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as a probable instance ; but though the brain was not examined,I do not think there is on the face of the thing evidence suffi-cient to support the notion. If the hydatid produced hismania, why did it not do so before ? The tumour had existedfour years to his knowledge, and we are bound to believelonger than that ere it was large enough to excite notice. Yetit might have been from the bursting of the cyst. True, as doessome:imes happen ; but in this case, at that time when theevent is supposed to have occurred the tumour was at its thick-est ; therefore these two grounds of probability are untenable.So that more likely the progressive asthenia and the albuminuriawere the cause of his temporary mania, rather than hydatidsin the brain.

Brighton, Jan. 4th, 1864.

Medical News.UNIVERSITY OF LONDON : SECOND M.B. EXAMINATION,

1863.-Examination for Honours.-Surgery: 1st Class-Jas.Beddard, Guy’s, Scholarship and Gold Medal; Philip HenryPye-Smith, Guy’s, Gold Medal; Thomas Stevenson, Guy’s;Walter Rivin,!toD, London Hospital. 2nd Class-Julins St.Thomas Clarke, Guy’s; Arthur Wellesley Edis, WestminsterHospital. - Medicine : 1st Class-John Talfourd Jones, Uni-versity College, Scholarship and Gold Medal; Philip HenryPye-Smith, Guy’s, Gold Me(lal; Thomas Stevenson, Guy’s;James Beddard, Guy’s. 2nd Class,-Frederick Thos. Roberts,University College; Henry Thomas Lanchester, St. Bartholo-mew’s ; John Wale Hicks, St. Thomas’s. 3rd Class-JuliusSt. Thomas Clarke, Guy’s ; James Gwyther, Manchester RoyalInfirmary ; Arthur Wellesley E ’is, Westminster Hospital.-Forensic Medicine : 1st Class-Thos. Stevenson, Guy’s, Scholar-ship and Gold Nledal ; John Talfourd Jones, University College,Gold Medal; Julius St. Thomas Clarke, Guy’s ; Walter Rivirig-ton, London Hospital, and Frederick Thomas Roberts, Univer-sity College., equal. 2nd Class-James Beddard and PhilipHenry Pye-Smith, Guy’s, equal; James G wyther, ManchesterRoyal Infirmary. 3rd Class-Arthur Wellesley Edis, West-minster llaspical, and John Wale Hicks, S:. Thomas’s, equal;Wm. Henry Axford, King’s College.-Midwifery: 1st Class--Thomas Stevenson, Guy’s, Scholarship and Gold Medal; JohnWale Hicks, St. Thomas’s, Gold Medal; Philip Henry Pye-Smith, Guy’s ; James Beddard, Guy’s. 2nd Class-JuliusSt. Thomas Clark, Guy’s; Gwynne Henry Harries, King’sCollege; John T,.lt’()urd Jones, University College; FrederickThos. Roberts, University College. 3rd Class-Jas. Gwyther,Manchester Royal lnfirurary ; Walter Rivington, -LondonHospital.LECTURES AT THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. — Dr. G.

Johnson has applied to the Council of the College for permis-sion to deliver some lectures on the Laryngoscope, and hisrequest has been granted.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.-A rather sharp con-

test, it is stated, is about to take place within the walls of thisinstitution, consequent, on the deith of Mr. J. H. Green, whichevent has caused three vacant chairs.-one in the Council, asecond in the Court of Examiners. and the third at the DentalBoard. The last will, it is expected, fall to the lot of Mr. South.The election ino the Conncil will not take place until theannual meeting of the fellows in July next. But for the lucra-tive appointment of Examiner for the diplomas of fellowshipand of membership a striiggle will be made between two, if notthree, members of the Council. There is some doubt whetherProfessor Gnlliver, the senior member, will not decline to be

put in Domination ; feeling, perhaps, that unless connectedwith a metropolitan hospital he would be placed in a minority.The real congest will be between Professors Partridge andHilton.MR. SKEY on Monday last formally resigned the office

of Surgeon to St. BARTHOLOMEW’S Hospital. Mr. Holmes Cootesucceeds him.

H. T. LOMAX, M.R C S. Eng , has been placed in the Commission of the Peace for the borough of Stafford. TEMPORARY 0m.BUS FOR MEDICAL RELIEF.-On

Monday evening the guardians of Bethnal-green directed theirrelieving officer to discontinue the issue of "one day medicalorder," in consequence of the system operating to the pre-judice of the poor needing ncedical assistance. The issue of’‘one day midwifery orders" has been already forbidden bythe Poor-law Board.

ADDENBROOgE’s HOSPITAL. -At the last quarterlycourt of the governors of Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Dr. Paget,having served as physician for a second period of twelve years,tendered his resignation. He pursued the same course in 1851,when, at the request of the governor’!, he withdrew his resigna.tion. A complimentary vote of thanks was passed, and he wasagain requested to continue his services, with which he at oncecomplied.THE LATE MR. GREEN AND THE VETERINARY COLLEGE.

- In May. 1819, he was unanimously chosen a member of theBoard of Examiners of the Royal Veterinary Colleg·, to supplythe vacancy caused by the death of the younger Cline. Asso.

ciating himself in the performance of these duties with the lateMr. Abernethy, Dr. Babington, Dr. Baillie, Sir A. Cooper,Dr. Cooke, Henry Cline, Sir E. Home, Dr. Pearson, J. Wilson,and Professors Coleman and Sewell, he lived to see all thesecarried to the tombs of their fathers, and to have for his col.leagues an entirely new company of worthies. On the attain-ment of the Charter in lS44 Mr. Green continued his connexionwith the College until the formation of a permanent board,when he resigned, receiving the thanks of the Council for hisdistingaished and eminently useful services.TRAINED NURSES FOR TURKEY.-Miss Nightingale,

whose continued delicate state of health, we regret to state,cause3 her many friends much uneasiness, has expressed herintention through Dr. Foote, of Cnnstantinopip, of training, atthe expense of her fund, properly recommended persons toserve as nurses in that city. The want of such attendance hasbeen long severely felt, the only existing provision of the kindbeing that afforded by the Sisters of Charity, the PrussianDeaconesses, and a few ill-trained midwivps, who afford butvery inadequate supply for the demand for their services.

