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LEICESTER INFIRMARY.-Assistant House Physician for six months.Salary at rate of £50 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

MAIDSTONE, WEST KENT GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant HouseSurgeon and Anaesthetist, unmarried. Salary JB60. with board.

, lodging, and washing.MANCHESTER, ST. MARY’S HOSPITALS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.-

Fourth House Surgeon for six months. Salary :E25, with board andresidence.

MANCHESTER, UNIVERSITY OF.-Junior Demonstrator of Physiology.Salary £100, rising to .B150 per annum.

NEWPORT AND MONMOUTHSHIRE HOSPITAL.-Junior Resident MedicalOfficer. Salary .B70 per annum, with board, residence, andlaundry.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, CITY AND COUNTY OF.-Assistant MedicalOfficer of Health and Resident Medical Officer of the City Hospitalfor Infectious Diseases, unmarried. Salary .B300 per annum, withboard, lodging, &c.

NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon for sixmonths. Salary.820, with apartments, board, and laundry.

NORTH-EASTERN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney-road, BethnalGreen, E.-House Physician, also House Surgeon, both for sixmonths. Salaries at rate of JE60 per annum, with board, residence,and laundry.

NOTTINGHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Locum Tenens for three and a halfmonths. Salary £45, with board, lodging, and washing.

PADDINGTON INFIRMARY AND WORKHOUSE.-First Assistant to theMedical Superintendent of the Infirmary and Assistant MedicalOfficer of the Workhouse, unmarried. Salary .B120 per annum,rising to .B150, with board, lodging, and washing. Also SecondAssistant to the Medical Superintendent of the Infirmary andMedical Officer of the Workhouse, unmarried, for six months.Salary at the rate of R72 per annum, with board, lodging, andwashing.

ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL, S.E.-House Surgeon. Salary .B52 10s. perannum, with board and residence.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.-Lectureship in Anatomy.SALFORD ROYAL HOSPITAL.-Junior House Surgeon for six months.

Salary at rate of £50 per annum, with board and residence.TAUNTON AND SOMERSET HOSPITAL, Taunton.-Resident Assistant

House Surgeon for six months. Salary at rate of .B50 per annum,with board, lodging, and laundry.

THROAT HOSPITAL, Golden-square, W.-House Surgeon. Salary at rateof .e75 per annum, with residence, board, and laundry.

VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Tite-street, Chelsea, S. W.-Honorary Anaesthetist.

WALSALL AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL.-Senior House Surgeon. SalaryB100 per annum, with board, residence, and washing.

WEST BROMWICH DISTRICT HOSPITAL.-Resident Assistant HouseSurgeon, unmarried. Salary R75 per annum, with board, resi-dence, and washing. Also Senior House Surgeon, unmarried.Salary B110 per annum, with board, residence, and washing.

WEST LONDON HOSPITAL. Hammersmith-road, W.-House Physicianfor six months. Board, lodging, and laundry allowance provided.

THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice ofvacancies as Certifying Surgeons under the Factory and WorkshopAct at Withnell, in the county of Lancaster; at Hemsworth,in the county of York ; and at Horsmonden, in the county ofKent.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

BARLOW.-On May 26th, at "Sa Maison," Somersham, Huntingdon-shire, the wife of H. Cecil Barlow, M.B., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., of ason.

MCNEIGHT.-On May 22nd, at Thaxted, Essex, the wife of W. R. P.McNeight, M.D. T.C.D., of a daughter.

RUSSELL.-On May 25th, at Osman House, Fortis Green, N., the wifeof J. Dill Russell, F.R.C.S. Eng., of a son.

SCHOFIELD.-On May 29th, at 1. Phillimore-gardens, Kensington, thewife of S. Robert Schofield, M.B.Lond., a daughter.

MARRIAGES.MACSHERRY-AUBRIL.-At the Oratory, Birmingham, Maurice

Macsherry, L.R.C.P., &c., 72, Summerhill-road, Birmingham, toValérie Marie Louise Aubril of Summerhill Court, Kingswinford,daughter of Louis Stanislas Aubril, Sartilly, Manche, France.

