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354 shall begin any such pharmaceutical practice as involves a sale of poisons, unless he have first passed a sufficient examination in pharmaceutical knowledge; and that poisons shall not be purchasable except with such personal identification as would probably hamper anyone who intended to make criminal use of them ; and that the keeping and sale of poisons generally shall be subject to regulation under the Act. It also affirms an important principle in regard of the adulteration of drugs, by enacting that the provisions of the Adulteration of Food Act of 1860 shall be extended, mutatis mutandis, to the sale of drugs." The consideration of the other matters referred to in the Report will, as we have before stated, be continued in subno one
sequent numbers. ADDRESS TO MR. SYME.
Syme, Esq., D.C.L. Oxon., M.D. Dublin, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.Ed., F.R.C.S.L, F.R.S.E., Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen in Scotland, g-c. g-c. DEAR SIR,-At the thirty-third annual meeting of the Border Medical Association, we, the undersigned members To James
to ask you to receive from us short address on the occasion of your resignation of the Professorship of Clinical Surgery in the University of Edinburgh. We desire to convey to you our warmest thanks for the very kind manner in which you have at all times discharged your duties towards our patients and ourselves. We beg also to thank you sincerely for innumerable acts of personal kindness and attention, for which we shall ever feel grateful. Although the members of our profession generally have resolved to offer you some testimonial in recognition of your inestimable services, and although you have already received a most hearty expression of sympathy 3,nd regard from the profession practising in far distant lands, we trust that it will not be otherwise than agreeable to you to know that the medical and surgical practitioners in your own Border land are equally sensible of, and grateful for, the great advantages they have derived from your
present, unanimously resolved a
and example. It was with unmingled feelings of sorrow and regret that we heard of your illness; and we now most heartily rejoice to know that you have so far recovered as to be able to resume those professional duties which we have all learned to value so highly. We desire to express the earnest hope that you may yet be long spared to give us the benefit of that eminent wisdom, vast knowledge, and matchless diagnostic tact and skill which have rendered your name famous wherever the science and art of surgery are known. It is to us a source of pleasure that, on the very day of our assembling here, it has become known that you are to be succeeded in your chair by your son-in-law, Mr. Lister, believing as we do that his appointment will be peculiarly gratifying to yourself, in the highest degree acceptable to the profession at home and abroad, and highly calculated to maintain the celebrity of the Edinburgh surgical school, in which you have so long been the distinguished master. With every sentiment of gratitude, respect, and esteem, We remain yours faithfully, JOHN ROBERTSON, M.D., Chairma7v. H. S. ANDERSON, M.D., F.R.C.S.E. GEORGE GILLIES, L.R.C.S.E. JAS. FALLA, Surgeon, L.R.C.S.E. ROBERT PuRVES (CroMpM)’), Surgeon, Edinburgh. J. PAXTON, L.R.C.P. & L.R.C.S.Ed. W. M. MACKENZIE, M.D. Edin., Kelso. CHARLES STUART, M.D. Edin., L.R.C.S.E. M. J. TuRNBULL, M.D. Edin., L.R.C.S.E., Convener. HENRY VOST, L.R.C.S.E. ALEXANDER BROWN, L.R.C.P. & S. Ed. JOHN HUME, L.R.C.S.E. DAVID HOPE SOMERVILLE, M.D. Edin., L.R.C.S.E. WILLIAM BLAIR, M.D. Glas. JOHN ANGUS M’DoUGALIJ, M.D. PATRICK ETNOCE, Physician. JAS. PITCAIRN BOOKLESS, L.R.C.P. & S. Ed. HENRY R. FAUCUS, M.D. WM. ALBERT PAXTON, :&bgr;’LB. T.C.D., L.R.C.S. PETER BUCHAN, M.B., L.R.C.S.E. Kelso, Aug. 18th, 1869.
precepts
Correspondence. "Audi alteram
I
partem."
