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729 MEDICAL NEWS. demonstrate an automatic rubber packing and wax dispersing apparatus and Dr. Oberlander’s process of enamelling dentures. Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, who publish the Dental Surgeon, display books on dentistry ; so also does Henry Kimpton, of 263, High Holborn, W.C. 1. Amongst smaller items are the Lysepticol mouth-wash tablets, of the Midland Dental Manufacturing Co., Birmingham ; the chlorine antiseptic, Chloramine, of W. R. Black, and the new iodine solution, Presoiod, sold by Lionel Cooper, 14, Henrietta-street, W.C. 2. A small cheap sterilising lamp, burning solid fuel, which is made by Francis Lepper and Co., of 55, Great Marlborough-street, W. 1, has found many buyers. Last, but far from least in helpfulness, is the glass of hot virolised milk provided for visitors. Medical News. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.- Demonstrations of specimens in the Museum will be given at 5 P.M. during October and November in the theatre of the College in Lincoln’s Inn-fields, as follows : By Prof. Sir Arthur Keith : Friday, Oct. 16th, Specimens Illustrating the Pathological Anatomy of Acromegaly ; Oct. 23rd, Prepara- tions and Models to Illustrate the Mechanism of the Internal Ear ; Oct. 30th, Preparations and Dissections to Illustrate the Evolution of the Human Mechanism of Hearing ; Nov. 6th, Exhibition of Microscopical Preparations made from Recent Cases of Intestinal Stasis. By Mr. Shattock : Monday, Oct. 19th, Lips and Tongue ; Oct. 26th, Cysts ; Nov. 2nd, Some Bone Tumours. The demonstrations are open to advanced students and medical practitioners. CHELSEA CLINICAL SOCIETY.-The annual dinner of the society will be held at the Cafe Royal, Regent-street, W., on Tuesday, Oct. 20th, at 7.30 P.M. PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN.- On the occasion of the opening of the eighty-fourth session of the School of Pharmacy at 17, Bloomsbury-square, London, W.C., on Wednesday, Oct. 7th, Prof. Winifred C. Cullis will deliver the inaugural sessional address, and the Pereira medal will be presented. ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL.-The old students’ dinner will take place at the Hotel Victoria, Northumberland-avenue, W.C., on Friday, Oct. 30th, at 7.30 P.M. The chair will be taken by Mr. Samuel Osborn. On Monday, Nov. 2nd, at noon, H.R.H. the Duke of York will lay the foundation-stone of the College House extension. The ground and first floors of this building, which is being erected opposite the hospital in Lambeth Palace-road, will house the students’ club premises, whilst the upper four floors will provide resident accommodation for some 60 students, in addition to members of the resident staff of the hospital.- The following scholarships have been awarded by the school : Entrance Arts Scholarships, 1925 (value E50), Mr. A. G. Sanders, St. Paul’s School, West Kensington ; (value ;/350), Mr. J. F. E. Bloss, Monkton Combe, Bath. Entrance Science Scholaiships, 1925 (value ;/3150), Mr. K. M. Robertson, Eltham College ; (value 60), Mr. D. 0. Clark, Eltham College. The William Tite Scholarship, 1925 (value ;/325), Mr. A. M. Easton, Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon. POST-GRADUATE COURSE AT ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL. . A series of lectures will be given at St. Mary’s Hospital over the present week-end, starting on Saturday, Oct. 3rd at 11 A.M. The course will be open to all practitioners without fee, and the following lectures will be given : Saturday, I A.M., Mr. C. W. G. Bryan : The Management of Common Forms of Urinary Obstruction ; noon, Mr. S. Maynard Smith : The Differential Diagnosis of Gall-Stones ; 2.30 P.M., Mr. T. G. Stevens : Haemorrhagic Ovarian Cysts, a Common Cause of Pelvic Pain ; 3.45 P.M., Dr. C. M. Wilson : , The Patient’s Point of View in Treatment (with cases). On Sunday, 11 A.M., Mr. Zachary Cope : Minor Surgery in General Practice ; noon, Prof. B. J. Collingwood : Some Applications of Physiology in Practice. On Monday, 10 A.M., Mr. Warren Low : Clinical Aspects of Malignant Disease of the Colon ; 10.45 A.vr., Prof. Langmead : Over- looked Causes of Fever in Children ; noon, Mr. Aleck W. ( Bourne : Clinical Types in Gynaecology ; 2.30 P.M., Sir 1 William Willcox : Chronic Toxaemia, its Recognition and k Treatment ; 3.45 P.M., Mr. Duncan Fitzwilliams : Lecture f and Demonstrations on Cancer of the Breast. 8 CALEDONIAN MEDICAL SOCIETY. -The fortieth annual meeting and dinner of this society will be held at the Central Station Hotel, Glasgow, on Friday, Oct. Dth, under the presidency of Dr. Neil T. Kerr, of Hartwood. HUNTERIAN SociETY.