RIVIERE-OSLER.-On May 22nd, at Rosslyn-hill Chapel, Hampstead,Clive Riviere, M.D., to Henrietta Maria (Hetty), daughter ofThomas Osler, and granddaughter of the late T. Smith Osler ofHampstead.

STANWELL-GILLING.-On May 23rd, at St. John’s Parish Church,Chipping Barnet, F. Skey Stanwell, M.D., to Edith Elizabeth,second daughter of Henry R. Gilling, J.P., of Sowerby, Ravens-court Park, Barnet, Herts.

DEATHS.GROVES.-ON May 21st, at his residence, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight,

Joseph Groves, B.A., M.B. Lond., in his 68th year.WOOD.-At Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, W., on May 25th,

Caroline Augusta Charlotte, wife of T. Outterson Wood, M.D.

N.B.-A fee of 5s. is chargedfor the insertion oT Notices of Births,Marriages, and Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

A MONSTROUS COUNTER-CLAIM.

AT the Greenwich county court on April 19th, before his honourJudge Willis, K.C., Mr. E. Middlebrooke, L.S.A., of Eltham, sued Mr.David T.;McCulloch, of 104, Earlshall-road. Eltham, for £3 12s. 6d.,fee for medical attendance, and the defendant counter-claimed for f:50damages for careless treatment and faulty diagnosis of his wife’sillness, alleging that the deceased met her death from this cause. Mr.Mathew (counsel), instructed by the solicitors of the London andCounties Medical Protection Society, appeared for the plaintiff andMr. Walton (solicitor) for the defendant. The plaintiff’s claim beingadmitted, judgment was entered for him for the ;E3 12s. 6d., andhis honour then proceeded to hear the counter-claim. The defendantsaid that he called in Mr. Middlebrooke to attend his wife inNovember, 1904. Mr. Middlebrooke proved from his books that he haddiagnosed and treated the case as Bright’s disease and Dr. JohnRice deposed that he had made the same diagnosis independently.The defendant stated that Mr. Middlebrooke had diagnosed "gall-stones and a growth." After hearing the evidence his honour, ingiving a judgment in favour of Mr. Middlebrooke, expressed himselfin very warm terms on the defendant’s conduct in raising such acounter-claim. It was a monstrous claim that should never have beenpersisted in. He had spoken strongly because there were always baseminds ready to entertain any insinuations, but so far as his voicecould help he wished it to go forward that Mr. Middlebrooke’s treat-ment of the deceased had been skilful and proper and there was notthe slightest evidence to show that any one of the defendant’s state-ments was justified. We are glad to be able to record so trenchanta judicial pronouncement on the impropriety of such preposterousclaims against medical men.

THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES.To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,-Could any of your readers give me the name of any drugthat has proved in their experience a " cure for diabetes? The caseis of the obese type and of some duration. The worst symptoms aregreat depression of spirits, bodily weakness, and constipation.

I am, Sirs, yours faithfully,May 13th, 1907. M.B., C.M.

"LEONARD DE BAYER."

AN Aberdeen correspondent writes :—

"The capture of a man wanted by the Liverpool police autho-rities took place at Aberdeen last week, the arrest having beenmade through the instrumentality of a letter which appearedlast week in THE LANCET. In that letter information was given :thata young man, ’Leonard de Bayer,’ was wanted on a charge ofobtaining money by false pretences, he being in the habit of callingat hospitals and upon medical men at their private addresses andunder the pretence of being connected with the firm of BayerCo., Ltd., borrowing money which he did not pay back. A man,about 36 years of age, exactly answering the description publishedin THE LANCET, wearing gold-rimmed eye-glasses and dressed in afrock coat and a silk hat, arrived in Aberdeen on Thursday night.He called on the medical superintendent of the Aberdeen RoyalLunatic Asylum and produced letters of introduction from twowell-known medical men in Glasgow. It was too late in the

