- Email: [email protected]
TO MEET THE DIRECT REPRESENTATIVES.
THE CENTRAL BRITISH RED CROSS COMMITTEE.
1312
Sunderland branches of that Union. Coalso looked for from the Middlesbrough operation Medical and District Society. But the meeting will not be of local importance only, as is shown by the agenda. The Address by Mr. Brown will deal with the work of the General Medical Council as regards Medical Reform from the:
and
Annotations. " Ne
quid nimis."
THE CENTRAL BRITISH RED CROSS COMMITTEE: ITS WORK AND ITS WANTS.
the
is
institution of Direct Representation to the present time. Mr. Brown will also speak of the use of medical titles, with particular reference to the Hunter case. The THE applications for employment under the Red Cross Ni from medical men and laymen and the offers of contribution aaddress by Mr. Horsley will treat of the constitution of the Medical Council and the procedure of the Council, C of ambulance material have been so varied and numerous General e that the Central British Red Cross Committee and the especially in relation to its legal business. Dr. Glover will associations represented on it desire earnestly that it eexpound the general work of the General Medical Council should be known that for the present ample provision has aand explain the scope and constitution of the Conciliation and his views upon contract medical work. After I been made in the direction of supplementary aid to the army Board discussion of these and kindred topics a resolution will be medical services in the field. It is now hoped that the S submitted to the conference by Mr. dark Newton, Preto the fund public will confine themselves to contributions sident of the Aid the National Newcastle-on-Tyne Medico-Ethical Society, and which is being maintained by Society seconded Dr. A. W. Blacklock, President of the Gateshead are at Yorkwhose offices by 5, (British Red Cross Society), T Medical Association, The facts will urging strenuous opposition to the W.C. following buildings, Adelphi, London, enable the public to judge how much has been organised by certification by registered practitioners of unqualified persons as competent to undertake any branch of medical practice. the committee up to now :1. Colonel J. S. Young has proceeded as Red Cross Commissioner to South Africa amply provided with funds and NINE FISHES (!) AT A BIRTH. material to act, as may appear best on the spot, in coöperaOUR correspondent at Rome has forwarded us another of tion with the Principal Medical Officer of the Field Force, with a view to aiding the sick and wounded not only of ourhose fabulous stories of which, as he justly remarks, Italy is own troops but also those of the South African Republic and o often the birthplace. It is gravely reported that at CastelOrange Free State. laccia, near Palermo, a woman after a laborious confinement 2 Equipment for fitting up a hospital train has been sent was delivered of nine little animals in the form of fishes, four out to Durban, similar equipment is about to follow, and a complete hospital train of seven carriages, with kitchen and)f which weighed 15 grammes a-piece and five 10 grammes ! a-piece. The ’°mother," who had been enceinte about four all necessary accessories, is being constructed. 3. A hospital ship is being fitted out and equipped at the nonths, our readers will be glad to learn, is going on rather expense of the Princess of Wales’s Branch of the National Aid better than might have been expected. Poor woman! no Society, and will probably be ready to sail for South Africa doubt she feels easier now that she has got rid of her extraabout the middle of the month, in order to act as a relief to ordinary burden of nine fishes. When we consider the the hospitals at the base. 4. Ample provision has been made by the Army Nursing superstitious nature and the extreme ignorance of the Reserve to supply additional highly-trained nursing sisters peasantry in both Italy and Sicily-in the latter island so to the various military hospitals. 40 have already taken late as 1881 some 60 per cent. of the inhabitants over 12 over duties and there remain 100 still on the list for employyears of age were unable to read or write-itis little to be ment as occasion arises. at that such tales should find a ready origin and 5. The St. John Ambulance Brigade is prepared to meet wondered any requirements that may arise in connexion with the an equally ready credence. We can well imagine the stir supply of ambulance officers and hospital orderlies, and that would be caused amongst the community by such an several members of the brigade are now under orders to hold extraordinary occurrence and the many ingenious theories themselves in readiness. that would be adduced as to the possible cause. The These are the main outlines of the work which has been preference would most probably be given to some form of organised, and it may be added that each section has maternal impression or to a miraculous