OBITUARY. F.R.C.P. As a FRANCIS EDMUND ANSTIE, M.D., SINCE last our pages appeared before the public there has passed away from among us one who had every reason to look forward to a bright future and many happy days; for Francis Edmund Anstie was only in his forty-first year when, after a few days' illness, he perished. Born in Devizes in 1833, he was educated at a private school; and having determined to study medicine, he was, in the fashion of those days, articled to his uncle, Mr. Thomas Anstie, of Devizes, in 1849. In 1853 he came to London, and entered King's College-probably attracted by the fame of the teachers who then filled the chairs. One of them especially, the late Dr. Todd, seems to have influenced Anstie's mind to a very great extent. Of Todd he was an enthusiastic admirer, and the bent of Todd's mind seems to repeat itself in certain of Anstie's researches. student, Anstie seems to have been in no degree remarkable. He was a good and earnest worker, but gave little indication of the character which afterwards developed in him. In 1858 he graduated M.D. in the University of London, and in the year following settled in Onslow-square. In 1862 he married, and in the year following removed to Wimpole-street, where he resided till his death. At a very early period his attention was directed to a subject which engaged him to the last-the effects of alcohol on the system, and the changes it undergoes therein; and upon this subject he began to write as early as 1861 in the Cornhill Magazine. In 1864 he published a work of much research and great value on Stimulants and Narcotics, which is still, in many respects, the standard work on the subject. At a tolerably early period of his career, Anstie became connected with Westminster Hospital; but promotion was slow, and it was only last year that he became full Physician to that hospital. This, we cannot help thinking, was, in a certain way, a public misfortune, for had he earlier come into the charge of in-patients, it is not to be doubted but that the work he has left behind him would have been more extensive and more valuable, for no one knew better than he did the unsatisfactory nature of out-patient work from a scientific point of view. Anstie was a most assiduous worker, getting through an amount of work which was perfectly amazing. He was constantly bringing cases before one or other of the medical societies, especially the Clinical. He wrote largely for one of our contemporaries, and for years he has carried on the Practitioner almost single-handed, contributing, month after month, an amount of matter which would have exhausted a less fertile mind. He also had the task of seeing "Reynolds's System of Medicine" through the press-a work of immense labour and little thanks. To this "System" he contributed several articles of value and importance, especially on Alcoholism and on Neuralgia. On the last subject-neuralgia-Dr. Anstie was, perhaps, the best living authority, having in 1871 published "A Treatise on Neuralgia and its Counterfeits," which speedily obtained a well-merited success, and added greatly to his justly increasing reputation. Curiously enough, like many other successful books, it was in part, at least, founded on dire personal experience, for Anstie was from time to time a sad sufferer from migraine, so severe as to incapacitate him for work. It was this, too, which probably turned his mind towards nervous diseases, which latterly especially he had studied much, and with great success. From these researches we all hoped great things, but now these expectations are gone, and the work must be done by someone else. His recent clinical lectures in our columns, as well as in those of one of our contemporaries, will be fresh in the minds of our readers. These were no sham lectures, as is sometimes the case, but real bona fide lectures, delivered to the students of Westminster Hospital. To them, and to their school generally, Dr. Anstie's loss is a most severe one, for it will be hard to find one well qualified to fill his place. This, however, gives an idea of one side only of Anstie's character. He was a great advocate for the social well-being of the poor. He it was who, along with Ernest Hart, originated and in great measure worked out the inquiry into the workhouse system, which ended in Gathorne Hardy's Act --an immense boon to those who are reduced to such extremities as to necessitate application for parochial relief. He, too, was the prime mover in the representation sent from the Royal College of Physicians to the present Government on the subject of overcrowding in London, and the necessity of pro viding more and better house-accommodation for the workingclasses; and, in truth, in all matters of reform in the College Dr. Anstie was a leading spirit. Nor in such a sketch, all imperfect and hasty as it is, can we overlook Dr. Anstie's social qualities. Gifted with a handsome person and a fine face, Anstie would have anywhere been noticeable, but nature had over and above endowed him with a fine voice, which, as