321 ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL. Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley. All gentlemen who have been successful in the competitive examinations, held twice a year (February and August), at Chelsea, for appointments in the medical service of the Army, attend subsequently, at the Royal Victoria Hospital, a course of practical instruction in the duties they will have to perform in the Army. The course lasts four months, after which an examination is held to ascertain the progress made by each candidate. The lectures on Military Surgery include gunshot and other wounds ; arrangements for the transport of wounded;-, duties of army surgeons in the field, during sieges, on transports, &c.; and other special subjects. Those on Military Medicine refer to the tropical and other diseases of the British possessions and colonies, and to the losses by disease in peace anti war at home and abroad. The lectures on Hygiene comprise all duties relating to the examination of water, air, food, clothing, &c., of the soldier; his duties and exercise, and the circumstances affecting his health; the subjects of meteorology, statistics, and prevention of the principal diseases met with in the Army, on home or foreign service. The lectures on Pathology have reference chiefly to the scientificexamination of tropical diseases, and of other complaints which the army surgeon is especially called on to investigate. The candidates also attend the wards of the hospital to study the diseases of invalids under the Professors of Medicine and Surgery, the system of recruiting, and the modes of keeping the army medical returns and records. They are also called on to make postmortem examinations, to operate on the dead body, and pass through courses of practical instruction in the laboratory on the modes of recognising the qualities and adulterations of food, and in the microscopic room on the modes of microscopic examination of morbid tissues and of adulterations of food, &c.
and Practice of ditto, six months each. If the lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine be given in conjunction, the period required is twelve
Theory of Medicine,
months. Clinical lectures (at an hospital as above) on the Practice of Medicine and on the Practice of Surgery, six months each. Chemistry, six months; or lectures on Chemistry, three months, and Practical Chemistry, three months. Materia Medica and Midwifery, six months each. Botany, three months.
HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS FOR
SPECIAL MEDICAL INSTRUCTION IN THE METROPOLIS. ST. LuKE’s HOSPITAL FOR LUNATICS, Old-street, E.C.Resident Medical Superintendent: Dr. James Ellis (of whom all particulars can be obtained respecting the lectures). Sessions of three months each commence on Oct. 1st, Jan. 1st, May lst. Fee for the session, JE33s. HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton. Pupils are admitted to the hospital practice. Fees: For three months, X33s.; for six months, £55s.; per-
£10 10s. Clinical instruction is given daily by the physicians and assistant-physicians. Clinical assistants reside in the hospital. Pupils are eligible for these appointments, which are held for six months. HOSPITAL SHIP, "DREADNOUGHT,"off Greenwich: Office, 86, King William-street, E.C.-This institution contains 200 beds, and is established for the relief of seamen of all nations. Casualties from the shore are also received. Residence is proNAVAL MEDICAL SERVICE. vided on board for students and others who may be desirous Admiralty Office, Somerset House. of studying diseases incidental to tropical climates before A candidate for entry into the Royal Navy as assistantentering the service, or going abroad. Constant opportunities surgeon shall make a written application to the Secretary of also occur for the performance of surgical operations. the Admiralty, on the receipt of which he will be furnished WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, HAMMERSMITH.—Number of with a printed form to be filled up. 25. Average of out-patients, 30,000 annually ; inNo person is admitted as an assistant-surgeon in the Royal beds, 200. The performance of the duties of Housepatients, Navy who does not produce a certificate of being registered Surgeon at this Hospital is recognised by the Royal College of under the Medical Act, and a diploma from one of the Royal as professional study, in the fourth year required of Physicians of of or from Colleges Surgeons England, Edinburgh, Dublin; candidates for the College Licence. The Apothecaries’ Comthe Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; from receive certificates of attendance on the medical practice pany Trinity College, Dublin; or from some other corporate body of this hospital, for six months of the whole period they nor entitled to a in as a surlegally Surgery; grant diploma require. Gentlemen may enter as articled pupils, and also geon, unless he can produce a certificate from one of the said I, acquire a knowledge of practical Pharmacy. Fee for the whole Colleges, Faculty, or corporate body, founded on an examinaof apprenticeship (five years) 100 guineas. tion to be passed subsequent to his appointment of assistant- period GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road.-Consultingsurgeon, as to his fitness for the situation of surgeon in the Physician : Dr. Copland, F. R. S. Consulting-Surgeon: Mr. and in case the such every person producing Navy; diploma and certificate shall undergo a further examination touching Skey, F.R.S. Physicians: Drs. Leared, Hardinge, Cholmeley, his qualifications in all the necessary branches and points of F. C.Webb, Jephson, and Crucknell. Surgeons: Messrs. Gay, Medicine and Surgery, both at the time of his entry and after W. Adams, T. Carr Jackson, E. C. Hulme, W. Allingham, and Shillitoe. Obstetric Physician: Dr. Gustavus C. P. serving three years, to render himself eligible for surgeon. Pre- Buxton of the Eye: Dr. Lawrance. Aural Sur. Diseases Murray. viously to the admission of assistant-surgeons into the Navy, it geon: Mr. Harvey. Dentists: Messrs. Statham and C. J. will be required that they produce proof of having received a Fox. House-Surgeon: Mr. W. Hiches Bryant. Operations and in that classical education, preliminary they possess par- on Wednesdays, at two o’clock. Medical practitioners adticular a competent knowledge of Latin; also, that they are of mitted to see the practice of the hospital on presenting their good moral character, the certificate of which must be signed cards. Cards of admission to the practice of the hospital will a of the the or of the district; be by magistrate parish, clergyman to certified medical students on application to the granted that they have served an apprenticeship, or have been engaged for not less than six months in practical pharmacy; that their Secretary, at the hospital. NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYSED AND THE EPI. age is not less than twenty nor more than twenty-six years; that they have actually attended a recognised hospital for LEPTIC, 24, Queen-square, Bloomsbury.-The hospital contains is about to be increased to 60. More than 1000 eighteen months subsequently to the age of eighteen, in which 30 beds, andare now under treatment. The physicians attend than the not less of is out-patients number 100; hospital average that they have been engaged in actual dissection of the human every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Medical and students will be admitted on showing their body twelve months, the certificate of which, from the teacher, practitioners must state the number of subjects or parts dissected by the cards. Physicians : Drs. Ramskill, Radcliffe, J. Russell candidates ; that they have attended lectures, &c., at the Reynolds, and Sieveking. Assistant - Physicians : Drs. J. recognised Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons in the United Hughlings Jackson and P. Victor Bazire. Medical SuperKingdom for periods not less than hereunder stated; observing, intendent : Mr. J. N. Radcliffe. HOSPITAL FOR SiCK CHILDREN, Great Ormond-street, however, that such lectures will not be admitted if the teachers shall lecture on more than one branch of science, or if the lec- receives 75 in-patients; the out-patient attendance is about tures on Anatomy, Surgery, and Medicine, be not attended 1200 weekly. The medical officers attend daily at nine A.M. Fee for three months’ attendance, jE33s.; perpetual, E55s. during winter sessions of six months each. Anatomy, eighteen months; or General Anatomy, twelve Lectures on the Diseases of Children are given weekly during the winter by the physicians and surgeons. Admission free months, and Comparative Anatomy, six months. Surgery: General Surgery, twelve months; or Military to students after their first year, on previous written application to the Secretary of the hospital. Surgery, six months, and General Surgery, six months.
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