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with the Hindostanee language, applied for it. The reply re-ceived from the superintending surgeon was, that he, being aRoyal medical officer, could not hold it. The office was handedover to an assistant-surgeon of the Indian service, who at thetime was in charge of another native corps.

2. For three months the present surgeon of the Royal Dep6tin the Bombay Presidency was excluded from his charge, inorder that an Indian surgeon might hold it, the latter, at thisperiod, being in attendance on the General Hospital, ArtilleryHospital, medical stores, military staff, and private practice-an amount of occupation sufficient to have tested the ability of.any three active officers. The Royal staff-surgeon was at thetime unemployed, receiving less pay than a regimental assistant-surgeon in charge of a native corps, and a loser of three months’staff allowance (£90).

3. A vacancy having occurred in the medical charge of arailway staff, the agent of the company, considering he wasjustified, as any public body would be, in selecting such medi.cal officer as he deemed most fitted for the interests of hisparty, conferred the charge on a Royal staff-surgeon. Theselection, however, raised such a furor amongst several of theIndian service, that the subject became one of official repre-sentation. The office was claimed, by the superintending sur-geon of the division, as the right of the local civil surgeon, onthe ground that as the medicines are supplied to the railwaycompany by the Indian Government, and the Railway Hospitalconstructed in connexion with the Civil Hospital, no Royalmedical man could be permitted to prescribe on an establish-ment thus rendered sacred to the functions of the civil surgeon..{These two establishments, I must notice, railway and civil,though approximating, are distinct. The expenses of both

surgeon and hospital are defrayed by the railway company.)The Royal surgeon had thus to resign to the civil assistant;receiving a letter from the agent of the company expressive ofextreme regret at the Government decision.With such monopolies, it is remarkable that the position of

the Royal officer should be pronounced as preferable. As a

’body, the officers of the Indian service justly rank high inpublic estimation; but their qualifications cannot authorize thesystem of exclusion practised on the Royal medical officer,whose merits are equally prominent. It is to be hoped thatthe Warrant affecting relative rank and other claims may beextended to the Indian medical officer. I can confidently statethat but one consideration peivades the entire Royal service-namely, an earnest desire to raise the social standard of ourprofession. The more elevated our position, the greater theboon conferred on those entrusted to our care, and the greaterthe possibility of carrying out all questions affecting the generalinterests of both services.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,India, May, 1859. ONE OF THE ROYAL ARMY.

MEDICAL TRIALS.

CAPEL-STREET POLICE-COURT, DUBLIN.

AT the above office last week a quack doctor, who styleshimself Professor Kirkham, was summoned by John Brierly,for illegally using the title of Doctor, &c., and also for havingundertaken to cure him of a disease, which, by his impropertreatment, he rendered much worse. After the service of thesummons the " doctor " left Dublin.

Mr. CURRAN, as counsel for the complainant, said-In thiscase my client is in his bed, and has been so for the last threeweeks, in a very hopeless state, and he is unable to attend inconsequence of the treatment which he thinks and alleges, andwhich I think I can prove, he received. At all events we haveone consolation, that we have sent this gentleman about hisbusiness, for he is now not forthcoming.Mr. FITZGERALD. -He has shut up his shop and left the city.Mr. CURRAN.-I have nothing more to say in the matter;

Kirkham does not appear.Mr. FITZGERALD.-If the man was able to appear he would

- certainly apply for a warrant. We have, at all events, savedthe city something by getting rid of him.Mr. CURRAN.-We will withdraw the summons.Mr. PORTER.-I recollect Chief-Justice Bushe trying a quack

for manslaughter, and he sentenced him to be imprisoned inthe jail of Clonmel for four calendar months, and not to beallowed to go near the infirmary unless he was sick.(Laughter).

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

DR. RADCLIFFE’S TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP.

