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Notes and News

NEW DEPARTMENT OF SURGICAL SCIENCE

THE Royal College of Surgeons of England is to set up adepartment of surgical science. It will have three main in-terests : basic sciences, technical methodology, and biophysics.In addition to a large suite of laboratories in Lincoln’s InnFields, it will have new facilities for research at Downe, Kent,where the College established a centre for experimental surgicalresearch in 1933. New animal accommodation, laboratories,and operating-tables will be built at Downe.One of the main functions of the director of the new depart-

ment will be to integrate much of the research now being donein the departments of anxsthetics, anatomy, biochemistry,dental science, ophthalmology, pathology, pharmacology, andphysiology at the College. At present, owing to lack of funds,these departments are understaffed and need new equipment.The director will also make a complete review of technicalmethodology; and the new department will lay much emphasison biophysics, with an appraisal of cryogenic, ultrasonic, andlaser surgery.

THE SCOTTISH EPILEPTIC

IT is more than ten years since the Cohen subcommitteepublished its recommendations for the medical care of

epileptics, but its task was so well done that the Scottishcommittee 2which has just reported (under the chairmanshipof Prof. J. H. Hutchison) endorses its Sassenach suggestions,with only minor changes to allow for particular Scottish needs,such as wide variations in population density, and for advancesin the medical and social services.The committee proposes that diagnostic and initial-treat-

ment centres for children and adults should be set up in

Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dundee, and Edinburgh. In Edinburghand Glasgow the centres for children should be in the mainchildren’s hospitals and should deal with all cerebral dis-orders and not only epilepsy. The specialty of psediatricneurology should be strengthened in Scotland. Medium-stayfacilities are needed to offer difficult cases opportunities forconvalescence and reablement, and separate units for adultsand children should be set up in association with each diag-nostic centre. The only long-stay colony in Scotland is at

Bridge of Weir and is run by a voluntary organisation. Thecommittee proposes that a new colony, which would be partof the National Health Service, should be set up near Edin-burgh to serve all Scotland except the west.

University of GlasgowDr. Gavin C. Arneil, Leonard Gow lecturer in diseases of

children, has had conferred upon him the title of professor inthe department of child health.

Dr. Arneil, who is 45 years old, was educated at Jordanhill CollegeSchool and the University of Glasgow.After graduating M.B. in 1945 he

joined the R.A.M.C., serving for a

year with M.E.L.F. and later withthe medical research staff of the WarOffice. This research resulted in his

graduating M.D., with honours, in1949. He returned to Glasgow andwas a registrar at Stobhill Hospitaland senior registrar at the RoyalHospital for Sick Children, and in1954 he became a university lecturer.Since 1962 he has been first assistantto the professor of child health. His

principal interest is in pxdiatricnephrology, and for work on this

subject he gained a PH.D. in 1960 andalso the Hutchison research prize ofthe University of Glasgow (1954), the

1. See Lancet, 1956, ii, 613.2. Medical Case of Epilepsy in Scotland. H.M. Stationery Office, 1968.

Pp. 25. 3s. 3d.

Watson research prize of the Royal College of Physicians andSurgeons of Glasgow (1956), and a World Health Organisationsenior research prize fellowship (1956). Dr. Ameil was electedF.R.C.P.E. and F.R.C.P.G. in 1964. He has recently carried out

extensive research on the return of rickets to Britain and on thehazard of radioactive strontium to children.

Dr. J. A. Milne has been appointed titular professor ofdermatology.

Dr. Milne, who is 48 years old, was educated at Greenock Academyand the University of Glasgow, where he graduated M.B. in 1944.After holding house-appointments at the Western Infirmary andSouthern General Hospital in Glasgow he took the M.R.c.P. in 1947,and he was appointed lecturer in pathology at the Western Infirmarythe same year. In 1953 he was appointed consultant pathologist toAyrshire and consultant in histopathology of the skin to the WesternRegional Hospital Board. In 1960 he became McCall Andersonlecturer in charge of the university department of dermatology at theWestern Infirmary, and since 1961 he has been reader. He is alsoconsultant in charge of dermatology at the Western Infirmary andconsultant in histopathology to the Western R.H.B. In 1965 hewas elected F.R.C.P.E. and F.R.C.P.G., and in the following year becameM.C.PATH. His main research interests are in the causation of acneand skin tumours.

University of WalesThe honorary degree of D.SC. is to be conferred on Prof.

M. A. Rushton.

Royal College of Physicians of LondonSir Max Rosenheim has been re-elected president.

Society of Apothecaries of LondonProf. Douglas Hubble is to give an Osler lecture at

Apothecaries’ Hall, Black Friars Lane, London E.C.4, onWednesday, May 8, at 5.30 P.M. His subject is to be LordMoran and James Boswell-the Two Diarists, Compared andContrasted.

Sir Robert Aitken is to serve on the University Grants Committeeas a member and deputy chairman from Oct. 1.A George Herbert Hunt travelling scholarship has been awarded

to Dr. R. G. Ainley of Keble College, Oxford.Mr. H. G. E. Arthure has been elected chairman of the Central

Midwives Board in succession to Sir Alan Moncrieff.

Dr. A. T. M. Wilson has been appointed a fellow of the LondonGraduate School of Business Studies.

Appointments

BRADLEY, R. D., M.B., B.sc. Lond.: consultant clinical physiologist, St.Thomas’ Hospital, London.

CLEMENT, J. A. I. T., M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.c.s.: consultant anaesthetist,United Bristol Hospitals.

DARKE, S. J., M.B., M.sc. Birm.: medical officer, Ministry of Health.HOLMES, K. S., M.B. MariC., M.R.C.P.E., F.F.R., D.OBST.: radiotherapist,

Bournemouth and East Dorset hospital group.HucKER, A. G., B.sc. Lond., L.M.S.S.A., D.P.M. : psychiatrist (mental sub-

normality), Coldeast and Tatchbury Mount hospital group.HYNES, D. M., M.B. Cantab.: M.R.C.P., F.F.R.: consultant radiologist,

Northern General Hospital, Sheffield.PuDDIFOOT, P. C. E., M.B., B.sc. Lond.: medical officer, Ministry of Health.THOM, B. T., M.B. Lond., M.C.PATH. : consultant bacteriologist director,

Public Health Laboratory, Whipps Cross Hospital.WIGHTMAN, J. A. K., M.B. Sheff., F.R.C.S. : consultant surgeon, Chesterfield

hospital group.WiLLis, A. J. P., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.P. : consultant physician, Southend-on-

Sea hospital group.YORK-MOORE, M. E., M.B. Lond., D.P.M.: consultant in mental subnormality,

South Ockendon hospital group.

Liverpool Regional Hospital Board:CLAYTON, W. G., M.B. L’pool, F.F.A. R.C.S. : consultant anaesthetist, War-

rington group and Winwick Hospital.HAMILTON, D. I., M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S. : consultant cardiac surgeon,

Broadgreen Hospital and Sefton Hospital.SHEPHERD, G. J. F., B.A., M.B. Dubl., D.M.R.D. : consultant radiologist,

Whiston Hospital.WALLACE, D. E., M.B. L’pool, D.P.M.: consultant psychiatrist, Winwick

Hospital.