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MEDICAL NEWS

University of OxfordDr. A. G. Gibson has been appointed Litchfield lecturer

in medicine, and Dr. D. A. Abernethy Litchfield lecturerin surgery.

University of LondonMr. Harry Berry, B.Sc., has been appointed, as from

Jan. Isc, 1934, to the university readership in pharma.ceutics tenable at the College of the PharmaceuticalSociety of Great Britain.

University of ManchesterDr. D. L. Griffiths has been appointed demonstrator in

human physiology.University of WalesAt recent examinations the following candidates were

successful :-D.P.H.

Part II.-G. J. Roberts, Frances E. Smith, and Anne E.Williams-James.

University of Dublin .

At recent examinations in the School of Physic, TrinityCollege, the following candidates were successful :-

M.D.

Charles Bowesman, J. M. Hill, and Maurice Nurock.FINAL EXAMINATION FOR M.B., B.CH.

Part I. (Therapeutics, Pathology, &c.).-J. N. P. Moore (passedon high marks), D. P. Burkitt, G. J. Dixon, Maureen 0. E.Gore-Grimes, G. W. M. Elliott, F. T. P. Bergin, Leslie Fridjhon,D. H. T. Duggan, E. S. Dorman, R. F. Lurring, F. P. E. Smith,and R. I. Shier.

University of Sheffield ’

Dr. J. B. Leathes, F.R.S., has been appointed emeritusprofessor on his retirement from the chair of physiologyDr. R. Y. Dawbarn, demonstrator in pathology, andDr. W. Vincent, lecturer in mental diseases, have resignedtheir posts. Mr. E. J. G. Bradford, M.Sc., has beenappointed lecturer in normal psychology in the facultyof medicine.

Application is invited for the chair of pharmacology,vacated by Dr. Edward Mellanby on his appointment assecretary of the Medical Research Council. It is statedthat the primary duty of the person appointed will be tocarry out investigations in clinical and experimentalmedicine. Particulars will be found in our advertisementcolumns.

Scottish Conjoint BoardAt recent examinations by the conjoint board of the

Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburghand the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons ofGlasgow, the following candidates were successful :

L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., AND L.R.F.P. & S.

N. T. Segall, A. E. Landy, A. S. Weinstein, C. E. Gunatilleke,K. R. Perera, R. M. Scott, Bernard Kline, A. S. Walker, PhilipRossman, A. K. Sharaf, A. A. Rehman, Sidney Weiner, A. J.Brenner, Abner Morris, H. G. Braham, Eugene Saberski, D. E.Kabnick, R. 0. Murray, Paramu Somasundram, Jack Isaacs,Joseph Reynolds, and Norman Patterson.

D.P.H.

A. D. Frazer, Katharine R. Brown, J. E. Rankine, W. D.Mackinnon, Rachel B. Nelson, W. E. Faulkner, Robert Hardy,and G. F. Bradbury.

Part I.-M. B. Griffith, J. E. Rankine, Marjorie Murrell,J. L. Swanston, W. R. Martine, Ruth M. Monro, JamesMacfarlane, and Hugh Somerville.

Glasgow Post-Graduate AssociationA series of lectures will be given at 3.30 P.M. on Tuesdays,

from Nov. 14th, in the hall of the Royal Faculty ofPhysicians and Surgeons, dealing with some practicalproblems in the light of recent research. They are opento medical practitioners without fee. At 4.15 P.M. on

Wednesdays, from Nov. 1st, there will be clinical demon-strations. A special course in ophthalmology will be heldat the Glasgow Eye Infirmary and at the OphthalmicInstitution; there will be demonstrations at the Ear,Nose and Throat Hospital; and the Radium Institutewill give a course on radium therapy. Facilities for the

study of clinical obstetrics and antenatal work are offeredat the Royal Maternity and Women’s Hospital. The

secretary of the association is Dr. James Carslaw, 9,Woodside-terrace, Glasgow, C.3.

