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The Citarite.In the fiscal year 1889-90 the number of patients treated in

the Berlin Charit6 was 21,457, in 1890-91 only 20,352. Thisdecrease is attributed to the opening of the hospital in Urban.4on the other hand, the number of women who have beendelivered in the Charite has been almost constantly increasingsince 1876. In that year it was 879 and in 1889-90 it was1564.

The Berlin Hospitals.At a meeting of the Central Committee of the Berlin

Medical District Associations on the 25th ult., it was resolvedto express to the municipal authorities of Berlin the wish thatgreater opportunity should be afforded by the municipalhospitals for the practical training of medical men, and that themedical service in the said hospitals may be so organised thatthere may be one physician and two assistant-physicians for- every 100 or 120 patients.

Myxoedema.The first trial made in Germany of the treatment of

myxoedema by implanting the thyroid gland of an animal,or injecting the juice extracted from such glands, has beenrecently made by Professor Mendel, of Berlin, who reports aslight improvement in the condition of the patients.

The Hofmann House.The Hofmann House, called after the late Professoi

Hofmann, which is to serve as the home of the GermanChemical Society, is estimated to cost 1,200,000 marks.The Langenbeck House cost only 300,000 marks.

"An Indian Oculist. "An "Indian oculist" was expelled from Munich by the

police last Thursday.December 4th.

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EGYPT.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Visit of the Khedive.HIS HIGHNESS THE KHEDIVE, accompanied by his Greek

physician and other members of his staff, paid an official visitto the School of Medicine on Nov. 24th and was much pleasedwith the signs of recent progress which were shown to him.The pathological museum has now been seriouslv taken inhand and has lately been enriched by a valuable collection of<calculi, old instruments and surgical specimens gatheredtogether by Duruy Bey, the professor of surgery. Thismedical school was started in 1837 by French enterprise,revived again temporarily under distinguished Germans, suchas Griesinger, Bilharz and Pruner, and now is being success-fully galvanised into life by English energy.

Mecca Pilgrimage.The annual pilgrimage to Mecca passed off without any

question of cholera being raised, and some 18, 000 returningpilgrims passed through the observation encampment at Torduring July and August in very fair health. It is true that

thirty-nine of them, mostly Turks, Persians and Tunisians,died in camp, but the quarantine statistics show that twenty-mine of these deaths occurred in old men between the reputed:ages of sixty and ninety-five. The most common causes ofdeath were general debility and chronic enteritis. The entireabsence of cholera at Mecca in 1892, in spite of its presencethere in the two preceding summers, is interesting when com-pared with the alternative march of cholera along the northof Europe. It would appear that cholera is never endemicin Mecca in spite of the utter neglect of sanitation, but re-quires always to be imported by pilgrims from India or Persia.

The Nile Food.The supply of water in the river during the summer months

of this year was exceedingly low, and, as often happens, thiswas followed by a dangerous rise. It was not until Sep-tember that anxiety was felt about the safety of the Nilebanks ; but for two months incessant vigilance had to be dis-played. The chief danger was in the lateness of the floodand in the fact that the maximum rise was kept up fortwenty-one days instead of for one day, as in 1887, when thelast high Nile took place. To the credit of English engineersit ought to be noted that the floods of 1887 and 1892 are theonly great floods on record in the history of Egypt when nobreach of the banks has taken place and no disaster has occurred.

There are, roughly speaking, some 7000 millions of cubicmetres of water stored in the irrigation basins of UpperEgypt in a high flood year, and this water has to be dis-charged again into the river, late enough to prevent anyflooding in Lower Egypt, but early enough to ensure time forthe crops to be sown and ripened before the hot weather candry them up. If the basins are emptied at the slowest possiblerate it means that 11,000,000 cubic metres of water are addedevery hour to the already overcharged river. In 1887 about39,000 acres of crops were destroyed by the flood, and thisdamage is hardly worth mentioning in comparison to the dis-asters of 1878, when whole villages and miles of railway wereswept away. In 1892 only 7700 acres of crops-mostlymaize-have been destroyed. In order to successfullymanage this year’s flood a special credit of 12,000 wasvoted and spent chiefly on stone, sacks, timber, trees andrope &c. For the last month the river has been sinkingrapidly and all danger is long over.

Malarial Fevers.

Dengue has not appeared this autumn, though it did so inan epidemic form after the high flood of 1887. Intermittentfever, usually rare and seldom before seen in Europeanswithout previous malarial taint, has occurred several timesthis autumn in consequence of the high Nile. The victimscan be traced to dwelling-houses the floors of which arebelow the height of maximum river rise, as in many of theoldest parts of the town. The plasmodia of malaria havefor the first time in Egypt been discovered in the blood ofsome of these patients by Dr. Kauffmann. Treatment with

methylene blue has been tried in the cases of some natives, butit does not appear to be in any way superior to quinine foruncomplicated malaria, as occasionally seen in this country.

