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ever seen. The nearest approach, he thought, to her wasMadam Flagstad. Of men he thought the greatest wasJean de Reszke. Among the politicians who were his patientshis favourite was Arthur Balfour. Milsom always lookedforward to his visits and gave him extra time so that he could’enjoy the more of his company.

Probably Milsom’s greatest friend was Alfred de Rothschild,who came to rely on Milsom more and more. Later St. Bartho-lomew’s and other London hospitals benefited financiallythrough this friendship, for Rees was made a trustee ofde Rothschild’s residuary estate, and from this charity wasable from time to time to donate large sums of money.

. It was only when I became his patient myself that I

appreciated his real worth. He was renowned for his treat.ment of the larynx, but it is doubtful if anyone could equalhis touch and gentleness in passing the eustachian catheter.’His skill with this instrument, and his treatment of the middleear, brought him patients from many lands, and many fromhis own profession, including his great friend, Lord Dawson.

. What had impressed me before I knew Milsom was thefact-well known in golfing circles-that in competition atRoyal St. George’s, Sandwich, he had completed two roundsin a total of 144 strokes, and on the following weekend heholed the Old and New Courses at Sunningdale in a similarnumber of strokes-four rounds of golf, on such courses, thatwould have won the Open Championship for any professionalgolfer at the time. Later I learnt the reason for this proficiency.He had installed a golf-net in the garage at the back of hishouse in Wimpole Street, and there, in his spare time, hepractised assiduously, aided and abetted by an assistant whohad played golf for England, and who today is world-famousin another branch of surgery. Like every golfer he had histheories, and he gradually came to believe that the ulnar nervehad all to do with putting.

In later years Rees spent more and more of his timeat his delightful home

" Port Regis " which overlooks

the sea near Broadstairs. Here he built a model

preparatory school for boys, where the children ofprofessional colleagues in straitened circumstances wereawarded scholarships. Gradually he sought retirement.Occasionally during the war he came to Town to seeold patients, but after the war he came no more, andthose who knew him at his clubs, the Garrick, Sunning-dale, and Walton Heath, thought he had passed on.In the last few years his health declined rapidly, butI am sure his friends will be glad to know that he diedpeacefully after an attack of pneumonia, almost on his86th birthday.

AppointmentsBIRCHALL, J. C., M.B. Lpool, D.P.H.: deputy M.o.H. and deputy

school M.o., Croydon.HILLIARD, T. L., M.R.C.S. : asst. chest physician (S.H.w.o.), Newport

and East Monmouthshire H.M.C. group.JORDAN, J. W., M.D. Lond., M.R.C.P. : asst. chest physician (s.H.M.o.)

in the Rhymney and Sirhowy Valleys and part of the NorthMonmouthshire H.M.c. groups.

*MOORE’, JoH:J, B.A., M.B. Dubl., D.A. : part-time consultant anres-thetist to hospitals in Liverpool.

PENNIE, 1. D., M.B. Aberd. : appointed factory doctor, Golspiedistrict, Sutherland.

RANGER, DOUGLAS, M.B. Lond., ’F.R.C.8.: asst. consultant laryngo-logist, London Chest Hospital.

TASKER, J. R., M.D. (’amb., M.R.c.p. : consultant in general medicine,Northampton-Kettering area.* Amended Notice.

Birmingham Regional Hospital Board:HuTCHISON, J. T., M.B. Ulasg.. F.R.F.P.S. : asst. chest pliysician

and medical director, Wolverhampton mass-radiography unit.JENKINS, C. R., M.R.C.S., D.A. : part-time consultant anaesthetist,

Shrewsbury group of hospitals.MACARTNEY, J. N., M.B.E., M.D. Belf. : consultant chest physician,

Walsall group of hospitals.South Western Regional Hospital Board :

CROSS, E. G. W., M.R.C.S. : psychiatric registrar.LONDON, P. S., M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S. : senior registrar in ortho-

pædic and traumatic surgery, Bath clinical area.LUKIANOWICZ, NARCYZ, M.D. LWOW: psychiatric registrar.

TAYLOR, A. W., M.B. Lond. : psychiatric registrar.

The Terms and Conditions of Service of Hospital Medical andDental Staff apply to all N.H.S. hospital posts we advertise, unlessotherwise stated. Canvassing disqualifies, but candidates may normallyvisit the hospital by appointment.

