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according to the single short preamble with which the Billopen?, not in the interests of the Royal Infirmary,but in the interests of learning, and more especiallyof medical education and science." It would have beenof some advantage to those outside Glasgow and notfamiliar with the facts ot the case and the precedentsof the agitation if some evidence of the existence of this- disinterested motive had been furnished; certainly somejustification of such an extraordinary proposal ought tohave been given by reference to the origin of the schoolit is proposed to elevate, to its career during the pastten years, and to its future prospects. The silence ofof the Bill on these essential points is well understood inGlasgow. Turning to the thirty-six clauses by which thepreamble is followed, there is unfolded in them a plan ofthe most comprehensive description, one going far beyondthat for an east-end medical college affiliated to theUniversity. After defining the constitution of the body ofgovernors, which is drawn up very skilfully, the Billindicates the powers with which they are to be invested.These include the appointment of professors and lecturers,not only in medicine, but also in the other arts, sciences,

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and branches of learning. Plainly what is contemplatedis not merely a medical school, but a complete groupof Faculties, as in a University. The governors are tohave extensive powers in the way of purchasing land,houses, &c. for providing lecture-rooms, houses for theresidence of the professors of the College, and so on. Theprofessors are to have the same " status, duties, rights, andprivileges as those of the University; while the studentsare to enjoy the same privileges, and be subject to the samediscipline and regulations as those of the University. Thescheme contemplated is a bold one; its expediency is a

totally different matter, and has yet to be demonstrated.Those who hope for healthy University development willlook rather to Professor Edward Caird’s scheme for thestrengthening of the University from within than to suchill-considered legislative attempts as that sketched above.

Glasgow, ’Feb. 14th.

DUBLIN.

(From our own Correspondent.)

DUBLIN HOSPITAL SUNDAY FUND.

THE Council, in their report read at the annual meeting,held last week, state that the total amount of the collectionsfor 1887 was X3957 9s. 8d. This shows a decrease of some£200 as compared with the previous year, a result due to thegreat depression which still exists throughout the country.The Council refer to the Bill brought in by the city membersproposing legislation regarding the Dublin hospitals on thelines indicated in the report of the Commission appointedby Lord Spencer to inquire into the management of theseinstitutions; but, strange to relate, neither the Commissionof 1885 nor the promoters of the Bill communicated withthe Council of the Fund on the subject, although both weredisposed to deal with the funds collected on HospitalSunday. The Committee of Distribution having ascertainedthat a sum of about £3700 was available for distribution, dis-tributed £3435 amongst the participating institutions in- consideration of subscriptions received and work done, withan added bonus of 7½ per cent. to those hospitals which hadprovided trained supervision for their nurses, thus followingthe same plan as in 1886. The Adelaide Hospital obtained£847 16s. 6d., the highest amount allocated to any institu-tion, and the Whitworth X40 Os. lOd., the lowest.

PROPOSED MD. DEGREE FOR THE IRISH COLLEGES.

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the College- of Physicians are presenting a petition to Her Majesty toobtain a new Charter, so as to possess powers to grant adegree which shall carry with it the title of " Doctor." Thisaction of the Colleges is for the purpose of their being placed’in an equal position with the London and Scotch Collegesin obtaining the power to confer an M.D. degree.

CITY OF DUBLIN HOSPITAL.

At a recent meeting of the medical staff, Dr. Thomas’Smyth, resident surgeon, was presented with an addressand a gold watch, in recognition of the efficient manner inwhich he had discharged the duties of his post.

SMALL-POX IN DUBLIN.

About a dozen cases of small-pox are under treatment inhospital. The week before last several fresh cases occurred,and this week a person was attacked with a disease in ahouse in which there had been previous cases. As showingthe benefit of rev iccination, it may be mentioned that thislatter patient was the only person in the house who hadnot been recently revaccinated.Surgeon-Major J. R. Keogh has been appointed to the

Commission ot the Peace for Queen’s County.Dublin, Feb. 14th.

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PARIS.

(From our own Correspondent.)

ALBUMENS.

IN his researches on normal and pathological albumens,M. Joseph Bechamp, a distinguished biologist, has broughtto light two facts. The first, which interests the physio-logist as well as the philosopher, is that, by the attentivestudy of the nitrogenous matters of the eggs of ovipares,the author has been led to this remarkable conclusion-viz.:Even chemically an animal is what it is in the egg fromwhich it proceeds, not only as regards its organised elements,but by the different nature of its albumens, its other albu-minoid matters, and its zymoses (fermentiscible principles).The second fact, which interests pathological physiology,and particularly diagnosis, is that, in effusions, there neverexists one albumen alone, which would be that of theserum of the blood; but there would be several, which differfrom it individually and profoundly, among which are thezymoses. In submitting these researches to the Academy ofSciences, M. Bechamp has, moreover, established the factthat there exists a relation of cause and effect betweenthe membrane or the morbid tissue, through which thetransudation is produced, and the albumens of the effusion,which are always the same, variable only in quantity forthe same tissue that has been traversed. In other words,the membrane or the morbid tissue exercises a profoundchemical action on the albumens of the blood.

