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ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL, NETLEY.
409 I K. MacLeod, M.D. Edin., LL.D.Aberd., Lieutenantvaluable source of reference on the progress of the subjectsColonel Colonel W. E. Webb, M.D. Aberd., R.A.M.C., Major W. is an of this The introduction excellent indicated. précis Dick, F.R.C.S. Edin., R.A.M.C., Major R. H. Firth, progress. F.R.C.S. Eng., and Major W. W. Webb, M.D. Aberd.
The Microscopy of the More Comnionly Occurring Starches. Before handing the prizes to the successful competitors HUGH GALT, M.B., C.M. Glasg., D.P.H. Camb. London: Colonel W. J. CHARLTON, the principal medical officer, : some well-chosen words to the assembled surgeonsBailliere, Tindall, and Cox. 1900. Pp. 114. Price 3s. 6d.-addressed who have been recommended for commissions as on-probation ’This little work is the outcome of a most useful piece lieutenants in the Indian Medical Service. Colonel CHARLTON of research relating to the identification of the more said : "Itis my pleasing duty to-day to present the prizes to commonly occurring starches. We hope that the author will those who have been successful in the late examination, and .go on further with his work and develop the subject on the in doing so I offer you my warmest congratulations on the admirable lines of this instalment. It is a fact that distinctions which you have gained, which must be a source of much gratification and pride to each of you I wish, however, accuracy in regard to description and delineation of the to impress upon you the necessity of not discontinuing your starch is the rather than the - commonest grains exception studies now that your time at Netley has terminated. The rule in most text-books on the subject. The author has real battle of life only begins on your leaving here, and your taken micro-photographs of the various starches, employing in future success depends on the steady and earnest acquisition the first instance dark ground illumination and in the second of knowledge which the prizes you receive to day should instance transmitted light. He has thus obtained some re- stimulate you to endeavour to obtain. You are about to join a service of which I have some knowledge and experience, markable results which are quite contrary to the illustrations gained during 15 years’ residence in India, and I can with - usually portrayed. One paragraph on this subject we cannot confidence assure you that it is one you have every cause to resist quoting. It is so good and illustrates the spirit in feel a pride in. The Indian Medical Service is an old and which the author has conducted his research. "In the time-honoured one, with a fine history and great traditions, associated with it many eminent and distinguished light of the usual illustrations of potato starch what I have and has not alone in the domains of medicine and surgery names, just said may appear somewhat startling; but as to its and the allied sciences, but in that of diplomacy correctness there is no doubt, and, unlike many elaborate also-names which have shed a lustre on your service - experiments, it may be verified with very little trouble by that time will not easily dim. The Indian Medical anyone with even an elementary knowledge of microscopy. Service has conferred, and is daily conferring, inSo prone is man to accept without question the statements numerable blessings on the population of India and has been largely instrumental in ingratiating us and our rule .and illustrations of previous observers that the most miswith the people of that country and in enabling us to extend leading descriptions and figures-not of starches alone but our empire and consolidate our power ; in fact, it has been a of many other objects-appeared, and still appear, in many most potent factor in the government of that country. In - of the standard works dealing with the most diverse: conclusion, I need only say that it should be your aim and a high ideal and to try to follow in the subjects." How true this is. As we have said, we trust; object to preserve of the great men who have preceded you, to mainfootsteps that the author will pursue this interesting line of investigatain at all times the honour and good name of your service tion further and give us the same valuable record of his! as faithfully as you would your own, so that you may transresults. The book will be most useful to analysts andmit the same unsullied and untarnished to your successors ; laboratory workers in public health. It is illustrated by 22and in doing so I have no doubt but that you will steadily and surely attain success, and that when the day comes for original micro- photographs. you to sever your connexion with India you will have the Mother, Baby, and Nursery:A Manual for Mothers. Byhappy reflection that you have done your duty to God and GENEVIEVE TUCKER, M.D. London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1900. man." The following lists show the names of the successful Pp. 193. Price ls.-We reviewed the first edition of thiss book in our issue of April 9t.h, 1898 (p. 1004), and can find surgeons-on-probation. Those of the Royal Army Medical were nominated to the school by the Secretary of State nothing new in the present edition. The two best chapterss Corps for War on the recommendation of the medical schools of the in the book are the last two which are respectively entitled,, United Kingdom, and on leaving Netley they were subjected ’Nursery Pointers"and "Nursery Don’ts." The advicee to a qualifying and placing examination only. given upon feeding is sound and we are particularly pleased INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE. to see that the author insists upon the necessity of babiess List of surgeons-on-probation who were successful at both being allowed pure water to drink, and that milk is more aa the London and Netley examinations. The prizes are food than a drink. Great stress, too, is very properly laiddawarded for marks gained in the special subjects taught
By
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ARMY MEDICAL
SCHOOL,
NETLEY.