EXAMINATION AT THE BEDSIDE. To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,-A statement relative to the examinations held
severally at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and at this College, appeared in a leading article of your impression of the 28th instant, which, if allowed to pass unnoticed, is calculated to mislead the public and the pro. fession. The statement to which I refer is as follows: "At neither establishment is the candidate as yet taken to the bedside, as he ought to be." Permit me to inform you that candidates for the Licence of the College of Physicians are, and have been for the past ten years, taken into the wards of an hospital, and examined at the bedside, both on surgical and medical diseases; and I may add, that very great value is attached by the College and by the examiners to this portion of the examination as a test of the candidate’s sufficiency for practising his profession. I am, Sir. vour obedient servant, HENRY A. PITMAN, Registrar. Royal College of Physicians, London, Aug. 31st, 1869.
QUEEN’S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM. To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,-The letter from your Birmingham correspondent in
your last number contains a paragraph referring to the delivery of the Introductory Address at the opening of the session of Queen’s College. In accepting the unanimous and cordially-expressed invitation of the Council (including four of the Professors, who were present) that I should give this address, my only desire was to manifest the warm and continued interest I felt in an institution with which I had been connected for so many years, and to promote the success of which I had given time and labour I could ill spare. This success is endangered in no slight degree when the acts of the Council are criticised in the tone and spirit manifested in your correspondent’s letter. It is not for me to refer to my labours in the cause of medical education, or to my claims for the position which the Council saw fit to assign to me; much less can I think of retaining that position in the face of opposition, however
unworthy. I have placed my resignation in the I am,
hands of the Council.
Sir, your obedient servant, ALEXANDER FLEMING.
Temple-row, Birn.ingham, August 31st,
1869.
THE ANTISEPTIC TREATMENT. To the Editor
of
THE LANCET.
SIR,-I should not have thought it needful to trouble you with any remarks on Dr. Morton’s letter in THE LANCET of to-day, were it not that the circumstance of his having once been my colleague in the Infirmary may lead some of your readers to suppose him favourably situated for estimating the antiseptic treatment at its true value. On this account I think it right to state that 11 with every wish to arrive at the truth," he has never had the curiosity to enter my wards to ascertain how the treatment is conducted by myself. As to his own experiences, which have led him to conclude that 11 it does not succeed in Glasgow any better than in London," I may remark that anyone using carbolic acid 11 as a remedy," without reference to antiseptic principles, will be sure to meet with unsatisfactory results, whether here or elsewhere. On the other hand, our means for carrying out those are, I rejoice to say, constantly improving; and, unless I am much mistaken, the day is not far distant when those who do not succeed will be ashamed to confess it. I am. Sir. vour obedient servant. JOSEPH LISTER. Glasgow, August 28th, 1869.
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sequent numbers. ADDRESS TO MR. SYME.
Syme, Esq., D.C.L. Oxon., M.D. Dublin, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.Ed., F.R.C.S.L, F.R.S.E., Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen in Scotland, g-c. g-c. DEAR SIR,-At the thirty-third annual meeting of the Border Medical Association, we, the undersigned members To James
to ask you to receive from us short address on the occasion of your resignation of the Professorship of Clinical Surgery in the University of Edinburgh. We desire to convey to you our warmest thanks for the very kind manner in which you have at all times discharged your duties towards our patients and ourselves. We beg also to thank you sincerely for innumerable acts of personal kindness and attention, for which we shall ever feel grateful. Although the members of our profession generally have resolved to offer you some testimonial in recognition of your inestimable services, and although you have already received a most hearty expression of sympathy 3,nd regard from the profession practising in far distant lands, we trust that it will not be otherwise than agreeable to you to know that the medical and surgical practitioners in your own Border land are equally sensible of, and grateful for, the great advantages they have derived from your
present, unanimously resolved a