evening, however, to show him the institution. Next day theyoung man appeared at Marischal College and attended theGiffard lecture by Dr. Hans Dresch, Heidelberg, the well-knownembryologist, who was dealing with cells and cell-formation inhis course, the Science and Philosophy of the Organism. After thelecture the young man, who represents himself as a Prussiandoctor, entered into conversation with the lecturer and with oneof the university medical professors, subsequently accompanyingthe latter to his house in the west-end of the city. The professorstated that he would show the visitor over Marischal College on thefollowing day. The professor’s suspicions were aroused when theman declared himself as one of the leading medical men connectedwith the New York State Asylum and also as associated with the.firm of Messrs. Bayer Co., Ltd., combining the professional and com-mercial interests. Nor did the visitor manifest the interest or

knowledge expected of him on being taken through the anatomicalmuseum, although in the anthropological museum he had a gooddeal to say regarding interesting specimens he had secured whilein Bohemia and other countries while " doing Europe " in a motor-car. Subsequently at luncheon in the professor’s house, the latter’ssuspicions were further aroused by the references his guest madeto visits paid to eminent and Royal personages and to having beenassociated with the Thaw trial. Reading THE LANCET afterluncheon on Sunday afternoon the professor recognised thatthe man wanted by the Liverpool police might be his guest of theprevious day. He telephoned to the house of another medicalprofessor with whom the young man had previously intimated hewas to have luncheon that day, and the answers to inquiries revealed

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the fact that the visitor was in the garden enjoying a smoke. OnTHr,, LANCET’S letter having been read to him over the telephonethe other professor was also convinced that the man wanted wasenjoying the brilliant sunshine in the garden, peacefully smoking.Subsequently the police were informed from the asylum wherethe visitor was to have dined in the evening and the man wasarrested at his hotel late at night. He passed the bar at theAberdeen Police-court on Monday and was handed over to theLiverpool authorities."

A NEGLECTED TEXT.

To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,-In rejoinder to " Soberness " the name Jotham does not mean"Jot" and "Ham" but ’’Jehovah is upright." Also, when he saysthat "Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there,"and "They go to Beer because they take to beer as a drink," heapparently does not know that " Beer" meant a " well," and that thewell contained good water, as may be seen by Numbers xxi.

16, as follows: "And from thence they went to Beer: thatis the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the peopletogether and I will give them water." I learn that some peoplethink that the word "God" in the line "which cheereth God andman

" should be " gods " as the parable was addressed to the idolatrous

Shechemites and that others think the word meant "nobles" or

"rich"—i.e., "cheereth r4ch as well as poor." Yet others find an

explanation in the "drink offering unto the Lord," as referred toin Exodus xxix. 40, and Numbers xv. 7. But even sober commen-tators have admitted that " These are strange words." And somehave called the parable of the trees the most ancient and beautifulapologue extant. I am, Sirs, yours faithfully,May 27th, 1907. CEDAR.

A DIPHTHERIA PATIENT IN A PUBLIC VEHICLE.

THE district council at Brentford prosecuted a woman recently who hadmoved her child from one part of Brentford to another in a cab with-out giving any intimation to the cabman that the child was sufferingfrom diphtheria. The defendant’s husband stated that the motherherself had had the disease and there was also evidence that she hadbeen warned by the medical man who was attending the child as toher behaviour. Before the cab used could be traced it had been twiceemployed by other fares. The defendant was fined E2, with costs,which was certainly not more than her reckless and selfish conductdeserved.

THE OZONAIR MACHINE.

THE commercial applications of ozone are now numerous, owinglargely to the success which has attended the designing of machineswhich give a steady and pure supply of the gas direct from theatmosphere. Amongst the machines which produce pure ozonisedair is that known as the " ozonair," by the action of an alternatingelectric current of high frequency on the oxygen of the air throughthe medium of the silent or condenser discharge. An alternatingcurrent is therefore all that is required, but if this is not available amotor transformer may be used, by which the continuous is con-verted into the alternating current. This machine can be madeto almost any scale and, in fact, large installations have beendesigned for such big operations as the freeing of the air inbreweries from adventitious organisms and so ensuring a pureenvironment and a, sound beer. The machine has also been

applied to the bleaching of fabrics, oils, fats and waxes, sugar, andto the purification of water-supplies. One very important feature ofthe ozonair machine is that the ozonised air which it produces is

. entirely free from irritating nitrogen compounds. The small

machines, therefore, are well adapted for therapeutic requirements,as, for example, for inhalation for antiseptic treatment, and so forth.There is attached to the machine a special air filter in cases in whicha very pure air-supply is demanded, as, for example, in the operatingtheatre. These machines are made by Messrs. Ozonair, Limited, of27, Chancery-lane, London, W.C., at which place they may be in-spected. The cost of producing ozonised air by these machines is saidto be reduced to a minimum.

