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719 AGRICULTURAL CHILDREN BILL. one case of internal stricture, and believed external stricture to be very rare. In talking of treatment, On the order for the third reading of this Bill, Mr. reference should be made to the inner orifice. As to sterility, MuNDELLA moved that it be read a third time that day six it was a complex question. Maturation of the genital months. He was of opinion that the Bill, if passed, would organs might take place only after several years of mar- become a dead letter, inasmuch as it would never be carried riage, and a fact due to physiological evolution be ascribed out by those to whom its enforcement would be entrusted. to an operation. Furthermore he attached little import- The Bill was read a third time and passed. ance to narrowness of the cervix in dysmenorrhaea and MAY 12TH. sterility. CONDEMNED TOBACCO. Professor Verneuil asked M. Courty to give his cases in In to Mr. Mr. BAXTER said that the Comfor he would indications and Barnett, reply full, hoped give operating. He had seen stricture after amputation of the cervix for missioners of Customs had informed him that the quantity epithelioma. In one of these cases the orifice would of unmanufactured tobacco destroyed during the last three scarcely admit a probe, and there were no pathological years amounted to 240,000 Ib., and that the quantity of symptoms. In another, the cervix was narrow, and there manufactured tobacco destroyed during the same period After amounted to 7270 lb. Nearly the whole of that tobacco was was dysmenorrbcea; also, the ovary was painful. of some abdomen blisters to the dysmenorrhoea unmerchantable, and was, in fact, mere refuse, and, if sold, application ceased, though the cervix remained quite as narrow. Indi- would only have brought a mere trifle. cations for operating were difficult to set down. In stricMAY 13TH. tures of the cervix, Robert used to cut with a bistoury; the INSPECTION OF NUISANCES. incision cicatrized; dilatation was not permanent, yet In reply to an hon. member, Mr. HIBBERT said that dysmenorrbaea was removed. medical officers and inspectors of nuisances were wherever In answering these objections, Dr. Courty said he meant made by the Local Government Board, or with their sanchis to describe for the but intended operations only present, to take up the subject of indications at a forthcoming tion, one-half of their salaries would always be paid by the sitting. Dr. Despres had seen a few cases at Lourcine (the Government. POOR-LAW RELIEF. female Lock Hospital), because stricture mostly occurred in W. H. SMITH Mr. As to Dr. the inwomen. Blot’s gave notice that on an early day he remarks, newly-married ternal orifice was the more open as the external one was would call attention to the administration of the Poor Law, of out-door relief, and move a resolution. small. As to cases where the internal orifice was narrow when the external one was normal, they would be treated of MAY 14TH. specially on another occasion. Out of his twelve cases of INFANTICIDE BILL. operation he had not lost one patient. In all the cases the of this Bill was moved by Mr. The Second symptoms disappeared after the operation. Of course there CHARLEY. Mr. Reading BRUCE, while not objecting to the principle, were other causes of sterility besides narrowness of the orifice. In one of his cases, however, with an excessively pointed out various defects in the clauses. The Governconical cervix and a very narrow orifice, fecundation took ment, he announced, had a bill prepared on the whole subject of the punishment for murder, and on that ground place so speedily after the operation that it was difficult not he urged the withdrawal of this measure. Mr. HOLKER to ascribe it to the procedure. the Bill. Mr. HARDY and Sir G. GREY joined in supported At the same sitting, Dr. Hergott, formerly of Strasburg, communicated a paper on the treatment of vesico-vaginal seconding Mr. Bruce’s advice, and after some observations fistulae. Success in these cases had been attributed to the from Mr. HUNT, Sir G. JENKINSON, and the ATTORNEYmetallic suture, or to one procedure rather than another; GENERAL, the Bill was read a second time on the underbut the key to success was, as in all other cases of auto- standing that it would not be pressed further plasty, perfect paring and perfect reunion. A good speculum and a good posture of the patient were necessary. Dr. Hergott described the instrument which had served him in fourteen cases-a gutter-shaped tin speculum for depressing the posterior wall of the vagina. For seeing the anterior wall, he caused his patients to lie on an inclined SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. plane of 45 degrees, and the posture adopted was that TheROYAL COLLEGE OFhave following gentlemen passed the primary examinadescribed by Dr. Gustav Simon as the pelvi-dorsal position. Twelve out of the fourteen cases recovered; the remaining tion in Anatomy and Physiology :— L. A. Weatherly, Bristol; A. 0. White, St. Mary’s Hospital; T. E. Bastwo died from peritonitis at a time when epidemic pericombe, St. Thomas’s Hospital; E. Ground, A. W. Wright, J. Davies, tonitis prevailed at the Lying-in Hospital. Dr. Hergott and C. S. Bayley, King’s College ; J. W. Watson, F. M. Sherrin, aud J. Coutts, University Coll. ; E. 1. Pilling, W. W. Pinching, B. Jumeaux, stated that he had adopted Simon’s plan of not sounding P. J. Jackson, and J. H. Vinter, Guy’s Hospital ; A. Cosgrave, E. W. his patients, and not endeavouring to evacuate the water Martland, W. Walker, A. C. J. Wilson, F. H. V. Grosholz, C. W. Folkes, C. H. Phillips, and J. F. Harrison, Manchester ; T. S. Sutton, J. C. by means of permanent sounds; he had thus avoided Creswetl, G. Sibbering, and F. C. Quartley, Middlesex Hospital ; G. F. cystitis and obtained the best results. Jackman, C. C. Tumour, W. G. Archer, C. A. Daubeny, R. Golding, Paris, May 12th, 1873. H. S. Little, G. H. Smith, and S. M. Smith, St. Bartholomew’s Hosp.; C. V. Whitby, J. 1. Toll, W. Moxon, E. S. Warrillow, and T. Smith, Birmingham ; R. L. Lawson, Dublin and Guy’s Hospital ; H. J. Owen, St. George’s Hosp. ; T. S. Pitts, Glasgow and King’s Coll. ; J. M’Naught PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. and R. Saundby, Edinburgh; R. Richardson and H. Hick, Leeds; H. A. Shera, Sheffield. HOUSE OF LORDS. The following gentlemen APOTHECARIES’ HALL. passed their examination in the Science and Practice of MediMAY 8TH. THE Registration of Births and Deaths Bill passed cine, and received certificates to practise, on May 8th :Bredm, John Noble, Chart Sutton, Kent. through Committee. Jordan, Fredk. William, Plymouth-grove, Manchester.

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Nash, William Gunner, Farnham, Surrey. Winkworth, Frederick Sydney, Chalcot-terrace. As Assistant in Compounding and Dispensing Medicines :— Sharrah, Richard, Hull. The following gentleman also on the same day passed his Examination :— Primary Professional Symonds, Horatio Percy, University College.

On the order for resuming the debate on this Bill, Colonel BARTTELOT complained that an important measure like that before the House-one which sought to interfere MRS. OWEN, the wife of Professor Owen, died lately with the rights of private property-should be brought on at Sheen Lodge, Richmond-park, in her seventy-first year. at such a late hour-namely, 12.15 A.M. After some obserTHE annual dinner of St. Mary’s Hospital was vations from Mr. FOWLER, the Bill was read a second time, on the understanding that it should be discussed upon held on Wednesday evening last at Willis’s Rooms, under the presidency of the Marquis of Lorne. going into Committee.