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NEWPORT (MaN.)"RoYaL GwENT HOSPITAL.-Resident Medical Officer.Salary for first six months at rate of B100 per annum, second sixmonths 2125, and third six months :2150, with board, residence, andlaundry.

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ASYLUM.-Second Assistant Medical Officer.- Salary 2250 per annum, with board, &c.NOTTINGHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Senior House Physician. Salary

2120 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry. Also’ Assistant House Physician for six months. Salary at rate of .el00

per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.OLDHAM ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Second House Surgeon. Salary at rate

of 2120 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.PADDINGTON GREEN CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, London, W.-House

Surgeon. Salary at rate of £80 per annum, with board, residence,and washing.

PiISLEY BURGH INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL.-Resident MedicalOfficer. Salary £150 per annum, with board, washing, and attendance.

PLYMOUTH INCORPORATION OF GUARDIANS WORKHOUSE AND IN-FIRMARY.-Resident Assistant Medical Officer. Salary .e250 perannum, with apartments, rations, and washing.

PoRmsMOUmH ROYAL HosPITAL.-House Surgeon for six months.Salary :2150 per annum, with board, &c.

PRESTON ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Assistant Resident Medical and SurgicalOfficer. Salary 2120 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.

QUEEN’S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Haeknev-road, Bethnal Green, E.-Assistant Surgeon.

ROYAL WATERLOO HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN AND WOMEN, S.E.-Second Resident Medical Officer. Salary at rate of £100 per annum.with board and washing. Also Temporary Honorary AssistantPhysician to Out-patients.

ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, Plaistow, E.-JuniorResident Medical Officer. Salary at rate of :290 per annum, withboard, residence, and laundry.

SALFORD COUNTY BOROUGH.-Assistant Tuberculosis Officer. SalaryB350 per annum.

SALFORD ROYAL HOSPITAL.-Casualty House Surgeon. Salary at rateof 2100 per annum, with board and residence.

SALISBURY GENERAL INFIRMARY.-House Surgeon and Assistant HouseSurgeon, unmarried. Salary £100 and :275 per annum respec-tively, with apartments, board, lodging, and washing.

SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.-Senior and Junior HouseSurgeons. Salary B100 and 280 per annum respectively, withboard, residence, &c.

SHEFFIELD CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary :2150 perannum, with board and residence.

- SHEFFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL.-Female Assistant House Surgeon’andAssistant House Physician. Salary JE85 and 280 per annum

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respectively, with board, residence, and washing.SIXTH (RESERVE) BATTALION, THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGH-

LANDERS).-Medical Oflicer.SOUTHAMPTON, ROYAL SOUTH HANTS AND SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL.-

Junior House Surgeon for six months. Salary at rate of £120 perannum, with rooms, board, and washing.

SOUTH SHIELDS, INGHAM INFIRMARY AND SOUTH SHIELDS AND WESTOEDISPENSARY.—Junior House Surgeon. Salary .E115 per annum,with residence. board, and washing.

STOKE-ON-TRENT EDUCATION COMMITTEE.-Assistant School Medical,

Officer. Salary E300 per annum.STOKE-ON-TRENT, NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE INFIRMARY, Hartshill.--

House Physician and House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary at rateof £150 per annum, with board, residence, and washing.

STROUD GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary :E120 perannum, with board, lodging, and washing.

SWANSEA UNION INSTITUTION.-Resident Assistant Medical Officer.Salary B295 per annum.

TAUNTON AND SOMERSET HOSPITAL, Taunton.-Senior House Surgeon.Salary £120 per annum, with board, lodging, and laundry.

