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Vacancies.In compliance with the desire of numerous subscribers, it has been decided to

resume the publication under this head of brief particulars of the variousVacancies which are announced in our advertising columns. For furtherinformation regarding each vacancy reference should be made to theadvertisement.

ADDENBROOKE’S HOSPITAL. Cambridge. - Resident House-Physician.Salary £65 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing in thehospital.

BOOTLE CORPORATION HOSPITAL FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES.—ResidentMedical Officer. Salary £100 per annum, with aboard, washing, andapartments at the hospital.

CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DIS1USFR OF THE CHEST, Victoria-park, E.—Resident Medical Officer. Salary £100 per annum, withboard, &c.—Resident Clinical Assistant.

ESSEX AND COLCHESTER HOSPITAL. - Physician. Salary 2200 perannum.

FARINGDON UNION. — Medical Officer, Public Vaccinator, and MedicalOfficer of Health. Salary £70 per annum, with extra fees foroperations and services allowed under the orders of the LOCllGovernment Board, together with the statutable vaccination fees.

GLAMORGANSHIRE AND CARNARVONSHIRE INFIRMARY AND DISPENSARY,Cardiff.-House-Surgeon. Salary .clOO a year, with board, washing,and furnished apartments.

HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, Great Ormond-street. W.C.-JuniorResident Medical Officer as House-Surgeon. Salary £50 per annum,with board and residence in the hospital.

HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Junior Assistant House-Surgeon. Salary.850, with board and lodging.

MONSALL FEVER HOSPITAL, Manchester.-Assistant Medical Officer.Salary £100 her annum, with board and residence.

NATIONAL DRNTAL HOSPITAL, Great Portland-street, W.-Lecturer onHistology.

POPLAR HOSPITAL FOR ACCIDENTS, East India-road, Poplar, E.-TwoHonorary Surgeons.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s-inn-road, W.C.— Junior ResidentMedical Officer. Board and residence in the hospital.

ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL, Hyde-park-corner, W.—Curator of the Patho-logical Museum.

ST. JOHN’S HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE SKIN. - Two AssistantPhysicians.

WWAN UNION.—Medical Officer, Public Vaccinator, and Dispenser.Salary j6l70 per annum, unfurnished residence and surgery, free ofall rates and taxes, and coals, together with the usual allowance foreach case of successful vaccination, and such extra fees for thetreatment of surgical and midwifery cases as are authorised by theorders of the Poor Law Board.

WORCESTER AMALGAMATED FRIENDLY SOCIETY. - Assistant MedicalOfficer. Salary 9110 per annum (without residence), with a portionof midwifery fees ; also £20 per annum for cab hire.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

CROOKSHANK.—On the 15th inst., at The Yews, Eastbourne, the wife ofEdgar Croolcshank, M.B., of a daughter.

CROOM.—On the 16th inst., at 25, Charlotte-square, Edinburgh, the wifeof J. Halliday Croom, M.D., F.It.C.P.E., of a daughter. ,

DOWNES.—On the 19th inst., at llellerstein, Eastbourne, the wife ofDr. E. Downes, of a son.

GLENDINNING.—On the 15th inst., at Larchfield, Abergavenny. Mon-mouthshire, the wife of James Glendinning, M.D., MedicalSuperintendent, Joint Counties Asylum, Abergavenny, of a

daughter.McGEAGH.—On the 12th inst., at Oakford. Polsloe-road, Exeter, the

wife of Surgeon R. T. McGeagh, Army Medical Staff, of a son.SAWTELL.-On the 8th inst., at Stapleton-hall-road, Stroud-green, N.,

the wife of T. H. Sawtell, M.D. Lond., M.R.C.S., L.R. C.P., of a son.THOMSON.—On the 18th inst., at Coates-crescent, Edinburgh, the wife of

John Thomson, M.B., C.M.Edin., of a son.TIBERGHIEN.—On the 20th inst., at 52, Rue du Nord, Brussels, the wife

of Lucien Tiberghien, M.D., of a son.UPPLEBY.—On the 16th ult., at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the wife

of Dr. J. G. Uppleby, of a daughter.WARNER.—On the 16th inst., at Rydal, Woodford-green, Essex, the wife

of Percy Warner, M.R.C.S., L.’B.C.P.Lond., of a son.

