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MANCHESTER. (From our own Correspondent.)
515 Dr. Mackey has resigned the honorary physicianship of the Queen’s Hospital, after devoting several years to clinical teaching and original observation in the Birmingham hosfrom the town will be a subject of pitals, and his removal friends and fellow-workers. regret to his numerous Birmingham, April 2nd, 1878.
MANCHESTER.
(From
our own
Correspondent.)
MR. WINDSOR has resigned the lecturership on Opthalmology at Owens College, along with the post of ophthalmic surgeon to the Infirmary, and, unfortunately, there does not appear much chance of the two offices being again united in one person, unless Dr. Little, who is senior surgeon to the Eye Hospital, should offer himself as a candidate for both posts. Mr. Lund removed the astragalus last Saturday in a case of extreme talipes varus in the adult; the alternative was amputation at the ankle-joint, as the deformity completely lamed the man, and this Mr. Lund was anxious to avoid, feeling considerable confidence that he will be able to give the man a good and useful foot. Two interesting cases of intestinal obstruction have lately been operated on in the infirmary, both occurring in Mr. Bradley’s wards. One was a case of large scrotal hernia on the left side, with symptoms of obstruction, which a consultation decided called for operative interference. On opening the sac a quantity of faecal matter escaped, but no strangulation was found. A post-mortem examination revealed an unusual state of things. The sac was found to contain, in addition to a large quantity of small intestine, the whole of the appendix cseci dragged over from the right. This organ was the seat of inflammation, and had given way by two small perforations to the passage of liquid faeces. A case is at present under observation of suspected renal calculus, in which Mr. Heath intends to perform nephrotomy. Mr. Lund will probably consent to become a candidate for the forthcoming vacancy in the Council of the College of Surgeons, and his acknowledged eminence as a surgeon and wide popularity in the inspire his supporters with a reasonable hope of a successful issue to the contest. A memorial requesting him to become a candidate, numerously signed by influential Fellows, will shortly be presented to him.
profession
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
Select Committee limited to the question of penalties. Sir T. Chambers supported the Bill, and Sir W.Barttelot and Dr. Lush, though strongly in favour of compulsory vaccination, desired an improvement in the administration of the law. Mr. Forsyth and Sir J. M’Kenna, on the other hand, opposed the measure.-Mr. GLADSTONE spoke in favour of reading the Bill a second time and sending it to a Select Committee, pointing out that cumulative penalties are unknown in Scotland and Ireland, and that the law necessarily operates unequally on rich and poor.-Lord R. CHURCHILL moved the rejection of the Bill, emphatically denouncing it as destructive of the entire system of vaccination, and Dr. PLAYFAIR, who followed on the same side, spoke of it as a sale of indulgence to break the law. Mr. Pell, Mr. Samuda, Mr. North, Mr. Dillwyn, and Colonel Mure also opposed the Bill, and Mr. Muntz supported it.-Mr. SCLATER-BOOTH, in explanation, said that as it would be impossible by the rules of the House to limit the inquiry before the Select Committee to the question of penalties, he could not support the second reading, and Mr. Forster advised Mr. Pease to withdraw the Bill if the Government would grant a separate inquiry. Mr. Pease offered to do this, but no answer was given to his appeal, and on a division the Bill was thrown out by 271 to 82.
Medical News. ROYAL COLLEGE
OF
SURGEONS
APOTHECARIES’ HALL. -The HOUSE
OF
COMMONS.
Tuesday, April
2nd.
following gentlemen
Bell, William Montague, Camden-road. Fraser, Greeme Bisdee, St. Mary’s Hospital. Good, Frederick Thomas, Highbury-hill. Gover, Henry John, Clapham. Hawks, Robert Shafto, Hertford. Skelding, Henry John, Bayswater. Walter, William Henry, Sydenham.
was
Wednesday, April3rd.
ENGLAND. -
passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medicine, and received certificates to practise, on March 28th :
BENGAL MEDICAL REGULATIONS.
