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NORWICH, CITY OF.-Assistant Medical Officer of Health and Bacterio-logist. Salary .8130 per annum and allowances.

OLDHAM COUNTY BOROUGH.-Assistant Medical Officer of Health.Salary .e200 per annum.

PETERBOROUGH INFIRMARY.-House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary £100per annum, with residence, board, and washing.

POPLAR HOSPITAL FOR ACCIDENTS, Poplar, E.-Assistant HouseSurgeon for six months. Salary at rate of f:80 per annum, with

board and residence.QUEEN’S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney-road, Bethnal Green, E.-

House Physician and Two House Surgeons for six months. Salariesat rate of .S60 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.

ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST, City-road, E.C.-House Physician for six months. Salary at rate of £60 per annum,with board, lodging, and washing.

ROYAL WATERLOO HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN AND WOMEN, S.E.-JuniorResident Medical Officer. Salary at rate of .e50 per annum, withboard and washing.

:ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL, London, W.-Honorary Anaesthetist.:ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, Paddington, W.-Demon-

strator of Physiology. Salary f:150 per annum.ST. PANCRAS AND NORTHERN DISPENSARY, 126, Euston-road.-Resident

Medical Officer. Salary R105 per annum, with residence and attend-ance.

SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.-Junior House Surgeon.Salary £ 80 per annum, with residence, board, and allowance for

laundress.SHEFFIELD, EAST-END BRANCH OF THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL.-

House Surgeon. Salary f:70 per;annum, with board, lodging, andwashing.

SHEFFIELD ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Junior Assistant House Surgeon.Salary .e65 per annum, with board and residence. Also AssistantHouse Physician. Salary f:60 per annum, with board andresidence.

:SHREWSBURY, SALOP INFIRMARY.-House Physician. Salary at rateof 260 per annum, with board and apartments.

’TEIGNMOUTH HOSPITAL, S. Devon.-House Surgeon. Salary £70 per

annum, with board, lodging. and washing.VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Tite-street, Chelsea, S. W.-Surgeonto In-patients.

WARRINGTON COUNTY BOROUGH.-Assistant Medical Officer of Health.Salary ;1;250 per annum.

WARWICK, RATTON ASYLUM.-Third Assistant Medical Officer. Salary2135 per annum, with board, lodging, attendance, and laundry.

WESTERN GENERAL DISPENSARY, Marylebone-road, N. W.-HonoraryPhysician. Also Junior House Surgeon. Salary at rate of £80 perannum, with board, residence, and washing.

WESTON-SUPER-MARE HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary.elOO per annum, with board and residence.

WEST SUSSEX AND CHICHESTER JOINT EDUCATION COMMITTEE.-Medical Inspector of Schools. Salary L350 per annum and expenses.

WHITEHAVEN AND WEST CUMBERLAND INFIRMARY.-Resident HouseSurgeon. Salary .e120 per annum, with board and lodging.

WOLVERHAMPTON AND ’ STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.—HouseSurgeon. Salary £80 per annum, with board, lodging, and laundry.

WORCESTER GENERAL INFIRMARY.-House Surgeon. Salary £80 perannum, with board, residence, and washing.

THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice ofvacancies as Certifying Surgeons under the Factory and WorkshopAct at Accrington, in the county of Lancaster; and at Oughti-bridge, in the county of York.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

KENT.-On July 1st, at Effingham Lawn, Dover, the wife of Charles A.’ Kent, M.D., of a son.SCATLIFF.-On July 2nd, at 11, Charlotte-street, Brighton, the wife of

Harold Scatliff, M.A., M.R.C.S., of a daughter.WALTER.-On July lst, at Wallingford-on-Thames, the wife of Edwin

C. Walter, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., of a son.

MARRIAGES.LEITCH-LOCHHEAD.-At The Milton, Colintraive, on July 3rd, by Rev.

Dugald M’Cormick, Rothesay, assisted by Rev. Gavin J. Tait,Paisley, and Rev. Alexander M’Gilp, Colintraive, Archibald Leitch,M.B., Ch.B., Cancer Research Laboratories, Royal Infirmary,Dundee, to Ethel Macleod, M.B., Ch.B., daughter of J. M. Loch-head, Sheriff-Clerk of Renfrewshire.

PINTO LEITE-WILSON.-On July 6th, at the Church of the Holy Name,Manchester, by the Rev. Bernard Vaughan, S.J., assisted by theRev. Thomas Brown, S.J., Rector, Hubert Pinto Leite, B.A. Cantab.,L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng., eldest son of Joaquim Pinto Leite,Vice-Consul for Portugal in Manchester, and Mrs. Pinto Leite, toDorothy, only child of W. H. Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, late ofManchester. At home, 5, Doughty-street, London, W.C., Sept. 8th,9th, and 10th.

WATSON REID-FORREST.-On July lst, at Christ Church, Crookham,Robert Watson Reid, M.B., to Emily Christina Maud, daughter ofthe late Elton Forrest and Mrs. Forrest.

