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The Election of Direct Representatives on the General Medical Council.
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ELECTION OF DIRECT REPRESENTATIVES ON GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.
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by those who only look on at the work unsuccessful; while both Mr. JACKSON and Mr. BROWN, - done by the medical practitioner and realise in some who stood for election on the same ticket, take their measure the dangers which he encounters in his life’s seats upon the Council with the feeling that the third routine. Mr. SMYTH, we need hardly say, went beyond the Direct Representative for England and Wales opposed He wanted the beaten track in which the physician may at any time meet their return to the best of his ability. We trust with, and succumb to, a deadly disease. He sought his seat of one of them for Dr. WOODCOCK. and Mr. Mr. JACKSON BROWN, having been vicpatients where he could hope for no adequate reward and he that imposed on himself in his endeavour to rescue them a task torious, will also be magnanimous. They must forget which he might have avoided without discredit-a task, that they have recently had in Mr. HORSLEY a conscienmoreover, which was well calculated to exhaust him and tious opponent at the hustings, and must remember that he to enhance the danger of infection and its consequences. is a brother reformer with whom it is absolutely necessary Sometimes honour falls to such a man as he was in his that they should cooperate cordially if their separate or lifetime. Members of the medical profession have lived to united services are to be worth their full value to the conreceive the reward of bravery, not only when, as recently stituency. The candidature of Dr. C. W. HAYWARD, who in South Africa, they have gained distinctions by their occupies the bottom place in the poll, introduces a new self-sacrificing devotion on the battlefield and in hospitals element into the election of Direct Representatives. He is, crowded with the victims of a great war, but also when we understand, a homoeopathic practitioner, so that his in the more peaceful pursuit of their practices they election would have been tantamount to a recognition by the have performed actions which have been made known. medical profession that the imaginings of HAHNEMANX Nevertheless, the greater number of the acts of courage are legitimate scientific developments. Dr. HAYWARD’s and self-sacrifice that are performed by members of the success was never in question, but the position would have medical profession must of necessity be done without ex- been comic, although most serious, had the General Council pectation of fame and without hope of reward, save only of of Medical Education and Registration found in its body a great profession
or
the reward which is found in the consciousness of
good gentleman whose convictions compelled him to view much of even the accepted theory of medical science as incorrect. There but in it will be for those who live the are many directions in which reform is admittedly required this, possible neighbourhood in which he worked and died, to do some- in the medical profession-directions which we believe thing to help those whom he left behind, knowing well that Dr. HAYWARD to realise every whit as fully as the other nothing can repair the loss which they have sustained. candidates-but the educational curriculum of the student Those beyond that neighbourhood, whose attention we more does not need to include instruction in therapeutic heresy. particularly call to the fund that has been instituted, will contribute in gratitude for the good example set and in work done.
memory of
a
Mr. SMYTH has not survived to
enjoy
true medical hero. --------+
The Election of Direct Representatives on the General Medical Council.
Annotations. " Ne quid nimis."
UNEXPECTED DEATH WITHOUT OBVIOUS CAUSE.
INQUESTS are occasionally held in which the medical men who give evidence declare that they can assign no reason for the death, the post-mortem examination disclosing England and Wales upon the General Medical Council-a nothing to enlighten them. It is, of course, presumed result that had been very generally anticipated. Mr. that an analysis for poisons has been made, including GEORGE JACKSON, who is a new member, was "runner- a search for those that leave but little trace behind. up" at the last election, being defeated by Dr. J. G. It is well known, however, that cases do occur from time to time in which it is very difficult, if not impossible, to GLOVER, whose vacancy, upan retirement, he now fills ; state what has been the cause of death. Some cases of this while Mr. GEORGE BROWN has been re-elected for a nature which have been recorded would probably have We trust that these two been explained if a more minute examination had been c second term of five years. gentlemen will endeavour efficiently to discharge the made. For instance, at an inquest held on the body of responsible (luties that rest upon their shoulders. What a child the medical practitioner who made the necropsy stated that he had made a careful examination of all is wanted, if the Direct Representatives are to be of the organs of the body (including the brain) but failed to sensible use to our profession, is united action ; separate find any morbid condition saveslight congestion of the attempts to impress upon us that we have in our Direct lungs. The coroner asked him whether he had examined Representatives stern and uncompromising reformers do not the pharynx and larynx. The witness confessed that he - advance the general cause to an appreciable extent. Some had not, and on further examination a mass of bread was difficulty about united action may have been created by the found occluding the opening into the larynx. The cause attitude of Mr. VICTOR HORSLEY who threw the whole of of death in those persons in whose bodies the most careful examination failed to detect disease has been his influence upon Dr. S. WOODCOCK’S side in the recent assumed to be profound depression of the heart’s action election, attending meetings in that gentleman’s behalf, through nervous influences. Fright has frequently been and making vigorous and interesting, if not always judicious, known to cause death, or a blow on the epigastrium has speeches in his support. Mr. HoRSLEY’s efforts have proved brought about a fatal termination without leaving any MR. GEORGE JACKSON and Mr. GEORGE BROWN have been .elected Direct Representatives of the medical profession for
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ELECTION OF DIRECT REPRESENTATIVES ON GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.
