1056 MEETING OF THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.

THE APPOINTMENTS AT GUY’S HOSPITAL.

THE following are the Assistant-Physicians at this hos-pital:-Dr. Hale White becomes Senior Assistant-Physician;and, at a recent meeting of the governors, G. N. Pitt, M.A.,M.D. Cantab., M.R.C.P. Lond., late Fellow of Clare Collegeand present Demonstrator of Pathology at Guy’a Hospital,L. C. Wooldridge, M.D., D.Sc.Lond., M.R.C.P. Lond., lateGeorge Henry Lewes and Grocers’ Research Scholar, lateCroonian Lecturer at the Royal Society and present Demon-strator of Physiology at Guy’s Hospital, and E. C. Perry,M.A., M.B. Cantab., late Captain of the School at Eton,Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and Senior Classic for1880, and late Demonstrator of Anatomy at Cambridge, wereelected to the three vacant Assistant-Physiciancies.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

jSerM.—The Medical Faculty are about to create a newExtraordinary Professorship of Laryngology in connexionwith a Polyclinic for Throat and Nasal Affections, for whichroom has been taken in a private house in the Luisenstrasse.The first occupant of the chair will probably be ProfessorBernhard Frankel. A series of vacation courses intendedfor practitioners is being arranged. These are to begin onSept. 26th, and will continue till the end of October.Bordeaux. - M. Pousson, agl’égé of the Faculty of

Medicine, has been appointed Surgeon to the hospitals ofBordeaux. M. le Professeur Viand has recently read an

important paper advocating considerable changes in thesystem of medical instruction, whereby the theoretical lec-tures would be given by the agl’égés and the clinical instruc-tion by the professors.

Cix’x.—Don Manuel Bernal has been appointed Professorof Medical Pathology.

Giessen.-Dr. Max Hofmeier, first assistant in the RoyalGynaecological Clinic in Berlin, has been appointed Pro-fessor of Midwifery and Gynaecology. Dr. Hofmeier has

just married the eldest daughter of the late ProfessorSchroeder.

.EMe.—Professor Olshausen’s former pupils and assistantspropose to erect his statue in the Gynaecological Clinic,which has been under his care for the last twenty-fiveyears, as a mark of their affection for and gratitude totheir old master.Madrid.-Don Gabriel de la Puerta y Rodenas, Professor

of Pharmacy, has been appointed a member of the Councilof Public Instruction, in the place of the late Don ManuelRioz y Pedraja.Moscow.-Dr. Hugenberger, having completed his term

of office as Director of the Moscow Lying-in Institution,has now retired. His successor will be Dr. Sutugin, pi-ivatdocent in the Military Medical Academy, and one of theMedical Oficers of the Duchess of Edinburgh’s Hospital inSt. Petersburg.

St. Petel’sbul’g.-Professor Wenzel Gruber, who has heldthe Chair of Anatomy for forty years, has resigned.

Wiirzbu7q.-One of the recently made Doctors of Medicineis, or was, a "post director," a captain, and a jurist, his agebeing fifty-six. -

THE death is announced from Paris of the eminent Frenchchemist, M. Joseph-Dieudonné Boussingault. The deceased,who was born in 1802, occupied the chair of Agriculture inthe Paris Conservatoire of Art and Industry. He was namedCommander of the Legion of Honour in 1857, and promotedto the rank of Grand Officer in 1876. M. Boussingault wa,,the author of a large number of papers on physics andchemistry, and of treatises on "Chemistry and Physiolog3in Agriculture," " Studies on the Transformations of Irorand Steel," &c.

AN influential committee of the inhabitants of the Royalparish of St. Martin-in-the-flelds is appealing for subscrip-tions towards the suitable celebration .of the Queen’sJubilee. The money received will be devoted, either bydirection of the donors or at the discretion of the committee,to any one or all of the following objects:-Entertainmentto children and old people; the purchase of a site of free-hold land for the extension of Charing-cross Hospital; amemorial window in St. Martin’s Church; the ImperialInstitute; and the Church House. A first list of subscrip-tions has already been published, and each of the aboveobjects seems to be meeting with hearty support.

THE Editor of Land and Water has succeeded in in-ducing M. Pasteur to undertake an investigation into thecause of grouse disease, and asks those interested to co-operatewith him in obtaining for the French savant the necessaryspecimens. --

AT the last meeting of the Aldershot Military MedicalSociety, Surgeon-Major Scott, C.M.G., who has recentlybeen studying the Pasteur system in Paris and Naples, gavean account of his investigation.

WE are asked to announce that all drawings to illustratepapers in the Pathological Society’s Transactions must besent to Dr. Coupland, hon. sec., before May 31st.

