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550 of Apothecaries of London Gillson Scholarship in Pathology.-This scholarship of £105 a year is open to candidates under 35 who are licentiates or freemen of the society or become so within 6 months. The regulations may be had from the registrar, Black Friars Lane, E.C.4. Society for the Study of Addiction On Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 4 P.M., at 11, Chandos Street, London, W.1, Dr. W. R. Bett will give an address entitled Poppies, Dawamesk, and the Green Goddess : an Exotic Study of Literary Genius. Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases A general meeting will be held at 11, Chandos Street, London, W.1, at 2.30 P.M. on Saturday, Oct. 26. when Dr. F. R. Curtis will speak on Venereal Disease in Occupied
Society
Germany. Food and Agriculture Organisation Mr. S. M. Bruce, F.R.s., has been appointed chairman of the preparatory commission appointed -at the F.A.O. conference in Copenhagen to examine methods for setting up a world food board (see Lancet, Sept. 28, p. 463). The first meeting of the commission will be held in Washington on Oct. 28. Mr. Bruce, who was prime minister of Australia from 1922 to 1929 and represented Australia in London from 1932 to 1946, took a leading part in the social and economic work of the League of Nations.
Centenary of Anaesthesia Two further celebrations of the centenary of anaesthesia announced to be held on Oct. 16, the anniversary of Morton’s first operation at the Massachusetts General Hospital. At 2.30 P.M. there will be a special meeting of the history of medicine section of the Royal Society of Medicine at 1, Wimpole Street, London, W.1, when papers on the development of anaesthesia will be read by Prof. Charles Singer, Mrs. Barbara Duncum, Dr. Joseph Blomfield, and Dr. E. Ashworth Underwood. After this meeting, at 4.45 P.M., Lord Moran will open an exhibition of anaesthetic apparatus and literature at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 183, Euston Road, N.W.I. The exhibition will remain open until Dec. 31. are
Middlesex
Hospital
Dinner
the annual dinner held in London on Oct. 4, Dr. G. E. Beaumont spoke of losses from the honorary staff by retirement (Lakin, MacCormac, Cockayne, Gordon-Taylor, Webb-Johnson, Hastings, Greeves, Bankart) and by death (Voelcker, Berkeley, Bennett). He welcomed the appointment of F. Ray Bettley as dermatologist, 0. P. Dinnick as anoesthetist, A. J. B. Goldsmith as assistant ophthalmic surgeon, R. S. Handley and C. J. B. Murray as assistant surgeons, P. H. Newman as assistant orthopaedic surgeon, and Arthur Willcox as assistant physician. Mr. Plimsoll had been succeeded as secretary by Brig. Harvey Roberts. Meanwhile professors seemed to be sprouting on every bush, perhaps because of the wet summer ; and the wisdom of the young suggested that original sin has been replaced by original knowledge. Dr. H. E. A. Boldero, as dean, spoke of changes in the medical school, including the retirement of Prof. S. Russ, the promotion of Dr. R. W. Scarff to be professor, and the return of Prof. F. Dickens, F.R.s., to the Courtauld Institute. By a happy innovation, Colonel J. J. Astor, succeeding Mr. Samuel Courtauld as chairman of the school board, would unite that post with chairmanship of the hospital. Dr. Boldero regretted the circumstances which obliged some of the young men who were to have entered the school this autumn to enter the Forces instead, and he hoped for a change of policy by which military service, if required, would follow completion of the medical course. During the war the school had admitted 80 students a year, and he hoped the number would rise to 100 as recommended by the Goodenough Committee but this would be impossible until more preclinical accommodation was provided by rebuilding, and until the number of teaching beds could be increased. The board had bought said Dr. a sizable piece of adjoining land which offered, " a very real additional opportunity for extension Boldero, of clinical facilities under our own control." Dr. J. Marks, Broderip scholar, averred that the students had no complaints this year, and their athletic record was very satisfactory. Replying to his health, eloquently proposed by Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor, the chairman said that his mention of the rowing club’s difficulties had caused Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson to promise it a boat of its own.
Presiding
Medical
.
over
OCT.
