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In connexion with the Glasgow Hoyal Infirmary is a dis-pensary, where advice is given daily, (Sundays excepted,) fromtwo to four P.m. I, with a great many others, attend, butwith little satisfaction-for this reason, that particular cases,such as uterine diseases, we are not allowed to see. If a patientis brought in for advice, and the surgeon thinks she is labour-ing under some uterine affection, she is requested to remaintill the last. Students taking an interest in such cases naturallyremain, but they are told by the surgeon that he cannot allowthem to see it.Now, Sir, is it right that medical students, paying upwards

of £1000 yearly to this hospital, should be so dealt with, whilstthe porter, forsooth, is allowed to remain in the room and assistat these examinations by means of the speculum? But thegrievance does not stop here. One of the dodges con-

sists in the following-viz., patients snffering from, or thosereturning to the dispensary with, uterine diseases are carefullykept from the view of the students. When the general routineof the business is over, the porter enters and says, "Gentlemen,all is over," or, " Doctor, that’s the last;" giving the surgeon,by the former expression, to understand that there are uterinecases to be examined; by the latter, that there are none. Inthis way, Sir, we are deceived ; and although anxious to learnour profession in all its bearings, we are prevented from know-ing anything of a most important class of diseases.

I enclose my card as a token of good faith, and beg to signmyself,

Your obedient servant,Glasgow, June, 1858. A CONSTANT REAPER.

*,* It certainly is a curious system that admits the presenceof the porter, and excludes the attendance of the students.-SUB-ED. L.

THE STARCH BANDAGE IN FRACTURE OFTHE PATELLA.

To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-Allow me to inform Mr. Edward O’Loughlin, that theplan adopted at the Royal Free Hospital, by Mr. WeedenCooke, in cases of fracture of the patella, has been for yearscarried on at the Southern Hospital, Liverpool. We used to

adopt the same treatment in cases of fractures of the olecranon,and outer and inner condyles of the humerus, taking care toremove the bandage occasionally that passive motion mightbe employed.During the time I was house-surgeon (nearly two years), all

our simple fractures were treated with the starch; and I neverremember an unsuccessful case. We also found that the plananswered in treating ununited fractures, many of which we had,from accidents happening whilst at sea on board vessels notcarrying surgeons, the fracture consequently remaining unset.until they came into port.Mr. Churton’s (late honorary surgeon to the hospital) prac-

tice was to put up simple fractures immediately in starch, oras soon after admission as convenient. In infants, the plananswers well. I have put the starch bandage on at the age ofone week for fracture of the thigh done at birth. I may say,that out of some hundreds of cases thus treated, I never re-member one turning out badly; and I think my predecessorswill bear me out in this statement.

I merely write this to show that the provincial are not be-hind the metropolitan hospitals in their practice.

T am- Sir- vnnr ohedient Rervant-

Yeovil, Somerset,June, 1858.

EDW. C. GARLAND, M.R.C.S., &c.,Late Senior Resident-Surgeon, Southern Hospital,

Liverpool.

DEATH OF SIR PHILIP CRAMPTON, BART.,SURGEON-GENERAL TO THE FORCES IN IRELAND.

IT is our painful duty to record the death of (if not the ablest)certainly one of the first surgeons that the sister kingdom hasever produced. We allude to Sir Philip Crampton, who diedat his residence, Merrion-square, Dublin, on the 10th instant,in the 82nd year of his age, having been born on the 7th ofJune, 1777. His family were originally English, and resided atSouth Cottingham, Notts; but leaving this county in the reignof King Charles the Second, they settled in Ireland, and re-mained permanently there, furnishing from that period to the