NEWS has been received from Vienna of the serious illnessof Professor Billroth.

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THE Cape de Verde Islands are stated to be now experiencingan epidemic of small-pox.

MEETING OF THE GENERAL MEDICALCOUNCIL.

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THURSDAY, MAY 19TH.MR. MARSHALL, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR.

The PRESIDENT read a letter from Sir Henry Aclandacknowledging the receipt of the address from the Councilon his retirement, expressing his gratitude for the kindlyfeelings embodied therein, and adding that he shouldalways take the warmest interest in all the future proceed-ings of the Council.A communication was received from the Privy Council,

stating that the Lords of the Council had yesterday passedan order for postponing until June 30th next the " appointedday named in the Medical Act of 1886, and that the orderwould be forwarded as soon as printed.

Dr. STRUTHERS proposed the re-election of the existingmembers of the Executive Committee.

Dr. BANES seconded the motion.Mr. SIMON hoped that the members of the Executive Com-

mittee would be elected in the ordinary way by ballot,seeing that the Council had been strengthened by the electionof five new members.

Dr. FERGUS said all that was necessary was to electtwo new members, the existing members holding officetill June.

After some discussion the motion was agreed to. Aballotwas then taken for two new members of the committee, onefor Scotland and one for Ireland, and the members electedwere Dr. Heron Watson and Mr. Macnamara. The BusinessCommittee, the Dental Committee, the Pharmacopoeia Com-mittee, and the Finance Committee (to which Dr. Humphrywas added) were re-elected. The Education Committee andthe Examinations Committee were also appointed.

Dr. QUAiN said that the available funds of the Councilwere exhausted, and there was nothing wherewith to paythe members for their attendance unless the English Branch

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Council advanced it. They were willing to do so, but oncondition that the Scotch and Irish Branch Councils made aremittance at an early period.Mr. SIMON moved, " That the Council delegate to the

Executive Committee to exercise the powers and discharge theduties of the Council so far as the Executive Committeeshall, in the absence of the Council, find necessary or ex-pedient, except as follows :-First, as to making representa-tions or reports to Her Majesty in Council or to the PrivyCouncil; secondly, as to making general rules or recom-mendations ; and thirdly, as to deciding, under Section 29 oftke Medical Act (1858), whether any medical practitionerhas been guilty of infamous conduct in a professionalrespect."

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Dr. HAUGHTON seconded the motion.Dr. A. SMITH thought that all the offences under Sections

26 and 29 should be included in the exception.Mr. SIMON thought the Executive Committee should

have the power of removing from the Register persons whohad been convicted of felony; but doubtful cases wouldprobably be referred to the Council for decision.Mr. McVAiL saw no reason why tbe Executu e Committee

might not make " recommendations."Dr. DuNCAN suggested that the motion should be deferred

till the next meeting of the Council, considering the far-reaching nature of the change proposed.

Dr. HUMPHRY hoped that the matter would not bedeferred. The Executive Committee should not have powerto interfere with the general principles on which the Councilacted, and that was sufficiently provided for in the excep-tions named in the motion. It was important to enable theExecutive Committee to decide many matters of businessordinarily undertaken by the Council. If that were doneit was possible that one meeting of the Council in the yearmight be saved.

Dr. BRUCE supported the motion, and urged the impor-tance of saving the time of the Council. Dr. Banks, Mr.Carter, and Dr. Heron Watson also supported the motion.

Dr. PETTIGREW thought the matter should be delayed inerder that it might have more consideration.

Sir DycE DUCKWORTH supported the motion, which wasthen put, and agreed to.

Dr. HAUGHTON moved, in bebalf of the Irish BranchCouncil: " (a) That this Council do appoint two assistant-examiners to the Apothecaries’ Hall of Ireland. (b) Thatthese examiners do examine in surgery. (c) That for a termof one year, from July 1st next, and subject to the order ofthe Council, Sir William Stokes and Mr. Edward Hamiltonbe appointed. (d) That the fee to each assistant-examinerat the stated quarterly examinations shall be five guineas.03) That, in the event of any vacancy occurring among theassistant-examiners appointed by this Council, it be re-mitted to the Branch Council in the division of the kingdomin which the vacancy has arisen to appoint an ad interimexaminer or examiners."Mr. CoLLINS seconded the motion, which was agreed to.Mr. MACNAMARA moved: " That the Council now proceed

to appoint Inspectors of Examinaticns from the followinglist of persons suggested by the Branch Councils :-ByEnglish Branch Council: In Medicine-Dr. Coupland, Dr.