IN conformity with an ordinance of the University Commis-sioners, the electors under the will of Dr. Radcliffe havedirected that an examination for a Travelling Fellowship shallbe held in the course of next term.The examiners will hereafter notify the particulars of the

examination, which will be in sciences connected with medicine.The successful candidate will receive X200 per year for three

years, half that time being occupied in medical study out ofGreat Britain.One such fellowship will henceforward be offered for compe.

tition every year.Those may be admitted as candidates who have taken a First

Class in the Natural Science School of Oxford, and who intendto qualify themselves to practise medicine as medical graduatesof the University.

HENRY W. ACLAND, Reg. Prof. of Medicine.Oxford, Sept. 12th, 1859.

APOTHECARIES’ HALL.-The following gentlemen passedtheir examination in the science and practice of medicine, andreceived certificates to practise, on

Thursday, September 8th, 1859.HAWSE, WILLIAM, Burford, Oxon.LEVER, REGINALD CROFT, Army.MooRE, THOMAS, Hales Owen, Worcestershire.PARK, JOHN STEELE, Ballarat, Australia.WHITE, FRANCIS THOMAS, Rawreth, Wickford, Essex.

The following gentleman also, on the same day, passed hisfirst examination :-

COLBECK, THOMAS WILLIAM, Kensington.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.-The Library of this

institution will re-open on Saturday, the 1st proximo, and theMuseum on the Monday following.APPOINTMENTS.- The Queen has been pleased to appoint

Henry Brown and James Ellison, Esqrs., jointly, to be Surgeonand Apothecary in Ordinary to her Majesty’s Household atWindsor.-Mr. James H. Stedman has been elected ResidentMedical Officer to the Royal Infirmary for Women and Chil-dren, Waterloo-road.

STATE OF HEALTH IN THE CITY OF LONDON.-Themortality for the last seven weeks has been above the average.The deaths in that time amounted to 365, whereas in the corre-sponding period of the last three years they were but 354.MEETING OF GERMAN PHYSICIANS AND NATURALISTS

AT KÖNIGSBERG.-This annual meeting, which was this yearto take place at Konigsberg, will not be held, and is put off toquieter times.THE CHOLERA IN GERMANY.-This epidemic is raging

in several places of Northern Germany. It is, however, de-creasing at Hamburg and Osnabriick, but is very severe at Lauen-burg. At Rostock, the number of cases is on the increase,and the deaths are very numerous in the neighbourhood of thattown. -Deztt.3clte Kli2iik-.WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL. - The following operations

are expected to take place on Tuesday next, the 20th inst.,at two P.M. :-For urethral stricture, by Mr. Holt; for stric-ture of the urethra (two cases), by Mr. Hillman.GOOD NEWS FOR SMOKERS.-There is a report that

Professor Liebig has discovered a mode of imparting to ordi-nary tobacco the perfume and flavour of the finest Havannah.It is said that the most experienced connoisseurs have been putto the test, and have smoked the prepared tobacco in the beliefthat it was the finest Cuban.THE LAW RELATING TO POISONS IN FRANCE.-A per-

fumer of Paris has just been fined £2 for keeping an arsenicalpaste used to remove superabundant hair. The whole stock ofthe paste has been confiscated.

LEGACIES. - Dr. Ambrose Tarella, the Nestor of thephysicians of Turin, died in July last, at the age of seventy.He has left £1600 to the Benevolent Medical Association ofSardinia; and X2400 to the St. Louis Hospital, of which hehad long been physician and director.

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GERMAN DENTISTS. - Germany follows the onward RUMOURS OF CHOLERA IN PARIS.-In alluding to themovement which has been noticed amongst the dentists of affections now prevailing in Paris, L’ Union Medicale of theEngland and America. An association is to be formed for the 13th inst. says: "Dysentery is the most common disease atnorth-west of Germany, the laws of which were discussed in present; and many deaths amongst old people and childrenBerlin on the 1st of August last. are attributable to that complaint. Choleraic attacks have

THE MEDICAL MEN OF VIENNA.-The Patriotic So- been observed in Paris and the neighbourhood; and severalciety of Vienna have decided that the sum of about .E1200 fatal cases of actual cholera have also been recorded. Are we

shall be employed for the relief of those civil medical prac- to look forward to an epidemic of cholera ? We think not;

titioners who have served in Italy, and who thereby may now although the disease is prevalent in some parts of Northernbe placed in straitened circumstances. Europe, as also in Spain (Murcia). It would, perhaps, beTHE NETLEY HOSPITAL, is approaching completion. It

advisable to be, just now, extremely cautious [the writer pro-is as large as the Crystal Palace, and six times completion It bably means in a hygienic point of view]. Very bad news hasis as large as the Crystal Palace and six times as large as Guy’s reached us from the duchy of Mecklenburg, where cholera isHospital. It will accommodate between 1000 and 2000 patients, making considerable havoc."