THE TRANSPORT OF OXYGEN.

Dr. Hénocque is the inventor of a method of examiningthe blood, based on the fact that in examining the thumb-nail with a small spectroscope one could follow the trans-formations of oxyhæmoglobin, the substance which, con-tained in the globules of the blood, serves to transport intissues the oxygen furnished by the air. In this way, one caneasily measure therapidity with which the interchanges of theoxygenated blood and the anatomical elements take place.Dr. Hénocque has just performed some physiological experi-ments from the Tower of Eiffel which is being erected forthe great Exhibition of 1889. The object of the experimentwas precisely to determine the influence exercised on theactivity of these changes by the ascension of 270 steps ofthe staircase to reach the height of 55 metres, whichnearly represents that of the first floor of the tower. Theexperiments performed by Dr. Hénocque on three touristshave confirmed the results obtained by him in other circum-stances—viz, that the activity of reduction is augmentedby the muscular exertion caused by the ascension of astaircase, or, in other words, that the muscular labour isaccompanied by a greater activity in the exchange of theoxygen between the tissues.

THE ACTION OF BILE.

At a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences, M. A.Dastre read a paper on the action of bile on alimentation.After having recalled the results of his researches on thepresence and the action of tne bile in the stomach, andstated that he was very probably the first who had practisedthe operation of cholecysto-intestinal fistula, the authorgave the results of this operation executed from a physio-logical point of view-that is to say, with the view ofsolving the problem of the digestion of fats. The conclusionof this important study is the following: "If the observationof the rabbit--in which nature had realised, so to speak, theexperiment of the cholecysto-intestinal fistula, which ex-periment is the counterpart of that performed by the authoron the dog-teaches us that the bile alone is, in the living,

powerless to effect the digestion and the complete absorp-tion of fats, experience teaches us, on the other hand, thatthe pancreatic juice alone is equally powerless. Theirmixture is necessary. The bile intervenes as well as the

pancreatic juice in the digestion of fatty substances. Thebile appears more particularly charged with the absorptionof fats in kind; the pancreatic juice for their division."

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Obituary.J. H. WALSH, F.R.C.S.ENG.

(" STONEHENGE "), EDITOR OF " THE FIELD."

ON the 12th inst. the death occurred, at his residence atPutney, of Mr. J. H. Walsh ("Stonehenge"), than whomthere was no greater authority in the world on the subjectof sport. Mr. Walsh was born in 1810, received his pro-fessional education at Guy’s, becoming a Member of theRoyal College of Surgeons in 1832, and a Fellow in 1844.When a student he made a wax model of the SiameseTwins, when they were over here as boys, and the model isstill in the museum of the College of Surgeons, Lincoln’s-inn-fields, with his name attached. Immediately afterobtaining his qualification, Mr. Walsh settled down to thepractice of his profession in Worcester, where his efforts metwith success, and where he remained until 1852. About this

period he suffered the loss of a thumb and two fingers bythe bursting of a gun. A curious incident arose from thisaccident. Mr. Walsh had to resort to a neighbouring practi-tioner with whom he was not on very friendly terms forthe amputation of his shattered digits, and he has oftenbeen heard to express his high admiration of the skill dis-played by his colleague in the performance of the operation.It is needless to add that a more kindly feeling after thisepisode existed between the rival followers of the healingart. Mr. Walsh in 1852 took a dislike to country practice,and, being a man of means, spent some years in travellingfor sport and amusement on the Continent and inAmerica. He ultimately settled in London and devotedhimself to literature as a profession in 1855, whenhe became associated with Bell’s Life, to which hecontributed some articles on the Greyhound. These werepublished in the same year in book form, under the title of"The Greyhound," and shortly afterwards the first editionof " British Rural Sports " appeared. As be was an acknow-ledged authority on coursing and all kinds of sport, havingin 1856 published "The Horse in the Stable and the Field "and " The Shot Gun v. Rifle," Mr. Walsh was in 185 selectedby the late Serjeant Cox, the proprietor of the Field, to fillthe editorial chair of that journal, to the success of whichnewspaper he in a great degree contributed. He subse-quently published works on "Domestic Economy" and" Domestic Medicine," and in 1858 " The Dog in Health andDisease." Some years later he wrote "The Dogs of theBritish Islands," which passed through several editions;and in 1882 he produced the first volume of "The ModernSportsman’s Gun and Rifle," the second following in 1884.He was perhaps best known as the author of "British RuralSports," of which no fewer than fifteen editions have beenissued.Some twelve months ago Mr. Walsh suffered from baema-

turia, and was sounded for stone by Sir Henry Thompson,who, however, failed to detect a calculus. He also soundedhimself repeatedly, but did not discover a stone until thelast few weeks. Mr. Sydney Jones, who was summoned,examined him and detected two calculi. A successful litho-trity was performed at the commencement of last week,and a favourable result was anticipated. Other com-

plications, however, arose, prostrating him so completely asto result in a fatal termination. Mr. Walsh was three time,married, his last wife being the daughter of the Rev. Mr,Parker, vicar of Pershore; and he is survived by twcdaughters.

