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672 WE have just, at the eleventh hour,re. comprises those of no less than 11 dukes, 5 marquises, 17 earls, 8 viscounts, ceived the August number of the " Statistical 16 barons, an archbishop, 15 bishops, and Journal," which, among other papers, com. many state functionaries and men of letters !" prises one of considerable interest on a subWell may the " Gazette des H6pitaux" say, ject nearly allied to that of our own editorial " Our quacks are mere apprentices to the remarks, namely, the influence of employment on the diseases of patients in King’s English quacks !" We shall revert to the subject. DR. PETIT, late of Paris, has been ap- College. enumeration
pointed surgeon
to the
hospital of St. André,
Bordeaux. WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.—A board of the governors was held on Tuesday last, to consider certain proposals which Mr. GUTHRIE had made at a previous board (mentioned at the time in THE LANCET), relative to the attendance of the medical officers, and other matters appertaining to the medical affairs of the institution. Mr. Guthrie’s remarks were of much the same character as those which fell from him on the former occasion ; but there seemed to be little disposition in the meeting to entertain his propositions, however beneficial they might be to the hospital and school, both of them conducted, at present, in any other than a business-like and attentive manner. An amendment was proposed and carried by a large majority, that the matter be referred to the medical officers, with a request that they would report to the house-committee on the subject. The amendment caused some discussion, chiefly with reference to the propriety of adding Mr. GUTHRIE’S name to those of the reporters; but Dr. RoE protested, ill the name of the whole medical staff, against it, contending that there existed the best of all reasons against that proposition. Mr. GUTHRIE declared that he would not act with the medical officers in the matter, although he would willingly open his purse, or act in any other manner, on behalf either of the hospital or the school, if he could see them properly conducted. He believed that no man in Europe was so fitted as himself to make regulations for the management of a hospital, because no other man had had such extensive experience in hospital management, both civil and military. Whatever object Mr. Guthrie has in bringing forward his propositions for reform, it is quite certain that the pretence that the Westminster Hospital needs reform is not a sham. Nothing can be worse managed as a place of instruction. There is not, we believe, one clinical-case-book in the whole institution.
Tn E " CONGRFS SCIENTIFIQUE"—a body in France, which, like the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, travels about the country-will meet next September at Anger, where the following questions are to be discussed in the medical section :1. The means of putting in force the exist. ing laws respecting the practice of medicine and pharmacy. 2. The establishment in all the departments of France of cantonal phy. sicians, and the laying down their duties. 3. The suppression of the title officier de santi. 4. The institution of boards of health throughout France, and the definition of their authority. 5. The establishment in the chief town of every department (cap. county, in England) of a permanent medical board
appointed to watch over the interests of the profession. 6. Alterations to introduce into practice (l’exercice de la medecine legale). 7. The total suppression of secret remedies, and reform in the laws relative to the sale of poisons. 8. The periodical revision of the Pharmacopoeia. Three other questions chiefly concern the pharmaciers, or plain apothecaries. The members of the British Association would not, we suppose, take up and discuss similar questions at their meet. ing, however useful the consequence. MR. M. D. THOMPSON, of Stalybridge, says, in a note to the Editor, " Lately, in attendance on a female with ascites, &c., having the omentum and the rest of the peritoneum studded with miliary tubercles, I
on placing my ear on the abdomen, distinct friction-murmur, varying according to the respiration. The nature of the disease was verified by a post-mortein examination of the body. In my opinion the disturbance of the parts of the abdomen in respiration caused the tubercles to rub against each other ; hence the murmur. The fact may assist the diagnosis of tubercular disease of the peritoneum."
heard,
a
ROYAL
COLLEGE OF SURGEONS LONDON.