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AND EXETER HOSPITAL : THE SAMARITAN FUND- kind in the world. DEVON AND EXETER HOSPITAL: THE SAMARITAN FUND.

ARMY HOSPITAL CORPS. Non-commissioned officers --On Tuesday, the 30th ult., the 118th anniversary of this nobleARMY HOSPITAL CORPS. of Non-commisioned officers institution was celebrated, on which occasion a sermon was

and privates, after a course of training and instruction in preached at the cathedral in aid of the "Samaritan Fund."’

making up medicines, and after having been examined and Dr. Withering was the founder of this fund. Under his will,appointed compounders of medicine, may be called upon to proved in 1833, he bequeathed the sum of X400 "for the pur-volunteer as sergeants in the new Army Hospital Corps. pose of commencing and establishing a fund, to be called theDUMFRIES CIRCUIT COURT.-The following is amongst ’ Samaritan Fund,’ the interest thereof to be applied to the

the cases from Dumfriesshire for trial at the circuit court to be relief of such deserving poor patients who shall have had theheld at Dumfries on Friday, the 23rd inst.: John Broatch, benefit of the hospital, but shall stand in need of some furtherOrchard Cottage, Ruthwell, accused of contravention of the assistance until they shall have regained strength to pursueMedical Registration Act. their usual business, or to afford them the means of returningULSTER MEDICAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.-The first to their habitations and families." For several years past, themeeting of this newly-established Society was held, He the collections made at the anniversary have been added to thismeeting of this newly -established Society was held on the fund. None but those members of the committee who attend

1st of September, in the Library of the General Hospital, the meetings of the board can estimate the great value of thisFredenck.street. There was a very good attendance, including most useful provision. Not a week passes without an applicationpractitioners from a distance. Dr. Robert Stewart, Resident being made by some deserving poor patient who has receivedPhysician of the Belfast Lunatic Asylum, took the chair, and his or her cure at the hospital, but is unable to provide thecalled on Mr. Browne to state the objects of the Association. means of returning to his or her home. Lady and Miss ChurchillMr. BROWNE in the course of his address, said, " By pro- means added £15 to its his or her home. Lady and Miss Churchilltection I mean that we intend to see that there is a proper

have added £ 15 to its funds.

scale of preliminary education for the profession; secondly, to THE PRINCE OF WALES A STUDENT IN CHEMISTRY.--take care that only parties of proper character be admitted After a sojourn of nearly two months at Edinburgh, his Royalinto the profession; and, thirdly, to see that parties who are Highness the Prince of Wales left Holyrood Palace at a quarterpractising in our profession, but who do not belong to it, shall to six on Saturday morning, the 10th mSt-ant. During the staybe at once brought under the law, and made amenable to jus. of his Royal Highness at Edinburgh, he has gone through atice. (Hear.) I believe that this is not only protective of our- regular course in different departments of study, and has threeselves, but also of the community; because it is quite clear, if times a week attended the chemical lectures of Professor Play-we prevent a large number of men from practising in our pro- fair at the University.fession who have no right to assume the name of medical men, THE WOUNDED IN ITALY.-The " Gazette Médicale deand who have no proper education, we are not only protecting Lyon" gives the following figures:—Up to the 31st of Julyourselves, but doing a vast amount of good to the community, last, 25,568 wounded were received in the hospitals of Milan.who are sufferers from the interference. The public are our Amongst these were 14,641 French, 3790 Italians, and 7137debtors, as we also are debtors to the public. We live by them, Austrians. Out of these there have been discharged curedand while we expect that they will do what is right towards 10,339 French, 3091 Italians, and 5935 Austrians. Deaths:us, we are bound to do good towards the public, and to protect 405 French, 22 Italians, and 634 Austrians.them."

