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substitute, and the young doctor," as he was called, receivedmany flattering testimonials of the satisfaction he gave onthose occasions. On the completion of his articles, Mr. Daybecame a pupil at the London Hospital, and was much noticedBy the late Sir William Blizard, under whom Mr. Cock hadformerly studied. After two years attendance at this hospital,Mr. Day purposed to have become an army surgeon, andpassed the usual examination for that purpose, but becomingill from a fever caught in the wards of the hospital, he returned’for a time to Colchester, and there married Miss Harriet Cock,the niece of his old preceptor. He then finally decided uponsettling into a private practice, and in November, 1803, suc-ceeded in purchasing that of the late John Dege, Esq., ofIsleworth, who gave him a twelvemonth’s introduction.The old fashion of powdered hair and bag-tails being then

in vogue, and Mr. Day being a tall man, he had the appearance of being older than he really was, which was of muchservice to him as a young beginner. He was fortunate enoughto have two or three successful operations very shortly afterhis arrival in Isleworth, which contributed greatly to establishhis reputation, operations being in those days much moreregarded as evidence of professional skill than they now are.At Isleworth Mr. Day continued to reside during all the restof his life.

Mr. Day’s professional career was uniformly prosperous; herarely had any opponent in his own immediate district, andnever for any considerable length of time. Few men haveworked harder than Mr. Day did during the first part of hisresidence at Isleworth, and in a short time his practice morethan doubled that which it had been when he purchased it.He was always regarded as one of the " more fortunate " of theprofession, standing exceedingly high in the esteem of hisneighbours, and being on good terms with his professionalbrethren. He had a peculiar tact of gaining the confidence ofhis patients, and many of the highest rank have recorded theirtestimony to his skill and attention in a most gratifyingmanner. Of late years he had gradually retired from the moreactive duties of his profession, but continued his attendance,when able, upon his old friends, up to the day of his decease. ’iHis death was occasioned by an attack of angina pectoris, iof which he had had threatenings for some years, althoughgenerally enjoying good health, and (excepting being at timesexceedingly nervous) very good spirits. The sudden event ofhis decease cast a gloom over the entire village of Isleworth,and almost every shop was partially closed; for his longresidence of fifty-two years, during the whole of which timehe had sustained a most untarnished reputation, and enjoyedthe good opinion of all who knew him, caused him to beuniversally looked up to as an honourable, conscientious, andkind-hearted man. In March, 1828, Mr. Day lost his wife,by whom he had three daughters, and a son, Mr. HoratioGrosvenor Day, who has been in partnership with his fathersince 1831. He was married again in August, 1829, to theeldest daughter of the late Bryan Donkin, Esq., F. R. S. andC.E. By this marriage he has a daughter and two sons, theelder studying for the law, the younger for the medicalprofession.

Mr. Day Was a member of the Court of Assistants of theApothecaries’ Company, but had declined to serve the office ofMaster, preferring to pay the fine instead, on account of thedistance at which he resided from the Hall. He was one ofthe few survivors of the original " Metropolitan Road Com-missioners," a trustee of most of the local charity funds, anda liberal supporter of anything likely to benefit the neighbour-hood in which he resided.

His funeral took place on Saturday, November 10th. Hewas buried in his family vault in the old churchyard at

Isleworth-special permission having been obtained from theHome Secretary. The carriages of Her Grace the DuchessDowager of Northumberland, the Rev. H. Glossop, &c. formed

part of the mournful procession ; and nearly all the respectableinhabitants of the neighbourhood attended beside his grave toevince their respect for the memory of the deceased.

JOHN WILSON, ESQ.ON the 8th inst., after a lingering illness, John Wilson, Esq.,

,of York, surgeon, aged seventy-two.Mr. Wilson was a native of York, where his family occupied

a position of great respectability, his brother having been forseveral years a proctor in the Ecclesiastical Court. He com-menced his professional career as pupil of the late Mr. OswaldAllen, who was a medical attendant of the dispensary from itsorigin in 1788. When the term of his apprenticeship had

expired, he was elected house-surgeon of the County Hospitalwhere he remained near six years, until he married, whichobliged him to vacate that situation. Mr. Allen having a fewmonths previously resigned his post as apothecary to the dis-pensary, after twenty years service, Mr. Wilson was, in May1809, unanimously appointed the resident medical attendantof the charity, an office which he held up to the time of hisdeath, a period of above forty-six years. He lived to see theinstitution with which they had been so long connected notonly firmly established and flourishing, but also one of themost popular charities in York; and, although possessed ofample pecuniary resources, he devoted himself from choice tothe service of the diseased and distressed poor of the city andneighbourhood, which his sound practical knowledge enabledhim so efficiently to perform. His loss will be felt not aloneby the poor of York, but also by those members of the medicalprofession with whom he was more particularly connected bythe ties of friendship and early association. Mr. Wilson wasthe senior member of the profession in the city.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.-The following mem-

bers of the College, having undergone the necessary examina-tions, were admitted Licentiates in Midwifery at the meetingof the Board on the 13th inst. :-BARRETT, CHAS. ALBERT, Kingston Bagpuize; diploma of

membership dated May 5, 1854.BENNETT, THOMAS JARVIS, Wilton, near Salisbury; June 9,

