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GLASGOW UNIVFRSITY.-Grieve Lectureship on Physiological Chemistry.GREAT NORTHERN CENTRAL HOSPITAL, Ilolloway, N.-Physician to

Out-patient Department for Diseases of Women. Also SeniorHouse Surgeon, Two Junior House Surgeons, and a Junior HousePhysician, in each case for six months. Salary of Senior Officerat rate of £60 per annum and of Junior Officers at £30 per annum,with board, lodging, and washing. Also Pathologist and Curator.Salary 50 guineas per annum.

HAMPSTEAD GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Resident Medical Officer for sixmonths, renewable. Salary at rate of £120 per annum and allow-ance for rooms.

LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY.-Resident Casualty Officer. Salary £ 100per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

LINCOLN COUNTY HOSPITAL.-Senior House Surgeon, unmarried.Salary £100 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing. AlsoJunior House Surgeon for six months, renewable. Salary £25 foreach period of six months, with board, residence, and washing.

LONDON HOSPITAL, Whitechapel, E.-Assistant Surgeon.LONDON TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon for six

months. Honorarium at rate of £75 per annum.MACCLESFIELD GENERAL INFIRMARY.-Junior House Surgeon. Salary

£50 per annum, with board and residence.METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL, Kingsland-road, N.E.-House Physician,

House Surgeon, Assistant House Physician, and Assistant HouseSurgeon, all for six months. Salaries of Senior Officers at rate of240 a year; of Assistants at rate of £20 a year.

MIDDLESBROUGH, YORKSHIRE, COUNTY BOROUGH ASYLUM.-MedicalSuperintendent. Salary B450 per annum, with house, rates, taxes,&c.

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL, W.-Second and Third Assistants to theDirector of the Cancer Research Laboratories. Salaries £125 and£100 respectively.

MORTLACH PARISH,* Duff town, Banffshire.-Resident Medical Officer.Salary £35 per annum and fees.

NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE RELIEF AND CURE OF THE PARALYSEDAND EPILEPTIC, Queen-square, Bloomsbury.-Assistant Physicianfor Out-patients.

NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL.-Second Assistant House Surgeonfor six months. Honorarium £20, with board, lodging, and

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NORTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon, un-married. Salary;C5O per annum, with apartments, board, and washing.

OLDHAM INFIRMARY.-Senior House Surgeon. Salary oE100 perannum, with board, residence, and washing.

ROYAL DENTAL HOSPITAL OF LONDON, Leicester-square, W.C.-Demonstrator of Practical Dental Surgery. Stipend oElOO, risingto oE120 per annum.

ROYAL EAR HOSPITAL, Dean-street, Soho.-Honorary AssistantAnæsthetist.

ROYAI, HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST, City-road, E.C.-House Physician for six months. Salary at rate of JE60 per annum,with board, lodging, and washing.

ROYAL NAVY, MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE, 18, Victoria-street,London, S.W.-Three Dental Surgeons. Salary .El per diem.

ST. ALBANS, HERTS COUNTY AsYLUM, Hill End.-Junior AssistantMedical Officer. Salary oEl50 a year, with board, lodging, andwashing.

SALOP INFIRMARY.-House Physician for six months, renewable.Salary at rate of £50 per annum, with board and apartments.

WALSALL AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL, Walsall.-Assistant House Surgeon.Salary oE5O per annum, with board, residence, and washing.

WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith-road, W.-One House Phy-sician and Three House Surgeons, all for six months. Board,lodging, and laundry allowance.

WESTMINSTER GENERAL DISPENSARY.-Resident Medical Officer. Salaryat rate of £120 per annum, with rooms, gas, coal, and attendance.

WISBECH, NORTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE HOSPITAL.-Resident MedicalOfficer, unmarried. Salary £100 per annum, with rooms, attend-ance, coals, gas, and washing.

WOLVERHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.-AssistantHouse Surgeon for six months. Honorarium at rate of S75 perannum, with board, lodging, and washing.

THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice ofvacancies as Certifying Surgeons under the Factory and WorkshopAct at Winterton, in the county of Lincoln; and at Doune, inthe county of Perth.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS I

COLMAN.-On March 1st, at 9, Wimpole-street, W., the wife of W. S.Colman, M.D., F.R.C.P., of a son.