he was a most accomplished musician, was often called into play to the delight of others. Anstie was also a capital speaker, and at our societies was invariably listened to with respect and satisfaction. As regards personal characteristics, if he had a fault it was impetuosity; but the impetuosity was always on the right side. Utterly fearless, he invariably spoke as he thought, and he thought as a high-minded gentleman. Any abuse, any wrongdoing, was sure to find Anstie arrayed against it; anyone, especially if weak and powerless, who had been wrongly dealt with, found in Anstie a ready advocate. In this respect his character was a truly noble one. The same characteristic extended itself to all his actions, and gave him a delicacy of feeling and a hearty, gentlemanly mode of action not quite so common as one could desire in this work-a-day world. Many can speak of letters of sympathy when injustice has been done which he was powerless to obviate or remedy, but which he might have been, by those who knew him not, supposed to connive at. Of Dr. Anstie's last short and fatal illness we can say but little. Its nature has already entered into the region of controversy, but the main facts are as follows: There had recently been a very peculiar outbreak of epidemic disease at the Royal Patriotic School for Girls at Wandsworthcommon (elsewhere referred to), and Dr. Anstie had been sent for in time to see some of the fatal cases. The last of these he examined post-mortem on Sunday, the 6th inst., and in so doing pricked a finger on his right hand. On Monday he was able to go about his ordinary avocations much as usual, but mentioned to his wife that he had cut his finger, but, having promptly sucked it, thought no harm would come of the accident. On Tuesday, however, though nothing was seen about the wound, he began to complain of pain in his arm, and of great lassitude. On Wednesday the pain was greater, but no appearance of anything unusual was noticeable about his arm. Still there was pain and stiffness in the axilla, and he began to fear he might have an abscess there or an outbreak of boils, such as he had suffered from on a similar occasion previously. On Thursday all the symptoms were aggravated, and there was intense and uncontrollable chilliness. Friday saw matters still worse there was a bush of erysipelatous redness over the right chest, with signs of rapidly advancing pleuro-pneumonia. His mind, too, began to wander. On Saturday morning he sank, with signs of a clot in the heart, another victim to scientific research, and leaving a widow and three children to bewail their immeasurable loss. On Wednesday all that was left of him was laid in the grave at Friern Barnet. EDWARD CUTLER, F.R.C.S., ETC., Was the son of the Rector of Patney in Wiltshire. He commenced his medical education at St. George's Hospital in 1820. He held the office of Assistant-Surgeon to the Life Guards from 1821 to 1826. He was Surgeon to the Lock Hospital for many years; Assistant-Surgeon at St. George's from 1834 to 1843, at which period he was elected Surgeon. A correspondent thus writes of him-"His success in his operations and their after-treatment earned him a great reputation there, as it did in his private practice, and was often acknowledged by the late Sir Benjamin Brodie, whose assistant he was for some years in the early period of his professional life. A firm and lasting friendship existed between them. Mr. Cutler was, indeed, generally beloved and esteemed by a large circle of friends, not only for his professional ability, but also for his highly honourable and amiable character. He became Fellow of the College of Surgeons in 1843, and subsequently obtained a seat in the Council. He married in 1824 the daughter of the late Sir Thomas Plumer, Master of the Rolls, who survives him." Mr. Cutler died last week. THE President of the Queen's College, Galway, has issued the report for the Sessions 1872-73, 1873-74. The number of new entrants last session was eighty-three; the total number attending, 156. MEDICAL NEWS. APOTHECARIES' HALL.-The following gentlemen passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, September 10: Crétin, Eugene, St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The following gentleman also on the same day passed his primary professional examination : Howard, Edwin, St. George's Hospital. APPOINTMENTS. The Editor will thank gentlemen to forward to the Publishing-office, as early as possible, information as to any new Appointments that take place. DAVIES, HUGH WALTER, M.R.C.S. Eng.-House-Surgeon and Registrar to the Cancer Hospital, Brompton. EWART, JOHN, M.R.C.S. Eng. -Medical Officer for the Accrington and District Dispensary. FERRIER, DAVID, M.D., M.R.C.P.-Assistant-Physician to King's College Hospital FOTHERGILL, J. MILNER, M.D., M.R.C.P.-Junior Physician to the West London Hospital, vice David Ferrier, M.D., M.R.C.P. HEWARD, J. M., M.R.C.S., L.S.A.-Medical Officer to the Stamford Urban Sanitary District. WILSON, H. C., M D. Queen's University, Ireland.