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July 1st. 2. Jules Bourgeot, bitten April 24th; treated fromApril 27th to May 16th; died July llth. No charge is broughtagainst this patient by the Pasteur Institute; but Hurotis said to have been an inveterate drunkard. 3. Desclide,bitten in May, died of paralytic rabies on July 21st, sixtydays after the bite and forty-five after the end of thepreventive treatment. 4. Gerde, bitten on March 27th,and treated at the laboratory for thirteen days fromMarch 29th. ’On July 20th there was weakness in the legs,and the patient--a female servant-fell down. There waspain in the right arm and extreme weakness in both ; alsohydrophobia. The following day a white frothy liquid wasvomited, and death took place without any other symptom than weakness.

CHARBON.

The Semaine Medicale publishes a letter from ProfessorKoch of Berlin correcting a statement made by M. Pasteurin his letter to the Imperial and Royal Society of Viennaconcerning the opinion of the German school about vac-cination against charbon. M. Koch says that they have byno means been converted in Germany to vaccination ofcattle. If, in France, of the 200,000 sheep vaccinatedannually, the mortality from charbon is only 1 per cent.,whereas of the unprotected animals ten times as many die,on the other side of the Rhine the figures are very diverse.Six different series of experiments, collected by M. Schutz,professor at the Veterinary School of Berlin, have shownthat the mortality is sensibly the same in vaccinated andunvaccinated animals, and the practice has been nearlyentirely abandoned.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.

AT an ordinary meeting of the Council of the College,held on Thursday last, Alr. J. B. Bailey was admitted to theoffice of Librarian. It was agreed that the museum andlibrary be closed during the month of September.The following report of the Committee of Management

was read, and, after discussion, approved and adopted :-That, in compliance with the request of the two Colleges,

they have prepared a scheme for carrying out the examina-tion for the Conjoint Diploma of Public Health, and haveadopted the following recommendations on this subject tothe two Colleges-viz.: 1. That the regulations relating tothe examination, drawn up by the committee and accom-panying this report, be adopted. 2. That for the presentthe examiners for the Diploma of Public Health be paid onthe same scale as that adopted hitherto at the Royal Collegeof Physicians-i.e., ten guineas for twelve or less than twelvecandidates, and a capitation fee of four guineas for allcandidates over that number. 3. That the Committee ofManagement be authorised to nominate, for election by thetwo Colleges, four examiners to conduct the examination inPublic Health.The Committee have carefully considered the letter of

May 14th last from Mr. James Bankart and the accompany-ing memorial from several of the recognised provincialhospitals, calling the attention of the Colleges to the injurydone to students entering at such hospitals by those regula-tions of the Examining Board in England which, by definingthe intervals which must now elapse between the severalexaminations of the Board, no longer permit a whole year’sattendance at the commencement of the student’s career,on the practice of such hospital being counted as one of therequired four years of professional study. On this subjectthe Committee have adopted the following as their report --That this committee cannot recommend to the Royal Collegesany change in the regulation for the Conjoint Examinations,according to which the Colleges do not admit any candidateto either part of the Third or Final Examination till theexpiration of two years after his having passed the SecondExamination. That according to the second report of theStatistical Committee of the General Medical Council (p. 15)the average time occupied in medical study-between regis-tration and the Final Examination-is approximately fiveyears. That therefore it is still in the power of provincialhospitals to take a part in the training of students, not onlyby providing opportunities for acquiring professional know-ledge before the commencement of the first year of study at

a recognised medical school, but also by providing instruc-tion in Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Materia Medica andPharmacy, the required examinations in which may be passedin the preliminary period above indicated.The Committee also submit the following recommendations

for approval and adoption-viz.: 1. That candidates whowithdraw from a part or parts of an examination for whichthey have sent in their names shall not be admissible tosuch part or parts until the expiration of six months, with-out the special permission of the Committee of Management.2. That paragraph 9, Part II., of the scheme for consti-tuting an Examining Board in England be amended so as toprovide that the period occupied by the Oral and PracticalExamination of each candidate on Materia Medica andPharmacy be " not less than ten minutes," instead of "notless than fifteen minutes."The Committee further suggests to the two Colleges the

propriety of permitting portions of the Examination Hall,a,t times when they are not required for the examinationsof the Examining Board in England, to be used by other

institutions, especially those connected with medical educa.tion, on terms to be arranged by the Committee of Manage-ment.The fifth report of the Committee on the Extension of the

College Premises was read, approved, and adopted, and it wasdecided to spend S500 in repairs of the front of theCollege.