London Association of the Medical Women’sFederationA meeting, open to all medical men and women, will

be held at B.M.A. House on Oct. 24th, at, 8.30 P.M., whenProf. D. P. D. Wilkie will speak on the Surgery of theColon. The paper will be illustrated by lantern slides.

Society of Public AnalystsA meeting of this society, to be held at 8 P.M. on

Wednesday, Nov. lst, at the Chemical Society’s rooms,Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W., will be devotedto a discussion on the chemical (as distinct from physio-logical) tests for vitamins. This will be opened by Mr.A. L. Bacharach, and the speakers will include Mr. L. J.Harris, D.Sc., and Prof. J. C. Drummond.

Department of Health for ScotlandDr. T. Ferguson and Dr. A. McFarlane have been

appointed medical officers in this department. Dr.Ferguson has for three years been H.M. medical inspectorof factories for Scotland and North of England under theHome Office. Dr. McFarlane for a similar period has heldthe post of deputy medical officer of health for the boroughof Darlington.Medico-Legal SocietyThe annual dinner of this society will be held at the

Holborn Restaurant, London, W.C., on Friday, Dec. 8th,at 7 for 7.15 P.M. Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the president,will be in the chair. An ordinary meeting of the societywill take place at 11, Chandos-street, W., on Thursday,Oct. 26th, at 8.30 P.M., when Sir Bernard Spilsbury willdeliver a presidential address on some medico-legal aspectsof shock. The hon. secretary of the society may beaddressed at 3, South-square, Gray’s Inn, W.C.I.

Post-graduate Course for Medical WomenMembers of the staff of the Elsie Inglis Memorial

Maternity Hospital and the Edinburgh Hospital forWomen are combining to give a joint postgraduatecourse at the two hospitals from Nov. 13th to 24thinclusive.

Lectures will be given on obstetrics, paediatrics, medicalconditions in pregnancy, research on puerperal sepsis,venereal disease in the pregnant woman, gynaecology,radium in gynaecological conditions, endocrinology,sterility, and birth control. Those taking part in thecourse will be free to attend the operations, ward clinics,and out-patient department at the hospitals. Accommoda.tion will be provided at the Elsie Inglis Hospital for thosewho wish to reside there during the course. Furtherinformation may be obtained from Dr. Margaret Martin,at the Edinburgh Hospital for Women, Whitehouse-lane, Edinburgh.Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandA quarterly meeting of the council of the College was

held on Oct. 12th, with Sir Holburt Waring, the president,in the chair. Dr. F. G. Banting, M.C., professor ofmedical research in the University of Toronto, who is amember of the College, was admitted an honorary Fellow.Mr. Frank Philip Powell, late of Monmouth School, wasappointed the fourth Macloghlin scholar.The Council adopted its annual report to the Fellows

and members, and this will soon be circulated to thosewho have expressed a wish to receive it.A course of six museum demonstrations have been

arranged and will be held at the College, Lincoln’s Inn-fields, London, W.C., at 5 P.M., on Mondays and Fridaysfrom Oct. 27th to Nov. 13th. The first three demonstra-tions will be given by Mr. C. P. G. Wakeley, who willshow specimens illustrating gunshot injuries of the longbones (Oct. 27th), specimens of long bones showing theprocesses of infection and repair (Oct. 30th), and specimensillustrating gunshot wounds of the skull and brain(Nov. 3rd). Mr. R. Davies-Colley will give the otherthree demonstrations, and will show specimens illustratingdiseases of the breast (Nov. 6th), fibrocystic disease andinnocent tumours of bone (Nov. 10th), and diseases ofmuscles (Nov. 13th). The demonstrations are open tomedical practitioners and advanced students.