-An additional Resident Surgeon at the Birmingham General Dispensary. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. ADMIRALTY.-Thomas Redfern, Surgeon, from the Hector to the Rocket, commissioned; John W. Davis, Surgeon to the Lapwing; Alfred W. Whitley, Surgeon to the Euphrates, complement incomplete. BIRTHS. ALLAN.-On September 5, at St. Helier's, Jersey, the wife of Surgeon- BLAKER.-On September 12, at 7, Lansdowne-crescent, Worcester, the wife of Edgar S. Blaker, L.R.C.P. Edin., M.R.C.S. Eng., of a daughter. CARMICHAEL.-On September 6, at Wyrley Grove, Staffordshire, the wife of Dr. William Carmichael, late R.N., of a son. CAROLAN.-On August 3, at Great Clacton, near Colchester, Essex, the wife of James F. Carolan, M.R.C.S., of a son. FARRINGTON.-On September 2, at The Moat, Penshurst, Kent, the wife of W. H. Farrington, M.D., of a son. HARVEY.-On September 7, at Wirksworth, Derbyshire, the wife of George Harvey, F.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.I., of a daughter. KING.-On September 14, at 48, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, W., the wife of Robert King, M.B., M.R.C.P., of a son. MAFFEY.-On September 14, at Terrace Royal, Nottingham, the wife of John Maffey, L.R.C.P., of a son. MAHON.-On September 5, at The Avenue, Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, the wife of George Annesley Derville Mahon, M.R.C.S. Eng, of a son. MILSON.-On September 8, at 88, Finchley-road, South Hampstead, the wife of R. Henry Milson, M.R.C.S Eng., of a son. MOOSE.-On September 7, at Hale-street, Coventry, the wife of Milner Moore, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. ALLWOOD-HARDERN.-On September 2, at St. James's Church, Sutton, near Macclesfield, J. Philip Allwood, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., of Macclesfield, to Elizabeth Thorneycroft, only daughter of William Thorneycroft Hardern, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A., of Wood Cottage, Sutton, Macclesfield. BARLOW-DAVIES.-On September 5, at St. Gabriel's, Bromley, Frederick Richard, youngest son of the late Nathaniel Barlow, M.R.C.S., of Blackmore, Essex, to Alice Elizabeth, eldest daughter of George Davies, Esq., of Florence Cottage, Dalston. BINDON-DOWNIE.-On September 2, at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, William John Vereker Bindon, L.R.C.P. Edin., L.R.C.S., eldest sonof Henry Vereker Bindon, M.D., Staff Surgeon-Major, P.M.O., Natal, to Mima, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Walters Downie, Esq., Trininallum, Stirling. BLAYDES-DYER.-On June 10, at St. Paul's Church, Auckland, New Zealand, Frederick Augustus, eldest surviving son of the Rev. F. H. Marvel Blaydes, M.A., Vicar of Harringworth, Northamptonshire, and nephew of the late Sir Edward H. Page Turner, Bart., to Alice Caroline, youngest daughter of W. Dyer, M.D., H.E.I.C.S. CLARK SWANZY.-On September 9, at Riverhead, Kent, Alfred Ashley, second son of F. Le Gros Clark, F.R.S., President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, to Kate, second daughter of Andrew Swanzy, Esq., F.L.S., of Sevenoaks, Kent. CUTFIELD-SMALLEY.-On June 25, at Sydney, New South Wales, Henry EDIS-MURRAY.-On September 9, at 35, Belmont-street, Aberdeen, Arthur FERRIER-WATERLOW.-On September 3, at St. John's Church, Red-hill, David Ferrier, M.D., Professor of Forensic Medicine, King's College, London, to Constance Eliza, third daughter of Mr. Albert C. Waterlow, Fairlawn, Red-hill, Surrey. LANGRIDGE-TIPPLE.-On September 7, at St. Mary's, Hornsey, Thomaз Benjamin Langridge, of Midhurst, to Charlotte Jane, eldest daughter of the late Charles Tipple, M.R.C.S., of Baldock, Herts. MARSHALL-WARWICK.-On September 8, at St. Jude's Church, Englefieldgreen, Surrey, John James Marshall, L.R.C.S.I., of Lamberhurst, Kent, to Mary, eldest daughter of Benjamin Warwick, Esq., of Englefield-green. MESSER-MAY.-On September 15, at the Church of St. James the Great, Devonport, John Cockburn Messer, M.D., Staff Surgeon R.N., H.M.S. Implacable, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Joseph May, F.R.C.S., J.P., of Nelson-villas, Devonport. SMITH-LEONARD.-On September 3, at the City Temple, Holborn Viaduct, Alfred Mountford Smith, of Norfolk-road, Dalston, to Mary Anne Ordway, eldest daughter of T. Leonard, M.D., of New North-road, Hoxton, N. SPARKS-PANTON.-On September 2, at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, TAYLOR-WHITAKER.-On September 3, at St. John's, Mansfield, Notts, DEATHS. ANSTIE, FRANCIS EDMUND, M.D., F.R.C.P. Lond., at 16, Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, after a few days' illness, on September 12, in his 41st year. BATES, WILLIAM, M.D., F.R.C.S., at his residence, 6, Stockport-road, Ardwick, Manchester, on September 9, aged 55. BOWDAGE, E., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A., at his residence, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, formerly of Crewkerne, on September 6, aged 74. CARTE, EDWARD ELLIOTT, elder son of John Elliott Carte, M.B., C.B., Inspector-General of Hospitals, at Somerset-street, Portman-square, on September 10, in his 15th year. CARTER, AGNES JANE, wife of Frederic Carter, Surgeon-Major 1st Goorkha Regiment, N.I., and daughter of the late C. B. Emmott, M.D., at Egham, on September 4. CARTER, ARTHUR SEPTIMUS BECHER.