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THE MANAGERS OF THE ROYAL INFIRMARY AND MR. LAWRIE.
888 towards
effecting all this, let us with one effort elect, on Thursday next, Messrs. Gay, Erichsen, and Lee, for whose sincerity I here publicly pledge myself. Spaldina,
June
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, EDWIN MORRIS, M.D., F.R.C.S. 21st, 1869.
THE MANAGERS OF THE ROYAL INFIRMARY AND MR. LAWRIE. To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,-I beg you will have the goodness to insert the en.
correspondence, which has a very important bearing hospital or practical study.
closed on
Edinburgh,
June
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES SYME. 23rd, 1869.
copy.] (LETTER
FROM MR. LAWRIE TO PROFESSOR
SYME.)
Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, June 21st, 1869. DEAR SIR,-I write to inform you that I was called before a meeting of the Managers to-day, and asked if I had written a letter which appeared in THE LANCET of June 19th. Upon replying in the affirmative, I was told, without any opportunity of explanation being afforded me, that I was no longer resident surgeon in your wards. I remain, dear Sir, yours respectfully, EDWARD LAWRIE. Professor Syme.
COPY. To the
Managers of the Royal Infirmary.
To the Editor of THE LANCET. Sm,-The position I occupy in the Royal Infirmary
ren-
ders it out of place for me to notice the letter from one of the house-surgeons of that institution which appeared in THE LANCET of Saturday last, in reference to my case of ligature of the carotid artery, further than to state that your correspondent’s letter contains assertions and insinuations inconsistent with fact. The preparation, which i3 still in my possession, will enable anyone to judge of the state of the ligature, knot and artery.-I am, Sir, your obcoicnt servant, JAMES SPENCE, F.R.S.E., Pres. Roy. Coll. Surg. Edin., Prof. Surg. Surg. Edin. Univ., Sen. Ord. Surg. Roy. Infirm., &c&e. Ainslie-place, Edinburgh, June 22nd, 1869.
Medical News. APOTHECARIES’ HALL.
-
The
following gentlemen
passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medicine, and received certificates to practise, on June 17th:Collet, Augustus Henry, Worthing. Grant, Frederick, Kibworth, Leicestershire. Orme, Campbell, Avenue-road, N.W. As Assistants in Compounding and Dispensing Medicines :Howlett, Henry John, Southsea. Jeckell, Edward, Ipswich. Ritson, John, Sunderland. The following gentlemen also on the same day passed their first examination :Alexander D. H. Leadman, Leeds School of Medicine; Edward Samuel Lee, St. George’s Hospital; John Samuel Slater, St. Thomas’s Hospital.
My LORD AND GENTLEMEN,-The letter of which a copy is enclosed reached me this morning, and seems to require very serious comment on my part. It appears from this UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM (Easter Term, 1869). letter that you have ignominiously dismissed my houseThe following gentlemen have passed the undermentioned which was the of an on surgeon, alleged offence, ground really conduct in the highest degree creditable to him as a examinations:- FINAL, FOR M.D. DEGREE. gentleman and as a man of honour, without affording him Newcombe, Frederick William. an opportunity of saying a single word in explanation, or FOB. LICENCE IN MEDICINE AND DMBEE OF C.M. SECOND, any communication with me. Frederick T. Higgs, In the course of his important researches with regard to Murray, James D. the antiseptic system of treatment, Professor Lister lately THE LEVEE. The following presentations took devised a procedure for the ligature of large arteries, which has proved completely successful in two cases published by place at the Zevée held on Saturday, the 19th, by His Royal Mr. Bickersteth, of Liverpool, and in another case now Highness the Prince of Wales, on behalf of Her Majesty: under Dr.Watson’s treatment in the hospital. But upon the -Inspector-General Charles A. Anderson, M.D., R.N., on 5th of June, Mr. Spence published, in THE LANCET, a case promotion, by the Director-General of the Medical Departto show that the procedure in question was by no means ment of the Navy; Inspector-General George Burn, M.D., free from danger. "Having occasion, on Wednesday, the C.B., on appointment as a C.B., by the Director-General of l2th inst., to tie the right common carotid artery, I deter- the Medical Department of the Navy ; Assistant-surgeon F. mined to use the carbolised catgut ligature so strongly re- G. Byrne, R.A., on appointment, by Col. W. A. Middleton, commended by Professor Lister, of Glasgow. To give the C.B. ; Mr. Edward B. Broster, R.N., on promotion, by the method a fair trial, I had some catgut prepared for the Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy; Mr. W. H. Colvill, surgeon, Bombay Army, by the Secretary purpose; but, not being satisfied with it, I obtained a carbolised catgut ligature from Professor Syme’s department of State ; Assistant-surgeon J. Davidge, R.A., on appointof the hospital, as I knew it had been used there in cases of ment, by Col. W. A. Middleton, C.B. ; Surgeon-major James Daubeney, Bombay, by the Secretary of State; Staff-surgeon amputation, and was prepared according to Professor Lis- iI J. N. Dick, R.N., on promotion, by the Director-General of ter’s plan." Mr. Spence then proceeded to execute various details not the Medical Department of the Navy ; Mr. M. C. Furnell, consistent with what Mr. Lister has deemed essential for surgeon, Madras Army, by the Secretary of State; Surgeon Cameron M
effecting all this, let us with one effort elect, on Thursday next, Messrs. Gay, Erichsen, and Lee, for whose sincerity I here publicly pledge myself. Spaldina,
June
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, EDWIN MORRIS, M.D., F.R.C.S. 21st, 1869.