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Physiological SocietyAs already announced, this society is holding a joint

meeting with the food group of the Society of ChemicalIndustry to discuss diet from the chemical and physio-logical points of view. It is being held to-day, Friday,Oct. 20th, at 8 P.M., at the London School of Hygieneand Tropical Medicine, Keppel-street, W.C., and the

speakers will include Prof. H. E. Armstrong, F.R.S.,Mr. A. L. Bacharach. Prof. S. J. Cowell, Prof. J. C.Drummond, Dr. M. W. Goldblatt, Dr. R. D. Lawrence,and Mr. A. S. Parkes, F.R.S. On the following day,at 3.45 P.M., the society will hold a semi-annual meetingin the Sherrington school of physiology, St. Thomas’s

Hospital.Fellowship of Medicine and Post-Graduate MedicalAssociationA course of gynaecology will be held at the Chelsea

Hospital for Women from Oct. 23rd to Nov. 4th ; onein diseases of the nervous system at the West End Hospitalfor Nervous Diseases from Oct. 30th to Nov. 4th ; andone in urology at St. Peter’s Hospital, from Nov. 6th to18th. A week-end course in diseases of the chest has beenarranged at the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton(Oct. 28th and 29th), and one in gynaecology at theSamaritan Hospital for Women (Nov. 18th and 19th).The subjects of other forthcoming courses include ophthal-mology, at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital(Oct. 30th to Nov. 18th) ; obstetrics at the City of LondonMaternity Hospital (Nov. 4th and 6th) ; medicine, surgery,and gynaecology, at the Royal Waterloo Hospital (Nov. 6thto 25th) ; diseases of the chest at the City of LondonHospital, Victoria Park (Nov. 13th to 25th) ; and venerealdisease at the London Lock Hospital (Nov. 13th to Dec. 9th).

Congress of Hydrology at ToulouseA largely attended meeting of the Congres International

d’Hydrologie, de Climatologie et de Géologie Médicaleswas held at Toulouse from Oct. 4th to 8th, with excursionsto neighbouring spas and health resorts. In this four-teenth meeting of the triennial congress the internationalcharacter was more marked than hitherto, although allthe proceedings were still in French (with the exceptionof one " rapport libre

" and some speeches at functions),and no official arrangements were made for translation.Medical delegates were present from Belgium, Germany,Great Britain (Dr. Malcolm Campbell), Spain, Sweden,Holland, Persia, Greece, and various French colonies,and at most of the principal discussions one opening paperwas read (in French) by a representative of some othercountry. Under the head of Hydrology the principaldiscussions were those on tonic cures for children and onthe spa treatment of non-suppurative, primary infectionsof the nervous system (a general introductory survey ofwhich was given by Sir James Purves-Stewart). In bothdiscussions emphasis was laid on the necessity of suitingthe choice of a resort to the season and the individualstate of the patient, and the value of different climates atdifferent stages or alternating according to the season.There was also an interesting paper on the use of spasin the Army Medical Service. Under Climatology theprincipal conditions considered were those forming thegroup of pulmonary tuberculosis. The term " medicalgeology " as used by the congress included the chemicalstudy of waters, this time principally the thermal medicinalwaters of the Pyrenees (with Spanish and French reports),and also their origin and captage, and the measures

necessary to protect them and regulate their use. Onthis last point a valuable report was made by Prof.Timbal of Toulouse. The congress was presided over byM. le doyen Paul Sabatier, the veteran holder of theNobel Prize in chemistry, and Prof. J.-E. Abelous of thefaculty of medicine of Toulouse. Its excellent organisa-tion was largely due to Dr. G. Serr, professor of hydrologyof Toulouse, and his assistants. The delegates andmembers received delightful hospitality.The International Society of Medical Hydrology, which

held a general meeting of members on the 6th, was repre-sented in the congress by its president, Dr. P. Ferreyrolles,of La Bourboule, by Dr. W. G. Willoughby, of Eastbourne,the hon. secretary (Dr. Armin Keller), and the generalsecretary (Miss W. T. Thompson).

Society for Relief of Widows and Orphans ofMedical Men .

