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MEDICAL REFORM.—SPECIMEN PETITION.
775 at the Westminister Hospital, and which 4conducted
themselves,-and for an addi1 confirmation of whose proceedings, simu- tional lating the outcries of manaics rather than ofas reported in THE LANCET, we may refer to sane persons, Mr. THos. WM. WALSH says,the statement of Mr. HARRISON at page 773 that many of the Governors whom the stu- of this week’s Number, we must beg Mr. dents"knew to be unfavourable to the cause WALSH not to put himself to the trouble of of Sir A. Carlisle, entered unmolested," and any further correspondence on the subject. as regards the Governor who was molested, no attempt was, to " his certain knowledge, " made, or even thought of, to throw him over MEDICAL REFORM.—SPECIMEN PETITION. "the bannister$." Respecting the attendance of the molested Governor at the Board-room To the Editor of THE LANCET. to vote for mercy towards the youths, Mr. SIR:-As on all hands it is admitted, Thos. Wm. Walsh remarks that the gentle. that the time has arrived when Petitions man in question had not been sufficiently should be poured in from all quarters to long a Governor " to possess a vote." The Parliament, in favour of Medical Reform, word vote, therefore, in THE LANCET should I beg to suggest the following as a specihave been written plead. He also considers men of the kind of Petition that would be that the subsequent speech of the Governor most useful to the cause, and most satisdid not indicate "leniency" to the molesters. factory to the Member who may be reto it. It may be as well to Mr. Thos. Wm. Walsh also favours us with questedthat present thousands of Petitions may be state, a copy of the " apology, or rather explanapresented to the House of Commons, all tion" which he, as one of "the two most expressed in the same words, each drawn active" of the molesters, forwarded to the out on foolscap paper. I am, Sir, your mnmt nhliO’p,t Board, when the punishment of expulsion WM. SIMPSON. was threatened, lest the wrong should be 110, Guildford-street, Feb. 6, 1840. thought to have been too amply amended. In To the Honourable the Commo1ts of the this letter he expresses his " extreme regret"" United Kingdom of Great Britain and that he should have received a notice signiin Parliament assembled; Ireland, fying the chairman’s " condemnation of his The Petition of, &c. conduct;" assures the chairman that "noHUMBLY SHEWETH, - That your Petifurther from his intention than thing was tioner* is a legally qualified medical pracoffering any insult to the Governors," and titioner, residing in "acknowledges that it was most indiscreet That your Petitioner deplores that many to demonstrate any public mark of disappro- anomalies exist in the medical institutions bation within the wails of the hospital." of the United Kingdom, and daily observes Mr. Thos. Wm. Walsh distinctly denies that Her Majesty’s subjects injured by defects in the present constitution of the licensing any meeting was held" at which it was bodies, particularly as regards the prevenagreed to assault one of the Governors ; but tion of ignorant and uneducated persons he does not explain by what other species of from practising medicine, surgery, midpreliminary connivance it was arranged to wifery, and pharmacy : That it is the opinion of your Petitioner, molest one particular Governor, and allow that A SINGLE REPRESENTATIVE CORPORAthe others to pass "unmolested." On the TION, Or FACULTY OF MEDICINE, ought to be Subject of the police-officer, Mr. Thos. Wm. established in each capital of England, Walsh mends the statement in the report,I Scotland, and Ireland, in the controul of to practise by saying that" the fact is that after the which all individuals licensedmedical pro19 Committee had dissolved, the assaulted Go- the various branches of the fession should possess equal rights : on outside the vernor, appearing hospital, Your Petitioner, therefore, entreats your " being greeted with marks of disapproba- Honourable House to take the subject of tion similar to those which he had previ- medical reform into its earnest consideragive its assent to a Bill for the conso" ously received, called to a policeman, who tion, 61 decline interfering in the matter, but lidation of the Medical Profession into One of full power to " suffered the students to continue their ex- Faculty the Medicine, having regulate government of the whole body, was
described by Mr. White
as
I
tcpressions qf indignation."
After this confession of Mr. WALSH that he was one of the party who so grossly mis-
* The form, by altering the numbers and tenses, will suit more than one petitioner.