Monday,
13
Diary TO
19
14th
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. W.C.2 3.45 P.M. Prof. A. J. E. Cave : Anatomy of the Larynx. 5 P.m. Dr. F. W. Roberts : Local Anaesthetics. MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 11, Chandos Street, W.1 8 P.M. Sir Philip Manson-Bahr : Biological Basis of Tropical
Medicine.
Tuesday,
(Presidential address.)
15th
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 3.45 P.M. Dr. E. L. Patterson : Blood-supply of the Brain. 5 P.M. Prof. R. J. S. McDowall : Blood-pressure. LONDON SCHOOL OF DERMATOLOGY, 5, Lisle Street, W.C.2 5 P.M. Dr. 1. Muende : Fungus Infections of the Skin. EDINBURGH POSTGRADUATE BOARD FOR MEDICINE 5 P.M. (Royal Infirmary.) Prof. F. A. E. Crew, F.R.s. : Place of Genetics in Clinical Medicine.
Wednesday,
16th
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 3.45 P.M. Dr. E. L. Patterson : Cerebral Ventricular System. 5 P.M. Prof. W. D. Newcomb : General Pathology of Bone. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE 2.30 P.M. History of Medicine. Prof. Charles Singer : Anæsthesia in the Pre-anaesthetic Period (before 1846). Dr. Barbara Duncum : Development of Inhalation Anæthesia in the Second Half of the 19th Century. Dr. Joseph Blomfield : Modern Development of Anaesthesia (1900-35). Dr. E. Ashworth Underwood : Contribution to the Early History of Anaesthesia in this Country. 5 P.M. Comparative Medicine. Prof. G. R. Cameron: Shift of Body Fluids. UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW 8 P.M. (Department of Ophthalmology.) Professor Loewensteia: Phakomatoses.
Thursday,
17th
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 3.45 P.M. Dr. E. L. Patterson : C’erebellum. 5 P.M. Prof. W. D. Newcomb : General Pathology of Bone. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE 5 P.M. Dermatology. Cases will be shown at 4 P.M. ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, 26, Portland Place, W.1 8 P.M. Dr. C. J. Hackett: Clinical Course of Yaws in Uganda.
Friday,
18th
ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, Pall Mall East 3 P.M. Sir Maurice Cassidy : Coronary Disease.
’’Harveian
oration.) ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 5 P.M. Prof. R. J. S. McDowall : Shock. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE 5.30 P.m. Radiology. Dr. Whately Davidson : Basis for
Staffing
Radiological Department. (Presidential address.) Obstetrics and Gyncecology. Mr. James Wyatt: Future Teaching of the Undergraduate. (Presidential address.)
a
8
P.m.
BRITISH ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION 9.30 A.a2. (1, Wimpole Street, W.1.) Annual Meeting. Mr. N. W. Roberts, Mr. W. Gissane : Fractures of the Os Calci’3. 11.30 A.M. Mr. George Perkins : Rest versus Activity in the Treatment of a Fracture. (Presidential address.) 2 P.M. Short papers.
FACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS 2.30 P.M. (Royal College of Surgeons.) Dr. Solve Welin (Stockholm), Dr. H. Graham Hodgson : X-ray Diagnosis of Cholesteatoma in the Temporal Bone. WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY 7 P.M. (South Kensington Hotel.) Dr. G. S. Hovenden : Fifty Years of General Practice. (Presidential address.) ,
Saturday,
19th
BRITISH ORTHOPÆDIC ASSOCIATION Annual meeting, (St. Thomas’s Hospital, S.E.1.) continued. 10 A.M. Demonstration of cases. ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICAL OFFICERS 10.30 A.M. (London School of Hygiene. Keppel Street, W.C.I.) Dr. Donald Hunter, Dr. R. S. F. Schilling: Industrial Medicine in the U.S.A. 9.30
A.M.
