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the Bill. The Bill as it was now framed was cordially welcomed in allparts of Ireland. Irish Members desired to give expression of theirappreciation of the propaganda for the prevention of the scourge oftuberculosis in Ireland which had been carried on by the Countess ofAberdeen and those associated with her. He hoped that the Bill woulddo something to diminish the death-rate.Lord BAJ.CARRES thought that the Chief Secretary had done well in

making the Bill adoptive. He hoped that in a very few years it wouldhave so stimulated public opinion in Ireland that the Government woulditself finance the Bill. As the Bill was now permissive he thoughtthat some of the alterations which had been made in committee werenot now necessary. The Bill was now only applicable to an advancedstage of tuberculosis, but the Irish problem was rather to be met bydealing with the disease at the beginning than by relieving the lastmonths of the life of men and women who were producing an infectivedischarge.Mr. BiRRELL said that he had hoped that the Bill would have been

somewhat more stringent than it was now recognised it could be.Honourable Members had also to remember that the object of the Billwas to prevent the spread of the disease. One great value of the Billwould be education, and he hoped that as time went on it would bepossible to deal with the disease at an earlier stage and that the peopleand the medical men would cooperate for that purpose.Mr. KETTLE thought that the Bill was going to scare everybody in

Ireland and cure nobody. If Parliament was going to compel medical mento notify tuberculosis it was going to create a sort of physiological blacklist. If the State was going to have persons notified as suffering fromthe disease it ought first to have provided the means to help them andgive them efficient treatment. Amongst the peasants the problem oftuberculosis resolved itself into the problem of wretched houses, badfeeding, and general depression.Sir WILLIAM COLLINS agreed that in securing notification Parliament

had gone a very short step in dealing with the disease. It had beenlaid down that the overcrowded homes of the poor were the breedinggrounds of tuberculosis, and it was in the direction of improving thehousing conditions that advance was to be looked for.

Sir CHARLES DILKE regarded the Bill as experimental. The principleson which it was based had been abandoned elsewhere. No one couldread the recent literature on the subject without being aware of thatfact. He instanced the annual reports on the health of the Navy andthe Army. He hoped that the Bill would not be extended to otherparts of the United Kingdom.Mr. BARRIE then withdrew his amendment.Mr. BiRRELL moved an amendment to substitute the President of the

Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the President of the RoyalCollege of Surgeons in Ireland for the Irish branch of the GeneralMedical Council as the persons with whom the Local GovernmentBoard should consult before issuing an order prescribing the forms andstages of tuberculosis to be notified.Mr. COOPER quoted from the report in THE LANCET of the last sitting

of the General Medical Council to show the objections raised tothrowing this duty on the Irish branch of the General Medical Council.The amendment was agreed to.

Several other amendments were agreed to, and at the conclusion ofthe report stage the Bill was read a third time.

THURSDAY, DEC. 17TH.Poisons and Pharmacy Bill.

The Poisons and Pharmacy Bill was considered on report andsubsequently read a third time.

BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED.

BAILLIÈRE, J. B., ET FILS, 19, Rue Hautefeuille, Paris.La Pratique des Maladies des Enfants (Diagnostic etThérapeutique).Publie en Fascicules par Apert, Barbier, Castaigne, Fargin-Fayolle, Grenet, Guillemot, Guinon, Marfan, Mery, Rist, Simon,Weill, P6hu, Anderodias, Cruchet, Moussous, Rocaz, Haushalter,Carriere, Dalous, Leenhardt, Audeoud, Bourdillon et Delcourt.Secretaire de Redaction: R. Cruchet. I. Introduction à laMédecinc des Enfants: Hygiène, Allaitement, Croissance,Puberte, Maladies du Nouveau-ne. Par A.-B. Marfan, J.Anderodias et Rene Cruchet. Price Fr. 10.

BALE (JOHN), SONS, AND DANIELSSON, LIMITED, 83-91, Great Titchfield-street, Oxford-street, London, W.Hints to Ships’ Surgeons. By J. F: Elliott, L.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.Irel.

