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(From our own Correspondent.)

M. PASTEUR’S METHODS.

ON the 20th of last July a man named Hamyau, of Dunkirk,was bitten by a dog. On the 20th of the following monththe same dog, at that time probably rabid, bit another man,who was forthwith sent to Paris and subjected to the inten-.sive treatment. His death from paralytic rabies formedthe subject of M. Peter’s first communication to the Academy.Hamyau, who six months ago was a strong, vigorous man,is now suffering from a strange illness, which those favour-able to M. Pasteur’s treatment affirm to be pulmonary con-gestion. M. Peter, on the other hand, does not hesitate todeclare that the symptoms are due to canino-experimentalinoculation. Since the middle of February there has beenparesis of the lower limbs and of the organs supplied bythe pneumogastric nerve. The breathing is constantlyoppressed, the pulse remains at 120, and the abdomen istympanitic. Pressure made by M. Peter on the vagus gave riseto alarming dyspnoea and palpitation. The patient seldompasses a day without feeling neuralgic pains at the seat ofthe inoculations, but no abnormal sensation is felt in theacar of the bite. The symptoms have been somewhatrelieved by the administration of pilocarpine in doses offifteen grains daily, but M. Peter considers that the casewill terminate fatally.

INOCULATION AGAINST PORCINE MEASLES.

A provincial paper relates another mishap, which is notuninstructive. A veterinary surgeon had been suppliedwith the preservative against porcine measles, and inocu-lated a herd of swine belonging to one of his clients.Unfortunately the pigs died, and the veterinary inoculatorwas obliged to reimburse their owner. The -E’eAo du Midiaays that he is about to bring an action for recovery againstM. Pasteur.

PROPHYLAXIS OF YELLOW FEVER.

MM. Freire, Gibier, and Rebourgon presented a note atthe ’Academy of Science on the Prophylaxis of YellowFever by the Inoculation of an Attenuated Virus. In 1885and 1886,6524 persons submitted themselves to this protectivevaccination in Rio Janeiro, and during this period the totalnumber of deaths from yellow fever was 1675. Of thevictims 1667 had not been inoculated, the mortality amongstthose protected amounting to eight deaths only. The.authors state that, taking as the basis of their calculationthe population exposed to the contagion, the percentage ofdeaths for the whole number was 1 per cent., whereas forthose who had been subjected to preventive inoculations itwas only 1 per 1000.

THE SLEEPER OF THENELLES.

The Revue d’Hypnotisme contains a report by Dr. EdgarBerillon on la Lethargique de Thenelles, a young womanwho will shortly have accomplished the fourth year of anuninterrupted trance. Miss M. B-, now twenty-fiveyears of age, has always been sickly, delicate, and nervous.On May 30th, 1883, after a fright, she had several convulsiveattacks, and then fell into a profound sleep, from which shehas never awakened. She is kept alive by small quantitiesof liquid food, which are swallowed automatically. The’excretions are greatly diminished, and menstruation is nowentirely suppressed. When examined by Dr. Berillon, thelimbs were found to be much wasted, and all trace of

adipose tissue had disappeared. Anaesthesia is complete,And the knee reflex is abolished. The pulse is almost imper-’ceptible, and gives 100 beats to the minute. Respirationis regular, but feeble. The breath has not the autophagicodour of insanity and starvation. The face is pale, waxy,and without expression. The mucous membranes are colour-less. When the eyelids are opened the eyes are seen to be-convulsed upwards, and blowing upon them produces nopalpebral reflex. The jaws are tightly closed by con-tracture of the masseters. The arms can be easily raised,but enter at once into contracture. The muscles are in thatstate known as neuro-muscular hyper-excitability, and theslightest touch or puff suffices to cause contracture, whichcan be removed by the application of warmth. Besides thesensory anaesthesia there is complete mental inertia, and thepatient is inaccessible to any kind of hypnotic suggestion.

Paris, April 12t]t.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.