—The presidential address to the society will be given by Dr. F. Howard Humphris at a dinner meeting in Simpson’s Restaurant, Cheapside, E.C. 2, on the subject of Light. The date of the meeting is Oct. 19th, at 7.30 P.M., and not Oct. 12th as announced in the society’s calendar. CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL.-The annual dinner of past and present students will be held in Gatti’s Restaurant, Strand (entrance, King William-street), on Monday, Oct. 5th, at 7 for 7.30 P.M. Dr. W. J. Fenton will be in the chair. The distribution of prizes to students by Sir Herbert Waterhouse will take place on the afternoon of the same day at 3.30 in the out-patients’ hall of the hospital. HARVEIAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. - The subject selected for the Buckston Browne prize is the aetiology of High Blood Pressure and of the Respiratory Phenomena Associated with High Blood Pressure and Chronic Nephritis. The prize consists of a medal, together with the sum of E50, and it is open for competition to any member of the medical profession registered in the British Isles or Dominions, under 45 years of age. Further particulars may be seen in 3our advertisement columns. I BRITISH SCIENCE GUILD.-The first annual Norman Lockyer Lecture, established by the British Science Guild ; as a means of periodically directing the attention of the ) public to the influence of science upon human progress, will : be given by Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., on the Link Between ; Matter and Matter, and the lecture will be held on Monday, Nov. 16th, at 4 P.M., in the Hall of the Goldsmiths’ Company (by permission of the Master and Court of Assistants of the Company), Lord Askwith, President of the Guild, in the chair. Tickets of admission may be obtained on application to the Secretary, British Science Guild, 6, John-street, Adelphi, London, W.C. 2. MEDICAL DEFENCE UNION.-The annual general meeting of the Medical Defence Union was held at 49, Bedford-square, London, on Sept. 25th. Mr. Walter G. Spencer, the President, in moving the adoption of the annual report of the Council for the year 1924-25, said that the report was certainly one of the most satisfactory and successful which had ever been issued. The increase of members during the past two or three years was quite unprecedented, and no doubt this was largely due to the fact that the teachers in the medical schools were now making a point of telling the newly-qualified to join one or other of the defence societies. Mr. F. C. Larkin, Mr. D. Drew, and Dr. V. A. Jaynes were unanimously re-elected members of the Council. NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYSED AND EPILEPTIC.-A post-graduate course will be held at the Hospital, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, W.C., from Oct. 5th to Nov. 27th. The course will consist of the following subjects : (1) Out-patient clinics, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, 2 P.M. ; (2) clinical lectures and demonstrations on the same days at 3.30 P.M. ; (3) lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system (if sufficient applicants), Mondays, 12 noon ; (4) lectures on the pathology of the nervous system, Thursdays, 12 noon ; (5) clinical demonstrations on methods of examination (if sufficient applicants), Tuesdays and Fridays, 10 A.3i. A syllabus and further particulars of the course may be obtained from the secretary of the hospital. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH.-A course f lectures on Preventable Diseases will be delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Institute, 37, Russell-square, London, W.C. 1, at 4 P.M., on Wednesdays from Oct. 14th to Dec. 16th. colonel S. Lyle Cummins, David Davies Professor of Tuber- :ulosis, University College of South Wales and Monmouth, vill deliver the first lecture on the Prevention and Arrest )f Tuberculosis, on Oct. l4th, with Lieut.-Colonel Cuthbert Fames, M.P., in the chair. whilst these lectures are intended )rimarily for the Fellows and Members of the Institute, all ,thers, men and women, interested in medico-sociological problems are cordially invited to attend. The Harben Jectures will be given by Prof. J. C. G. Ledingham, F.R.S., n Current Problems in Bacteriology and Immunology, and heir bearing on Public Health Effort, on Dec. 9th, 10th, nd llth, at 5 P.M. A copy of the syllabus may be obtained ’om Dr. E. W. Hope or Dr. T. N. Kelynack, hon. secretaries, b the Institute.