_ .,,.,.,. EFFECTS OF CHLOROFORM ON BEES. - Mr. Annan,

Dr. M’GEE, J.P., in moving the adoption of the minutes, builder, Downfield, wishing to have the honey taken from asaid-" If we had taken the example set us by other learned hive without killing the bees, and having before heard of chlo-professions-such as the bar-we would have done our duty to roform being used, felt anxious to try the experiment. He firstthe public and our duty to ourselves long ago. We have seen closed the doorway, then covered the hive with a cloth to shutin England, from day to day, the advantages of such an Asso- out the light as much as possible, after which he commencedciation. We have read of successful prosecutions, and of the to blow chloroform into the hive. When it was discoveredbenefit of them. And if we look at home, we see, on the other that the bees had fallen asleep, they were easily removed tohand, what we may term the unjust persecution of some of our another hive without harm to anyone, and next morning wereprofession, and we feel that there should be some person or all awake and in a lively state, humming around their hive.-persons to assist them to defend their riglits." Dundee Advertiser.

Dr. Filson (Portaferry) and other speakers followed. EVIL EFFECTS oF EXCESSIVE STUDY:--- The pressureDr. M’Gee, amid applause, was elected chairman of the EVIL EFFECTS OF complete their educational course at theAssociation until May, 1861. upon young men to complete their educatiorlal course at theThe meeting then proceeded with the election of a committee,

earliest possible date is constantly on the increase, and enough,The meeting then proceeded with the election of a committee, undoubtedly, may be seen on all sides of the injurious results-consisting of twelve members from Belfast, and twenty-seven undoubtedly, may be seen on all sides of the injurious resultsfrom Ulster of premature high pressure. The healthy action of theProfessor SEATON READ proposed Mr. Browne as secretary. understanding is bein. constantly impeded by a crowd of un-

Dr. CORRY seconded the motion, which was passed, connected and unprolific recollections which are forced in upon

The SECRETARY brought before the meeting at once the de- the unformed memory, and can neither be digested nor re-tails of the Dunmanway case, the facts of which are, that a tained. It is, indeed, a most injurious practice, which cannotmedical officer connected with the Dunmanway Dispensary

fail to make its results felt at a future day.was dismissed by a sealed order from the Poor-law Commis. HOSPITAL STATISTICS.-GUY’S HOSPITAL, founded bysioners, for alleged neglect of a patient. Thomas Guy, in 1721, for the reception of 400 patients, andThe meeting, although sympathizing with Dr. Hall, did not recently enlarged through the aid of a large bequest from the

come to any specific resolution on the subject. late William Hunt, contains at the present time nearly 550 beds;Mr. BROWNE then drew attention to a Bill brought in and, with its extensive buildings and airing grounds, occupies

last session, having for its object the registration of births an area of about seven acres. The hospital is divided intoand deaths in Ireland. In a certain clause in that Bill, it was medical, surgical, clinical, ophthalmic, uterine, and venerealmade penal, and subjected a doctor to a heavy fine, if he neg- wards, independently of a ward, in a detached building, forlected to have a death registered within twenty-four hours of lunatic patients, the vacancies in which the governors of theits occurrence. They should allow no such Bill, without pro- hospital have of late years forborne to fill up. In the yeartest, to be brought into the Legislature that would connect the 1857, 44,281 persons were relieved by its means; 5226 as in-medical profession with such disabilities, patients, 9889 as out-patients, and 25,886 as casualties. besides