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WILLIAM BOYD MUSHET, 1I.B. LoxD., M.R.C.P.L.DR. MusHET died suddenly on November 17th last a’

Aldershot. Some months previously he had, through failinhealth, been obliged to give up the exercise of his professionHe was born in 1828, and educated at the Royal Huntingdo]

Grammar School. He entered University College as a,

student in 1849, and passed M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. in 1852. Hewas an 1.B. London in 1855 (Gold Medalist in Medicine,.Medalist in Materia Medica and Therapeutics), and becamea Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, in1863. Dr. Mushet had held the appointments of Physicianto the North London Hospital for Consumption, the RoyalGeneral Dispensary, and the Jew’s Hospital, Norwood ;.Resident Physician to St. Marylebone Infirmary, and latterlywas Honorary Physician to the Seaside Convalescent Institu-tion for Women at New Brighton. He was the author of"Man and Apes," a lecture (1864); "A Practical Treatise onApoplexy" (1866), a work which obtained some celebrity""Cholera: its Etiology, Contagiousness, and Treatment "’(1875); besides many papers and reviews in the medicaljournals. His contributions to the ordinary literature ofthe day also included "The Workhouse," a poem; "HydePark," a satirical &rocM?’6, published anonymously in 1871 ; ’;and " The Age of Clay," a rhythmic satire, his last literaryeffort, published in 1883.

Medical News.UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-The following gentlemen

have passed the Intermediate Examination in Medicineheld during January :-

Entire Examination.FIRST DIPI9I0.1T.-Herbert Stanley Ballance, King’s Coll. ; A. E. Berry,Owens Coll. ; A. Wilson Boning, Univ. Coll. ; u. R. Box, St. Thomas’sHosp.; Philip Raihleigh Dodwell, Univ. Coll. ; J. McDonald Gill.Guy’s Hosp. ; F. W. Hall, Guy’s Hosp. ; Edward Victor Hugo, St.Barthol. Hosp.; R. Ellis Lord, B.Se., Owens Coll. ; Algernon WilsomLyons, King’s Coll. ; Hugh J. Moore Playfair, King’s Coll. ; HenryStephen Sandifer, King’s Coll. ; J. H. Sykes, Owens Coll.

SECOND DIVISION.—A. Morgan Cass, Owens Coll. and Manch. RoyaEInf.; Bertrand E. Dawson, Lond. Hosp. and Univ. Coll.; HowardDistin, King’s Coll. ; Percy William Dove, St. Barthol. Hosp.;E. R. C. Earle, Univ. Coll. ; C. J. Girling, Guy’s Hosp.; G. SaintJohnston, Queen’s Coll. Birmingham; H. Brunton Kitchin, Univ.Coll. ; T. Frank Ricketts, B.Sc., Guy’s Hosp.; Llewellyn Roberts,.St. Barthol. Hosp.

Excluding Physiology.FIRST DIVISION.-W. Adams Clark, St. Barthol. Hospital.SECOND DIVISION.—Eric Leonard Norman Pridmore, Univ. College;.

J. A. Waring, University Coll.Physiology only.

FIRST DIVISION.-A. W. Warrington Lea, Owens Coll. ; S. WolferstanMorgan, Bristol Med. School; J. A. Pickels, Owens Coll.

SECOND DIVISION.-Elias G. Hall, Bristol Med. School; H. Langdale,Owens Coll.; F. Ryott Percival Taylor, Westminster Hosp.M. EMILE RossEAu, the eminent French chemist,

died on the 6th inst., at the age of seventy-two.ANEW medical journal is about to appear in Berlin

under the title of the Berliner Clinik. It will be edited byProf. Fiirbinger and Dr. Hahn.

CREMATION IN FR,ANCE.-At a meeting in Paris, onthe 29th ult., of the French Cremation Society, the Presidentannounced that he had received from the Ministry theassurance that an edict rendering cremation legal wouldvery soon be promulgated.A HERBALIST was indicted at Leicester Assizes on

the 10th inst. for performing an unlawful operation uponthe wife of a local confectioner. The prisoner was acquittedof murder but found guilty of manslaughter, and was sen-tenced to twelve years’ penal servitude.THE fourth International Otological Congress is to

be held in Cologne from Sept. 10th to l6th, 1888. The dateof meeting has been altered to the week mentioned in orderto admit of members being present at the Congress of GermanNaturalists.

ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.—The Queen of Sweden,accompanied by Dr. Salin, the Court Physician, inspectedSt. Thomas’s Hospital on Tuesday afternoon. The Queenwas received by the principal officers of the institution, bywhom her Majesty was conducted through the wards anddepartments.VOLUNTEER MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.-The inspection

of the Ambulance Class and awarding of certificates by theLord Mayor will take place at the Guildhall on Saturday,the 18th inst., at 5 P.u.. and medical men and friends will,we understand, be admitted on presentation of card. Themess of the Volunteer medical officers will ;meet afterwards,at 7 P.M., at the Holborn Restaurant.