AT a quarterly meeting of the Council held on Thursdaylast the minutes of the last meeting were confirmed. Onthe recommendation of the Museum Committee, it wasdetermined to purchase a very fine specimen of the egg ofthe Epiornis.Mr. James Berry, of 60, Welbeck-street, was awarded the

Jacksonian Prize for his essay on "The Pathology, Dia-gnosis, and Surgical Treatment of Diseases of the ThyroidGland."The seventh report of the Committee on Charters and

Bye-laws containing the draft of the new supplementaryCharter to give effect to several alterations in the Chartersagreed to by the Council, was approved and adopted, and itwas resolved that the necessary proceedings be taken tosubmit the same to the Privy Council.The resignation of Mr. Howse as Examiner in Anatomy

was accepted.Permission was given to the President to hold a private

conversazione in the College in June next.: The Council having taken exception to the mode ofadvertisement of a Member, and he having sworn before amagistrate to cease from such practices, the Council agreednot to take further proceedings in the matter.The proposal of the Committee of Delegates having been

approved by the College of Physicians, authority was givento the delegates to erect a statue of the Queen in the Exa-mination Hall, at the joint expense of the two Colleges.

It was referred to the President and Vice-Presidents toprepare an address of congratulation to Her Majesty on thecompletion of fifty years of her reign. Further memorials(one of them from Scotland) against the proposal frommembers of the medical profession and men of science tofound a laboratory for the prosecution of pathological andphysiological research were presented.A resolution, proposed by Mr. T. Smith, was carried Mm.

con.-viz., " That a professional auditor be appointed to auditannually, in association with the committee of auditcrs, theCollege accounts."

Sir James A. Hanbury, K.C.B., of the Army Medical Staff,was elected a Fellow of the College, under Section 5 of the15th Victoria, applicable to Members of twenty yearsstanding.

Obituary.CHARLES HUTTON, M.D. ST. AND., M.R.C.P.

Dit. CHARLES HUTTON, late of 26, Lowndes-street,Belgrave-square, long engaged in the practice of obstetricmedicine, died on the 27th of last month, after a shortattack of acute bronchitis, at the age of sixty-nine. Dr.Hutton had for some time been in failing health; his lastillness was apparently the result of a cold caught whileemployed on an errand rather of charity than duty on thenight of March 13th.

Charles Hutton, M.D. St. And., was the youngest sur-

viving son of the late William Hutton, Esq., of Beethamand Overthwaite, in the county of Westmoreland. Thefamily was an old one, the property having descendedfrom father to son for upwards of 300 years. Dr. Huttonstudied at St. George’s Hospital and Paris, and shortlyafter the completion of his studentship married in 1850a daughter of the late Dr. Seymour, then one of thephysicians of St. George’s Hospital. This lady surviveshim with a son and two daughters. For many yearsDr. Hutton was physician to the Hospital for Children andWomen, Waterloo-bridge-road, and to the General Lying-inHospital, York-road, Lambeth. During his long profes-sional career he won the affection and esteem of all whoknew him. He was a man of unblemished honour. Bewas most unselfish in all his proceedings, ever sympa-thising with and striving to relieve suffering, whetheramong rich or poor, regardless of his own profit or advan-tage. His patience and devotion were unwearied, and awide circle of professional and private friends will sincerelylament his loss. Dr. Hutton was of a retiring nature, and,though of acknowledged skill in his special department, was

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not successful enough to be able to leave a provision forhis family. His long, honourable, and laborious life appears

. to have been inadequately rewarded. It is not impossiblethat some attempt may be made to relieve in some smallmeasure the necessity of Dr. Hutton’s family.

PIETRO CIPRIAI.

A PHYSICIAN and citizen of the first order ha9just beenlost to Italy in the Senator Pietro Cipriani, who died atFlorence on the 4th inst., in the seventy-ninth year ofhis age.Born in San Piero a Sieve on Dec. 10th, 1808, as a boy he

gave early indications of future distinction, and at the ageof eighteen began his medical curriculum at the Universityof Pisa. He took the degree of Doctor in Medicine in 1832,and next year repaired to Florence for better means ofclinical observation and research. He soon displayed re-markable skill in diagnosis and treatment, which led to hisappointment as assistant-physician to the Florentine Hos-pital. This post he filled with increasing acceptance tillAugust, 1835, when the cholera explosion at Leghorn sum-moned him thither to take charge of the lazaretto specially.set apart for sufferers from tnat disease. His devotionto his heavy and hazardous duties was such that at thedisappearance of the malady he was publicly thanked bythe municipality; while the gratitude of the entire popula-tion towards him took the form of a gold medal struck inhis honour.

