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283 LOUGHBOROUGH AND DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY. -Resident House Surgeon. Salary £100 per annum, with rooms, attendance, board, and washing. MAIDSTONE, WEST KENT GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary C60, with board and lodging. MANCHESTER, ANCOATS HOSPITAL.-Resident House Physician. Salary 280 per annum, with board, residence, &c. MANCHESTER, UNIVERSITY OF.-Junior Demonstrator in Physiology. Salary £100, rising to £150 per annum. MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Hampstead and Northwood, Middlesex.-Junior Resident Medical’Officer. Salary C50 per annum, with board, lodging, &c. NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.- Medical Inspector. Salary B200, rising to :C300 per annum. NEwoASTLE-upoN-TYNE WORKHOUSE. -Assistant Medical Officer. Salary at rate of £150 per annum, with apartments, rations, and washing. ’ORSETT UNION.-Workhouse and District Medical Officer and* Public Vaccinator. Salary :C156 per annum. PERTH ROYAL INFIRMARY.-House Surgeon. Salary :C60 per annum, with board. - QUEEN’S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney road, Bethnal Green, E.- House Physician and Two House Surgeons for six months. Salary in each case at rate of £60 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry. ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST, City-road, E.C.- House Physician for six months. Salary at rate of .E60 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing. ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, Plaistow, E.- Senior Resident Medical Officer, unmarried. Salary at rate of :ClOO per annum, all found. Also Assistant Resident Medical Officer, un- married. Salary at rate of .E80 per annum, all found. ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, Paddington, W.-Demon- strator of Physiology. Salary £150 per annum. SHEFFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Physician. Salary:C50 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing. - SINGAPORE TOwN MUNICIPALITY, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.-Assistant Municipal Health Officer. Salary$4200, rising to$4800. .STIRLING DISTRICT ASYLUM, Larbert.-Second Assistant Medical Officer. Salary £125 per annum, with board, lodging, and laundry. WOLVERHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary £80 per annum, with board, lodging, and laundry. WORCESTER COUNTY AND CITY ASYLUM.-Third Assistant Medical Officer, unmarried. Salary :E140 per annum, with board, lodging, attendance, and laundry. ’WORCESTERSHIRE, BARNSLEY HALL ASYLUM, Bromsgrove.-Second Assistant Medical Officer. Salary C150 per annum, with quarters, board, washing, and attendance. ’THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice of a vacancy as Certifying Surgeon under the Factory and Workshop Act at Rugby in the county of Warwick. Births, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS. CHOLMELEY.-On July 14th, at Lemon-street, Truro, the wife of Mountague A. Cholmeley, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of a daughter. WALKER.—On July 19th, at Roundhay, Leeds, the wife of Henry Seeker Walker, M.Sc., F.R.C.S., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. GORDON-FRASER.-At St. Cuthbert’s parish church, Edinburgh, on the 18th inst-, by the Rev. A. Wallace Williamson, D.D., Chaplain-in- OrdinarytoH.M. the King, George Arthur Gordon, M.B., Ch.B., Richmond, Surrey, son of the late Andrew Gordon, Banker, London, to Eva, younger daughter of Dr. John Fraser, Commissioner in Lunacy, 13, Heriot-row, Edinburgh. GOSSE-HAY.-On July 14th, at St. Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, by the Rev. Prebendary Pennefather and the Rev. Robert Jamblin, Philip Gosse, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., only son of Edmund Gosse, LL.D., Librarian to the House of Lords, to Gertrude Agnes Gosse Hay, daughter of the late Alexander Hay of Linden, South Australia, and Mrs. Alexander Hay of Mount Brecken, S. Australia, and 27, , Wynnstay-gardens, Kensington. HANDLEY-RIGBY.-On July 18th, at St. James’s, Piccadilly, by the Rev. J. Hamilton Carson, M.A., Rector of Little Plumstead, Norwich, assisted by the Rev. Francis Cole, B.A., Curate-in-eharge of St. Luke’s, Great Yarmouth, W. Sampson Handley, M.S., F.R.C.S., of 12, New Cavendish-street, W.. to Muriel, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Francis W. Clayton Rigby, Incumbent of St. George’s, Great Yarmouth, and of Mrs. Rigby, South Town, Great Yarmouth. LANGWILL-MOORHEAD.-At St. Andrews Pro-Cathedral, Dundee, on the 16th inst., Hamilton Graham Langwill, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., 4, Hermitage-place, Leith, to Alice Margaret Moorhead, L.R.C.P. & S. Edin., 4, Tay-square, Dundee, elder daughter of Brigade-Surgeon . G. A. Moorhead, Ninewells, Dundee. RICE-STENNING.-On July 16th, at Beckenham parish church, David Rice, M.D., to Evelyn Grace, youngest daughter of Edward Stenning, of Glenlyon, Beckenham. DEATHS. BANKS.-On July 16th, at Merrion-square, Dublin, Sir John Banks, K.C.B., Honorary Physician-in-Ordinary to His Majesty King Edward VII. in Ireland. JORDISON.