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it enters the sea, and the opening out and development of thEe Wrixon ; and numerous garden-parties and other out-door districts known as Tardeo, Mahalukshimi, and Worli, by Bacteriology. encouraging the expansion of the city in this direction andi thus relieving the overcrowding which at present exists in An interesting return of the work done at the bacteriocertain parts of it. logical laboratory of the University of Melbourne for 1907 has Ootacund. been published by Dr. R. J. Bull. The Board of Health Two subjects of great interest just now are the health ofE subsidises the laboratory for examinations of sputum in the station, which has been bad this season, and the drainage) regard to tuberculosis and for examinations in relation Under this heading scheme, to which this condition of things is attributed in no) to enteric fever and diphtheria. Private practismall measure. Dysentery has been universally prevalent 2856 specimens were reported upon. and the official inquiry on the subject, if any, has not beenLtioners supplied 3668 specimens for investigation during given to the public. With regard to the drainage scheme the same period. In addition to this clinical work the municipality has held several special meetings to consider the laboratory conducts routine examinations for several the question but apparently has not yet arrived at a decision Government departments and public bodies. In the agriculwhether it will take it over from the Department of Public tural department the interesting discovery has been made Works in an unfinished state or will wait until construction that actinomycosis is prevalent among Victorian dairy cows as has further proceeded to completion and then take it over a primary disease of the udder. Purely research work has been done in actinomycosis, rat leprosy and certain diseases -i.e., after it has evidence that it is a workable scheme. of fish and poultry, and in various other directions. Mayo Native Hospital, Calcutta. Extraordinary Death. At its last meeting the finance special committee of the At the Melbourne Hospital a patient was admitted Calcutta corporation was to consider a letter received from the officiating superintendent and secretary, Mayo Native apparently suffering from severe and extensive burns and died shortly after admission. The burns were evidently the Hospital, asking the corporation to assist the institution to of some chemical agent and the man admitted that he meet the expenses incidental to a thorough overhauling of result had painted himself with a solution of perchloride of mercury its drainage and water-supply. The letter is as follows :"in order to kill bugs." He had purchased two ounces of the In forwarding herewith the copy of a resolution of the governors of from a druggist and made a solution himself, the exact the Mayo Native Hospital, dated the 25th May, 1908, I have the honour drug to request the favour of your kindly helping this charitable institution, strength not being known. which is chiefly dependent on subscriptions and donations, and which is too poor to meet all the expenses incidental to a thorough overhauling Cooas2cnaPtaon of Alcohol. of its drainage and water-supply. The present drainage and waterCanon of New South Wales has for the past 25 Boyce supply date from 1874, when this building was constructed, and are now in a deplorably insanitary condition. Sundry repairs have been done years worked out the annual drink bill of that State. In from time to time as funds were available, but have proved so unsatis- 1907 he finds that £5,200, 000 were expended by the people of factory that thorough repairs have now become urgently necessary. New South Wales in alcoholic drinks. This is the highest Messrs. J. B. Norton and Sons estimate that complete and thorough repairs will cost Rs.7624-13-6, which is quite beyond the means of the record yet attained, but on a per capita basis it is lower than hospital. The work, however, can be taken up piecemeal, and the most in 1900 and 1901. In Victoria the consumption of beer was important portion is done now at an estimated cost of Rs.1811-3-6. It larger in 1907 than for many years. It has been demonis absolutely necessary that this should be done at once, and if the corporation can see their way to assist this institution in this matter strated from figures in Australia that the drink bill fluctuates it will be an act of grace and will be greatly appreciated. with prosperity, being higher in good seasons and lower in bad. The general indications in Australia are that the The resolution was as follows :Even in the are becoming more and more temperate. people The attention of the governors having been drawn to the urgent need of improving the drainage and water-supply of the hospital and to the back-block towns the old orgies are