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THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.
842 could alter this and ensure a the medical profesdesired position or sion, status. It would be a great boon to have one examination requisite, and one only, as this Bill would provide. But the omission of the clause empowering successful candidates to register the title "Licentiate in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery," was very disappointing. The following petition in favour of the new Medical Bill, he proposed, should be sent to the Commons :-
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education prior to entering good general the latter could not command the
3. " Tha.t this meeting pledges itself to make known the advantages of existing public provident dispensaries, the working of which being watched over by an investigation committee having special regard to the amount of earnings as qualifying for memoership, are not injnrious to the interests
of medical men." It was stated at the meeting that at Exeter, where the Alliance has a branch, it was estimated that the medical practitioners lost from £1500 to E2000 a year, and that one practitioner lost £500 the first year the Friendly Societies’ Medical Alliance was started in that town, To the Honorable the Commons of the United Kingdom in The inaugural speech of the President of the Alliance Parliament Assembled:— delivered at Exeter at their annual meeting was quoted to? "This petition of the Medical Union Society of London the following effect :-" The medical profession had offered humbly sheweth that your petitioners are engaged in a great deal of opposition to the establishment of the:e the study of medicine in the metropolis. Your peti- societies. In Exeter they had suffered considerably owinb tioners beg to complain of great inconvenience and in- to the indirect influence of medical men ; the Exeter justice in the present division of the authorities for licensing association had been involved in legal proceedings, which to practise the different parts of medicine. They complain were, no doubt, intended to destroy it ; in fact, when it wa that the diplomas now given are costly, that they are only originally established he (the President) was threatened half diplomas, and that those given in different divisions of that whenever they brought a new medical man into thecity the kingdom are of very unequal value. Your petitioners the profession would blackball him. The aggregate income would therefore prav your Honorable House to pass the Bill of the forty-two associations in 1882 was about :E24,000; and for amending the Medical Acts now before you, with oue nearly .613,000 was speut in the shape of salaries to the modification. Your petitioners pray you to enact that when medical men employed." It was pertinently pointed out that it appeared fiom the last statement of the President a student shall have passed ’with credit’ the new examination, to be established by the Divisional Board, under the that more than £11,000, or nearly half the income, was not double sanction of the Medical Council and the Privy spent in the shape of salaries to the medical men employed, Council, he shall be entitled to be registered as a Licentiate though this was professedly purely a medical alliance. and Midwifery; of the Medical Council in Medicine, or that in lieu of right to register such title he be exempted from the final examination of the corporations for their WILLS OF MEDICAL MEN. lowest diploma. And your petitioners will ever pray."
Surgery,
Mr.
SLATER, of Guy’s, seconded the adoption of the peti-
He said the services of the corporations in the past were good reason for compelling men to go to them in all future time. He thought it absurd that there should be no titular recognition of the new licence. Mr. RICHMOND would have preferred provision for exarnination in Anatomy and Physiology, as well as in Clinical subjects. He also insisted on the importance of high preliminary examinations. He was anxious to know what was likely to be done in regard to unqualified assistants. Dr. DANFORD THOMAS, Coroner, spoke very strongly in support of the Bill, and of the importance of the preliminary examinations being duly controlled by the Council. He expressed deep dissatisfaction with the preent complicated and piecemeal system of examining bodies. It had a bad effect on students to require them to choose between nineteen examinations of all degrees of sttiugency in all divisions of the kingdom. The discussion was continued by Messrs. Blakiston, Richards, Blakeman, and others, and in the end the petition was unanimously and heartily adopted.
