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this-that in two and a half years’ less time I have done morethan five times as much work for the hospital maternitycharity.There was no favouritism or private interest connected with

my appointment. I was recommended by Dr. Head, and ap-pointed by the Committee, because I had visited the ward fordiseases of women more regularly than any other student, andbecause I had attended a far greater number of maternitycases than any other possible applicant for the office.Mr. Heckford professes to be influenced by regard for the

interests of the hospital. I would wish to suggest to him andto his associates that reports of some of the interesting casesat present in the wards would have a much better effect inyour columns, and be much more profitable and valuable toyour readers, than letters containing garbled and exaggeratedaccounts of the insignificant squabbles which occur, unfor-tunately, so generally among students.

I have most reluctantly answered one letter lest silence onmy part should be misconstrued, but, as I have a very greatdislike to newspaper warfare, shall take no notice of any furtherletters on this subject, should Mr. Heckford be so injudiciousas to publish any more.

In conclusion, Sir, I have to assure your readers that anystudent joining this hospital, if he will conduct himself as agentleman, and manifest a desire to acquire something morethan the minimum of professional knowledge which will enablehim to scrape through, with perhaps one or two pluckings, theexaminations of the College of Surgeons and of the Apothe-caries’ Hall, will, according to my experience, meet with themost generous and hearty aid and encouragement from everymember of the staff, and will have in the wards a field for ac-quiring a practical knowledge of his profession which cannotbe surpassed, and is very rarely equalled anywhere.

I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,JEREMIAH MACARTHY,

August 5th, 18Gi. Resident Accoucheur.

* The letter of Mr. Rivington on the same subject arrivedtoo late for insertion in our present number. We will endea-vour to publish it in our next.—ED. L.

JEREMIAH MACARTHY,Resident Accoucheur.

CAPPING DAY AT EDINBURGH.

ON Thursday, the 1st inst., the annual ceremonial of gra-duation in medicine in the University of Edinburgh took placeat Castle Hill. The list of those upon whom degrees wereconferred, ninety-two in all, will be found in another portionof our impression. Sir David Brewster, the vice-chancellor,presided, supported by the distinguished members of theSenatus Academicus. Professor Syme, the Promoter, delivereda telling address to the students. After offering his felicita-tions on the accomplishment of their ambition in possessingdegrees, he observed that the instruction that they hadalready received must only be regarded as introductory to themore practical study of medicine and surgery, by which alonethey could be thoroughly qualified to discharge the duties oftheir profession. To that end he advised them to seek forspecial and additional opportunities of acquiring greaterfamiliarity with morbid conditions at public institutions, so asto render their practice more safe and easy. He observed thata healthy state of mind requires variety in the subjects of itsexercise, and he felt sure that nothing would tend more totheir success than concentration of thought upon particularcases. You should think (said he) of them, morning, noon,and night; and if you dream of them it will be so much thebetter. He advised them not to think of money-making forsome time to come, but work honestly, so that the points oftheir character might take root in public confidence, ratherthan that they should seek an early production of floweror fruit. He counselled them-inasmuch as the want of fixedrules of conduct often lead to a diversity of opinion as towhat is best for patients-to be generous in their intercoursewith their professional brethren. Moreover, he begged themto cultivate harmony beween the senior and junior members ofthe profession. The older gentlemen, knowing the importanceof long and large experience, might naturally regard theopinions of their junior brethren as of questionable value;while the new-fledged doctor, issuing from his school with allthe new appliances of modern science, did not always paysufficient respect to age : thus dogmatism on the one hand, and

presumption on the other, were often destructive of friendship.But it should be recollected that there is good and bad in everyman’s character, and to quarrel on account of the bad is tolose the benefit of the good. He earnestly exhorted themto keep out of debt. To do so was to avoid embarrassmentand scientific quackery, too frequently the issue of the pressureof pecuniary difficulty, which, by destroying independence andself-respect, exposed men to the influence of mean considera-tions, and made all motives secondary to the acquisition ofmoney. He lastly reminded the graduates that they hadsworn to practise their profession cautiously, chastely, honour-ably; and he urged them so long as the breath of life was inthem to cherish an affectionate and unceasing regard towardstheir University.