EMERGENCY BED SERVICE.—In the week ended last Mondayapplications for general acute cases numbered 1030. Theproportion admitted was 88-4%.

Notes and News

- DISTRIBUTION OF TERRAMYCINTHE Ministry of Health, Department of Health for Scotland,

and ministry of health and local government for NorthernIreland announce that very limited supplies of terramycinwill be available from May 12. For the present, hospitals willbe allowed to use it for the treatment of any conditions inwhich they think it suitable ; ; but its use for domiciliarytreatment will be limited to the conditions for which aureo.mycin is supplied to practitioners-i.e., (1) suspected cases ofornithosis, (2) proved cases of undulant fever (brucellosis),(3) lymphogranuloma inguinale, and (4) severe cases of

atypical pneumonia in which there is good reason to believethat the cause is a virus. An official statement says : " Terra.mycin, like aureomycin and chloramphenicol, is costly andits use can be justified only for conditions in which other drugs(e.g., sulphonamides or penicillin) are unlikely to be effective.’Distribution will be through regional distribution centres,and issues will be made at the discretion of the doctors incharge of these centres. Most of the terramycin will be intablet form (250 mg., 100 mg., and 50 mg. per tablet) ; butpreparations such as intravenous, elixir, and oral drops willbe available in extremely small quantities. Supplies forhospitals and patients outside the National Health Servicewill be obtainable from the centres on the understanding thatthe cost will be recovered by the Ministry of Health from thehospital or practitioner concerned. The centres are as

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Northern Ireland :

Chief Pharmacist, Newcastle upon Tym jGeneral Hospital, 418; Westgate Road.Newcastle, 4. Tel. Newcastle 35211.

Medical Superintendent, Leeds Blood Trans-fusion Laboratory, The Bridle Path, YorkRoad, Seacroft, Leeds. Tel. Leeds 45091.3.

Chief Pharmacist, City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham. Tel. Nottingham63361.

Chief Pharmacist, Addenbrooke’s Hospital,Cambridge. Tel. Cambridge 4451.

Chief Pharmacist, West Middlesex Hospital,Twickenham Road, Isleworth. Tel. Hounsluiv2311.

Medical Superintendent, Mile End Hospital,Bancroft Road, E.1. Tel. Advance 2873,7.

Medical Superintendent, Grove Park Hos-pital, Lee, S.E.12. Tel. Lee Green 10778,

Medical Superintendent, South London Blood .

Supply Depot, Stanley Road, Sutton,Surrey. Tel. Vigilant 0068.

Chief Pharmacist, United Oxford Hospitals.Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford.Tel. Oxford 48651.

Medical Superintendent, Ham Green Infec-tious Disease Hospital and Sanatorium,Bristol. Tel. Bristol 31165.

Medical Superintendent, City Isolation Hospital, Canton, Cardiff. Tel. Cardiff 21466.

Medical Superintendent, Selly Oak Hospitel,Birmingham. Tel. Selly Oak 1361,

Chief Pharmacist, Manchester Royal 1nJJr’mary, Manchester, 13. Tel. Ardwick 3300.

Medical Superintendent; Aintree Hospital.Fazakerley, Liverpool, 9. Tel. Aintree2324. -

Medical Superintendent, Raigmore Hospital.Inverness.

Medical Superintendent, King’s Cross Hos-pital, Dundee.

Dr. J. Smith, Regional Laboratory, CityHospital, Aberdeen.

(For general practitioners.) Medical Scpa’ ! iintendent, Western General Hospital, ;Edinburgh. ,

(For hospitals’.-) Chief Pharmacist, WesternGeneral Hospital, Edinburgh.

(For general practitioners.) Senior Adminis-trative Medical Officer, Western Regional )Hospital Board, 64, West Regent Street, jGlasgow. ’

(For hospitals.) Chief Pharmacist, CentralInfusion Fluids Laboratory, 112, Ingram Street, Glasgow, C.1. ’

Institute of Pathology, Grosvenor Road,Belfast.

DENTISTS REGISTER

,THE Dentists Register for 1952, published at 18s. byConstable & Co. Ltd., 10, Orange Street, London, for the Dental Board of the United Kingdom, contains 15,551 ,names of dentists (including 218 dentists from the DominioP; ’and Colonies and 272 foreign dentists) against 15,327 (including122 dentists from the Dominions and Colonies and 277 foreigndentists) ’in 1951. -