Sir W. Mac Cormac was appointed an Examiner in Surgery,in the place of Mr. Bryant, and Mr. Bryant was elected tofill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Hutchinson.Mr. Bryant was also elected a member of the Board ofExaminers in Dental Surgery.

It was agreed that the annual meeting of the Fellows andMembers be held on Thursday, Nov. 3rd, at 3 P.M. Furthermemorials, in opposition to the memorial of Dr. Wilks, werereceived from Mr. Bryan, and acknowledged.The next quarterly meeting will be held on Thursday

Oct. 13th.

Obituary.ALEXANDER GORDON, M.D.

IT is with deep regret we announce the death of Dr.Gordon, who for many years was the leading surgeon inBelfast and the north of Ireland. Although for some timehe has not been in very robust health, his death was quiteunexpected. On Thursday, July 28th, a short time aftertaking breakfast, he complained of a severe headache, andretired to bed, where, soon after, marked symptoms ofcerebral haemorrhage set in, from which in a short time hedied in his sister’s house at Saintfield, and, by a strangecoincidence, in the same room in which sixty-nine yearspreviously he was born. Dr. Gordon was a member of oneof the oldest and most highly respected families in thenorth of Ireland. His father was a medical man in Saint-

field, county Down, and on the church in that town there isa memorial stone (indicating that it was rebuilt in 1776),to which his grandfather’s name, A. Gordon (treasurer), isappended. At the present time the brother of the deceased,Dr. Wm. Gordon, J.P., practises in Saintfield.

Dr. Alexander Gordon from an early age exhibited sdecided taste for the study of medicine, and after having re-ceived his early education in Belfast and in Edinburgh, hetook the M.D. of the latter university in 1841, when he wastwenty-three; he also in the same year became a licen-tiate of the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons. Soon after-wards he began private practice in Belfast, and was appointedDemonstrator of Anatomy in the Royal Academical Institu-tion, Dr. Drummond being at that time the professor. In

1847, on the death of Dr. Coffey, who lectured on surgery,Dr. Gordon was appointed to his chair; and in 1849,when Queen’s College, Belfast, was opened, he was trans-ferred to the new College as Professor of Surgery. Dr.Thomas Andrews, Dr. Burden, and Dr. Gordon were the onlyprofessors who had lectured in the old academical institu-tion who were appointed in the new College. Dr. Gordon

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continued as Professor of Surgery in Queen’s College untillast summer, when, owing to failing health, and especiallyto defective eyesight, he found it necessary to retire. Hewas succeeded by one of his favourite pupils, Dr. ThomasSinclair.For a great portion of his professional life Dr. Gordon was

surgeon to the Royal Hospital, and at one time he waspresident of the Belfast Pathological Society. During hislong professional career he contributed many original papersto the medical journals. He wrote several articles one’ Fractures of the Lower End of the Radius," and a" Treatiseon the Fractures of the Lower End of the Radius, on Frac-tures of the Clavicle (and their treatment by a newclavicular apparatus), and on the Reduction of the Recentdnsvard Dislocations of the Shoulder Joint (by manipula-tion)." In this book many views peculiar to himselt willbe found, and in it the celebrated Gordon’s splint (known allthe world over) for the treatment of Colles’ fracture isdescribed, as well as an apparatus for treating fractures ofthe clavicle. He also wrote papers on "Fractures of theThigh Bone," and on " A Peculiar and Unique Dislocationof the Femur upon the Pubes," &c. For a lengthenedperiod he was a prominent member of the medicalprofession in Belfast, and from his close connexionwith the medical school, he was brought intimatelyin contact with the students, on whom he had a verymarked influence, owing to his great originality and inde-pendent character. He had a thorough knowledge of,anatomy, and, while on nearly every branch of surgeryhe held original views, there were certain subjects which hewas very fond of teaching. We question it any man has-ever had a better knowledge of fractures, and he has left’behind him, in the Pathological Museum of Queen’s College,a collection which in number and variety is almost un-equalled. Being of a mechanical turn of mind, he designedmany ingenious forms of splints and other surgical appa-