PARISIAN MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

IT is expected that the International Medical Congress,combined with the powerful attractions of the Exhibition, willbring over a great number of medical men to this city. In anofficial statement made by the Central Committee, the numberof adherents to the Congress is now said to amount to 600, ofwhom 350 are foreigners ; but to all appearance even thisnumber will be greatly increased at the last moment, and freshnames are now being daily added to the list. Let us hopethat England will hold in this great medical gathering thehigh rank to which her reputation both in surgery and medi-cine entitles her. You have so often given all the particularswith regard to the Congress that it would be superfluous torevert once more to them. Yet it cannot be too often repeatedthat the first meeting will take place on the 16th instant. TheCentral Committee has managed to obtain a reduction of priceson the railway tickets from two of the companies, the Northernand the Eastern : members travelling on these lines will payonly half price from the French frontiers to Paris. I knownot that any plan of excursion or other entertainment has asyet been concerted, with a view to the general particip a ( n ofmembers. At all events nothing is as yet known by the publicwith regard to this. One of the medical journals of this placehas proposed the establishment of a medical club for thisspecial occasion. That advantages would accrue from somesuch sort of thing cannot admit of a doubt. It is obvious thatthe fraternal feelings of medical men thus gathered from suchdistant quarters would be far more fostered and developed insome social place of resort than in the scientific arena of theCongress. But good things are adopted with so much diffi-culty that I dare not hope that any experiment of the kindwill be attempted.The annual sitting of the Faculty will take place, as you are

aware, on the 14th instant, and thus serve as a sort of solemnopening to the Congress ; the members of which will be ad-mitted to the ceremony on presenting their tickets. This isnot only an innovation on the occasion of the Congress (theannual meetings of the Faculty having always taken place atthe end of the vacation, in November), but also an experimentwhich is being made by the Faculty.The numerous pupils and admirers of the lamented Trous-

seau are now organising a subscription in order to raise amonument to the memory of the illustrious professor. Theproduce of the subscription will be employed in the executionof a marble bust destined to be placed in the large meetinghall of the Faculty. The best plan would have been, perhaps,to erect a statue on the grave of the professor, but this ideahas been relinquished as being scarcely in conformity withhis dying request.

It will be remembered that Trousseau had expressly desiredthat his obsequies should take place without any pomp, andthat his body should be modestly deposited in the familyvault. Indeed, if we are to believe the report, it would appearthat he had regulated beforehand all the different details ofthe ceremony. The professor, who was fully alive to the fatewhich awaited him, but who showed a most sovereign con-tempt for death, had himself gone only a short time before thismelancholy event to the po7nes funebres, and there had madeall necessary arrangements for his funeral. He had then saidthat the management of such things should not be left to thefriends of the departed, as their grief generally prevented themfrom obtaining a fair dealing from the administration of thepornpes fun&bre8.

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M. Scoutteten, of Metz, has recently presented to theAcademy of Medicine several designs representing differentspecimens of specula and probes which he observed in thePompeian Museum of Naples during a recent excursion toItaly. These surgical instruments, supposed to be of moderninvention, were thus known to the ancients. Ni7til 8Ub solenovi.

Paris, August 7th, 1867.

Medical News.UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-The following is a list of

the candidates who passed the recent First M.B. Examina-tion:—tion:-

Fh’st Division.Flowers, Wm. Field, Guy’s Hospital.Gowers, W. Richard, University Coll.Pollard, Fredk., St. Thomas’s Hosp.

Rayner, Edwin, B.A., University Coll. IRoberts, Richard Lawton, ditto.Thomas, John Davies, ditto. ISecond Division.

Baines, Albert H., Guy’s Hospital.Baxter, Evan Buchanan, King’s Coll.Black, John Gordon, College of Medi-

cine, Newcastle-on-Tyne.Desse, Ethelrid, University College.Dukes, Clement, St. Thomas’s Hosp.Hall, Francis De Havilland, St. Bar-tholomew’s Hospital.