Price 2s. net.The Rat Problem. By W. R. Boelter, Corresponding Member of theCommission Internationale, Association Internationale pour laDestruction Rationelle des Rats, &c. Price 2s. 6d. net.

CHURCHILL, J. AND A., 7, Great Marlborough-street, London, W.Reports of the Society for the Study of Disease in Children.Volume VIII. Session of 1907-1908. Editor: George Carpenter,M.D. Price 12s. 6d. net.

General Index to the Reports of the Society for the Study ofDisease in Children. For Vols. I. to VIII., 1900-1908. Price 3s. 6d.net.

HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, LIMITED, 52, Long Acre, London, W.C.Hazell’s Annual for 1909. Edited by W. Palmer, B.A.Lond.Twenty-fourth Year of Issue. Price 3s, 6d. net.

EiRSOHWALD, AUGUST, Unter den Linden, 68. Berlin, N.W.Handbuch der Krankenpflege. Zum Gebrauch fiir Krankenpflege-schulen sowie zum Selbstunterricht. Bearbeitet von Prof. Dr.Saizwedet, Oberstabsarzt z.D.u. Lehrer an der Krankenpflege-schule des Kgl. Charite-Krankenhauses. Neunte Auflage. Miteinem Vorwort von Scheibe, Generalarzt und Sanitats-Inapekteur,arztlicher Direktor der Charite. Price M. 6.

MACMILLAN COMPANY, THE, New York. (MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED,London.)On Infantilism from Chronic Intestinal Infection. Characterizedby the Overgrowth and Persistence of Flora of the NurslingPeriod. A Study of the Clinical Course, Bacteriology, Chemistry,and Therapeutics of Arrested Development in Infancy. By C. A.Herter, M.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics,Columbia University. Price 4s. net.

ROUSSET, Jums, 1, Rue Casimir-Delavigne, Paris.Les Merveilles de I’Hypnotisme. Considerations Theoriques etApplications Diverses. Par le Docteur Geraud Bonnet, Medecin-Praticien a Oran et Sirli-bel-Abbès (Algérie). Price Fr. 3.50.

La Gymnastique Raisonnee. Necessite du Mouvement Rationneldemontre par le Mecanisme du Corps Humain. Par Eugène Paz.Avec une lettre-preface de Jules Simon. Price Fr. 2.

Synthèse et Constitution des Albuminoides. Par M. Emm. Pozzi-Escot. (Les Actualités Chimiques et Biologiques. Publiées sousla Direction de M. le Professeur Pozzi-Escot. No. 10). PriceFr. 1.50.

UNIVERSITY PRESS, Manchester. (SHERRATT AND HUGHES, 33, Soho-square, London, W.)A Practical Text-Book on Infectious Diseases. By R. W. Marsden,M.D., M.R.C.P., formerly Medical Superintendent, Monsall FeverHospital. With a Chapter on Puerperal Septic Disease, byA. Knyvett Gordon, M.A., M.B., Medical Superintendent,Monsall Fever Hospital. Price 5s. net. -’!

Lectures on the Pathology of Cancer. By Charles Powell White,M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S., Pilkington Cancer Research Fellow. Price3s. 6d. net.

Hospitals, Medical Science, and Public Health. An Addressdelivered at the Opening of the Medical Department of VictoriaUniversity, Manchester, on October lst, 1908. By Sir CliffordAllbutt, K.C.B., M.D. Cantab., Hon. D.Sc. Oxon., F.R.C.P. Lond.,F.R.S., &c., Regius Professor of Physic at the University ofCambridge, &c. Price 6d. net.

WHITAKER, J., AND SONS, LIMITED, 12, Warwick-lane, Londoon, E.C.An Almanack for the Year of our Lord, 1909. By Joseph Whitaker,

F.S.A. Price 2s. 6d.

Appointments.Successjul applicants for Vacancies, Secretaries of Public Institutions,

and others possessing information suitable for this column, areinvited to forward to THE LANCET Office, directed to the Sub-Editor, not later than 9 o’clock on the Thursday morning oj eachweek, such information for gratuitous publication.

