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the "strychnine cure" for snake-bite. He was born inWestphalia in 1828 and graduated M.D. at Giessen in 1854.Besides practising his profession he was a vigneron of somenote and was also a confirmed spiritualist. At the time ofhis death he was engaged in writing a work on the treatmentof typhoid fever.

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Medical News.EXAMINING BOARD IN ENGLAND BY THE ROYAL

COLLEGES OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.-The followinggentlemen passed the First Examination of the Board in thesubjects indicated :-

FIVE YEARS’ REGULATIONS.

Part J. Chemistry and Physics. - Charles F. Medlicott Abbott-Brown, King’s College, London; Owen Mortimer Bartlett,St. Mary’s Hospital; Leonard Bolitho Bigg, St. Bartholo-mew’s Hospital; George Birch, London Hospital; LawrenceTwemlow Booth, University College, Liverpool; Guy LeslieBuckeridge, Oxford University and Guy’s Hospital; ThomasWaycott Chaff and Stephen Estridge Crawford, St. Bartholomew’sHospital; Arthur Frederick Cole and Harold Juler Cundell,St. Mary’s Hospital; John Alfred Cronkshaw, Owens College,Manchester; Percy Toplis Drabble, Firth College, Sheffield ;Armin Gascoigne Vavasour Elder, St. George’s Hospital;Harry Loft Evans, St. Thomas’s Hospital; Robert MarshallFickling, Birkbeck Institute ; Samuel Christopher Reeve Flaxman,Middlesex Hospital; Raymond Reynolds Garrett, St. Mary’s Hospital;George Francis Hardy, Guy’s Hospital; John Warwick Hele,Middlesex Hospital; Martin Herzheim, St. Bartholomew’sHospital; Ludovic Hill, St. Mungo’s College, Glasgow; NelsonWood Hill, London Hospital; Lionel Swinton Hooper, St. Thomas’sHospital; Hugh Morley Huggins, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital;Sydney Francis Huth, St. Mary’s Hospital; Edgar Norman Jupp,Guy’s Hospital; Charles Samuel Kingston and Edward Leverton-Spry, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Frederick Boulton Lowe, Guy’sHospital; Evelyn John Hausler Luxmoore, St. Mary’s Hospital;Ernest Hammond McMahon, Charing-cross Hospital; PhilipJauvrin Marett, Westminster Hospital; George Boddy Messenger,University College, Liverpool; Hugh Francis Fountain Mortimer,Birkbeck Institute ; Charles William O’Brien, St. Bartholomew’sHospital; Geoffrey Owens Parsons, St. Thomas’s Hospital;Herbert Wilberforce Perkins, Birkbeck Institute; Bryan Pick,St. George’s Hospital; James Derham Reid, Owens College,Manchester; David Harold Richards, Guy’s Hospital; Thomas ’,Rose, Middlesex Hospital; Edward John Henry Rudge and IGeorge Meredith Sanderson, London Hospital; Harvey LlewellynShelton, Guy’s Hospital; Aaron Hoyland Smith, Firth College,Sheffield ; Robert Spears and Howard Douglas Stewart, UniversityCollege, London; Joseph Harvey Kemp Sykes, Yorkshire College,Leeds, and Technical College, Bradford ; Francis Thompson, LondonHospital; Edward Mervyn Thomson, St. George’s Hospital; HenryStrawson Turner, King’s College, London; Hugh Wheelwright,St. Thomas’s Hospital; George Frederick Wilson, London Hospital;and Walter Frederick Wise, Middlesex Hospital.