-On July 19th, at Malpas, Cheshire, Christepher Jordison, Surgeon, son of the late Robert Binks Jordison, of South Ockendon, Essex, aged 62 years. N.B.-A fee of 5s. is charged for the insertion of Notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths. Notes, Short Comments, and Answers to Correspondents. RAILWAY COMPANIES AND EXCURSION PARTIES. THE old adage which associates evil with want of thought is far too frequently exemplified by some of our railway companies. Occasion- ally a letter appears in the public press from some aggrieved traveller but little or nothing is done to rectify grievances which are in many cases due to red tape or the crass stupidity of the railway servants. A letter recently appeared in the Times complaining of the treatment of a " mothers’ meeting " party which travelled from Clapham Junction to Bognor with frequent stoppings and change of carriages. The carriages at Clapham Junction were marked reserved, but at Sutton the party had to change and again at Horsham. The train appears also to have been overcrowded and at one of the places of change there was a " seatless platform." It was quite pitiable, says the Rev. R. A. Dobson who writes the letter, to see several lame and infirm old women struggling over the bridge, after having been mocked by the farce of a "reserved" carriage which went only as far as Sutton on the way to Bognor, on to an already crowded platform. The writer calls the treatment which these poor people received " cruel," and we agree with him. Many of these people, perhaps, only have this one day’s holiday in the year and it is necessary that they should not have their enjoyment curtailed by a blundering railway company or its officials, and it is lamentable that poor old people, the lame, and the infirm should be compelled to travel in overcrowded compartments with the additional hardship of having to change carriages several times. We understand that the company has admitted its fault and acknowledges that much of the delay and inconvenience might have been avoided by the company’s employees. It is gratifying to know that the company has recognised its responsibility, and this re- sponsibility it owes not only to the travelling public but also to its shareholders. DARWINISM AND THE MENS MEDICA. To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,-Reminiscences of the genesis of the famous theory of " The Origin of Species have been very much in the air since the beginning of the present month. Few scientific or even theological theories have, at the very outset, aroused opposition so violent and so widespread ; or inspired admiration so unquestioning and enthusiastic. Charles Darwin, as is well known to everyone, inherited his powers of observation of Nature and of criticism of the facts and phenomena presented from a medical ancestry. The following extracts tell the story:- 1. " But it may appear too bold, in the present state of our know- ledge on this subject, to suppose that all vegetables and animals How exist2ng, were originally derived from the smallest microscopic ones formed by spontaneous vitality; and that they have, by innumerable reproductions, during innumerable centuries of time, gradually acquired the size, strength, and excellence of form and faculties which they now possess; and that such amazing powers were originally im- pressed on matter and spirit by the great Parent of Parents, Cause of Causes! Ens Entium ! "-ERASMUS DARWIN, M.D. (Additional Notes to "Temple of Nature," published posthumously in 1803). 2. " It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse ; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a con- sequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character, and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus from the war of natuie, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms mot beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."- CHARLES DARWIN (Final paragraph of " Origin of Species by Means of natural belection--). ;. The absolute novelty of the theory was so readily assumed and granted by the vast majority of advocates and commentators that the following sentences of Sir Thomas Browne’s "Pseudodoxia Epidemica" (1646) must have been overlooked. They prove that the enunciation of the Darwinian theory in Browne’s presence, 212 years before, would by no means have surprised him. " It may be perpended whether it might not fall out the same way that Jacobs cattell became speckled, spotted and ring- straked, that is, by the power and efficacy of Imagination; which pro- duceth effects in the conception correspondent unto the phancy of the Agents in generation, and sometimes assimilates the Idea of the generator into a realty in the thing engendred. For, hereof there passe for currant many indisputed examples ; so in Hippocrates we reade of one, that from the view and intention of a picture conceaved a Negroe ;
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LOUGHBOROUGH AND DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.-Resident House Surgeon. Salary £100 per annum, with rooms,attendance, board, and washing.
MAIDSTONE, WEST KENT GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon,unmarried. Salary C60, with board and lodging.
MANCHESTER, ANCOATS HOSPITAL.-Resident House Physician. Salary280 per annum, with board, residence, &c.