1854.CARR, WILLIAM, Gomersal, Leeds, Oct. 26, 1855.CROOKE, EDWARD GYLLES, Chorley, Lancashire, a member

of the Edinburgh College.DRYLAND, JOHN WINTER, Newbury, Berkshire; Oct. 26,

1855.FULCHER, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, Great Thurlow, Suffolk.HALL, BENJAMIN WILLIAM, Army, Oct. 26, 1855.ILES, FRANCIS HENRY WILSON, Louth, Lincolnshire, Oct. 26,

1855.KEESS, JAMES, Madras, November 2, 1855.ROE, JOHN WITHINGTON, Shoreham, Sussex; March 23,1853.NEW FELLOWS.-At a meeting of the Council of the College

of Surgeons on the 15th inst., the following gentlemen, havingpreviously undergone the necessary examinations, were ad.mitted Fellows of the College :-CALLENDER, GEORGE WILLIAM, Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-

square, diploma of membership dated July 16, 1852.STOCKWELL, THOMAS GOLDSBOROUGH, Bath, April 14, 1855.APOTHECARIES’ HALL. --^ Names of gentlemen who

passed their examination in the science and practice of Medicine,and received certificates to practise, on-

Thursday, November 8th, 1855.DAVIES, JOHN REDFERN, Birmingham.DAWES, WILLIAM JosEpH, Longton, Staffordshire.HnwHcLIFF, WILLIAM HORSFALL, Holmfirth, Yorkshire.HUMPAGE, EDWARD, Bristol.

DR. SouTHWOOD SMITH.-This gentleman has beengiving a very important series of lectures, in Edinburgh, onsanitary science. In the introductory part of the course thelecturer dwelt on the subject of "epidemics," and pointed outthat the plague, " black death," sweating sickness, influensa,&c., were each and all, like cholera, only different varieties offevers. In cholera, Dr. Southwood Smith stated that if thepatient could be saved three days, the case was curable, thefirst shock of the fever being the most formidable or essentialstage of the disease. The lecturer went at great length intothe dangers of animal or zymotic poisons generated amongst thepoor in large cities by " overcrowding," and always to beobserved where epidemics first break out. He demonstrated bypublic records, that when there are added to this " overcrowd-ing," bad drainage and deficient water supply. unusual still-ness of the weather, with a prevalence of mist, haze, or fog,deficient electricity, and augmented barometric pressure, wehave all the elements necessary for cholera or other epidemics.

Civic HONOURS.-Mr. Thomas Norris, a member ofour profession, has just been elected Mayor of Barnstaple,Devon; Mr. John Propert, Sheriff for Cardiganshire; and Dr.Elliott, Mayor of Carlisle.

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ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY.-The FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. PILCHER.-Mr. PilcherSociety held its first meeting on Tuesday, Mr. Cassar Hawkins was buried on Wednesday last, in the family grave at Kensal-.n the chair. The library has been redecorated and lighted on green. In addition to the members of the family who werenew principle, by which ventilation is also obtained. A followers, including Mr. Grainger, his brother-in-law, were

paper was read by Mr. Coulson on " Purulent Deposits in Dr. Lankester, Mr. W. A. Harrison, Mr. Edward Evans, andJoints." A report of the proceedings will appear in the next Mr. Babbage. One of the chief mourners was the Rev. RobertLANCET. The meeting was a crowded one. Bickersteth, rector of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, who was originallyOXFORD, Nov. 13TH.-The election of a Professor of educated for the medical profession, and was a house-pupil of

Chemistry took place to-day. The Registrar read the inden- Mr. Pilcher. Mr. Pilcher had, previously to his death, beenture, after which the doctors present proceeded to vote. It for short time in ill-health, and had suffered from attacks ofhad been supposed that there would be no opposition to dyspnma, attended by congestion of the countenance, whichMr. B. C. Brodie, but after a short time it transpired that led his friends to suspect that he laboured under heart disease.votes were being given for Mr. Storey Maskelyne, of Wadham He was also subject to very severe attacks of headache. He

College. Mr. Maskelyne himself voted for Mr. Brodie, and was sitting at dinner on the day of his death with two of his-exerted himself strenuously in his behalf. After about an pupils, when he suddenly lost the use of his left hand, and hishour of languid polling, few persons being aware of the mock mouth was observed to be drawn on one side. Dr. C. J. B.

contest, the numbers were declared to be :-For Mr. Brodie, 36 ; Williams was sent for, and attended immediately. The patientfor Mr. Maskelyne, 10-Majority 26. Mr. Brodie was con- soon cupped, and had mustard applied to his feet, and but hesequently declared duly elected. soon became comatose, and died in about five hours and a half.

