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NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYSED AND EPILEPTIC,Queen-square, Bloomsbury, W.C.MONDAY.-4 P.M., Lecture: Sir Victor Horsley : Surgical Diagnosis

and Treatment of Diseases of the Nervous System.TUESDAY.-3.30 P.M., Clinical Lecture. Sir William Gowers.FRIDAY.-3.30 P.M., Clinical Lecture:—Dr. T. G. Stewart: Hysterical

Paralysis.CENTRAL LONDON THROAT AND EAR HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn-road, W.C.THURSDAY.-4.30 P.M., Clinical Lecture:-Dr. A. Wylk’: Nasal and

Aural Haemorrhage.WEST-END HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE NERVOUSSYSTEM, 73, Welbeck-street, W -

MONDAY.-3 P.M., Clinical Demonstration: Dr. H. Campbell.TUESDAY.-5 P.M., Clinical Demonstration :-Dr. J. Mackenzie.WEDNESDAY.-3 P.M., Clinical Demonstration :-Dr. F. Palmer.THURSDAY.-3 P.M., Clinical Demonstration :—Dr. T. D. Savill.FRIDAY.—2 P.M., Clinical Demonstration :-Dr. P. Stewart. 5.30 P.M.,

Clinical Demonstration : Dr. E. Macnamara.

ST. JOHN’S HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE SKIN, Leicester-square, W.C.THURSDAY.-6 P.M.. Chesterfield Lecture :—UI-erythema: L, Centri-

fugum ; II., Telangiectatic; IIL, Ophryogenes.

OPERATIONS.METROPOLITAN HOSPITALS.

MONDAY (13th).-London t(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 i.(2 P.M.), City Orthopoedic (4 P.M.), Gt. Northern Central (2.30 P.M.), .

West London (2.30 P.M.), London Throat (9.30 A.M.), Royal Free(2 P.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.), Children, Gt. Ormond-street (9 A.M.),St. Mark’s (2.30 P.M.), Central London Throat and Ear (Minor 9 A.M.,Major 2 P.M.)..

TUESDAY (14th).-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 College2 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.), 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.), CentralLondon Throat and Ear (2 P.M.), Children, Gt. Ormond-street(9 A.M. and 2 P.M., Ophthalmic, 2 P.M.), Tottenham (2.30 P.M.),Central London Throat and Ear (Minor, 9 A.M., Major, 2 P.M.).

WEDNESDAY (15th).-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.), Samaritan9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.), Gt. Northern Central (2.30 P.M.), West-minster (2 P.M.), 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.),Royal Ear (2 P.M.), Royal Orthopoedic (3 P.M.), Children, Gt.Ormond-street (9 A.M. and 9.30 A.M., Dental, 2 P.M.), Tottenham(Ophthalmic, 2.30 P.M.), West London (2.30 p.M.), Central LondonThroat and Ear (Minor, 9 A.M., Major. 2 P.M.).

THURSDAY (16th).-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.), Samaritan(9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.), Throat, Golden-square (9.30 A.M.), Guy’s(1.30 P.M.), Royal Orthopaedic (9 A.M.), Royal Ear (2 P.M.), Children,Gt. Ormond-street (9 A.M. and 2 P.M.), Tottenham (Gynaecological,2.30 P.M.), West London (2.30 P.M.), Central London Throat and Ear(Minor, (9 A.M., Major, 2 P.M.).

FRIDAY (17th).-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.), CharingCross (3 P.M.), St. George’s (1 P.M.), King’s College (2 P.M.), St. Mary’s(2 P.M.), Ophthalmic (1C 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.) Children, Gt. Ormond-street (9 A.M., Aural, 2 P.M.),Tottenham (2.30 P.M.), St. Peter’s (2 P.M.), Central London Throatand Ear (Minor 9 A.M., Major, 2 P.M.).

SATURDAY (18th).-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 A.M.),Throat, Golden-square (9.30 A.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.), Children, Gt.Ormond-street (9 A.M. and 9.30 A.M.), West London (2.30 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.

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