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McGill University. Tfns University has received from Mr. W. C. McDonald, Montreal, a further handsome donation of 40,000 dollars towards endowing a chair in electrical engineering. This gentleman’s various gifts to McGill amount to nearly one million dollars. Board of Health for Ontario. The quarterly meeting of the Board was held in this city on Feb. 25th and 26th. An interesting discussion took place regarding the placing of actinomycosis among contagious diseases, a case having been reported where diseased animals were slaughtered and offered for sale, convictions having been obtained; but an appeal is pending, the defendant claiming that the meat was not offered for sale. The Board allowed the matter to stand pending the appeal. The important matter of the quality of ice cut by the leading railway companies for summer use for drinking purposes was shown to be one in which local boards had power to adopt such regulations as they deemed best to secure a pure ice. The Committee on Epidemics reported the correspondence between the Grand Trunk Railway with reference to the transportation of dead bodies. The committee had reiterated the views expressed by the Board in May, 1889, in a series of resolutions, the gist of which is that the practice of transporting the bodies of persons dead from dangerous communicable diseases be discontinued, owing to the impossibility of at all times preventing persons who may have received infection from contact with the corpse, or in any other way, from afterwards communicating the infection to others. Dr. P. H. Bryce, secretary to the Board, was appointed delegate to the annual meeting of the American State Medical Health Officers, to be held in Washington this month. Toronto Medical Society. At the meeting held on Feb. 19tb, being a pathological ,
RICHARD G. H.
BUTCHER,M.D., F.R.C.S.I., OF DUBLIN.
AN able exponent of Irish surgery has passed away, Mr. Butcher, a most distinguished surgeon, having died OJ) Saturday last at his suburban residence, Towerville, Sandymount, aged seventy-two. Owing to failing health he had for some years withdrawn from the practice of his profession and had led a very retired life. The deceased was born at, Killarney in April, 1819, being the third son of the late. Admiral Butcher, and was educated at Cork and at th& Peter-street School of Medicine, Dublin, and Guy’s Hospital. He obtained the membership of the London College of Surgeons in 1838, and the licence of the Irish College three years afterwards, being coopted a Fellow of the latter institution in 1844 The subject of this notice shortly after being qualified became a demonstrator of, and afterwards a lecturer on, anatomy in Peter-street School, and was elected surgeon to Mercer’s Hospital; he was a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, Examiner, and finally, in 1866, he obtained the Presidency. Upon his leaving Mercer’s Hospital hejoined Sir P. Dan’s Hospital as lecturer on operative His practice was now a very large one, his surgery. reputation deservedly great, and honours and distinctions The University of Dublin were showered upon him. conferred the M.D. degree, honoris comsahe was a. honorary Fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy, while hisfame as a brilliant and successful surgeon went far beyond the limits of his own country. He was the inventor of the well-known Butcher’s saw, which he first described in 1851, and of a splint for fractures of the femur. Mr. Butcher was a bold and skilful operator, and attracted large crowds to the hospital to which he was attached. In 1885, at therequest of Sir Charles Cameron, he presented his valuableevening, a number of interesting specimens were exhibited, museum of surgical specimens to the Royal College of among which was a Tumour of the Bladder and Uterus, Surgeons of Ireland, a room having been constructed for accompanied by Ascites, in a seven months’ foetus, the purpose by the late Mr. O’Reilly Dease, D.L. He obstructing labour, by Dr. Gordon, and Dermoid Cyst of published in 1865, in a large volume of 933 pages, his work the Ovary in a child twelve years of age, by Dr. Atherton. on operative and conservative surgery, which was mainly Serious and Fatal Explosions. composed of papers published at various periods in the Dublin Journal of Medical Science. A man of great muscular’ the month with loss two accidents, attended During great of life, have occurred, The first accident was the explosion strength and striking physique, dark complexion, handsome of a boiler whereby twenty-one persons were killed and features, and long curling black hair, he presented quite a. appearance, and some years since his face was one’ thirty wounded. According to the finding of the jury it was foreign of the most familiar in the Irish capital. of to the steam due caused by overpressure stop-valve being closed. The other accident occurred at the Spring Hill Coal Mines, Nova Scotia, an explosion resulting in the loss of 123 lives. The day preceding the accident an inspection of the mine had been made by the deputy inspector, as also by a committee of the miners, and found to be in good condition. Inspector Maddins, testing for fire damp, showed only in one instance the presence UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.