MANCHESTER, UNIVERSITY OF.-Junior Demonstrator in Physiology.Salary £100, rising to £150 per annum.
MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THECHEST, Hampstead and Northwood, Middlesex.-Junior ResidentMedical’Officer. Salary C50 per annum, with board, lodging, &c.
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.-Medical Inspector. Salary B200, rising to :C300 per annum.
NEwoASTLE-upoN-TYNE WORKHOUSE. -Assistant Medical Officer.Salary at rate of £150 per annum, with apartments, rations, andwashing.
’ORSETT UNION.-Workhouse and District Medical Officer and* PublicVaccinator. Salary :C156 per annum.
PERTH ROYAL INFIRMARY.-House Surgeon. Salary :C60 per annum,with board.
- QUEEN’S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney road, Bethnal Green, E.-House Physician and Two House Surgeons for six months. Salaryin each case at rate of £60 per annum, with board, residence, andlaundry.ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST, City-road, E.C.-House Physician for six months. Salary at rate of .E60 per annum,with board, lodging, and washing.
ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, Plaistow, E.-Senior Resident Medical Officer, unmarried. Salary at rate of :ClOOper annum, all found. Also Assistant Resident Medical Officer, un-married. Salary at rate of .E80 per annum, all found.
ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, Paddington, W.-Demon-strator of Physiology. Salary £150 per annum.
SHEFFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Physician. Salary:C50per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.
- SINGAPORE TOwN MUNICIPALITY, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.-AssistantMunicipal Health Officer. Salary$4200, rising to$4800.
.STIRLING DISTRICT ASYLUM, Larbert.-Second Assistant MedicalOfficer. Salary £125 per annum, with board, lodging, and laundry.
WOLVERHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.-HouseSurgeon. Salary £80 per annum, with board, lodging, and laundry.
WORCESTER COUNTY AND CITY ASYLUM.-Third Assistant MedicalOfficer, unmarried. Salary :E140 per annum, with board, lodging,attendance, and laundry.
’WORCESTERSHIRE, BARNSLEY HALL ASYLUM, Bromsgrove.-SecondAssistant Medical Officer. Salary C150 per annum, with quarters,board, washing, and attendance.
’THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice ofa vacancy as Certifying Surgeon under the Factory and WorkshopAct at Rugby in the county of Warwick.
Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.
CHOLMELEY.-On July 14th, at Lemon-street, Truro, the wife ofMountague A. Cholmeley, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of a daughter.
WALKER.—On July 19th, at Roundhay, Leeds, the wife of HenrySeeker Walker, M.Sc., F.R.C.S., of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
GORDON-FRASER.-At St. Cuthbert’s parish church, Edinburgh, onthe 18th inst-, by the Rev. A. Wallace Williamson, D.D., Chaplain-in-OrdinarytoH.M. the King, George Arthur Gordon, M.B., Ch.B.,Richmond, Surrey, son of the late Andrew Gordon, Banker, London,to Eva, younger daughter of Dr. John Fraser, Commissioner inLunacy, 13, Heriot-row, Edinburgh.
GOSSE-HAY.-On July 14th, at St. Mary Abbots Church, Kensington,by the Rev. Prebendary Pennefather and the Rev. Robert Jamblin,Philip Gosse, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., only son of Edmund Gosse, LL.D.,Librarian to the House of Lords, to Gertrude Agnes Gosse Hay,daughter of the late Alexander Hay of Linden, South Australia, andMrs. Alexander Hay of Mount Brecken, S. Australia, and 27,
, Wynnstay-gardens, Kensington.HANDLEY-RIGBY.-On July 18th, at St. James’s, Piccadilly, by the
Rev. J. Hamilton Carson, M.A., Rector of Little Plumstead,Norwich, assisted by the Rev. Francis Cole, B.A., Curate-in-eharge of St. Luke’s, Great Yarmouth, W. Sampson Handley, M.S.,F.R.C.S., of 12, New Cavendish-street, W.. to Muriel, youngestdaughter of the late Rev. Francis W. Clayton Rigby, Incumbent ofSt. George’s, Great Yarmouth, and of Mrs. Rigby, South Town,Great Yarmouth.
LANGWILL-MOORHEAD.-At St. Andrews Pro-Cathedral, Dundee, onthe 16th inst., Hamilton Graham Langwill, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., 4,Hermitage-place, Leith, to Alice Margaret Moorhead, L.R.C.P. & S.Edin., 4, Tay-square, Dundee, elder daughter of Brigade-Surgeon
. G. A. Moorhead, Ninewells, Dundee.RICE-STENNING.-On July 16th, at Beckenham parish church, David
Rice, M.D., to Evelyn Grace, youngest daughter of EdwardStenning, of Glenlyon, Beckenham.