present, many able members to the profession of medicine, thechurch, and the bar. Sir Philip, the subject of our presentnotice, was bred to the former of these, and at a very earlyage embraced the military branch, serving as an assistant-surgeon in the disturbed times prior to 1798, and being presentwith the force which repulsed the landing of the French onthe west coast of Ireland. Towards the close of that year hewas nominated surgeon to the Meath Hospital, (one of the in-firmaries of Dublin.) This event determined him to relinquishthe military for civil practice, and he accordingly settled inDublin late in the autumn of 1790. He commenced businessin a house in Dawson-street, where he established himself as ateacher of anatomy, having a dissecting-room and medicalschool fitted up in the rear of the premises. Here, in a loftover his stable, he first began to lecture, and his style of teach-ing, combined with his perfect knowledge of the subjects whichhe taught, soon obtained for him a large class of pupils, whilsthis fame as a surgeon became equally established by his prac-tice in the wards, and his skill as an operator in the theatre ofthe hospital. Combined with these professional qualifications,he was possessed of a pleasantness of manner and a winningway, which, in the sick room, were irresistible, and he soonbecame a general favourite with the public. It was not, how-ever, in mere conversation, or in the relation of anecdote, thatSir Philip Crampton excelled ; his intellectual capacity wasequally conspicuous upon whatever subject came before him.To a powerful mind, well cultivated and well stored in earlyyouth, he daily added up to the latest period of his existence.His bodily powers equalled his mental capabilities, and therewere not many who, in athletic pursuits, or in the huntingfield, could show the way to Philip Crampton. Handsome inperson, gifted in mind, with an off-hand, open, and manlybearing, there were few who were his equals. Such was theman of whom we now speak.As a surgeon he was ready in resources and original in idea,

seldom meeting a difficulty that he did not surmount. As a

physician he was peculiarly happy in the selection of remedialmeasures, not merely looking upon the malady in question asdisease per se, but rather regarding the individual in his everyrelation to life, and often prescribing to an end far remote fromthe then predominating symptoms. As a man of science hewas generally able; but to zoology and comparative anatomyhe paid particular attention, regarding them as subservient tothe one great end-the preservation of human life. He was a

patron of everything that could promote this object. Heassisted in the foundation of the Royal Zoological Society ofIreland, and by his influence obtained a grant of the ground inthe Phoenix-park, on which the Zoological Gardens have beenestablished. His public appointments were numerous. Hewas nominated as Surgeon-general to the Forces in Ireland bythe Duke of Richmond, on the death of Mr. Stewart, and sub-sequently appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Hewas consultant to the majority of the hospitals in Dublin.He was also a member of the Senate of the University of Lon-don, although we believe he never took his seat. He was amember of the Senate of the Queen’s University, and thricePresident of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. SirPhilip Crampton was raised to the baronetage in 1839, and issucceeded in the title by his eldest son, John Fiennes Cramp-ton, our ambassador to the Court of Russia.

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

men, having undergone the necessary examinations for theDiploma, were admitted members of the College at the meet -ing of the Court of Examiners on the llth inst. :-CLAYTON, RICHARD, Accrington, Lancashire.EvArrs, BENJAMIN, Duffryn, Pembrokeshire.HUGHES, BENJAMIN AUGUSTUS, St. Vincent, West Indies.KEMP, BENJAMIN, Leeds.McCANN, JOHN, Tonyn, co. Longford.MORGAN, WALTER, Bridgend, Glamorganshire.OWEN, OWEN, Leamington.RAY, SIDNEY KEYWORTH, Milton, near Sittingbourne, Kent.SELOUS, EDRIC, Gloucester-road, Regent’s-park.WATLING, CHARLES WYAT, Tredington, Shepston-on-Stour.

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APOTHECARIES’ HALL. - Names of gentlemen who

passed their examination in the science and practice of Medi.cine, and received certificates to practise, on

Thursday, June 10th, 1858.DAVIES, WM. ABEL, Aberystwith, Cardiganshire.NEWCOME, FREDERICK, Grantham, Lincolnshire.PEILE, BRANSBY COOPER, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex.PHILIP30N, G. HARE, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.PICKETT, JACOB, Ipsden, Oxfordshire.SENIOR, CHARLES, Bradford, Yorkshire.

UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS.-The following gentle.men, having previously obtained the degree of Doctor ojMedicine, have been placed on the list of honours :-

Class I.RULE, SAMUEL, London Hospital.COOK, HENRY, H.E.LC.S.BOWEN, EssEX, late Royal Artillery.POTTER, HENRY, Limerick.

Class II. -None.[In accordance with our usual plan, the names of the gentle.

men who obtained a first class were inserted last week IE

alphabetical order. As we have since been informed that theywere placed on the list forwarded to us in order of merit, we re.insert them.] ]THE GILBERT BLANE PRIzE.-The Council of the Royal

College of Surgeons, and Sir John Liddell, the Director-Genera]of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy, have jusiawarded the gold medals founded by the late Sir Gilbert Blane,Bart., to Messrs. William Richard Edwin Smart, M.D., Surgeonto H.M.S. Diamond (1855), and Alexander Eugene Mackay,M.D., Surgeon to H.M.S. Fantome (1855).MR. COWPER’S MEDICAL REFORM BILL,-The principal

objection now advanced to this Bill is, that the powers of thecouncil are not defined, and are likely to assume a. despoticcharacter. This is an error; as all the acts of the council, beforetaking effect, must be confirmed by the Secretary of State, andbe published in the London Gazette one month before receivingthat sanction. Government have consented to give a morningsitting on Tuesday next to go into committee on this Bill.ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Mr. Thos. Alexander.