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Fresh from the cholera wards at Leghorn, he was wel-comed back to Florence by the heads of the profession, andhe became assistant in the Clinica Medica Generale to theillustrious Maurizio Bufalini. So highly did Bufaliniestimate his clinical and expository powers, that on the fre-quent occasions when he had to be absent as a consultant,he delegated to young Cipriani the duties of the day in theward and the lecture-room. Meanwhile, in great measuredue to the rigid inductive teaching of Bufalini, medicinethroughout Italy, and especially in Tuscany, was makingsignal advances, one effect of which was to separate fromthe general clinic such diseases as had asserted their claimto distinct and special consideration. Skin affections wereone of these, and for the chair of " Malattie Cutanee," createdfor the first time in Florence, no fitter occupant was foundthan Cipriani, who, however, before entering on its duties,took care, with characteristic modesty and thoroughness, toqualify himself by a diligent course of study at the renowneddermopathic clinics of Vienna and Paris. It was in 1840that Cipriani delivered his first course of lectures on the"Malattie Cutanee," and such an interest did he throwround his specialty that students from all parts of Italycame to listen to his prelections. He was not destined,however, to close his career in dermatology simply ; for onthe veteran Bufalini having, from age and ill-health, toresign his post at the head of the Florentine " Clinica aMedica," Cipriani was selected as one of the only twoTuscan physicians who were worthy to take up the torchof the master. The duties that now devolved on him werearduous and complicated; but all difficulties faded beforehis chivalrous sense of honour, his indefatigable application,and his admirably disciplined powers.He was too active a practitioner and too fastidious a

writer to publish much; but as president of the MedicalFaculty of the Florentine Institute he signalised himself as asound critic and man of taste, and guided others to the pathof authorship from which he shrank himself. In 1879 hishealth began to decline, and it was only after reiteratedappeals to be relieved of his official duties that he wasallowed to limit his activity to consultations merely. Hecontinued, as Emeritus Professor and as occasional Assessorat the directing Council of the Florentine Institute, to givethe profession the benefit of his experience and judgment,while his devotion to good works kept him to the last thechief promoter of the Blind Asylum of Florence. Some-times, too, he would appear in Rome during great politicalcrises and take his part as Senator in the deliberations ofthe " Patres Conscripti." But within the last few years thedecline of health, the death of familiar friends, and not alittle domestic affliction, withdrew him more and more fromthe public view, so that it was with much less surprise thansorrow that on the 5th inst. Italy received the news of hisdeath,

JAMES BARRON, B.A., M.D.IT is with sincere regret we have to announce the death

of Dr. Barron, of Belfast, which took place at his residencein that city on the 2nd inst., under very sad circum-

stances, he having succumbed to typhus fever, a diseasewhich has carried off so many Irish medical men, andwhich he contracted from a dispensary patient whom hewas attending. Dr. Barron, who was a native ofAntrim, was educated at the Belfast Medical School. Hegraduated in the Queen’s University, and at his M.Dexamination was awarded a first class and the gold medal.Shortly after receiving his diploma he was appointeddispensary doctor at Templepatrick ; but, being of anambitious nature, he went to Belfast, and was electedhouse-surgeon at the Royal Hospital, a post which he heldfor several years, until, a vacancy having occurred in thesurgical staff, he was appointed assistant-surgeon. He thenbegan private practice in Belfast, and shortly afterwardsresigned his hospital appointment on being chosen to takecharge of one of the dispensary districts, an office which lieheld up to his decease. He was secretary of the UlsterMedical Society, and a short time ago was elected amember of the staff of the Ulster Ifospital for Women andChildren. Dr. Barron was thoroughly versed in ail branchesof the medical profession, and being a man of the mostkindly disposition he was extremely popular with hisbrother practitioners, as well as with a large circle of patientsand friends. It is melancholy to think that within a shortinterval two medical men in Belfast, living in the samedistrict-Dr. Wadsworth and Dr. Barron-have both fallenvictims to typhus fever. An immense number of medicalmen and other friends were present at the funeral, to showa last mark of respect to one who had become so deservedlypopular. -