LANGDON-DOWN.-On Sunday, Feb. 26th, 1905, at Normansfield,Hampton Wick, to Reginald L. Langdon-Down, M.B., M.R.C.P.,and wife-a son.

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MARRIAGE.FORBES-PAUL.-On Feb. 27th, at All Souls Church, Langham-place,

W., James Graham, M.D., M.R.C.P., son of the Rev. E. Forbes,incumbent of Christ Church, Clevedon, Somerset, to MurielWatson, eldest daughter of the late Dr. Ernest Watson Paul, ofCowes, I. of W.

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DEATHS.ALLEN.-On Feb. 25th, 1905, at 3, Carlisle-parade, Hastings, Ella

Louise Katherine, wife of Bryan H. Allen, M.D., and daughter ofthe Rev. R. H. Dover, late vicar of Wilsden, Yorkshire, aged 56years.

HALSE-FRANCIS—On Dee. 27th, 1904, suddenly, Ferdinand Henry Halse-Francis. M.D. Durh., of Victoria Lodge, West Norwood, England,and Kaikoura, Marlborough, New Zeatand, aged 41 years.

KERR.-At 3, Hanger-lane, Ealing, W., suddenly, on Feb. 25th, in herninth year, Helen, the only daughter of Dr. James Kerr.

N.B.-A fee of 58. i8 charged for the insertion of Notice8 of Births,Marriages, and Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

HARVEY AND FINCH : A REMARKABLE MS.

IT will no doubt interest most of our readers to know that Messrs.Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Ilodge will include in a sale at theirrooms on March 4th a folio MS. Common-Place Book, inthe original calf binding, of the celebrated lawyer, Heneage

! Finch, afterwards Earl of Nottingham and Lord Chancellor, whichcontains two pages with long and curious medical directionsin the autograph of his far more illustrious uncle and physician,Dr. William Harvey, written in 1647, when Harvey was aged69 and Finch 26 years. As the sale catalogue states, "Even thesignature of this great anatomist is of the utmost rarity. Nowhereelse outside the British Museum can so much of his handwriting befound as in the present MS., which came from Miss Finch ofMaidstone at her death some 40 years ago." The well-knownantiquary and Harveian scholar, Mr. W. J. Harvey, has examinedthe MS. and added several interesting particulars, stating that

probably the medical directions alluded to above were for therelief of rheumatism, from which it is not generally known thatFinch suffered in his younger years. Mr. Harvey has discoveredthat about 70 years ago there was extant among the Southwell MSS.a most interesting letter from Thomas Henshaw, F.R.S., to Sir RobertSouthwell, dated May 16th, 1682 (about seven months before Finch’sdeath), mentioning inter alia, " Our present Lord Chancellor was formany years in his younger days much grieved with a rheumatism,and never could get a cure for it until he followed the advice of hisbrother, Sir John Finch, and Dr. Baines, both newly returned fromItaly, which was to drink three pints of Bordeaux claret every day.If you should object to me, my Lord Chancellor’s gout and stone,I can answer that neither of these seized him till many years afterhis use of wine, and may very justly be attributed, to his muchsetting." The interest and the importance of the MS. Common-PlaceBook are, however, vastly increased by the remarkable anticipa-tion of the electric telegraph and wireless telegraphy which it con-tains on p. 467.

AN IMPROVED HAMMOCK FOR INVALID RAILWAYTRAVELLERS.

To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,-May I add my testimony to the value of the improvedhammock for invalids travelling? I was present at the trial trip fromKing’s Cross to Cambridge and back on Feb. 15th. A great part of thejourney I was in the hammock and can speak of it as exceedinglyrestful and comfortable. We travelled express speed and to make thetest more severe were at the end of the train. There was absolutely nolateral swaying, no jarring, and vibration was reduced to a minimumso as to be scarcely perceptible. The only movement was a rockingfrom head to feet whilst passing over points or round sharp curves, andthat is easily preventable. The Great Northern Railway inspectorwould, I believe, corroborate these statements. It is much to be hopedthat these hammocks may be adopted by the railway companies andso make it possible for invalids of moderate means to travel in easeand comfort. I am, Sirs, yours faithfully,

Feb. 25th, 1905. THE MOTHER OF AN INVALID.

SUPERFLUOUS HAIRS.