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by those who only look on at the work unsuccessful; while both Mr. JACKSON and Mr. BROWN, - done by the medical practitioner and realise in some who stood for election on the same ticket, take their measure the dangers which he encounters in his life’s seats upon the Council with the feeling that the third routine. Mr. SMYTH, we need hardly say, went beyond the Direct Representative for England and Wales opposed He wanted the beaten track in which the physician may at any time meet their return to the best of his ability. We trust with, and succumb to, a deadly disease. He sought his seat of one of them for Dr. WOODCOCK. and Mr. Mr. JACKSON BROWN, having been vicpatients where he could hope for no adequate reward and he that imposed on himself in his endeavour to rescue them a task torious, will also be magnanimous. They must forget which he might have avoided without discredit-a task, that they have recently had in Mr. HORSLEY a conscienmoreover, which was well calculated to exhaust him and tious opponent at the hustings, and must remember that he to enhance the danger of infection and its consequences. is a brother reformer with whom it is absolutely necessary Sometimes honour falls to such a man as he was in his that they should cooperate cordially if their separate or lifetime. Members of the medical profession have lived to united services are to be worth their full value to the conreceive the reward of bravery, not only when, as recently stituency. The candidature of Dr. C. W. HAYWARD, who in South Africa, they have gained distinctions by their occupies the bottom place in the poll, introduces a new self-sacrificing devotion on the battlefield and in hospitals element into the election of Direct Representatives. He is, crowded with the victims of a great war, but also when we understand, a homoeopathic practitioner, so that his in the more peaceful pursuit of their practices they election would have been tantamount to a recognition by the have performed actions which have been made known. medical profession that the imaginings of HAHNEMANX Nevertheless, the greater number of the acts of courage are legitimate scientific developments. Dr. HAYWARD’s and self-sacrifice that are performed by members of the success was never in question, but the position would have medical profession must of necessity be done without ex- been comic, although most serious, had the General Council pectation of fame and without hope of reward, save only of of Medical Education and Registration found in its body a great profession
or
the reward which is found in the consciousness of
good gentleman whose convictions compelled him to view much of even the accepted theory of medical science as incorrect. There but in it will be for those who live the are many directions in which reform is admittedly required this, possible neighbourhood in which he worked and died, to do some- in the medical profession-directions which we believe thing to help those whom he left behind, knowing well that Dr. HAYWARD to realise every whit as fully as the other nothing can repair the loss which they have sustained. candidates-but the educational curriculum of the student Those beyond that neighbourhood, whose attention we more does not need to include instruction in therapeutic heresy. particularly call to the fund that has been instituted, will contribute in gratitude for the good example set and in work done.
memory of
a
Mr. SMYTH has not survived to
enjoy
true medical hero. --------+
The Election of Direct Representatives on the General Medical Council.
Annotations. " Ne quid nimis."
UNEXPECTED DEATH WITHOUT OBVIOUS CAUSE.
INQUESTS are occasionally held in which the medical men who give evidence declare that they can assign no reason for the death, the post-mortem examination disclosing England and Wales upon the General Medical Council-a nothing to enlighten them. It is, of course, presumed result that had been very generally anticipated. Mr. that an analysis for poisons has been made, including GEORGE JACKSON, who is a new member, was "runner- a search for those that leave but little trace behind. up" at the last election, being defeated by Dr. J. G. It is well known, however, that cases do occur from time to time in which it is very difficult, if not impossible, to GLOVER, whose vacancy, upan retirement, he now fills ; state what has been the cause of death. Some cases of this while Mr. GEORGE BROWN has been re-elected for a nature which have been recorded would probably have We trust that these two been explained if a more minute examination had been c second term of five years. gentlemen will endeavour efficiently to discharge the made. For instance, at an inquest held on the body of responsible (luties that rest upon their shoulders. What a child the medical practitioner who made the necropsy stated that he had made a careful examination of all is wanted, if the Direct Representatives are to be of the organs of the body (including the brain) but failed to sensible use to our profession, is united action ; separate find any morbid condition saveslight congestion of the attempts to impress upon us that we have in our Direct lungs. The coroner asked him whether he had examined Representatives stern and uncompromising reformers do not the pharynx and larynx. The witness confessed that he - advance the general cause to an appreciable extent. Some had not, and on further examination a mass of bread was difficulty about united action may have been created by the found occluding the opening into the larynx. The cause attitude of Mr. VICTOR HORSLEY who threw the whole of of death in those persons in whose bodies the most careful examination failed to detect disease has been his influence upon Dr. S. WOODCOCK’S side in the recent assumed to be profound depression of the heart’s action election, attending meetings in that gentleman’s behalf, through nervous influences. Fright has frequently been and making vigorous and interesting, if not always judicious, known to cause death, or a blow on the epigastrium has speeches in his support. Mr. HoRSLEY’s efforts have proved brought about a fatal termination without leaving any MR. GEORGE JACKSON and Mr. GEORGE BROWN have been .elected Direct Representatives of the medical profession for