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SIDLAW SANATORIUM.—Resident Medical Officer. Salary El25 perannum.

SOUTHAMPTON’. ROYAL SOUTH HANTS AND SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL.-Junior House Surgeon for six months. Salary at rate of E120 perannum, with rooms, board, and washing.

SOUTH SHIELDS, INGHAM INFIRMARY AND SOUTH SHIELDS AND WESTOEDISPENSARY.-Junior House Surgeon. Salary £115 per annum,with residence. board, and washing.

SOUTH SHIELDS UNION. HARTON POOR-LAW INSTITUTION.-AssistantMedical Officer. Salary E200 per annum.

STIRLING DISTRICT ASYLUM. Larbert, N.B.-Female Third AssistantMedical Officer. Salary £ 140 per annum, with board. &c.

STROUD GENERAL HOSPITAL.—House Surgeon. Salary £120 perannum, with board, lodging, and washing.

TRURO, ROYAL CORNWALL INFIRMARY.-House Surgeon, unmarried.Salary .E150 per annum, with rooms, board, and washing.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon, un-

married. Salary £ 100 per annum, with board, residence, &c.WAKEFIELD, CLAYTON HOSPITAL.-Senior House Surgeon. Salary i

R160 per annum. with board, lodging, and laundry.WAKEFIELD, WEST RIDING ASYLUM.-Assistant Medical Officer. Salary

E250 per annum, with apartments, board, washing, and attendance.Also Locum Tenens Assistant Medical Officer. Salary as arranged,with apartments, board, &c.

WALSALL AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL.-Junior House Surgeon andAnsesthetist. Salary £110 per annum, with board, residence, andlaundry.

WARRINGTON. LANCASHIRE COUNTY ASYLUM, Winwick.-LocumTenens Medical Officer, unmarried. Salary 6 guineas per week,with apartments, board, attendance, and washing.

WEST BROMWICH AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon andAssistant House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary £150 and .E120 perannum respectively, with residence, board, and laundry.

WEST END HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM,PARALYSIS, AND EPILEPSY, 73, Welbeck-street, W.-ResidentHouse Physician for six months. Salary at rate of .EIOO perannum.

WEST HAM AND EASTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL, Stratford, E.-JuniorHouse Surgeon. Salary at rate of £100 per annum, with board,residence, and washing.

WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE, CARDIGAN SANATORIUM, near Wakefield.-Assistant Medical Officer. Satary £250 per annum.

WOLVERHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.-HOUSESurgeon for six months. Salary at rate of .E125 per annum, withboard, rooms, and laundry.

WORCESTER GENERAL INFIRMARY.-Resident Medical Officer. Salary£150 per annum, with board, residence, and washing.

WORKSOP VICTORIA HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.-Medical Officer andHouse Surgeon. Salary £150 per annum, with rooms, coal, light,and attendance.

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THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, London, S.W., givesnotice of a vacancy for a Certifying Surgeon under the Factoryand Workshop Acts at Barnard Castle, in the county of Durham.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

BENETT.-On Dec. 30th, 1914, at Trelaske, Dallington, Northampton,Maude Elizabeth, the wife of Captain A. M. Benett, R.A.M.C., ofa son.

COOKE.-On Dec. 31st, 1914, at Berkshire Villa, Ventnor, the wife ofReginald T. Cooke, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., of a son.

EMRYS- ROBERTS.- On Dec. 30th, 1914, at Romarys Radyr, Glamorgan,the wife of Professor Emrys-Robprts, M.D., of a son.

GAUNTLETT.-On Dec. 27th. 1914, at Oakhill-road. Putney. S.W.. thewife of Lieutenant H. Leon Gauntlett, R.A.M.C., 6th GloucesterRegimfnt, of a son.

HOWITT.-ON Jan. 2nd, at Chesham-street, Belgrave-square. S.W., thewife of A. B. Howitt, M.D.. of a daughter.

MANNERS-RIDGE.-On Dec. 24th, 1914, at New River House, Enfield,Middlesex, the wife of the late Edwyn Manners-Ridge,F.R.C.S. Eng., Lieut. R.N.V.R. Lond., of a son. ’

MARRIAGES.LATEBPRY—BuBTON.—On Dec. 30th,1914, very quietly, at St. Andrew’s,

Eastbourne, Arthur E. A. Lathbury, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., to

Lucy Burton, fourth daughter of the late John Burton, ofBeekenham.

PEDLER-RIDEAL.-On Jan. 2nd. at All Saints Church, Finchley-road,by the Rev. J. W. Mills, assistant priest, George Henry Pedler, of235, Knightsbridge. to Mary Alice, widow of Arthur W. Rideal, of54, Finchley-road. At home, Knightsbridge Hotel, Feb. 2nd and4th, from 3.30 to 6 P.M.

