NOTE FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE WESTMINSTER MEDICAL SOCIETY.

128 WESTMINSTER. HOSPITAL.—ELECTION OF allowed (as I subsequently was) by the President for at once that I had ! he evening to have explained AN- ASSISTANT-SURGEON. acted on the occasion in conformHy with my uniA GREAT sensation has been excited form practice, I have no doubt but that the matter would have speedily dropt, which I have since this election. in Westminster learned to be tre opinion of many of the oldest memJ. MAITLAND, late house-surgeon, bers of the Society. As to ’he insinuation contained in the last sentence, to Mr. emanatmg as it does fiom an anonymous writer, it the medical interest ; would be altogether beneath my notice, were it not HALE THOMPSON the treasurer, and for the effect it may possib’.y have up"n the minds of the anti-medical So active a con- others. What I have above stated will, I conc, ive, a sufficient refutation of this with the azldition, test has not in this institution be that the minutes were written out on the same evensince the collision between Mr. LvxN ing that the meeting took place, and that I did not a single word respecting them with any the late Mr. MORELL, which occurred in member of the Society, until they were read as is 1786. At the conclusion the stood usual in the Committee, where they were contirmed, thus :they subsequentty were, in the Society, with the ’as For Mr. 169. addition of a shortclause, after several motions pro. had successively posing their being expunged, &c., Mr. Maitland .. 100. been tost. I shall feet obliged by insertion being givm the above, and am, very respectfully The votes were taken in the Board-room JOHN JOHN THURNAM.

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ration, known by the title of the Cæsarean section, was performed with success by Mr. T. L. Greaves, of Great Easton, Rock-

Several students of Guy’s Hospital comof the repeated non-attendance of plain last both mother ingham. Tuesday Mr. KEY at their annual dinner. Why are and infant were doing well. The skilful the students such geese as to pay their has to send us an acoperator promised ; guineas every year to be insulted ? These count of the details. dinners are invariably got up by the toadof the medical officers. The letter of Mr. Costello, explanatory The communication of our Edinburgh of his successful treatment in the case of reached us too late for the Fisher, who was cut, and declared that he present number. It shall appear next was in St. Georye’s Ho.spital, to- week. gether with some remarks on the report An Observe at St. Thomas’s.—We are which Mr. HAWKINS has now made reacquainted with the name of the dresser, specting the operation, shall be published but hope that the report is unfounded. If in the next LANCET. the statement be and the dies On

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be returned against the dresser. The surgeon that entrusted such a dresser with the duties of phlebotomising, ought to be

indicted for the offence. If delinquents To tlte Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,—Iwas surprised to find that a place was there be, the exposure of their names given in the pagesof your journal to a mere hearsay would effect some good. repol of some recent proceedings of the Westmin- We have received the communications ster liledical Society which affect.; the indepenof Mr. C. Taylor—An Independent Physician— dence. and even the integrity, of my character as A. Lambert. one of its secretaries; and, consequently, I feel called We cannot notice the case mentioned by upon to defend myself against the statements furnished by your reporter. Had that gentleman been pre- A Constant Reader, unless many more particula, sent himself it the meeting when the subject of the and the whole of them fully authenticated, be sub.

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discussed, I doubt not but that a differ- mitted to our examination. would have been furnished. It is very incorrectly stated, that " the secretary had conve- j uiently omitted all mention of that portion of the clebates which occupied three-fourths of the time of BOOKS RECEIVED. the Society." Now so far from this being the case, I may state, that though the debate was noticed with or Hortus Medicus, or the same brevity as always characterizes my minutes, and Descriptions of the more important when they refer to such subjects of discussion as Plants nsed in Medicine, or possessed of Poisonous either do not termina e in a distinctive resolution, or Qualities ; with their medical properties, chemical do not refer to the advancement of medical science, analysis, &c. By George Graves, F.L.S. The the primary object of the Society; yet that the re- chemical and medical by John Davies F R.C.1’.E. A. and C. port given was of such a nature as to satisfy a great proportion of the rnembers present; and hadI been Black; London Longman aud Co. minutes

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