becoming very rare. estimates of Messrs. Norton and Sons for doing the work, it was Milk-Supply. resolved that the Calcutta corporation be approached to defray the cost of carrying on the work. The committee of the Lady Talbot Institute, which was Oct. 6th. established for the purpose of encouraging the supply of special clean milk for infants, has formulated a series of conditions for the production, handling, and storage of such milk. Dairymen who comply with these requirements will AUSTRALIA. be entitled to advertise their milk as having the approval of (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) the institute. It is proposed that medical men should be informed where such milk is obtainable and urged to use it where breast-feeding is impracticable. The board hopes Eighth Australasian Medical Congress. to formulate a bacteriological standard for special shortly THE arrangements for the Congress to be held in Melbourne milk. Amongst the conditions are the following:from Oct. 17th to 24th are now almost complete and the The milk, on arrival at the cooling room, must at once be strained gathering promises to be highly successful both from the through an approved strainer or cleansing centrifuge, and cooled to a temscientific and the social aspect. Already 550 members have perature below 450 F., and so kept until pasteurised or bottled, or been enrolled, a number which will probably be still further otherwise prepared for delivery. If bottled on the farm, the milk must be bottled in sterilised bottles augmented. The problems of syphilis will form a large within 15 minutes of being cooled, and, if so required, must then be with and are to be dealt of the discussions feature separately pasteurised at such a temperature and for such a time as the board may in various sections and by the Congress as a whole. The approve. Immediately afterwards, or during pasteurisation, the bottles with sterilised stoppers and sealed with the seal of the other general discussion will be on hospitals and a series of must be corked institute, and must be cooled to a temperature below 40° F. within two motions will be submitted which it is hoped will form a hours of milking. It may prove practicable to extend somewhat the foundation upon which a reform of existing abuses may be period within which the milk may be bottled and pasteurised, the requirement being that the temperature of the milk shall be The list of papers arranged for the various primary initiated. maintained throughout at a temperature below 450 F. The bottled milk sections shows that Australian practice is well abreast of the must be available for distribution within such time of milking as the times in modern developments of medicine and surgery. An board may fix, and must, until distributed, be kept at a temperature not 50° F. The board is prepared to consider methods of packing discussion is arranged in the surgical section on exceeding important Mid distribution other than in bottles. " All persons engaged in any milk-room or place in which special superAnæsthesia-General, Local, and Intraspinous." Opsonic work and treatment by vaccines will be fully dealt with and vised milk is handled must wear clean, washable overalls and caps, and with any prescribed routine for insuring cleanliness of several papers will relate to ionic medication. An interesting nust comply person and the protection of the milk from contamination. After milkto be in the of children’s diseases section promises paper ng and milk-handling operations are completed overalls must be that by Dr. Stephens who will tabulate his observations of emoved, and, if soiled, must be washed and boiled; otherwise they nust be well shaken and put away in a clean cupboard. the recent epidemics of infantile paralysis in Melbourne and Utensils must be cleaned and sterilised, and so stored as to exclude suburbs. Tropical diseases as met with in Australia will all dust and prevent contamination. For the cleansing of utensils and also be noticed. A well-equipped museum will be arranged. .ppliances warm soda solution of a strength of 1 pound of washing soda o 20 gallons must be used. After thoroughly cleansing the sterilisaThe social events include a Congress dinner given by the ion must be effected by means of live steam or by complete immersion Victorian members to visitors ; a ball given by the n a boiling solution of soda of the above-named strength. When directed by the supervising officer, milkers, after specially officers of the Australian Army Medical Corps; evening their hands, must milk a sample of milk direct from each receptions by the President of the Congress, Professor H. B. cashing uarter of the udder into sterilised bottles, which will be supplied. Allen, and by the President of the Legislative Council, Sir H. ’he bottle must be immediately corked with a sterilised rubber
fixtures.