Dr. Lee’s Reader in Anatomy (Dr. Acland) proposes to THE CHEMICAL SCHOOL AT THE ROYAL PANOPTICON.commence his lectures on Tuesday, the 20th inst., at 12 o’clock. -Chemistry is becoming a household science, like cookery. ItsGentlemen who desire to attend the course are requested to mysteries are being more and more divulged to the popularenter their names at the Christ Church Museum on Friday or ear, and its operations applied to all the acts and purposes ofSaturday next between the hours of 1 and 4. life. Those who lend a helping hand in popularizing so usefulALLARTON’S OPERATION.-This operation was performed a science, are to be reckoned amongst the benefactors of society,

at University College Hospital on the 14th inst. ; it is described and their efforts are deserving of every encouragement. Amongstas being well adapted for small calculi, all such as are easily the institutions which, in this metropolis, are devoted to sobroken by the lithotrite. The operation is not as showy as the laudable an object, the Chemical School established in the

lateral section. The dilatation process has been found by Mr. Laboratory of the Royal Panopticon, in Leicester-square, is

Erichsen somewhat tedious, but on the whole satisfactory. deserving of special notice. Unlike other institutions, which.

- ., partake of a more strictly academical character, its arrange-VACCINATION AND UNION MEDICAL CHARGES.-Mr. ments afford facilities for the acquisition of a knowledge ofGriffiths, as Chairman of the Finance Committee, in bringing chemistry to those whose opportunities of study are circum-up a quarterly return of accounts to the Dudley Board of scribed by their position and their avocations. We understandGuardians, dwelt upon "the large" and "exorbitant" that the commencement of this school, first opened not muchcharges made by the medical officers for extras, in the shape more than a year ago, and just reopened for another sessionalof vaccination cases, midwifery, &c. The amount of vaccina- year, has been most auspicious. The evening classes, moretion cases had greatly increased, there being 1455 charged, at especially, have been well attended, and, as the annual ex-the rate of X124 16s. 6d. In the parish of Ledgely alone, 245 amination, presided over by the President of the Royal Collegepersons were stated to have been vaccinated, the charge for of Physicians, proved, with eminent success. The school con-such cases being £18 7s. 6d. and there was another further tinues, as it has been from its first opening, under the super-charge out of the same parish, from another medical man, of intendence of Mr. G; F. Ansell, from whose able lectures and.t:22 16s. 2d., for 197 children. The majority of cases were scientific demonstrations the general public are constantlycharged for at 2s. 6d., and that notwithstanding in a majority deriving both instruction and gratification in the Lecture-roomof the cases the parents conveyed their children to the medical of the Institution.gentleman’s house, instead of his proceeding, as the law di- THE ELETRIC .rected him, two miles for any case, to be charged for at the rate THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH from England to India-of 2s. 6d. a case. There were other very heavy charges in the which was a dream-bids fair to become a reality. The in-

medical accounts, which required some investigation. For ventor of the submarine telegraph has completed his line acrosainstance, amongst the extras there were placed two cases of the Mediterranean, and is desirous to extend it to the Indianordinary sickness as midwifery cases. Another charge was £5 Peninsula. As far as Suez he will be supported by the Britishfor an operation in lithotomy, but it was not stated who the Government, and his success is certain. From that point,individual was upon whom the operation was performed. The however, he must trust to the East India Company for officialtotal amount demanded by the medical officers for the past aid, without which it is impossible to raise the required capital.quarter was X220 4s. 6d. Now, this was an exceedingly heavy The projector, we believe, is convinced that a single coppercharge, and he thought the ratepayers should be protected, to wire, covered with gutta percha, and secured by galvamzedprevent an increasing demand, and therefore he was inclined to iron wire, could be laid down for about 1001. a mile. He asks,propose that the medical officers should have annual salaries, we believe, a guarantee of 5 per cent. on a capital, say, as anin lieu of the charges for extras. In conclusion, Mr. Griffiths extreme estimate, of 1,000,OOM. sterling It is certain that