776 to form regulations for the in delicate females during pregnancy, and admission of members to practise medicine, under circumstances supposed to forbid its
being enabled
confering equal rights and privileges upon employment by many, and I have never once all its members, and encouraging the at- seen cause to regret its exhibition.-11’eta
tainmentof professional cMnneKM only through York Quarterly Journ. of Med. No. 2. the possession of medical knowledge, and the personal qualities of talent, industl’Y, and IMPERFECT EXTRACT OF HEMLOCK. perseverunce:: And your Petitioner will ever pray, &c. THE uncertainty of the extract of hemlock may be shown by an easy experiment. The conine, which in the process of decomposi. tion is partly resolved into ammonia, is in ARSENIC IN CHOREA. this preparation always, according to Pro. fessor Geiger, more or less deficient, and Dr. REESE recommends, in the following often entirely abseut ; and to prove that this terms, the employment of arsenic, as a decomposition has taken place, it is only necessary to add some water of caustic remedy in cases of chorea :These results of experience have led me potash, when the ammonia may be distin. by the odour, and by holding over successively to test the comparative merits guished rod dipped in muriatic acid, whereupon of various other remedies which have been it a the fumes formed by the muriate of ammo. reported as successful, as the rubigo ferri, nia are rendered visible. This experiment cuprum ammoniacum, sulphate and flowers has shown ammonia in every specimen of of zinc, oxide of bismuth, camphor, electhe extract in which I tried it.-Dr. Osbol’ne. tricity, nitrate of silver, &c. ; and, after very Dublin Journ. Jan. 1840. considerable opportunities, I have learned to rely upon the tonic powers of arsenic in preference to any and all other medicines of this class, and have never known it to fail in effecting a radical and permanent cure. TO CORRESPONDENTS. I feel great confidence in recommending it to the profession in all those cases in which The following communications, amongst the tonic plan is decided upon, either with others, have reached us:The or without preliminary medication. R. on Parochial Medical Attendance. arseniate of potash, as existing in the for- A Physician, (Birmingham), on Vaccina. mula of Fowler’s solution, is the preferable tion. mode of exhibition, and its dose should be Fifth Sheet of Additional Testimograduated according to the ability of the nials" in favour of Dr. Evory Kennedy. stomach to receive it without nausea. In Observations on 11 The PresentrSystem of the most numerous subjects, varying from Education." seven to sixteen years of age, six or eight Mr. Torbock’s letter on the Speech of drops should be given night and morning, Dr. Brown, at Newcastle.on-Tyne. gradually increasing its dose and frequency. ’i The 25th and 26th 11 Reports of the GlasAdults may take ten drops, increasing to gow Royal Asylum for Lunatics." A Pupil of St. Thomas’s on the Sedative fifteen, and-even twenty, three times a day, and in all cases it should be persevered in Treatment after the Operation for Hernia. for a week or more after all the spasmodic The letters dated from the library of the symptoms have disappeared. The only un- London College of Surgeons. pleasant effects are nausea or vomiting, if lIledicus, on the Grievance of Naval Surthe dose be too large, and occasionally a geons. tumefaction of the head and face if too long The letter of Dr. I]-ealey on the Ennis persisted in. On either of these effects Medical Reform Petition. TVemo.—It is impossible to say what is being produced the medicine should be discontinued for a few days, and then resumed likely; but although the feelings of the in a diminished dose. Commissioners may be opposed to a liberal With these precautions I have, for a num. arrangement, it is probable that some more ber of years, employed this remedy in over reasonable plan will be adopted than is at two hundred cases of chorea, without ever present in operation, when the matter is reo having witnessed any of the untoward re- discussed. sults upon the constitution, said to follow The cases of Dr. LUIl90n and Illi,. H. the exhibition of arsenical preparations. So a5’mitla, next week. far from any of the sequelse occurrin g which We have found even an abstract of the are apprehended by thealarmits, my patients letter of Sir Claarles Scudamore, forwarded have, under its use, not only recovered from to us last week, on Inhalation in Pulmonary chorea, but many of them seem to have since Disease, too long for insertion in the present acquired vigorous constitutions and im- number of THE LANCET; but room for it proved health. I have used it in infancy, may offer in the next.