DEATHS.AsHBY.-On July 5th, at Lancaster-road, Didsbury, Manchester, Henry

Ashby, M.D., aged 62 years.BROCK.-At 5, Manor-place, Edinburgh, suddenly, on July 6th, William

John Brock, M.B., D.Sc. F.R.S.E., Medical Officer of Health forMidlothian, West Lothian, and Peebles-shire.

GWYNN.-On July 1st, at St. Mary’s House, Whitchurch, Salop,S. Tayleur Gwynn, M.D., in the 83rd year of his age.

N.B.-A fee of 5s. is charged for the insertion of Notices of Births,Marriages, and Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

THE LANCET AND THE CURE OF CANCER.

To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-May I say, in reply to your strictures in your last issue, of mycure of cancer ?

(1) When I cured my first case in 1903, I went up to London to tell myson-in-law, Dr. Gage-Brown, all about it. He simply replied, "Thediet would kill the patient." To show England this was not so I traineda Lancashire working man to do a walk of 600 miles in ten days on thediet. The like was never done. I enclose an account of the training.You may study it and make as many inquiries as you like about it.

(2) There is a case of cancer cured in Brigstock-Herbert Crosby.You may see him and examine for yourself.

(3) Widow Neal of Burton Latimer, cured in 1903, said: " We shall nowget the JB20,000, and I shall have some of the money, and take a villa inItaly, and go and live there."

(4) I may say I was the first in the field to advocate the dieteticmethod as the right treatment of disease. I am glad to see, however,that both in this country and in America many are following it to-day.

(5) Dr. Robert Bell, late senior physician of the Women’s Hospital,Glasgow, lecturing in Caxton Hall a few months ago, reported by theMorning Post, claimed the dietetic method as the only treatment forcancer. This he did after repudiating 15 years’ experience in

operations.(6) Dr. Elmers Lee, 137, West 58th-street, New York, says the dietetic

method is the only successful one. Others say the same.

(7) True, it follows that "Cancer Research," "Listerism," "Notifica-tion," "Isolation," "Disinfection," the L.G.B., the need for our heavyrates and taxes, &c., &c., all go now for very little. This, however, is ofsmall consideration in comparison with the boon that the cure of cancerand disease generally means.May I ask you in all fairness, in the name of common honesty, in the

interests of humanity, and particularly in the name of truth, to publishthis letter? I am, Sir, your obedient servant,Brigstock, Thrapston, July 2nd, 1908. J. P. SANDLANDS.

** We publish Mr. Sandlands’s letter because he urges us to do soin the name of truth, but we would ask him to consider his ownresponsibilities towards truth. On the strength of what he calls"cures," he is urging the public to disbelieve in the whole system ofscientific medicine. He may not know that he is ranging himself onthe side of falsehood, his words may be inspired by honest belief; buthe comes by his belief because his faith in himself is colossal and becausehis knowledge of medicine is nil. He incloses us a little pamphletpurporting to describe how he trained a working man to become anathlete. It is a glorification of himself-" My eyes have been

opened and I have been labouring hard and long at this business. Itwould be a strange thing if I should miss the mark." And again-" Iknow from the best of reasons-experience-that it [disease] is nothingbut that which we put into our stomachs. The cause of all our diseasesis there." We learn of Mr. Sandlands’s acumen as a veterinary surgeon-how he cured the baker’s horse and taught two colonials to pasturetheir cattle properly, but we do not see one word in the pamphletwhich supports Mr. Sandlands’s claims to be a cancer curer. The

pamphlet appears to be written in advertisement of certain compostsof fruit and nuts which are advertised on its cover and we have no

question to ask concerning it.-ED. L.

SIC VOS NON VOBIS.

To the Editcr of THE LANCET.

SIR,-Some recent discussions over the Patents Acts induce me tooffer some remarks on the simplicity of our profession in placing free,gratis, and all for nothing at the disposal of the public the products ofour brains. Science and humanity are all very fine in their way, but;his thing may be, and is being, carried too far. I read myself, or rather

presented, a paper at the Glasgow meeting of the British MedicalAssociation in the "eighties" which dealt with the then fundamentallefect in the preparation of meat juices. The paper made a fortune forseveral English companies, but when I appealed to them for some com-)ensation they refused me any, though they could afford to advertise a:olumn of my paper in the pages of THE LANCET for nearly the round of. year. Have not numbers of our profession the same story to tell, ands not all this a very great grievance ? The sums which have been made

y one great English company alone through and by my paper tot up tomndreds of thousands of pounds in a single year, and not even arumb could they spare for Your obedient servant,Cashel, July 4th, 1908. THOMAS LAFFAN.

*** We fear that we cannot sympathise with Mr. Laffan in his com-plaint, but we publish it at his desire. A medical man reading apaper at a medical congress has as his aim the education of his

confreres and the benefit of the public by the improvement ofmedical knowledge. Mr. Laffan has no claim, moral or sentimental,upon these hundreds of thousands of pounds of income or upon thefortunes of the several English companies, even though these mayhave been created by his pen.-ED. L.