Sir Lionel Whitby and Mr. A. E. Porritt have accepted the invitation of Harvard University to occupy the chairs of medicine and surgery there for a short period. Sir Lionel Whitby leaves for the United States next week. In future the new quarterly, the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, will be issued in this country and the British Empire by William Heinemann Ltd., London. The subscription in Britain is 50s. per annum or 12s. 6d. per single copy. A warning against the uncontrolled use of a new drug,
Triodione,’ for the treatment of epilepsy, has been issued by the American Medical Association, which states that two deaths have been reported in patients who were treating themselves.
Society
Germany. Food and Agriculture Organisation Mr. S. M. Bruce, F.R.s., has been appointed chairman of the preparatory commission appointed -at the F.A.O. conference in Copenhagen to examine methods for setting up a world food board (see Lancet, Sept. 28, p. 463). The first meeting of the commission will be held in Washington on Oct. 28. Mr. Bruce, who was prime minister of Australia from 1922 to 1929 and represented Australia in London from 1932 to 1946, took a leading part in the social and economic work of the League of Nations.
Centenary of Anaesthesia Two further celebrations of the centenary of anaesthesia announced to be held on Oct. 16, the anniversary of Morton’s first operation at the Massachusetts General Hospital. At 2.30 P.M. there will be a special meeting of the history of medicine section of the Royal Society of Medicine at 1, Wimpole Street, London, W.1, when papers on the development of anaesthesia will be read by Prof. Charles Singer, Mrs. Barbara Duncum, Dr. Joseph Blomfield, and Dr. E. Ashworth Underwood. After this meeting, at 4.45 P.M., Lord Moran will open an exhibition of anaesthetic apparatus and literature at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 183, Euston Road, N.W.I. The exhibition will remain open until Dec. 31. are
Middlesex
Hospital
Dinner
the annual dinner held in London on Oct. 4, Dr. G. E. Beaumont spoke of losses from the honorary staff by retirement (Lakin, MacCormac, Cockayne, Gordon-Taylor, Webb-Johnson, Hastings, Greeves, Bankart) and by death (Voelcker, Berkeley, Bennett). He welcomed the appointment of F. Ray Bettley as dermatologist, 0. P. Dinnick as anoesthetist, A. J. B. Goldsmith as assistant ophthalmic surgeon, R. S. Handley and C. J. B. Murray as assistant surgeons, P. H. Newman as assistant orthopaedic surgeon, and Arthur Willcox as assistant physician. Mr. Plimsoll had been succeeded as secretary by Brig. Harvey Roberts. Meanwhile professors seemed to be sprouting on every bush, perhaps because of the wet summer ; and the wisdom of the young suggested that original sin has been replaced by original knowledge. Dr. H. E. A. Boldero, as dean, spoke of changes in the medical school, including the retirement of Prof. S. Russ, the promotion of Dr. R. W. Scarff to be professor, and the return of Prof. F. Dickens, F.R.s., to the Courtauld Institute. By a happy innovation, Colonel J. J. Astor, succeeding Mr. Samuel Courtauld as chairman of the school board, would unite that post with chairmanship of the hospital. Dr. Boldero regretted the circumstances which obliged some of the young men who were to have entered the school this autumn to enter the Forces instead, and he hoped for a change of policy by which military service, if required, would follow completion of the medical course. During the war the school had admitted 80 students a year, and he hoped the number would rise to 100 as recommended by the Goodenough Committee but this would be impossible until more preclinical accommodation was provided by rebuilding, and until the number of teaching beds could be increased. The board had bought said Dr. a sizable piece of adjoining land which offered, " a very real additional opportunity for extension Boldero, of clinical facilities under our own control." Dr. J. Marks, Broderip scholar, averred that the students had no complaints this year, and their athletic record was very satisfactory. Replying to his health, eloquently proposed by Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor, the chairman said that his mention of the rowing club’s difficulties had caused Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson to promise it a boat of its own.
Presiding
Medical
.
over
OCT.
Monday,
13
Diary TO
19
14th
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. W.C.2 3.45 P.M. Prof. A. J. E. Cave : Anatomy of the Larynx. 5 P.m. Dr. F. W. Roberts : Local Anaesthetics. MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 11, Chandos Street, W.1 8 P.M. Sir Philip Manson-Bahr : Biological Basis of Tropical
Medicine.