D. N. T. calls our attention to a method of learning the lessons to betaught by the stethoscope which is quite a useful one but by no meansnew. In many of the London medical schools the artifice is habi-tually employed.

COMMUNICATIONS not noticed in our present issue will receive attentionin our next.

Medical Diary for the ensuing Week.OPERATIONS.

METROPOLITAN HOSPITALS.MONDAY (3rd).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St.

Thomas’s (3.30 P.M.), St. George’s (2 P.M.), St. Mary’s (2.30 P.M.),Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), Westminster (2 P.M.), Chelsea (2 P.M.),Samaritan (Gynaecological, by Physicians, 2 P.M.), Soho-square(2 P.M.), City Orthopaedic (4 P.M.),Gt. Northern Central (2.30 P.M.),West London (2.30 P.M.), London Throat (9.30 A.M.), Royal Free(2 P.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.), Children, Gt. Ormond-street (3 P.M.),St. Mark’s (2 30 P.M.).

TUESDAY (4th).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St.Thomas’s (3.30 P.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.), Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), West-minster (2 P.M.), West London (2.30 P.M.), University College(2 P.M.), St. George’s (1 P.M.), St. Mary’s (1 P.M.), St. Mark’s(2.30 P.M.), Cancer (2 P.M.), Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.), London Throat(9.30 A.M.), Samaritan (9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.), Throat, Golden-square (9.30 A.M.), Soho-square (2 P.M.), Chelsea (2 P.M.), CentralLondon Throat and Ear (2 P.M.), Children. Gt. Ormond-street

(2 P.M., Ophthalmic, 2.15 P.M.), Tottenham (2.30 P.M.).WEDNESDAY (5th).-St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), University College

(2 P.M.), Royal Free (2 P.M.), Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), Charing Cross(3 P.M.), St. Thomas’s (2 P.M.), London (2 P.M.), King’s College(2 P.M.), St. George’s (Ophthalmic, 1 P.M.), St. Mary’s (2 P.M.),National Orthopaedic (10 A.M.), St. Peter’s (2 P.M.), Samaritan(9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.), Gt. Northern Central (2.30 P.M.), Westminster (2 P.M.), Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.), London Throat (9.30 A.M.),Cancer (2 P.M.), Throat, Golden-square (9.30 A.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.),Royal Ear (2 r.az.), Royal Orthopaedic (3 P.M.), Children, Gt.Ormond-street (9.30 A.M., Dental, 2 P.M.), Tottenham (Ophthalmic,2 30 PM.).

THURSDAY (6th).-St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St. Thomas’s(3.30 P.M.), University College (2 P.M.), Charing Cross (3 P.M.), St.George’s (1 P.M.), London (2 P.M.), King’s College (2 P.M.), Middlesex(1.30 P.M.), St. Mary’s (2.30 P.M.), Soho-square (2 P.M.), North-WestLondon (2 P.M.), Gt. Northern Central (Gynaecological, 2.30 P.M.),Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.), London Throat (9.30 A.M.), Samaritan(9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.), Throat, Golden-square (9.30 A.M.), Guy’s(1.30 P.M.). Royal Orthopaedic (9 A.M.), Royal Ear (2 P.M.), Children,Gt. Ormond street (2.30 P.M.), Tottenham (Gynaecological. 2.30 P.M.).

FRIDAY (7th).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St.Thomas’s (3.30 P.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.), Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), CharingCross (3 P.M.), St. George’s (1 P.M.), King’s College (2 P.M.), St. Marys(2 P.M.), Ophthalmic (10 A.M.), Cancer (2 P.M.), Chelsea (2 P.M.), (Gt.Northern Central (2.30 P.M.), West London (2.30 r.n2.), LondonThroat (9.30 A.M.), Samaritan (9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.). Throat,Golden-square (9.30 A.M.), City Orthopaedic (2.30 P.M.), Soho-square(2 P.M.), Central London Throat and Ear (2 P.M.), Children, Gt.Ormond-street (9 A.M., Aural, 2 P.M.), Tottenham (2.30 P.M.},St. Peter’s (2 P.M.).