C.B., Inspector - General of Hospitals, has been appointedDirector-General of the Army Medical Department, vice Dr.Andrew Smith, resigned.APPOINTMENTS.- The Queen has been pleased to ap.

point C. Elliott, M.D., to be principal medical officer for theIsland of Ceylon.--Mr. Pope, the senior house-surgeon ojthe Southern Hospital for the last twelve months, has beenelected by the select vestry, by a- majority of eleven to five,to the office of district medical officer of the borough of Liver-pool.-At a meeting of the governors of the Suffolk GeneralHospital, held on the 15th inst., John W. Goodwin, M.D.Cantab., was elected physician to that institution.HER MAJESTY’S LEVEE.-The following gentlemen

were present at the last levée :-Surgeons Pettigrew, JamesPrior, and Hyslop; Drs. W. Rae, H. A. Bruer, Hinxman,Lester, and Stevenson Bushnan.MEDICAL REFORM.-A deputation from the Medical

Corporations of the United Kingdom-consisting of Sir Benj.Brodie, Bart., from the Royal College of Surgeons of England;Dr. Hawkins and Dr. Burrows, from the Royal College of

Physicians, London; Mr. Tegart, from the Society of Apothe-caries ; Dr. Omond, from the Medical and Surgical Corpora-tions of Scotland; Dr. Neligan, from the King and Queen’sCollege of Physicians of Ireland ; Dr. Williams, from the RoyalCollege of Surgeons of Ireland-had an interview with Mr.Secretary Walpole, on the 12th inst., at the Home-office.REGISTRATION OF DEATHS IN SCOTLAND. - In the

House of Commons on the 5th inst., a petition was presentedby Captain Hamilton, from the medical practitioners of Hamil-ton, complaining of the duties and penalties imposed on them,without remuneration, by the Act for the Registration 01

Deaths, &c.-Glasyow Daily Bulletin.ACCIDENT TO A MEDICAL MAN.-A few days ago, whilst

Mr. Little, surgeon, of Boston, Lincolnshire, was out driving,his horse took fright and ran away, Mr. Little being thrownfrom the vehicle, and sustaining a compound fracture of thethigh, wilh other injuries. He is now, however, out of danger,and is progressing favourably.

IODIDE INJECTIONS.-M. Creuzer, a military surgeon,states, in the Journal de Medecine et de Chirurgie Pratiques,that he has cured a serjeant of a cystic tumour of the great toeby means of an iodine injection. Such injections are doubtlessextremely useful, but we would warn practitioners from usingthem freely where the sac communicates with either of the threecavities. M. Marjolin, surgeon to the Children’s Hospital inParis, with great judgment and candour, lately brought beforethe Surgical Society a case of his where a little girl died soonafter the second injection into the sac of a psoas abscess, fromthe rupture of the former, and the passage of the iodine into.the peritoneal cavity.THE QUESTION OF OPERATING IN CANCER.-Everyone

knows how often the disease recurs after extirpation, so muchso that some surgeons, Mr. Weeden Cooke amongst the latest,have laid aside the knife altogether. Under these circum-stances, some attention should be paid to the suggestion of M.Bonnet, a very eminent surgeon of Lyons. The author thinksthat operations may be performed after the patients have, byappropriate means, been restored to health. Amongst thesemeans, M. Bonnet places hydro-therapic ones at the head ofthe list, and thinks that the cold water can effect such modifi-cations in the patient’s system as to render a recurrence veryunlikely. The cases cited are, however, neither numerous norsatisfactory.INVALIDS FROM INDIA.-The sick and wounded troops

who were brought home from India in the Himalaya arrivedon Thursday night, the 10th inst., at Fort-Pitt Hospital,Chatham. The number of wounded troops who embarked at.Calcutta, on the 8th of February last, was 127 men of allranks. Assistant-Surgeon Sexton, M.D., and Assistant-Sur-geon Bremner, M.D., were in medical charge. During thevoyage ten deaths occurred on board. Of the sick and woundedadmitted into Fort Pitt, seventeen men have lost a leg, andthirteen an arm. The case of one patient is peculiarly inte-resting. He was struck by a musket-ball on one temple. Theball is described to have traversed the head, and emerged atthe other temple, depriving him of the sight of both eyes. The

