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THE ELECTION OF A DIRECT REPRESENTATIVE FOR ENGLAND AND WALES ON THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.
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Institute in
London "),
spirit of superiority which pervades certain - teaching departments would doubtless receive a most beneficial chastening if both teachers and students followed the excellent advice tendered to them by more than one lecturer to forsake for a period the ’’ wealth of allurements " which their own school undoubtedly possesses and
newly-born assimilation
infant
’the
most
conservative and tradition-bound.
finable
seem
remarks that the attendants of the to consider
that its powers of
unequal to the task of absorbing in its system University College in its entirety and that the particular part of the college which in their opinion is likely to disagree is the faculty of medicine. If the absorption of University College by the new University of to see "what is done and who does it in other clinics." London necessitates the dismemberment of the faculty of The criticisms which have recently been directed against medicine, what, asks Mr. FLEMMING, will the faculty of the methods of elementary and technical education in this medicine possess ? what will be the position of the medical country undoubtedly apply just as forcibly to the system of school ? Perhaps, in the words of Sir DYCE DuCKWORTH, teaching pursued at our medical schools, and several of theI "the school will find salvation in its genius looi." introductory addresses refer to reforms already effected or contemplated in the immediate future. At University College Hospital, thanks to the munificence of Sir BLUNDELL MAPLE, there has now been provided every modern facility for conducting clinical teaching on the most approved "Ne quid nimis." .and scientific basis, and at St. George’s Hospital Dr. WHIPHAM refers to the establishment of a photo-micro- THE ELECTION OF A DIRECT REPRESENTATIVE FOR ENGLAND AND WALES ON THE graphical laboratory, to a gift of a complete apparatus for GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL. Roentgen ray photography, and to the completion of a THE re-election of Sir Victor Horsley as a Direct Repredepartment for the practical instruction of candidates of the medical for England and Wales sentative seeking a diploma in public health. At other hospitals on the General Medical profession Council by the decisive majority -equally important and necessary steps have been taken to of 4567 is a result that we regard as distinctly satiskeep abreast of the times and to afford every opportunity for i Our views on the subject of Mr. Joseph Smith’s or factory. - clinical observation and scientific research work. e were clearly stated in a leading article in candidature THE LANCET of Sept. 13th, p. 753, and we are glad to The authorities of the three associated colleges of the ie E see that these views were substantially held byour ’1Victoria University-namely, those of Liverpool, Manr We do not for a moment doubt that Mr. Joseph readers. ;d ,chester, and Leeds-are apparently greatly exercised c would prove to be a capable representative, and, to a Smith in mind in anticipation of important developments certain extent, the facts that he is in complete sympathy in in their institutions consequent on the contemplated d with v Mr. George Brown and Mr. George Jackson and is also 1secession of the Liverpool College and its establisha general practitioner would, in other circumstances, have a Both Sir ir recommended r ment as an independent teaching university. his candidature. It is good that the Direct F of the DYCE DUCKWORTH and Mr. MAYO ROBSOV naturally being so few in number, profession, y Representatives s as far as possible, be in complete accord, that they should, and in refer to these proposed changes the former his s bring to bear upon the body of the Council a vote that address remarks that he has no apprehension for may has the additional force of unanimity ; but, although Mr. future welfare of any one of the three universities if the J Smith was able to poll 3105 votes, which shows that 8Joseph proposed disintegration take effect ; indeed, he believes thattour 01 opinion is not shared by a certain proportion of the the special interests of each one of these great centres off medical ir profession, we still consider that his candidature w inadvisable and ill-timed. Although Sir Victor Horsley would be the of f was best studied establishment population by is a distinguished consultant, circumstances have given independent universities, each under the asgis of its own is hi a complete familiarity with all the questions which geni1tS looi. In considering the advisability of takinghim are of particular moment to the general practitioner; the proposed step he reminded his audience that no’ while the work that he has done in connexion with the new university can by any possibility be made a copy of British Medical Association and, previously, as Chairman BJ an older one, for truly a genius loci attaches to the off the Medical Defence Union, has given him an insight in the practical questions affecting the professional life ,character and quality of each." In contradistinction to into his this view of Sir DYCE DUCKWORTH with respect to the,e colleagues whicli no other of the Direct Representatn has had an opportunity of obtaining. tives Sir Victor proposed changes Mr. MAYO ROBSON hopes that the Privy work the Council should not upon certainly yet be .1 will .ll not give ..t its sanction to t ambition the ambition the ofof Horsley’s C Council cu cut short. We have previously said in commenting upon Liverpool and Manchester, for the Victoria University this thi election that, if Mr. Joseph Smith persisted in his with its three colleges has done excellent work and has intention int to go to the poll, whichever candidate proved to ,established a great reputation which will be hard to be the successful one would have a weak position, but the of the voting has shown such predominance in favour res maintain if the proposed alterations are carried into effect. result of Sir Victor Horsley that he can hardly be said to have lost its medical school, University College Hospital, or, rather, an! by having his position assailed. finds itself in a somewhat similar position of uncertainty anything with regard to its future association with University College, T THE ALLEGED MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF THE London, and Mr. PERCY FLEMMING, in his introductory HUSK OF THE COFFEE BEAN. ,address, referring to the birth of that new university (which ABOUT a year ago Dr. L. Restrepo of Medellin, the capital -Sir DYCE DUCKWORTH somewhat quaintly described as ofthe department of Autioquia, in the Republic of Colombia, "a curious but potent academic conglomeration which in its America, convinced himself that the husk of the .new form is slowly emerging in a corner of the con bean’was of great utility in the treatment of several Imperial coffee are
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Annotations.