ANDREW, HENRY, L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng., has been appointedHonorary Anaesthetist to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital,Exeter.

BURNE, T. W. H., M.B., B.S. Lond., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., has beenappointed Junior House Surgeon at the Croydon General Hospital.

COLEMAN, A. L. E. F., M.B., Ch.B. Aberd., has been appointed SeniorHouse Surgeon at the Croydon General Hospital.

COLEMAN, FRANK, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., L.D.S., has beenappointed Assistant Dental Surgeon at. the Royal Dental Hospital.

DIGHTON, CHARLES A. ADAIR, M.B. Edin., has been appointed AssistantObstetrician to the Victoria Home, Cheltenham.

FRENCH, JOHN GAY, M.S. Lond., F.R.C.S.Eng., has been appointedAssistant Surgeon to the Central London Throat and Ear Hospital.

GREGOR, ALEXANDER, M.D., C.M. Aberd., has been re-appointed MedicalOfficer of Health of Falmouth.

HARPER, FRANCES M., M.B., Ch.B. Edin., D.P.H. Camb., has beenappointed School Medical Inspector to the Lancashire EducationCommittee.

PERKINS, JOHN SHIRLEY STEELE, B.A., M.B., B.C. Cantab., L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S., has been appointed Honorary Anaesthetist to theRoyal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter.

RAIMENT, PERCY C., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been appointedSenior House Surgeon at the East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital.

SERGEANT, FREDERICK G., M.B., B.S., has been appointed HouseSurgeon at University College Hospital.

SiNGTON, HAROLD S., M.D. Brux., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.Lond., has beenappointed Honorary Assistant Anaesthetist to the Royal EarHospital, Soho, W.

SUCKLING, J. JEROME, M.B., B.S., has been appointed ObstetricAssistant to University College Hospital.

WALKER, A. F., L.R.C.P. & S. Edin., L.F.P.S. Glasg., has beenappointed Medical Officer of No. 2 District of the ToxtethUnion.

Vacancies.For further injormation regarding each vacancy reference should be

made to the advertisement (see Index).

BETHNAL GREEN BOARD OF GUARDIANS.-Public Vaccinator.BIRMINGHAM CITY ASYLUM.—Assistant Medical Officer, unmarried.’

Salary .E150 per annum, with board, apartments, and washing.BRENTFORD UNION INFIRMARY AND WORKHOUSE.-Assistant Medical

Superintendent and Assistant Medical Officer. Salary £ 120 perannum, with apartments, rations, washing, &c.

BRIDGWATER HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary atrate of R80 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

BRIGHTON, SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL.-Assistant Pathologist. Salary.E80 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.

CHELSEA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN. Fulham-road, S.W.-House Surgeon,unmarried. Salary .E80 per annum.

CLAYTON HOSPITAL AND WAKEFIELD GENERAL DISPENSARY.-JuniorHouse Surgeon, unmarried. Salary .E80 per annum, with board,lodging, and washing.

COLCHESTER, ESSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL.—House Physician. Salary £ 80per annum, with board, residence, and washing.

COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE HOSPITAL.-Senior House Surgeon.Salary .E120 per annum, with rooms, board, washing, and attend-ance.

DERBY, DERBYSHIRE ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Two House Surgeons, HousePhysician, and Assistant House Surgeon. Salary of three former£ 100 per annum and of latter at rate of .E60 per annum, with.apartments, board, &c., in each case.

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DEVONPORT, ROYAL ALBERT HOSPITAL.—Resident Medical Officer, un-married. Salary .:CWO per annum, with apartments, board, &c.

DUDLEY, GUEST HOSPITAL.-Senior Resident Medical Officer. SalaryL100 per annum, with board, residence, attendance, and washing.

EASTERN DISPENSARY, Leman-street, Whitechapel, E.-Resident MedicalOfficer. Salary .:C120 per ann um, with residence, coals, andattendance.

GLOUCESTER GENERAL INFIRMARY AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE EYEINSTITUTION.-Assistant Physician. Also Assistant House Surgeonfor six months. Salary at rate of £ 80 per annum, with board,residence, and washing.