TRURO, ROYAL CORNWALL INFIRMARY.-House Surgeon, unmarried.Salary B150 per annum, with rooms, board, and washing.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon, un-

married. Salary .elOO per annum, with board, residence. &c.WAKEFIELD, CLAYTON HOSPITAL.-Senior House Surgeon. Salary

B160 per annum, with board, lodging, and laundry.WALSALL AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon and

, Anxsthetist. Salary £110 per annum, board, residence, and laundry.WALTHAMSTOW URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL HOSPITAL FOR INFECTIOUS

DISEASE, Chingford.-Resident Medical Officer. Salary .e250 perannum, with rooms and board.

WEST BROMWICH AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon andAssistant House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary £150 and £120 per

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annum respectively, with residence, board, and laundry. ’

WEST HAM AND EASTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL, Stratford, E.-JuniorHouse Surgeon. Salary at rate of £100 per annum, with board,residence, and washing.

WHITECHAPEL UNION INFIRMARY. Vallance-road, E.-Second AssistantResident Medical Officer. Salary .e200 per annum, with rations,apartments, and washing.

WIGAN, ROYAL ALBERT EDWARD INFIRMARY AND DISPENSARY.-Female Junior House Surgeon. Salary £130 per annum, withboard, apartments, and washing.

WINDSOR, FIFTH RESERVE BATTALION THE QUEEN’S REGIMENT.-Medical Officer.

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Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

CORBETT.-On Jan. 27th, at Blackwell, near Bristol, the wife of CaptainD. M. Corbett, R.A.M.C., of a daughter.

HAY.-On Jan. 28th, at 20. St. James’s-place, S.W., the wife cf KennethR. Hay, M.B., of a son.

DEATHS.DOUGHTY.-On Jan. 28th, at Woodchurch, Kent, William Cape

Doughty, L.R.C.P. & S., after a short illness, aged 31 years.MORISON.-On Jan. 28th, at the residence of his brother. 14, Upper’

Berkeley-street, W., Basil Gordon Morison, M.D., aged 60 years.N.B.-A fee of 5s. is charged for the insertion of Notices oj Births,

Marriages, and Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

THE ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE: LOOKINGBACKWARD.

A CORRESPONDENT writes: The first definite informationof medical men in the battlefield occurs in the reign ofHenry V., when Nicholas Colnet, as physician, and ThomasMorestede, as surgeon, accompanied the King in his ex-pedition into France. The pay of each of these officerswas ls. a day and a bodyguard of three archers. As asecurity for this payment Colnet and Morestede wereallowed to take with them certain valuable jewelsbelonging to the King. Morestede took with him 12assistants, who each received 6d. a day. He was alsosupplied by the King before starting with a sum ofmoney to provide a suitable equipment. Further, he wasprovided with a " chariot, two waggons, and two sumpterhorses." Morestede was present at the battle of Agin-court, where he and his assistants must have foundabundant scope for their energies, for the casualties wereenormous. The casualties on the English side are notknown, but the mortality among the French is said to have eexceeded 11,000. Morestede’s medical colleague mustalso have had his hands full, for the English troopssuffered badly from dysentery. The war over, Morestedereturned to London and took an active part in theSurgeons’ Guild. He became wealthy and added an aisleto St. Olave’s Church, Jewry, where he was buried.

THE DEARER LOAF.

To the Editor of THE LANCET.SIR,-As you so truly say in the leading article in your

issue of Jan. 30th that nourishing bread is of the utmostimportance to " the extreme poor, often limited, sadlyenough, to bread with butter or jam," I venture to directattention to the advantages of wholemeal ground to a uniformfineness, so that the digestive juices can surround theparticles and extract their nutriment. The Bread and FoodReform League has emphasised the importance of thissubject for over 30 years, and has also advocated that, whenfinely ground wholemeal and wheatmeal (a grade fromwhich a little of the coarse bran has been removed) cannotbe assimilated, it is advisable to encourage the use ofhousehold flour containing the maximum nutriment of thewheat grain that can be obtained with a smaller amount ofindigestible woody fibre. The league especially advises theretention of the "germ " and the strong gluten, found inflours commercially designated " patents," which are nowabstracted and used for expensive breads.Recent scientific investigations prove that serious disease

is produced by minute alterations in foodstuffs, and that thevitamines found in wholemeal, wheatmeal, and old-fashioned household flour, but removed from fine whiteflour, are, most important elements of nutrition when breadforms the principal food. As practical experience shows thebeneficial results secured by the use of these breads whengenuine I venture to hope that your readers will most kindlyencourage their adoption and thus help to promote thehealthy nutrition of the people.