said a short time back a charge of .618 to .620 was made for the line, once complete, would place India within one day svaccinating children in the Tipton district, when, upon in- journey of England. We are unable to state whether this

quiry, it was found that there were no such children as those proposition is as yet before the Government of India. It has,whose names had been placed in the account as having been however, been favourably considered by the Court, and mustregistered. Mr. Renaud wished to be informed of the name of shortly be before the Governor-General. Lord Dalhousie hasthe medical mau, but this Mr. Griffiths did not state. After inaugurated railways, telegraphs and the penny post. It maymuch discussion, the accounts were ordered to be left over for be reserved for him, also, to render his reign immortal by thea fortnight. - Worcestershire paper. establishment of instantaneous communication between India

WATER AND THE CHOLERA.-A Committee has been and England. -Friend of India, Sept. 13.

engaged in the investigation of the causes of the outbreak of MURDER OF A SURGEON.-Mr. Stirling, a young gen-cholera, which was so remarkable in the Soho district last tleman acting as partner or assistant with a surgeon in theyear. As the result of patient investigation, they are " unani- North of England, and who had been recently gazetted asmously of opinion that the sudden, severe, and concentrated surgeon in the Turkish Contingent force, was murdered andoutbreak, beginning on August 31st, and lasting for the few robbed last week, in an unfrequented road, as he was returningearly days of September, was in some manner attributable to home to Newcastle, after visiting some patients.the use of the impure water of the well in Broad-street." EXCISION IN SPINA BIFIDA.-Dr. Nott, of America,This opinion is supported by a vanety of facts. We quote has published a case recently, in which he had recourse toonly one. A lady residing at Hampstead (West-end), being the extraordinary and novel operation of cutting away a largevery partial to this particular water, was in the habit of drink- spina bifida. The parts subsequently healed perfectly.

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ing it daily, having it fetched in a bottle by a cart that went nt ’spina bfida. parts subsequently healed perfectly.every day from Broad-street to Hampstead. She was seized WHAT OUR HOSPITALS ARE DOING.-We find it statedwith cholera on Friday (Sept. lst), and died the next day. A in the appeal lately put forth by the committee of manage-lady staying with her at the time also drank of it and died. ment of King’s College Hospital, that in the year 1854 thereA servant drank the water and had a slight attack of diarrhoea. were entered on the hospital books 27,694 patients; and that

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since the year 1839, when the hospital was first opened, no lessthan 282,705 patients have been admitted to the benefits ofthe charity, of whom 17,943 were in-patients, 259,235 out-patients, and 5527 poor married women attended at their ownhomes. Let us assume that other hospitals, in proportion totheir means, are doing as much as this unendowed hospital,and what a large idea do we not obtain of the benefits con-ferred on the poor by hospitals; and what claims on the

liberality of the really charitable do not these noble institu-tions put forth ?-Tirrtes.

SIR PHILIP CRAMPTON.-The winter session of 1855was opened at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, October29th, by the President, Sir Philip Crampton, with the usualformalities. A large number of Fellows and Licentiates werepresent, and the attendance of students was very numerous. Asubsequent discourse, preliminary to his course of Anatomicallectures, was delivered by Dr. Jacob.DEATHS FROM ALCOHOL.-Two men at Lydney, in

Gloucestershire, named Charles Hawkins and Samuel Walker,undertook for a wager to drink a pint and a half of rum each,which they did while in a state of intoxication. The resultwas death in both cases, the dead bodies presenting a shock-ing appearance, the face, tongue, and throat being greatlyHWoHfm

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK ENDINGSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1OTH. —The mortality of London shows.a tendency to increase, but it continues much below the ratewhich is usually found to prevail in the beginning of November.Last week the deaths of 986 persons, viz. 473 males and 513females, were registered. The daily average number was 141,which is less by 21 than the average rate of mortality in thecorresponding weeks of the last ten years would have pro-duced ; but it also exceeds by 21 the number that occurs dailyin the healthy districts of England. Cholera was fatal inonly two cases, and in both to infants, one of whom died of19 ’ cholera infantum," and the other of " choleraic diarrhoea." "Scarlatina destroyed 61 lives, and several districts have sufferedfrom it severely. Three children died from this complaint lastweek in Saint John, Paddington, and one of the medical menstates that " it is making great havoc in the district, andsanatory measures should be taken by the local authorities."In Saint Pancras it was fatal in 7 cases ; and the medicalattendant of a case in Somers Town writes :-" The greatincrease of scarlatina and typhus in my neighbourhood requiresimmediate attention, and it is necessary (I think) that asanatory committee for the district should be appointed." Judging from the number of deaths the disease seems to bevery prevalent in Shoreditch and Cripplegate. One persondied from exposure to cold; and a woman, aged about 55years, was found in a state of destitution, and having beenconveyed to the Greenwich workhouse, died on the 7thNovember, 24 hours after admission.There was a new moon on Friday the 9th; the barometer rose

