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463 and the claims of Dr. Badham to such a Chair. Many a " cunning Scot," when he hears the news will inquire, And who is Dr. Badham, that the bread should be taken from our children and given to a stranger? You may therefore inform these northern parent distention of the eyeball, the evacua- inquisitors, that Dr. Badham is a kind of tion of the aqueous humour would probably medical Don Qnixote, who, after graduatbe attended with happy results. On punc- ing at Edinburgh some 35 years ago, or more, turing the cornea, the aqueous fluid, as if came up to London and commenced his compressed, gushed suddenly out. This career as a medical lecturer. He succeeded trifling operation was performed at 1S’ o’clock Dr. Creighton, (now Sir A. Creighton,) forenoon. At five, the pain began to di- when he went to Russia and showed some minish, and, during the night, it almost left talent. He had a tolerable fortune too, and him. On examination, next morning, the might have done well. But a whim seized eye was found flaccid, and the cornea had him that he was not a proper M. D., and that regained its trasparency. The inflammation no University but Oxford could legitimately has since daily decreased, and the ulcera- give that degree. He accordingly retired to tion is now healing-"Ex his disce omnes." that learned University, and commenced as Two were performed at this a 11 Al’ov?zs Homo," in his thirtieth year; hospital yesterday. A flattened tumour, lived beyond his income, and spent his capinearly the size of an egg, situated behind tal, and in progress of time became a fellow the angle of the jaw,and immediately above if the College of Physicians by right, and not by the parotid gland, was extirpated. I noat the same time, he had beticed, with pleasure, that there was none of come the father of a family and a beggar. that tearing, which, in operations of this Report says, that in acquiring the fellowship, kind, is so generally to be seen in the Royal Dr. Badham expended between 16,000l. and Infirmary of Edinburgh, and which fre- 20.000L of real property, which he had inquently produces suppuration, and even herited. Certain it is, the honour did not sloughing of the cellular structure. In the bring him wealth or gain him practice, for removal of the scirrhous mamma which suc- ever since he obtained it he has been a ceeded, the preliminary incisions were free wanderer upon the face of the earth ; yet, and deep. In dissecting out the diseased as it argues well for the Royal College of mass, Mr. Wardrop cut from the axilla to- Physicians of London, it deserves to be wards the sternum. The advantage of this ’ mentioned, that its powerful members have is, that the trunk of the external mammary long endeavoured to keep the head of this artery is divided at first, and if its mouth be their fellow above water. He has been a compressed, no hemorrhage can occur during travelling physician with lords and ladies of the subsequent steps of the operation. All high degree. But I have always heard it the ligatures were cut close to the arteries, I alleged against him, that he could not rea step of much consequence in preventing I main in any situation. Dr. Badbam has future irritation of the wound. These two considerable talents, but lie is pedantic, wayimprovements in operating, we strongly ’, ward, and internperateand great as the farecommend to the consideration of the Edin-i vour he has now obtained is, and that, too, burgh surgeons. With the hope that the in opposition to men of as great talents, profession may long enjoy the benefit of and of much more fitness, I am convinced THE LANCET, he will not keep it twelve months. The I am, Sir, Duke of Montrose may have meant to do Your grateful servant, justice to his favourite academy, but in his state of health and seclusion from the world, THE SCOTCH CRITIC. he could only consult one man, (his conMay 14. fidential physician,) and that one being desirous to get quit of a burden, a kind of nightmare, that hung upon the College of Physicians, made the most of the advantage GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. chance had given him, and succeeded in persuadingthe gouty old Duke, that " their paupe)’ Fellow" was the best qualified to be To the Editor n/THE LANCET. the Glasgow professor. Will the Glasgow SiR,-While your Correspendent " Glas- folks think so also ? Will Presbytery submit guensis" was forming his conjectures in the to be taught by a PrelatistBut perhaps north, the matter was finally settled in the Doctor will have no objection to sign Grosvenor-square ; and now that the Chair their confession of faith. There was a time has been disposed of, we may be allowed to when even a Duke of Montrose could not canvass the way in which it has been disposed force such things down the throats of his
without intermission, although powerful depletion, and large doses of calomel and opium, had been employed. Mr. Wardrop stated, that, from the peculiar muddy appearance of the cornea, the tortuous state of the vessels of the conjunctiva, and the ap-
of,
operations
favour, while,
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countrymen, though he did think it was
the engaged, I did not propose to ascertain by for them. Seriously speaking, what the injury was, but deEditor, you may tell your northern ferred it until I should have occasion to exfriends, that the way in which this profes- amine the progress of the labour. In due sorship has been given, is neither creditable time I was sent for; and then, indeed,I to the Duke of Montrose, to Scotchmen in found ample cause for all her suffering, in a general, nor does it reflect much honour complete laceration of the perineum and upon the "courteous chevalier," who pulled sphincter ani. That the child was not prethe strings that moved the puppet ; for after ternaturally large, the nurse assures me that all, you may tell his Grace that he was a it was a very small one. That it did not mere puppet in the business ; and as many to a woman-midwife of limited placof the candidates were perfectly unknown tice, for, I am told, she has accumulated to his Grace or his Counsellor, how can some hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds, they presume to say there were none more in her avocation, and is now near seventy fitted for the office than Dr. Badham !’! I years of age. It would also appear, that am informed the crown is to be addressed by is by no means an uncommon occur. petition against his Grace’s recommenda- rence ; for, on being told by the patient, best Mr.