ratus. Hernia was another of his favourite subjects; inpractice he was almost always able to reduce such a con-dition, and he taught that the great majority of herniascould and should be put up without operation. It was hiscustom to spend the hour previously to his college lecture inthe anatomical room, where, owing to the kindness of hisfriend and colleague (Professor Redfern), he utilisedthe opportunities afforded for teaching surgical patho-liogy. It was here that the thoughtful student was soimpressed with Dr. Gordon’s wonderful tactile powers, withhis great originality, and with his accurate knowledge ofsurgical anatomy. When the British Medical Associationvisited Belfast in 1884, Dr. Gordon was asked to take part ina discussion in the medical section on a favourite subject ofhis-chronic rheumatoid arthritis. He produced on thosepresent a marked impression by the specimens of thiscondition which he exhibited, and by the originality of hisviews on a subject which, as he said, he had been studyingfor thirty years. He had a very large consulting practice;indeed, his opinion was almost invariably sought by anyonein the north of Ireland who had a surgical affection. He waspopular with the students, who respected him as a man whowho had a thorough grasp of the subjects he taught, andwho, in every department of surgery, had views original tohimself and different from the stereotyped teaching of theordinary text-books. A fine portrait of him (presented byhis students) is placed in the Examination Hall of Queen’sCollege, Belfast.

Dr. Gordon was a man utterly destitute of all cant.In private life those who came in contact with himcould not fail to be impressed by his great simplicity ofcharacter, by his sterling honesty, and by the freshness andoriginality of his views on almost every subject. He wasvery fond of a country life, and several years ago he builta residence on some property which he owned near Comber,en the margin of Strangford Lough. Here during thesummer it was his custom to reside from Saturday toMonday, although he was not allowed to be free from pro-fessional duties, as on these days large numbers of thecountry people came to get his opinion. He was interredon Saturday last in Saintfield Church-yard, within a shortdistance of the historical ground where in ’98 the battle ofSaintfield was fought. The funeral was private, but, inB.ddition to his own relatives, a few of his personal pro-fessional friends (all of them former pupils) were present,and helped to carry to his last resting-place the remains ofone for whom they had the most profound respect.Dr. Gordon leaves a widow, a son, and one daughter.

DR. ANDREW FERGUS,nrr ("T,.1_Qr.:.{n..v-

WE regret to announce the death of Dr. Andrew Fergusof Glasgow. Dr. Fergus was born in the year 1822, in thetown of Newcastle, where his father was minister of theScotch church. He was a student at King’s College, London,and at Glasgow University. Like several other distin-

guished men, he was a pupil of Messrs. Greenhow and

Ingham of North Shields. After obtaining the diploma ofthe Royal College of Surgeons of England he commencedpractice in Glasgow, and in the year 1866 he obtained theM.D. of the University of Glasgow (honoris causd). Onthree different occasions he was elected president of theFaculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and underhis auspices, and mainly through his influence, the Facultyabolished its single diploma and united with the Edinburghcorporations to grant the triple qualification. While he waspresident, also, the Faculty instituted an examination forthe Fellowship. For three years he was president of thePhilosophical Society of Glasgow. Since the opening of theWestern Infirmary be had been a representative of theFaculty at the Board of Managers, and latterly was con-vener of the Medical Committee. Ten years ago he waschosen by the Queen to be her representative for Scotlandon the General Medical Council, and at the expiry of histerm of office he was reappointed. He was also presidentof Anderson’s College, and took a great interest in the forma-tion of the West of Scotland Technical College.