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Edward H. P. Murphy, Patrick F. Nunan, and James H. Crane. fart II.-William L. English, Reginald T. Vaughan, Townley G. Hardman, Cecil Grene, Thomas A. Watson, James H. Crane, John W. Flood, Charles D. IIanan, and William M. Johnstone. PREVIOUS DENTAL EXAMINATION. Jlateria Medica.-Arthur A. Smith.
stopper and placed in a mixture of salt and ice or cooled to a tempcrature below 40° F. and kept below that temperature until delivered to an approved bacteriologist. A movement has also been initiated in Sydney for the establishment of pure milk depots by the request of Miss Rawson who invited a number of medical men and others to The proposal was supported by Sir discuss the question. James Graham, Dr. C. K. M’Kellar, and Sir P. Sydney Jones. The last emphasised the importance of restricting the supply The following to infants who could not be breast-fed. resolution was adopted :That in the opinion of those present it is advisable to establish a system of milk depots for the supply of pure milk for infants.
O’Brien,
FOREIGN UNIVERSITY
INTELLIGENCE.-
Berlin:Professor Engelmann’s lectures on Physiology will be delivered by Professor Rene du Bois Reymond during the present session as the former is about to retire. It is intended to divide the duties of the chair of Physiology between two professors who will take Pure Physiology and Chemical Sept. 23ru. Physiology respectively. Dr. Verworn, professor in Gottingen, and Dr. Kossel, professor in Heidelberg, have been offered these chairs.-Budapest : Dr. Dezsö Raskai has been recognised as privat-docent of Diseases of the Genito-Urinary System.-Prague (German University) : A new proALONZO GEORGE RIDER, M.B. LOND., L.R.C.P. LOND., fessorship of Laryngology has been established to which Dr. L. Harmer, privat-docent, has been appointed.M.R.C.S. ENG., Vienna:Dr. Maximilian Weinberger has been recognised SENIOR SURGEON, ROYAL ALBERT HOSPITAL, DEVONPORT. as privat-docent of Medicine and Dr. Walter Pick as privatDr. Alonzo George Rider died at his residence, 16, Garfielddocent of Dermatology and Syphilology. on Oct. 18th in his _________________
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forty-second
terrace, Stoke, Devonport,
The deceased was the elder son of Mr. Alonzo Rider, J.P., of Devonport. He received his medical education at University College Hospital, London, graduating M.B. Lond. in 1891, and taking the L.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S. qualifications in the same year. After holding appointments at University College Hospital Dr. Rider commenced practice at Stoke, Devonport, in 1892, and was appointed surgeon to the Provident Dispensary in connexion with the Royal Albert Hospital. He was subsequently elected assistant surgeon to that hospital, and at the time of his death he was senior surgeon to the institution. Dr. Rider was extremely popular and highly esteemed in the "Three Towns," and was president of the Plymouth Medical Society for the current year. His death is a great loss to the local medical profession, for besides being one of the kindliest of men he was one of the most successful practitioners in Devonport and had won a high reputation for his surgical skill. Dr. Rider leaves a widow and two young children.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-The following appointments have been made :-Demonstrator of Animal Morphology: Mr. R. C. Punnett, M.A., Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy : Mr. F. H. Potts, M.A., Fellow of Trinity Hall. Examiners for
year.
the First and Second M.B. :--Physics : Mr. C. T. R. Wilson, M.A., Sidney Sussex ; and Mr. T. G. Bedford, M.A., Sidney Sussex. Chemistry: Mr. R. H. Adie, M.A., Trinity College; and Mr. C. T. Heycock, M.A., King’s College. Biology: Mr. A. E. Shipley, M.A., Christ’s College; and Professor A. C. Seward. Human anatomy : Dr. W. L. H. Duckworth, Jesus College ; and Mr. C. Addison, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Physiology: Dr. H. K. Anderson, Gonville and Caius College ; and Dr. D. Noel Paton, Glasgow University. Examiners for the Third M.B., Part 1. :-General pathology: Professor G. Sims Woodhead and Dr. J. Ritchie, Edinburgh. General pharmacology : Dr. W. E. Dixon, Downing College ; and Professor C. R. Marshall. Downing College.-In the list of candidates who have passed the examination in Sanitary Science which appeared in our issue of Oct. 24th, p. 1261, the name of Leslie T. R. Hutchinson (Trinity) was accidentally omitted.
Medical News.