impregnation with, involved the consideration and execution of numerous let us say, sea-water. We fancy, however, that if the details, which would now only be put into confusion were mother be a Sicilian peasant woman her habits would be further offers of personal assistance or material accepted. such as to save the gossips the trouble of trying to fit in Those who have already arranged to contribute material the date of impregnation with her last sea-bath. Her should forward the articles by Tuesday next, Nov. 14th, to husband should have been a mariner, as in the case Messrs. Barnes and Co., Limited, Battle Bridge-lane, Tooley- recorded by Lycosthenes, when the wife of a mariner street, London, S.E., each case being labeled "British was delivered by a midwife of a shapeless mass Red Cross," and the nature of the contents being clearly followed by an animal with a long neck, blazing eyes, indicated. and çlawed feet. If we are to accept the nine fish-like animals as separate foetuses the case is one more example of TO MEET THE DIRECT REPRESENTATIVES. that prolificity with which Italy has furnished us so A CONFERANCE nas peen arrangea to be neia m tne many instances. At Naples in 1839 Giuseppa Califani, so Dr. Examination Hall of the University of Durham College of Gould tells us in his " Curiosities and Anomalies of Medicine," Medicine, Newcastle-on-Tyne, at 6 P.M. on Wednesday gave birth to five children, while a case of sextuplets was evening, Nov. 22nd, 1899, for the purpose of discussing recorded in Italy in 1844. If we turn to the older and less medical politics generally and of hearing short addresses credible writers we find that Sigebert in his chronicles says from Mr. George Brown, Mr. Victor Horsley, and Dr. that the mother of one of the kings of Lombardy bore seven J. G. Glover, the Direct Representatives for England children at a birth. Franciscus Picus Mirandulæ says that and Wales upon the General Medical Council. The one Dorothea, an Italian, bore 20 children at two confineconference has been called by the following local ments, the first time bearing nine and the second societies: the North of England Branch of the British time 11. Pare gives a quaint picture of this marvellous Medical Association, the Newcastle Medico-Ethical Society, person in which her abdomen is represented as bang. the Gateshead Medical Association, the County of Durham ing down to her knees and supported by a girdle At the auction of the San Donato Medical Union, and the South Shields and Jarrow from her neck. .
1312
Sunderland branches of that Union. Coalso looked for from the Middlesbrough operation Medical and District Society. But the meeting will not be of local importance only, as is shown by the agenda. The Address by Mr. Brown will deal with the work of the General Medical Council as regards Medical Reform from the:
and
Annotations. " Ne
quid nimis."
THE CENTRAL BRITISH RED CROSS COMMITTEE: ITS WORK AND ITS WANTS.
the
is
institution of Direct Representation to the present time. Mr. Brown will also speak of the use of medical titles, with particular reference to the Hunter case. The THE applications for employment under the Red Cross Ni from medical men and laymen and the offers of contribution aaddress by Mr. Horsley will treat of the constitution of the Medical Council and the procedure of the Council, C of ambulance material have been so varied and numerous General e that the Central British Red Cross Committee and the especially in relation to its legal business. Dr. Glover will associations represented on it desire earnestly that it eexpound the general work of the General Medical Council should be known that for the present ample provision has aand explain the scope and constitution of the Conciliation and his views upon contract medical work. After I been made in the direction of supplementary aid to the army Board discussion of these and kindred topics a resolution will be medical services in the field. It is now hoped that the S submitted to the conference by Mr. dark Newton, Preto the fund public will confine themselves to contributions sident of the Aid the National Newcastle-on-Tyne Medico-Ethical Society, and which is being maintained by Society seconded Dr. A. W. Blacklock, President of the Gateshead are at Yorkwhose offices by 5, (British Red Cross Society), T Medical Association, The facts will urging strenuous opposition to the W.C. following buildings, Adelphi, London, enable the public to judge how much has been organised by certification by registered practitioners of unqualified persons as competent to undertake any branch of medical practice. the committee up to now :1. Colonel J. S. Young has proceeded as Red Cross Commissioner to South Africa amply provided with funds and NINE FISHES (!) AT A BIRTH. material to act, as may appear best on the spot, in coöperaOUR correspondent at Rome has forwarded us another of tion with the Principal Medical Officer of the Field Force, with a view to aiding the sick and wounded not only of ourhose fabulous stories of which, as he justly remarks, Italy is own troops but also those of the South African Republic and o often the birthplace. It is gravely reported that at CastelOrange Free State. laccia, near Palermo, a woman after a laborious confinement 2 Equipment for fitting up a hospital train has been sent was delivered of nine little animals in the form of fishes, four out to Durban, similar equipment is about to follow, and a complete hospital train of seven carriages, with kitchen and)f which weighed 15 grammes a-piece and five 10 grammes ! a-piece. The ’°mother," who had been enceinte about four all necessary accessories, is being constructed. 