DEATHS.
BANKS.-On July 16th, at Merrion-square, Dublin, Sir John Banks,K.C.B., Honorary Physician-in-Ordinary to His Majesty KingEdward VII. in Ireland.
JORDISON.-On July 19th, at Malpas, Cheshire, Christepher Jordison,Surgeon, son of the late Robert Binks Jordison, of South Ockendon,Essex, aged 62 years.
N.B.-A fee of 5s. is charged for the insertion of Notices of Births,Marriages, and Deaths.
Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.
RAILWAY COMPANIES AND EXCURSION PARTIES.
THE old adage which associates evil with want of thought is far toofrequently exemplified by some of our railway companies. Occasion-
ally a letter appears in the public press from some aggrieved travellerbut little or nothing is done to rectify grievances which are in manycases due to red tape or the crass stupidity of the railway servants. Aletter recently appeared in the Times complaining of the treatment ofa " mothers’ meeting " party which travelled from Clapham Junctionto Bognor with frequent stoppings and change of carriages. The
carriages at Clapham Junction were marked reserved, but at Sutton theparty had to change and again at Horsham. The train appears alsoto have been overcrowded and at one of the places of change there wasa " seatless platform." It was quite pitiable, says the Rev. R. A.Dobson who writes the letter, to see several lame and infirm oldwomen struggling over the bridge, after having been mocked by thefarce of a "reserved" carriage which went only as far as Sutton onthe way to Bognor, on to an already crowded platform. The writercalls the treatment which these poor people received " cruel," and weagree with him. Many of these people, perhaps, only have this oneday’s holiday in the year and it is necessary that they should not havetheir enjoyment curtailed by a blundering railway company or itsofficials, and it is lamentable that poor old people, the lame, and theinfirm should be compelled to travel in overcrowded compartmentswith the additional hardship of having to change carriages severaltimes. We understand that the company has admitted its fault and
acknowledges that much of the delay and inconvenience might havebeen avoided by the company’s employees. It is gratifying to knowthat the company has recognised its responsibility, and this re-
sponsibility it owes not only to the travelling public but also to itsshareholders.
DARWINISM AND THE MENS MEDICA.
To the Editor of THE LANCET.
SIR,-Reminiscences of the genesis of the famous theory of " TheOrigin of Species have been very much in the air since the beginningof the present month. Few scientific or even theological theories have,at the very outset, aroused opposition so violent and so widespread ; orinspired admiration so unquestioning and enthusiastic. Charles Darwin,as is well known to everyone, inherited his powers of observation ofNature and of criticism of the facts and phenomena presented from amedical ancestry. The following extracts tell the story:-
1. " But it may appear too bold, in the present state of our know-ledge on this subject, to suppose that all vegetables and animals Howexist2ng, were originally derived from the smallest microscopic onesformed by spontaneous vitality; and that they have, by innumerablereproductions, during innumerable centuries of time, graduallyacquired the size, strength, and excellence of form and faculties whichthey now possess; and that such amazing powers were originally im-pressed on matter and spirit by the great Parent of Parents, Cause ofCauses! Ens Entium ! "-ERASMUS DARWIN, M.D. (Additional Notesto "Temple of Nature," published posthumously in 1803).
2. " It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed withmany plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, withvarious insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the dampearth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so differentfrom each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner,have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken inthe largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance whichis almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect anddirect action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse ;a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a con-sequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character, andthe Extinction of less improved forms. Thus from the war of natuie,from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable ofconceiving, namely the production of the higher animals, directlyfollows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or intoone ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to thefixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms motbeautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."-CHARLES DARWIN (Final paragraph of " Origin of Species by Means ofnatural belection--). ;.The absolute novelty of the theory was so readily assumed and granted
by the vast majority of advocates and commentators that the followingsentences of Sir Thomas Browne’s "Pseudodoxia Epidemica" (1646) musthave been overlooked. They prove that the enunciation of the Darwiniantheory in Browne’s presence, 212 years before, would by no means havesurprised him. " It may be perpended whether it might not fall outthe same way that Jacobs cattell became speckled, spotted and ring-straked, that is, by the power and efficacy of Imagination; which pro-duceth effects in the conception correspondent unto the phancy of theAgents in generation, and sometimes assimilates the Idea of the
generator into a realty in the thing engendred. For, hereof there passefor currant many indisputed examples ; so in Hippocrates we reade ofone, that from the view and intention of a picture conceaved a Negroe ;
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