In all his public positions Dr. Fergus’s opinion was muchvalued, for he combined great sagacity with excellentbusiness tact, so that everything left to his charge was welland efficiently done. As a practitioner he was much lovedand respected by his patients, and had gathered aroundhim the leading families in Glasgow and the west of Scot-land. He had also a large consulting practice, and havingthe very essential advantage of being a general practitioner,he was justly considered an all-round man, and his advicewas sought for in almost every variety of circumstances.As a scientist he gained deserved fame from his carefulinvestigations on the action of sewer gases on the watersupply, and successfully demonstrated at a meeting of thePhilosophical Society how they exercised a deleteriousinfluence on leaden pipes.From the sketch of his life thus given it is easy to under-

stand how much his death is lamented by all who knew him.The city of his adoption mourns, and the grief may be saidto be universal, for in his long and active career Dr. Fergushad made many friends among the rich and the poor. As a

physician and citizen his record is very clear and unstained.He lived an upright life. He was an affectionate husband,a wise father, and in all the prominence of the exalted posi-tions he occupied he was a worthy and exemplary publicservant, and a thorough representative of the profession headorned. He is survived by a widow, one daughter, andthree sons. The eldest son is worthily following in hisfather’s footsteps as a medical practitioner; the second is asurgeon-dentist; and the youngest is a distinguished alumnusin medicine of the University of Glasgow.

W. CONNER LYSAGHT, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. LOND.MR. W. CONNER LYsAGHT entered as a student of the

Bristol Medical School in 1879. In the course of his studies

he showed much assiduity in his work, and his successes atthe school prove his ability to have been above the average.He held the post of assistant demonstrator of anatomy, and,after qualifying, became medical tutor during 1885-86. Inthis latter capacity his qualifications as a teacher and

governor became apparent, and his kindly and courteousmanner won the respect of those with whom he had to deal.So recently as June last Mr. Lysaght was elected to fill thepost of assistant resident medical officer to the Bristol RoyalInfirmary, and, although his tenure of office was so short, itwas sufficiently long to show that the earlier indications ofhis professional skill and enthusiasm had not been falselyrepresented. On July 17th, Mr. Lysaght manifested theearlier symptoms of scarlet fever, which unfortunatelypursued a malignant course, and ended fatally on July 24th.Whether this illness was contracted from a patient on whom

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he had performed tracheotomy some days previously, and inwhich case he considered it necessary to apply his lips tothe wound in order to suck out the blood from the trachea,or whether he simply caught" it among the out-patients,it is difficult to say. Any way, he died at his post and inthe execution of his duties-died honourably, and diedesteemed and regretted by all who had had the pleasure andhonour of knowing and working with him.

CESARE BRAICO..IJ"’Ll....LVBJ.

IN the history of the Italian war of independence-therisorgimento," as it is called-few chapters are more in-teresting than that which describes the part taken in it bymedical men, of whom not the least deserving and con-spicuous was the able physician whose name is given above.H6 was born in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, at Brindisiin 1822, and he early devoted himself to the study ofmedicine in the Neapolitan School. He had barely gradu-ated when he became politically " compromised," and incompany with patriots like Spaventa, Poerio, and Settem-brini, he shared the weary horrors of a Bourbon prison, fromwhich, however, unlike his comrades in adversity, he wasfortunate enough to effect his escape. He fled to England,and, like Pantaleoni, employed himself in professional studyand in the occasional furtherance of patriotic schemes till1859, when the policy of Cavour set the cause of Italianunity on wheels. At Turin he became known as one of themost fearless of the "party of action," and thence he passedto Genoa ; from Genoa, as one of Garibaldi’s Thousand,"to Quarto, and thence again to Marsala.