48 gentlemen were referred for three months.Part II. Practical Pharmacy.-Charles Birch, Mason University

College, Birmingham ; Sidney Charles Henry Bent, Guy’s Hos-pital ; Harry Hendy Butcher, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; PercivalButler, Private Study; William Reginald Cazenove and JosephTaaffe De Coteau, Guy’s Hospital; Thomas Waycott Chaff andCharles Dix, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Walter Dick, UniversityCollege, London; Reginald Ambrose ’Facey, St. Mary’s Hospital ;Harold Edwards Flint and Harold Goodman, St. Bartholomew’sHospital; Francisco Jose Gomez, King’s College, London; PhilipLansdowne Hickes, University College, Bristol, and Guy’sHospital ; Ludovic Hill, St. Mungo’s College, Glasgow ;Ricardo Luis Jimenez, Guy’s Hospital ; David John Lewisand James Adrian McComb, London Hospital; Leslie MilesMorris, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Ridley Ewart Mounsey,St. George’s Hospital ; Samuel Northwood, Mason Uni-versity College, Birmingham; Charles Louis Claude Owen, St.Bartholomew’s Hospital; Horace George Pinches, St. Thomas’sHospital; Robert John Pritchard and William Owen Roberts, Guy’sHospital; Rees William Rees, Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh, andUniversity College, London; Edward Arthur Sanders, King’sCollege, London; Robert West Stephenson, University College,Liverpool; George Shorland and Edwin John Tongue, Guy’sHospital; Arthur Ernest Whitehead, Firth College, Sheffield ;and Henry Chadwick Woodcock, St. Mary’s Hospital.

13 gentlemen were referred for three months.Part -TII. Elementary Biology -Harold Balme, King’s College,London ; Henry Bardsley, University College, Liverpool; HenryStagg Bennett and Amelius Cyril Birt, St. Thomas’s Hospital;Bertram Raleigh Bickford, Charing-cross Hospital; Sidney ClementBowle, Guy’s Hospital; Charles Reginald Bradley, BirkbeckInstitute ; Francis Arthur Brodribb, St. Paul’s School, London;Hugh Donald Cochrane, St. Thomas’s Hospital; Thomas ReginaldCouldrey, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Frederick WilliamsCresswell, St. Mary’s Hospital; Armin Gascoigne VavasourElder, St. George’s Hospital; Harold Salter Gettings,Mason University College, Birmingham; Robert II. T.Penruddooke Harris and William Frederick Higginson, St.Mary’s Hospital; Arthur Edgar Hay, King’s College, London;John Warwick Hele, Middlesex Hospital; Arthur Stuart MenteithHutchinson, and Alfred John Hopkinson Iles, St.Thomas’s Hospital;Martin Herzheim and Robert Mackenzie Im Thurn, St. Bartholo-mew’s Hospital; Marcus Antonius Johnston-Lavis, Epsom College;

Seymour Whitworth Jones, St. Mary’s Hospital ; William AtholDesmond King, Middlesex Hospital ; OolinButterworth Lee,Owens College, Manchester ; Panlin John Martin, St. Bartlrolontew’sHospital; Frederick James l’ierce, Charing Cross Hospital;Edmund Arthur Roberts, King’s College, London; James DerhamReid, Owens College, Manchester ; Thomas Hose, Middlesex Hos-

pital ; George Meredith Sanderson and Samuel Smulian, LondonHospital; Isaac Surtees Sheffield, Guy’s Hospital; Malcolm WinfridShute, St. George’s Hospital; George Morley Arundel Thomas, St.Mary’s Hospital; Henry Strawson Turner, King’s College, London ;J. C. F. Dudley Vaughan, Bertram Joseph Wakley, Henry AlbertWickens West, and John Henry Marsden Whitehead, St. Thomas’sHospital; Arthur Reginald Wade, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital;Salomon James Weinberg, Owens College, Manchester ; VernonNorthwood Whitamore, Cliaring-cross Hospital; and EdwardsBarton Cartwright White, London Hospital.

22 gentlemen were referred for three montha.

FOUR YEARS’ REGULATIONS.

Part II. Materia lVledica.-Alexander Vigors Benson, LondonHospital; George Minter Brown, Guy’s Hospital ; Augustus CharlesJenkins, London Hospital ; Louis Charles Martin, Guy’s Hospital;Peter Herbert Seholberg, Cambridge University and St. Bartholo-mew’s Hospital ; and William Peach Taylor, Firth College, Sheffield.

One gentleman was referred for three months.Part III.Elementary Physiology.-James John Anning and JamesEwing, Yorkshire College, Leeds.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-The following can-didates at the Intermediate Examination in Medicine held in

January were successful :-ENTIRE EXAMINATION.