G. BACON SWEETING, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. LOND.

THE death of this gentleman took place on March 25th, atGreat Smeaton, in Yorkshire, where he had gone in search ofhealth. For upwards of thirty years he occupied a promi-nent position in the profession at King’s Lynn and theneighbourhood. Born at Bridport in Dorsetshire, on March26th, 1824, he was apprenticed to his father, Mr. WilliamSweeting, himself a practitioner of considerable repute.After studying at University College, and subsequently inParis, he entered the profession by taking the membershipof the College in 1848. For some years he was engaged withMr. Image, of Bury St. Edmunds, in active practice. In1856 he went to reside at King’s Lynn, and at once took aforemost place in the profession. Although engaged ingeneral practice all his life, his opinion and aid as a con-sultant both in medical and surgical cases were constantlysought by his brother practitioners. The trust they thusbestowed in him was never betrayed, and so he succeededup to the time of his death in successfully filling the diffi-cult position of a consulting general practitioner. For ashort time he was surgeon to the West Norfolk and LynnHospital, but finding the tax on his time too great, heretired, and was appointed consulting surgeon. He was aFellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical and ChemicalSocieties. Of imposing presence, and possessing a fine

physique, he was universally respected. He was an ardentlover of field sports. The late Mr. Sweeting was nevermarried. He was actively engaged in practice until fourweeks of his death, which took place within one day of hisattaining his sixty-third year.

PROFESSOR LUIGI LAURENZI.

THrs able surgeon and teacher, the head of the Ospedaledella Consolazione in Rome, died on the 5th inst., in cir-cumstances distressingly sudden. He had made his usual

morning visit to the wards, and had driven to his house inthe Via Borgogna, when his coachman remarked that healighted with great difficulty, and was deadly pate. Thecoachman accordingly made a signal to Madame Laurenzi,who happened to be at the window with her daughters, tocome down at once. The lady descended forthwith, andwith the aid of the coachman, succeeded in assisting herhusband in-doors, though he attempted to conceal how ill hewas, and deprecated her alarm. Within half an hour thereafter

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he expired. Professor Laurenzi had, it seems, been bufferingfrom urgent cardiac symptoms for some time, but such washis devotion to his patients and his pupils that, in spite of avery bad night, and contrary to the entreaties of his friends,he insisted on going that morning to the hospital.His death is widely and deeply lamented. He was in the

zenith of his powers, and his high reputation, acquired atthe Consolazione by a long series of brilliant operations,had caused him to be respected and consulted as one ofthe soundest and most successful surgeons of Rome andthe province. Some of his lectures and notes of interestingcases, reported in the Gazzetta Medica di Roma, had alsocarried his reputation beyond the Italian frontier. He was,moreover, very popular in the class-room, and a singularlypleasant and affable colleague.He was buried in the Campo Verano on the morning of

the 7th inst., the funeral cortege consisting of a numeroustrain of friends, colleagues, and representatives of the Uni-versity and learned bodies. In the Piazza di Termini theprocession paused for a space, and, according to custom, briefaddresses were pronounced in his honour. The speakerswere the veteran Dr. Filippo Scalzi and Prof. David Toseani,both of them equal to the melancholy task.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH.-

The following qualified candidates, having passed the finalexamination, have been granted the licence :-

Bridgwood, John Francis, Stafford.Waite, Davis Allan, London.Callender, Gerald, St. Mary’s Hospital, London.Wrentmore-Tucker, Robert Frank, Clifton, Bristol.Farmer, William Henry Francis, London.

SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES.-The following gentle-men passed the examination in the Science and Practice ofMedicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, and received certificatesto practise on April 7th:-

Shute, George Sidney, Gillingham, Dorset.Wedgwood, William Brackenbury, Fern Bank, East Dulwich.

The following gentlemen also on the same day passed theirPrimary Professional Examination :-Richard Watson Councell, Bristol School of Medicine ; Geo. AndrewGunton, St. George’s Hospital.

The results of the Examination in Arts held at the Hall ofthe Society on March 3rd and 4th last have recently-beenpublished. There were 204 candidates, and from the PassList it appears that 2 were placed in the First Class, 44 inthe Second Class, and 116 were certified as having passed insome of the subjects, but not in all. The number of candi-dates was larger than on any former occasion, though theexamination is held four times annually.A FRESH outbreak of diphtheria is reported from

Saltash.

IN the House of Commons on the 12th inst., theAberdeen Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum Bill was read asecond time.

HYDROPHOBIA : M. PASTEUR’S TREATMENT.-SenorRamon was bitten by a wolf on Feb. 15th. M. Pasteurtreated him for hydrophobia, but death has ensued.

PLANS have been selected for the proposed Ash-burton and Buckfastleigh Cottage Hospital. The buildingwill, it is estimated, cost .El 200.