-On September 14, at 69, Wimpolestreet, aged 10 years, after a lingering illness, Arthur Septimus Becher, the beloved son of Robert Brudenell Carter, F.R.C.S. CUTLER, E., F.R.C.S., Consulting Surgeon to St. George's and the Lock Hospitals, at 15, New Burlington-street, on September 7, aged 77. HORSBRUGH, HELEN ROSE, wife of Boyd Horsbrugh, Esq., Madras Civil Service, Coimbatore, second daughter of the late J. Dorward, Esq., Inspector-General of Hospitals, Madras Presidency. INGLIS, FREDERICK ARCHIBALD, younger son of Dr. Inglis, at Worcester, on LITCHFIELD, MARIAN, only daughter of the late Vincent Litchfield, PERFECT, ANNE, daughter of the late T. W. C. Perfect, M.R.C.S., aged 68. ROGERS, Mrs. Arnold, widow of Arnold Rogers, F.R.C.S., at 16, Hanoversquare, on September 4, aged 75. STEEL, EDMUND HOOPER, elder son of Charles Wilson Steel, M.R.C.S., at TAYLER, MARGARET, eldest daughter of Christopher Tayler, M.R.C.S. Eng., VACANCIES. In the following list the nature of the office vacant, the qualifications required in the Candidate, the person to whom application should be made, and the day of election (as far as known) are stated in succession. BEDFORD GENERAL INFIRMARY.-House-Surgeon. Candidates must be duly qualified. Applications, with testimonials, to the Chairman of the Weekly Committee, on or before October 3. BRISTOL GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Physicians' Assistant. Candidates must possess a registered medical qualification. Applications, with testimonials, to the Secretary, on or before September 24. DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL.-House-Surgeon. Candidates must be duly qualified. Applications, with testimonials, to the Chairman, County Hospital, Dorchester, on or before September 23. LANGPORT UNION.-Medical Officer for District No. 1 A. Applications, with testimonials, to Mr. J. F. H. Warren, Clerk to the Union, on or before September 22. LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.-Two Assistant House-Surgeons. Candidates must be duly qualified. Applications, with testimonials, to the Secretary, on or before September 22. Candidates must be duly qualified, and registered. Applications, with testimonials, to the Secretary, on or before September 30. SOUTHPORT CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL.-Resident Medical Officer and Superintendent. Candidates must be qualified. Applications, with testimonials, to the Chairman of the Hospital, on or before September 21. SUNDERLAND AND BISHOPWEARMOUTH INFIRMARY AND DISPENSARY.Junior House-Surgeon. Candidates must possess both a medical and surgical qualification. Applications, with testimonials, to the Secretary, on or before September 24. ROYAL ALBERT HOSPITAL, DEVONPORT.-Junior Surgeon. THREE COUNTIES PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM.-Resident Medical Superintendent. Candidates must be duly qualified. Applications, with testimonials, to Mr. F. G. Butler, Clerk to the Committee of Visitors, St. Neots, Hunts, on or before September 21. YORK LUNATIC ASYLUM.-Resident Medical Superintendent. Candidates must be duly qualified. Applications, with testimonials, to the Secretary, Bootham, York, on or before September 19. UNION AND PAROCHIAL MEDICAL SERVICE. The area of each district is stated in acres. The population is computed according to the census of 1871. RESIGNATIONS. Bury St. Edmunds Incorporation.- Mr. R. Dalton has resigned the Workhouse; salary £30 per annum. Goole Union. The Swinefleet District is vacant; area 2455; population 1319; salary £15 per annum. Lincoln Union. Mr. J. D. Wrangham has resigned the Sixth District; area 19,605; population 3044; salary £30 per annum. Lutterworth Union.-Mr. H. W. A. Coleman has resigned the First District; area 17,891; population 5364; salary £104 per annum. Also, the Workhouse; salary £30 per annum. St. Thomas Union.-The Topsham District is vacant; area 4239; population 4361; salary £54 198. per annum. Toxteth Park Township.-Mr. Sidney H. Carter, Assistant Medical Officer of the Workhouse, has resigned; salary £100 per annum. APPOINTMENTS. Bakewell Union.-Joseph Taylor, L.F.P.S.G., L.S.A., to the Eyam District. Chesterton Union.-Charles Edward Walker, M.R.C.S.E., L.R.C.P. Edin., to the Third District. Drayton Union.-Thos. Llewellyn Lloyd, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., to the Fourth District. Holywell Union.-David Griffiths, L.F.P.S.G., L.S.A., to the Second Division of the Whitford District. Horncastle Union.-John Dunn Wrangham, M.D., M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A., to the Wragby District. Mansfield Union.-John S. Turner, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A., to the Fifth District. Staines Union.-Percival Kingsford, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A., to the Sunbury District. Wigton Union.