3. A hospital ship is being fitted out and equipped at the nonths, our readers will be glad to learn, is going on rather expense of the Princess of Wales’s Branch of the National Aid better than might have been expected. Poor woman! no Society, and will probably be ready to sail for South Africa doubt she feels easier now that she has got rid of her extraabout the middle of the month, in order to act as a relief to ordinary burden of nine fishes. When we consider the the hospitals at the base. 4. Ample provision has been made by the Army Nursing superstitious nature and the extreme ignorance of the Reserve to supply additional highly-trained nursing sisters peasantry in both Italy and Sicily-in the latter island so to the various military hospitals. 40 have already taken late as 1881 some 60 per cent. of the inhabitants over 12 over duties and there remain 100 still on the list for employyears of age were unable to read or write-itis little to be ment as occasion arises. at that such tales should find a ready origin and 5. The St. John Ambulance Brigade is prepared to meet wondered any requirements that may arise in connexion with the an equally ready credence. We can well imagine the stir supply of ambulance officers and hospital orderlies, and that would be caused amongst the community by such an several members of the brigade are now under orders to hold extraordinary occurrence and the many ingenious theories themselves in readiness. that would be adduced as to the possible cause. The These are the main outlines of the work which has been preference would most probably be given to some form of organised, and it may be added that each section has maternal impression or to a miraculous impregnation with, involved the consideration and execution of numerous let us say, sea-water. We fancy, however, that if the details, which would now only be put into confusion were mother be a Sicilian peasant woman her habits would be further offers of personal assistance or material accepted. such as to save the gossips the trouble of trying to fit in Those who have already arranged to contribute material the date of impregnation with her last sea-bath. Her should forward the articles by Tuesday next, Nov. 14th, to husband should have been a mariner, as in the case Messrs. Barnes and Co., Limited, Battle Bridge-lane, Tooley- recorded by Lycosthenes, when the wife of a mariner street, London, S.E., each case being labeled "British was delivered by a midwife of a shapeless mass Red Cross," and the nature of the contents being clearly followed by an animal with a long neck, blazing eyes, indicated. and çlawed feet. If we are to accept the nine fish-like animals as separate foetuses the case is one more example of TO MEET THE DIRECT REPRESENTATIVES. that prolificity with which Italy has furnished us so A CONFERANCE nas peen arrangea to be neia m tne many instances. At Naples in 1839 Giuseppa Califani, so Dr. Examination Hall of the University of Durham College of Gould tells us in his " Curiosities and Anomalies of Medicine," Medicine, Newcastle-on-Tyne, at 6 P.M. on Wednesday gave birth to five children, while a case of sextuplets was evening, Nov. 22nd, 1899, for the purpose of discussing recorded in Italy in 1844. If we turn to the older and less medical politics generally and of hearing short addresses credible writers we find that Sigebert in his chronicles says from Mr. George Brown, Mr. Victor Horsley, and Dr. that the mother of one of the kings of Lombardy bore seven J. G. Glover, the Direct Representatives for England children at a birth. Franciscus Picus Mirandulæ says that and Wales upon the General Medical Council. The one Dorothea, an Italian, bore 20 children at two confineconference has been called by the following local ments, the first time bearing nine and the second societies: the North of England Branch of the British time 11. Pare gives a quaint picture of this marvellous Medical Association, the Newcastle Medico-Ethical Society, person in which her abdomen is represented as bang. the Gateshead Medical Association, the County of Durham ing down to her knees and supported by a girdle At the auction of the San Donato Medical Union, and the South Shields and Jarrow from her neck. .