thing
examination
occur
this
tion, and if Mr. Sturges Bourne has any that she felt a smarting pain which she never spirit, he must feel the insult put upon him had before ; " Pugh ! child," was the reply, by the Duke of Montrose, who, it is whis- " there is nothing but what continually pered, applied and got an order registered happens in these cases." Now, Sir, ought at the Home Office during the late interregnum, such to have been the case with afourtteetth (and after his Grace had resigned his key of child ? and what would have been said if it office,) that this paltry piece of patronage had occurred in the practice of a man. should not be taken from him. Really my midwife’! And yet there are men so fool. Lord Duke must have a hif’,h opinion of his hardy, as to propose the exposing of all own talents for selecting professors, or a mothers to such injuries. Oh ! ye men of and Uni- " enlarged intellect." violent love for I am, Sir, versity, that from a bed of sickness, and after retiring from his sovereign’s service, Your obedient servant, he could descend to ask for such a favour. EVAN DANIEL, DANIEL. It proves the power of the ruaster spirit. Street 32, Bishopsgate Within, Such is the tittle tattle of this great city, July 3, 1827. which I hope your 12,000 mouths will convey to the world at large, being your admirer and constant reader, PHRENOLOGY. AttICTS J [;STlTL1E.
Glasgow College
z’i
.
London, May 9,
18.
To the Editor of THE LANCET.
SIR,—There is at present in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, in Faith Ward, a little girl, whose head at the same time exempliBLESSINGS OF FEMALES PRACTISING MIDfies the trutli of phrenology and confirms WIFERY. the situation of the organ of music. The lower and lateral part of the forehead, on To the Editor o, f’1’xELANCET. side where that organ is situated, is narrow and depressed, nearly as SIR,-At a time when an attempt is most sl13tnefully made to traduce and degrade the much so as in the mark of Ann Ormerod, girl in the Blue School at Liverpool, general practitioner, if you think the following case worthy of a place in your valuable whose case is detailed in the Eighth Numpublication, it may tend to illustrate the ber of the Phrenological Journal. L’pon sort of benefit to be expected from employ- asking her if she liked music, she replied, because it always gave her pain in the in,,, females in the practice of midwifery. Mrs. ----, the mother of fourteen chil- forehead, and, intuitively as it were, placed (iren, five of whom are still living, had finger on the organ of the left side. On always been attended in her former accouche- further questioning her whether that was ments by a woman-midwife, but, in conseonly part in which she felt pain, she quence of an injury which she had received immediately pointed to the corresponding in her last, about two years ago, 1 was on the right side. engaged to attend her in the beginning of Should you consider this fact worthy of last month ; on being asked if she felt any insertion in your valuable Journal, vou will inconvenience since the injury, and in what much oblige " was Your constant reader, way, she answered, that she daily infor was she neither able to convenienced, A PHRENOLOGIST. retain her faeces or urine.’’ When I. was , June 21&t, 1827.
each
extremely
the
no,
her
the
part
.