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SATURDAY (8th).-Royal Free (9 A.M.), London (2 P.M.), Middlesex(1.30 P.M.), St. Thomas’s (2 P.M.), University College (9.15 A.M.).Charing Cross (2 P.M.), St. George’s (1 P.M.), St Mary’s (10 P.M.),Throat, Golden-square (9.30 A.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.), Children, Gt.Ormond-street (9.30 A.M.).

At the Royal Eye Hospital (2 P.M.), the Royal Londcn Ophthalmic(10 A.M.), the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic (1.30 P.M.), and theCentral London Ophthalmic Hospitals operations are performed daily.

SOCIETIES.TUESDAY (4th).-PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (20, Hanover-

square, W.).-8.30 P.M.: Communication: -Dr. Sambon. Papers:-Dr. Bayon : The Histogenesis of Goitre.- Dr. P. Weber and Dr.Bafer: Oateolipoma of Brain. Valedictory Address: The President(Dr. Pye-Smith).

WEDNESDAY (5th).-OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (20, Hanover-square, W.).-8 P.M.: Specimens will be shown by Dr. Longridge,Mrs. Scharlieb, The President (Dr. H. R Spencer), and Dr. McCann.Short Communication : Dr. H. R. Andrews : Two Cases of Preg-nancy in a Rudimentary Uterine Horn. Papers :-Mr. H. T.Hicks : Primary Vaginal Embolic Chorion-epithelioma.-Dr. Griffithand Dr. Williamson : A Case of Chorion-epithelioma complicated byHæmatometra.

THURSDAY (6th).-NEUROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KING-DOM (11, Chandos street, Cavendish-square, W.).-8.30 P.M.: Discus-sion on Posterior Basal Meningitis and its Relation to EpidemicCerebro-spinal Meningitis (to be opened by Dr. F. E. Batten).

NORTH-EAST LONDON CLINICAL SOCIETY (Tottenham Hospital, N.).-4 P.M. : Clinical Cases.

FRIDAY (7th).-WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICA.L SOCIETY.-8 30 P.M.: Papers :-Dr. A. W. Addinsell : Chronic Metritis.-Dr. D.Arthur: The Diagnosis of Chest Diseases by the X Rays. (Bothpapers will be illustrated by lantern slides.) .

LECTURES, ADDRESSES, DEMONSTRATIONS, &0.MONDAY (3rd).-MEDICAL GRADUATES’ COLLEGE AND POLYOLIMO

(22, Chenies-street, W.C.).-4 P.M. : Dr. J. M. H. MacLeod: Clinique.(Skin.) 5.15 P.M. : Lecture :-Dr. B. Abrahams: How to Examinethe Heart (with illustrative cases).

POST-GRADUATE COLLEGE (West London Hospital, Hammersmith-road, W.).-12 noon : Pathological Demonstration:-Dr. Low.2 P.M.: Medical and Surgical Clinics. X Rays. Mr. Dunn: Diseasesof the Eye. 2.30 P.M.: Operations. 5 P.M.: Lecture :-Dr. Low:Insects as Carriers of Disease in Tropical Medicine.

NORTH-EAST LONDON POST-QRADUATE COLLEGE (Prince of Wales’sGeneral Hospital, Tottenham, N.).-Cliniques:-9.30 A.M.: SurgicalOut-patient (Mr. H. Evans). 2.30 P.M. : Medical Out-patient (Dr.Whipham); Throat, Nose, and Ear (Mr. Carson); X Ray (Dr.Pirie). .

LoNDON SCHOOL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE (Dreadnought Hospital,’ Greenwich).-2.15 P.M. : Sir Dyce Duckworth : Medicine. 2.30 P.M.:

Operations. 3.15 P.M.: Mr. W. Turner: Surgery. 4 P.M.: Dr. StClairThomson: Diseases of the Throat, Nose, and Ear. Out-patient