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292 MR. BORTHWICK and Mr. French, on Friday evening, presented two petitions, praying for inquiry into the ope- ration of the Anatomy Act. THE Paris papers state that M. Geoffrey St. Hiliare is in so serious a state of health that his life is despaired of. VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.—On Monday evening, May 20th, a numerous body of members of the veterinary profession met together at the Freemasons’ Tavern, at the invitation of Mr. Morton, the lecturer on chemistry in the Veterinary College, and able editor of the Transactions of the Association, to participate in the enjoyment of a scientific conversazione. This is the first meeting of the members of the profession since the ac- quisition of the honours of a royal charter. The tables were covered with a most valuable collection of morbid specimens, newly invented instruments, and professional curiosities, which were explained by the professors of the college, and gave rise to much animated and agree- able conversation. Mr. Ellis, of University College, gave a very interesting account of new discoveries in the process of detecting arsenic in cases of poison, and ex- hibited his new instrument for effecting that purpose. Much interest was excited by the demonstration by Mr. Erasmus Wilson of the acarus equi, the mange animal of the horse. Mr. Wilson compared this animal with specimens of the itch animalcule, and exhibited the entozoon folliculorum, which he recently found in the horse and in the dog. Among the microscopes on the tables we observed that of Mr. Varley, for which the gold medal was awarded recently by the Society of Arts. This microscope is remarkable for the multiplicity of its applications and for the curious and beautiful machinery of its stage movement. CRIMINAL LUNATICS.—The hon. member for the city of Lincoln, Col. Sibthorp, has moved for and obtained a return of the number of criminal lunatics now under confinement, specifying the name, age, and sex of each person, the place of confinement, the nature of the offence committed, and the period at which such confine- ment commenced. The following appear to be the results :-The number of criminal lunatics at present immured within the various gaols of Great Britain amounts altogether to 118, the crimes committed by whom, whilst labouring, we suppose, under "morbid delusions," comprise all s’)rts of offences, both against the person and against property, including murder, arson, burglary, rape, cutting and maiming, assaults, &c. One man, named David Davis, is confined in consequence of having fired at Viscount Palmerston, M.P., in the year 1818. The number of criminal lunatics now confined in lunatic asylums in the different counties of England and Wales amounts-in Bedford to 3, in Chester to 11, in Cornwall to 8, in Devon to 6, in Dorset to 2, in Durham to 6, in Gloucester to 10, in Hants to 4, in Herts to 1, in Kent to 7, in Lancaster to 17, in Leicester to 4, in the licensed asylums of this metropolis to 22, in Norfolk to 1, in Norwich to 2, in Notts to 4, in Oxford to 2, in Salop to 3, in Somerset to 4, in Stafford to 2, in Suffolk to 6, in Sussex to I, in Warwick to 2, in Wilts to 8, in Worcester to 3, in York (west riding) to 3, and in York (east riding) to 2. The return does not give any particulars respecting Wales.-Times. MORTALITY TABLE. THE deaths in the metropolis for the week ending May 11th, 1844, are 812 (vice 877). The weekly average of the last five years is 946, of the last five winters 1009. Diseases of the lungs ............................ 241-v. 27.3 Epidemic and contagious diseases................ 171—v. 169 Diseases of the nervous system .................. 165—v. 145 Dropsy, cancer, and diseases of uncertain seat.. 71-v. 105 Diseases of the stomach and other digestive organs 54—v. 59 Old age .......................................... 37-v. 45 Diseases of the heart and blood vessels .......... 35-v. 32 Violence, privation, &c........................... 17—v. 21 Childbirth and diseases of uterus ................ 8-v. 4 Rheumatism, diseases of the bones, &c ........... 6—v. 8 Diseases of the kidneys, &c....................... 4-v. 11 Cellular diseases of the skin ...................... 1—v. 1 Causes not apecified.............................. 2-v. 4 Total................ 812 877 ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. LIST of gentlemen admitted members on Friday, May 17, 1844 :- W. E. Stuart, W. T. Hardern, W. Cumming, W. Wallford, B. T. Lowne, W. H. Thoreau, F. J. Lilley, T. P. Powell, H. M. Gruggen, J. Bomford. APOTHECARIES’ HALL, LONDON. NAMES of gentlemen who obtained certificates of qualification to practise as apothecaries on Thursday, May 16, 1844:—Christopher Hall, Peatling Magna, Leicestershire; Henry March Gruggen, Chichester; Thomas Humphreys, Anglesea; William Earengey, Plymouth; Edward Dewes, Coventry; James Hakes; William Berry Kellock, Totness, Devon; Arthur Wynne Williams, Shrews bury. CORRESPONDENTS. The Report of the Medical Officers of the Gloucester- shire Infirmary is in type, but has been unavoidably omitted owing to press of matter. It shall appear with- out fail next week. An Olrt Practitioner.-The practice of the Ophthalmie, Hospital in Moorfields is always open to the profession, and no fee is ever received for it from a practitioner. Since ophthalmic diseases have been so fully embraced in the general courses of surgical lectures it has been deemed advisable to occupy the time of the students with clinical remarks illustrating the individual cases, rather than with formal courses of lectures. : We have received the humorous epistle of E. S. S., and will certainly take his suggestion into consideration. i A Pupil.