MARRIAGE.

CRIPPS—BRADLEY.—On the 15th inst., at St. Matthew’s Church, by theRev. A. H. Baynes, assisted by the Rev. T. B. B. Ferris, Vicar,Charles Couper Cripps, M.D., of Denmark-hill, London, son ofRichard Cripps, of The Grove, Brislington. Somerset, to EdithEllen, only daughter of John Bradley, of The Park, Nottingham.

DEATHS.GARDEN.-On the 17th inst., at The Cedars, Merrow, near Guildford,

Archibald MacDonald Garden, Deputy Surgeon-General, BengalMedical Service, retired, and late buperintendent-General Vaccina-tion, Punjab, in his 56th year.

TOLEKEN.—On the 13th inst., at Longford-terrace, Monkstown, co.

Dublin, John Toleken, M.D., Ex-Senior Fellow of Trinity College,Dublin, in his 85th year. -

N.B.—A fee of 5s. is;charged, for the Insertion of Notices ot Births,Marriages, and Deaths.

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

TEN LANCNT Office, December 22nd, 1887.

Notes, Short Comments, & Answers toCorrespondents.

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We cannot prescribe or recommend practitioners.Local papers containing reports or nws-paragraphs should

be marked and addressed to the Sub-Editor.Letters relating to the publication, sale, and advertisingdepartments of THE LANCET to be addressed "to thePublisher."

We cannot undertake to return MSS. not used.

THE CLIMATE OF EGYPT.

DR. SCHLIEMANN, the celebrated arehseologist, having gone outside hisnzetier to disparage the climate of Egypt in relation to phthisis, hasevoked from Dr. Heymann (for many years the leading Germanphysician in Cairo) a highly effective rejoinder. Egypt, according w,this eminent authority, remains what she always was-a supremelyfavourable winter resort for the consumptive patient in every stageof his malady. Dr. Heymann furnishes evidence that in the tworequisites of a winter station for the phthisical the advantages of theEgyptian climate are pre-eminent, the first requisite being theobviating of the disposition to tuberculosis of the lung, or the cor-recting of this at its early stage ; the second, mitigation of thedistressing and wasting symptoms of the disease when advanced.

Private Practitioner.-There is no written law on the subject, and themedical officer of health cannot therefore be said to be acting illegally;but it is customary for him to obtain his information through themedical attendant, whose certificate on this subject should guide him.

F. C.—1, Fee quite reasonable.-2. Not too much, if the patient canpay. Rental small for that.-3. A guinea.-4. A guinea. The patientis liable, not the medical man.

’ Dr. A. G. Macdonald.-We cannot advise in the matter.

WORD-DEAFNESS AND WORD-BLINDNESS.

To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,-In the various works which treat of word-deafness and word-blindness the description of these defects is so confused as to be scarcelyintelligible. They are, I believe, supposed to be due respectively tolesion of the first and second temporo-sphenoidal convolutions, and ofthe angular gyrus and adjoining part of the inferior parietal lobule; butI am not clear whether these defects are due solely to lesions in the lefthemisphere, as in motor aphasia. Is this so? Information on thi&point will be much appreciated by,

Yours faithfully,Dec. 19th, 1887. A MEMBER OF TWENTY YEARS’ STAXDING.

P.S. — Is hemianopsia due to lesion of the same centre as word-blindness ? ,

*’,’ The part of the brain concerned in the auditory perception of wordsis the posterior half of the first temporal convolution on the left sidein right-handed individuals ; so is the centre for word-blindness.

Hemianopsia may be due to a cortical lesion.—ED. L.