gentlemen admitted members on Friday, July 28, 1843 :-W. Wilkinson, THE King of the French has been pleased R. W. Watkins, E. J. Riccard, J. Palmer, to honour Dr. Borchard, of Bordeaux, with H. Harding, E. Callender, H. Butler. a medal, in reward for his zeal and assiduity in relieving the sufferings of many indiCORRESPONDENTS. viduals,attacked by the epidemic (sweating sickness) which raged last year in two of M. R. C. S.-As the member would be the western departments of France. This actingas a physician in that case, he would is a way of rewarding merit, cheap and con- practise with the same impunity as all the venient enough-to the giver. other physicians in London and England. LIST of
pointed surgeon
to the
hospital of St. André,
Bordeaux. WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.—A board of the governors was held on Tuesday last, to consider certain proposals which Mr. GUTHRIE had made at a previous board (mentioned at the time in THE LANCET), relative to the attendance of the medical officers, and other matters appertaining to the medical affairs of the institution. Mr. Guthrie’s remarks were of much the same character as those which fell from him on the former occasion ; but there seemed to be little disposition in the meeting to entertain his propositions, however beneficial they might be to the hospital and school, both of them conducted, at present, in any other than a business-like and attentive manner. An amendment was proposed and carried by a large majority, that the matter be referred to the medical officers, with a request that they would report to the house-committee on the subject. The amendment caused some discussion, chiefly with reference to the propriety of adding Mr. GUTHRIE’S name to those of the reporters; but Dr. RoE protested, ill the name of the whole medical staff, against it, contending that there existed the best of all reasons against that proposition. Mr. GUTHRIE declared that he would not act with the medical officers in the matter, although he would willingly open his purse, or act in any other manner, on behalf either of the hospital or the school, if he could see them properly conducted. He believed that no man in Europe was so fitted as himself to make regulations for the management of a hospital, because no other man had had such extensive experience in hospital management, both civil and military. Whatever object Mr. Guthrie has in bringing forward his propositions for reform, it is quite certain that the pretence that the Westminster Hospital needs reform is not a sham. Nothing can be worse managed as a place of instruction. There is not, we believe, one clinical-case-book in the whole institution.
Tn E " CONGRFS SCIENTIFIQUE"—a body in France, which, like the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, travels about the country-will meet next September at Anger, where the following questions are to be discussed in the medical section :1. The means of putting in force the exist. ing laws respecting the practice of medicine and pharmacy. 2. The establishment in all the departments of France of cantonal phy. sicians, and the laying down their duties. 3. The suppression of the title officier de santi. 4. The institution of boards of health throughout France, and the definition of their authority. 5. The establishment in the chief town of every department (cap. county, in England) of a permanent medical board
appointed to watch over the interests of the profession. 6. Alterations to introduce into practice (l’exercice de la medecine legale). 7. The total suppression of secret remedies, and reform in the laws relative to the sale of poisons. 8. The periodical revision of the Pharmacopoeia. Three other questions chiefly concern the pharmaciers, or plain apothecaries. The members of the British Association would not, we suppose, take up and discuss similar questions at their meet. ing, however useful the consequence. MR. M. D. THOMPSON, of Stalybridge, says, in a note to the Editor, " Lately, in attendance on a female with ascites, &c., having the omentum and the rest of the peritoneum studded with miliary tubercles, I
on placing my ear on the abdomen, distinct friction-murmur, varying according to the respiration. The nature of the disease was verified by a post-mortein examination of the body. In my opinion the disturbance of the parts of the abdomen in respiration caused the tubercles to rub against each other ; hence the murmur. The fact may assist the diagnosis of tubercular disease of the peritoneum."
heard,
a
ROYAL
COLLEGE OF SURGEONS LONDON.
gentlemen admitted members on Friday, July 28, 1843 :-W. Wilkinson, THE King of the French has been pleased R. W. Watkins, E. J. Riccard, J. Palmer, to honour Dr. Borchard, of Bordeaux, with H. Harding, E. Callender, H. Butler. a medal, in reward for his zeal and assiduity in relieving the sufferings of many indiCORRESPONDENTS. viduals,attacked by the epidemic (sweating sickness) which raged last year in two of M. R. C. S.-As the member would be the western departments of France. This actingas a physician in that case, he would is a way of rewarding merit, cheap and con- practise with the same impunity as all the venient enough-to the giver. other physicians in London and England. LIST of