- Dr. Stokes’ work is as good a one as could be purchased on the subject named. The last edition of Dr. Hooper’s Dictionary is a valuable book, but, neces- sarily, contains merely a summary account of disease; we should therefore say that, for the purposes of our corre- spondent, the other work mentioned would be preferable. A very small dose of the nitrate of silver, say a quarter or half a grain, may produce the bronzed colour of the skin, if long continued. A correspondent, Mr. Huoper, of Camberwell, requests us to insert a lengthened communication on the treatment of hydrophobia, which has appeared in the Devonport flerald. The multitude of demands made on our space by more valuable matter must confine our notice to a simple statement of the drugs made use of. The patient is to take immediately after the infliction of the bite,- Native cin izabar, factitious ditto, of each two grains; musk, twelve grains, in a quarter-pint of brandy. In thirty days this should be repeated, in a quartern of brandy. Then take-Tartrate of antimony, one grain ; nitrate of potass, six grains. If the disease has commenced four grains should be added to each of the first mentioned in- gredients, and repeated for three doses, leaving an hour or two interval between. The antimony and potash are to be repeated every forty minutes until free perspiration occurs. Our correspondent asks what is cinnabar, and the difference between the two kinds mentioned above ’? Cinnabar is the bisulphuret of mercury. The native and factitious are identical in composition. From the ore, or native cinnabar, mercury is generally procured. The factitious is the vermillion of commence. Had the testimonial, to which our attention is drawn by Mr. A. Walker, been presented by a body of indivi- duals, we should have been most happy to notice it, but as it is only the result of private gratitude, we cannot openly advert to the circumstance. A Four Years’ Subscriber.—The Apothecaries’ Company cannot be compelled to prosecute. Communications have been received from Mr. Brown, Mr. S’heplaurd, Mr. TV. Smith, Mr. S. Wilkins, Dr. Thomas Inman, Dr. Wi-io-ht, Justititi, Mr. Ledsam, Dr. Aran (Paris), Dr. Allnatt, ill),. Wm. White Cooper, Inquisitor (Leeds), Dr. D. B. Bullen (Cork), Mr. F. Richardson (Cheltenham), Mr. T. Barrett (Bath), Dr. Mackin, A S’ubscriber, Mr. Geo. Wilson (Leeds), Dr. Loney, and Mr. H. Weglesworth. NOTICE. 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MR. BORTHWICK and Mr. French, on Friday evening,presented two petitions, praying for inquiry into the ope-ration of the Anatomy Act.THE Paris papers state that M. Geoffrey St. Hiliare is
in so serious a state of health that his life is despaired of.
VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.—On Mondayevening, May 20th, a numerous body of members of theveterinary profession met together at the Freemasons’Tavern, at the invitation of Mr. Morton, the lecturer onchemistry in the Veterinary College, and able editor ofthe Transactions of the Association, to participate in theenjoyment of a scientific conversazione. This is the first
meeting of the members of the profession since the ac-
quisition of the honours of a royal charter. The tableswere covered with a most valuable collection of morbid
specimens, newly invented instruments, and professionalcuriosities, which were explained by the professors ofthe college, and gave rise to much animated and agree-able conversation. Mr. Ellis, of University College,gave a very interesting account of new discoveries in theprocess of detecting arsenic in cases of poison, and ex-hibited his new instrument for effecting that purpose.Much interest was excited by the demonstration by Mr.Erasmus Wilson of the acarus equi, the mange animalof the horse. Mr. Wilson compared this animal with
specimens of the itch animalcule, and exhibited theentozoon folliculorum, which he recently found in thehorse and in the dog. Among the microscopes on thetables we observed that of Mr. Varley, for which the
gold medal was awarded recently by the Society of Arts.This microscope is remarkable for the multiplicity of itsapplications and for the curious and beautiful machineryof its stage movement.
CRIMINAL LUNATICS.—The hon. member for the cityof Lincoln, Col. Sibthorp, has moved for and obtained areturn of the number of criminal lunatics now underconfinement, specifying the name, age, and sex of eachperson, the place of confinement, the nature of theoffence committed, and the period at which such confine-ment commenced. The following appear to be theresults :-The number of criminal lunatics at presentimmured within the various gaols of Great Britainamounts altogether to 118, the crimes committed bywhom, whilst labouring, we suppose, under "morbiddelusions," comprise all s’)rts of offences, both againstthe person and against property, including murder, arson,burglary, rape, cutting and maiming, assaults, &c. One
man, named David Davis, is confined in consequence ofhaving fired at Viscount Palmerston, M.P., in the year1818. The number of criminal lunatics now confined inlunatic asylums in the different counties of England andWales amounts-in Bedford to 3, in Chester to 11, inCornwall to 8, in Devon to 6, in Dorset to 2, in Durhamto 6, in Gloucester to 10, in Hants to 4, in Herts to 1, inKent to 7, in Lancaster to 17, in Leicester to 4, in thelicensed asylums of this metropolis to 22, in Norfolk to1, in Norwich to 2, in Notts to 4, in Oxford to 2, in Salopto 3, in Somerset to 4, in Stafford to 2, in Suffolk to 6, inSussex to I, in Warwick to 2, in Wilts to 8, in Worcesterto 3, in York (west riding) to 3, and in York (east riding)to 2. The return does not give any particulars respectingWales.-Times.