-Wm. Hodgson, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A., to the Aspatria District; David Robison, L.F.P. & S. Glasg., to the Allonby District. Witney Union.-John Parkinson Atkinson, M.D. Glasg., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Edin., to the First Bampton District. SUPERANNUATION ALLOWANCE. Mr. Henry Beach, after twenty-five years' service as a District Medical Officer of the Cheltenham Union, has been granted a retiring allowance of £90 per annum. THE Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have issued a reply entitled "Remarks" to the report of the visitors appointed by the General Medical Council to visit their examinations held in January last. THE Cheltenham Board of Guardians have granted, and the Local Government Board have sanctioned, a superannuation allowance to Mr. Henry Beach on his resigning as Medical Officer for No. 1 District. PUBLIC attention having been directed to the condition of the schools and workhouse at Isleworth, two inspectors of the Local Government Board recently had an official conference with the Board of Guardians at the workhouse on the subject. THE Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland give notice that the next examination for letters testimonial of the College will take place for the first half on November 30, and for the second half on December 14. ELECTRICITY IN VOMITING.-Electricity has been employed with great advantage at the Bellevue Hospital, New York, in several cases of obstinate vomiting. The positive pole is placed over the seventh cervical vertebra, and the negative one over the stomach, the strength of the current being varied according to the susceptibilities of the patient.Medical Record, August 1. THE Local Government Board are circulating copies of the Public Health (Ireland) Act to the different corporations and unions in Ireland. DR. ROBERT THOMAS SCOTT, late Surgeon Army Medical Department, died suddenly of heart disease at Kilbeggan County, Westmeath. THE Local Government Board have forwarded a letter to the Irish unions, directing the levy of one farthing in the pound for the purpose of carrying out the "Cattle Diseases Act." UNDER a notification from the Egyptian Board of Health (says the Times of India of the 14th ult.) vessels touching at ports in the Red Sea will be liable to quarantine of twenty-one days at Suez. THE governors of the late Drogheda Infirmary have presented an address to their medical officer, Dr. John B. Kelly, on the closing of the institution in consequence of the loss of the Grand Jury Grant. THERAPEUTICAL HYGIENE.-"I consecrated a portion of the earlier part of my professional life to pharmaceutical therapeutics, and my riper age to original researches in therapeutical hygiene. As they advance in life, young physicians will find, as I have done, that pharmacy does not keep good all its promises, and often will they have to recur to a wisely directed employment of hygienic modifiers."-Bulletin de Thérap., August 30. AN OLD FELLOW."-In looking over the recently published "Calendar of the Royal College of Surgeons," we find some extraordinary illustrations of prolonged existence in several Fellows and Members, particularly in one of the former -Mr. Robert Hartle, of Trinidad, admitted a Fellow in 1844, and a Member so long ago as December, 1800. Presuming, therefore, that he was twenty-two, the then required age of candidates, he must now have arrived, or nearly so, at the great age of ninety-six years. THE VIENNA UNIVERSITY, 1873-74. During the scholastic year which has just closed, 7526 students were registered. Of these there belonged to the medical faculty, 1109 students during the winter session, and 1036 during the summer session. During the two sessions there were 194 new matriculations in the medical faculty. The respective professors had the following number of auditors :-Professor Brücke, 885; Hyrtl, 680; Langer, 555; Bamberger, 540; Billroth, 509; Dumreicher, 495; Duchek, 389; Rokitansky, 354; Braun, 225; Arlt, 218; Vogel, 157; Spaeth, 126; Sigmund, 94; and Meynert, 70.-Wien. Med. Zeit., August 18. ECZEMA OF THE BREAST.-Professor Hardy states that it may be laid down almost as an absolute rule that this occurs only under three conditions-during pregnancy, during suckling, or in women suffering from itch. So true is this, that if it be found in a woman who is neither pregnant or suckling, the existence of itch will always be found on searching for it. The eczema must be first cured, as the sulphuro-alkaline ointment employed for the itch would irritate the eczema, and retard its cure. Sometimes the eczema persists a long time after the cure of the itch and the disappearance of all the acari, and it may be the point of departure of outbreaks spreading towards other parts of the body.-Union Méd., September 1. POPULATION OF FRANCE IN 1872.