poor fellow has recovered, however, from his terrible injury.PAINLESS CAUTERIZATION. -M. Piedagnel has lately

proposed to mix a certain proportion of hydrochlorate ofmorphia with caustic pastes, so as to lessen, if not to removealtogether, the pain connected with the application of such.pastes. To three parts of the compound known as the Viennapowder, M. Piedagnel adds one part of the morphia salt, bothin the dry state; and the paste is to be made by adding eitherchloroform, alcohol, or water. In fifteen minutes a dark escharis formed. As physician to the Hotel Dieu the author coulduse his anæthetic paste only when ordering issues, &c.; but ithas been tried in M. Jobert de Lamballe’s ward, upon scrofu-lous tumours of the neck and an encephaloid cancer of the foot.The patients stated that they had experienced little or no pain.DEATH OF DR. BROWN.-We regret to announce the

death of Dr. Brown, keeper of the botanical collection in theBritish Museum, and formerly president of the Linnæan Society.The deceased botanist was in the eighty-fifth year of his age.,HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK ENDING

SATURDAY, JUNE 12.-The population of London now appearsto be in a very healthy condition. In a metropolis which in afew years more will be able to count its third million of in-habitants, the deaths in a week do not often fall below athousand; for a reduction of the weekly deaths below thispoint occurred only nine times in 1857, though the total mor-tality of that year was less than the average. At this seasonof the year the mortality has been observed to be least, andlast week, ending June 12th, the deaths, which had been about1100, fell to 963. In the ten years, 1848-57, the averagenumber of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last weekwas 982, but as the present return is for a population whichhas annually increased, for the purpose of comparison the ave-rage should be raised in proportion to this increase, and it willthen appear that the deaths of last week were less by 117 thanwould have occurred under the average rate of mortality for theearly part of June. The births of last week exceeded thedeaths in the same period by 663. The deaths of childrenfrom measles declined in the last two weeks from 62 to 56;those from hooping-cough from 69 to 58; while deaths of personsat all ages from typhus and common fever decreased from 43 to21; and fatal cases of zymotic diseases in the aggregate from291 to 253. Eighteen persons died of diarrhoea last week,which is just the average for the season, and 4 of cholera. With

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one exception, the cases of cholert occurred to children notabove 7 years of age, and are described as "English cholera."Of 14 deaths that occurred in the sub-district of Somers-town,5 were from scarlatina, 3 from hooping-cough, and 1 frommeasles-that is, 9 from diseases of the zymotic character. Inthe sub-district of All Souls, Marylebone, 3 children died frommeasles, 1 of hooping-cough, 1 of diarrhoea, 1 of influenza, 1 ofdiphtheria., 1 of inflammation of the throat, 1 of remittent fever,and 1 of croup; the registrar states that measles and inflam-mation of the throat are very prevalent in his locality. It isstated that frequent cases of fever have occurred in Highbury-vale, and that they are supposed to owe their origin to a largeopen sewer which runs near the dwellings, and to which publicattention has been repeatedly called, but hitherto without- effect. The nuisance is not to be abated till it can be includedin the general drainage of the north of London. The two oldest’persons who died in the week were women, aged respectively94 and 95 years. Last week the births of 854 boys and 772girls, in all 1626 children, were registered in London.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

Dr. Radcliffe on Epilepsy and other Convulsive Affections.Dr. Macleod on the Surgery of the Crimean War.Dr. S. G. Howe on the Causes of Idiotcy.Mr. Laurence on Cancer.Dr. L. S. Beale on Urinary Deposits.Dr. L. S. Beale’s Archives of Medicine.Mr. Haycock’s Veterinary Medicine.American Medical Monthly Alagazine.The Intelligible Railway Guide, June.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

On the 10th inst., the wife of George E. Bearpark, Esq.,F.R.C.S.E., of Leeds, of a son.On the 12th inst., at Brighton, the wife of John Dauglish,

M.D., of a daughter, stillborn.

MARRIAGE.