In reply to Mr. O’Donnell, Colonel LOYD-LINDSAY said it laid down in the Bengal Medical Regulations that the Secretary to the Surgeon-General must be selected from among the executive medical officers serving in India, and those regulations had been compiled with. The official referred to had been properly selected by the local Indian authorities in whose hands the appointment rested.
OF
The following gentlemen passed the Primary Examination in Anatomy and Physiology at meetings of the Board of Examiners on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last :George Aunand, Melbourne Hospital ; David Lowson, Aberdeen;9 W. Aloysius Day and T. A. P. Marsh, Bristol ; Robt. Jones, George F. Barnes, G. Trevern Hockin, S. Westcott, C. H. B. Shears, J. Armitage, D. D. Day, E. J. E. Risk, C. P. Lukis, A. Haig, J. H. Sewart, and R. S. Batson, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; W. W. Pryn, B. E. Studer, W. Eckett Fielden, W. W. David, F. H. Shaw, and G. Ryding Marsh, Guy’s Hospital; N. Bentham, W. A. Duncan, F. William Marlow, H. P. Gilbert, and G. M. Wasse, St. Thomas’s Hospital; T. Kay Whitehead, William Stanwell, R. Hanson Wolstenholme, W. M. Roocroft, J. M. Chadwick, and Charles I. Mouncey, Manchester; H. J. Minchinton, A. Wheeler, E. E. King, John Palmer, W. Atterbury, and T. W. Scale; Middlesex Hospital; Arthur Northcott, E. Cotterell, R. H. Firth, George Welch, A. B. Voisin, and C. A. A. Collings, University College; Ewing M’G. Aitken, Glasgow; J. Hutchinson, R. Volckman, and L. Francis, London Hospital; J. Thirkell and J. H. Oates, Leeds ; A. H. Proffitt, R. T. Vivian, H. F. Parsons, and J. Tucker, St. Mary’s Hospital; R. Rice, H. F. Corbould, and J. Turton, Charing-cross Hospital; Frederick J. Laimbeer, Liverpool; J. W. Batterham, Westminster Hospital; E. H. Wagstaff, King’s College; F. J. Driver, Cambridge ; A. Hooley, Charing-cross Hospital.
DR.
MURPHY, late medical
officer of Ramelton
Dispensary District, has been presented with an illuminatecl address on his leaving that place to practise in England.
AN inquiry was held this week in Galway, in con(PENALTIES) BILL. of a body having been sent from the workhouse to The greater part of the afternoon was spent in discussing sequence the dissecting-room of the adjoining Queen’s College which the Vaccination Law (Penalties) Bill, the second reading of was claimed by the friends for interment. The mistake of which was moved by Mr. Pease without explanation. Mr. the wrong body appears to have arisen by the man removing notice to move its not Wheelhouse, who had THE VACCINATION LAW
employed
given rejection, to carry it to the College not being in a sober conMr. SCLATER-BOOTH said that though he dition. A resolution adopted that the most stringent desired the local authorities to exercise the greatest discre- measures should for was the future be taken to prevent any tion in making orders for the enforcement of penalties, to do recurrence of the irregularity. away with repeated prosecutions would weaken the efficacy of compulsory vaccination. At the same time, he should be HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, NEWCASTLE-ONglad if anything could be devised to meet the grievance of TYNE.-At the annual Court of Governors of this institution, cumulative penalties.-Mr. PEASE then made his speech in held on the 27th ult., it was stated that though its successful support of the Bill, explaining that its object was to carry working afforded good groundsf or satisfaction, yet owing to the out the recommendations of the Select Committee, and that increased cost of treatment of patients, some modification of it would limit the number of prosecutions to two, and the the existing rules appeared advisable. The change suggested amount of penalty to 20s.-Earl PERCY spoke in favour of by the Committee was in the direction of the establishment a comprehensive inquiry into the present system of vaccina- of a more equitable proportion between the money value of tion ; and Mr. W. E. FORSTER supported the second reading subscriptions, and the number of recommendatory letters to on the understanding that the Bill should be referred to a which subscribers have hitherto been entitled.
being present,
MANCHESTER.
