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451 The Faculty of Arts students at McGill, who have long 58 in excess. There were also 28 deaths from cerebro-spinal fever. The mortality from fever was much below the worn the gown in and about the College, have recently average, the deaths numbering 193, or 108 below the average decided to wear the trencher also: The science students have for the past ten years. It is satisfactory to note that there likewise decided in favour of the trencher. A very unusual case recently presented itself at the has been a great decrease in the number of cases of typhus treated in the Dublin hospitals during the past few years; Montreal General Hospital—viz.,a case of true scurvy in a thus, in the year 1883 the cases admitted numbered 8’-!9 ; in farm labourer from the eastern townships. Although work1884 the number was 469 ; in 1885 they fell to 247 ; and last ing on a farm, the man’s diet for the past twelve months had consisted of bread-and-butter, milk, tea, and sugar excluyear there was a further decline to 123. Robert Browne, F.R.C.S.T., of Largo House, Rathmines, has sively ; no vegetables except potatoes, and no meat, either salt or fresh. Although put upon suitable diet and given been placed on the Commission of the Peace for co. Dublin. the patient died on the fifth day Dr. Falkiner has been appointed Physician to the Whit- appropriate treatment, after admission. At the necropsy haamorrhagie infarcts worth Hospital. There is no salary attached to the post. were found to be present in both lungs, and a large blood Dublin, Feb. 22nd. clot in the iight temporo-sphenoidal lobe of the brain. Although scurvy is not a rare disease in this country, being frequently seen among navvies, especially among the BELFAST. Italians, it is rare to meet with a case coming from the (From our own Correspondent.) part of the country where this patient worked, and in the class to which he belonged. The proposed amendments to the Medical Act in this ’THE ULSTER HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN. of FROM the report read at the annual meeting of this province are not meeting with the unanimous approval the profession. charity, I learn that a large cheerful women’s ward has been The addition of philosophy, intellectual and moral, to the added to the hospital, and a new dispensary and waiting- list of subjects to be passed at the preliminary examination, room ; and further, the whole house has been cleaned and was secured by the French representatives on the Council painted. The number of students attending has been larger of the College of Physicians and Surgeons ; and as than in any former year. There have been some changes in philosophy is taught in most French schools and colleges, the medical staff, owing to the death of Dr. Malcomson and while it is not in English schools (I refer, of course, the resignation of Dr. Poole, and Dr. Barron and Dr. Straf- to schools in the province of Quebec), the result will be ford Smith have been appointed in their place. The that an English student going into medicine will have to President of Queen’s College, who was present at the meet- secure the services of a private tutor to prepare him for the ing, referred in terms of the highest praise to the late preliminary examination. The general feeling seems to be Dr.Malcomson. He said that he was now greatly pleased to that the matriculation or preliminary examinations were know that the hospital had as many beds as would satisfy already as stringent as there was any necessity for, while He the final or professional examinations could with advantage - even the exacting Senate of the Royal University. regretted to have to make that statement concerning the be rendered more severe. It is announced, and the announcement gives a great deal Royal University, but one could never tell what changes that the Governor-General and Lady Lansmight be effected in the demands of that university in the of satisfaction, downe will spend a considerable part of this winter in Monlaid down for the students. hospital Financially curriculum is in a good condition, there being a balance in hand of over treal. Although the commercial metropolis of the Dominion, .944. Lady Johnston has given X250 in aid of the expenses Montreal has hitherto seen very little of our several viceincurred in the alterations in the hospital. regal governors, and the approaching visit of the Marquis of Lansdowne is taken as a happy augury for the future. THE MEDICAL STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION. The recent death of Dr. J. VI. Drake has deprived the A conversazione, under the patronage of the President and of a successful practitioner and the medical community Professors of Queen’s College and the medical staff, will be of McGill College of an earnest coadjutor. Dr. Drake faculty held in the Queen’s College on Thursday, March 10th. The came to this country from London, Eng., thirty years ago, students and their friends are exerting all their efforts to and after his medical education at McGill College, obtaining make the entertainment a success. It will be held in the became to the Montreal General Hospital, house-surgeon same rooms as those in which the brilliant conversazione and subsequently Professor of Physiology in McGill College, took place at the meeting of the British Medical Association. which post he held till succeeded by Dr. Osler some years THE ULSTER MEDICAL SOCIETY. ago. Although his career has terminated at the early age The annual dinner of this Society was recently held in of fifty-nine, he had a large practice until the death of his the Royal Avenue Hotel. The President (Dr. Whitla) wife, which occurred a few years ago, and which was such a blow to him that he gave up active work and retired to occupied the chair. Upwards of forty members of the his medical profession were present, and the evening was country residence at Abbotsford, where he ended his a decided success. is in a days, The Society regretted by all who knew him. very flourishing It is expected that at the next meeting of the governors condition, and the plan adopted this year of taking up General Hospital to be held in February, the special subjects at the meetings has tended to increase the of the Montreal attendance and interest of the members. Already we have plans for the new and much-needed hospital buildings had a sanitary night, and at the last meeting the treatment will be submitted, and the work probably commenced next of phthisis formed the subject. Very good papers were read spring. The Civic Small-pox Hospital is nearly completed, will be ready for ase about April next should there be by Dr. Cuming, Dr. Lindsay, and Dr. Sinclair, the discussion and occasion for it. At present the city is free from small-pox, being adjourned until the next meeting. though typhoid fever and diphtheria are rather prevalent. Belfast, Feb. 15th. The annual flooding of the lower-lying parts of the town (caused by the blocking of the river below the city by the MONTREAL. ice-bridge), with the sickness and pecuniary loss attendant, has again occurred, and though efforts are made to keep the (From a Correspondent.) sewers empty by means of pumps, they are only partially successful, and one may look for sickness due to this cause MATTERS medical remain very quiet in this part of the until the Dominion Government takes it in hand. Montreal, Jan. 12th. country. Before Christmas both medical schools-McGill and Bishop’s-held their annual undergraduates’ dinners, which were well attended by present students, with a fair ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-PrOproportion of graduates. These annual dinners, which were fessor Anthony Alfred Bowlby, F.R.C.S. Eng., will deliver a evolved from tbd old " footing dinner " some three or four course of three lectures on " Injuries of Nerves, their Pathoyears ago, may be taken as evidence of the change which logy, Symptoms, and Treatment," on Wednesday, Friday, has come over the medical student during the past decade. and Monday, March 2nd, 4th, and 7th. Students are admitted Whereas the "footing dinner" was simply nothing but to these lectures on the introduction of a Fellow or Memdrunken revelry, the present annual dinner is a gathering ber of the College. The lectures will commence at 4 o’cock of gentlemen. each day. __________

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