WEST LONDON POST-GRADUATE COLLEGE.-The LONDON.-At opening address of the winter session of the West London examinations held recently the following candidates passed Post-Graduate College was delivered on Oct. 13th by Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Bart., K.C.V.O., President in the subjects indicated :Surgery.-E. W. Braithwaite (Sections 1. and II.), Leeds ; H. J. of the Royal College of Physicians of London. A large Clutterbuck, Middlesex Hospital; J. Grimoldby (Sections 1. and audience was present. Sir Richard Douglas Powell H. E. Middlebrooke (Section II.), London SOCIETY
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II.), Edinburgh; commented on the value of the instruction which could Hospital; J. R. Perdrau (Section I.), Guy’s Hospital; H. W. be obtained in this and D. Rees 1. A. (Sections Manchester; post-graduate college, and, in disII.), Phillips (Section 11.), Charing Cross Hospital; and N. C. Wallis (Section II.), London cussing the reasons why medical men should go there Hospital. to study, said that their first reason was a desire to Medicine.-G. K. Aubrey (Section II.), King’s College Hospital; E. W. Braithwaite (Sections I. and II.), Leeds; H. A. Hancock (Section I.) place themselves abreast of the medicine of the day. and H. B. Waller (Section II.), London Hospital; and H. V. White, Amongst other things, nothing was so important as to (Sections I. and II.), Manchester. value of antiseptics and bacteriology Forensic Medicine.-E. W. Braithwaite, Leeds ; and J. J. S. Rowe, learn to appreciate the He congratulated the as applied to internal medicine. Charing Cross Hospital. Midwifery.-N. B. Beniatield, University College Hospital ; and E. W. members of the public services, such as the Royal Naval .
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Braithwaite, Leeds. The diploma of the Society was granted to the following candidates! entitling them to practise medicine, surgery, and midwifery :-E. W. Braithwaite, H. J. Clutterbuck, J. Grimoldby, H. E. Middlebrooke, H. W. Phillips, A. D. Rees, and N. C. Wallis. .
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TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.-At examinations recently the following candidates were successful :-
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FINAL MEDICAL EXAMINATION. Part I.-William R. Watson, Peter H. Lcmass, Samuel R. Richardson, William P. H. Smiley, William H. Hart, Louis Trichard, andi Brindley H. Moore. Pctssed in Pathology:Victor W. T. M’Gusty,, and Hugh S. Metcalfe. PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION. Botany and Zoology.-Henry V. FitzGerald, Edgar H. Wilkins, Edward H. H. Lloyd-Dodd, John A. MacSweeny, Richard S. G. Halpin, William Foot, Hedley Boyers, William J. Stewart, andd James H. Fletcher. Physics and Chemistry.-James H. Fletcher, Jevan H. Powell, Robert. A. Flood, Arthur B. Draper, Oswald V. Burrows, William P. Croker, Francis T. G. Corscadden, Leslie J. Nugent, William J. Stewart, James N. Armstrong. Robert H. Lyons, John T. Simpson, Edwin F.’’ and William 0. Ball. O’Connor, Brian D. INTERMEDIATE MEDICAL EXAMINATION. . Part I.-H. Jocelyn Smyly, Matthew M’Knight, Townley G. HardJ. Meldon, Charles G. George W. John Flood, Caskey, Mary man,
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and Indian Medical, to whom study-leave was granted, and deplored the impossibility of the hard-worked general practitioner adopting this plan. He then referred to some conditions of old age, conditions which were too often regarded as diseases. He ventured to think that perhaps it was a misnomer, in spite of high authorities, to speak of old age as a disease. Of course, in a sense they might say that they were not living so much as dying all the time. A German ophthalmic surgeon was reported to have found cataract commencing in He was speaking more of healthy old a new-born baby I age than of disease as a cause of age. They were all aware of changes gradually occurring as age came on, conditions which certainly should not be regarded, and still less should they be treated, as diseases. If these conditions had not been hastened by riotous living, or by strenuous labour or hereditary disease, they should not be regarded as more than changes. After speaking of changes that occurred in old age, the speaker gave suggestions as to the mode of treatment, and said that the physician should not only know his medicine but should also learn to know his patient. With regard to drugs, strychnine should be given with very great