THE MANAGERS OF THE ROYAL INFIRMARY AND MR. LAWRIE. To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,-I beg you will have the goodness to insert the en.
correspondence, which has a very important bearing hospital or practical study.
closed on
Edinburgh,
June
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES SYME. 23rd, 1869.
copy.] (LETTER
FROM MR. LAWRIE TO PROFESSOR
SYME.)
Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, June 21st, 1869. DEAR SIR,-I write to inform you that I was called before a meeting of the Managers to-day, and asked if I had written a letter which appeared in THE LANCET of June 19th. Upon replying in the affirmative, I was told, without any opportunity of explanation being afforded me, that I was no longer resident surgeon in your wards. I remain, dear Sir, yours respectfully, EDWARD LAWRIE. Professor Syme.
COPY. To the
Managers of the Royal Infirmary.
To the Editor of THE LANCET. Sm,-The position I occupy in the Royal Infirmary
ren-
ders it out of place for me to notice the letter from one of the house-surgeons of that institution which appeared in THE LANCET of Saturday last, in reference to my case of ligature of the carotid artery, further than to state that your correspondent’s letter contains assertions and insinuations inconsistent with fact. The preparation, which i3 still in my possession, will enable anyone to judge of the state of the ligature, knot and artery.-I am, Sir, your obcoicnt servant, JAMES SPENCE, F.R.S.E., Pres. Roy. Coll. Surg. Edin., Prof. Surg. Surg. Edin. Univ., Sen. Ord. Surg. Roy. Infirm., &c&e. Ainslie-place, Edinburgh, June 22nd, 1869.
Medical News. APOTHECARIES’ HALL.
-
The
following gentlemen
passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medicine, and received certificates to practise, on June 17th:Collet, Augustus Henry, Worthing. Grant, Frederick, Kibworth, Leicestershire. Orme, Campbell, Avenue-road, N.W. As Assistants in Compounding and Dispensing Medicines :Howlett, Henry John, Southsea. Jeckell, Edward, Ipswich. Ritson, John, Sunderland. The following gentlemen also on the same day passed their first examination :Alexander D. H. Leadman, Leeds School of Medicine; Edward Samuel Lee, St. George’s Hospital; John Samuel Slater, St. Thomas’s Hospital.
My LORD AND GENTLEMEN,-The letter of which a copy is enclosed reached me this morning, and seems to require very serious comment on my part. It appears from this UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM (Easter Term, 1869). letter that you have ignominiously dismissed my houseThe following gentlemen have passed the undermentioned which was the of an on surgeon, alleged offence, ground really conduct in the highest degree creditable to him as a examinations:- FINAL, FOR M.D. DEGREE. gentleman and as a man of honour, without affording him Newcombe, Frederick William. an opportunity of saying a single word in explanation, or FOB. LICENCE IN MEDICINE AND DMBEE OF C.M. SECOND, any communication with me. Frederick T. Higgs, In the course of his important researches with regard to Murray, James D. the antiseptic system of treatment, Professor Lister lately THE LEVEE. The following presentations took devised a procedure for the ligature of large arteries, which has proved completely successful in two cases published by place at the Zevée held on Saturday, the 19th, by His Royal Mr. Bickersteth, of Liverpool, and in another case now Highness the Prince of Wales, on behalf of Her Majesty: under Dr.Watson’s treatment in the hospital. But upon the -Inspector-General Charles A. Anderson, M.D., R.N., on 5th of June, Mr. Spence published, in THE LANCET, a case promotion, by the Director-General of the Medical Departto show that the procedure in question was by no means ment of the Navy; Inspector-General George Burn, M.D., free from danger. "Having occasion, on Wednesday, the C.B., on appointment as a C.B., by the Director-General of l2th inst., to tie the right common carotid artery, I deter- the Medical Department of the Navy ; Assistant-surgeon F. mined to use the carbolised catgut ligature so strongly re- G. Byrne, R.A., on appointment, by Col. W. A. Middleton, commended by Professor Lister, of Glasgow. To give the C.B. ; Mr. Edward B. Broster, R.N., on promotion, by the method a fair trial, I had some catgut prepared for the Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy; Mr. W. H. Colvill, surgeon, Bombay Army, by the Secretary purpose; but, not being satisfied with it, I obtained a carbolised catgut ligature from Professor Syme’s department of State ; Assistant-surgeon J. Davidge, R.A., on appointof the hospital, as I knew it had been used there in cases of ment, by Col. W. A. Middleton, C.B. ; Surgeon-major James Daubeney, Bombay, by the Secretary of State; Staff-surgeon amputation, and was prepared according to Professor Lis- iI J. N. Dick, R.N., on promotion, by the Director-General of ter’s plan." Mr. Spence then proceeded to execute various details not the Medical Department of the Navy ; Mr. M. C. Furnell, consistent with what Mr. Lister has deemed essential for surgeon, Madras Army, by the Secretary of State; Surgeon Cameron M