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—The first Broderip scholar-ship at this institution has just been awarded to Mr. W. H.Vickery.THE Duke of Bedford has intimated his intention

of contributing X300 to the Endowment Fund of theTavistock Cottage Hospital and Dispensary, which hasrecently been started.

REGISTRATION OF PLUMBERS.-Of nineteen journey-men plumbers examined at the last meeting of the examiners,nine candidates passed and ten failed to satisfy the exa-miners.

THE memorial stone of the new infirmary buildingsto be erected for the parish of Birmingham was laid on the31st ult. The building, which is designed on the pavilionprinciple, will cost about 70,000.

A GENERAL MEETING of the members of the Londoncab trade was held on the 8th inst., with a view of increasingthe contributions to the Hospital Saturday collection.THE recent performances at the Theatre Royal,

Birmingham, on behalf of the local hospitals, realised .6300,which will be distributed amongst the charities on theprinciple of the Hospital Saturday collection.

FRENCH PROTESTANT HOSPITAL, YICTORIA-PARK.-On Monday last a general court of governors and friends ofthis charity was held, and a report read which showed thatmuch good work is being done through the agency of thehospital.NAVAL MEDICAL SUPPLEMENTAL FUND.—At the

quarterly meeting of the directors of the fund, held on the12th inst., T. Russel Pickthorn, Esq., Inspector-General, inthe chair, the sum of =e53 was distributed among the severalapplicants.THE usual monthly meeting of the Metropolitan

Public Gardens Association was held on the 5th insc,, whenreports as to the progress of works in different parts ofLondon which have been undertaken by the Associationwere presented.THE Committee of the Manchester Southern Hos-

pital are appealing to the public for funds to enable them toestablish a lying-in hospital in connexion with that insti-tution, the urgent need for which has been for some timerecognised.ROYALTY AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL.—On the 12th

inst., his Royal Highness the King of the Belgians, accom-panied by Sir Edmund Currie, paid a visit to the LondonHospital. The King inspected many of the wards, and ex-pressed himself highly pleased with the excellent hospitalarrangements.

STRAY DOGS IN LONDON.—The number of stray-dogs taken by the police during the month of March to th&Dogs’ Home was 1246. Twelve were killed in the thirty-onedays in the London streets as mad or ferocious. Sixty-fivepersons, including two constables, were bitten during thesame period.THE "JOHN REID" MEDICAL PRIZE.--This prize,,

of the value of .625, founded by Miss Reid in memory of herbrother, the late John Reid, surgeon, Glasgow, and awardedfor the best original research bearing on any of the depart-ments of medical science conducted in one of the hospitalsor laboratories of Glasgow, has been gained by Mr. R. ,C.Wakefield for an able paper on

" Aneurysm."THE WOLVERHAMPTON NURSING INSTITUTE.—The

Mayor (Mr. T. Vincent Jackson, F.R.C.S.) has received acommunication from the Secretary of State, informing himthat Her Majesty the Queen has consented to the proposedNursing Institute, which is to be established in that townas a permanent local Jubilee commemoration, being namedThe Queen Victoria Nursing Institute."MEDICAL MAGISTRATES.—Robert Leamon Bowles,.

M.D., F.R.C.P., was sworn in on the 6th inst. at Canterburyas a Justice of the Peace for the county.-Robert Spence,M.B., Craigkennochy, Burntisland, has been placed on theCommission of the Peace, for Fifeshire.-Dr. Evan Roberts,Penygroes, has been placed on the Commission of the Peacefor Carnarvonshire, and qualified at the recent Easter QuarterSession for the county.

STOCKPORT INFIRMARY.-The annual meeting of thetrustees of this institution was held on the 30th ult., whenit was reported that 1660 out-patients, 825 home patients,1052 cases of accidents, 621 in-patients, and 650 casualtieswithout recommendation had been treated during the pastyear, making a total of 4808, against 5006 in 1885. Thetotal amount of income was £3678, against £3492 in thepreceding year, and the expenditure amounted to £2931.

ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.—The testimonial to the-retiring librarian, Mr. Denison, will be presented in theLibrary of the Medical School on Monday, May 16th, at4.30 P.r2. Dr. Ord, Dean of the School, will preside. Thetestimonial will consist of a clock, and a purse accompaniedby an engrossed list of the subscribers. In order that the,list may be ready, it is necessary that any who have notyet subscribed but intend to do so, should send in theirnames at once.