M.B., having read Dr. Balmanno Squire’s article on enelectrolysiswhich we published last week, asks for further advice from ourreaders in the treatment of superfluous hairs occurring on thechin, putting the following questions: Has treatment by thex rays any advantage over electrolysis ? Is either a permanentcure? Is there any scarring where the x rays are used? Dothe x rays inhibit a further accumulation of new hairs or do theyonly destroy those already existing ?

THE REMOVAL OF BODIES.

SOME criticisms have been made as to the action of the police in a casewhere Mr. E. A. Gibson, the Manchester coroner, ordered the removalof a body for the purpose of having a post-mortem examination made.He had, of course, the right to do this by virtue of his office. Thereseems to be no special provision made for the removal of bodies in thecomparatively few cases where the coroner may deem it necessary.A newspaper correspondent charged the police with carrying outthe removal "in a brutal manner" and suggested that the horseambulance should have been requisitioned, which would have beenpreposterous. Ambulances are intended and used for conveyingpatients to the hospitals and it would not tend to make them

popular vehicles for that purpose if it were known that they werealso used for carrying dead bodies. The charge of brutality seemsunfounded. A stretcher was taken into the house, the body wasplaced upon it, covered up, and carried away on the " handambulance," as it is called-that is, the framework with wheels onwhich the stretcher is placed. No doubt the method might beimproved on. It is not a pleasant spectacle to see this gruesomecarriage with its dead or injured burden wheeled along the street, but

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at present there seems no way of avoiding it. The coroner said that 1

personally he should like bodies removed in an undertaker’s van buthe had no power to order it. In connexion with this case the chiefconstable reported to the watch committee that every consideration 1was shown to the relatives and every possible respect paid to thebody. If the committee provided a special van the police woulduse it for the purpose. It may be hoped that this concession toa widespread and instinctive feeling may be made. (

INCURABLE PATIENTS.

To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,-May I inquire through your columns if any of your readersnow of an institution which takes in incurable patients on payment ? ,

I am, Sirs, yours faithfully,JOHN GAY.

137, Upper Richmond-road, Putney, S.W., Feb. 21st, 1905.

SOME QUESTIONS WITH REGARD TO MILK-SUPPLY.To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,-I. Supposing pastures are manured by human excrement frompails or middens or with farmyard manure early in April and cowsare turned out to graze on the same pastures in May, can the milkobtained from these cows be pure and wholesome? I have noticed a

large mortality amongst lambs on such pastures.2. Suppose milking-cows have for their only drink in the long hot

summer days water from stagnant pools-say a pool 20 feet indiameter and two feet deep for a dozen cows-beautifully iridescent:on the surface, which also reveals the distended bellies of dead pupsand kittens, the cows stand in the pool and further pollute it, can the:milk obtained from these cows be pure and wholesome? I am told’

that this is "all right, cows prefer such water." It appears to methat unless the milk is pure as it comes from the cow’s udder no

subsequent processes to which it may be subjected can make it into awholesome "food." I am, Sirs, yours faithfully, iFeb. 26th, 1905. ,

C. C.THE CASE OF DR. A. D. GRIFFITHS.

To the Editors of THE LANCET,SIRS,-Will you kindly allow me to acknowledge the, receipt of the

following additional contributions ? I am, Sirs, yours faithfully,

, ALEXR. P. FIDDIAN, Treasurer.23, The Walk, Cardiff, Feb. 28th, 1905. ’

Nemo.-1. If the person responsible for the payment has given thepatient into Dr. B’s charge and if the patient’s parents have notsignified to Dr. B any desire that their child should be in otherhands we think it will be difficult to formulate any charge ofunprofessional behaviour against Dr. B. 2. This question is

practically answered above, but if Dr. B has heard from Dr. Athat the child’s parents do desire, despite their silence, that heshould be attended by their medical man-viz., Dr. A-we think thatDr. B might well associate Dr. A with him in the case.

Amicus.-It appears that B and C having their headquarters quitenear each other have now, each of them, got a branch or agencycentre at the other’s door. We do not in those circumstances thinkeither can be said to have a grievance against the other, but if asense of wrong exists it would be better that they should refer thematter to a common friend, agreeing to abide by his decision. Thesituation is one upon which professional colleagues should not

quarrel.G. T. W.-We agree with our correspondent that his dismissal bypostcard was discourteous but it must not be assumed that all

postcards are read at the -st-office and discussed afterwards by thepublic or that the med4cf,,l man designed any injury.

