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THE QUEKETT MEMORIAL MEDAL FUND.-The Council of the Microscopical Society of London,desirousoftestifying theiresteem for the late Professor Quekett, and to commemorate thevalue of his services rendered to the Society for nearly twentyyears, have resolved to raise a fund, the interest of which,after payment of the books and instruments purchased for theSociety at the late Professor Quekett’s sale, shall be devoted tothe purchase of a medal, to be called the "Qnekett Medal,"and to be given at the discretion of the Council (if possibleannually) to such member of the Society who, in the opinionof the Council, has best promoted the interest of microscopicalscience. With the view of carrying out this laudable object asubscription has been set on foot, and a considerable sumraised. We cordially recommend the Medal Fund to our

readers. Dr. Millar, of Bethnall House, is Treasurer, and Mr.Jabez Hogg, of Bedford-square, Hon. Secretary.NORTH LONDON MEDICAL SOCIETY.—The following is a

list of office-bearers for the session 1862-63 :-Mr. E. Cousins,President; Dr. Cholmeley, Dr. Copland, Dr. Hare, and Dr.,Croft, Vice-Presidents; Dr. Part, Mr. W. Clifton, and Mr.W. A. N. Cattlin, Trustees; Mr. W. Adams, Treasurer; Dr.Westley, Secretary ; Dr. Reynolds, Mr. J. Hainworth, Mr.T. C. Jackson, Mr. J. S. Baly, Mr. G. Tate, Mr. R. Quain, Dr.Hillier, Dr. Mageniss, Mr. Lord, and Dr. Collins, Councillors.JUNIOR MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—The annual

general meeting of this Society was held on the 11th instant,W. Fairlie Clarke, Esq., president, in the chair. The reportof the council for the past year was read by Mr. Frank W.Cooper (Charing-cross), and displayed a very prosperous con-dition of the Society. It was moved by Mr. G. B. Brodie (St.George’s), seconded by Mr. Axford (King’s), and carried una-nimously, "That the report now read be received and adopted."

Mr. John F. Deck (St. Thomas’s) then read over certain ad-ditions to the laws and bye-laws which were submitted by thecouncil for consideration, the majority being carried nem. con.

Mr. Stevenson (Guy’s) proposed, and Mr. Muir (Gny’s)seconded, " That the expenses of the Society, including thoseof all ordinary and general meetings, be defrayed by a contin-gent furnished by each Hospital Medical Society in union proratâ, the rate to be levied according to the number of newmembers admitted during the preceding year ; and that re-freshments be discontinued."The laws and bye-laws were ordered to be printed and cir-

culated ; and a vote of thanks to the president closed themeeting.

ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-Mr. S. J. Gibbons, chairmanof the City Lands Committee, presented a report from thatbody upon a communication from the vestry clerk of the parishof St. George the Martyr, Southwark, in relation to the re-

building of St. Thomas’s Hospital, enclosing a resolution unani-mously agreed to by them, urging that the hospital should berebuilt on some suitable spot of the south district of the metro-polis, and against its removal north of the Thames. The com-mittee, having considered the subject, felt that the corporationhad no legal power to interfere in it, but expressed an opinionthat it was desirable that the new hospital should be erected on some suitable spot in the south district of the metropolis,an opinion which they understood was concurred in by thecommittee of the governors of the hospital. The report wasadopted by the Court, and Mr. Stuart gave notice of a motionto refer it to a committee to watch the proceedings of the hos-pital authorities in relation to its removal, and to urge theerection of the new one in a situation south of the Thames, asnear to the city of London as should be most accessible to theafflicted poor, and most conducive to their restoration to health.

ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-At a meeting on the 18thinstant-J. Crawrurd, Esq., president, in the chair -a- paperwas read by William Bollaert, Esq., " On the Ancient IndianTombs at Chiriqui, Isthmus of Darien ;" with a Note by C.Carter Blake, Esq., on some stone celts found in them. In1859, gold ornaments and pottery were discovered in thesegraves, through the falling of a tree which had grown uponone of them ; and great numbers were opened and ran-

sacked between June and August of that year, 1500 personsbeing engaged in digging, and 250lb. weight of gold, valuedat £12,500, being extracted. The plain of Bugàbita, the sceneof these excavations, is a mile square, surrounded by moun-tains ; and the graves are spread round a central mound ofstones four or five yards high. Other graves have since beenfound in other places; and the whole district teems with them.Some of the gold ornaments represent various New-Worldanimals, such as frogs, tapirs, &c.; while others are moulded

into grotesque, obscene, and hideous forms. Amongst them isthe sacred parrot, or guacamayo. The author considered theseas the work of the Durachos-a race he conjectured to have,been derived from a portion of the Chorotecam nation of Nica-ragua. One celt found in the Bugàbita district Mr. Blakethought, from its rough workmanship, might be of more ancientdate than the Durachos’ tombs, which Mr. Bollaert puts downas some 700 or 800 years old.HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK ENDING