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it enters the sea, and the opening out and development of thEe Wrixon ; and numerous garden-parties and other out-door districts known as Tardeo, Mahalukshimi, and Worli, by Bacteriology. encouraging the expansion of the city in this direction andi thus relieving the overcrowding which at present exists in An interesting return of the work done at the bacteriocertain parts of it. logical laboratory of the University of Melbourne for 1907 has Ootacund. been published by Dr. R. J. Bull. The Board of Health Two subjects of great interest just now are the health ofE subsidises the laboratory for examinations of sputum in the station, which has been bad this season, and the drainage) regard to tuberculosis and for examinations in relation Under this heading scheme, to which this condition of things is attributed in no) to enteric fever and diphtheria. Private practismall measure. Dysentery has been universally prevalent 2856 specimens were reported upon. and the official inquiry on the subject, if any, has not beenLtioners supplied 3668 specimens for investigation during given to the public. With regard to the drainage scheme the same period. In addition to this clinical work the municipality has held several special meetings to consider the laboratory conducts routine examinations for several the question but apparently has not yet arrived at a decision Government departments and public bodies. In the agriculwhether it will take it over from the Department of Public tural department the interesting discovery has been made Works in an unfinished state or will wait until construction that actinomycosis is prevalent among Victorian dairy cows as has further proceeded to completion and then take it over a primary disease of the udder. Purely research work has been done in actinomycosis, rat leprosy and certain diseases -i.e., after it has evidence that it is a workable scheme. of fish and poultry, and in various other directions. Mayo Native Hospital, Calcutta. Extraordinary Death. At its last meeting the finance special committee of the At the Melbourne Hospital a patient was admitted Calcutta corporation was to consider a letter received from the officiating superintendent and secretary, Mayo Native apparently suffering from severe and extensive burns and died shortly after admission. The burns were evidently the Hospital, asking the corporation to assist the institution to of some chemical agent and the man admitted that he meet the expenses incidental to a thorough overhauling of result had painted himself with a solution of perchloride of mercury its drainage and water-supply. The letter is as follows :"in order to kill bugs." He had purchased two ounces of the In forwarding herewith the copy of a resolution of the governors of from a druggist and made a solution himself, the exact the Mayo Native Hospital, dated the 25th May, 1908, I have the honour drug to request the favour of your kindly helping this charitable institution, strength not being known. which is chiefly dependent on subscriptions and donations, and which is too poor to meet all the expenses incidental to a thorough overhauling Cooas2cnaPtaon of Alcohol. of its drainage and water-supply. The present drainage and waterCanon of New South Wales has for the past 25 Boyce supply date from 1874, when this building was constructed, and are now in a deplorably insanitary condition. Sundry repairs have been done years worked out the annual drink bill of that State. In from time to time as funds were available, but have proved so unsatis- 1907 he finds that £5,200, 000 were expended by the people of factory that thorough repairs have now become urgently necessary. New South Wales in alcoholic drinks. This is the highest Messrs. J. B. Norton and Sons estimate that complete and thorough repairs will cost Rs.7624-13-6, which is quite beyond the means of the record yet attained, but on a per capita basis it is lower than hospital. The work, however, can be taken up piecemeal, and the most in 1900 and 1901. In Victoria the consumption of beer was important portion is done now at an estimated cost of Rs.1811-3-6. It larger in 1907 than for many years. It has been demonis absolutely necessary that this should be done at once, and if the corporation can see their way to assist this institution in this matter strated from figures in Australia that the drink bill fluctuates it will be an act of grace and will be greatly appreciated. with prosperity, being higher in good seasons and lower in bad. The general indications in Australia are that the The resolution was as follows :Even in the are becoming more and more temperate. people The attention of the governors having been drawn to the urgent need of improving the drainage and water-supply of the hospital and to the back-block towns the old orgies are becoming very rare. estimates of Messrs. Norton and Sons for doing the work, it was Milk-Supply. resolved that