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1731 women who were attended in their confinements, and1549 who received advice from the Lying-in Charity. Fourhundred patients are now received into the original building ofGuy, and one hundred and fifty into the part of the new wingalready completed; the latter building, when finished, willadmit three hundred persons.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL contains 650 beds, of which420 are allotted to surgical cases and diseases of the eye, and230 to medical cases and the diseases of women. The numberof patients is more than 95,000 annually; the in-patientsamounting to upwards of 6000, the out-patients and casualtiesto more than 89,000.THE LONDON HOSPITAL contains 445 beds, of which 135 are

allotted to medical, and 310 to surgical cases; of these 310beds, about 190 are exclusively appropriated to cases of acci-dent. In the year 1858, the hospital received 27,790 patients,including 3976 in-patients and 23,814 out-patients. The acci-dents brought to the hospital, during 1858, were 11,529, in-cluding 2090 in-patients and 9439 out-patients.THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL, from recent enlargements, con-

tains upwards of 300 beds, of which 185 are for surgical and120 for medical cases. The cancer establishment receives 33patients. Wards are specially appropriated to cases of uterinedisease and of syphilis. 2109 in-patients were admitted duringthe past year. The number of out-patients during the sameperiod amounted to 16,469.ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL. This hos-

pital set the example in London, in 1816, of receiving the pooron their own application, without letters of recommendation.During 1857, 6315 persons were treated, of whom 160 wereadmitted into the hospital, and 6155 were treated as out-

patients ; of these, nearly 2000 were children of tender age.The principal operations were-57 for hard cataract; 49 forsoft cataract; 14 for the formation of artificial pupil; 220 forstrabismus; 227 for the removal of tarsal tumours; 5 for theremoval of deformity of staphyloma; 3 for the removal oftumour in the orbit; 2 for osteal abscess; 1 for extirpation ofthe eyeball, on account of malignant disease. In addition,several hundred minor operations were performed.ROYAL ORTHOPÆDIC HOSPITAL.-The daily attendance of

out-patients exceeds 100, the average number annually being1600; and the number admitted from the commencement ex-ceeds 21,000. Out of this large number, it is stated, not onedeath has occurred under treatment, neither has there been anyinstance of permanent suffering or injury.LocK HOSPITAL, LONDON. - Patients treated, from Jan.

1747, to 31st Dec. 1857, 74,389. In-patients cured from 31stDec. 1857, to 31st Dec. 1858, 333; out-patients ditto, 2187;in-patients, 31st Dec. 158, 52; out-patients ditto, 269; died,2-2843. Making a total of 77,232. -ASYLUM. -Admittedfrom July, 1787, to 31st December, 1858, 1555; restored totheir friends since the opening of the institution, 309; placedin respectable service, ditto, 391; died, ditto, 22.GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY.- When the buildings at pre-

sent in progress are completed, the accommodation will bemuch increased. Number of beds, 600. During the year 1858. 8the number of in-patients treated was 3500. Out-patients:10,422 were treated at the dispensary. Operations during theyear, 185; amputations, 60; excision of tumours, 32; excisionof bones and joints, 8; reduction of dislocations, 23; lithotomy,13; various, 49.THE LYING-IN HOSPITAL, RUTLAND-SQUARE, DUBLIN.-This

hospital, established in 1745, and chartered by George II., in1756, is the largest of the kind in the British dominions, andcontains 130 beds, 15 of which are appropriated to the diseasesof females. About 2000 women are annually received into theinstitution.

THE OXFORD MIDDLE - CLASS EXAMINATION. - Lastweek a public meeting was held at the Corn Exchange, Glou-cester, for the purpose of distributing the certificates awardedat the late examination to the successful candidates. The Rev.Dr. Jeune, Canon of Gloucester, Master of Pembroke College,and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, presided.The report stated that the number of candidates had been 40,against 70 last year at the Cheltenham examination,-namely,21 senior boys, and 19 junior. Of these, nine of the senior andten of the junior passed, being at the rate of 4n per cent.One-third of the whole number of candidates had been rejectedfrom failure in the elementary part of education; eight hadfailed at Gloucester from defective spelling. The only declinein the classes, comparing the per-centage of candidates, hadbeen in divinity, in which 47 ½ per cent. only had passed,against 60 per cent. last year. These examinations are in- teresting to the profession, since the Medical Council have

accepted them as satisfactory on the part of students in Medi.cine as their examination preliminary to entering on purelyprofessional studies.TREATMENT OF TETANUS BY THE WOORARA POISON.-

M. Vella, of Turin, arguing from the fact shown by M. Bernardin 1850, that the woorara poison is a direct sedative of themotor nerves, undertook a series of experiments which clearlyshowed the antagonism between strychnine and woorara.