-In a congregation held’ of one and two-fifths per cent., while other examinations on the 21st inst. the degree of M.D. was conferred on showed its absence. The committee of miners reported the Frederick J. Smith, Balliol. ventilation as all that could be desired, both in distribution VICTORIA UNIVERSITY: FACULTY OF MEDICINE.and quantity ; they, however, mention the fact of Nos. 6 and 7 balances, where the explosion occurred, as " very dry The following candidates have satisfied the Examiners in. and dusty, and the air in a condition, from the quantity the examinations indicated :of dust floating about, to make it a source of danger." Second Examination.-First Division:: Hugh Ainsworth, E. L. Compston, R. S. Hardman, Percy McDougall, and *Peter Thompson, They reported this to be almost nil by "a s3 stem of Owens Seaton and W. W. Stoney, YorkshireCollege; Douglas waterworks with hose attached for sprinkling." The Division: Reginald Alcock, H. C. Cadman, D. H. College.-Second adjournment of the inquest until March 10th prevents the Cheetham, E. A. Goulden, Edmund Harriaon, Joseph Jones,. record of the finding of the jury-indeed, as yet no satisArthur Leigh, and G. M. Y. Whittingham, Owens College; S. H. House, E. S Miller, J. P. Nixon, and R. L. Wood, University factory reason has been advanced for this the most fatal College, ." Distinguished in Anatomy.) accident in the history of our mining industry. The Final Examination (Part 1 ). G. F. Chadwick, J. G. Clecg, Samuel for the bereaved has been and found sympathy widespread, Crawshaw, A. J. Edwards, R. W. Marsden, Gruner Stowell, J. H. Taylor, J. H. L. Tylecote, W. H. Waddington, and W. B. Warrington,. expression in contributions from private as well as pubilc Owens College; Alfred Harris and S. R Knight, University College. purses. First, Division: H. A. Beaver, Final Examination (Part II.). Leprosy in British Columbia. College ; William Griffith, Owens College.—Second University Divisicra J. H. Bailey, W. J. Howarth, C. K. Rawes, and Frank Word has been received at Ottawa that this disease Robinson, Owens College; S. H. Fairrie, University College. has been found among the Chinese in that province, and has been communicated to the Indians. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-At Gonville and I notice with regret the death, in a western town of Caius College a Shuttleworth Scholarship open to medical. the piovince, of a medical practitioner while using chloro- students of the University of not less than eight terms’ standform, which at times he administered to himself. He was ing has been awarded to Francis Carr Bottomley, scholar of found with the chloroformed handkerchief over his face, no the college. The value of the scholarship is about £56 per doubt having become anæsthetised. annum, and it is tenable for three yeare, being given for preMarch 12th. ficiency in botany and comparative anatomy.
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CANADA. CORRESPONDENT.)
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McGill University. Tfns University has received from Mr. W. C. McDonald, Montreal, a further handsome donation of 40,000 dollars towards endowing a chair in electrical engineering. This gentleman’s various gifts to McGill amount to nearly one million dollars. Board of Health for Ontario. The quarterly meeting of the Board was held in this city on Feb. 25th and 26th. An interesting discussion took place regarding the placing of actinomycosis among contagious diseases, a case having been reported where diseased animals were slaughtered and offered for sale, convictions having been obtained; but an appeal is pending, the defendant claiming that the meat was not offered for sale. The Board allowed the matter to stand pending the appeal. The important matter of the quality of ice cut by the leading railway companies for summer use for drinking purposes was shown to be one in which local boards had power to adopt such regulations as they deemed best to secure a pure ice. The Committee on Epidemics reported the correspondence between the Grand Trunk Railway with reference to the transportation of dead bodies. The committee had reiterated the views expressed by the Board in May, 1889, in a series of resolutions, the gist of which is that the practice of transporting the bodies of persons dead from dangerous communicable diseases be discontinued, owing to the impossibility of at all times preventing persons who may have received infection from contact with the corpse, or in any other way, from afterwards communicating the infection to others. Dr. P. H. Bryce, secretary to the Board, was appointed delegate to the annual meeting of the American State Medical Health Officers, to be held in Washington this month. Toronto Medical Society. At the meeting held on Feb. 19tb, being a pathological ,
RICHARD G. H.
BUTCHER,M.D., F.R.C.S.I., OF DUBLIN.