the Calcutta corporation be approached to defray the cost of carrying on the work. The committee of the Lady Talbot Institute, which was Oct. 6th. established for the purpose of encouraging the supply of special clean milk for infants, has formulated a series of conditions for the production, handling, and storage of such milk. Dairymen who comply with these requirements will AUSTRALIA. be entitled to advertise their milk as having the approval of (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) the institute. It is proposed that medical men should be informed where such milk is obtainable and urged to use it where breast-feeding is impracticable. The board hopes Eighth Australasian Medical Congress. to formulate a bacteriological standard for special shortly THE arrangements for the Congress to be held in Melbourne milk. Amongst the conditions are the following:from Oct. 17th to 24th are now almost complete and the The milk, on arrival at the cooling room, must at once be strained gathering promises to be highly successful both from the through an approved strainer or cleansing centrifuge, and cooled to a temscientific and the social aspect. Already 550 members have perature below 450 F., and so kept until pasteurised or bottled, or been enrolled, a number which will probably be still further otherwise prepared for delivery. If bottled on the farm, the milk must be bottled in sterilised bottles augmented. The problems of syphilis will form a large within 15 minutes of being cooled, and, if so required, must then be with and are to be dealt of the discussions feature separately pasteurised at such a temperature and for such a time as the board may in various sections and by the Congress as a whole. The approve. Immediately afterwards, or during pasteurisation, the bottles with sterilised stoppers and sealed with the seal of the other general discussion will be on hospitals and a series of must be corked institute, and must be cooled to a temperature below 40° F. within two motions will be submitted which it is hoped will form a hours of milking. It may prove practicable to extend somewhat the foundation upon which a reform of existing abuses may be period within which the milk may be bottled and pasteurised, the requirement being that the temperature of the milk shall be The list of papers arranged for the various primary initiated. maintained throughout at a temperature below 450 F. The bottled milk sections shows that Australian practice is well abreast of the must be available for distribution within such time of milking as the times in modern developments of medicine and surgery. An board may fix, and must, until distributed, be kept at a temperature not 50° F. The board is prepared to consider methods of packing discussion is arranged in the surgical section on exceeding important Mid distribution other than in bottles. " All persons engaged in any milk-room or place in which special superAnæsthesia-General, Local, and Intraspinous." Opsonic work and treatment by vaccines will be fully dealt with and vised milk is handled must wear clean, washable overalls and caps, and with any prescribed routine for insuring cleanliness of several papers will relate to ionic medication. An interesting nust comply person and the protection of the milk from contamination. After milkto be in the of children’s diseases section promises paper ng and milk-handling operations are completed overalls must be that by Dr. Stephens who will tabulate his observations of emoved, and, if soiled, must be washed and boiled; otherwise they nust be well shaken and put away in a clean cupboard. the recent epidemics of infantile paralysis in Melbourne and Utensils must be cleaned and sterilised, and so stored as to exclude suburbs. Tropical diseases as met with in Australia will all dust and prevent contamination. For the cleansing of utensils and also be noticed. A well-equipped museum will be arranged. .ppliances warm soda solution of a strength of 1 pound of washing soda o 20 gallons must be used. After thoroughly cleansing the sterilisaThe social events include a Congress dinner given by the ion must be effected by means of live steam or by complete immersion Victorian members to visitors ; a ball given by the n a boiling solution of soda of the above-named strength. When directed by the supervising officer, milkers, after specially officers of the Australian Army Medical Corps; evening their hands, must milk a sample of milk direct from each receptions by the President of the Congress, Professor H. B. cashing uarter of the udder into sterilised bottles, which will be supplied. Allen, and by the President of the Legislative Council, Sir H. ’he bottle must be immediately corked with a sterilised rubber
fixtures.