Braico was a right-hand man of Bertani in the care of thesick and wounded, and so frequently in aiding the latterdid he venture under fire that he had on eleven occasions tofight like a common combatant to extricate himself from aposition of jeopardy. Singularly enough, his wounds werenever more than of the slightest, even when on the famous1st of October, 1860, at Capua, he earned the praise ofGaribaldi for heroism shown in the grand assault, whenhundreds of red-shirts were falling around him. When Italywas proclaimed a kingdom in March, 1861, his fellow towns-men of Brindisi elected him as their representative in theparliament just assembled at Turin. Then in the peacefularena of debate, he encountered many of his old comrades ofthe prison and of the battle field, and again made himselfconspicuous as alternately the opponent or the auxiliary ofCavour or Garibaldi, Poerio or Crispi, Spaventa or Cavioli,Fanti or Bertani, Ricasoli or Nicotera.Like Bertani, he distinguished himself in all legislation

connected with the public health, and in recognition of hisservices in this department he was made Presidente delConsiglio superiore di Sanita," at Naples. After years spentin the effective discharge of the duties of this post he wascalled to Rome to act as superintendent of State archives;but he did not long enjoy the comparative ease of thistranquil berth. Symptoms of failing mental power rapidlydeclared themselves, and he had to be removed to theManicomio on the Janiculan, where he died on July 27th, inthe sixty-fifth year of his age.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.-The

following candidates having conformed to the bye-laws andregulations, and passed the required examinations, wereadmitted Licentiates of the College :-

Alexandre, John Francis Gaston, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Althorp, Charles Frederick Manning, St. Paul’s-road, Bradford.Arnison, William Drewill, Allensdale-town, Northumberland.Ashworth, P., Delauney-road, Higher Crumpsall, Manchester.Bannister, Marmaduke, Acomb-street, Manchester.Barber, Frederick Samuel, Broomfield-terrace, Bradford. ,

Barret, Edward E., Springfield-road, St. John’s Wood.Birch, Charles Ormond, Harley-street.Booth, George, Low Pavement, Chesterfield.Bright, Archibald Leonard, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Bullivant, Samuel, Gordon-street.Bury, Frederick C., Upper Brook-street, Manchester.Bullock, Henry Maurice, St. Thomas’s Hospital.Caddy, Arnold, St. George’s Hospital.

Close, John Borrill, Fulham-road, South Kensington.Cook, Samuel Bird, Ivydale-road, Nunhead.Cort, John Giles Denison, Charing-cross Hospital.Cosens, Charles Hyde, Huntley-street, Bedford-square.Crisp, Ernest Henry, Marlborough House, Balham Hill.Dane, Harold, Finchley-road, Hampstead.Davies, Albert Barnes, Frederick-place, Mile-end-road.Davies, Hughes Reid, Hill-street, Rutland Gate.Day, E. Irving, Endsleigh, Dunheved-road, Thornton Heath,De Lisle, Albert, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Dixon, Charles Harvey, St. Mary’s Hospital.Drake-Broekmann, Herbert Edward, St. George’s Hospital.Ellison, E. H., Daleiren-road, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill,Evans, William Norman, Thurlow-road, Hampstead.Field, Oliver, Battledown Gates, Cheltenham.Fisher, Thomas Hammond, Manchester-road, Stockport.Fisher, William Featon, Pembridge, Isle of Wiglit.Fowler, Thomas Webb, Wycombe House, Coventry.Fox, Frederick G. Townsend, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Gilford, Hastings, Beech-grove, Redhill.Gilpin, William J., Harrington-street, Regent’s Park.Godfrey, Thomas Henry, Billing-road, Northampton.Gould, John Edwin, Albert-street, Regent’s Park.Green, George Sydney, Kildare-terrace, Westbourne Park.Hamel-Smith, Lionel, Sydenham-road, Croydon.Harries, William, Stanhope-street.Harris-Liston, Llewellyn, University College Hospital.Hastings, Edwin Birchall, Denmark-hill, Wimbledon.Hendley, Arthur Gervase, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Hitchings. Robert, Groombridge-road, South Hackney.Hubbard, Walter Lovett, The Grove, Clapham-road.Joberns, William, The Grange, Aldridge, Walsall.Johnston, Arthur Hammersley, Jamaica-road.Kanthack, Alfredo Antunes, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Kelsall, Henry Trueman, London Hospital.Larcombe, S. Slee, Cliftonville, Selsdon-road, West Norwood.Lotz, Henry John, St. Thomas’s Hospital.Luard, Hugh Bixby, St. Thomas’s Hospital.Lubbock, Edgar Ashley, London Hospital.Mair, Ludovij William Darra, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Nixon, John, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. ,