without intermission, although powerful depletion, and large doses of calomel and opium, had been employed. Mr. Wardrop stated, that, from the peculiar muddy appearance of the cornea, the tortuous state of the vessels of the conjunctiva, and the ap-
of,
operations
favour, while,
464
countrymen, though he did think it was
the engaged, I did not propose to ascertain by for them. Seriously speaking, what the injury was, but deEditor, you may tell your northern ferred it until I should have occasion to exfriends, that the way in which this profes- amine the progress of the labour. In due sorship has been given, is neither creditable time I was sent for; and then, indeed,I to the Duke of Montrose, to Scotchmen in found ample cause for all her suffering, in a general, nor does it reflect much honour complete laceration of the perineum and upon the "courteous chevalier," who pulled sphincter ani. That the child was not prethe strings that moved the puppet ; for after ternaturally large, the nurse assures me that all, you may tell his Grace that he was a it was a very small one. That it did not mere puppet in the business ; and as many to a woman-midwife of limited placof the candidates were perfectly unknown tice, for, I am told, she has accumulated to his Grace or his Counsellor, how can some hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds, they presume to say there were none more in her avocation, and is now near seventy fitted for the office than Dr. Badham !’! I years of age. It would also appear, that am informed the crown is to be addressed by is by no means an uncommon occur. petition against his Grace’s recommenda- rence ; for, on being told by the patient, best Mr.
thing
examination
occur
this
tion, and if Mr. Sturges Bourne has any that she felt a smarting pain which she never spirit, he must feel the insult put upon him had before ; " Pugh ! child," was the reply, by the Duke of Montrose, who, it is whis- " there is nothing but what continually pered, applied and got an order registered happens in these cases." Now, Sir, ought at the Home Office during the late interregnum, such to have been the case with afourtteetth (and after his Grace had resigned his key of child ? and what would have been said if it office,) that this paltry piece of patronage had occurred in the practice of a man. should not be taken from him. Really my midwife’! And yet there are men so fool. Lord Duke must have a hif’,h opinion of his hardy, as to propose the exposing of all own talents for selecting professors, or a mothers to such injuries. Oh ! ye men of and Uni- " enlarged intellect." violent love for I am, Sir, versity, that from a bed of sickness, and after retiring from his sovereign’s service, Your obedient servant, he could descend to ask for such a favour. EVAN DANIEL, DANIEL. It proves the power of the ruaster spirit. Street 32, Bishopsgate Within, Such is the tittle tattle of this great city, July 3, 1827. which I hope your 12,000 mouths will convey to the world at large, being your admirer and constant reader, PHRENOLOGY. AttICTS J [;STlTL1E.
Glasgow College
z’i
.
London, May 9,
18.
To the Editor of THE LANCET.
SIR,—There is at present in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, in Faith Ward, a little girl, whose head at the same time exempliBLESSINGS OF FEMALES PRACTISING MIDfies the trutli of phrenology and confirms WIFERY. the situation of the organ of music. The lower and lateral part of the forehead, on To the Editor o, f’1’xELANCET. side where that organ is situated, is narrow and depressed, nearly as SIR,-At a time when an attempt is most sl13tnefully made to traduce and degrade the much so as in the mark of Ann Ormerod, girl in the Blue School at Liverpool, general practitioner, if you think the following case worthy of a place in your valuable whose case is detailed in the Eighth Numpublication, it may tend to illustrate the ber of the Phrenological Journal. L’pon sort of benefit to be expected from employ- asking her if she liked music, she replied, because it always gave her pain in the in,,, females in the practice of midwifery. Mrs. ----, the mother of fourteen chil- forehead, and, intuitively as it were, placed (iren, five of whom are still living, had finger on the organ of the left side. On always been attended in her former accouche- further questioning her whether that was ments by a woman-midwife, but, in conseonly part in which she felt pain, she quence of an injury which she had received immediately pointed to the corresponding in her last, about two years ago, 1 was on the right side. engaged to attend her in the beginning of Should you consider this fact worthy of last month ; on being asked if she felt any insertion in your valuable Journal, vou will inconvenience since the injury, and in what much oblige " was Your constant reader, way, she answered, that she daily infor was she neither able to convenienced, A PHRENOLOGIST. retain her faeces or urine.’’ When I. was , June 21&t, 1827.
each
extremely
the
no,
her
the
part
.