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Edward H. P. Murphy, Patrick F. Nunan, and James H. Crane. fart II.-William L. English, Reginald T. Vaughan, Townley G. Hardman, Cecil Grene, Thomas A. Watson, James H. Crane, John W. Flood, Charles D. IIanan, and William M. Johnstone. PREVIOUS DENTAL EXAMINATION. Jlateria Medica.-Arthur A. Smith.
stopper and placed in a mixture of salt and ice or cooled to a tempcrature below 40° F. and kept below that temperature until delivered to an approved bacteriologist. A movement has also been initiated in Sydney for the establishment of pure milk depots by the request of Miss Rawson who invited a number of medical men and others to The proposal was supported by Sir discuss the question. James Graham, Dr. C. K. M’Kellar, and Sir P. Sydney Jones. The last emphasised the importance of restricting the supply The following to infants who could not be breast-fed. resolution was adopted :That in the opinion of those present it is advisable to establish a system of milk depots for the supply of pure milk for infants.
O’Brien,
FOREIGN UNIVERSITY
INTELLIGENCE.-
Berlin:Professor Engelmann’s lectures on Physiology will be delivered by Professor Rene du Bois Reymond during the present session as the former is about to retire. It is intended to divide the duties of the chair of Physiology between two professors who will take Pure Physiology and Chemical Sept. 23ru. Physiology respectively. Dr. Verworn, professor in Gottingen, and Dr. Kossel, professor in Heidelberg, have been offered these chairs.-Budapest : Dr. Dezsö Raskai has been recognised as privat-docent of Diseases of the Genito-Urinary System.-Prague (German University) : A new proALONZO GEORGE RIDER, M.B. LOND., L.R.C.P. LOND., fessorship of Laryngology has been established to which Dr. L. Harmer, privat-docent, has been appointed.M.R.C.S. ENG., Vienna:Dr. Maximilian Weinberger has been recognised SENIOR SURGEON, ROYAL ALBERT HOSPITAL, DEVONPORT. as privat-docent of Medicine and Dr. Walter Pick as privatDr. Alonzo George Rider died at his residence, 16, Garfielddocent of Dermatology and Syphilology. on Oct. 18th in his _________________
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forty-second
terrace, Stoke, Devonport,
The deceased was the elder son of Mr. Alonzo Rider, J.P., of Devonport. He received his medical education at University College Hospital, London, graduating M.B. Lond. in 1891, and taking the L.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S. qualifications in the same year. After holding appointments at University College Hospital Dr. Rider commenced practice at Stoke, Devonport, in 1892, and was appointed surgeon to the Provident Dispensary in connexion with the Royal Albert Hospital. He was subsequently elected assistant surgeon to that hospital, and at the time of his death he was senior surgeon to the institution. Dr. Rider was extremely popular and highly esteemed in the "Three Towns," and was president of the Plymouth Medical Society for the current year. His death is a great loss to the local medical profession, for besides being one of the kindliest of men he was one of the most successful practitioners in Devonport and had won a high reputation for his surgical skill. Dr. Rider leaves a widow and two young children.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-The following appointments have been made :-Demonstrator of Animal Morphology: Mr. R. C. Punnett, M.A., Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy : Mr. F. H. Potts, M.A., Fellow of Trinity Hall. Examiners for
year.
the First and Second M.B. :--Physics : Mr. C. T. R. Wilson, M.A., Sidney Sussex ; and Mr. T. G. Bedford, M.A., Sidney Sussex. Chemistry: Mr. R. H. Adie, M.A., Trinity College; and Mr. C. T. Heycock, M.A., King’s College. Biology: Mr. A. E. Shipley, M.A., Christ’s College; and Professor A. C. Seward. Human anatomy : Dr. W. L. H. Duckworth, Jesus College ; and Mr. C. Addison, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Physiology: Dr. H. K. Anderson, Gonville and Caius College ; and Dr. D. Noel Paton, Glasgow University. Examiners for the Third M.B., Part 1. :-General pathology: Professor G. Sims Woodhead and Dr. J. Ritchie, Edinburgh. General pharmacology : Dr. W. E. Dixon, Downing College ; and Professor C. R. Marshall. Downing College.-In the list of candidates who have passed the examination in Sanitary Science which appeared in our issue of Oct. 24th, p. 1261, the name of Leslie T. R. Hutchinson (Trinity) was accidentally omitted.
Medical News.