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DEATHS.

HEDDY.-On Dec. 31st, 1914, at 29. Warwick-road. Ealing, ’iV., LauraMary, the dearly loved wife of Wm. Jackson Heddy, M.R.C.S. Eng.,late of 46. Redcliffe-gardens. S.W.

KENNEDY.-On Dec. 28th, 1914, at Brigstock-road, Thornton Heath,James Price Kennedy, M.B., Ch.B.

LAING. -On Dec. 25th, 1914, suddenly, of heart failure, Ernest AlexanderRonald Laing, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., &c., aged 42 years.

LOCKERBIE.—On Jan. 3rd, at Nurse Porter’s Nursing Home, Carlisle,William Lockerbie, M.B., Ch B., of Annan, aged 37 years.

VAWDREY.-On Jan. 1st. at Plymouth, George Vawdrey, M.R.C.S.,L.R.C.P., aged 67 years. -

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Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY AND THE WAR.

A VERY interesting souvenir has been issued by the Universityof Edinburgh. It consists of the University’s Roll ofHonour," in the form of a booklet containing the names of16 members of the University who have died " pro patriPâ," of 14 wounded, and of 2 prisoners, together with upwardsof 1600 names of teaching staff, clerical staff, technicalassistants, servants, and others, graduates and alumni,and present students, now serving their country invarious arms and ranks. The total number onthe roll at present is 1679, but the list is admittedlyincomplete. The medical profession is naturally well

, represented. In the navy the University provides 85 com-missioned officers, of whom four have lost their lives inaction, while in the army there are 517 officers, 108 servingin the ranks, and 66 auxiliaries. "Our Lord Rector" "

(F.M. Lord Kitchener) forms an appropriate frontispiece.THE PROBLEM OF SERVICE.

To the Editor of THE LANCET.SIR,-How can the ordinary middle-aged medical practi-

tioner be of use to his country in the present crisis ? If he iswilling to give up his practice, would he be acceptable for theR.A.M.C. if aged between 40 and 50; and if so, in whatcapacity or rank? Are commissions granted for specialpurposes-e.g., medical officer to hospital, recruiting, &c.-which do not involve leaving home ?

I venture to think that some authoritative statement onthe whole subject would be welcome to many of us who areanxious to offer such services as we may be capable of.

I am, Sir, yours faithfully,Jan. 1st, 1915. BARKIS.

*** The above is typical of a great many letters which wehave received from readers during the past few months.The answer must depend on individual circumstances. Amedical man of 40 who is strong and active and is not inregular practice might well apply for a commission in theTerritorial Medical Service, in which there are still a

number of vacancies for medical officers to reserve units.As stated in our last issue, the War Office is introducinggreater flexibility into this branch of service, which shouldrender it more attractive to medical men who wish toserve their country but are prevented from giving entirelyunconditional offers of service.-ED. L.

MEDICAL NOTES IN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS.

(Continued from p. 56.)OUR readers were introduced last week to an interesting

series of excerpts possessing a medical bearing and takenfrom family documents relating to the Harley family,which are now preserved at Welbeck Abbey. Theseexcerpts covered a period of some 40 years, commencingfrom 1633. The series is now extended for a furtherhalf century-namely, to 1725.Dr. J. Covell to Peter Dent.-" Constantinople, April 4,

1684.-Here hath been all this summer as hot a plague ashath happened in the memory of man. About the middleof August there dyed fifteen hundred a weeke and upwards,of all sorts, Turks, Jews, and Christians. I went abroad daylyyet durst not venture to see any gardens either at Strombolor Scutary. All our nation held very well. For my ownpart I took nothing but a good draught of wormwood-winein the morning, and chewed zeduary as I walked abroad,and every afternoon punch-a liquor well known to sea-men-was all our drink, whereof we took a good dose ;and amongst other nations-whereof all had some dyed-it is certain that they that drunk hardest escaped best.I was not att all afraid, yet I have been in dangera thousand times, sometimes very desperately. Onecould not pass from our house to Galata without meetingthe dead carryed out. Most that died were poor peoplewhose diet all summer is most upon cowcumbers,corpooses-which are a sort of water-melon gourd-andsuch kind of trash, and they dyed like rotten sheep, notone in ten that were smitten escapt....... What youcommonly talk in England of the Turks not shunning theplague I will assure you is true only in the mean people,which is the same among both Jews, Greeks, andArmenians. They value it not half so much as we do thesmal-pox in England, never shun one another’s company,only when they die very fast the corps is not accompaniedwith any or very few besides the priest, sometimes notwith him. If a great man dies there is as great a funeral