-According to the official statistics just published, France in 1872 contained 35,362,253 French inhabitants and 740,668 foreigners. The French are divided as follows:-Born in the departments which they inhabit, 30,676,943; born in other departments than those which they inhabit, 4,543,764; Alsatians and Lorrainers who have "opté," 126,243; foreigners naturalised in France, 15,303. The nationalities of the unnaturalised foreigners are as follows:-Belgians, 347,558; Italians, 112,579; Alsatians and Lorrainers who have not opté," 64,808; Spaniards, 52,754; Russians, 52,950; Poles, 42,834; Swiss, 42,830; Germans, 39,361; British, 26,003; Dutch, 17,077; Scandinavians, 7328; Americans, 6859; Austrians, 5116; Chinese and other Asiatics, 3843; Turks, Greeks, and Wallachians, 1173; non-specified nationalities, 9826.-Union Méd., September 5.-[We have transcribed these numbers as given, although it will be found that they exceed the total of foreigners returned.] ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.-From the annual report of the receipts and expenditure of the College from Midsummer-day, 1873, to Midsummer-day, 1874, which has just been published, it appears that the income from all sources amounted to £16,596 58. 11d., derived principally, as might be expected, from fees received at the examinations for the diplomas of Fellow, Member, and Licentiate in Dental Surgery, amounting to £10,529 5s. Curiously enough, there does not appear to have been a single meeting for the Midwifery Licence. From rents and dividends the sum of £2088 13s. 10d. was received. Elections into the Council, Court of Examiners, Fellowship, and ad eundem Membership produced £210. The receipts from "Trust Funds"-viz., Erasmus Wilson £5000, Hunterian £1684, Gale's annuity £689, Jacksonian £377, Sir C. Blicke and Sir G. Blane £300 each-are put down at £247 8s. 3d. The expenditure amounted to £12,672 14s. 5d. Under this head the largest amount appears to have been paid in fees to members of the Council, Courts, and Boards of Examinersviz., £4811 1s. 6d. For salaries and wages in the three departments of "College," "Museum," and "Library," the sum of £3760 19s. 10d. was paid-not an extravagant sum for the large staff employed. The pensions have decreased to £325 98. 6d. The expenses of the brilliant conversazione to the members of the British Medical Association at its meeting last year in this metropolis amounted to £317 15s. 9d. The large sum of £1079 14s. was required for taxes, rates, and stamps, exclusive of postage-stamps. Expenses connected with the examinations-as patients, bandaging, refreshments, subjects, etc.-amounted to £224 14s. 2d. There appears to be the respectable balance to the good of £3923 11s. 6d. HEALTH OF THE PUNJAUB.-The Sanitary Commissioner of the Punjaub, in his weekly return ending July 18 last, states that the decrease of mortality which began in the week ending June 13, 1874, and continued steadily to the week ending July 4, has ceased, as the returns of the present week show a slight increase; the total deaths have risen from 4777 to 4907. Though the increase is very general, the death-rate is not excessive in any district. There was no death registered under the head of cholera. The mortality from small-pox shows a slight increase; the total deaths under this head have risen from 315 to 380. The Ambálah district continues to suffer from the disease with special severity; 145 of the total number of small-pox deaths occurred in that district. The Karnál district also continues to suffer severely, and the disease evinces a tendency to spread in Hazára. Karnál is now the only large town in which it prevails to any serious extent. The efforts of the municipal committee of Amritsar to perfect the registration of births and deaths deserve special notice and acknowledgment. The following extract is taken from a letter received from the President of the Municipal Committee on this subject:-" Copies of the registration by-laws in Persian, Hindi, and Gurmukhi have been printed and distributed freely amongst the Mohalladárs and Lambardars of the city, and omissions to register births, when discovered, are duly punished. During the last few months thirty-seven persons have been prosecuted for breach of the registration by-laws. For registration purposes each division of the city is in charge of a member of the committee, who occasionally checks the registers by making personal inquiries, and by observing if births and deaths occurring in his neighbourhood and within his own knowledge have been duly entered." THE knife is here the chief instrument of self-destruction. During the year we have seldom been a month without one or more of such cases. The neck and abdomen are the places usually selected. Both sexes are addicted to this mode of wreaking vengeance one on another. It is not unusual to see patients with large knife-scars on the neck both before and behind. The latter are inflicted in quarrels. These are most common among beggars and the criminal class. Among the self-inflicted wounds was one of the abdomen, right across the stomach and liver. On the recovery of this patient, a merchant, a handsome tablet was erected with the laudatory inscription, "The Great Virtue of Rescuing from Imminent Death.' One or two cases of this sort occurred among the insane. One of this class, while on a visit to a neighbouring town, and while under temporary insanity, hearing a fire alarm and supposing it to be a revolution in the city, drew a knife and made an ugly gash in his throat. The large deep wound gradually healed, and his soundness of mind seems returning. He was in the employ of one of the largest native druggists in this city. The assistants were entertained to a sumptuous breakfast on the completion of the cure. This is rather a frequent practice among the better-class patients after many favours received.