First I)ivision. -Archibald Douglas Hamilton, University College,Liverpool; Henry Walter James, University College, Cardiff, andSt. Bartholomew’s Hospital; and Philip Savill, University College.

Second Division. -Henry Martyn Brown, St. Mary’s Hospital; JanetMary Campbell, London School of Medicine for Women; CecilEdwin Chriswick Child, Charing-cross Hospital, and BirkbeckInstitute; Edward Murray Clarke, University College, Cardiff ;Olive Claydon, London School of Medicine for Women; GeorgeThomas Collins, Guy’s Hospital; Lucian Arnold E. DeZilwa, B.Sc.,University College; Henry Bertram Foster, Guy’s Hospital;Lionel Capper Johnson, University College, Liverpool, and OwensCollege ; Henry Crewe Keates, Guy’s Hospital; Charles ErnestLakin, Middlesex Hospital; Richard Ernest Lloyd, B.Se., UniversityCollege ; Herbert Love, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital ; FrederickJames Alexander Mayes, and John Sherwood New, UniversityCollege ; John Elliott Sparks, University College, Bristol; LouisaSpicer, London School of Medicine for Women ; Albert EdwardThomas, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; and Vivian Francis Wall,St. Mary’s Hospital.The names of the other successful candidates, as well as of

those who have passed the Preliminary Scientific Examinationwill be published next week.

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-A CambridgeUniversity Association has been formed for the purpose ofenlarging the resources of the University, and, as we

announced last week, the Chancellor, His Grace the Duke ofDevonshire, is its President. In addition to a gift of £10,000from the Chancellor and a like gift from Lord Rothschild’sfirm, benefactions amounting to over £ 30,000 have alreadybeen promised for specific objects. This includes the sum

promised by the Drapers’ Company for the establishmentof a department of agricultural science. The followingBachelors of Arts were on Feb. 2nd admitted to the degreesof Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery: F. H.Maturin, Gonville and Caius ; G. E. Harthan, Jesus; A. E.Harrisson, Magdalene ; and P. T. Sutcliffe and H. C. Thorp,Emmanuel.-A notice has been issued by the Special Boardfor Medicine giving a new schedule for the examination inPharmaceutical Chemistry which forms part of the SecondExamination for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine. ThisSchedule will come into force on the first day of October,1899.The examination will be practical and the questions set will have

reference to-(1) The chemical principles involved in the preparation of the

following substances : reduced iron, mercury with challc, lithiumcitrate, potassium iodide, mercurous chloride, mercuric chloride,calcium hypophosphite, arsenical (Fowler’s) solution, hydrochloricsolution of arsenic, sulphurated lime, iron phosphate, strong solution offerric chloride, bismuth oxynitrate, strong solution of lead subacetate,tartarated antimony, iron and ammonium citrate, ammoniatedmercury.

(2) The chemical relations characteristic of the following substances:solution of trinitrin, amyl nitrite, chloral hydrate, iodoform, hydro-cyanic acid ; the alkaloids atropine, brucine, codeine, morphine,quinine, strychnine, and caffeine; phenol, beta-naphthol, salicylic

acid, salol; gallic acid, the tannins of galls and catechu; salicin ;acetanilide, phenacetin, phenazone.

(3) The chemical incompatibilities of drugs as illustrated by the inter-action of iron salts with arsenical solutions, alkalies with mercurialpreparations, acids with sulphurated lime, acids and oxidising agentswith potassium iodide, and astringent solutions with alkaloids.

(4) The estimation by volumetric methods of arsenic and antimonyin given solutions of chlorine in chlorinated lime, of hydrocyanic acidin cherry-laurel water and other solutions, of iron in reduced ironand iron phosphate, of nitrites in solution of ethyl nitrite and spirit of

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nitrous ether, and of citric and tartaric acid in given solutions;standar(lised solutions being provided.

