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ELECTION OF DIRECT REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.
1780
druggists and that the composition of the medicine should be given on the label might go some way to check the evil, and of course it would defeat the object of the inventor, whose mainstay is that his remedy is a " secret" one, although he may assign its origin to a source far remote from the actual one. The perusal of these revelations should excite ridicule if it were not all so pitiful ; as it is, the feelings uppermost in the reader’s mind must be mixed-amazement at the amount of credulity on the one hand, and scorn and contempt on the other for those who, aware of this credulity, spare no pains to foster it by they
as aa they are are unworthy unworthy as jUUlCS as
practices
dishonest. dishonest.
THOMAS WAKLEY, THE
FOUNDER
OF
"THE
LANCET."
A BIOGRAPHY.1
CHAPTER XLIX.
Family Detals.-Hospitality art Harefield Park and Bedford-Square.The Fressnre of Worla between 1839 and 1852: A -Day’s Routine.-Letter to Douglas Jerrold -The, Breakdomn at last.-The Progress of Disease.-Deatla.
A Few
local committee has been formed, comprising and medical men residing in the locality and I WAKLEY as a family man nas not made any appearance clergymen others, to bring before the district and the public gene- in these pages, the reason being that although he possessed rally the serious financial condition of University College pronounced family instincts he was never sufficiently at Hospital and to appeal for funds to endeavour to place the leisure to do themjustice, so that his attentions to his immediate domestic circle were necessarily fitful and charity upon a more secure financial footing. capricious. Throughout his married life he was engaged SIR WILLIAM MAC CORMAC has now so far recovered that in the arduous struggle of working out his public career, he is able to be downstairs and to drive out in his carriage. and his home life had been merely a quiet background He will probably leave town for change of air next week. for the incidents that have been chronicled. His wife was an affectionate, retiring woman unfitted to be the No further announcements are considered necessary. mate of a public man to this extent that she had the PROFESSOR KUSSMAUL, who is now living in retirement in strongest possible dislike to the causes which dragged her Heidelberg, has been granted the title of " Excellency " by husband from her side to play his ever busy part in the the Grand Duke of Had en. world. She deeply regretted his entry upon a Parliamentary career-so deeply that the sentiment of sorrow quite overshadowed that of legitimate pride in the success ELECTION OF DIRECT REPRESENTATIVES that had attended his severe electioneering campaigns. TO THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL. Over and above the certainty that she felt that in the turmoil of public life there would be but little respect for THE ELECTION POLL FOR ENGLAND. family ties, she knew the grave expenses in which such AT the meeting of the English Branch Council, on Friday, a life would involve a man of Wakley’s disposition. The Dec. llth, 1896, the Assistant-Registrar reported that in heavy drain upon his purse contingent on his position as connexion with the election of direct representatives in Editor of THE LANCET ought, considered his wife, to have England under the Medical Act (1886), held in November been sufficient responsibility even for so sanguine a man and December, 1896, 22,577 voting-papers had been sent as he ; while, surely, the quarrels that arose from his out, whereof 12,227-that is to say, 54 2 of the total-had should have sufficed to keep him from been returned by the voters within the proper time journalistic enterprise according to the regulations, 126-that id to sty, 0’5 of seeking another arena for disputes. THE LANCET had the total-had been returned by the voters but received received in her eyes a very valuable stamp of approval in at too late a date to be lawfully reckoned in the enumeration, that her father had seen in it a road to success for her 1137-that is to say, 5’0 of the total-had been returned husband at a time when his fortunes were at their lowest, through the dead letter office, eight had been refused in con- and