Hoar, Chas. Edward, King’s College.M’Gill, Arthur Fergusson, King’s, College.Price, William, University College.Samuel,

Richard, St. Bartholomew’sHospital.

. Snow, Herbert Lumley, UniversityI Coll. and Queen’s Coll. Birmingham.

EXCLUDING PHYSIOLOGY.First Division.

Stocker, James Reginald, Guy’s Hospital.Second Division.

Colson, Edward, Guy’s Hospital.

IJoubert de la Ferte, Charles Henry,St. Mary’s Hospital.

Scott, Wm. Joseph, University Coll. IVachell, Charles Tanfield, King’s Col-lege.

PHYSIOLOGY ONLY.

First Division.Aveling, Chas. Taylor, St. Thomas’s Hurlstone, Adam Payton, UniversityHospital. Colleze.

Yeo, Isaac Burney, King’s College.APOTHECARIES’ HALL. - The following gentlemen

passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medi-cine, and received certificates to practise, on August 1st ;-

Carre, Louis Charles Achille, Guy’s Hospital.Hunter, John Henry, Bernard-street, Russell-square.McKellar, Alexander Oberlin, Ctea’g-street, Oldham.Tennant, James, Oakley-street, Chelsea.Wayleii, Frederick Henry, Haverstock-hiU, N.W.Woolhouse, Frederick, Sheffield.

As an Assistant :-Harwood, Henry Thomas, Yeovil.

The following gentlemen also on the same day passed theirfirst examination :-John Henry Gay, William Cregeen Faraker, John Thomas Jones, and

Reginald Taylor, of Guy’s Hospital. Robert Wm. Jones, of St. Mary’sHospital. William Harris, of St. Thomas’s Hospital. George Birt, ofthe Birmingham General Hospital.

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.-The following is a listof the gentlemen who received degrees in Medicine on the 1stinst. :-

CANDIDATES WHO RECEIVED THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF

MEDICINE UNDER THE NEW STATUTES.

Clark, J. B., Scotland.Fothergill, T. P., England.Kirk, R., Scotland. Mitchell,

S., England.Moore, J. M., England.CANDIDATES WHO RECEIVED THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF

MEDICINE UNDER THE OLD STATUTES.

Anstey, A. N., Australia.Bell, J. H., Ausrralia.Black, D. R., Scotland.Cour, G. F. de la, England.Cradock, L., England.Dale, F., England.Dyer, A. K., Scotland.Hamilton, D. E., England.Hay, G. W. R., Scotland.Hume, G. H., Scotland.

Macdonald, J., India.McNicol, J. C., Scotland.Maule, J., Scotland.Mitchell, J., Scotland.Robbs, C. H. D., England.Strange, A., England.Taylor, W., Scotland.Todd, J., Ireland.Watson, M., Scotland.

On November 1866, Franklin Gould, B.A. (London), Tasmania, who wasprevented from being present at the Graduation on 1st August, 1866, receivedthe degree of M.D. under the Old Statutes.CANDIDATES WHO RECEIVED THE DEGREES OF BACHELOR OF

MEDICINE AND MASTER OF SURGERY.

Affieck, J., Scotland.Allan, C. J., Scotland.

Baddeley, J., India.Baird, J. T. W., Scotland.

Barham, A. H., England. Barrie, A. D., India.Bosenberg, A. G. H., Cape of Good IHope.Bruce, J., Ireland. !

Buncle, A., Scotland. Byass, E. S., England. !Cameron, J. A., Scotland.Campbell, C. M., India.Caton, R., England.Churchill, F., England. ;Colladon, H. L., Geneva.Connel, J., Scotland.Cunningham, D. D., Scotland.Dolman, G. T. C., England.Fairweather, W. A., New Brunswick.Finlay, W. A., Scotland.Gairdner, J., Scotland. ilGordon, J., Scotland.Griffiths, D., Wales.Haddon, J., Scotland.Hay, H. D., Scotland.Hewston, A., New Brunswick.Holden, C., New Brunswick.Houison, J., Australia.Hunter, G., Scotland. IKirkwood, J., Scotland. jLaing, J. A., Scotland.Lightfoot, R., England.