(5) The characters of the foregoing substances and the physical andchemical tests for them and for their usual impurities.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. - Bonn :Dr. H. Schroeder has been recognised as prwat-docent ofMidwifery and Gynæcology.—Brussels: Dr. Albert Crickxhas been appointed Professeur agrégé.-Innsbruck: : Dr.Alois Lode has been appointed Extraordinary Professorof Hygiene.-Lausannc : Dr. Combo, privat-docent ofPædiatry, has been promoted to an Extraordinary Pro-fessorship. - Marbitrg : Dr. Eugen Enderlen has beenrecognised as privat-doeent in Surgery. - Mitnic7i : Dr.J. N. Oeller has been appointed Extraordinary Pro-fessor of Ophthalmology.---Naples : Dr. R. Caporali hasbeen recognised as privat-docent of Medical Pathology, Dr.Fr. Candia as Privat-docent of Gynæcology, and Dr. G.Jacontini as privat-docent of Medical Pathology.-Pavia: :Dr. Bernardino Silva has been promoted to the OrdinaryProfessorship of Medical Pathology. Dr. Scipione RivaRocci of Turin has been recognised as privat-doeent ofMedical Pathology.-Prague: Dr. Eduard Nessel has been

appointed Extraordinary Professor of Odontology.-Utrecht: :Dr. Snellen is about to retire from the chair of Ophthal-mology.

PRESENTATION TO A MEDICAL MAN.-Mr. A. H.Cook, M.B., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng., of Roslyn-hill,Hampstead, who has recently resigned the post of medicalofficer at the Hampstead Workhouse after 16 years’ service,was the recipient on Jan. 28th of a handsome testimonialfrom his late colleagues.

BATH EYE INFIRMARY.-The annual meeting ofgovernors and others interested in this institution was heldon Jan. 30th under the presidency of Mr. H. D. Skrine.The report showed that 208 in-patients had been admittedduring the past year, against 262 in 1897. Financially therewas a good balance in hand and 245, the amount of

legacies received, had been carried to capital account.

SOUTH DEVON AND EAST CORNWALL HOSPITAL,PLYMOUTH.-The fifty-ninth annual meeting of the sub-scribers of the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospitalwas held on Feb. 3rd under the presidency of theEarl of Mount-Edgcumbe. The report stated that 1313in-patients had been admitted during 1898, being 40in excess of the previous year. The out-patients treatedwere 2336 in number, against 2445 in 1897, and 222

patients were sent to the convalescent home at Pearn whichis in connexion with the hospital. The financial statementshowed that the expenditure for the year was f.6509 and thatthere was an unfavourable balance of 416.

BATH ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL.-The annualmeeting of the governors and others interested in thisinstitution was held at the Guildhall, Bath, on Jan. 30th,under the presidency of the mayor. The report statedthat during the year 1190 in-patients had been treated,against 1264 in 1897, a decrease of 74. The out-

patients numbered 8209, being 779 less than in the precedingyear. During the past year the new chapel and kitchenshad been constructed and the operation theatre refurnished.The financial statement showed a falling-off in subscriptionsand donations but an increase in subscriptions from factoriesand workshops.

DEATHS OF EMINENT FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN.-The deaths of the following eminent foreign medical menare announced :-Dr. August Socin, Extraordinary Professorof Surgery in the University of Basle. He was born at

Vevey in 1837 and studied at Basle and Wiirzburg. Duringthe Franco-German War he was in charge of the AmbulanceHospital at Carlsruhe and subsequently published in con-

junction with Professor E. Klebs a work on the surgicalcases which he had seen. His chief subsequent publicationsrelated to the surgery of the urinary organs and especiallyto that of the prostate. He was one of the editors of theBeiträge zur Chirurgie.-Dr. Giampaolo Vlacovich, Professorof Anatomy in the University of Padua.-Dr. Karl Claus,Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in thePhilosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna.-Dr.Konstantinos Busakis, Professor of Physiology in the Uni-versity of Athens.

Parliamentary Intelligence.NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS.