Taenia Yana.

Twenty worms of the tsenia nana variety were recentlyfound in the small intestine of a negro, who was admittedmoribund into the native hospital. This is only the secondtime the worm has been found in Egypt since Bilharz firstdiscovered it here in 1851.

Port Said Hospitals.Dr. Robertson, after being eight years in charge of the

native hospital at Port Said, has lately succumbed to a severeattack of neglected dysentery. His death, which is universallyregretted by all who knew him, is the first which hastaken place among English doctors since they were admittedto the Government service in 1884. He has been succeeded

by Mr. Frank Milton. The hospital has 100 beds and isnursed by seven French sisters of charity, and, besides gratispatients, admits those who pay at rates varying from four toeight francs a day. Many of the poorer patients are admittedfrom Turkish vessels, suffering from chronic dysentery andmalaria. The second hospital at Port Said is an English one,due to the energy of Lady Strangford shortly before herdeath. The staff consists of an English doctor, three Englishnurses and a probationer. There are thirty-five beds, all forpaying patients, and there has recently been added aninfectious ward capable of holding eight beds.November 28th.

Obituary.M. W. TAYLOR, M.D. EDIN., F.S.A.

THE announcement of the death of Dr. Taylor, which tookplace on the 24th ult., will be received with regret by allwho had the privilege of his friendship. He was born in

1824 at Portobello, near Edinburgh, and was educated in thatcity and at Portsmouth. Having obtained his degree, whichby special permission of the Senatus he gained at the age oftwenty, he acted as class assistant to Professor A. J. Balfour,and distinguished himself by the proficiency he attained inbotanical studies, in recognition of which he was elected aFellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. Towards theend of 1844 Dr. Taylor proceeded to Paris, and there studiedunder the most eminent surgeons of that city. Thereafter hevisited various foreign capitals, and thus extended his know-ledge of the methods pursued by physicians and surgeonsabroad. In 1845 he repaired to Penrith, and, havingacted for a few months as locum tenens to Dr. JohnTaylor, he subsequently succeeded to the practice on the

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death of that gentleman. In 1858 he married Miss M. W.Rayner, daughter of a Liverpool merchant, and for nearlyforty years carried on with great success his professionalwork in the above-mentioned city. As evidence of the esteemin which he was held by his fellow townsmen and in recogni-tion of the value of his services, both public and professional,he was presented, on his retirement from practice, with ahandsome service of plate. Dr. Taylor’s contributions tomedical literature were neither few nor unimportant. His

investigations into the part played by milk in the dissemina-tion of scarlet fever excited considerable interest at a timewhen that article of domestic consumption had been pre-viously unsuspected as a source of infection. The fungoidorigin of diphtheria also engaged his attention, andin a paper contributed to a local medical society freshLight was thrown on that important matter. Dr. Taylor,however, did not confine his interest to medical and

pathological topics, but extended his sympathies to othersubjects connected with the mental and physical well-beingof his neighbours. He was the founder of the Penrith Literaryand Scientific Society, and the formation of the free library,rea(ling-room and museum was largely due to his exertions.Altogether the citizens of Penrith have reason to congratulatethemselves that for so many years they numbered thedeceased physician amongst them. The funeral, which tookplace on the 28th ult. in the grounds of Christchurch, wasattended by all the more prominent residents of the town,many of the friends of the deceased coming from a distanceto show their respect to his memory.

ALFONSO CORRADI.

THOSE of us who learned to admire and esteem ProfessorCorradi at the last International Congress of Hygiene andDemography and who looked forward to renewing our

acquaintance with him at the International Congress of

Medicine and Surgery in September next will hear with

great regret that he died at Pavia on the 28th ult. in

his sixtieth year.Alfonso Corradi was a native of Bologna, where he was born

on the 6th of March, 1833. He passed through a brilliantcurriculum in general and professional education at the LocalUniversity, where he graduated BBith the highest honours inmedicine and surgery in the years 1855 and 1856. He was

yet a young man when he filled the post of assistant-surgeonat the Ospedale di Vita, after which, in 1859, he gainedin public competition, over several very formidable rivals, thecoveted professorship of general pathology in the Universityof Modena. In 1863, again by open competition, he wasappointed to the chair of general pathology at Palermo, wherehe taught with great success till 1867, when he was trans-ferred to Pavia as lecturer on general therapeutics, materiamedica and experimental pharmacology-a post which heheld till last year, at the close of which he was called by theunanimous vote of the medical faculty of the University ofBologna to the chair of the history of medicine in that seatof learning.