SATURDAY, MARCH 15TH. - The returns for London for theweek that ended last Saturday exhibit a decrease on the highmortality of. the previous week. The deaths last week were1423. The average number corrected for corresponding weeksin ten years (1852-61) is 1408. The actual mortality differedlittle from the amount as obtained by calculation from thereturns of former years for the second week of March. Thedeaths from typhus are still very numerous, though the numberis not quite so high as that of the previous week. They rosein that week to 123; they were last week 108. There were 49deaths from scarlatina, 19 from diphtheria, 162 from phthisis,and almost the same number from bronchitis. A man aged 28,at Walham-green, was suffocated by the impaction of meat inhis glottis. A girl, aged 6 years, died from eating too manynuts. A widow died at 9, North-street, Marylebone, on 8thMarch, whose age is stated to have been 100 years and 6 months.She was born and had lived all her life in London, where forabout 50 years she has followed the occupation of a laundress.Eleven deaths of nonagenarians were recorded, the two oldestof whom were respectively 95 and 96 years.The births were--boys, 991; girls, 949. Total, 1940.

MEDICAL VACANCIES.THE office of Physician to the Eastern Dispensary, Bath, has become vacant

by the resignation of Dr. Wm. Robinson Hill.An Assistant-Physician and an Assistant-Surgeon are required for the West-

tnin-ter Hospital.There is a vacancy for a Medical Officer for the Crich District of the Belper

Union, Berbyshire. A Medical Officer is wanted for the Workhouse and Eastehurch District of

the Sheppey Union, Kent.There is a vacancy for a Medical Officer for the Mawddwy District of the

Dulgelly Union, Merionethshire.The office of Apothecary to the Mountjoy Male Convict Prison is now vacant

by the resignation of Dr. Halahan.A Medical Officer is required for Ne. 1 District of the Stepney Union.

MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS.MR. w. H. BLAIR has been appointed House-Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary

and Dispensary, Windsor.’ Mr. Soelberg Wells has been elected Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Middlesex

Hospital._

Mr. John E. Cartwright has been elected Surgeon to the Seamen’s Infirmary,Ramsgate.

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Mr. Rowland Hills has been appointed House-Surgeon to the Chesterfieldand North Derbyshire Infirmary.

- Mr. Charles Vernon Httchins has been elected Honorary Surgeon to theWeston-super-Mare Dispensary, in the room of Mr. R Alford, resigned.

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Mr. Hasler Harris has been appointed Surgeon to the National Dental Hos-pital, by the vacancy caused by the late Mr. James Robinson.

Dr. John Gardiner ha been appointed Medical Officer for the KirkheatonDistrict of the Hucidersficld Union, Yorkshire; Mr. Alexander Dyson, for theHonley District; Mr. James King, for the Fulstone District; and Mr. John

; Dowse, for the Cumbr:rworth District.e Mr. James Neale Earle, one of the District Surgeons of the Royal Souths London Dispensary, St. George’s-cross, Lambeth, lias been elected full Sur.

geon to that institution.a Dr. Robert Eumund Scoresby Jackson has been appointed Lecturer on!- Materia Medica at Saroeon’s Hall, Edinburgh.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

On the 28th ult., at Dellair House, Tottenham, the wife of J. P. Penne-father, L.K.Q.C.P.I. of son.On the 31st of Jan., at Old-town, Old Kalabar, the wife of Archibald Hewan,

Esq , Surgeon and Medical lhssionary, of a son.On the 2nd inst., at Limerick, the wife of Staff-Surgeon Johnston Fergus-

son, of a danghter.On the 7th inst., at Westland-row, Dublin, the wife of Francis Richard

Cruise, M.D., of a son.On the 12th ii-,st., at Deal, the wife of Dr. J. Breaaiy, R.N., of a son.On the 13th inst., the wife of S. B. Birch, 11.D., of Grove Lodge, Kensington-

gore, of a daughter.On the 13th inst., at Ranheitlor-street, Edinburgh, the wie of Geo. Cowan,

M.1)., ot a daughter.On the 14th inst., at Finslxury-squnre, the wife of Herbert Davies, M.D,, of

a.son.

