THE RICE EATEN BY THE DECEASED MRS. WELDON.

343 The same dressing is is a very fine robust man. I am, Sir, your the and and adjacent clothes most humble servant, leg applied, A SURGEON IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD are sprinkled with a solution of the chloOF ASHWELL. ruret of calcium. The tongue is moist, 12th November, 1833. but a little furred. The bowels are open ; pulse 50; appetite good. He is allowed DEATH OF WILLIAM ROBERTS. full diet and a pint of porter. The bones of the tarsus appear to be consolidating To the Editor of THE LANCET. in a manner illustrative of the boundless resources of nature in a good constitution. SIR,—According to an account that I have seen in THE LANCET of the 28th of September, I feel it ’ my duty as his widow, having been continually w ith him to contradict it, relating to the death of THE RICE EATEN BY THE DECEASED Wm.Roberts, sawyer who died at the LondonHospital, on Sunday, Sept.6th, 1833. The neglect was by MRS. WELDON. the writer of the note to you attributed to Surgeon Andrews, but. Sir, I can aseure you, as soon as To the Editor oj THE LANCET. Surgeon Andrews retttrned from the conntry, he found the patient that h.,d been under his SIR,—In my letter in last week’s LAN-cace treated very improperly for a placed broken or a fracCET, I mentioned that my patient (Wel- tured hmb. Those persons acting under him had him on full diet, when he ought to have been don) stated that she purchased the riceput low. The poor sufferer felt iii himself a at the corner of Osborn-street, opposite kept very that if he had been attended by Surgeon ’ confidence, Whitechapel church. I have since thatAndrews, he would have eveutually recovered. He communication taken an opportunity of, spoke in the highest possible piaise of Surgeon and likewise of the Rev. Gentleman, the examining the same kind of rice said to be Andrews, (jovernor, that attended him at his last moments ; then sold, as well as some now selling, and I can also speak of Mr. Andrews’s strict attenand, in justice to the proprietor (whosetion, which I am heartily sony was too late to reI remain, establishment is of the first respectability), medy the evil sustained.—Sir,MARY ROBERTS, .ROBERTS, I beg to say that it appears to me to be Widow of the deceased. sound and and such a of St. No. Charles-street, 17, East, good, perfectly George’s Nov. 9th, 1833. quality, that I should not have hesitated to have used it in my own family. 1 am, THE COLCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY, Sir, yours obediently, J. W. BABNETT. BARNETT. Dr. Tomkin, President, have also expressed their cordial approbation of the con75, Fore-street, Limehouse, duct of the ex-medical officers of the AlNovember 21st. Dispensary, in an able We trust that rice from the same dersgate-Street address to those gentlemen, at the conparcel is not " now selling " at the esta- clusion of which the Society observes blishment in question. Surely the appear- "that it laments exceedingly, that any inance of the rice signifies little if the nse dividuals should be found so forgetful of of it, as food, be capable of producing death. what is due to themselves, and to the ho- ED. L. nourable profession to which they belong, as, under such circumstances, to accept of INQUIRY. offices that were resigned for just and praiseworthy reasons, and with the uniTo the Editor of THE LANCET. versal approbation of their medical breSIR,— You will, perhaps, excuse the thren, both in the metropolis and throughliberty I take in requesting you to furnish out the country." us, if possible, in THE LANCET, with the particulars of an operation for stone, that ALDERSGATE-STREET DISPENSARY.was performed on a person of the name of A Correspondent says,-The struggle at William Stone, of Ashford, near Bakewell. the Dispensary being over, the ill effects The case is a rather interesting one to are progressively showing themselves ; persons in this neighbourhood. The man theinfluential and more respectable goveris a gamekeeper to the Duke of Devon- nors are withholding their subscriptions. shire, and was sent to London by his Many instances of this have occurred; some Grace, having previously had his bladder of the interviews with the collector have examined. It contained five stones, one been both interesting and amusing. The of them very large. He has been in Lon- common reply when he calls is, "Not at don a month, and only one letter has been home;" or if fortunate enough to obtain received from him. In that he stated that admission, the remark is, "I am sorry he had been operated upon six times with- you have called so many times, because I out etfect, had suffered most severely, and do not intend subscribing again." The was in lodgings in Oxford-street, but he have directed the collector to did not say what partof the street. He in a monthly account of all "sece-

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