I am, Sir, yours faithfully,MAY YATES,

Honorary Secretary, Bread and FoodReform League.

5, Clement’s Inn, London, W.C., Feb. lst, 1915.

THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE FOR NATIONALPATRIOTIC ORGANISATIONS.

THE task laid out for itself by this committee seems in everyway worthy of vigorous support. It is that of stimulatingand instructing public opinion throughout the country inrespect of the causes and objects of the war, of arousingthe nation to a sense of its danger, and keeping it alive,for the great driving power of public opinion, uponwhich ultimately the end of the war will depend, mustnot be left to shift with the temporary dominanceof various temperaments or the changing fortunesof war. Any weakening or wavering or a patched-uptruce would only expose our children under far moredisadvantageous circumstances to the rule and methodsof a ruthless militarism that is a standing menace tocivilisation, democracy, and liberty throughout the world.Another portion of the committee’s work consists in

translating into the languages of the respective neutralcountries the full evidence on which the Allied case

rests and taking measures for its circulation therein.The president of the committee is Mr. Asquith, and the

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vice-presidents are Lord Rosebery and Mr. A. J. Balfour.Contributions or offers of other assistance should be madeto the secretary, the Central Committee, Canadian PacificBuilding, 62, Charing Cross, W.C., from whom also furtherinformation can be obtained.

POPULAR MEDICINE IN GERMANY.To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-In reference to your remarks on Father Kneipp’sbook, published under this heading last week, I maycall the attention of your readers to Rehm’s "Allerlei,"

published in Ulm in 1806. Rehm was a Prussian andPolizeidirektor, and his book therefore is marked bya Protestant rationality, in strange contrast to theRev. Father’s romantic note. It is interesting tocompare his work, however, with such books as theScottish " Tippermalluch’s Receipts" " and the English"One Thousand Notable Things," which were populardomestic medicine books of the latter end of the eighteenthcentury. Rehm, it must be confessed, contains very littlequaint folklore as do Tippermalluch and the Englishchap-book. There is nothing in his pages to remind oneof the medicinal stones mentioned in the Scandinavianmythology. Nor do cannibalism and charms here appear.But the pharmacopoeia of Rehm is evidently traditional.Against the tape-worm he proceeds as he might against adragon. An immense tripartite dose is given to the patient.It comes traditionally from Leibarzt Vogler, "of blessedmemory." The worm is expelled seriatim at intervals of anhour or so, and the first dose is composed of quicksilver andpounded shells. A paste made of the yolk of an egg mixedwith pounded sal ammoniac is recommended as a remedyfor cataract. Oil of spurry (spergula) is stated to be asovran remedy for haemorrhage of the lungs, and it isnoted that cattle feed and grow fat upon it, while itincreases the wool-bearing capacities of sheep. Certainharmless directions are given for the treatment of epilepsy,and it is noted that the disease is popularly supposed toreside in the thumbs, whence the vulgar are alwaysanxious to keep the patient’s thumbs from being bent inupon the palms of his hands. A barbaric way of keepingfish fresh in winter is to pack them in snow, whichbenumbs but does not kill them-at least, this isRehm’s experience. Curious side-lights such as this arethrown on the life of the times. For instance, a story istold of the shooting of a mad dog, the fat of which was at once sold to a druggist for some reason or other. The Ideaths of dogs and even human beings are often attri-buted to the bite of flies that have escaped from fly-papers.Frost-bite is frequently mentioned, and it is cured bymedication rather than by the application of snow. Thejuice of potatoes is used as a substitute for soap, andbread made of the same tuber is described and lauded asan article of diet.Reading this book, we feel that we are in a primitive

kindly world of peasants, scarcely in a savage one, still lessin one that would adumbrate the latter-day Prussian.