GREAT NORTHERN CENTRAL HOSPITAL.-Physician.HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, Great Ormond-street, London. W.C.-

House Physician, unmarried, for six months. Salary .830, withboard and residence.

HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Casualty House Surgeon. Salary at rate of.:C60 and .880 per annum, with board and lodging.

INDIA OFFICE, LONDON.-Eleven Commissions in the Indian MedicalService.

KING’S LYNN, BOROUGH OF.—Medical Officer of Health. Salary £ 300per annum.

LAMBETH INFIRMARY, Brook-street, Kennington-road, S.E.-FourthAssistant Medical Officer. Salary at rate of £ 100 per annum, withresidential allowances.

LEICESTER, CORPORATION OF.—Resident Medical Officer at the IsolationHospital and Assistant Medical Officer of Health. Salary .8150 perannum, with board and residence.

LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.-Assistant Surgeon, unmarried. Salary £ 100per annum, with board and apartments.

LIVERPOOL INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL.-Three Assistant ResidentMedical Officers, unmarried. Salary.:C120 per annum each, withboard, washing, and lodging.

LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN.-House Surgeon and HousePhysician for six months. Salary in each case £ 30, with board andresidence.

LOUGHBOROUGH AND DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.-Resident House Surgeon. Salary .8120 per annum, with rooms,attendance, board, and washing.

METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL, Kingsland-road, N.E.—Resident Anæs-thetist. Salary at rate of iESO per annum.

MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE ,

CHEST, Hampstead and Northwood, Middlesex. -Assistant ResidentMedical Officer. Salary £ 50 per annum, with board and residence.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, CITY LUNATIC ASYLUM, Gosforth.-SecondAssistant Medical Officer, unmarried. Salary 2140 per annum,with apartments, board, and laundry.

NOTTINGHAM GENERAL DISPENSARY.-Assistant Resident Surgeon,unmarried. Salary £160 per annum, with apartments, attendance,

t light, and fuel.NOTTINGHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Physician. Salary

.:C60 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.NOTTS CONSUMPTION SANATORIUM.-Resident Medical Officer (female).

Salary £100 per annum.NOTTS COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM, Radcliffe-on-Trent. - Medical

Superintendent. Salary e600 per annum, with house, coal, light,washing, &c.

PAISLEY, BOROUGH OF.—Medical Officer of Health. Salary £ 400 perannum.

POPLAR HOSPITAL FOR ACCIDENTS, Poplar.-Honorary Surgeon.PORTSMOUTH, WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY. WORKHOUSE, AND CHILDREN’S

HOME.-Second Assistant Resident Medical Officer. Salary £ 100 perannum, with apartments, rations, and other allowances.

QUEEN’S -HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney-road, Bethnal Green, E.-Assistant Resident Medical Officer. Salary .875 per annum, withboard, residence, and washing. Also House Surgeon for six months.Salary at rate of .:C60 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.

RHONDDA URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.—Medical Examiner of ElementarySchool Children. Salary 2250 per annum, with travellingexpenses.

ROYAL EAR HOSPITAL, Soho.-House Surgeon for six months. Salary iat rate of £ 40 per annum. ’,

ST. HELENS COUNTY BOROUGH.-Assistant Medical Officer. Salary .:C250 iper annum, rising to £ 350. i

SALISBURY INFIRMARY.-Assistant House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary ’,.e50 per annum, with apartments, board, lodging, and washing. i

SMETHWICK EDUCATION COMMITTEE.-School Medical Officer. Salary.:C250 per annum.

VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Tite-street, Chelsea, S.W.-House ’’,Physician for six months. Salary £ 30, with board, lodging, and laundry.

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WESTERN GENERAL DISPENSARY, Marylebone-road, N.W.-Honorary ’’.,Radiographer. I

WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL.-Lecturer on MentalDiseases.

WOLVERHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Honorary iAssistant Surgeon. Also Honorary Assistant Physician.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

HEDLEY.-On Dec. 19th, 1908, at 11, John-street, Berkeley-square, thewife of John Prescott Hedley, M.B., M.R.C.P., of a daughter.