At a quarterly court of directors held on Oct. llth,Mr. V. Warren Low being in the chair, three new memberswere elected and the death of one reported. Specialgrants amounting to f,84 10s. were voted to orphans,who had reached the age of 16, to enable them to continuetheir education. The sum of E625 was voted as a

Christmas present to the widows and orphans in receiptof grants : each widow over 75 years of age to receive1:15, under 75 10, and each orphan ;910. A widow ofa member who applied for relief was voted a yearly grantfrom the ordinary funds of 50, and one of 1:25 from theBrickwell fund. A widow, whose death was reported,and who had been in receipt of relief for four years, hadreceived in grants 300; her late husband, who waselected a member in 1903 and died in October, 1929,had paid in subscriptions 52 10s., the maximum amountthat an ordinary member can pay in yearly subscriptionsbefore becoming a life member. This society is entitledto grant relief to the necessitous widows and orphans ofdeceased members. Membership is open to any registeredmedical practitioner who at the time of his election isresident within a 20-mile radius of Charing Cross.Particulars from the secretary, 11, Chandos-street,Cavendish-square, London, W.I.London Hospital DinnerAlthough no statistics were produced to show that the

London Hospital had far outstripped all others duringthe past year, the old students who met at the Trocaderoon Oct. 12th were in conspicuously high spirits. Dr. P. N.Panton, who presided, seemed to be right in his opinion-as one who formerly came from outside-thatthe predominant atmosphere of the hospital is one of

vitality. (He wondered what would happen if Mr. A. J.Walton and Dr. Donald Hunter collided in a corridor).After speaking of developments such as the payingpatients’ scheme, now sanctioned, and the hostel, which"would contain 50 students this time next year, he turnedto his own specialty-clinical pathology. A concise defini-tion of it was,

" Clinical pathology is neither one thing northe other " ; but there were pure pathologists who saidit did not exist at all. This was no doubt the view of aphysician who wrote, about 1750, a book condemning thetheory that any man should pretend to diagnose diseaseby casting of urine : " I will have none of these damnedpiss-prophets," said he. Dr. Otto Leyton, proposing thechairman’s health, recalled his own experience as a clinicalpathologist, including the story of an urgent telegram(" Can hold out no longer; what shall I do ? ") from a ladywhom he had asked for a 24-hour specimen. Dr. LewisSmith, who looked none the worse for it, announced that,like the elephant, the horse, and the rat, he had now nogall-bladder. Sir William Goschen and Prof. WilliamWright obliged the company with neat anecdotes, andMr. Russell Howard gave extracts from his new historyof the hospital. The dental department, it appears, wasopened by Richard I., the funds going to the recovery ofthe Holy Land; in the eighteenth century students werefirst allowed to do dressings in the wards, and the housecommittee opened the septic block ; and in 1953 MissEllen Wilkinson, first president of the Soviet Governmentof Great Britain, opened the private wards. In conclusion,Dr. Robert Hutchison raised history to a higher note witha schoolgirl’s version of Drake’s famous declaration onPlymouth Hoe : " The Armada can wait, but my bowelscan’t." He also solemnly averred that a candidate in lastyear’s London M.D. examination remarked in an essay onangina pectoris that " the late Robert Hutchison used tosay that his life was at the mercy of any person whomade him lose his temper."

AppointmentsEASTWOOD, W. J., M.B., M.Ch. Liverp., has been appointed

Assistant Orthopaedie Surgeon, David Lewis Northern Hosp.FAWCITT, R., M.B., Ch.B. Edin., Radiologist, Whitehaven Hosp.MACDONALD, D., M.B., Ch.B. Glasg., Medical Superintendent,

Sanatorium, Kinross.SMALLWOOD, W. CAREY, M.B., Ch.B. Birm., M.R.C.P. Lond.,

M.R.C.S., Physician to Out-patients, Children’s Hospital,Birmingham.

TATLOW, R. E. T., M.D., F.R.C.S. Eng., Certifying Surgeon underthe Factory and Workshop Acts for Porlock, Somerset.