Low, R. B. Scotland.Lucas, R., Scotland.Lupton, A. W., England.Macbean, R. B., Scotland..

McDonald, A. D., Scotland.McEwan, D., Scotland.Mackay, W. P., Scotland.McRae, J, Scotland.Mitchell, H.. England.

Moitiet, F. W., Scotland.Murdoch, J., Ireland.Muir, J. S., Scotland.

Munro, R., ScotlandNicholscn, H. A., England.Paton, J. W., Scotland.Rice. M. W., England.Ritchie C. C., Scotland.Stevens, R. H., England.

Suttle, D., Scotland.Sydney, H., England.Tatham, E., England.Turner, R. S. Scutland.Watlington, Y. V., Puerto Rico.Weddell, J. C., Berwick-upon-Tweed.Williams, J. L., North Wales.Wilson, A. C, Scotland.

! Wright, H. R., England.I Wright, S. H., Scotland.Young, P. A., Australia.

CANDIDATES WHO RECEIVED THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR

OF MEDICINE.

Buist, J. B., Scotland. Crombie, A., Scotland.Dunsmure, J., Scotland.Hett, G., England.

Lawrence, A., Scotland.Lawrie, E., England.Mules, P. H., England.

THE library of the Royal Medical and ChirurgicalSociety will be closed from Monday, Aug. 19th, to Saturday,Sept. 14th, both days inclusive.A DEPUTATION consisting of Mr. Sandford (President

of the Pharmaceutical Society), Mr. Morson, Mr. Hora, andMr. Darby (London), Mr. Evans (Liverpool), and Mr. Brady(Newcastle), had an interview with the Duke of Richmond andthe Right Hon. Stephen Cave, at the office of the Board ofTrade, this week, on the subject of the Merchant ShippingBill.

DR. BURNSTALL, passenger from Galle by the lastmail steamer, was incautiously playing with a pet cobra dicapella on the 23rd. The snake bit his finger, and he diedimmediately after.

i LETHARGY.-The "Standard" states that a man

at present in the St. Jean Hospital, at Turin, lies in a lethargicstate, wholly insensible to external impression save electricshock. He has lived for forty-seven days on milk passed intothe stomach through the oesophagus.CHOLERA AT PESHAWUR. - We have ascertained

something of the extent of the outbreak of cholera among theRoyal Artillery at this station. From May 20th to June 15ththere were forty-five cases and twenty-four deaths out of astrength of 420.THE EMPRESS CHARLOTTE.-A slight improvement

is reported as having taken place in the health of the EmpressCharlotte, who expressed herself pleased at being once moreat home. The foreign journals freely circulate the report, towhich credence is given by the " people," that the illness ofthe Empress is to be ascribed to the fact of her having beenpoisoned by her maid.HYDROPHOBIA.-A child died last week in Bethnal-

green from hydrophobia. The brother at the time the inquestwas being held was rapidly succumbing to the same disease.Both children had been bitten by the same dog a short timebefore.ON Thursday week the governors of the Brompton

Hospital held a special court; the Rev. Sir H. Foulis, Bart.,in the chair. The increase in the number of out-patientsnecessitating an enlargement of the medical staff, the courtrecommended an alteration in the standing rules of the insti-tution, to the effect that there should be ’’ not more than six "instead of three assistant-physicians.THE report of the Medical Officer of Health for the

City of London for the June quarter has just been presentedto the Commissioners of Sewers. The amount of diseasedmeat condemned of late has been much above the average,47,4671bs. during the quarter. 6547 houses were inspectedand 1528 improved. At Billingsgate 139,445 fish, 75 bushelsof perriwinkles, and 2855 gallons of shrimps were condemnedas putrid.


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