MORTALITY TABLE.THE deaths in the metropolis for the week ending May 11th,
1844, are 812 (vice 877). The weekly average of the last fiveyears is 946, of the last five winters 1009.Diseases of the lungs ............................ 241-v. 27.3Epidemic and contagious diseases................ 171—v. 169Diseases of the nervous system .................. 165—v. 145Dropsy, cancer, and diseases of uncertain seat.. 71-v. 105Diseases of the stomach and other digestive organs 54—v. 59Old age .......................................... 37-v. 45Diseases of the heart and blood vessels .......... 35-v. 32Violence, privation, &c........................... 17—v. 21Childbirth and diseases of uterus ................ 8-v. 4Rheumatism, diseases of the bones, &c ........... 6—v. 8Diseases of the kidneys, &c....................... 4-v. 11Cellular diseases of the skin ...................... 1—v. 1Causes not apecified.............................. 2-v. 4
Total................ 812 877
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.LIST of gentlemen admitted members on Friday, May 17, 1844 :-
W. E. Stuart, W. T. Hardern, W. Cumming, W. Wallford, B. T.Lowne, W. H. Thoreau, F. J. Lilley, T. P. Powell, H. M. Gruggen,J. Bomford.
APOTHECARIES’ HALL, LONDON.NAMES of gentlemen who obtained certificates of qualification to
practise as apothecaries on Thursday, May 16, 1844:—ChristopherHall, Peatling Magna, Leicestershire; Henry March Gruggen,Chichester; Thomas Humphreys, Anglesea; William Earengey,Plymouth; Edward Dewes, Coventry; James Hakes; WilliamBerry Kellock, Totness, Devon; Arthur Wynne Williams, Shrewsbury.
CORRESPONDENTS.The Report of the Medical Officers of the Gloucester-
shire Infirmary is in type, but has been unavoidablyomitted owing to press of matter. It shall appear with-out fail next week.An Olrt Practitioner.-The practice of the Ophthalmie,
Hospital in Moorfields is always open to the profession,and no fee is ever received for it from a practitioner.Since ophthalmic diseases have been so fully embracedin the general courses of surgical lectures it has beendeemed advisable to occupy the time of the students withclinical remarks illustrating the individual cases, ratherthan with formal courses of lectures.
: We have received the humorous epistle of E. S. S., andwill certainly take his suggestion into consideration.i A Pupil.- Dr. Stokes’ work is as good a one as couldbe purchased on the subject named. The last edition ofDr. Hooper’s Dictionary is a valuable book, but, neces-sarily, contains merely a summary account of disease; weshould therefore say that, for the purposes of our corre-spondent, the other work mentioned would be preferable.A very small dose of the nitrate of silver, say a quarteror half a grain, may produce the bronzed colour of theskin, if long continued.A correspondent, Mr. Huoper, of Camberwell, requests
us to insert a lengthened communication on the treatmentof hydrophobia, which has appeared in the Devonportflerald. The multitude of demands made on our spaceby more valuable matter must confine our notice to asimple statement of the drugs made use of. The patientis to take immediately after the infliction of the bite,-Native cin izabar, factitious ditto, of each two grains; musk,twelve grains, in a quarter-pint of brandy. In thirtydays this should be repeated, in a quartern of brandy.Then take-Tartrate of antimony, one grain ; nitrate ofpotass, six grains. If the disease has commenced four
grains should be added to each of the first mentioned in-gredients, and repeated for three doses, leaving an houror two interval between. The antimony and potash areto be repeated every forty minutes until free perspirationoccurs. Our correspondent asks what is cinnabar, andthe difference between the two kinds mentioned above ’?Cinnabar is the bisulphuret of mercury. The native andfactitious are identical in composition. From the ore, ornative cinnabar, mercury is generally procured. Thefactitious is the vermillion of commence.Had the testimonial, to which our attention is drawn
by Mr. A. Walker, been presented by a body of indivi-duals, we should have been most happy to notice it, butas it is only the result of private gratitude, we cannotopenly advert to the circumstance.A Four Years’ Subscriber.—The Apothecaries’ Company
cannot be compelled to prosecute.Communications have been received from Mr. Brown,
Mr. S’heplaurd, Mr. TV. Smith, Mr. S. Wilkins, Dr. ThomasInman, Dr. Wi-io-ht, Justititi, Mr. Ledsam, Dr. Aran(Paris), Dr. Allnatt, ill),. Wm. White Cooper, Inquisitor(Leeds), Dr. D. B. Bullen (Cork), Mr. F. Richardson(Cheltenham), Mr. T. Barrett (Bath), Dr. Mackin, AS’ubscriber, Mr. Geo. Wilson (Leeds), Dr. Loney, and Mr.H. Weglesworth.
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