Being appointed to the French Military Hospital of Turinduring the late campaign, and seeing several cases of tetanuswhich had resisted opiates, ether, &c., M. Vella resolved totry woorara. The first trials were made upon two patientswho had been suffering from tetanus for four and five days reospectively, in consequence of gun-shot wounds. They wereboth in a semi-asphyxiated and desperate state. The woorara

produced a general relaxation of the muscular system, where-upon the patients felt much relief; but they both died. Thesame treatment was, however, employed upon a third patient,who recovered. He was a sergeant, thirty-five years old, teta.nic from a gun-shot wound of the foot. Two grains of woorarawere dissolved in nine drachms of water, and compressesmoistened with the solution were applied to the wound; thestrength being gradually increased to fifteen grains in fourteendrachms of water. For the first four days the compresses wererenewed every third hour; afterwards every fifth hour, up tothe twelfth day, when the changes were reduced to three andtwo in the twenty-four hours. In twenty-two days the patientcould leave his bed, and returned to France thirty-six daysafter the first application of the woorara.HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK ENDING

SATURDAY, SEPT. 1OTH.—Much has been done to improve thehealth of London; yet 1111 persons died within its limits inthe week ending on the 10th inst.; that is, rather more than158 daily. About 50 persons are destroyed every twenty-fourhours in London by sanitary defects that we hope will be to alarge extent removed by the Boards of Works. The mortalityis now near the average rate, which, exclusive of the weeks of1849 and 1854, when cholera was epidemic, would have de-manded 1102 lives. Scarlatina and diphtheria became morefatal, but the deaths by fever and diarrhcea decreased; so thatthe deaths by zymotic diseases amounted to 386, the samenumber as last week. 148 persons died of diarrhcea, and 2 ofcholera,. A retired plant broker, aged sixty-nine, died of cho-lera, said to be Asiatic, at 24, Princes-street, Mile-end OldTown. A merchant’s wife, of the age of thirty-six, died ofcholera on board the Moselle, shortly after it had passedGravesend. The attack was fatal in twelve hours. She hadsuffered from choleraic diarrhcna at Rostock, and left that placein rather a weak state; went on board the steamer at Ham-burg on Friday night at twelve o’clock; was attacked by cho-lera on Sunday morning at about eleven o’clock, and died soonafter eleven o’clock at night. This death, on August 28th,has not been registered. The uselessness of quarantine in suchcases is evident; but it would be satisfactory to know the realsanitary state of the steamers which ply between Hamburgand London. The deaths of 24 persons by accidents or negli-gence were registered in the week.

HORATIO NELSON TILSLEY, EsQ., M.R.C.S.E.NORTH PETHERTON and its neighbourhood have sustained a

severe loss by the lamented death of Horatio Nelson Tilsley,Esq., M.R.C.S.E., who for many years enjoyed an extensivepractice in North Petherton and the surrounding district. Thedeceased gentleman, who expired on Sunday, the 21st ult.,after a brief illness of a fortnight, was sixty years of age. Hewas born at Taunton on the 3rd of October, 1798; and theentry in the register of the parish church of St. James thereintimates that he received his baptismal name from the circum-stance of his birth happening at the time of the arrival of thenews of the battle of the Nile. He received his education atthe schools of the late Mr. James Crosswell, of this parish, andof the late Mr. Henry Norris, of Taunton. He commenced

practice at Petherton in the year 1825, where he remaineduntil his decease. Mr. Tilsley was a medical officer for thedistrict under the Bridgwater board of guardians, and his un-questionable professional ability, added to his kindness ofmanner, generosity of disposition, and active charity, won himthe love and respect of his poor as well as his wealthier patients,and by all classes his loss is severely felt, and his memorywill be ever respected.