His powers as a clinical physician and private consultantwere only second to his ability as an expositor, whether bytongue or by pen, from the professorial chair or at theeditorial desk. As early as 1857 he started, in conjunctionwith Professor Brugnoli, the Rivista Medica, which soon roseto be the first of its class in Italy ; but ephemeral work was farfrom exhausting his energies. Within eight years from that datehe had published the first volume of his monumental treatise,entitled" Gli Annali delle Epidemie in Italia dalle primeMemorie sino al 1850 " (Annals of the Epidemics in Italyfrom the Earliest Records to 1850), a treatise which ran tofive octavo volumes, and was succeeded by another of moreexclusively modern interest, "La Chirurgia in Italia dagliUltirni Anni del Secolo fino al Presente" (Surgery in Italyfrom the Closing Years of Last Century to the Present Time),Bologna, 1871. Similar historical works are his "L’Ostetriciain Italia dalla Met&agrave; del Secolo fino al Presente " (Obstetricsin Italy from the Middle of the Present Century till theYear now Passing), in three quarto volumes, Bologna,1872 ; his edition, with preface and copious annotations,of the " Lettere del Lancisi al Morgagni e parecchiealltre ora per la prima volta pubblicate " (Letters fromLancisi to Morgagni and several others now for thefirst time published), Pavia, 1876 ; and his" Memorie

per la Storia della University di Pavia e degli Uomini piuillustri che v’ insegnarono " (Memoirs in Illustration of the

History of the University of Pavia and of the most distin-guished Men who taught there), Pavia, 1874-8, 3 vols., 4to.It will be remembered also that in 1888, on the solemncelebration of the eighth centenary of the "Mother of &pound;Universities," Bologna, Professor Corradi’s pen was oncemore in requisition, when he delighted the sa2vunts assembledthere from all parts of the world with his graphic sketch ofthe origin, the development and the future outlook of hisahrzcc mater. Other works of his it would be impossible togive in full detail; but mention may be made of his Frenchpaper contributed to the Union Medicccle of Paris, 1865"Sur l’Etiologie et 1’Histoire de la Pellagre"; to hisEscursioni d’un Medico nel Decamerone (A Physician’sExcursions into Boccaccio’s Decameron 1878 ; and toother lucubrations, only possible to a physician who was alsoa widely read man of letters, published in successive volumesof the "Atti dell’ Istituto Lombardo." Professor Corradi’ahigh qualities of head and heart were known and appreciatedin every great medical school. In Germany and in GreatBritain he was held in especial admiration and esteem, and hiscompatriots have noted with something like national pridethe unique honours conferred on Italian medicine in thedoctorates bestowed on him by the Universities of Cambridgeand London.

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LUIGI AMABILE.

’’ UNA vera perdita per la scienza (a real loss to science)is the compendious note of our Italian contemporaries on thedeath of the Senator Luigi Amabile, Professor of Pathologyin the University of Naples. A student and graduate in thatschool, he soon became connected with its teaching staff, firstin the department of surgery and then in that of pathology:He was a bold and successful operator when laparotomy wasyet in its infancy, while his treatise written in conjunctionwith Tommaso Virnicchi, and published at Naples in 1859,"Sulle Soluzioni di Continuo del Intestino e sul Loco Go-verno " (On Solutions of Continuity in the Intestines andin their Prevalent Seat), did much to promote sound andeffective abdominal surgery. Besides his professorial duties,discharged with much energy and acceptance, he was anunwearied author and critic of papers read and discussedbefore the various medico-chirurgical societies of Naples and itsprovinces. His published memoirs and pamphlets on subjectsof scientific and professional interest are very numerous, andseveral of these procured him the honorary fellowship oflearned bodies, not only in Italy, but beyond the Alps. He

represented more than once in the Italian Chamber the con-stituency of Avellino in the Liberal interest and was, in con-sideration of his statesmanlike intervention in hygienic andeducational legislation, promoted to a seat in the Senate.To the last he retained his connexion with his alma mater, inwhich he held the post of Professore Ordinario e Direttore diMateria Patologica with equal usefulness and credit. Overand above his strictly professional work he distinguished him-self in historical research, and, apart from his writings inmedicine and surgery, established for himself an honourable

reputation for his treatises on the philosopher and humanistTommaso Campanella and on the Inquisizione di Napoli."He died on the 24th ult.

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THOMAS WATTS, M.R.C.S., L.S.A.MR. THOMAS WATTS, who died on Nov. 29th, was for many

years in practice in the country around Frampton-on-Severn,where he lived until he was compelled to retire on accountof heart disease. Born in 1822, he received his preliminaryeducation from Dr. Hales of Bath, entering King’s College,London, in 1840. After leaving the College he worked with hisfather, on whose death in 1860 he succeeded to the practice.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OFENGLAND.

AT an ordinary meeting of the Council of the College, heldon Thursday, the 8th inst., Mr. Bryant, the President, inthe chair, the minutes of the ordinary Council meeting ofNov. 10th were read and confirmed.The Council confirmed their resolution of the 10th ult,,