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The 7th Geo. IV., ch. 64, sect. 23, provides for the payment of expenses of prosecutors and witnesses, on recognisance in cases of misdemeanour ; but in the case of "concealment of the birth of an infant,"-a misdemeanour always requiring the evidence of a medical witness in its investigation, the presiding magistrate at the Westminster Session recently decided that he had not power to award the expenses of the prosecution, which, therefore, fell on the medical witness, who was bound over in a personal recognisance of £20, by a police magistrate, to prosecute a prisoner on this charge. Though the spirit of this law was undoubtedly intended to operate in a case like the present yet, from the circumstance of this particular misdemeanour being omitted in thecatalogue of penal crimes falling within the provisions of the statute, the payment of expenses can be resisted by the court. Trusting that you, as a member of the legislature, will procure the coirection of this error, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J USTITIA. London, 18th October, 1836.
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. Dr. GRANT delivered his introductory lecture at the Hunterian School of Medicine, on Tuesday week, in the evening, to a crowded audience. The number of pupils who have already enrolled themselves as attendants on the course, is a gratifying proof of the rapid strides with which the study of comparative anatomy is progressing in this country, and another practical acknowledgment of its estimation among scientific students. Comparative anatomy is a branch of medical science which will have atchieved its triumphs in the domain of knowledge, without the artificial aid and ofticious interference of the " recognising" chair manufacturers of the metropolitan medical corporations.
MEDICAL SOCIETY.—T0 the Editor.—SIR :—In justice to Dr. A. T. rhomson may I request that you will state, that in bringing forward a motion before the Committee of the Virestmiuster Medical
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’ The presiding magistrate was wrong. Society for the purpose of altering their place of meeting, that gentleman was prompted to was authorized, under the Act mendo so by the most pure and honourable to the direct of the tioned, payment expenses. motives. His opinion has long been, and Nothing seems to delight our legal func- without any reference to the Hunterian tionaries so much as to deprive medical School of Medicine, that the meeting of the IYestnainster Medical Society might be held practitioners of the just fruits of their la- more advantageously in the vicinity of the London University, because that situation bour. He
would be of easier access to the mass of students, than where the meetings now take place. I hope, therefore, that you will not FEES AT INQUESTS.—In reply to the two withhold this plain statement from your which has ever been remarkable questions at the close of Mr. Hancorn’s journal, for its impartiality and love of justice to letter, page 264, we beg to say, 1st, That the student. I am, Sir, your obedient coroners not having the power to appoint a servant, " A. B. deputy, every inquest held by a deputy" Of course, "orders" coroner is illegal. Gower-street, Nov. 5th. for remuneration, issued by coroners’ " deputies," are worthless, and claims made under them could not be enforced. 2nd, HAHNEMANNIC DOSES OF FOOD.—T0 the Such an inquest as is described by Mr. H., You will much oblige me by Editor.—SIR, is only one inquest, and the whole of the inquiring of Dr. Uwins, Mr. Kingdon, and attendances, therefore, are considered to be others, supporters of the Homoeopathian but one attendance ; consequently the fee mania, whether they are of opinion that would be but two guineas. But if a chemical minute portions of food would act in the manner as minute doses of analysis were instituted, and occupied much same magical are by them supposed to operate. If time, the coroner would be justified in drugs, that we, as well as the ii hole of making an order for the payment of three so, I think are bound to erect a statue of gold Europe, guineas; although, if the order were resisted, to the honour of Dr. Hahnemann, for surely payment of only two guineas could be such a discovery will be the first grand step enforced against the overseers by a resort to law. We have already stated, on pre- towards establishing the doctrine of the vious occasions, that it is only one inquest, deluded Mr. Irving the millenium. Your obedient servant, even if there be twenty adjournments, and M. ROWE. the coroner on such occasions receives but one fee. 24, Woburn-place, October 28th, 1836.
The 7th Geo. IV., ch. 64, sect. 23, provides for the payment of expenses of prosecutors and witnesses, on recognisance in cases of misdemeanour ; but in the case of "concealment of the birth of an infant,"-a misdemeanour always requiring the evidence of a medical witness in its investigation, the presiding magistrate at the Westminster Session recently decided that he had not power to award the expenses of the prosecution, which, therefore, fell on the medical witness, who was bound over in a personal recognisance of £20, by a police magistrate, to prosecute a prisoner on this charge. Though the spirit of this law was undoubtedly intended to operate in a case like the present yet, from the circumstance of this particular misdemeanour being omitted in thecatalogue of penal crimes falling within the provisions of the statute, the payment of expenses can be resisted by the court. Trusting that you, as a member of the legislature, will procure the coirection of this error, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J USTITIA. London, 18th October, 1836.
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. Dr. GRANT delivered his introductory lecture at the Hunterian School of Medicine, on Tuesday week, in the evening, to a crowded audience. The number of pupils who have already enrolled themselves as attendants on the course, is a gratifying proof of the rapid strides with which the study of comparative anatomy is progressing in this country, and another practical acknowledgment of its estimation among scientific students. Comparative anatomy is a branch of medical science which will have atchieved its triumphs in the domain of knowledge, without the artificial aid and ofticious interference of the " recognising" chair manufacturers of the metropolitan medical corporations.
MEDICAL SOCIETY.—T0 the Editor.—SIR :—In justice to Dr. A. T. rhomson may I request that you will state, that in bringing forward a motion before the Committee of the Virestmiuster Medical
WESTMINSTER
’ The presiding magistrate was wrong. Society for the purpose of altering their place of meeting, that gentleman was prompted to was authorized, under the Act mendo so by the most pure and honourable to the direct of the tioned, payment expenses. motives. His opinion has long been, and Nothing seems to delight our legal func- without any reference to the Hunterian tionaries so much as to deprive medical School of Medicine, that the meeting of the IYestnainster Medical Society might be held practitioners of the just fruits of their la- more advantageously in the vicinity of the London University, because that situation bour. He
would be of easier access to the mass of students, than where the meetings now take place. I hope, therefore, that you will not FEES AT INQUESTS.—In reply to the two withhold this plain statement from your which has ever been remarkable questions at the close of Mr. Hancorn’s journal, for its impartiality and love of justice to letter, page 264, we beg to say, 1st, That the student. I am, Sir, your obedient coroners not having the power to appoint a servant, " A. B. deputy, every inquest held by a deputy" Of course, "orders" coroner is illegal. Gower-street, Nov. 5th. for remuneration, issued by coroners’ " deputies," are worthless, and claims made under them could not be enforced. 2nd, HAHNEMANNIC DOSES OF FOOD.—T0 the Such an inquest as is described by Mr. H., You will much oblige me by Editor.—SIR, is only one inquest, and the whole of the inquiring of Dr. Uwins, Mr. Kingdon, and attendances, therefore, are considered to be others, supporters of the Homoeopathian but one attendance ; consequently the fee mania, whether they are of opinion that would be but two guineas. But if a chemical minute portions of food would act in the manner as minute doses of analysis were instituted, and occupied much same magical are by them supposed to operate. If time, the coroner would be justified in drugs, that we, as well as the ii hole of making an order for the payment of three so, I think are bound to erect a statue of gold Europe, guineas; although, if the order were resisted, to the honour of Dr. Hahnemann, for surely payment of only two guineas could be such a discovery will be the first grand step enforced against the overseers by a resort to law. We have already stated, on pre- towards establishing the doctrine of the vious occasions, that it is only one inquest, deluded Mr. Irving the millenium. Your obedient servant, even if there be twenty adjournments, and M. ROWE. the coroner on such occasions receives but one fee. 24, Woburn-place, October 28th, 1836.