On the 14th inst., at Clarence-square, Br:ghton, the wife of Richard Hughes,L.R.C.P., of a daughter.On the 15th inst., at Northampton-park, Canonbury, the wife of E. W.Tait,

Esq., M.R.C.S., of a daughter,

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On the 16th inst., at Eversfield-place, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea, the wife of JohnPenhall, Esq., M.R.C.S., of a daughter.On the 16th inst., at The Circus, Bath, the wife of Charles Coates, M.D., of

a daughter.On the 16th inst., at Green-street, Grosvenor-square, the wife of Gustavus

Murray, M.D., of a son.On the 18th inst, at Queen-street, Edinburgh, the wife of J. S. Beveridge,

L.R.C.P., of Stamford, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES. IOn the 10th of Dec. last, at Sydney, New South Wales, H. Fyffe, Esq.,

M.R.C.S., to Emily Catherine, second daughter of J. Garrick, Esq., of Sydney. On the 3rd inst., at Betley, Henry Crutchlev, L.R.C.P., of Mansfield, Notts,

to Ellen, third daughter of John Warburton, Esq., L.S.A., of Prospect House,Betley, Staffordshire. _____

DEATHS.On the 3rd inst., at Brighton-park, Clifton, Thomas Martin, Esq., M.R.C.S.,

late Surgeon to the Bristol Dispensary, aged 51.On the 9th inst., Jeremiah Renshaw, Esq., L.R.C.P., of Altrincham and

Ashton-upon-Mersey.On the 12th inst., at Old Charlton, Kent, Arthur Wyatt, M.R.C.S., aged 35.

Medical Diary of the Week.

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ST. MARE’S HOSPITAL FOR FISTULA AND OTHERDISEASES OF THE RECTUM.-Operations, 1&frac14; P.M.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.METROPOLITAN FBEB HOSPITAL. - Operations,

2 P.M.ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.-8 P.M. Dr. Lionel S. Beale, "On the Anatomyof the Liver, with Observations on CertainChanges occurring in Disease."

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. - 8&frac12; P.M. Dr.Anstie, " On the Treatment of Epilepsy."GUY’S HOSPITAL. -Operations, 1&frac12; P.M.WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.ROYAL INSTITUTION.-3 P.M. Mr. John Marshall,

" On the Physiology of the Senses."ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF

LONDON.&mdash;8&frac12; P.M. Dr. Edward Smith, "On thePrevalence of Conditions affecting the Constitu-

) tion of Phthisical Persons." - Dr. Reed, " Fur-ther Remarks on Affections of the Caecum."

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. - Operations2 P.M.

ROYAL ORTHOP&AElig;DIC HOSPITAL. - Operations, 2 P.M.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.-4P.M. CroonianLectures : Dr. Lee, "On the Nervous Structures

LH Of the Thoracic, Abdominal, and Pelvic Viscera."HUNTERIAN SOCIETY.-8 P.M.ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL. &mdash;

Operations, 1 P.M.LONDON HOSPITAL.-Operations. 1&frac12; P.M.GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, KlNG’8 CROSS.-

Operations, 2 P.M.LONDON SURGICAL HOME.-Operations, 2 P.M.WEST LONDON HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.

ROYAL INSTITUTION.-3 P.M. Prof. Tyndall, " OnHeat "WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL. - Opera.! tions, It P.M.ROYAL COLLEGE OF PYSICIANS.-4 P.M. Lum-

leian Lectures: Dr. Williams, "The Successes.-{ and Failures of Medicine:"

ROYAL INSTITUTION.-8 P.M. Admiral Fitzroy, "AnExplanation of the Meteorological Electric Tele-graphy, and its Dases now under Trial at the

I- Board of Trade."(ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.

I ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1&frac12;

P.M.

KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1&frac12; P.M.- j CHARING.CROSS HOSPITAL.&mdash;Operations, 2 P.M.ROYAL INSTITUTION.-3 P.M. Prof. H. E. Roscoe,

" On Spectrum Analysis."CHRISTIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.&mdash;8 P.M. Meet-L ing at Freemasons’ Hall.

