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use of any saint’s name in the calendar was an infringementof the plaintiff’s trade mark. But lest either party shoulduse his judgment as an advertisement, he hoped they wouldadd that no one should employ either preparation exceptunder medical advice. The judge’s counsel is excellent. Itis too much to expect that the parties to the suit will pub-lish it. But we gladly give it publicity and praise.

CHOLERA NEWS.

ACCORDING to a telegraphic communication, a few cases’of cholera still occur at Messina. Malta is now stated to be

entirely free from the disease; and clean bills of healthhave been issued. If this is strictly correct, the final dis-appearance of the disease from the island must have beenrather sudden. On the other hand, the South Americancontinent, which is in such free communication with Italyfor purposes of emigration, is again attacked, cholera

having appeared in Santiago. Last winter the disease pre-vailed widely in and about this and other Chilian porte.

WARWICK JOINT BOARD HOSPITAL.

WE are glad to record that, after many difficulties and- delays, the Warwick, Leamington, and other sanitary- authorities included within the area of the Warwick Unionhave at last laid the foundation stone of their new hospital.for infectious diseases. The hospital is conveniently situatedfor the more populous localities needing it; and, since it isbeing erected from the designs of Mr. Keith D. Young, whohas had such exceptional experience as regards these build-ings, there can be but little doubt that it will be well

adapted to the requirements of the district.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Bordeaux.-The session which is just commencing has4already seen the inauguration of the new buildings, amongstwhich the Anatomical Institute is especially worthy of note ;indeed, it has been enthusiastically declared to be the first.anatomical institute in the world."

Buda-Pest7.-I’rofessor Wagner having resigned the chairof Medicine, the post is advertised as open to competition.The stipend is 2500 gulden with a lodging allowance of 400- gulden, a total of less than .6300 per annum.

Helsingfors.-This Russian university being in Finland isunder different regulations from the others. The languagein which instruction is given is neither Russian nor Finnish,’but Swedish, so that the scientific work which emanatesfrom Helsingfors finds its way into Scandinavian rather thaninto Russian medical journals. There are at present 974students, including 8 women, in the university. Of these

only 77 belong to the medical faculty.Lille.-The Faculties of Law and Arts of Douai are to be

moved to Lille, which will then have no less than nine

faculties, a unique position for a French manufacturing’town. The townspeople, however, are welcoming what maybe looked upon as the growing up of a northern univer&ity.amongst them, and are subscribing a large sum, amountingto something like 100,000, for the erection of the necessarybuildings.

- Ma/’MZ.—Don Francisco Criado y Aguilar, Professor, firstof Hygiene and subsequently of Obstetrics, in Saragossa, has’been appointed Professor of the Diseases of Children. DonFrancisco de Cortajarena, Assistant Professor of Surgery,has resigned his post.

Montpellier.-Bitter complaints are being made that thewishes of the Faculty concerning some questions connectedwith the appointment of professors have been disregarded’by the Government. A desire is being expressed here, as’well as in other provincial medical schools, that each

Faculty should be allowed a much larger degree of autonomywithout the vexatious centralisation which now exists.

Naplea.-Dr. G. Nicolucci has been promoted to the Pro-fessorship of Anthropology.Pisa.-Dr. Griffini has been appointed Professor of General

Pathology.jKoMM.—Dr. Antonio Ceci has been appointed Professor of

Surgical Pathology.St. Petersburg (Princess Helena Pavlovna Clinical Insti-

tute).-Dr. Anrep, formerly professor in Kharkoff, has beenappointed Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. Drs. Nikitinand Tiling have been appointed docents in laryngology andsurgery respectively.Turin.-Dr. Pagliani has been promoted to the Professor-

ship of Hygiene. -

THE death of Sir William McArthur, which occurred

suddenly, after hurrying to catch a train on the Metro-politan Railway on Wednesday morning last, should not beallowed to pass unnoticed by us. Amidst his philanthropicexertions, his zealous promotion of the Metropolitan HospitalFund during his mayoralty was most conspicuous, and thefinancial efficiency of the London medical charities was asubject very near his heart. His occupancy of the civicchair in 1881 was also signalised by the reception at theMansion House of the members of the International Medical

Congress held in London in that year.

FROM the report on the composition and quality of dailysamples of the water supplied to London, made by Messrs.Crookes, Odling, and Tidy, to the Water Examiner appointedunder the Metropolis Water Act, 1871, it appears that thesupply during October was found practically identical incharacter with that of the preceding three months. All the

samples alike from the Thames and the Lea were free fromturbidity, and unexceptionable in respect to colour; whilethe proportion of organic matter present was but small, andvery uniformly so, in the different samples examined.

A CHANGE is announced in the editorship of the St. Peters-burger Medicinische Wockenschrift, Dr. Th. v. Schröder ofSt. Petersburg, taking the place of Dr. Gustav Tiling. Theother members of the editorial staff, Professor E. von Wahlof Dorpat, and Dr. L. von Holst of St. Petersburg, remainunchanged. -----

WE regret to learn that, on account of illness, Mr. FrancisGalton, the President of the Anthropological Institute, wasunable to commence his course of three lectures upon" Heredity and Nurture " at the South Kensington Museumon Saturday last. The lectures have been indefinitelypostponed. -----

THE first of a course of post-graduate lectures on Diseasesof the Skin was given by Dr. R. 11. Simon in the library ofthe Medical Institute, Birmingham, on the 15th inst. Therewas a large and appreciative audience, and the lecture wasamply illustrated by patients, diagrams, and therapeutic pre-parations. -

MESSRS. P. AND D. COLNAGHI AND Co. have submitted tous a fine etching of Dr. William Harvey, from the picture byCornelius Janssen, in the collection of the College ofPhysicians, London. The portrait is an excellent work of art.

WE understand that the appointment of Obstetric Phy-sician to St. Thomas’s Hospital has been deferred, Dr. Gervishaving agreed, at the request of his colleagues, to postponethe date of his retirement.

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DR. OCTAVIUS STURGES has been appointed Assessor tothe Regius Professor of Physic in Oxford University.