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METE OROLOG ICAL READ)NG8.

(Taken daily at 8.30 a.m. by Steward’s Instruments.) THE LANCET Office, Dec. 15th, 1904.

Medical Diary for the ensuing Week.OPERATIONS.

METROPOLITAN HOSPITALS.MONDAY (19th).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St.

Thomas’s (3.30 P.M.), St. George’s (2 P.M.), St. Mary’s (2.30 P.M.),Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), Westminster (2 P.M.), Chelsea (2 P.M.),Samaritan (Gynecological, by Physicians, 2 P.M.), Soho-square(2 P.M.), Royal Orthopaedic (2 P.M.), City Orthopaedic (4 P.M.),Gt. Northern Central (2.30 P.M.), West London (2.30 P.M.), LondonThroat (9.30 A.M.), Royal Free (2 P.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.).

TUESDAY (20th).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St.Thomas’s (3.30 P.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.). Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), West-minster (2 P.M.), West London (2.30 P.M.), University College(2 P.M.), St. George’s (1 P.M.), St. Mary’s (1 P.M.), St. Mark’s(2.30 P.M.), Cancer (2 P.M.), Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.), London Throat(9.30 A.M.), Royal Ear (3 P.M.). Samaritan (9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.),Throat, Golden-square (9.30 A.M.), Soho-square (2 P.M.), Chelsea(2 P.M.), Central London Throat and Ear (2 P.M.).

WEDNESDAY (21st).-St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), University College(2 P.M.), Royal Free (2 P.M.), Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), Charing Cross(3 P.M.), St. Thomas’s (2 P.M.), London (2 P.M.), King’s College(2 P.M.), St. George’s (Ophthalmic, 1 P.M.), St. Mary’s (2 P.M.),National Orthopaedic (10 A.M.), St. Peter’s (2 P.M.), Samaritan(9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.), Gt. Ormond-street (9.30 A.M.), Gt. NorthernCentral (2.30 P.M.). Westminster (2 P.,Nf.), Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.),London Throat (9.30 A.M.), Cancer (2 P.M.), Throat, Golden-square(9.30 A.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.).

THURSDAY (22nd).-St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St. Thomas’s(3.30 P.M.), University College (2 P.M.), Charing Cross (3 P.M.), St.George’s (1 P.M.), London (2 P.M.), King’s College (2 P.M.), Middlesex(1.30 P.M.), St. Mary’s (2.30 P.M.), Soho-square (2 P.M.), North-WestLondon (2 P.M.), Gt. Northern Central (Gynaecological, 2.30 P.M.),Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.), London Throat (9.30 A.M.), St. Mark’s(2 P.M.), Samaritan (9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.), Throat, Golden-square,(9.30 A.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.).

FRIDAY (23rd).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St.Thomas’s (3.30P.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.), Middlesex (1.30 P.m.), CharingCross (3 P.M.), St. George’s (I P.M.), King’s College (2 P.M.), St. Mary’s(2 P.M.), Ophthalmic (10 A.M.), Cancer (2 P.M.), Chelsea (2 P.M.), Gt.Northern Central (2.30 P.M.), West London (2.30 P.M.), LondonThroat (9.30 A.M.), Samaritan (9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.), Throat,Golden-square (9. 30 A.M.), City Orthopaedic (2.30 P.M.), Soho-square(2 P.M.). Central London Throat and Ear (2 P.M.).

SATURDAY (24th).-Royal Free (9 A.M.), London (2 P.M.), Middlesex(1.30 P.M.), St. Thomas’s (2 P.M.), University College (9.15 A.M.),Charing Cross (2 P.M.), St. George’s (1 P.M.), St. Mary’s (10 P.M.),Throat, Golden-square (9.30 A.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.).

At the Royal Eye Hospital (2 P.M.), the Royal London Ophthalmic(10 A.M.), the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic (1.30 P.M.), and theCentral London Ophthalmic Hospitals operations are performed daily.

SOCIETIES.TUESDAY (20th).-THERAPEUTICAL SOCIETY (Apothecaries’ Hall,

Blackfriars).-3.30 P.M. Council Meeting. 4 P.M. Papers :-Dr.N. Tirard: Some Clinical Observations with New Remedies.-TheSecretary (for Mr. J. D. Gimlette, Kelantan, Malay Peninsula) :Notes on some Methods employed by Kelantan Malays in theTreatment of Purn or Yaws.

PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (20, Hanover-square, W.).-8.30 P.M. Papers :-Mr. L. S. Dudgeon and Mr. H. E. Russell:Experimental Grafting of Thymus.-Dr. W. E. Dixon: The Pro-duction of Leucocytosis by Colchicine.-Dr. T. G. Brodie and Dr.W. E. Dixon : Alterations in the Systemic Circulation which tend ]to produce Engorgement of the Lung Capillaries.

CHELSEA CLINICAL SOCIETY (Chelsea Dispensary, Manor-street, *

King’s-road, S.W.).-8.30 P.M. Communication:-Dr. R. L. Bowles: ]The Treatment of the Apparently Drowned, with a PracticalDemonstration of the Best Methods of Resuscitation.

WEDNESDAY (21st).-RoYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY (20, Hanover-square, W.).-8 P.M. Paper :-Mr. J. W. Gordon: The Theory of :

Highly Magnified Images. ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (Institution of Civil Engineers, 4Great Gcorge-street, Westminster, S.W.).-7.30 P.M. Discussionon Mr. F. J. Brodie’s paper on Decrease of Fog in London during J

Recent Years. Paper:-Mr. W. N. Shaw and Mr. W. H. Dines: (The Study of the Minor Fluctuations of Atmospheric Pressure.

LECTURES, ADDRESSES, DEMONSTRATIONS, &0. TUESDAY (20th).-NORTH-EAST LONDON POST-GRADUATE COLLEGE t

(Tottenham Hospital, N.).-4.30 P.M. Lecture-Demonstration:-Mr. A. de Fronderville : Anaesthetics.

GLASGOW OPHTHALMIC INSTITUTION (126, West Regent-street).-8 P.M. Demonstration of Ophthalmoscopic Cases, Stereoscopic andother Photographs, Pathological Specimens, and Microscopic Slides.Clinical Evening. Demonstration of the Micro-organisms found inthe Conjunctival Sac. Demonstration of Patients -Injuries of theEyeball. (Post-Graduate Course.)

WEDNESDAY (21st).-HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASESOF THE CHEST (Brompton).-4 P.M. Dr. IIabershon: Methods ofPhysical Examination of the Chest, with Demonstration of theUses of Auscultatory Percussion.

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