINCELY MUNIFICENCE.

Edward Lonlie, Esq., of Milton Hall, Norfolk, who

lately died, has bequeathed to University College

Hospital, upon the demise of his wife, the whole of his

property, which is sworn to be worth j^25,000.

I BLOOD STAINS.

In concluding the evidence given a short time since

at the Marylebone police-court, before Mr. Broughton, in the case of William Styles, Dr. Hassall made the

| following observations, important in a medico-legal

point of view, in reference to blood stains:?"That, while the determination, by means of the microscope, of the nature of blood-stains, even when very recent, formed on cloth, linen, and other soft and porous

textures, is usually a matter of considerable difficulty, and is often impossible, the determination of such stains, however old, as are placed on glass, porcelain, wood, and other hard and smooth surfaces, is in general un

attended with difficulty, and extremely satisfactory. This difference is to be explained thus: in the one case

the fibrin, albumen, and serum of the blood are in part

absorbed, and pass into the cavities of the hairs or

fibres of the wool or linen; the blood corpuscles are

thus deprived of their preservative fluids, and shrink up ?become misshapen or disintegrated; while, in the

other case, the fibrin and albumen harden around the

blood-discs in drying, and thus preserve them slightly altered in form only." Dr. Hassall stated that he had

frequently succeeded in identifying the blood of different

animals, preserved on slips of glass, after the lapse of

six years. The stains should be examined in white of

egg, and not in water.

FRAUDS COMMITTED BY CHEMICAL PROCESSES.

Extensive frauds have lately been committed in

France by washing out, by chemical means, the sums

inscribed in checks and bills of exchange, and filling up the blanks with larger amounts. No remedy has yet been discovered; several, however, are talked of,

amongst them is one by which commercial paper is

covered with a multitude of microscopic spots or stars,

which cannot be removed without changing the colour

of the paper; another is, to put some coloured matter

in the body of the paper, of such a kind as to disappear

when washed.?Literary Gazette.

APPOINTMENTS.

Military.?-2nd West Jndia Regiment; Acting

Assistant Surgeon T. Llewellyn Nash, M.D., to be

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184 MISCELLANEOUS.

Assistant-Surgeon, vice Clarke, appointed to the staff.

Hospital Staff: Assistant-Surgeon Patrick Joseph Clarke, from the 2nd West India Regiment, to be

Assistant Surgeon to the Forces, vice Moore, appointed to the 6th Dragoon Guards.

Naval.?Assistant-Surgeon John Bernard Richards

(1847), at present serving in the Rodney, 90, to be

Assistant-Surgeon of the Pioneer, screw-steamer, in

the Arctic Expedition. Surgeon James John Louis

Donnet (1845) to be Surgeon-Superintendent ofthe

William Jardine convict-ship. Assistant-Surgeon Hart

Gunlet, M.D. (1846), recently serving in the South

ampton, 50, on the south-east coast of America station, to the St. George, 120', guard-ship of ordinary at

Devonport. Assistant-Surgeon Stephen Bowden (1845) from the Britannia, 120, flag-ship on the Mediterranean

station, to the Impregnable, flag-ship at Devonport.

Acting Assistant-Surgeon David Wilson to the Poly

phemus steam-sloop, for service on the coast of Africa.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. The following gentlemen were admitted members on

Friday, the 12th instant:?Charles Blatherwick, Titch

field, Hants; Charles Dixon, Australia; Wm. Edney, London; Richard Griffin, Buenos Ayres; Edward Vavasour Hemingway, Leeds; Henry Lane, Wedgnock Park, Warwick; Benjamin Richardson Lawrence, Chedder, Somerset; Josiah Ramskill, Leeds; John

Reynolds Salter, Exeter.

SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES. Gentlemen admitted members on Thursday, March

11th: ? Edward Parry Beverley, Margate; David Daniel Davies, Carmarthen ; George Hymeneus Love

grove, Gloucester; Arthur Stretton. Gentlemen admitted members on Thursday, March

18th:?Arthur Newstead Holmes, Pocklington, York: Southmead Lanworthy, Modbury, Devon; Francis

Robinson, Ware, Herts.

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OBITUARY.

January 11th, at Calcutta, Surgeon Thomas Murray, of the Bengal Medical Service, aged 35.