-Dr. John Dudgeon, in the Report of the Peking Hospital for 1873. CARIES continues to hold a prominent place at the dispensary. Large portions of the lower jaw have been removed. In one case, reported last year, from whom the whole jaw was removed, a scroll was presented to me bearing the laudatory inscription "Saved Me Like the Returning Spring."' The peculiarity of this tablet is, that the inscription was written by a man celebrated for his tongue-writing. The writing on the scroll explaining the cure, by whom and to whom presented, and how and by whom written, is done with the finger. These finger- and tongue-writings and finger-paintings are quaint and much admired.-Dr. John Dudgeon, in the Report of the Peking Hospital for 1873. NOTES, QUERIES, AND REPLIES. Se that questioneth much shall learn much.-Bacon. Medicus.-Would the gentleman who has kindly forwarded to us certaire items of Irish news be good enough to favour us with his name and address, not for publication. A Member, Romford.-The museum and library of the College of Surgeons will be reopened on Thursday, October 1. Mr. H. M., Kew.-The late Mr. Scard, your churchwarden, was a Member of the College, and Surgeon to H.R.H. the late Duke of Cambridge, by whom he was much respected. His only son, also a Member of the College, died recently in Australia. Psychologist.-We never recommend asylums. You will find a list, from. which you might make a selection, in Messrs. Churchill's "Medical Directories." A Member of the Quekett Club.-Mr. Stone, of the College of Surgeons, published a capital portrait of the late Professor Quekett. His widow died a year or two ago. The eldest son, we believe, is in China. A. Y. Z., Sidmouth.-The "Students' Number" of the Medical Times ant Gazette, published last week, will give you the desired information.. Write to the Secretary of the College. Indore.-"By mutual confidence and mutual aid, Great deeds are done and great advances made."-Homer. Rahere, Exeter.-No" introductory" will be delivered. Professor Rolleston. F.R.S., will preside at the old students' annual dinner on the 1st proximo. Write to Mr. Langton. An Old Subscriber.-The " Confessions of a Dissecting-room Porter," which appeared in the early volumes of the Medical Times, were written by the late Mr. Albert Smith, M.R.C.S. Your wishes may some day be gratified by a gentleman still on our staff, and who has been so from the first number of its publication. Lithotomist.-There are portraits of Edward Nourse, primus and secundus, in the library of the Royal College of Surgeons, as also, we believe, of Frère Jaques. Dr. Cassidy, Broadmoor.-We are sorry we cannot find a more exact reference to the paper referred to. Alpha. "Thou shalt not kill, but need'st not strive K. Corry.-Under clause 1 of section 19 of the Sanitary Act, 1865, pro- D. O. T.-Ophthalmic Hospital Reports, vol. iv., p. 315, 1865. Douglas P. F.-Under the circumstances stated we do not think he is liable. Agonistes. It is difficult to suppose that any legislation will effectually check the progress of medical impostors. We agree to a certain extent with the views enunciated by our correspondent, but we fear that at present they cannot be carried out. Student.-Dr. Korowin is the Assistant-Physician to the Children's Clinique of St. Petersburg. Gregory F.-The deaths registered in Birmingham during last year were 8990, giving an annual rate of 24'8 per 1000. The deaths of infants. under one year of age, during the same period, equalled 18:15 per cent. of all the births registered. A. J. A.-The area of London-the registration district so-called-is 78,080 acres, or 122 square miles. Quis.-Mr. F. W. Granger is the Medical Officer of Health for Cardiff. Pergamos.-The Savannah Medical College, Georgia, United States, was founded in 1853. The charter of the College is ample in its provisions, and will confer on its graduates every privilege which any other institution is capable of granting. Mons.-Dublin Medical Journal, vol. ix., p. 37. J. F. B., Dudley.-"Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries," vol. ii., p. 137. Selim. "If a better system's thine Impart it frankly or make use of mine."-Francis. R. C. A.-William Caxton first introduced into Great Britain the art of printing. He in 1477, or earlier, carried on that art in one of the chapels in Westminster Abbey. A monument to his memory was erected by the Roxburghe Club, in 1819, in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. Dr. G. C. J.