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THE DEATH OF MR. CECIL R. C. LYSTER.
276 material of general hospitals. This clinical instruction will be given in the future, as it always has been in the past, by the remaining members of the hospital staffs, who will continue to devote their time to clinical and bedside teaching, and who will be able to do this with enhanced energy when relieved from the task of systematic teaching. THE
would have brought great joy to his Whatever the future of radiology may be, Lyster’s name will count in the ranks of those devoted men, who, knowing full well the sacrifices involved, made a determined and splendid attempt to relieve suffering humanity
which heart.
from a terrible scourge. The mystery surrounding the fact that X rays and other emanations can set up an ugly pathological process, while at the same time they are employed presumably on scientific grounds to stop the progress of such a process, is in urgent need of study.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE SALE OF FOOD DRUGS ACTS THROUGH THE WAR.
AND
THE routine work of our authorities responsible for the administration of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts must through the war have been much disturbed by the system of control over alcoholic beverages, foods, and drugs which was forced upon the Government by the crisis. Judging from a circular issued by the Ministry of Health last week to the officials of the counties and boroughs concerned, there is evidently a movement forward to bring the administration of these Acts into old lines again. In this circular attention is directed to the powers and duties of local authorities under the Sale -of Food and Drugs Acts, and in many tacit admission is made that a areas the exercise of these powers and duties was unavoidably curtailed to some extent during the war owing to the shortage of staff and The Ministry the pressure of special work. attach great importance to the effective administration of these Acts, and express the hope that local authorities will take all possible steps to ensure that the powers conferred upon them are fully utilised. We feel sure that this is no reflection on the admirable work of public analysts during anxious and trying times. No public servant has found it harder to keep his public services going throughout this period, since most of them liberated their assistants, who were qualified chemists,to place their technical knowledge at the service of munition making, sanitary work in the field, and the defensive methods set up against the attacks of poison gas. In the meantime cases of food poisoning or of proved fraud were remarkably rare in spite of the great struggle at times to get food products at all. The public owe much to our food controllers-and in this term we include the medical officers and public analysts. THE
AT the Royal College of Physicians of London lectures will be delivered on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 5 o’clock, as follows :-Milroy lectures : Dr. Aldo Castellani, Feb. 26th, March 2nd, 4th, "The Higher Fungi in Relation to Human Pathology." Goulatonian lectures : Dr. J. L. Birley, March 9th, llth, 16th, " The Principles of Medical
Science as Applied to Military Aviation." Lumleian lectures: Sir John Rose Bradford, March 18th, 23rd. 25th, "The Clinical Experiences of a Physician during the Campaign in France and Flanders, 1914-1919." ___
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DEATH OF MR. CECIL R. C. LYSTER.
IT is a common experience that when the student enters his medical school he finds himself attracted to a special department of the curriculum, and this was early the case with Mr. Cecil R. C. Lyster, whose death, we regret, took place on the 26th inst., owing to his devotion, at the Middlesex Hospital, to the study of radio-therapeutics in its application to malignant disease. He had been in charge of this department for 17 years. Lyster followed closely the physical and chemical methods in constant evidence in the laboratory at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, then under the direction of Mr. C. W. Heaton, a personal friend of Mr. Lyster’s father. He was attracted particularly by spectroscopic methods of analysis, which, no doubt, ultimately led him to reflect on the possible application of radiations to disease. This study received a stimulus from Roentgen’s discovery of the X rays produced by the Crookes tube. The study was extended by the introduction of radium. Lyster pursued his work with remarkable earnestness and
uninterruptedly coced.-9.f a successful
issue,
a
consummation
AT the Royal College of Surgeons of England a Hunterian lecture on the Late Surgery of Gunshot Wounds of the Chest will be delivered by Sir Berkeley Moynihan on Monday, Feb. 2nd, at 5 P.M. On the following Friday, at the same hour, Mr. V. Z. Cope will deliver a lecture on the Surgical Aspect of Dysentery, and on Monday, Feb. 9th, Mr. H. Tyrrell Gray has taken as his subject the Influence of Nerve Impulses-on Gastro-intestinal Disorders. Mr. J. Sherren’s Hunterian lecture on the Late Results of the Surgical Treatment of Chronic Ulcers of the Stomach and Duodenum follows on Wednesday, Feb. llth, . and on Feb. 13th, 16th, and 18th Mr. Walter G. Spencer delivers three lectures on the Historical Relationship between ExperimeDts on Animals and the Development of
Surgery.
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A memorandum just issued by the Medica.1 Women’s Federation contains suggestions as to the duty of the State in the control of venereal disease, which were approved at a special general meeting of the Federation held last month. While admitting the urgency of the danger to the community from venereal disease, it is the Federation’s considered opinion that the measures now being suggested for the stamping out of infection might prove neither prompt nor effective in their action, while radical measures of reform would show quick and cumulative results.
annotation on Passive in THE LANCET of last week the sentence 14 lines trom the top of the page should, of course, read: "Referees without special knowledge should not order......" The context saves the accidental omission of the negative from giving rise to misunderstanding.
Corrigendum.--In the
Movements
" THE LANCETOF JAN. 3RD, 1920. THE Manager will be obliged to readers who have not any further use for their copy of THE LANCET of the above date if they will kindly return it to him at 1, Bedford-street, Strand,W.C. 2. The postage on the number is one penny. He will be pleased to . pay for copies returned. .
