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"IMPERFECT MEDICAL QUALIFICATIONS."

To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,—In reading, in this week’s LANCET, your paragraphon "Imperfect Medical Qualifications," I could not helpnoticing the one-sided and imperfect statements made onthe subject. The form of registration is most importantand necessary, and that point may be dismissed. I wish torefer to the apparently defective "one qualification" system,and to inquire what is the real difference between a manwith one qualification and another with two P I am unableto find any. You are at liberty to bring forward any manwith two qualifications and it will be found that my medicaland surgical training have been almost identical with, if notmore ample than, his. If the training of a physician andsurgeon are alike, as they must necessarily be, why require twodiplomas ? It is quite farcical to require such, and delusiveto the public, who fancy that a physician must be a morelearned man than an ordinary surgeon, who perhaps wentthrough the same school, class for class, with the former ashis companion. The remedy is to unite the Colleges ofPhysicians and Surgeons, and, as they have one curriculum,let them have one diploma for both, instead of being oppo-sition shops.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.,Manchester, Aug. 21st, 1875. L.F.P.S.

*** Our correspondent’s question is one we have often

given the answer to in our articles on the one-portal system.What is the real difference between a man with one qua-lification and another with two ? We answer, practicallynone. Both have been educated alike, and, what is more,both have been examined alike. The man with a medical

qualification has been examined in surgery, and vice vers6.But after all there is a real difference. It is this :-Thatthe man with two qualifications has paid double fees, andgiven support to two corporations; while the man with onehas given support to only one. About a hundred years afterthis we shall have one College of Medicine, or some tanta-mount institution, giving a complete diploma after a fairexamination. Meantime corporations must be maintained,and candidates who would be fully qualified must pass twoidentical examinations. And men of the eminence of SirRobert Christison will defend the system.-ED. L.

Obituary.D. TOLER T. MAUNSELL, M.B., M.R.I.A., &c.

DANIEL TOLER TnoMAs MAUNSELL died on the 18th of

August, after a short illness, at his residence, South Rich-mond-street, Dublin, at the comparatively early age of

forty. He was the eldest son of the late Rev. Thomas

Maunsell, of Fintona, Co. Tyrone. He graduated with dis.tinction at Trinity College, Dublin, where he obtained thedegree of Bachelor of Medicine. He held the licence ofthe Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and had also alicence in Midwifery. Dr. Maunsell was a member of theRoyal Irish Academy, and successively held the posts ofDemonstrator of Anatomy in the Carmichael School ofMedicine, of lecturer on Materia Medica in the LedwichSchool, and lastly that on Botany in the same school. Hewas for several years one of the medical officers of the SouthCity Dispensary (Dublin), and since the beginning of Octo-ber, 1874, was sanitary officer for his division of the SouthCity District.

Dr. Maunsell was deservedly popular from his kindly,genial disposition. For several years he wrote much andeffectively on the importance of the Poor-law medical ser-vice. He drew attention to the powerful effect of timelymedical aid in the reduction of pauperism, and showed thatmuch of the latter owed its origin to sickness. With othermembers of the Irish, as well as with many of his brethrenon this side of the Channel, Dr. Maunsell laboured to obtaina better recognition of the important services of the Poor-

law medical officers in both countries. He always main-tained the necessity of providing a certain retirement forthe medical officers when disabled from further service by

i age or ill-health, in lieu of that now dependent on the willor caprice of boards of guardians.

’ Dr. Maunsell leaves a widow and six young children tolament his loss.

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, WILLIAM HEY, F.RC.S. ENG., MR. HEY belonged to a family celebrated in the history

of surgery, his grandfather and his father having long’ practised in Leeds. He himself became M.R.C.S. Eng. as

far back as 1818, and a Fellow in 1843, and was the oldest

; practitioner in the town, of which he was one of the cele-.

brities. Like his grandfather and father, he was for a great, number of years on the surgical staff of the Leeds Infirmary.,, which the first Hey was largely instrumental in founding.On his father dying, in 1844, he succeeded to the practice.

, He was associated with Mr. Samuel Smith, Mr. JosephPrince Garlick, Mr. Wm. Price, and other well-known sur-geons in the town, all now numbered with the dead, infounding the Leeds School of Medicine, and his was a familiarface in the lecture theatre. He was lecturer on surgeryfrom the year 1831 to 1857, since which time he had beenan honorary member of the Council. Amidst the cares ofhis profession, and although devoting much time to musicand scientific pursuits, Mr. Hey in his early manhood tookan interest in politics. On the passing of the MunicipalCorporations Reform Act, he came forward as one of theConservative candidates for the Mill-hill Ward, and was re-turned at the head of the poll. He was a Deputy Lieutenantand a Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of York-shire, and his name also appeared on the commission forLeeds, but he never qualified for the borough. He died onthe 10th of May, aged seventy-eight.

Medical News.UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-The following is a list of

the candidates who have passed the recent 1st M.B. ex-amination in Honours :-

ANATOMY.SECOND CLASS.

Miller, Richard Shalders, ,Bury, Judson Sykes, University College.Benham, Frederick Lucas,PHYSIOLOGY, HISTOLOGY, AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.

FIRST CLASS.

Henderson, George Courtenay (Exhibition and Gold Medal),University College.

SECOND CLASS.

i Benham, Frederick Lucas, University College.’ Wilkinson, Arthur Thos., B.A., B.Se., Owens College.

Pye, Walter, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Stevenson, Leader Henry, Guy’s Hospital.Miller, Richard Shalders, University College.

THIRD CLASS.

Sedgefield, Arthur Robert Wyatt, King’s College. Equal,Willcocks, Frederick, King’s College.Hudson, James, University College. Equal.Wiglesworth, Joseph, Liverpool School of Medicine. 3 Equal.

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, AND MATERIA. MEDICA ANDPHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY.

FIRST CLASS.

Wilkinson, A. T. (Exhibition and Gold Medal), Owens College.*Henderson, G. Courtenay (Gold Medal), University College.

SECOND CLASS.

Goodehild, Francis, St. George’s Hospital.THIRD CLASS.

Miller, Richard Shalders, University College.* Obtained the number of marks qualifying for the Exhibition.

BRITISH MEDICAL SERVICE.—The following is a listof gentlemen who competed successfully for appointmentsin the above Service at the examination held at the Univer-sitv of London on Aua’. 9th :-