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themselves,-and for an addi1 confirmation of whose proceedings, simu- tional lating the outcries of manaics rather than ofas reported in THE LANCET, we may refer to sane persons, Mr. THos. WM. WALSH says,the statement of Mr. HARRISON at page 773 that many of the Governors whom the stu- of this week’s Number, we must beg Mr. dents"knew to be unfavourable to the cause WALSH not to put himself to the trouble of of Sir A. Carlisle, entered unmolested," and any further correspondence on the subject. as regards the Governor who was molested, no attempt was, to " his certain knowledge, " made, or even thought of, to throw him over MEDICAL REFORM.—SPECIMEN PETITION. "the bannister$." Respecting the attendance of the molested Governor at the Board-room To the Editor of THE LANCET. to vote for mercy towards the youths, Mr. SIR:-As on all hands it is admitted, Thos. Wm. Walsh remarks that the gentle. that the time has arrived when Petitions man in question had not been sufficiently should be poured in from all quarters to long a Governor " to possess a vote." The Parliament, in favour of Medical Reform, word vote, therefore, in THE LANCET should I beg to suggest the following as a specihave been written plead. He also considers men of the kind of Petition that would be that the subsequent speech of the Governor most useful to the cause, and most satisdid not indicate "leniency" to the molesters. factory to the Member who may be reto it. It may be as well to Mr. Thos. Wm. Walsh also favours us with questedthat present thousands of Petitions may be state, a copy of the " apology, or rather explanapresented to the House of Commons, all tion" which he, as one of "the two most expressed in the same words, each drawn active" of the molesters, forwarded to the out on foolscap paper. I am, Sir, your mnmt nhliO’p,t Board, when the punishment of expulsion WM. SIMPSON. was threatened, lest the wrong should be 110, Guildford-street, Feb. 6, 1840. thought to have been too amply amended. In To the Honourable the Commo1ts of the this letter he expresses his " extreme regret"" United Kingdom of Great Britain and that he should have received a notice signiin Parliament assembled; Ireland, fying the chairman’s " condemnation of his The Petition of, &c. conduct;" assures the chairman that "noHUMBLY SHEWETH, - That your Petifurther from his intention than thing was tioner* is a legally qualified medical pracoffering any insult to the Governors," and titioner, residing in "acknowledges that it was most indiscreet That your Petitioner deplores that many to demonstrate any public mark of disappro- anomalies exist in the medical institutions bation within the wails of the hospital." of the United Kingdom, and daily observes Mr. Thos. Wm. Walsh distinctly denies that Her Majesty’s subjects injured by defects in the present constitution of the licensing any meeting was held" at which it was bodies, particularly as regards the prevenagreed to assault one of the Governors ; but tion of ignorant and uneducated persons he does not explain by what other species of from practising medicine, surgery, midpreliminary connivance it was arranged to wifery, and pharmacy : That it is the opinion of your Petitioner, molest one particular Governor, and allow that A SINGLE REPRESENTATIVE CORPORAthe others to pass "unmolested." On the TION, Or FACULTY OF MEDICINE, ought to be Subject of the police-officer, Mr. Thos. Wm. established in each capital of England, Walsh mends the statement in the report,I Scotland, and Ireland, in the controul of to practise by saying that" the fact is that after the which all individuals licensedmedical pro19 Committee had dissolved, the assaulted Go- the various branches of the fession should possess equal rights : on outside the vernor, appearing hospital, Your Petitioner, therefore, entreats your " being greeted with marks of disapproba- Honourable House to take the subject of tion similar to those which he had previ- medical reform into its earnest consideragive its assent to a Bill for the conso" ously received, called to a policeman, who tion, 61 decline interfering in the matter, but lidation of the Medical Profession into One of full power to " suffered the students to continue their ex- Faculty the Medicine, having regulate government of the whole body, was
described by Mr. White
as
I
tcpressions qf indignation."
After this confession of Mr. WALSH that he was one of the party who so grossly mis-
* The form, by altering the numbers and tenses, will suit more than one petitioner.