I am, Sir, yours faithfully,Feb. 2nd, 1915. BOOKWORM.

A SWEDISH REMEDY FOR FROST-BITE.WE have received from Mr. Edward Edwin, of 39, Beau-champ-road, Lavender Hill, London, S.W., samples of anointment called " Vetterin," which he states has been usedfor years with the greatest success in Sweden for the treat-ment of frost-bite. Mr. Edwin quotes a number of lettersfrom Swedish medical men which speak so confidentlyabout the merits of this preparation as to make it wellworthy a trial elsewhere than in Sweden.

THE LESION IN TETANUS.To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-I have read in THE LANCET of Jan. 2nd, p. 17, a reportof the successful treatment of tetanus in a case havingthe remarkably short incubative period of two days. Thereis nothing in the report showing at all conclusively that thecondition arose from abrasion of the hip, protected as itmust have been by clothing ; and as the percentage ofrecovery in tetanus is increased as the incubation periodis lengthened-recovery in five-day incubation cases beingrare even under massive doses of antitetanic serum-is itnot well to assume the existence of some trivial lesion, oral,intestinal, &c., acting as a nidus for the infection, ratherthan accept a recent, absolutely superficial injury as thefield of ultra virulent infection ?

I am, Sir, yours faithfully,THOS. B. ROGERS, D.V.S.

Woodbury, N.J., Jan. 17th, 1915.Cheval.-The very small average of six miles a daywould not appear to justify, financially speaking, thekeeping of a car, unless our correspondent has a placeattached to his house where he can keep it, and has theintention of extending the sphere of his operations. If he

will tell us the cost of his present system of hiring abrougham, whether he would drive a car himself, andwhere he would keep it, we shall be better able to advisehim. He could probably get a booklet on the subject ofthe running cost from Messrs. De Dion Bouton, 10, GreatMarlborough-street, London, W.

OOMMUNICATIONS not noticed in our present issue willreoeive attention in our next.

Medical Diary for the ensuing Week.SOCIETIES.

ROYAL SOCIETY, Burlington House, London, W.THURSDAY.-Papers :-Dr. D. H. Scott : Lepidostrobus Kentucki.

ensis, formerly Lepidostrobus Fischeri. Scott and Jeffrey-ACorrection.-Mr. T. Lewis and Mr. M. A. Rothschild : TheExcitatory Process in the Dog’s Heart. Part II., The Ventricles(communicated by Prof. E. E. Starling).-Mr. A. J. Walton.On the Variation in the Growth of Mammalian Tissue inVitro according to the Age of the Animal (communicated byProf. W. Bulloch). _____

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1. Wimpole-street, W.FRIDAY.

CLINICAL SECTION (Hon. Secretaries-Thomas H. Kellock, DavidForsyth) : at 8 P.M.

Cases: :Mr. H. Morriston Davies: (1) Bronchiectasis treated by Liga-

ture of the Branch of the Pulmonary Artery; (2) Media-stinal Teratoma-Result of Operations on; (3) OsteitisFibrosa Cystica of the Femur.

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 11, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W.MONDAY.-8.30 P.M., Discussion on Gunshot Wounds of the Head

(introduced by Sir Victor Horsley). Followed by Sir DavidFerrier, Mr. R. Warren, Mr. W. H. Jessop, Mr. L. B. Rawling,and others.

PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN, LectureTheatre of the Society, 17, Bloomsbury-square, W.C.TUESDAY.-8 P.M., Communications from the Society’s Research

Laboratories:-Prof. H. Ll. Smith : Acetylsalicylic Acid.-Prof.H. G. Greenish and Mr. A. E. Beesley : Discolouration ofSodium Salicylate in Solution by Alkalines.

