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NORTHAMPTON GENERAL INFIRMARY.-House Physician, unmarriedSalary 2100 per annum, with furnished apartments, board, attend

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ance, and washing.NOTTINGHAM GENERAL DISPENSARY.-Assistant Resident Surgeon

Salary BI40 per annum, all found except board.NOTTINGHAM PARISH INFIRMARY.-Assistant Medical Officer. Salar3

tl60 per annum and furnished rooms.

QUEEN’S HOSPITAL, Birmingham.-Resident Surgeon for 12 months

Salary £50, with board, lodging, and washing.ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, Ventnor.-General Superinten.

dent. Salary £300, rising by JE20 per annum to a maximum oj:E400.

ROYAL SEA-BATHING HOSPITAL, Margate.-Assistant Resident Surgeon.Salary B52 per annum, with board and residence. Apply to theSecretary, Royal Sea-Bathing Hospital Offices, 30, Charing-cross,London.

ROXBURGH DISTRICT ASXLUM, Melrose, N.B.—Assistant MedicalOfficer. Salary £110 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

SCHOOL BOARD FOR LONDON-EVENING CONTINUATION SCHOOLS.-Lecturers and Examiners in First-Aid and Home Nursing.Qualified practitioners (men and women). Apply to the Clerk ofthe Evening Continuation Schools Committee, School Board forLondon, Victoria Embankment, W.C.

THE CHIEF INSPECTOR OF FACTORIES gives notice of vacancies forCertifying Surgeons under the Factory Acts at Ingleton, in theCounty of York; at Presteigne in the County of Radnor ; atChernside in the County of Berwick ; at Caterham in the Coanty ofSurrey; at Staplehurst in the County of Kent ; at Radstook in theCounty of Somerset; at Keyingham in the County of York; atNewtyle in the County of Forfar; at Lechdale in the County ofGloucester; at Syston in the County of Leicester ; and at Bryn-mawr in the County of Brecknock.

TIVERTON (DEVONSHIRE) INFIRMARY AND DISPENSARY.-House Surgeon.Salary B80 and all found.

VICTORIA HOSPITAL, Burnley.-Resident Medical Officer. Commenc-ing salary B90 per annum, with residence, board, and washing.

WARRINGTON INFIRMARY AND DISPENSARY.-Junior Resident HouseSurgeon, unmarried. Salary 2100 per annum, with furnishedresidence and board.

WEST HERTS INFIRMARY, Hemel Hempstead.-House Surgeon. Thesalary is £100 per annum, with furnished rooms, board, fire, light,attendance, and washing.

WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.-Bacteriologist on the Staff of theCounty Medical Officer. Salary 2250 per annum, rising by biennialincreases of B25 to £400 a year. Apply to the Clerk to the Com-mittee, County Hall, Wakefield.

WILLITON UNION Somerset.-Medical Officer and Public Vaccinatorfor the Stogursey District of the Union. Salary 280 per annum,with the extra fees for operations.

YORK DISPENSARY.—Resident Medical Officer, unmarried. Salary 2110a year, with board, lodging, and attendance.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

LAwsoN.-On Jan. 4th, at Fortune’s Well, Portland, Dorset, the wife oiDavid J. Lawson, M. 0 . of a daughter.

PEDLEY.—On Jan. 6th, at Peckham-road, Camberwell, S.E., the wife ofS Edward Pedlo-y, M R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., L.D.S., of a son.

SoUTH -On Dec. 29th, at Bincleaves, Weymouth, the wife of Staff-Surgeon Henry Erskine South, of a son.

MARRIAGES.GRAHAM—THOMSON.—On the 8th inst.. at St. Pancras Church, by the

Rev Hugh S, Beard, M.A., Howard Graham, M R C.S., L.R.C.P.,L.S.A, solicitor, third son of Toomas James Graham. Esq., ofEdgbaston, to Laura Mav, second daughter of Major ChadwickAyton Thomson (late of 20th Hussars), of Garfie’d, Southampton.

MACAULAY—RAMSDEN -On Jd.n. 9th, at Hai.over Chapel, Halifax, bythp Rev. J. W. Sims of Stockport, Donald J. Macaulay, M.D.,L.HC.P., L.R.C.-3.E, L F,P.S.tL, of Ashfield, Queen’s-road,Halifax son of the late John Macaulay of Benbecula, Inverness-shire to’ Edith Kingston, only daughter of the late AlfredRamsden, J.P., and of Mrs. Ramsdenot Kingston, Halifax. "Athom(-," at Ashfield. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Feb. 13th, 14th,and 15th

TAYLER—CLOTHIER.—On Jan. lst, at St. Michael’s Church, Highgate,George Padgett Tayler, M.B. Li,n(l., eldest son of G. C. Tayler,M.D., of frowbridge, to Eihel Mary, second daughter of HenryClothier, M.D., of Highgate, N.

OEA THS.COOKSON.-On Jan. 6th, at Nuneaton, Albert Nesfield Cookson,

M R.C.S. L S.A., son of the Rev. Frederick Cookson, late Vicar ofStowupland, Suffolk, aged 61 years.