to 30 ’08 in. by 9 h. A. M. on the 5th. The mean reading of theweek was 29 ’791 in. The highest reading of the ’thermometerin the week was 58° on Tuesday. The lowest occurred on theprevious day, and was 31 2°. The mean temperature of theweek was 46°, which is one degree higher than the average ofthe same week. On Sunday and Monday the air was cold ;afterwards the mean temperature was more or less above theaverage. The mean dew-point temperature was 43 3°, and thedifference between it and the air temperature was 2 7°. Thetemperature of the Thames was 44°. After Monday the windblew from the south. Rain fell to the amount of 033 in., thegreater part of which fell on Thursday.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.-On the lst inst., at Constantinople, the wife of

Hugh Birt., M.D., Surgeon to the Barrack Hospital, Scutari,of a daughter.On the 6th inst., at Old-street, the wife of G. H. Love, Esq.,

M.R.C.S.E., &c., of a daughter.On the 6th inst., at Nelson-terrace, Stoke Newington, the

wife of J. W. Wilmot James, M.R.C.S., of a daughter, still-born.On the 7th inst., at Green-street, Grosvenor-square, the

wife of Frederick Weber, M.D., of a daughter.On the llth inst., at Knockvicar, co. Roscommon, the wife

of Alex. Henry, M.D., of a son.

MARRIAGE.-On the 6th inst., at St. Peter’s Church, GeorgeAshdown, Esq., M.R.C.S., &c., Northampton, to Jane Wade,daughter of George Wade Wetton, Esq., of the same place.

DEATHS.-On the 18th of Sept., at Fort William, Calcutta,Eliza, wife of William Montgomerie, M.D., SuperintendingSurgeon of Barrackpore.On the 21st of Sept. last, at Meerut, Bengal, after a short

illness, aged 34, William Cameron, M.D., of H.M.’s 52ndLight Infantry.On the llth ult., at Maderia, John Barclay, fourth son of

Robert Nasmyth, F. R. C. S. Edinburgh.On the 29th ult., in the Palace Hospital, Scutari, of fever

and dysentery, caught in the Crimea, Edward John Complin,Civil Surgeon to the British Army in the East, eldest son ofE. Complin, Esq., of Charterhouse-square.On the 30th ult., suddenly, at Edinburgh, Margaret Rosa-

mond, wife of Alexander Halliburton, Esq., of Brigham, andeldest daughter of the late Alexander Dewar, M.D., Stirling,Physician to the Fleet.On the 3rd inst., at Jordan Bank, Morningside, Edinburgh,

from the effects of fever, caught in the exercise of his duties atthe Scutari Hospital, Andrew McKutcheon, Esq., surgeon,aged 26.

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On the 4th inst., at Hardy-street, Great George-square,Liverpool, aged 23, Amy, youngest daughter of the late Wm.Hawker, M.D., of Charing, Kent.

On the 5th instant, at 7, Pall Mall East, aged 42, Janetta,the beloved wife of William Hooper, Esq.On the 9th inst., Thomas G. Phillips, M.R.C.S., &c., of

Albion-street, Hyde-park, aged 51.On the 6th inst., at her residence, Edde Cross House, Ross,

Herefordshire, aged 89, Catherine, widow of the late RichardEvans, M.D.At Adelaide, South Australia, Edward Gregory Leeson,

M.D., late of Dublin.At Kilkeeco, co. Wexford, Ireland, B. Porter, M.D.At Chester, Llewhyn Jones, M.D.

BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW.

. First and Second Reports from the Select Committee of the

House of Commons on Adulteration of Food, with the Minutesof Evidence and Appendix.The Family Manual and Servants’ Guide ; forming a

complete System of Domestic Management. London : Duff,Cheapside.

[This is a very neat and useful little volume, and withalextremely cheap.]

Dr. J. T. Watson on Charcoal.Dr. Dickson’s Elements of Medicine.Dr. La.Roche on Yellow Fever. Two vols.Sir Henry Holland’s Notes and Reflections.Orr’s Circle of the Sciences : Elements of Chemistry.Dr. Crisp on the Spleen.Mr. Toulmin Smith on the Removal of Nuisances.Mr. Guthrie’s Surgery.

MEDICAL DIARY OF THE WEEK.