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would have brought great joy to his Whatever the future of radiology may be, Lyster’s name will count in the ranks of those devoted men, who, knowing full well the sacrifices involved, made a determined and splendid attempt to relieve suffering humanity
which heart.
from a terrible scourge. The mystery surrounding the fact that X rays and other emanations can set up an ugly pathological process, while at the same time they are employed presumably on scientific grounds to stop the progress of such a process, is in urgent need of study.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE SALE OF FOOD DRUGS ACTS THROUGH THE WAR.
AND
THE routine work of our authorities responsible for the administration of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts must through the war have been much disturbed by the system of control over alcoholic beverages, foods, and drugs which was forced upon the Government by the crisis. Judging from a circular issued by the Ministry of Health last week to the officials of the counties and boroughs concerned, there is evidently a movement forward to bring the administration of these Acts into old lines again. In this circular attention is directed to the powers and duties of local authorities under the Sale -of Food and Drugs Acts, and in many tacit admission is made that a areas the exercise of these powers and duties was unavoidably curtailed to some extent during the war owing to the shortage of staff and The Ministry the pressure of special work. attach great importance to the effective administration of these Acts, and express the hope that local authorities will take all possible steps to ensure that the powers conferred upon them are fully utilised. We feel sure that this is no reflection on the admirable work of public analysts during anxious and trying times. No public servant has found it harder to keep his public services going throughout this period, since most of them liberated their assistants, who were qualified chemists,to place their technical knowledge at the service of munition making, sanitary work in the field, and the defensive methods set up against the attacks of poison gas. In the meantime cases of food poisoning or of proved fraud were remarkably rare in spite of the great struggle at times to get food products at all. The public owe much to our food controllers-and in this term we include the medical officers and public analysts. THE
AT the Royal College of Physicians of London lectures will be delivered on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 5 o’clock, as follows :-Milroy lectures : Dr. Aldo Castellani, Feb. 26th, March 2nd, 4th, "The Higher Fungi in Relation to Human Pathology." Goulatonian lectures : Dr. J. L. Birley, March 9th, llth, 16th, " The Principles of Medical
Science as Applied to Military Aviation." Lumleian lectures: Sir John Rose Bradford, March 18th, 23rd. 25th, "The Clinical Experiences of a Physician during the Campaign in France and Flanders, 1914-1919." ___
I
DEATH OF MR. CECIL R. C. LYSTER.
IT is a common experience that when the student enters his medical school he finds himself attracted to a special department of the curriculum, and this was early the case with Mr. Cecil R. C. Lyster, whose death, we regret, took place on the 26th inst., owing to his devotion, at the Middlesex Hospital, to the study of radio-therapeutics in its application to malignant disease. He had been in charge of this department for 17 years. Lyster followed closely the physical and chemical methods in constant evidence in the laboratory at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, then under the direction of Mr. C. W. Heaton, a personal friend of Mr. Lyster’s father. He was attracted particularly by spectroscopic methods of analysis, which, no doubt, ultimately led him to reflect on the possible application of radiations to disease. This study received a stimulus from Roentgen’s discovery of the X rays produced by the Crookes tube. The study was extended by the introduction of radium. Lyster pursued his work with remarkable earnestness and
uninterruptedly coced.-9.f a successful
issue,
a
consummation
AT the Royal College of Surgeons of England a Hunterian lecture on the Late Surgery of Gunshot Wounds of the Chest will be delivered by Sir Berkeley Moynihan on Monday, Feb. 2nd, at 5 P.M. On the following Friday, at the same hour, Mr. V. Z. Cope will deliver a lecture on the Surgical Aspect of Dysentery, and on Monday, Feb. 9th, Mr. H. Tyrrell Gray has taken as his subject the Influence of Nerve Impulses-on Gastro-intestinal Disorders. Mr. J. Sherren’s Hunterian lecture on the Late Results of the Surgical Treatment of Chronic Ulcers of the Stomach and Duodenum follows on Wednesday, Feb. llth, . and on Feb. 13th, 16th, and 18th Mr. Walter G. Spencer delivers three lectures on the Historical Relationship between ExperimeDts on Animals and the Development of
Surgery.
---
A memorandum just issued by the Medica.1 Women’s Federation contains suggestions as to the duty of the State in the control of venereal disease, which were approved at a special general meeting of the Federation held last month. While admitting the urgency of the danger to the community from venereal disease, it is the Federation’s considered opinion that the measures now being suggested for the stamping out of infection might prove neither prompt nor effective in their action, while radical measures of reform would show quick and cumulative results.
annotation on Passive in THE LANCET of last week the sentence 14 lines trom the top of the page should, of course, read: "Referees without special knowledge should not order......" The context saves the accidental omission of the negative from giving rise to misunderstanding.
Corrigendum.--In the
Movements
" THE LANCETOF JAN. 3RD, 1920. THE Manager will be obliged to readers who have not any further use for their copy of THE LANCET of the above date if they will kindly return it to him at 1, Bedford-street, Strand,W.C. 2. The postage on the number is one penny. He will be pleased to . pay for copies returned. .
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