To Correspondents.TnB COLLEGE EXAMINATIONS.

Studens.-Under certain circumstances, the Examiners of the College makeexceptions to the regulations in force. We believe that in this respect thegreatest liberality consistent with justice is exercised by the Court. It is

probable that, if a memorial were addressed to them, "Studens" wouldcome under the old regulations. Medical education is at present under theinfluence of a salutary change. There may be cases of individual hardship;but nothing could be more conducive to the elevation of the profession,socially and personally, than the regulations made by the General Council ofMedical Education. That the members of a learned profession like that ofmedicine should be well educated generally, is an axiom which cannot becontroverted. The practitioner of our art ought to be regarded as a gentle-man, and his early education should be consistent with his honourablecalling. A late prominent Examiner of the Royal College of Surgeonsstated, in his evidence before a Parliamentary Committee, that many ofthe candidates for the diploma of the College were lamentably deficient inthe first elements of knowledge. Whatever truth there might have been inthis assertion in days gone by, happily in the future it cannot be applicable.The preliminary examination which has been instituted will test the generalacquirements of the student. No one who has the welfare of his professionat heart would take exception to the wise regulations of our corporatebodies in this matter. " I would wish," said Sir Astley Cooper, " thatevery man who aspires to be a member of my profession should be a gentle-man." To be a gentleman, he must by his previous education be not in-ferior to the alumni of other learned professions. We have laboured under

great disadvantages in this respect from the jealousies of corporate bodies.These jealousies still exist; but upon one point the Colleges appear to beagreed-viz., in the enforcement of such an examination as will test the can-didate as to his preliminary knowledge. As a general rule, the preliminaryexaminations cannot be regarded as arbitrary. The benefits we shall derivefrom these wholesome regulations are, as they should be, prospective, andwe think that the manner in which the various examining bodies havecarried out their plan of reform is most salutary, and entitled to the appro-bation of the profession. There will always be exceptions to a rule; butthese do not militate against its necessity or its prudence.

B. M., (Worcester.) -The questions propounded to us are scarcely stated withsufficient distinctness. As a rule, however, it may be said that it is incon.sistent, to say the least of it, for a physician attached to an hospital to holdoffice in another institution as a general practitioner. It is contrary toetiquette fur a physician so attached to act as a general practitioner inprivate practice. With regard to the surgeon of an hospital, we believe thatit is common in many towns and cities of this kingdom for a gentleman socircumstanced to practise generally. That which is customary, therefore,

, might be regarded as proper, and not an infringement of the etiquette of theprofession.

Enquirer.-1. We do not know the result.-2. We cannot say.

ARSENICAL MUCILAGE IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER.To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-In my report of the four cases of cancer which appeared in your impression of the lst instant, I omitted to "ive the form of the arsenical mucilagewhich has been so successfully employed by me in many cases of epithelialcancer during- the last eighteen months. The following is the formula:-Ar,enious acid, gum arabic puwder, of each one ounce, mixed with five drachmsof water. The part affected to be painted over with the mucilage night andmorning, never exceeding one superficial inch. As the part becomes deadened,it must be allowed to slough off, aided bv the application of a simple warmbread-and-water poultice. When all the diseased part has been thus got ridof by the repeated application of the mucilage, a carrot poultice should be ap-pLed during the night, and a weak black lolion during the day (calomel, onedrachm; hme water, one pint), until the part is entirely healed.Medical treatment.-In persons of general good health, bicarbonate of soda,

fifteen grains, niht and morning; in persons of leuco-phlegmatic habit, onesoda ponder every night on going to bed, and the following draught twiceduring the day:&mdash;Hydrochloric acid, one drop; compound tincture of cinchona,one drachm and a half; to one ounce and a halt of water. Full d et, withmalt liquor, I consider to be absolutely necessary, avoiding spirits andtobacco, but wine I recommend to those who are in the habit of taking it.

It is by this mode of treatment I consider such a change is produced in theconstitution as to arrust and even destroy a cancerous action, as I have not yetseen a single instance of the disease returning in any of the cases thus treated.There are several cases now under this treatment, which can be seen by anymedical man who may desire to visit the hospital.-Yours truly,

W. MARSDEN, M.D.,Surgeon to the Cancer Hospital, London and Brompton.

Lincolii’s-inn-nelds, March, 1862.