*
Gained the First Montefiore Prize of .E21 and Medal. Prize of .E20, the Martin Memorial Medal, the Second Montenore Prize, and the Prize in Pathology presented W. Hooper, C.S.I. by Surgeon-General Gained the Maolean Prize in Clinical and Ward Work. Gained the de Chaumont Prize in Hygiene.
t Gained the Herbert
THE winter session of the Army Medical School was on Jan. 31st. Owing to the continuation of the war in South Africa there was no public function in ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. the school and owing to the circumstance that the surgeonsList of nominated surgeons on probation who were on-probation of the Royal Army Medical Corps had only been recommended for commissions in the Royal Army Medical enabled to spend two months instead of four at the Army Corps at the close of the eighty-first session :J. V. Roche. A. J. W. Wells. Medical School the surgeons-on-probation of the Indian A. J. Hull. G. F. Sheehan. Medical Service alone competed for the prizes and medals. R. V. Cowey. H. H. Scott. distributed The prizes were J. Conway. H. A. B Bransbury. by the principal medical officer J. H. Barbour. M. W. Falkner. tf the Royal Victoria Hospital in the presence of the F. E. Robinson. N. Woodley. R. of the Indian Medical Service and of surgeons-on-probation S. Mason. E. Ryan. the following officers : Professor A. E. Wright, M.D. Dub., J. S. Bostock. E. E. Parkes.
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The Microscopy of the More Comnionly Occurring Starches. Before handing the prizes to the successful competitors HUGH GALT, M.B., C.M. Glasg., D.P.H. Camb. London: Colonel W. J. CHARLTON, the principal medical officer, : some well-chosen words to the assembled surgeonsBailliere, Tindall, and Cox. 1900. Pp. 114. Price 3s. 6d.-addressed who have been recommended for commissions as on-probation ’This little work is the outcome of a most useful piece lieutenants in the Indian Medical Service. Colonel CHARLTON of research relating to the identification of the more said : "Itis my pleasing duty to-day to present the prizes to commonly occurring starches. We hope that the author will those who have been successful in the late examination, and .go on further with his work and develop the subject on the in doing so I offer you my warmest congratulations on the admirable lines of this instalment. It is a fact that distinctions which you have gained, which must be a source of much gratification and pride to each of you I wish, however, accuracy in regard to description and delineation of the to impress upon you the necessity of not discontinuing your starch is the rather than the - commonest grains exception studies now that your time at Netley has terminated. The rule in most text-books on the subject. The author has real battle of life only begins on your leaving here, and your taken micro-photographs of the various starches, employing in future success depends on the steady and earnest acquisition the first instance dark ground illumination and in the second of knowledge which the prizes you receive to day should instance transmitted light. He has thus obtained some re- stimulate you to endeavour to obtain. You are about to join a service of which I have some knowledge and experience, markable results which are quite contrary to the illustrations gained during 15 years’ residence in India, and I can with - usually portrayed. One paragraph on this subject we cannot confidence assure you that it is one you have every cause to resist quoting. It is so good and illustrates the spirit in feel a pride in. The Indian Medical Service is an old and which the author has conducted his research. "In the time-honoured one, with a fine history and great traditions, associated with it many eminent and distinguished light of the usual illustrations of potato starch what I have and has not alone in the domains of medicine and surgery names, just said may appear somewhat startling; but as to its and the allied sciences, but in that of diplomacy correctness there is no doubt, and, unlike many elaborate also-names which have shed a lustre on your service - experiments, it may be verified with very little trouble by that time will not easily dim. The Indian Medical anyone with even an elementary