THOMPSON.-On Dec. 14th, to Janet, wife of Francis Thompson,M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.Lond., of "Riverbank," Sunbury-on-Thames,a son.

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MARRIAGESMOLLISON-WALKER.-On Dec. 19th, at Wimbledon Parish Church,

William Mayhew Mollison, M.A., M.C. Cantab., F.R.C.S.. Wardenof the Guy’s Hospital College, to Beatrice Marjory, eldest daughterof the late William Walker, Esq., and Mrs. Walker, of Fairview,Wimbledcn.

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N.B.-A fee of 5s. is charged for the insertion of Notices ofBirth8,3farriagea, and Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

A "BONNE BOUCHE" FROM DR. THOMAS YOUNG.THIS accomplished Cambridge scholar, physician, Egyptologist, and

"all-round" man of science whose " Life by Peacock, the well-knownmathematician of the same University, is still worth reading, andwhose versatile feats, literary and scientific, have often been com-mented on in THE LANCET, seems during his medical studentship atEdinburgh to have lost his heart to a local Hebe whose charms evokedfrom him the following epigram, published in the "CollectaneaGraeca Majora" of the Greek professor, Andrew Dalzel (third edition,Edinburgh, 1807, p. 351) :-

X&thgr;∈s µ∈&lgr;i µol &pgr;&rgr;&ogr;&phgr;e&rgr;E&sgr;&kgr;E Ka&lgr;&eegr;&dgr;&ogr;&eegr;s &khgr;a&rgr;∈&sgr;&agr;’To6-rou µev µE&lgr;i&tgr;os µ&eegr;&dgr;∈&ngr; ∈&phgr;&eegr;&ngr;,

’A&lgr;&lgr;’ (Í7rò Tu)f 6tBMf 40XW c’ K4T’ 4OIX-qO-a, ,

K?iv -yÀuKlov 7-6 ot’X77,d EIKOELKCS uenitos.Of which the following may be accepted as a rough-and-ready trans-lation :-

"The pretty Highland maiden yestere’enWas handing me the honey; Ah ! but this,’

I said, is not the honey that I mean ;You’ve some that’s better’ ..... and I stole a kiss.

The honey from her lips was sweeter far,Believe me, than that other from the ,jar."

Or perhaps the Latin, more modoque Martialis, may do more justiceto the neatness and point of the sister language :-

" Mel mihi promit heri formosa Caledonis : ‘ E,ja ! ’Sic ego-’mel cupio de meliore nota.

Da mihi mel quod habent tua labra !’ ...... deosculor illa,Melque mihi viciens dulcius inde traho."

NEURASTHENIA.

To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-Can any of your readers give me any suggestions for the treat-ment of a case of neurasthenia with insomnia of some ten years’ dura-tion, but only lately diagnosed ? The patient, a gentleman with someprivate means, has suffered much from dyspepsia, which has probablycaused the complaint and which only incapacitates him from hisordinary duties occasionally. Are there any Continental resorts for thetreatment of such cases and can any special form of treatment berecommended ? I am, Sir, yours faithfully,

COSMOS (I.M.S.)

A REPUDIATION.

To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-My attention has been called to an advertisement by the WestSurrey Central Dairy Co. stating that I have demonstiated the

superiority of English dried milk over fresh cow’s milk for the feedingof infants. This statement is not only unauthorised but wholly in-correct and misleading. I am, Sir, yours faithfully,Dec. 21st, 1908. A. E. NAISH.

Eight Years an Assistant.-(1) We consider that to cycle 15 miles dailyin wet weather and with hilly country is more than a medical assist-ant ought to be asked to do. 2. A principal is only bound by what hecontracts to do. If the assistant does not like the bargain he mustleave. We suggest that the matter is one where the principal andassistant ought easily to come to an amicable agreement.

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

METEOROLOGICAL R E A D I N G S.

(Taken daily at 8.30 a.m. by Steward’s Instruments.)THE LANCET Office, Dec. 23rd, 1908.