WEST LONDON POST-GRADUATE COLLEGE.-The LONDON.-At opening address of the winter session of the West London examinations held recently the following candidates passed Post-Graduate College was delivered on Oct. 13th by Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Bart., K.C.V.O., President in the subjects indicated :Surgery.-E. W. Braithwaite (Sections 1. and II.), Leeds ; H. J. of the Royal College of Physicians of London. A large Clutterbuck, Middlesex Hospital; J. Grimoldby (Sections 1. and audience was present. Sir Richard Douglas Powell H. E. Middlebrooke (Section II.), London SOCIETY
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II.), Edinburgh; commented on the value of the instruction which could Hospital; J. R. Perdrau (Section I.), Guy’s Hospital; H. W. be obtained in this and D. Rees 1. A. (Sections Manchester; post-graduate college, and, in disII.), Phillips (Section 11.), Charing Cross Hospital; and N. C. Wallis (Section II.), London cussing the reasons why medical men should go there Hospital. to study, said that their first reason was a desire to Medicine.-G. K. Aubrey (Section II.), King’s College Hospital; E. W. Braithwaite (Sections I. and II.), Leeds; H. A. Hancock (Section I.) place themselves abreast of the medicine of the day. and H. B. Waller (Section II.), London Hospital; and H. V. White, Amongst other things, nothing was so important as to (Sections I. and II.), Manchester. value of antiseptics and bacteriology Forensic Medicine.-E. W. Braithwaite, Leeds ; and J. J. S. Rowe, learn to appreciate the He congratulated the as applied to internal medicine. Charing Cross Hospital. Midwifery.-N. B. Beniatield, University College Hospital ; and E. W. members of the public services, such as the Royal Naval .
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Braithwaite, Leeds. The diploma of the Society was granted to the following candidates! entitling them to practise medicine, surgery, and midwifery :-E. W. Braithwaite, H. J. Clutterbuck, J. Grimoldby, H. E. Middlebrooke, H. W. Phillips, A. D. Rees, and N. C. Wallis. .
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TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.-At examinations recently the following candidates were successful :-
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FINAL MEDICAL EXAMINATION. Part I.-William R. Watson, Peter H. Lcmass, Samuel R. Richardson, William P. H. Smiley, William H. Hart, Louis Trichard, andi Brindley H. Moore. Pctssed in Pathology:Victor W. T. M’Gusty,, and Hugh S. Metcalfe. PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION. Botany and Zoology.-Henry V. FitzGerald, Edgar H. Wilkins, Edward H. H. Lloyd-Dodd, John A. MacSweeny, Richard S. G. Halpin, William Foot, Hedley Boyers, William J. Stewart, andd James H. Fletcher. Physics and Chemistry.-James H. Fletcher, Jevan H. Powell, Robert. A. Flood, Arthur B. Draper, Oswald V. Burrows, William P. Croker, Francis T. G. Corscadden, Leslie J. Nugent, William J. Stewart, James N. Armstrong. Robert H. Lyons, John T. Simpson, Edwin F.’’ and William 0. Ball. O’Connor, Brian D. INTERMEDIATE MEDICAL EXAMINATION. . Part I.-H. Jocelyn Smyly, Matthew M’Knight, Townley G. HardJ. Meldon, Charles G. George W. John Flood, Caskey, Mary man,
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and Indian Medical, to whom study-leave was granted, and deplored the impossibility of the hard-worked general practitioner adopting this plan. He then referred to some conditions of old age, conditions which were too often regarded as diseases. He ventured to think that perhaps it was a misnomer, in spite of high authorities, to speak of old age as a disease. Of course, in a sense they might say that they were not living so much as dying all the time. A German ophthalmic surgeon was reported to have found cataract commencing in He was speaking more of healthy old a new-born baby I age than of disease as a cause of age. They were all aware of changes gradually occurring as age came on, conditions which certainly should not be regarded, and still less should they be treated, as diseases. If these conditions had not been hastened by riotous living, or by strenuous labour or hereditary disease, they should not be regarded as more than changes. After speaking of changes that occurred in old age, the speaker gave suggestions as to the mode of treatment, and said that the physician should not only know his medicine but should also learn to know his patient. With regard to drugs, strychnine should be given with very great