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(Taken daily at 8.30 a.m. by Steward’s Instruments.)THE LANCET Office, August 24th, 1899.

Medical Diary for the ensuing Week.OPERATIONS.

METROPOLITAN HOSPITALS..MONDAY (28th).-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 (Gynaecological, by Physicians, 2 P.M.), Soho-square(2 P.M.), Royal Orthopaedio (2 P.M.), City Orthopedic (4 P.M.),Gt. Northern Central (2.30 P.M.), West London (2.30 P.M.), LondonThroat (2 P.M.).

TUESDAY (29th).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), Guy’s(1.30 P.M.), St. Thomas’s (3.30 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(2 P.M. and 6 P.M.), Royal Ear (3 P.M.).

WEDNESDAY (30th).-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.! P.M.), St. Mary’s (2 P.M.), National Ortho-psedic (10 A.M.), St. Peter’s (2 P.M.). Samaritan (2.30 P.M.), Gt.Ormond-street (9.30 A.M.), Gt. Northern Central (2.30 P.M.), West-minster (2 P.M.), Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.), London Throat (2 P.M.),Cancer (2 P.M.).

’THURSDAY (31st).-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.), Chelsea (2 P.M.), Gt. Northern Central (Gynaeeo-logical, 2.30 P.M.), Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.), London Throat (2 P.M.),St. Mark’s (2 P.M.).

FRIDAY (1st).-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.).Charing-eross (3 P.M.), St. George’s (1 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.),London Throat (2 P.M. and 6 P.M.).

SATURDAY (2nd).-Royal Free (9 A.M. and 2 P.M.), Middlesex (1.30 P.M.),St. Thomas’s (2 P.M.), London (2 P.M.), University College (9.15 P.M.),Charing-cross (3 P.M.). St. George’s (1 P.M.), St. Mary’s (10 P.M.).’

London Throat (2 P.M.).At the Royal Eye Hospital (2 Pm.), the Royal London Ophthalmic.

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

LEOTURES, ADDRESSES, DEMONSTRATIONS, &c.TUESDAY (29th).-WEST-END HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE

NERVOUS SYSTEM (73, Welbeck-street, W.).-4 P.M. Dr. T. D.Savill: Cases of Neurasthenia and other Nutritional Disorders ofthe Nervous System. (Vacation Course.)

MEDICAL GRADUATES’ COLLEGE AND POLYCLINIC (22, Chenies-street,W.C.).-4 P.M. Dr. Harry Campbell: Ulinical Demonstration.

TTHURSDAY (31st).-MEDICAL GRADUATES’ COLLEGE AND POLYCLINIC(22, Chenies street, W.C.).-4 P.M. Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson :Clinical Demonstration.

FRIDAY (1st). - MEDICAL GRADUATES’ COLLEGE AND POLYCLINIC(22, Chenies-street, W.C.).-4 P.M. Dr. Bwart: Clinical Demon-stration.

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