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THE will of Mr. Frederick Justus
Toulmin, F.R.C.S.,9iof on February 4th last, has been proved by Mr. Arthur Henry Lancaster and Mr. Franci’ Stockdale Toulmin, the nephew, the executors, the value of the personal estate amounting to upwards of 36, Thurloe-square, Brompton, who died
f:62,OOO. The testator bequeaths X200 to the Royallledical Benevolent College at Epsom for the relief of medical men, their widows and orphans; and numerous legacies to his sister, brothers, nephews, nieces, and others of his own and also of his late wife’s relatives, and to his executors and others. The residue of his property is to be divided between hiq brotherFrancis Toulwin aud his said brother’s son William Calvert Toulmin. The will of Dr. Alexander Chesnev Young, of 5, Whitehall place, was proved on the 6th ult. by Mr. James Youn ; Stephen and Mr. Oscar Leslie Stephen, rhenephews, the executors. The testator leave,4 one-half of his prol)erty to his brother-in-law, Mr. 0-’car Leslie Stephen; and the remaining half upon trust for the widow of his brotherjames for life, and then t’) Alexander Condie Stephen. The will of Dr. Drewry Ottley, late of 93, Ladbroke.grove, THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND FRIENDLY Notting-hill, who d.ed in December 3tst last, has beeu pruved by Mrs. Auna Waldron Ottley, the widow, the SOCIETIES. pe’sonal estate exceeding £450. The testator, after giving to his children, leaves the remainder of his property legacies A LARGE and influential meeting of the medical prac- to his wife for life, and after her death to be equally divided titioners of Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse, and neigh- between his six children. The will and codicil of Mr. Thomas Harvey Lowrv, of bourhood was held at Plymouth on May 3rd, 1883, to consider what course shou’d be adopted towards the Three Towns West Malling Place, Kent, who died on March S’h last, were on the 14th ult. by Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Lowry, Branch of the Friendly Societies’ Medical Alliance, recently the proved Mr. widow, Henry Syme Redpath, and Dr. J. J. started in PJymouth and Devonport on a low system of fees, Douglas Burns, the ex,eiitor,4, the value of the personal the vaccination being, previous to the meeting, done fornothing estate amounting to over £3700. The testator gives legacies to his wife, children, and executors, ioctuding two freehold by its medical officers, and wo’nen and children admitted as houses at Maidstone to his eldest son; and the residue ofbis and members, thereby unfdirty competing with, injuriously property, real and personal, he leaves upon trust for his wife affecting, the regular practitioners. for life, and then to his sous Thomas Harvey and James, The following resolutions were passed with only one dis- and his daughters Mary and Minnie.
senting vote
:1. "That the
of the Three Towns Friendly to the just interests of the medical 1)rofeg.,iori, he it resolved that the medical profession of the Three Towns and neighbourhood decline to act in concert with the medical officers of the friendly societies aforesaid." 2. "That this meeting pledges itself to refuse to act in concert with any medical man acting ill opposition to he plain meaning of the foregoing resolution."
principle-)
S3cieties’ Medical Alliance being cllnrnuy
MEATH
HOSPITAL, DUBLIN.-The following gentle-
obtained prizes at the terminat on of the winter session :—Fir;-tMedical Prize : William Waterfi’-Id. Second Medical Prize : C. J. King. Fir, t Sfui’1r Surgical Prize S. Hickson. Secemt SeniorSurgical Prize : W. H. B. Robinson. Adduional Prize: J. A. Johns. Junior Surgical Prize: G. E. Greene. Se ond Prize : J. M. Day and R. R. Leeper, men
equa’.
standard
to
exist.
Until
they
education prior to entering good general the latter could not command the
3. " Tha.t this meeting pledges itself to make known the advantages of existing public provident dispensaries, the working of which being watched over by an investigation committee having special regard to the amount of earnings as qualifying for memoership, are not injnrious to the interests
of medical men." It was stated at the meeting that at Exeter, where the Alliance has a branch, it was estimated that the medical practitioners lost from £1500 to E2000 a year, and that one practitioner lost £500 the first year the Friendly Societies’ Medical Alliance was started in that town, To the Honorable the Commons of the United Kingdom in The inaugural speech of the President of the Alliance Parliament Assembled:— delivered at Exeter at their annual meeting was quoted to? "This petition of the Medical Union Society of London the following effect :-" The medical profession had offered humbly sheweth that your petitioners are engaged in a great deal of opposition to the establishment of the:e the study of medicine in the metropolis. Your peti- societies. In Exeter they had suffered considerably owinb tioners beg to complain of great inconvenience and in- to the indirect influence of medical men ; the Exeter justice in the present division of the authorities for licensing association had been involved in legal proceedings, which to practise the different parts of medicine. They complain were, no doubt, intended to destroy it ; in fact, when it wa that the diplomas now given are costly, that they are only originally established he (the President) was threatened half diplomas, and that those given in different divisions of that whenever they brought a new medical man into thecity the kingdom are of very unequal value. Your petitioners the profession would blackball him. The aggregate income would therefore prav your Honorable House to pass the Bill of the forty-two associations in 1882 was about :E24,000; and for amending the Medical Acts now before you, with oue nearly .613,000 was speut in the shape of salaries to the modification. Your petitioners pray you to enact that when medical men employed." It was pertinently pointed out that it appeared fiom the last statement of the President a student shall have passed ’with credit’ the new examination, to be established by the Divisional Board, under the that more than £11,000, or nearly half the income, was not double sanction of the Medical Council and the Privy spent in the shape of salaries to the medical men employed, Council, he shall be entitled to be registered as a Licentiate though this was professedly purely a medical alliance. and Midwifery; of the Medical Council in Medicine, or that in lieu of right to register such title he be exempted from the final examination of the corporations for their WILLS OF MEDICAL MEN. lowest diploma. And your petitioners will ever pray."