Sufferer.-We are unable to find our correspondent’s name in the.

Medical Directory, so that he will not be surprised to find that we areunable to publish what amounts to a serious charge against one of histeachers whom, by the way, he does not specify.

D.P.H.-(A) We know of no convalescent homes exactly of the sort thatour correspondent wants where such small payments would be taken.(B) There would be no harm in returning the circulars in the waysuggested.

Disgusted.-We cannot subscribe to the doctrine that if B goes back onhis word A is entitled to do the same. A should keep his promisedespite the absence of a stamped agreement.

Visitor can obtain the information that he seeks from Dr. DawsonWilliams, 2, Agar-street, Strpnd, London, or Dr. W. Jobson Home,27, New Cavendish-street, Portland-place.

M.R.C.S,-The treatment is rubbish.

Medical Diary for the ensuing Week.OPERATIONS.

METROPOLITAN HOSPITALS.MONDAY (6th).-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 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 (7th).-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 (2 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 (8th).-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.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.).

THURSDAY (9th).-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. Marks(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.).

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FRIDAY (10th).-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 (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.), Royal Ear(10 A.M.).

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SATURDAY (llth).-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.MONDAY (6th).-MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (11, Chandos-street,

Cavendish-square, W.).-9 P.M. Dr. G. H. Savage: Mental Dis-orders of Decay. (Lettsomian Lecture.)

TUESDAY (7th).-PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (20, Hanover-square, W.).-Prof. W. D. Halliburton: Recent Researches onProteid Chemistry and Proteid Diet.

ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY (20, Hanover-square,W.).-5 P.M. Ad,journed Discussion on the Subsequent Courseand Later History of Cases of Appendicitis after Operation (openedby the President, Sir R. Douglas Powell). Dr. Hawkins, Mr. Lock-wood, Mr. Battle, Sir William Bennett, Mr. Mayo Robson, andothers will take part in the discussion.

WEDNESDAY (8th).-BRITISH BALNEOLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICALSOCIETY (20, Hanover-square, W.).-8.30 P.m. , Discussion on theEthics of Health Resort Treatment (opened by Dr. L. Williams).

DERMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (11, Chandos-street, Caven-dish-square, W.).-5.15 P.M. Demonstration of Cases of Interest.

HUNTERIAN SOCIETY (London Institution, Finsbury-circus, E.C.).-8.30 P.M. Pathological Evening. Exhibition of Specimens.THURSDAY (9th).-BRITISH GYNÆCOLOGICAL SOCIETY (20, Hanover-

square, W.).-8 P.M. Specimens will be shown by Dr. F. Edge.Paper :-Dr. I. Parsons: The Choice of Treatment for Fibromyomaof the Uterus.

HARVEIAN SOCIETY OF LONDON (Stafford Rooms, Titchborne-street,Edgware-road, W.).-8.30 P.M. Mr. M. Morris: Some ModernTherapeutic Methods in Dermatology, with Cases treated by theRoentgen and Finsen Rays. (Harveian Lecture.)

OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (11, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W.).-8 P.M. Clinical Meeting. Caseswill be shown bv Mr. E. Chatterton, Mr. C. Blair, Mr. A. Ogilvy,Mr. J. H. Parsons and Mr. A. Lawson, Mr. J. H. Parsons, Mr.R. E. Bickerton, and Mr. H. McMullen.

FRIDAY (10th).-THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICEBSOF HEALTH (9, Adelphi-terrace, Strand, W.C.).-7.30 P.M. Discus-of the Causes of the Increased Prevalence of Anthrax in GreatBritain (opened by a paper read by Prof. S. Delepine).

CLINICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (20, Hanover-square, W.).-8.15 P.M.Mr. J. Berry will exhibit a Case showing the Result of a Rhino-plastic Operation; a paper will be read at a subsequent meeting.8.30 P.M. Papers :-Dr. W. H. White: A Case of Acute RheumatoidArthritis (with epidiascope demonstration).-Dr. B. Abrahams:Arthritis Deformans and its Allies.-Mr. D. Drew: Three Cases ofStenosis of the Ureter.