(From
our own
Correspondent.)
MR. WINDSOR has resigned the lecturership on Opthalmology at Owens College, along with the post of ophthalmic surgeon to the Infirmary, and, unfortunately, there does not appear much chance of the two offices being again united in one person, unless Dr. Little, who is senior surgeon to the Eye Hospital, should offer himself as a candidate for both posts. Mr. Lund removed the astragalus last Saturday in a case of extreme talipes varus in the adult; the alternative was amputation at the ankle-joint, as the deformity completely lamed the man, and this Mr. Lund was anxious to avoid, feeling considerable confidence that he will be able to give the man a good and useful foot. Two interesting cases of intestinal obstruction have lately been operated on in the infirmary, both occurring in Mr. Bradley’s wards. One was a case of large scrotal hernia on the left side, with symptoms of obstruction, which a consultation decided called for operative interference. On opening the sac a quantity of faecal matter escaped, but no strangulation was found. A post-mortem examination revealed an unusual state of things. The sac was found to contain, in addition to a large quantity of small intestine, the whole of the appendix cseci dragged over from the right. This organ was the seat of inflammation, and had given way by two small perforations to the passage of liquid faeces. A case is at present under observation of suspected renal calculus, in which Mr. Heath intends to perform nephrotomy. Mr. Lund will probably consent to become a candidate for the forthcoming vacancy in the Council of the College of Surgeons, and his acknowledged eminence as a surgeon and wide popularity in the inspire his supporters with a reasonable hope of a successful issue to the contest. A memorial requesting him to become a candidate, numerously signed by influential Fellows, will shortly be presented to him.
profession
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
Select Committee limited to the question of penalties. Sir T. Chambers supported the Bill, and Sir W.Barttelot and Dr. Lush, though strongly in favour of compulsory vaccination, desired an improvement in the administration of the law. Mr. Forsyth and Sir J. M’Kenna, on the other hand, opposed the measure.-Mr. GLADSTONE spoke in favour of reading the Bill a second time and sending it to a Select Committee, pointing out that cumulative penalties are unknown in Scotland and Ireland, and that the law necessarily operates unequally on rich and poor.-Lord R. CHURCHILL moved the rejection of the Bill, emphatically denouncing it as destructive of the entire system of vaccination, and Dr. PLAYFAIR, who followed on the same side, spoke of it as a sale of indulgence to break the law. Mr. Pell, Mr. Samuda, Mr. North, Mr. Dillwyn, and Colonel Mure also opposed the Bill, and Mr. Muntz supported it.-Mr. SCLATER-BOOTH, in explanation, said that as it would be impossible by the rules of the House to limit the inquiry before the Select Committee to the question of penalties, he could not support the second reading, and Mr. Forster advised Mr. Pease to withdraw the Bill if the Government would grant a separate inquiry. Mr. Pease offered to do this, but no answer was given to his appeal, and on a division the Bill was thrown out by 271 to 82.
Medical News. ROYAL COLLEGE
OF
SURGEONS
APOTHECARIES’ HALL. -The HOUSE
OF
COMMONS.
Tuesday, April
2nd.
following gentlemen
Bell, William Montague, Camden-road. Fraser, Greeme Bisdee, St. Mary’s Hospital. Good, Frederick Thomas, Highbury-hill. Gover, Henry John, Clapham. Hawks, Robert Shafto, Hertford. Skelding, Henry John, Bayswater. Walter, William Henry, Sydenham.
was
Wednesday, April3rd.
ENGLAND. -
passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medicine, and received certificates to practise, on March 28th :
BENGAL MEDICAL REGULATIONS.