Surgery,
Mr.
SLATER, of Guy’s, seconded the adoption of the peti-
He said the services of the corporations in the past were good reason for compelling men to go to them in all future time. He thought it absurd that there should be no titular recognition of the new licence. Mr. RICHMOND would have preferred provision for exarnination in Anatomy and Physiology, as well as in Clinical subjects. He also insisted on the importance of high preliminary examinations. He was anxious to know what was likely to be done in regard to unqualified assistants. Dr. DANFORD THOMAS, Coroner, spoke very strongly in support of the Bill, and of the importance of the preliminary examinations being duly controlled by the Council. He expressed deep dissatisfaction with the preent complicated and piecemeal system of examining bodies. It had a bad effect on students to require them to choose between nineteen examinations of all degrees of sttiugency in all divisions of the kingdom. The discussion was continued by Messrs. Blakiston, Richards, Blakeman, and others, and in the end the petition was unanimously and heartily adopted.
tion.
not
THE will of Mr. Frederick Justus
Toulmin, F.R.C.S.,9iof on February 4th last, has been proved by Mr. Arthur Henry Lancaster and Mr. Franci’ Stockdale Toulmin, the nephew, the executors, the value of the personal estate amounting to upwards of 36, Thurloe-square, Brompton, who died
f:62,OOO. The testator bequeaths X200 to the Royallledical Benevolent College at Epsom for the relief of medical men, their widows and orphans; and numerous legacies to his sister, brothers, nephews, nieces, and others of his own and also of his late wife’s relatives, and to his executors and others. The residue of his property is to be divided between hiq brotherFrancis Toulwin aud his said brother’s son William Calvert Toulmin. The will of Dr. Alexander Chesnev Young, of 5, Whitehall place, was proved on the 6th ult. by Mr. James Youn ; Stephen and Mr. Oscar Leslie Stephen, rhenephews, the executors. The testator leave,4 one-half of his prol)erty to his brother-in-law, Mr. 0-’car Leslie Stephen; and the remaining half upon trust for the widow of his brotherjames for life, and then t’) Alexander Condie Stephen. The will of Dr. Drewry Ottley, late of 93, Ladbroke.grove, THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND FRIENDLY Notting-hill, who d.ed in December 3tst last, has beeu pruved by Mrs. Auna Waldron Ottley, the widow, the SOCIETIES. pe’sonal estate exceeding £450. The testator, after giving to his children, leaves the remainder of his property legacies A LARGE and influential meeting of the medical prac- to his wife for life, and after her death to be equally divided titioners of Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse, and neigh- between his six children. The will and codicil of Mr. Thomas Harvey Lowrv, of bourhood was held at Plymouth on May 3rd, 1883, to consider what course shou’d be adopted towards the Three Towns West Malling Place, Kent, who died on March S’h last, were on the 14th ult. by Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Lowry, Branch of the Friendly Societies’ Medical Alliance, recently the proved Mr. widow, Henry Syme Redpath, and Dr. J. J. started in PJymouth and Devonport on a low system of fees, Douglas Burns, the ex,eiitor,4, the value of the personal the vaccination being, previous to the meeting, done fornothing estate amounting to over £3700. The testator gives legacies to his wife, children, and executors, ioctuding two freehold by its medical officers, and wo’nen and children admitted as houses at Maidstone to his eldest son; and the residue ofbis and members, thereby unfdirty competing with, injuriously property, real and personal, he leaves upon trust for his wife affecting, the regular practitioners. for life, and then to his sous Thomas Harvey and James, The following resolutions were passed with only one dis- and his daughters Mary and Minnie.
senting vote
:1. "That the
of the Three Towns Friendly to the just interests of the medical 1)rofeg.,iori, he it resolved that the medical profession of the Three Towns and neighbourhood decline to act in concert with the medical officers of the friendly societies aforesaid." 2. "That this meeting pledges itself to refuse to act in concert with any medical man acting ill opposition to he plain meaning of the foregoing resolution."
principle-)
S3cieties’ Medical Alliance being cllnrnuy
MEATH
HOSPITAL, DUBLIN.-The following gentle-
obtained prizes at the terminat on of the winter session :—Fir;-tMedical Prize : William Waterfi’-Id. Second Medical Prize : C. J. King. Fir, t Sfui’1r Surgical Prize S. Hickson. Secemt SeniorSurgical Prize : W. H. B. Robinson. Adduional Prize: J. A. Johns. Junior Surgical Prize: G. E. Greene. Se ond Prize : J. M. Day and R. R. Leeper, men
equa’.