March 3rd, in Dale Street, Manchester, James

Rhodes, Esq., aged 29, one of the surgeons to the Manchester and Salford Lying-in Hospital.

March 11th, at his residence, Henry Street,

Tipperary, suddenly, aged 47, William Reardon, M.B? Trinity College, Dublin, M.R.C.S., Eng.

March 16th, at Woolwich, Mr. Edmond Waters, surgeon, aged 76.

March 18th, at Dalston, in the 68th year of his age, Edward Seaton, Esq., Surgeon, R.N., formerly of Rochester.

March 19th, Thomas Gaskell, Esq., M.R.C.S., of Markham Square, Chelsea, aged 61.

March 22nd, at his residence, Argyll Street, Sir Charles Fergusson Foibes, M.D., K.C.H.,and Deputy Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, aged 73.

BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW. Lectures on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood.

By Charles West, M.D., &c. Second Edition. Lon don: Longmans and Co., 1852.

On the Diseases of the Bladder and Prostate Gland.

By William Coulson, Surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital. Fourth Edition. London : Churchill, 1852.

Lectures on Clinical Medicine. By John Hughes Bennett, M.D., F.R.C.S.E. No. 6.

On Syphilis, Constitutional and Hereditary, and on

Syphilitic Eruptions. By Erasmus Wilson. London: Churchill, 1852.

Sketches of Brazil, including New Views of Tropical and European Fever, &c. By Robert Dundas, M.D., &c. London : Churchill, 1852.

On True and False Spermatorrhoea. By Dr. Pickford, of the University of Heiielburg. Edited by Chirurgus. London : E. Churton, 1852. Pamphlet.

London University Calendar, 1852. Varicose Veins aud Varicose Ulcers. By T. W.

Nunn, Surgeon to the Western Dispensary. London :

Renshaw, 1852. The Principles and Practice of Surgery. Ry W.

Pirrie, F.R.S.E., Regius Professor of Surgery in the Mareschal College of Aberdeen. London: J. Churchill 8vo, pp. 952.

Remarks on the Pathology and Treatment of the Deformities of the Human Body. By John Bishop, F.R.S. London : Highley and Son, 1852.

Lateral Curvature of the Spine ; its Causes, Nature, and Treatment. By R. W. Tamplin, F.R.C.S.E. London: J. Churchill, 1852.

The Stomach and its Difficulties. By Sir James Eyre, M.D. London: J.Churchill, 1852.

Observations upon the importance of Establishing Public Hospitals for the Insane of the Middle and

Higher Classes; with a Brief Exposition of the Nature of Insanity, and the present Provision for the treatment of the Insane. By Thomas Dickson, L.R.C.S.E., London : Churchill, 1852. Pamphlet.

A Letter to the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., M.P., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for

the Home Department, &c, on Medical Registration, and the Present Condition of the Medical Corporations. Second Edition. London : Jackson, 32, King Street.

Pamphlet. On the Fallacies of Homoeopathy, and the Imperfect

Statistical Inquiries on which the Results of that Practice are Estimated. By C. H. F. Routh, M.D., M.R.C.S.

Pamphlet. London : H. K. Lewis, 15, Gower Street, North.

PROVINCIAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIATION.

NOTICE TO MEMBERS.

The Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the Associa tion will take place this year at Oxford, on the 21st and 22nd of July. The appointment is made rather earlier than usual, in consequence of an intimation from the authorities to the effect that it would be more con venient to the University to have -the meeting held before the end of that month*

JAMES P. SHEPPARD, Secretary. Worcester, January, 1852.

Errata.?In Mr. Solomon's last lecture, page 85, col. 1, ten lines from the bottom, for "

bodily diseases," read " diseases ofthe body."?Page 86, col. 2, fourteen lines from the bottom, for

' 8teruntories,,, read

4 * sternutories." ^Jj In Dr. Merei's last lecture, in directing the pre

paration of the senna-tea, it is stated that the leaves are to be acted upon by

" proof spirit." It should have

been " alcohol or rectified spirit.*1

TO CORRESPONDENTS. Communications have been received from Scrutator,

Dr. Reid, Dr. Merei, An Admirer of Truth, and Mr. Bryan.

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