knowledge of microscopy. Service has conferred, and is daily conferring, inSo prone is man to accept without question the statements numerable blessings on the population of India and has been largely instrumental in ingratiating us and our rule .and illustrations of previous observers that the most miswith the people of that country and in enabling us to extend leading descriptions and figures-not of starches alone but our empire and consolidate our power ; in fact, it has been a of many other objects-appeared, and still appear, in many most potent factor in the government of that country. In - of the standard works dealing with the most diverse: conclusion, I need only say that it should be your aim and a high ideal and to try to follow in the subjects." How true this is. As we have said, we trust; object to preserve of the great men who have preceded you, to mainfootsteps that the author will pursue this interesting line of investigatain at all times the honour and good name of your service tion further and give us the same valuable record of his! as faithfully as you would your own, so that you may transresults. The book will be most useful to analysts andmit the same unsullied and untarnished to your successors ; laboratory workers in public health. It is illustrated by 22and in doing so I have no doubt but that you will steadily and surely attain success, and that when the day comes for original micro- photographs. you to sever your connexion with India you will have the Mother, Baby, and Nursery:A Manual for Mothers. Byhappy reflection that you have done your duty to God and GENEVIEVE TUCKER, M.D. London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1900. man." The following lists show the names of the successful Pp. 193. Price ls.-We reviewed the first edition of thiss book in our issue of April 9t.h, 1898 (p. 1004), and can find surgeons-on-probation. Those of the Royal Army Medical were nominated to the school by the Secretary of State nothing new in the present edition. The two best chapterss Corps for War on the recommendation of the medical schools of the in the book are the last two which are respectively entitled,, United Kingdom, and on leaving Netley they were subjected ’Nursery Pointers"and "Nursery Don’ts." The advicee to a qualifying and placing examination only. given upon feeding is sound and we are particularly pleased INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE. to see that the author insists upon the necessity of babiess List of surgeons-on-probation who were successful at both being allowed pure water to drink, and that milk is more aa the London and Netley examinations. The prizes are food than a drink. Great stress, too, is very properly laiddawarded for marks gained in the special subjects taught
By
-
ARMY MEDICAL
SCHOOL,
NETLEY.
*
Gained the First Montefiore Prize of .E21 and Medal. Prize of .E20, the Martin Memorial Medal, the Second Montenore Prize, and the Prize in Pathology presented W. Hooper, C.S.I. by Surgeon-General Gained the Maolean Prize in Clinical and Ward Work. Gained the de Chaumont Prize in Hygiene.
t Gained the Herbert
THE winter session of the Army Medical School was on Jan. 31st. Owing to the continuation of the war in South Africa there was no public function in ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. the school and owing to the circumstance that the surgeonsList of nominated surgeons on probation who were on-probation of the Royal Army Medical Corps had only been recommended for commissions in the Royal Army Medical enabled to spend two months instead of four at the Army Corps at the close of the eighty-first session :J. V. Roche. A. J. W. Wells. Medical School the surgeons-on-probation of the Indian A. J. Hull. G. F. Sheehan. Medical Service alone competed for the prizes and medals. R. V. Cowey. H. H. Scott. distributed The prizes were J. Conway. H. A. B Bransbury. by the principal medical officer J. H. Barbour. M. W. Falkner. tf the Royal Victoria Hospital in the presence of the F. E. Robinson. N. Woodley. R. of the Indian Medical Service and of surgeons-on-probation S. Mason. E. Ryan. the following officers : Professor A. E. Wright, M.D. Dub., J. S. Bostock. E. E. Parkes.
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