HUNTERIAN SOCIETY. Barbers’ Hall, Monkwell-street, E.C.WEDNESDAY.-9 P.M., Annual Oration :-Dr. H. R. Andrews :

William Hunter’s Work on Midwifery.SOUTH-WEST LONDON MEDICAL SOCIETY, Bolingbroke Hospital,Wandsworth Common, S.W.WEDNESDAY-9 P.M, Dr. A. F. Hertz: Flatulence.

CHILD STUDY SOCIETY LONDON, Royal Sanitary Institute, 90,Buckingham Palace-road, S.W.THURSDAY.-6 P.M., Lecture :-Dr. C. W. Kimmins: With the

British Association in Australia.

LECTURES, ADDRESSES, DEMONSTRATIONS, &c.POST-GRADUATE COLLEGE, West London Hospital, Hammersmith-road, W.MONDAY.-10 A.M., Dr. Simson: Diseases of Women. 10.30 A.M.,

Medical Registrar : Demonstration of Cases in Wards. 12 noon.Dr. Bernstein: Pathological Demonstration. 2 P.M., Medicaland Surgical Clinics. X Rays. Mr. D. Armour: Operations.Dr. Pritchard : Bacterial Therapy Department. Mr. B. Harmanand Mr. Gibb : Diseases of the Eye.

TUESDAY.-10 A.M., Dr. Owen: Demonstration of Cases in Wards.12 noon, Mr. T. Gray : Demonstration of Fractures, &c. 2 P.M.,Medical and Surgical Clinics. XRays Mr. Baldwin : Operations.Dr. Davis: Diseases of the Throat, Nose, and Ear. Dr. Pernet:Diseases of the Skin.

WEDNESDAY.-10 A,::I1., Dr. Saunders : Diseases of Children. Dr.Davis: Operations of the Throat, Nose, and Ear. 11 A.M.,Mr. Souttar: Demonstration of Minor Operations. 12 noon,Lecture :-Mr. Souttar: Abdominal Diagnosis. 2 P.M., Medicaland Surgical Clinics. X Rays. Mr. Pardoe: Operations. Dr.Simson: Diseases of Women. Mr. Gibb: Diseases of the Eye.

THURSDAY.-9 A.M.. Dr. Bernstein: Bacterial Therapy Department.12 noon, Lecture: Dr. G. Stewart: Neurological Cases. 2 P.M.,Medical and Surgical Clinics. X Rays. Mr. D. Armour: Opera-tions. Mr. B. Harman: Diseases of the Eye.

FRIDAY.-10 A.M.,Dr. Simson: Gynaecological Operations. 10.30A.M.,Surgical Registrar : Demonstration of Cases in Wards. 12.15 P.M.,Lecture :—Dr. Bernstein : Applied Pathology. 2 P.M., Medicaland Surgical Clinics. X Rays. Mr. Baldwin: Operatiol’ls.

’ Dr. Davis: Diseases of the Throat, Nose, and Ear. Dr. Pernet:Diseases of the Skin.

SATURDAY.-10 A.M., Dr. Saunders : Diseases of Children. Dr. Davis:Operations of the Throat. Nose, and Ear. Mr. B. Harman:Eye Operations. 12 noon, Lecture :-Mr. Souttar : SurgicalAnatomy of the Abdomen. 2 P.M., Medical and Surgical Clinics.X Rays. Mr. Pardoe: Operations.

NORTH-EAST LONDON POST. GRADUATE COLLEGE, Prince ofWales’s General Hospital, Tottenham, N.MONDAY.-Clinics :-10.30 A.M., Surgical Out-patient (Mr. E.

Gillespie). 2.30 P.M., Medical Out-patient (Dr. T. R. Whipham) ;Gynaecological (Dr. J. B. Banister). 3 P.M., Medical In-patients(Dr. R. M. Leslie).