Tuesday,
(Presidential address.)
15th
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 3.45 P.M. Dr. E. L. Patterson : Blood-supply of the Brain. 5 P.M. Prof. R. J. S. McDowall : Blood-pressure. LONDON SCHOOL OF DERMATOLOGY, 5, Lisle Street, W.C.2 5 P.M. Dr. 1. Muende : Fungus Infections of the Skin. EDINBURGH POSTGRADUATE BOARD FOR MEDICINE 5 P.M. (Royal Infirmary.) Prof. F. A. E. Crew, F.R.s. : Place of Genetics in Clinical Medicine.
Wednesday,
16th
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 3.45 P.M. Dr. E. L. Patterson : Cerebral Ventricular System. 5 P.M. Prof. W. D. Newcomb : General Pathology of Bone. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE 2.30 P.M. History of Medicine. Prof. Charles Singer : Anæsthesia in the Pre-anaesthetic Period (before 1846). Dr. Barbara Duncum : Development of Inhalation Anæthesia in the Second Half of the 19th Century. Dr. Joseph Blomfield : Modern Development of Anaesthesia (1900-35). Dr. E. Ashworth Underwood : Contribution to the Early History of Anaesthesia in this Country. 5 P.M. Comparative Medicine. Prof. G. R. Cameron: Shift of Body Fluids. UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW 8 P.M. (Department of Ophthalmology.) Professor Loewensteia: Phakomatoses.
Thursday,
17th
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 3.45 P.M. Dr. E. L. Patterson : C’erebellum. 5 P.M. Prof. W. D. Newcomb : General Pathology of Bone. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE 5 P.M. Dermatology. Cases will be shown at 4 P.M. ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, 26, Portland Place, W.1 8 P.M. Dr. C. J. Hackett: Clinical Course of Yaws in Uganda.
Friday,
18th
ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, Pall Mall East 3 P.M. Sir Maurice Cassidy : Coronary Disease.
’’Harveian
oration.) ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 5 P.M. Prof. R. J. S. McDowall : Shock. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE 5.30 P.m. Radiology. Dr. Whately Davidson : Basis for
Staffing
Radiological Department. (Presidential address.) Obstetrics and Gyncecology. Mr. James Wyatt: Future Teaching of the Undergraduate. (Presidential address.)
a
8
P.m.
BRITISH ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION 9.30 A.a2. (1, Wimpole Street, W.1.) Annual Meeting. Mr. N. W. Roberts, Mr. W. Gissane : Fractures of the Os Calci’3. 11.30 A.M. Mr. George Perkins : Rest versus Activity in the Treatment of a Fracture. (Presidential address.) 2 P.M. Short papers.
FACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS 2.30 P.M. (Royal College of Surgeons.) Dr. Solve Welin (Stockholm), Dr. H. Graham Hodgson : X-ray Diagnosis of Cholesteatoma in the Temporal Bone. WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY 7 P.M. (South Kensington Hotel.) Dr. G. S. Hovenden : Fifty Years of General Practice. (Presidential address.) ,
Saturday,
19th
BRITISH ORTHOPÆDIC ASSOCIATION Annual meeting, (St. Thomas’s Hospital, S.E.1.) continued. 10 A.M. Demonstration of cases. ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICAL OFFICERS 10.30 A.M. (London School of Hygiene. Keppel Street, W.C.I.) Dr. Donald Hunter, Dr. R. S. F. Schilling: Industrial Medicine in the U.S.A. 9.30
A.M.
Sir Lionel Whitby and Mr. A. E. Porritt have accepted the invitation of Harvard University to occupy the chairs of medicine and surgery there for a short period. Sir Lionel Whitby leaves for the United States next week. In future the new quarterly, the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, will be issued in this country and the British Empire by William Heinemann Ltd., London. The subscription in Britain is 50s. per annum or 12s. 6d. per single copy. A warning against the uncontrolled use of a new drug,
Triodione,’ for the treatment of epilepsy, has been issued by the American Medical Association, which states that two deaths have been reported in patients who were treating themselves.