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THE CROWN PRINCE.

THE statement of Sir Morell Mackenzie on the nature ofthe Crown Prince’s affection, together with ProfessorVirchow’s report on the microscopical examination of a

slough detached from the larynx, both of which contribu-tions will be found in another column, will not do muchto allay the anxiety universally felt for the distinguishedpatient. Sir Morell Mackenzie’s statement amounts to this,that he sees no absolute proof that the disease is malignantor cancerous in nature. What all Europe is anxious toknow is whether Sir Morell Mackenzie and the eminentGerman doctors associated with him can find proof that thedisease is certainly not cancer, and this knowledge appears,for the present at least, to be unattainable. One of themost painful circumstances in the case has been the uncer-tainty as to the diagnosis ever since May last. And now,after nine months, the same uncertainty continues. Wewould gladly, if we could, read Sir Morell Mackenzie’sstatement in another sense; but it is very precise and clear,and it is impossible to find in it anything that implies thatin his opinion the disease is certainly not cancer. The onlyconsolation to be derived from this latest report is the verysmall one that the opinion is, at any rate, less unfavourablethan if it had been a confirmation of the diagnosis of cancer.Professor Virchow’s report is purely negative, and thematerial submitted to him was evidently incapable of

throwing any light upon the nature of the disease.

THE UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM AND THE GENERALMEDICAL COUNCIL.

DR. PYLE, as the representative of the University ofDurham on the General Medical Council, is to be succeededby Mr. George Yeoman Heath, whose appointment has beennotified. The University of Durham is to be congratulated onthis appointment as well as the Medical Council. Mr. Heathhas been long known as one of the most eminent authoritiesin surgery and in medical education in the north of England,and the claims of provincial degrees will have an able advo-cate in him.

LORETTA’S OPERATION ON THE STOMACH.

SOME two months ago, Mr. Treves performed this operationat the London Hospital upon a man suffering from fibrousstricture of the pylorus. At the time of the operation theman was very much reduced by pain and constant vomiting,and had been for some time unable to take food by the mouth.The abdomen and stomach were opened, and through theincision made in the viscus the pylorus was dilated by thefingers. The man made a rapid recovery, and has not vomitedsince the operation. He can now take any food well. Thecase will be shown at the next meeting of the ClinicalSociety.

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THE NEW SALFORD HOSPITAL.

THE agitation against the new hospital for infectiousdiseases at Salford continues. One newspaper publishes adiagram, which curiously shows that a site which is heldto be so dangerous is permitted to be used as a building areafor permanent residence. It seems a pity, if the site be sobad as to constitute a " nuisance," that this cannot be pre-vented, for evidence of its unwholesomeness would doubt-less be forthcoming from the residents.

DEATHS OF EMINENT FOREIGN MEDICAL ANDSCIENTIFIC MEN.

THE deaths of the following foreign eminent medical andscientific men are announced :-Dr. Heinrich Bohn, Pro-fessor of the Diseases of Children at Konigsberg.—Dr. HugoPramberger, docent in Medicine in the University of Prague.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS,

WE understand the Committee of the Association ofFellows of the Royal College of Surgeons are about to sendto the Lord President of the Privy Council a letter criticisingthe Reply of the Council of the College to the Statement ofthe Association of Fellows (vide TEE LANCET, Feb. 4th,p.242). -

ANTIPYRIN FOR SEA-SICKNESS.

THE public attention given to the latest remedy for sea-sickness and many other affections to which flesh is heir-has its percentage of evil as well as good. E very medica-ment is not an unmixed advantage, and to suppose thatantipyrin may be taken recklessly any more than chloral isto adopt a position of a dangerous kind. Antipyrin has onseveral occasions been administered with unexpected results.It is a drug which has undoubtedly powerful effects on thenervous system, especially as tending to produce a lower-ing action. We must strongly protest against its indis-criminate employment without the supervision of a medicalman.

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SHEFFIELD SMALL-POX HOSPITAL.

THE new Small-pox Hospital for Shemeld has now beencompleted. It is situated at Redmires, and has accom-modation for 100 patients. All solid refuse is to be dealtwith by means of a destructor, and an attempt at disinfectionof the liquid refuse is to be made by some automatic con-trivance, before disposal on land is carried out. The totalcost of the hospital is about .613,150, and there are now 235beds in all available for infectious diseases at Sheffield.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Berlin.-It is rumoured that Professor Ewald will beoffered Professor Senator’s post at the Augusta IIospital.Buda-Pesth.-Dr. J. Erlöss has qualified as vrivat docent

in Children’s Diseases, and Dr. J. Ottava as privat docent inOphthalmology.Dorpat.-Dr. Ernest Stadelmann, privat docent in Heidel-

berg, has been offered the post of Official Docent (whichcorresponds to the position of Extraordinary Professor) inClinical Medicine.

Vienna.-The chair of Anatomy, vacant by the death ofProfessor v. Langer, has been offered to Professor His ofLeipsic. -

THE hospitals under the tutelage of the Knights ofSt. John reached last year the number of forty, and had undermedical care a total of 7997 patients, representing 342,117days’ treatment in all. Of these cases, 5319 were males,2034 females, and 644 children of both sexes. Under the

category of " discharged cured" were 5946; °° relieved," 659 ;while 658 died, and 824 at the close of the year remained inhospital. The infirmary in Heiligenbeil was opened for thefirst time in 1887.

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WE learn that it is the intention of the members of theWest Herts Medical Association to invite Dr. C. E. Saunders,the medical officer of health of the combined sanitary dis-tricts of Middlesex and Hertfordshire, to a dinner, on hisretiring from that official employment, as a mark of respectand regard, and as an acknowledgment of the efficientmanner in which he has performed his duties for a period offourteen years.

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STOMATITIS of a severe type prevails in Palermo. It first

appeared in the great Lunatic Asylum, and then, extendinggradually over the city, assumed epidemic proportions.Sanitary works were in progress at the time of the outbreak