In reply to Mr. O’Donnell, Colonel LOYD-LINDSAY said it laid down in the Bengal Medical Regulations that the Secretary to the Surgeon-General must be selected from among the executive medical officers serving in India, and those regulations had been compiled with. The official referred to had been properly selected by the local Indian authorities in whose hands the appointment rested.
OF
The following gentlemen passed the Primary Examination in Anatomy and Physiology at meetings of the Board of Examiners on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last :George Aunand, Melbourne Hospital ; David Lowson, Aberdeen;9 W. Aloysius Day and T. A. P. Marsh, Bristol ; Robt. Jones, George F. Barnes, G. Trevern Hockin, S. Westcott, C. H. B. Shears, J. Armitage, D. D. Day, E. J. E. Risk, C. P. Lukis, A. Haig, J. H. Sewart, and R. S. Batson, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; W. W. Pryn, B. E. Studer, W. Eckett Fielden, W. W. David, F. H. Shaw, and G. Ryding Marsh, Guy’s Hospital; N. Bentham, W. A. Duncan, F. William Marlow, H. P. Gilbert, and G. M. Wasse, St. Thomas’s Hospital; T. Kay Whitehead, William Stanwell, R. Hanson Wolstenholme, W. M. Roocroft, J. M. Chadwick, and Charles I. Mouncey, Manchester; H. J. Minchinton, A. Wheeler, E. E. King, John Palmer, W. Atterbury, and T. W. Scale; Middlesex Hospital; Arthur Northcott, E. Cotterell, R. H. Firth, George Welch, A. B. Voisin, and C. A. A. Collings, University College; Ewing M’G. Aitken, Glasgow; J. Hutchinson, R. Volckman, and L. Francis, London Hospital; J. Thirkell and J. H. Oates, Leeds ; A. H. Proffitt, R. T. Vivian, H. F. Parsons, and J. Tucker, St. Mary’s Hospital; R. Rice, H. F. Corbould, and J. Turton, Charing-cross Hospital; Frederick J. Laimbeer, Liverpool; J. W. Batterham, Westminster Hospital; E. H. Wagstaff, King’s College; F. J. Driver, Cambridge ; A. Hooley, Charing-cross Hospital.
DR.
MURPHY, late medical
officer of Ramelton
Dispensary District, has been presented with an illuminatecl address on his leaving that place to practise in England.
AN inquiry was held this week in Galway, in con(PENALTIES) BILL. of a body having been sent from the workhouse to The greater part of the afternoon was spent in discussing sequence the dissecting-room of the adjoining Queen’s College which the Vaccination Law (Penalties) Bill, the second reading of was claimed by the friends for interment. The mistake of which was moved by Mr. Pease without explanation. Mr. the wrong body appears to have arisen by the man removing notice to move its not Wheelhouse, who had THE VACCINATION LAW
employed
given rejection, to carry it to the College not being in a sober conMr. SCLATER-BOOTH said that though he dition. A resolution adopted that the most stringent desired the local authorities to exercise the greatest discre- measures should for was the future be taken to prevent any tion in making orders for the enforcement of penalties, to do recurrence of the irregularity. away with repeated prosecutions would weaken the efficacy of compulsory vaccination. At the same time, he should be HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, NEWCASTLE-ONglad if anything could be devised to meet the grievance of TYNE.-At the annual Court of Governors of this institution, cumulative penalties.-Mr. PEASE then made his speech in held on the 27th ult., it was stated that though its successful support of the Bill, explaining that its object was to carry working afforded good groundsf or satisfaction, yet owing to the out the recommendations of the Select Committee, and that increased cost of treatment of patients, some modification of it would limit the number of prosecutions to two, and the the existing rules appeared advisable. The change suggested amount of penalty to 20s.-Earl PERCY spoke in favour of by the Committee was in the direction of the establishment a comprehensive inquiry into the present system of vaccina- of a more equitable proportion between the money value of tion ; and Mr. W. E. FORSTER supported the second reading subscriptions, and the number of recommendatory letters to on the understanding that the Bill should be referred to a which subscribers have hitherto been entitled.
being present,