and example. It was with unmingled feelings of sorrow and regret that we heard of your illness; and we now most heartily rejoice to know that you have so far recovered as to be able to resume those professional duties which we have all learned to value so highly. We desire to express the earnest hope that you may yet be long spared to give us the benefit of that eminent wisdom, vast knowledge, and matchless diagnostic tact and skill which have rendered your name famous wherever the science and art of surgery are known. It is to us a source of pleasure that, on the very day of our assembling here, it has become known that you are to be succeeded in your chair by your son-in-law, Mr. Lister, believing as we do that his appointment will be peculiarly gratifying to yourself, in the highest degree acceptable to the profession at home and abroad, and highly calculated to maintain the celebrity of the Edinburgh surgical school, in which you have so long been the distinguished master. With every sentiment of gratitude, respect, and esteem, We remain yours faithfully, JOHN ROBERTSON, M.D., Chairma7v. H. S. ANDERSON, M.D., F.R.C.S.E. GEORGE GILLIES, L.R.C.S.E. JAS. FALLA, Surgeon, L.R.C.S.E. ROBERT PuRVES (CroMpM)’), Surgeon, Edinburgh. J. PAXTON, L.R.C.P. & L.R.C.S.Ed. W. M. MACKENZIE, M.D. Edin., Kelso. CHARLES STUART, M.D. Edin., L.R.C.S.E. M. J. TuRNBULL, M.D. Edin., L.R.C.S.E., Convener. HENRY VOST, L.R.C.S.E. ALEXANDER BROWN, L.R.C.P. & S. Ed. JOHN HUME, L.R.C.S.E. DAVID HOPE SOMERVILLE, M.D. Edin., L.R.C.S.E. WILLIAM BLAIR, M.D. Glas. JOHN ANGUS M’DoUGALIJ, M.D. PATRICK ETNOCE, Physician. JAS. PITCAIRN BOOKLESS, L.R.C.P. & S. Ed. HENRY R. FAUCUS, M.D. WM. ALBERT PAXTON, :&bgr;’LB. T.C.D., L.R.C.S. PETER BUCHAN, M.B., L.R.C.S.E. Kelso, Aug. 18th, 1869.
precepts
Correspondence. "Audi alteram
I
partem."
EXAMINATION AT THE BEDSIDE. To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,-A statement relative to the examinations held
severally at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and at this College, appeared in a leading article of your impression of the 28th instant, which, if allowed to pass unnoticed, is calculated to mislead the public and the pro. fession. The statement to which I refer is as follows: "At neither establishment is the candidate as yet taken to the bedside, as he ought to be." Permit me to inform you that candidates for the Licence of the College of Physicians are, and have been for the past ten years, taken into the wards of an hospital, and examined at the bedside, both on surgical and medical diseases; and I may add, that very great value is attached by the College and by the examiners to this portion of the examination as a test of the candidate’s sufficiency for practising his profession. I am, Sir. vour obedient servant, HENRY A. PITMAN, Registrar. Royal College of Physicians, London, Aug. 31st, 1869.
QUEEN’S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM. To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,-The letter from your Birmingham correspondent in
your last number contains a paragraph referring to the delivery of the Introductory Address at the opening of the session of Queen’s College. In accepting the unanimous and cordially-expressed invitation of the Council (including four of the Professors, who were present) that I should give this address, my only desire was to manifest the warm and continued interest I felt in an institution with which I had been connected for so many years, and to promote the success of which I had given time and labour I could ill spare. This success is endangered in no slight degree when the acts of the Council are criticised in the tone and spirit manifested in your correspondent’s letter. It is not for me to refer to my labours in the cause of medical education, or to my claims for the position which the Council saw fit to assign to me; much less can I think of retaining that position in the face of opposition, however
unworthy. I have placed my resignation in the I am,
hands of the Council.
Sir, your obedient servant, ALEXANDER FLEMING.
Temple-row, Birn.ingham, August 31st,
1869.
THE ANTISEPTIC TREATMENT. To the Editor
of
THE LANCET.
SIR,-I should not have thought it needful to trouble you with any remarks on Dr. Morton’s letter in THE LANCET of to-day, were it not that the circumstance of his having once been my colleague in the Infirmary may lead some of your readers to suppose him favourably situated for estimating the antiseptic treatment at its true value. On this account I think it right to state that 11 with every wish to arrive at the truth," he has never had the curiosity to enter my wards to ascertain how the treatment is conducted by myself. As to his own experiences, which have led him to conclude that 11 it does not succeed in Glasgow any better than in London," I may remark that anyone using carbolic acid 11 as a remedy," without reference to antiseptic principles, will be sure to meet with unsatisfactory results, whether here or elsewhere. On the other hand, our means for carrying out those are, I rejoice to say, constantly improving; and, unless I am much mistaken, the day is not far distant when those who do not succeed will be ashamed to confess it. I am. Sir. vour obedient servant. JOSEPH LISTER. Glasgow, August 28th, 1869.
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