-Dr. Wilson's "Handbook of Hygiene," p. 33. Courteous is thanked, but the article is unsuitable for our columns. V.. V., Gosport, must be more explicit before we can give an opinion on the subject. Cetian.-March 11, 1871. A Fartner should avoid law. The point in dispute ought to be left to the decision of a medical referee. A Young Medical Officer would have been quite justified, according to the circumstances detailed, in bringing the case before the committee. COMMUNICATIONS have been received from Mr. CUTLER, London; Dr. JAMES P. WHITE, Buffalo; Dr. H. J. YELD, Sunderland; Mr. HARWOOD, Boston; W. H.; Mr. H. HOBBS, Hounslow; Dr. BOGGS, Paris; Dr. R. W. Foss, Stockton-on-Tees; THE SECRETARY OF THE CONSUMPTION HOSPITAL, Ventnor; MEDICUS; Mr. DEXTER, Peckham; Dr. J. C. REEVE, Dayton; Mr. J. N. NOBLE, Dundee; Dr. MARSHALL, Saltcoats; Mr. H. LOMAS, London; Mr. A. TEMPLE, Kington; Dr. W. HANDSEL GRIFFITHS, Dublin; THE REGISTRARGENERAL, Edinburgh; THE REGISTRAR OF THE APOTHECARIES' SOCIETY; Dr. BEVERLEY, Norwich; Dr. J. PARKER, Tippecanoe; Dr. STUART ELDRIDGE, Hakodate; Dr. HADDON, Eccles; Dr. M. MoORE, Coventry; Mr. NELSON HARDY, London; Mr. BRUDENELL CARTER, London; Mr. J. H. THOMAS, Bristol; Dr. B. W. RICHARDSON, Eastbourne; Mr. J. CHATTO, London; Mr. D. C. MCVAIL, Glasgow; Mr. DALBY, London; Mr. TEEVAN, London. BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED Da Costa on Strain and Over-Action of the Heart, being the third Toner Lecture-Mechanism of Reflex Nervous Action in Normal Respiration, by Austin Flint, jun., M.D.-Norcom on Hæmorrhagic Malarial FeverAngell and Hehner on the Analysis of Butter-White on the Reduction of Two Cases of Chronic Inversion of the Uterus-Thompson on Free Phosphorus in Medicine-Edwards on Improved Fireplaces-Warnungsrufe Emige Rathschläge bei der leiblichen Erziehung und Pflege der Jugend, von Prof. Dr. A. S. Alrich. PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS RECEIVEDLancet-British Medical Journal-Medical Press and Circular-NaturePharmaceutical Journal-Allgemeine Wiener Medizinische ZeitungBerliner Klinische Wochenschrift-Centralblatt für Chirurgie-Australasian Medical and Surgical Review-El Anfiteatro Anatómico EspanolGazette des Hôpitaux-Gazette Médicale-Gazette HebdomadaireLa Tribune Médicale-Le Mouvement Médical-La France Médicale -Le Progrès Médical-Bulletin de l'Académie de Médecine-Bulletin Général de Thérapeutique-Students' Journal and Hospital GazetteThe Colonial Standard and Jamaica Despatch-Chicago Medical Journal -Boston Journal of Chemistry-New York Medical Journal. 23. Wednesday. Operations at University College, 2 p.m.; St. Mary's, 1 p.m.; Middlesex, 1 p.m.; London, 2 p.m.; St. Bartholomew's, 14 p.m.; Great Northern, 2 p.m.; St. Thomas's, 1 p.m.; Samaritan, 24 p.m.; King's College (by Mr. Wood), 2 p.m.; Royal London Ophthalmic, 11 a.m.; Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, 1 p.m. 24. Thursday. Operations at St. George's, 1 p.m.; Central London Ophthalmic, 1 p.m.; Royal Orthopedic, 2 p.m.; University College, 2 p.m.; Royal London Ophthalmic, 11 a.m.; Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, 14 p.m.; Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, 2 p.m. 25. Friday. Operations at Central London Ophthalmic, 2 p.m.; Royal London Ophthalmic, 11 a.m.; South London Ophthalmic, 2 p.m.; Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, 14 p.m.; St. George's (ophthalmic operations), 1 p.m. ...3400701 45 1 2211 1209 68 1 45-9 56 4 13:55 0-80 2-03 120436 26-8 82 41 1-38 3:51 82257 110 43 37 68 0 44 0 54-9 12:72 098 2:49 192889 43.3 135 77 619 46 2 55-2 12-89 3.31 841 61 70896 20-9 45 65 3 43 6 54 4 12:44 1.13 2.87 ... 360892 43 0 263 183 65.3 44-5 55-2 12-89 1'49 3.78 106202 33 2 67 47 69 2 43 5 54 9 12 72 1'04 2.64 90894 45'5 57 43 66 1 43 1 54 5 12:50 0-61 1-55 510640 980 388 359 61 0 47 0 54-3 12-39 0-93 2:36 355339 82-8 249 169 68'0 44:0 56'0 18:33 1-43 863 133068 25.7 109 79 65 0 42.9 53-7 12:06 1-31 3.33 86281 18.5 87 44 163056 22.6 119) 89 63 4 46 2 54-0 12-22 0-86 2-18 278798 12.9 285 139 64'0 45 0 54 7 12.61 0.66 168 261029 13:3 197 123 65 0 440 540 12-22 0:54 1:37 130996 360 120 68 68 0 440 54-5 12:50 0.63 1.60 104378 31-6 111 Newcastle-on-Tyne 135437 25 2 124 43 88 63-0 45 0 51-9 11-05 1.28 3.25 211691 47-8 140 76 508109 100 4 333 244 314666 31-3 162 142 65 2 43 0 54-1 12-28 0-77 196 Total of 21 Towns in United Kingdm 7618655 36 6 5343 3315 69-2 42-954-5 12:50 1-13 2.87 At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean reading of the barometer last week was 29'61 in. The highest was 29'86 in. on Monday morning, and the lowest 29 30 in. on Wednesday at noon. The figures for the English and Scottish towns are the numbers enumerated in April, 1871, raised to the middle of 1874 by the addition of three years and a quarter's increase, calculated on the rate which prevailed between 1861 and 1871. The population of Dublin is taken as stationary at the number enumerated in April, 1871. |