had pgrsuaded and encouraged him to persevere in his sequence of the postage being unpaid, and 9079-that is to literary venture, not only by words of approval, but by loosensay, 40’3 of the total-had not come back in any way. Of the 12,227 voting papers duly returned, 237 (or 1-9) were ing his purse-strings. The Editorship having become in invalid papers owing to the following various causes :-15 itself a great career, was it necessary to imperil the profits were entirely blank; 115 had no signatures ; 3 recorded votes accruing therefrom by ventures in the stormy waters of for more than 3 candidates ; 1 recorded three votes for one general politics ? Mrs. Wakley held very strongly that it candidate ; 103 were irregularly filled up. Of the voting on the 11,990 valid voting-papers, the result was not and took no active part in her husband’s public life, which she considered to have divided him from her. A kindly, was found to be as set forth hereunder :RENTOUL. ROBERT REID ...... 6646 generous, gentlewoman, she did not share his ambitions; 5369 while she had for him what he never had for himselfBROWN, GEORGE ......... 4910 GLOVER, JAMES GREY a fear of the future. Mrs. Wakley died at Brighton in 1857 4082 JACKSON, GEORGE after a long illness. 3974 DRAGE, LOVELL Wakley’s famIly consisted of three sons and one daughter. 3390 WOODCOCK, SAMUEL The WALTER 2752 daughter died when a child, but of the three sons the IIIVINGTON, two elder are alive at the present time, Mr. Thomas 1862 ALDERSON, FREDERICK HENRY ... DOLAN, THOMAS MIC’HAEL ...... 1355 Henry Wakley, the senior proprietor of THE LANCET, 143 DIVER, EBENEZER ......... and Mr. Henry Membury Wakley, a barrister and at The Branch Council certified to the President, as returning one time deputy coroner for West Middlesex under officer, that Dr. ROBERT REID RENTOUL, Mr. GEORGE his father. Towards his sons Wakley was an indulgent BROWN, and Dr. JAMIS GREY GLOVER have been duly elected members of the General Council of Medical Educa1 Chapters I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., XI., XII., tion and Registration of the United Kingdom ; and the XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., XVII., XVIII., XIX., XX., XXI., XXII., President, as returning officer, declared that those persons XXIII., XXIV., XXV., XXVI., XXVII., XXVIII., XXIX., XXX., XXXI., XXXII., XXXIII., XXXIV., XXXV., XXXVI, XXXVII., were duly elected. XXXVIII., XXXIX, XL., XLI., XLII., XLIII., XLIV., XLV., XLVI, XLVII., and XLVIII. were published in THE LANCET, Jan 4th, 11th, THE ELECTION POLL FOR SCOTLAND. 18th, and 25th, Feb. 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th, March 7th, 14th, The votes for the two candidates for the Direct Repre- 21st, and 28th, April 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th, May 2nd, 16th, 23rd, and 30th, June 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th, July 4th, 11th, sentation of Scotland were respectively as follows :18th, and 25th, Aug. 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th, Sept. 12th, 1311 BRUCE, WILLIAM 19th, and 26th. Oct 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, and 31st, Nov. 7th, 14th, 564 21st, and 28th, Dec. 5th and 12th respectively BLACK, DOUGLAS CAMPBELL A
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druggists and that the composition of the medicine should be given on the label might go some way to check the evil, and of course it would defeat the object of the inventor, whose mainstay is that his remedy is a " secret" one, although he may assign its origin to a source far remote from the actual one. The perusal of these revelations should excite ridicule if it were not all so pitiful ; as it is, the feelings uppermost in the reader’s mind must be mixed-amazement at the amount of credulity on the one hand, and scorn and contempt on the other for those who, aware of this credulity, spare no pains to foster it by they
as aa they are are unworthy unworthy as jUUlCS as
practices
dishonest. dishonest.
THOMAS WAKLEY, THE
FOUNDER
OF
"THE
LANCET."
A BIOGRAPHY.1
CHAPTER XLIX.
Family Detals.-Hospitality art Harefield Park and Bedford-Square.The Fressnre of Worla between 1839 and 1852: A -Day’s Routine.-Letter to Douglas Jerrold -The, Breakdomn at last.-The Progress of Disease.-Deatla.