Parker, Frederick William, Brussels-road, New Wandsworth.Phillips, G. Gordon Owen, Castletown-road, West Kensington.Pound, Clement. Odiham, Hampshire.Ptiddicombe, Edward Leonard, St. George’s Hospital.Rust, John, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Savery, Frank, Hastings Cottage, Grange Park, Ealing.Savory, William Harmsworth, Douglas-road, Canonbury.Skill, James Maurice, St. George’s Hospital. ,Solly, Reginald Vaughan, St. Thomas’s Hospital.Tanner, Charles Price, Houghton-place, Ampthill-square.Theobald, Owen Le Mare, Manor-road, Holloway.Thistle, William Brown, Stratford, Ontario, Canada.Vernon, Arthur Heygate, St. George’s Hospital.Walker. James Pixton, Manchester.Wilde, Leonard, Ebury-street, London.Williams, William Griffith, Vincent-terrace, Colebrooke-row.Wood, Hubert Moody, Barry-road, Dulwich.Wooldridge, Arthur Tylee, Christchurch-road, Winchelsea.Wordsworth, William John, Charlotte-street, Portland-place.Wright, William Luard, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park.

The following officers have been elected in addition tc’those enumerated in our last issue:-Finance Committee: SirEdward Sieveking, M.D.; G. Tupman Fincham, M.D.; C. J.Hare, M.D. Examiners: Chemistry and Chemical Physics:C. H. Ralfe, M.D.; A. J. Bernays, Ph.D.; W. J. Russell, Ph.D.;August Dupre, Ph.D.; William Foster, F.C.S. MateriaMedica, Medical Botany, and Pharmacy : J. Mitchell Bruce,M.D. ; Frederick Taylor, M.D.; D. Bridge Lees, M.D. ; WilliamMurrell, M.D.; Nestor Isidore C. Tirard, M.D. ElementaryPhysiology: William Ewart, M.D. ; Vincent Dormer Harris,M.D. Physiology: W. H. Allchin, M.B.; Leonard Wooldridge,M.D.; Professor Schafer. Osteology and Anatomy: JohnCurnow, M.D.; Henry Morris, F.R.C,S., L.R.C.P. MedicalAnatomy and Principles and Practice of Medicine: LionelSmith Beale, M.B.; W. H. Stone, M.B.; Octavius Sturges,M.D.; H. Gawen Sutton, M.B.; W. Butler Cheadle.M.D.;P.H.Pye-Smith M.D.; Sir Dyce Duckworth, M.D.; H.CharltonBastian, M.D.; William Cayley, M.D.; T. Tillyer Whipham,M.B. Midwifery and Diseases peculiar to Women: W. Over-end Priestley, ?11.D.; Henry Gervis, M.D.; A. Lewis Galabin,M.D.; F. H. Champneys, M.B. Surgical Anatomy andPrinciples and Practice of Surgery: George Pollock, F.R.C.S.;Sir William Mac Cormac, F.R C.S. ; W. Morrant Baker,F.R.C.S.; Professor Humphry, F.R.C.S. Hygiene: ThomasStevenson, M.D.; Edward Ballard, M.D.; Richard Thorne-Thorne, M.B. ; W. H. Corfield, M.D.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-Thefollowing gentlemen having undergone the necessary ex-