JACKSON. -On Jtn 5th, at Woodford, Granada-road, Southsea, AlfredJackson, M. D . aged 77 years.

LimTLx.-On Jan 6th, at Grafton House, Worthing, Edward StephenLittle, M. U, latp of Wimbledon.

ROBERTS,-On Jan. 7th, suddenly, Charles Roberts, M.R.C.S., of 87,Belgrave-road, S. W., late of Dragonfield, Uxbridge, aged 65.

N.B.-6 Jee oj 5s is charged for the insertion oJ 2Vott.,ea of births,Marriages, and Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

HOSPITALS AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.THE National Anti-Vivisection Society has issued a list of the metro-politan hospitals which have among their medical or surgical officersone or more who hold licences from the Secretary of State for theHome Department authorising them to perform experiments uponliving animals, together with a list of those which are "entirely freefrom any connexion with viviseetion

" as a "guide for the charitable

in the disposition of their gifts and bequests." The Times makes the

following witty comment upon the list. "The list, nevertheless,may possibly serve a useful purpose, the very rererse of thatintended by its compiler. No reasonable person can doubt that the

hospitals denounced by Mr. Coleridge are among the very best inexistence. If intending donors will act in direct opposition to hissuggestions, they will have the greatest attainable prospect of

devoting their money to good and useful purposes."

ACTION UNDER THE DENTISTS ACT.

Atf action of an involved character under the Dentists Act was heardat Bow-street Police-court on Jan. 4th. The British Dental Associa-tion prosecuted one named "Scott Russell." In the course of theevidence it appeared that the business belonged to Mr. W. B. Trick,whose name appeared on the Dental Register, and who carried on thepractice under the name of " Scott Russell." Mr. W. B. Trick left the

management in the hands of his cousin, Mr. W. H. Trick, whoalthough qualified had not taken the trouble to get himself registered.The British Dental Association subsequently withdrew the summons.In the course of the evidence given it was shown that Mr. W. H.Trick had held himself out to be Mr. Scott Russell, while on a door-plate was the following announcement: "Scott Russell, late W. H.Trick, L.D.S. Eng., Dental Surgeon." The case seems to open up amost important point-namely, whether members of the medicaland dental professions have the right to practise under othernames

ACRODYNIA.

I To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,—Can you or any of your readers inform me where I could finda full account of the epidemic of 11 aorodynia which occurred in Parisin the year 1828 and how it can be diagnosed from chronic arsenicalpoisoning ? I am, Sirs, yours faithfully,

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H. L. GORDON, L.R.C.P. & S. Edin., L.F.P. & S. Glasg.Accrington, Jan. 8th, 1901.

* Reference may be made to the following:-Clairat (L.) : Considéra-tions sur la Maladie Epidemique que règne á, Paris. 4to, Paris, 1829.Miramond (P. R.): Sur 1’ANeotlon Epidemique qui s’est manifestee

à la Caserne de la rue de l’Oursine dans le mois de Septembre, 1828,4to, Paris, 1829. Rochette (J. G. F.): De l’Acrodynie, 4to, Paris, 1871.Rue (A.): Essai sur la Maladie qui a regne épidémiquement à Paris,depuis le commencement de 1’annee 1828, 4to, Paris, 1829. Vidal (E.)et Leloir (H.): Traite des Maladies de la Peau, article AcrodynieParis, 1864. Stedman (T. L.): Twentieth Century Practice, vol. v.,

p. 835, London, 1896.-ED. L.

A HASTY CRITIC.

THE Bristol Mercury of Dec. 28th states that "that bitterly tradeunionist journal THE LANCET is in a state of mind because a Bill isbefore the Italian Parliament to prevent any medical men practisingwho are not registered in Italy." Our contemporary adds that "wecan see no ’malignant jealousy’ in the course which the ItalianLegislature is taking." THE LANCET is in the same position. Ourcorrespondent in Rome used the words "malignant jealousy." we didnot; and he applied them-we think aptly-to a few bigoted agitatorsand not to the Italian Legislature. We think that the Bristol Mercurymight do us the honour of reading our columns before diagnosingour state of mind or calling us names. By the way, we see that theBristol Mercury allows that "it is undoubtedly unfair to dispossessthose who are already in practice." This is just what the Santini Billproposes to do, and the commission appointed to examine the draftof this Bill has rejected an amendment of the Minister for ForeignAffairs, Visconti Venosta, proposing that existing rights should berespected.

THE MEDICAL MAN AND THE HERBALIST.

To the Editor8 of THE LANCET.

SIRS,-I shall be most happy for information with regard to thefollowing case which has this day happened to me. I have been

attending daily a little girl since the 31st ult. for an attack of measleswith broncho-pneumonia as a complication. The little patient hasmade very satisfactory progress in every respect and has mani-

festly bridged over the worst phase of her illness since lastSaturday. In the face of this improvement the father, who,, I maysay, is very averse to our "poisonous medicines," thought he coulddo no better than to write to a certain herbalist" " in whom he