On the 10th inst., at Herne, Canterbury, Eldred HarryLittlehales, Esq., third son of Dr. Littlehales, of Winchester,to Jane Mary Georgiana., second daughter of the late John’William Thomas Fagge, Esq., and granddaughter of the lateRev. Sir John Fagge, Bart., of Mystole, Kent.

DEATHS.

On the 8th inst., at Charlton, Kent, Thomas Henry Currie,Esq., M.R.C.S., eldest surviving son of the Rev. Thos. Currie,rector of Bridgham, and vicar of Roudham, Norfolk, aged 23.On the 10th inst., at North Cove Hall, near Beccles,

Georgiana Mary, widow of the late Alfred Imprey, M.D., ofGreat Yarmouth, aged 30.On the llth inst., at Banbury, Joanna, wife of Arthur

Brisley Rye, Esq., F. R C. S.,0n the 12th inst., Clara, the wife of Henry Herbert Southey,

M:D., of Harley-street, Cavendish-square, aged 61.On the 12th inst., at Maidstone, Sherard Freeman Statham,

Esq., M.B., F. R. C. S., surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital,late assistant-surgeon to University College Hospital, aged 32.

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To Correspondents.Orthodox has forwarded to us some documents issued by the Vicar of St. Paul’s,near Penzance. The said Vicar has been the means of introducing twohomoeopaths into the neighbourhood, one at Penzance, and the other at St.Paul’s. The worthy Vicar is incessantiy beating up for recruits for theseglobulists, to the great injury of a most respectable staff of medical praeti-tioners at Penzance. Our correspondent adds : " My residence is about eightmiles from Penzauce. I am therefore, to a certain extent, exempt from the in-fluence of these persons. I possess, however, a feUow-feeling formyprofessionalbrethren, and cannot but deem the intrusive conduct of the Vicar of St. Paul’s

I as most unwarrantable, as I am credibly informed that he is most incessanti in his endeavours to procure patients for his proteges: It may be asked, in’

the spirit of perfect fairness, what would be the conduct of the gentleman in’ question if a respectable practitioner of medicine introduced into his parish

two of the disciples of Joe Smith, who opposed the Vicar, armed with theMormon Bible, and the doctrines of the sect which support it Medicalpractitioners are singularly free from the charge of undue interference withother professions, and it certainty is to be regretted that a clergyman shouldnot follow the example wisely set him by the members of our profession."Ne sutor ultra crepidam" is an aphorism peculiarly applicable to thepresent case, and it would be well for the interests of society if the Vicar ofSt. Paul’s were to restrict himself entirely to his clerical duties. Political

clergymen have always been regarded with jealousy by the laity. Parsonswhointerfere in medical matters seldom do so with any advantage to the com-munity, and we cannot again help expressing our regret that the Vicar ofSt. Paul’s, by travelling out of his clerical duties, may unintentionally be themeans of inflicting great injury on the bodies of those entrusted to his spiritualcharge. In this free country it is the privilege of every citizen to select forhis spiritual or medical adviser any person, whatever his qualifications.Johanna Southcote and Joe Smith have their disciples; Holloway, Morrison,and Hahnemann have their supporters. Let it be so. Quackeries of allkinds, whether religious or medical, must have supporters. The ignoranceand credulity of mankind are proverbial ; but quacks have no claim to supportfrom purely extraneous sources. Legitimate medicine and orthodox religionshould separate themselves entirely from the fallacious doctrines of thosewho seek to establish dangerous systems of belief. We are far from

attributing to the Vicar of St. Paul’s any unworthy or malevolent motives inthe course which he has thought proper to pursue; but fully impressed withthe conviction that he is unwittingly lending himself to the promulgationof a dangerous and destructive agency, it is not too much for us to remon-strate with him on the course which he has taken. We may, perhaps,return to this subject, when our observations may fall with more weightupon the legitimate duties of a clergyman, who, no doubt, has a keen regardfor the orthodoxy of the creed which has installed him in his office.

Mr. Willam Smithj’s ’’Report of a Case of Fractured Skull, with Loss ofcon-siderable Portion of Brain," shall be inserted in our next impression.

TitEATMES’T OF AGUE.To the Lditor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-Allow me to refer " An Union Surgeon and Constant Reader" to thework of the late Dr. Golding Bird, "On Urinary Deposits," fourth edition,chapter It, On Blood Deputation by the Sidneys as a Remedy in Disease, forsome hints on the treatment of ague. I am, Sir, yours truly,

Jnne, 1858. G. S.