A Few
local committee has been formed, comprising and medical men residing in the locality and I WAKLEY as a family man nas not made any appearance clergymen others, to bring before the district and the public gene- in these pages, the reason being that although he possessed rally the serious financial condition of University College pronounced family instincts he was never sufficiently at Hospital and to appeal for funds to endeavour to place the leisure to do themjustice, so that his attentions to his immediate domestic circle were necessarily fitful and charity upon a more secure financial footing. capricious. Throughout his married life he was engaged SIR WILLIAM MAC CORMAC has now so far recovered that in the arduous struggle of working out his public career, he is able to be downstairs and to drive out in his carriage. and his home life had been merely a quiet background He will probably leave town for change of air next week. for the incidents that have been chronicled. His wife was an affectionate, retiring woman unfitted to be the No further announcements are considered necessary. mate of a public man to this extent that she had the PROFESSOR KUSSMAUL, who is now living in retirement in strongest possible dislike to the causes which dragged her Heidelberg, has been granted the title of " Excellency " by husband from her side to play his ever busy part in the the Grand Duke of Had en. world. She deeply regretted his entry upon a Parliamentary career-so deeply that the sentiment of sorrow quite overshadowed that of legitimate pride in the success ELECTION OF DIRECT REPRESENTATIVES that had attended his severe electioneering campaigns. TO THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL. Over and above the certainty that she felt that in the turmoil of public life there would be but little respect for THE ELECTION POLL FOR ENGLAND. family ties, she knew the grave expenses in which such AT the meeting of the English Branch Council, on Friday, a life would involve a man of Wakley’s disposition. The Dec. llth, 1896, the Assistant-Registrar reported that in heavy drain upon his purse contingent on his position as connexion with the election of direct representatives in Editor of THE LANCET ought, considered his wife, to have England under the Medical Act (1886), held in November been sufficient responsibility even for so sanguine a man and December, 1896, 22,577 voting-papers had been sent as he ; while, surely, the quarrels that arose from his out, whereof 12,227-that is to say, 54 2 of the total-had should have sufficed to keep him from been returned by the voters within the proper time journalistic enterprise according to the regulations, 126-that id to sty, 0’5 of seeking another arena for disputes. THE LANCET had the total-had been returned by the voters but received received in her eyes a very valuable stamp of approval in at too late a date to be lawfully reckoned in the enumeration, that her father had seen in it a road to success for her 1137-that is to say, 5’0 of the total-had been returned husband at a time when his fortunes were at their lowest, through the dead letter office, eight had been refused in con- and had pgrsuaded and encouraged him to persevere in his sequence of the postage being unpaid, and 9079-that is to literary venture, not only by words of approval, but by loosensay, 40’3 of the total-had not come back in any way. Of the 12,227 voting papers duly returned, 237 (or 1-9) were ing his purse-strings. The Editorship having become in invalid papers owing to the following various causes :-15 itself a great career, was it necessary to imperil the profits were entirely blank; 115 had no signatures ; 3 recorded votes accruing therefrom by ventures in the stormy waters of for more than 3 candidates ; 1 recorded three votes for one general politics ? Mrs. Wakley held very strongly that it candidate ; 103 were irregularly filled up. Of the voting on the 11,990 valid voting-papers, the result was not and took no active part in her husband’s public life, which she considered to have divided him from her. A kindly, was found to be as set forth hereunder :RENTOUL. ROBERT REID ...... 6646 generous, gentlewoman, she did not share his ambitions; 5369 while she had for him what he never had for himselfBROWN, GEORGE ......... 4910 GLOVER, JAMES GREY a fear of the future. Mrs. Wakley died at Brighton in 1857 4082 JACKSON, GEORGE after a long illness. 3974 DRAGE, LOVELL Wakley’s famIly consisted of three sons and one daughter. 3390 WOODCOCK, SAMUEL The WALTER 2752 daughter died when a child, but of the three sons the IIIVINGTON, two elder are alive at the present time, Mr. Thomas 1862 ALDERSON, FREDERICK HENRY ... DOLAN, THOMAS MIC’HAEL ...... 1355 Henry Wakley, the senior proprietor of THE LANCET, 143 DIVER, EBENEZER ......... and Mr. Henry Membury Wakley, a barrister and at The Branch Council certified to the President, as returning one time deputy coroner for West Middlesex under officer, that Dr. ROBERT REID RENTOUL, Mr. GEORGE his father. Towards his sons Wakley was an indulgent BROWN, and Dr. JAMIS GREY GLOVER have been duly elected members of the General Council of Medical Educa1 Chapters I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., XI., XII., tion and Registration of the United Kingdom ; and the XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., XVII., XVIII., XIX., XX., XXI., XXII., President, as returning officer, declared that those persons XXIII., XXIV., XXV., XXVI., XXVII., XXVIII., XXIX., XXX., XXXI., XXXII., XXXIII., XXXIV., XXXV., XXXVI, XXXVII., were duly elected. XXXVIII., XXXIX, XL., XLI., XLII., XLIII., XLIV., XLV., XLVI, XLVII., and XLVIII. were published in THE LANCET, Jan 4th, 11th, THE ELECTION POLL FOR SCOTLAND. 18th, and 25th, Feb. 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th, March 7th, 14th, The votes for the two candidates for the Direct Repre- 21st, and 28th, April 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th, May 2nd, 16th, 23rd, and 30th, June 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th, July 4th, 11th, sentation of Scotland were respectively as follows :18th, and 25th, Aug. 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th, Sept. 12th, 1311 BRUCE, WILLIAM 19th, and 26th. Oct 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, and 31st, Nov. 7th, 14th, 564 21st, and 28th, Dec. 5th and 12th respectively BLACK, DOUGLAS CAMPBELL A
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