Opening of the Session.THE session of Parliament was opened by Royal Commission Ott

Tuesday, Feb. 7th, the session being the fifth of the present Parliament.As usual the Queen’s Speech, with which the session opened, referred tothe legislation proposed to be introduced by the Government. TwelveBills were mentioned, four of them in separate paragraphs and theother eight in what is known as an omnibus paragraph. Of the formerthe only one that need be noted here is a measure for the establish-ment of a board for the administration of primary, secondary, andtechnical education in England and Wales, and of the lattera Bill for providing a more complete distribution of water-

supply in cases of emergency in London and a Bill for the preventionof the adulteration of articles of food. Medical men will be dis-

appointed to learn that the Speech made no reference whatever to thesubject of revaccination and that neither the Marquis of Salisbury norMr. Balfour mentioned it in their speeches in the Debate on theAddress. In connexion with India, the Queen’s Speech said that theplague in that country still continues and though it has diminished insome districts previously affected it has spread to fresh places inSouthern and Northern India ; and the remark was added that unremit-ting efforts continue to be made to relieve sufferers from the disease,to check its spread in India, and to prevent its transmission to otherlands.

The Vaccination Question.Mr. BAETLEY has given notice that he will move for the preparation

and issue of a return showing the number of persons who from thepassing of the Vaccination Act of last year up to Dec. 31st have underSection 2 of the Act satisfied two justices or a stipendiary or metro-politan police magistrate in petty sessions that they conscientiouslybelieve that vaccination would be prejudicial to the health of theirchildren, the return to distinguish between Parliamentary boroughsand divisions of counties.

The Flash Point of Petroleum Oil.Mr. URE, one of the members of the Select Committee on Petroleum,

intends during the debate on the Address to ask the House of Commonsto adopt an amendment expressing regret that no reference is made inthe Queen’s Speech to any measure of legislation designed to give effectto the recommendation of the Select Committee that legislative restric-tions should he placed on all petroleum oil which has a flash point under100°F.

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Appointments.Successful applicants for Vacancies, Secretaries of Public Institutions,

and others possessing information suitcable for this column, areinvited to forward it to THE LANCET Office, directed to the Sub-Editor, not later than 9 o’clock on the Thursday morning of eachweek, for publication in the next number.

AjfNETT, H. E., M.B., Ch.B. Viet., D.P.H., has been appointed Demon-strator of Tropical Pathology in the newly-founded School ofTropical Diseases in Liverpool.

BERRY, H. PooLE, M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng., has been re-appointedMedical Officer of Health to the Grantham Urban Sanitary District.

BYERS, J. W., M.A., M.D., M.A.O. (Hon. Causa) Professor, has beenappointed Examiner in Midwifery to the Royal University ofIreland for one year.

CoLE, J. M. COATES, M.R.C.S., has been appointed Clinical Assistant tothe Chelsea Hospital for Women, Fulham-road, London, S.W.

COLLINS, W. J., M.S., M.D., B.Sc. Lond., F.R.C.S. Eng., ex-Chairmanof the London County Council, has been appointed by the Presidentof the Board of Agriculture to represent the Council on a Depart-mental Committee to inquire into the Diseases of Animals Act.

DIMMOCK, A. F., M.D.Durh., M.R.C.S. Eng., has been re-appointedMedical Officer to the Harrogate Cottage Hospital.

FOWLER, G., D.P.H. Eng., has been appointed Resident Medical Officerto the Finsbury Dispensary, vice J. A. 0. Briggs, resigned.

HEATH, A., F.R.C.S. Eng., M.B. Lond., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S.., has beenappointed Medical Officer for the Sparham Sanitary District of theMitford and Launditch Union.

KEVIN, BYRNE P., M.D., B.S., B.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. has beenappointed Medical Officer to the Christ Church District of theParish of St. Marylebone, London, vice Norman Kerr, resigned.

KIRBY, S. J. J., M.D. Brux., L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S. Eng., has beenappointed Medical Officer for the Frissingfield Sanitary District ofthe Hoxne Union.

LEY, J. W., F.R.C.S. Eng., has been appointed Medical Officer for the.Newton Abbot Cottage Hospital, District and Workhouse, vice J.Culross, resigned.

MAYSTON, R. W., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., has beenappointed House Physician to the Seamen’s Hospital (Dread-nought, Greenwich.