Finlay; in Surgery-Mr. McGill, Mr. Pepper; in Midwifery- Dr. Malins. By Scottish Branch Council: In Medicine-Matthew Hay, James A. Russell; in Surgery-Joseph Bell,J. D. Gillespie, D. N. Knox ; in Midwifery--A. H. F. Bar-hour, R. Milne Murray, W. L. Reid. James Stirton. By IrishRranch Council: In Medicine-John Magee Finny; inSurgery-E. H. Bennett, E. D. Mapother; in Midwifery-F. W. Kidd, T. M. Madden.Dr. BRUCE seconded the motion, which was adopted.The Council then proceeded to the appointment of in-

spectors in private, strangers being requested to withdraw.On the readmission of strangers the PRESIDENT announced

that the following gentlemen had been appointed :-ForMedicine, Dr. Finlay; Surgery, E. H. Bennett; Midwifery,A. H. F. Barbour.

Dr. GLOVER called attention to the late appearance ofthe Medical Register, which he said was not published tillApril 29th. The Medical Directory appeared before the endof the previous year. In former years the Register appearedat various dates in February and March, but never so lateas this year. No doubt the circumstances were somewhatexceptional, and certain improvements had been introduced,1I-ut he still thought that the appearance ought not to havebeen so late, and hoped that it would be earlier in future.

He was quite sure that the fault did not lie with the Registrar,who took great pains to have the work done not only accu-rately but promptly.

Dr. QUAIN said that many changes had been required inthe Register, and there were great difficulties in bringing outso large a volume. There had also been some delay in theStationery Office. where the book was printed at a very cheaprate, so that it was impossible to put too much pressureupon them.

Dr. A. SMITH regretted that the matter had been broughtbefore the Council, and thought that the attention of theExecutive Committee ought to have been called to thesubject. He also thought that there was an undeservedimputation of neglect on the part of the Registrar.The REGISTRAR said that the work of the Register had

materially increased of late years. Some delay had arisenin consequence of the useful addition of dictionary head-ings, which necessitated another revise. The work was doneat a much cheaper rate than it would be done by an ordinaryprinter.

Sir WM. GULL thought that there ought to be a generalexpression of entire confidence in the Registrar. He hadoften been surprised at the admirable manner in which hiswork was done.

Dr. STRUTHERS expressed his concurrence in the remarksof Sir W. Gull. They ought to take no notice of the pelletsof the penny-a-liners of the anonymous London press.Mr. MeV AIL said he thought that Dr. Glover was entirely

justified in the course he had taken.Dr. GLOVER said he thought that he had carefully guarded

himself in regard to their obligation to Mr. Miller, theRegistrar. He still thought that he had brought an im-portant matter before the Council. He was not quite satis-fied that the late appearance of the Register was unalterable ;and if it did not appear sooner next year he should feel ithis duty to make the same complaint.

Dr. STRUTHERS, who had given notice of a motion for theconsideration of the interim report of the Executive Com-

. mittee and the suggestions of the Branch Councils in regardto the appointment of inspectors of examinations, said that

; it had been rendered unnecessary after the motion ofMr. Macnamara. He would only refer to one of the recom-

, mendations of the committee, that the inspectors should’ have their attention specially called to the quality of thej examinations, and also to the sufficiency of the means and

appliances for testing the qualification of the candidates.z There was another matter to which special attention shouldl be called-viz., the quantity of the examinations, that being

a point in which they were deficient. There ought also to be. a reference to the previous reports of visitors.’ Dr. HAUGHTON withdrew a motion of which he had given- notice, with reference to the manner of entering on the1 Register the names of British physicians and surgeons

holding foreign diplomas in dentistry.This concluded the business of the Council.The PRESIDENT said he thought that the Council might

1 congratulate itself on having settled some very importantand difficult questions in such a way as to economise time

T and labour in the future. Though the session had been a. long one, he did not regret the time that had been spent,T because he thought that great economy and other advan--

tages would be the result.

MEDICAL ATTENDANCE ORGANISATIONCOMMITTEE.

THE eleventh meeting of the above committee was heldat 5, Lamb’s-conduit-street on Tuesday, the lObh inst., SirT. Spencer Wells in the chair. There was again a goodattendance of the committee. The following resolutionswere considered :-

1. "That it be an understanding that the resolutionspassed on this branch of the subject-namely, relating tothe hospitals-are intended as a basis for a conference withhospital authorities previous to the general report beingsubmitted, and not as a final settlement." This resolutionwas carried unanimously.

2. " That in the opinion of this committee hospitalauthorities should be requested to consider the propriety ofrequiring all applicants tor relief in the out-patient depart-ments to sign a declaration that, in the case of single