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Institute in
London "),
spirit of superiority which pervades certain - teaching departments would doubtless receive a most beneficial chastening if both teachers and students followed the excellent advice tendered to them by more than one lecturer to forsake for a period the ’’ wealth of allurements " which their own school undoubtedly possesses and
newly-born assimilation
infant
’the
most
conservative and tradition-bound.
finable
seem
remarks that the attendants of the to consider
that its powers of
unequal to the task of absorbing in its system University College in its entirety and that the particular part of the college which in their opinion is likely to disagree is the faculty of medicine. If the absorption of University College by the new University of to see "what is done and who does it in other clinics." London necessitates the dismemberment of the faculty of The criticisms which have recently been directed against medicine, what, asks Mr. FLEMMING, will the faculty of the methods of elementary and technical education in this medicine possess ? what will be the position of the medical country undoubtedly apply just as forcibly to the system of school ? Perhaps, in the words of Sir DYCE DuCKWORTH, teaching pursued at our medical schools, and several of theI "the school will find salvation in its genius looi." introductory addresses refer to reforms already effected or contemplated in the immediate future. At University College Hospital, thanks to the munificence of Sir BLUNDELL MAPLE, there has now been provided every modern facility for conducting clinical teaching on the most approved "Ne quid nimis." .and scientific basis, and at St. George’s Hospital Dr. WHIPHAM refers to the establishment of a photo-micro- THE ELECTION OF A DIRECT REPRESENTATIVE FOR ENGLAND AND WALES ON THE graphical laboratory, to a gift of a complete apparatus for GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL. Roentgen ray photography, and to the completion of a THE re-election of Sir Victor Horsley as a Direct Repredepartment for the practical instruction of candidates of the medical for England and Wales sentative seeking a diploma in public health. At other hospitals on the General Medical profession Council by the decisive majority -equally important and necessary steps have been taken to of 4567 is a result that we regard as distinctly satiskeep abreast of the times and to afford every opportunity for i Our views on the subject of Mr. Joseph Smith’s or factory. - clinical observation and scientific research work. e were clearly stated in a leading article in candidature THE LANCET of Sept. 13th, p. 753, and we are glad to The authorities of the three associated colleges of the ie E see that these views were substantially held byour ’1Victoria University-namely, those of Liverpool, Manr We do not for a moment doubt that Mr. Joseph readers. ;d ,chester, and Leeds-are apparently greatly exercised c would prove to be a capable representative, and, to a Smith in mind in anticipation of important developments certain extent, the facts that he is in complete sympathy in in their institutions consequent on the contemplated d with v Mr. George Brown and Mr. George Jackson and is also 1secession of the Liverpool College and its establisha general practitioner would, in other circumstances, have a Both Sir ir recommended r ment as an independent teaching university. his candidature. It is good that the Direct F of the DYCE DUCKWORTH and Mr. MAYO ROBSOV naturally being so few in number, profession, y Representatives s as far as possible, be in complete accord, that they should, and in refer to these proposed changes the former his s bring to bear upon the body of the Council a vote that address remarks that he has no apprehension for may has the additional force of unanimity ; but, although Mr. future welfare of any one of the three universities if the J Smith was able to poll 3105 votes, which shows that 8Joseph proposed disintegration take effect ; indeed, he believes thattour 01 opinion is not shared by a certain proportion of the the special interests of each one of these great centres off medical ir profession, we still consider that his candidature w inadvisable and ill-timed. Although Sir Victor Horsley would be the of f was best studied establishment population by is a distinguished consultant, circumstances have given independent universities, each under the asgis of its own is hi a complete familiarity with all the questions which geni1tS looi. In considering the advisability of takinghim are of particular moment to the general practitioner; the proposed step he reminded his audience that no’ while the work that he has done in connexion with the new university can by any possibility be made a copy of British Medical Association and, previously, as Chairman BJ an older one, for truly a genius loci attaches to the off the Medical Defence Union, has given him an insight in the practical questions affecting the professional life ,character and quality of each." In contradistinction to into his this view of Sir DYCE DUCKWORTH with respect to the,e colleagues whicli no other of the Direct Representatn has had an opportunity of obtaining. tives Sir Victor proposed changes Mr. MAYO ROBSON hopes that the Privy work the Council should not upon certainly yet be .1 will .ll not give ..t its sanction to t ambition the ambition the ofof Horsley’s C Council cu cut short. We have previously said in commenting upon Liverpool and Manchester, for the Victoria University this thi election that, if Mr. Joseph Smith persisted in his with its three colleges has done excellent work and has intention int to go to the poll, whichever candidate proved to ,established a great reputation which will be hard to be the successful one would have a weak position, but the of the voting has shown such predominance in favour res maintain if the proposed alterations are carried into effect. result of Sir Victor Horsley that he can hardly be said to have lost its medical school, University College Hospital, or, rather, an! by having his position assailed. finds itself in a somewhat similar position of uncertainty anything with regard to its future association with University College, T THE ALLEGED MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF THE London, and Mr. PERCY FLEMMING, in his introductory HUSK OF THE COFFEE BEAN. ,address, referring to the birth of that new university (which ABOUT a year ago Dr. L. Restrepo of Medellin, the capital -Sir DYCE DUCKWORTH somewhat quaintly described as ofthe department of Autioquia, in the Republic of Colombia, "a curious but potent academic conglomeration which in its America, convinced himself that the husk of the .new form is slowly emerging in a corner of the con bean’was of great utility in the treatment of several Imperial coffee are
"
Annotations.
’
contemplated‘’ the h n
’
ar
’
Iof of
.
.
SofSouthou