AN able exponent of Irish surgery has passed away, Mr. Butcher, a most distinguished surgeon, having died OJ) Saturday last at his suburban residence, Towerville, Sandymount, aged seventy-two. Owing to failing health he had for some years withdrawn from the practice of his profession and had led a very retired life. The deceased was born at, Killarney in April, 1819, being the third son of the late. Admiral Butcher, and was educated at Cork and at th& Peter-street School of Medicine, Dublin, and Guy’s Hospital. He obtained the membership of the London College of Surgeons in 1838, and the licence of the Irish College three years afterwards, being coopted a Fellow of the latter institution in 1844 The subject of this notice shortly after being qualified became a demonstrator of, and afterwards a lecturer on, anatomy in Peter-street School, and was elected surgeon to Mercer’s Hospital; he was a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, Examiner, and finally, in 1866, he obtained the Presidency. Upon his leaving Mercer’s Hospital hejoined Sir P. Dan’s Hospital as lecturer on operative His practice was now a very large one, his surgery. reputation deservedly great, and honours and distinctions The University of Dublin were showered upon him. conferred the M.D. degree, honoris comsahe was a. honorary Fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy, while hisfame as a brilliant and successful surgeon went far beyond the limits of his own country. He was the inventor of the well-known Butcher’s saw, which he first described in 1851, and of a splint for fractures of the femur. Mr. Butcher was a bold and skilful operator, and attracted large crowds to the hospital to which he was attached. In 1885, at therequest of Sir Charles Cameron, he presented his valuableevening, a number of interesting specimens were exhibited, museum of surgical specimens to the Royal College of among which was a Tumour of the Bladder and Uterus, Surgeons of Ireland, a room having been constructed for accompanied by Ascites, in a seven months’ foetus, the purpose by the late Mr. O’Reilly Dease, D.L. He obstructing labour, by Dr. Gordon, and Dermoid Cyst of published in 1865, in a large volume of 933 pages, his work the Ovary in a child twelve years of age, by Dr. Atherton. on operative and conservative surgery, which was mainly Serious and Fatal Explosions. composed of papers published at various periods in the Dublin Journal of Medical Science. A man of great muscular’ the month with loss two accidents, attended During great of life, have occurred, The first accident was the explosion strength and striking physique, dark complexion, handsome of a boiler whereby twenty-one persons were killed and features, and long curling black hair, he presented quite a. appearance, and some years since his face was one’ thirty wounded. According to the finding of the jury it was foreign of the most familiar in the Irish capital. of to the steam due caused by overpressure stop-valve being closed. The other accident occurred at the Spring Hill Coal Mines, Nova Scotia, an explosion resulting in the loss of 123 lives. The day preceding the accident an inspection of the mine had been made by the deputy inspector, as also by a committee of the miners, and found to be in good condition. Inspector Maddins, testing for fire damp, showed only in one instance the presence UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.-In a congregation held’ of one and two-fifths per cent., while other examinations on the 21st inst. the degree of M.D. was conferred on showed its absence. The committee of miners reported the Frederick J. Smith, Balliol. ventilation as all that could be desired, both in distribution VICTORIA UNIVERSITY: FACULTY OF MEDICINE.and quantity ; they, however, mention the fact of Nos. 6 and 7 balances, where the explosion occurred, as " very dry The following candidates have satisfied the Examiners in. and dusty, and the air in a condition, from the quantity the examinations indicated :of dust floating about, to make it a source of danger." Second Examination.-First Division:: Hugh Ainsworth, E. L. Compston, R. S. Hardman, Percy McDougall, and *Peter Thompson, They reported this to be almost nil by "a s3 stem of Owens Seaton and W. W. Stoney, YorkshireCollege; Douglas waterworks with hose attached for sprinkling." The Division: Reginald Alcock, H. C. Cadman, D. H. College.-Second adjournment of the inquest until March 10th prevents the Cheetham, E. A. Goulden, Edmund Harriaon, Joseph Jones,. record of the finding of the jury-indeed, as yet no satisArthur Leigh, and G. M. Y. Whittingham, Owens College; S. H. House, E. S Miller, J. P. Nixon, and R. L. Wood, University factory reason has been advanced for this the most fatal College, ." Distinguished in Anatomy.) accident in the history of our mining industry. The Final Examination (Part 1 ). G. F. Chadwick, J. G. Clecg, Samuel for the bereaved has been and found sympathy widespread, Crawshaw, A. J. Edwards, R. W. Marsden, Gruner Stowell, J. H. Taylor, J. H. L. Tylecote, W. H. Waddington, and W. B. Warrington,. expression in contributions from private as well as pubilc Owens College; Alfred Harris and S. R Knight, University College. purses. First, Division: H. A. Beaver, Final Examination (Part II.). Leprosy in British Columbia. College ; William Griffith, Owens College.—Second University Divisicra J. H. Bailey, W. J. Howarth, C. K. Rawes, and Frank Word has been received at Ottawa that this disease Robinson, Owens College; S. H. Fairrie, University College. has been found among the Chinese in that province, and has been communicated to the Indians. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-At Gonville and I notice with regret the death, in a western town of Caius College a Shuttleworth Scholarship open to medical. the piovince, of a medical practitioner while using chloro- students of the University of not less than eight terms’ standform, which at times he administered to himself. He was ing has been awarded to Francis Carr Bottomley, scholar of found with the chloroformed handkerchief over his face, no the college. The value of the scholarship is about £56 per doubt having become anæsthetised. annum, and it is tenable for three yeare, being given for preMarch 12th. ficiency in botany and comparative anatomy.
Medical News.
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