776 to form regulations for the in delicate females during pregnancy, and admission of members to practise medicine, under circumstances supposed to forbid its
being enabled
confering equal rights and privileges upon employment by many, and I have never once all its members, and encouraging the at- seen cause to regret its exhibition.-11’eta
tainmentof professional cMnneKM only through York Quarterly Journ. of Med. No. 2. the possession of medical knowledge, and the personal qualities of talent, industl’Y, and IMPERFECT EXTRACT OF HEMLOCK. perseverunce:: And your Petitioner will ever pray, &c. THE uncertainty of the extract of hemlock may be shown by an easy experiment. The conine, which in the process of decomposi. tion is partly resolved into ammonia, is in ARSENIC IN CHOREA. this preparation always, according to Pro. fessor Geiger, more or less deficient, and Dr. REESE recommends, in the following often entirely abseut ; and to prove that this terms, the employment of arsenic, as a decomposition has taken place, it is only necessary to add some water of caustic remedy in cases of chorea :These results of experience have led me potash, when the ammonia may be distin. by the odour, and by holding over successively to test the comparative merits guished rod dipped in muriatic acid, whereupon of various other remedies which have been it a the fumes formed by the muriate of ammo. reported as successful, as the rubigo ferri, nia are rendered visible. This experiment cuprum ammoniacum, sulphate and flowers has shown ammonia in every specimen of of zinc, oxide of bismuth, camphor, electhe extract in which I tried it.-Dr. Osbol’ne. tricity, nitrate of silver, &c. ; and, after very Dublin Journ. Jan. 1840. considerable opportunities, I have learned to rely upon the tonic powers of arsenic in preference to any and all other medicines of this class, and have never known it to fail in effecting a radical and permanent cure. TO CORRESPONDENTS. I feel great confidence in recommending it to the profession in all those cases in which The following communications, amongst the tonic plan is decided upon, either with others, have reached us:The or without preliminary medication. R. on Parochial Medical Attendance. arseniate of potash, as existing in the for- A Physician, (Birmingham), on Vaccina. mula of Fowler’s solution, is the preferable tion. mode of exhibition, and its dose should be Fifth Sheet of Additional Testimograduated according to the ability of the nials" in favour of Dr. Evory Kennedy. stomach to receive it without nausea. In Observations on 11 The PresentrSystem of the most numerous subjects, varying from Education." seven to sixteen years of age, six or eight Mr. Torbock’s letter on the Speech of drops should be given night and morning, Dr. Brown, at Newcastle.on-Tyne. gradually increasing its dose and frequency. ’i The 25th and 26th 11 Reports of the GlasAdults may take ten drops, increasing to gow Royal Asylum for Lunatics." A Pupil of St. Thomas’s on the Sedative fifteen, and-even twenty, three times a day, and in all cases it should be persevered in Treatment after the Operation for Hernia. for a week or more after all the spasmodic The letters dated from the library of the symptoms have disappeared. The only un- London College of Surgeons. pleasant effects are nausea or vomiting, if lIledicus, on the Grievance of Naval Surthe dose be too large, and occasionally a geons. tumefaction of the head and face if too long The letter of Dr. I]-ealey on the Ennis persisted in. On either of these effects Medical Reform Petition. TVemo.—It is impossible to say what is being produced the medicine should be discontinued for a few days, and then resumed likely; but although the feelings of the in a diminished dose. Commissioners may be opposed to a liberal With these precautions I have, for a num. arrangement, it is probable that some more ber of years, employed this remedy in over reasonable plan will be adopted than is at two hundred cases of chorea, without ever present in operation, when the matter is reo having witnessed any of the untoward re- discussed. sults upon the constitution, said to follow The cases of Dr. LUIl90n and Illi,. H. the exhibition of arsenical preparations. So a5’mitla, next week. far from any of the sequelse occurrin g which We have found even an abstract of the are apprehended by thealarmits, my patients letter of Sir Claarles Scudamore, forwarded have, under its use, not only recovered from to us last week, on Inhalation in Pulmonary chorea, but many of them seem to have since Disease, too long for insertion in the present acquired vigorous constitutions and im- number of THE LANCET; but room for it proved health. I have used it in infancy, may offer in the next.
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