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Medical Diary for the ensuing Week.Monday, April 25.

ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, MOORFIELDS. - Operations,10.30 A.M., and each day at the same hour.

ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1.30 P.M.,and each day at the same hour.

CHELSEA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN.—Operations, 2.30 P.M; Thursday,2.30ST. MARK’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.; Tuesday, 2.30 P.M.HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, SOHO-SQUARE.— Operations, 2 P.M., and on

Thursday at the same hour.METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.ROYAL ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2 P.M.CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITALS.—Operations, 2 P.M., and

each day in the week at the same hour.RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS OF THE GROCERS’ COMPANY.—5 P.M. Mr. W.

North : Malarial Fevers.MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.-8.30 P.M. Mr. Bruce Clarke : A peculiar

Congenital Papilloma of the Thigh.- Mr. William Rose: A case ofSevere Injury to the Wrist-joint requiring Suture of Nerves andTendons.-Mr. F. B. Jessett: (1) A case of Plastic Operation on theNose; (2) A case of Removal of a Large Cystic Growth from theNeck implicating the Submaxillary Gland.—Mr. Bernard Pitts: Acase of Congenital Curvature of the Spine.-Mr. Marmaduke Sheild:Case of Tumour of the Neck greatly reduced in size by Arsenic.0

Tuesday, April 26.Guy’s HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1.30 P.M. and on Friday at the same hour.

Ophthalmic Operations en Monday at 1.30 and Thursday at 2 P.M.ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-Ophthalmic Operations, 4 P.-A.; Friday, 2 P.M.CANCER HOSPITAL, BROMPTON.-Operations, 2.30p.M.; Saturday, 2.30P.M.WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2 P.M.WEST LONDON HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2.30 P.M.ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1.30 P.M. Consultations. Monday,

1.30 P.M. Skin Department. Monday and Thursday, 9.30 A.M.ROYAL INSTITUTION.-3 P.M. Prof. W. E. Ayrton : Electricity.SOCIETY OF ARTS.-8 P.M. Mr. J. Hungerford Pollen: Ornamental

Glass.ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY.-8.30 P.M. Dr. Warner

and Dr. Fletcher Beach: A case of Chronic Meningitis, probablySyphilitic, and causing Progressive Dementia.-Dr. Poore: AnAnalysis of Niiiety-three cases of Writers’ Cramp and ImpairedWriting Power, making, with seventy-five cases previously reported,a total of 168 cases.-Dr. Haig : The Relation of a certain form ofHeadache to the Excretion of Uric Acid.

Wednesday, April 27.NATIONAL ORTHOPÆDIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 10 A.M.MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL -Operations, 1.30 P.M.; Saturday, same

hour. Ophthalmic Operations, Tuesday and Thursday, 1.30 P.M.

Surgical Consultations, Thursday, 1.30 P.M. -

ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1.30 P.M.; Saturday, same hour.LONDON HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2 P.M.; Thursday & Saturday, same hour.GREAT NORTHERN CENTRAL HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.—Operations,

2.30 P.M.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.; Saturday, 2 P.M.Skin Department, 1.45 P.M. ; Saturday, 9.15 A.M.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2 P.M., and on Saturday.KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—Operations, 3 to 4 P.M.; Friday, 2 P.M.

Saturday, 1 P.M.CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, GREAT ORMOND-STREET.— Operations, 9 A.M.

Saturday, same hour.SOCIETY OF ARTS.-8 P.M. Mr. Arthur W. C. Shean: Appliances for

Saving Life from Fire.HUNTERIAN SOCIETY.-8 P.M. Dr. A. J. Davies: Cases of Myxœdema.—

Dr. Dundas Grant: A case of Carcinoma of the (Esophagus per-forating the Trachea.-Dr. Port: (1) Two cases of Pseudo-hyper-trophic Paralysis; (2) On Antipyrin.

BRITISH GYNÆCOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-8.30 P.M. Specimens will be shownby Drs. Edis, Fancourt Barnes, G. Granville Bantock, Mr. LawsonTait, and others. Council at 8 P.M.

Thursday, April 28.ST. GEOESB’s HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 P.M. Ophthalmic Operations,

Friday, 1.30 P.M.CHARiNG-CROss HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2 P.M.NORTH-WEST LONDON HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2.30 P.M.ROYAL INSTITUTION.—3 P.M. Prof. Dewar : The Chemistry of the

Organic World. *

RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS OF THE GROCERS’ COMPANY.—5 P.M. Mr. W.North: Malarial Fevers.

Friday, April 29.ROYAL SOUTH LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.SOCIETY OF ARTS.-8 P.M. Mr. J. F. Hewitt: Village Communities in

India.ROYAL INSTITUTION. - 9 P.M. Prof. H.S. Hele Shaw: The Rolling

Contact of Bodies.’

Saturday, April 30.MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2 P.M.ROYAL INSTITUTION.-3 P.M. Mr. R. Von Lendenfeld: The Australian

Alps and the Origin of the Australian Fauna.

METEOROLOGICAL READINGS.(Taken daily at 8.30 a.m. by Steward’s Instruments )

. THE LANCET Office, April 21st, 1887.

Notes, Short Comments, & Answers toCorrespondents.

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DR. BRUNTON AND HOMŒOPATHY.

Dr. Dudgeon is not satisfied that Dr. Brunton will not confess more

obligation to homleopathy than he does, and sends us another letterin the same strain as one we lately published. He must excuse us

saying that we cannot continue the discussion. We think Dr. Brunton’sestimate of homceopathy sound in point of sense and scientific. Wethink that Dr. Brunton’s Therapeutical Index will be the better foreven more expurgation than it has received. This will probablymake it less trying to homoeopaths and more useful to general prac-titioners ; but this is not of the essence of the question of homœopathyor of Dr. Brunton’s opinion of it.

Mr. TV. Robinson.—Our correspondent is probably referring to cases ofnebula of the cornea, which were at one time treated with prussicacid. Cataract was never cured by this means.

Constant Reader. — 1. Lauder Brunton’s Pharmacology, Therapeutics,, and Materia Medica, or Beasley’s Formulary, contain the directions

desired.—2. Sp. vini rect.

MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH AND PRISON SURGEONSTo the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,— Will you kindly inform me whether the medical officer of healtliof a town is justified in visiting H.M. prison and union workhouse witha view to ascertainillg their sanitary condition and reporting upon thehealth of the inmates without requesting the co-operation or sanction ofthe-medical officer of those institutions, or in any way communicatingwith him ? I am, Sirs, yours truly,

M. 0. H.

The Public Health Act apparently contemplates that a, medicalofficer of health shall inform himself of the sanitary circumstances ofall portions of his district, including the institutions within it. But

where an institution has a medical officer who is responsible for itscontrol and management, the necessary information can usually be ob-tained from this officer, and it is, as a rule, unnecessary for the medicalofficer to intervene. Where such intervention becomes necessary, under

any special circumstances, it should always be effected in co-operationwith the officer of the institution. In the case of prisons, which areunder the control of a Government department having a medicalstaff of their own, and to which access by any but prison ofl’,cial3 mayproperly be denied, it can rarely be requisite for an officer of healthto claim a right of entry; and if such entry should be necessary inconnexion with the work of his district, it should certainly be securedwith the co-operation of the prison medical officer.—ED. L.