MORTALITY OF PUBLICANS.-The mortality betweenthe ages of 45 and 55 of the population of England is 18 per1000 persons, while the mortality among publicans during thesame decennial period is no less than 2.UNPROVED CHARGE AGAINST A MILITARY SURGEON.-

A court-martial has been held at Woolwich on an assistant.

surgeon in the army for conduct unbecomimg an officer, indrinking intoxicating liquors to such excess as to produce ill-ness, by which he was incapacitated for the performance of hisduties. The court held that the charge was not proved, andacquitted the prisoner.DEPUTY INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF MALTA HOSPITAL.-

Dr. Charles Abercromhy Anderson has been appointed by theFirst Lord of the Admiralry to be Deputy Inspector-General ofMalta Hospital, vice Dr. A. Armstrong, to be superseded at hisown request. Dr. Anderson served as an additional assistant-surgeon in the Camperdown, 104, flag-ship at, Sheerness, in 1841 and 1842 ; in the Queen, 110, and Formidable 84, flag-ships in the Mediterranein, in 1843 and 1844; was an assistant-surgeon at Greenwich Hospital in 1846; and in the Asia, 84,in the Pacific, in 1847 and J&49, when he was promoted to besurgeon and appointed to the Gorgon, 6, in wni h he remainedtill the close of 1851. He served in the Blenheim, 60, andExmouth, 90, from 1854 to 1856, when he was appointed staff-surgeon on the Culcutta, 84, where he continued until he waspromoted to be deputy inspector-general of hospitals and fleets,1858. He was appointed deputy-inspector general at Hong-Kong, where he remained till 1860.PERSEVERANCE.-The chair of Surgery of the Faculty

of Turin was lately competed for by Mes rs. Pacchiotti andBottini. The former best his adversary and obtained the pro-fessorship, for which he had competed five times previously.BEDFORD NEW DISPENSARY.-A general dispensary has

been established at Bedford on the self supporting plan. Theiirst. act of the comarittee was the liberal one of deciding togive the surgeon from the general fund of the institution halfas much again as had been contributed by the free members inall CllS9S of illness attended by them. We should be glad tobe informed on what possible grounds this new institution canbe calietl a self-supporting dispensary. lf charity is the mainelement in its regulations, the new dispensary belies its assumed

title. If patients are to be objects of eleemosynary aid, theentire object for which it is assumed that self-supporting dis-pensaries are necessary sinks to the ground. The greatest oftyrznny "has been characterized as that which works withthe machinery of freedom." Charity is never more abused thanwhen it gives a right for relief to those who claim a right whichis in reality a charitable contribution to their necessities.

55THE MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PARIS.-

From a letter of Dr. Brierre de Bois’Dont, of Paris, dated29th of D. cumber, published in Le Droit of the 31st, weread as follows: ’’The Medico Psychological Society of Paris,justly moved by the condemnation to death of Townley, insanesince his incarceration, and very probably inaace at the timeof the murder of Miss Goodwin, his betrothed, has named acommission charged with the task of reporting to it on thisdeplorable affair. It awaits the information which, through oneof its members, it has requested from Dr. Forbes Winslow.himself a member of the Society, before expressing an opinion."SUSPECTED DEATH FROM ACONITE.-Mr. Humphreys

has recently held an inquest iii Spitalfields on Mrs. Marns,who died suddenly with symptoms of poisoning. Some pillshad been given to her, after which she became so affected thatshe vomited violfftiy, and convulsions similar to those causedby strychnine followed, and continued with little intermissionuntil she died, in about four-and-twenty hours. Dr. (Gaytonmade a post-mortem examination, but couid find no naturalcause of dot,b. The contents of the stomach were examinedby Dr. Letbeby, who could discover no trace of poison. Variouswitnesses were called, but their evidence failed to criminate anyperson. The jury found "that the death did not arise fromnatural causes."PURIFICATION OF THE THAMES.-Dr. Acland, Regius

Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford, has addr essedsome valuable ohservations to the Registrar-General in re-ference to typhus fever in the colleges and the city of Oxford.The city lies low and is imperfectly drained. He aclvises thatthe drainage of the whole of the Thames Valley above Ted-dington should be in ’be hands of a Government commission.He insists th:1t the elements of disease are conveyed in water,though the distance may not be accurately known, and thatthere are many evils resulting from impure water whih can-not be expressed in the death rate, such as feeble powers, tardyconvalescence, distress and discomfort incalculable.THE CORONERSHIP OF MID-STAFFORDSHIRE.-Dr.

Wollaston, the medical candidate for the coronership of theMidland division of the county of Stafford, we regret to learnis not meeting B"ith the support of his medical brethren whichhas been exhibited so fitvourab’y in other parts of the kingdom.It will be a disgrace to the profession in the county if they allowa lawyer to be fleeted to the important office now vacant. Webelieve Dr. Wolius’on to be well qualified to fulfil the dutiesof coroner. If he fail in the election through the apathyand indiffarence of those who are bound to support him, thapublic will lose the ad vantage of his services, and the professionexhibit another instance of a lamentable want of union andesprit de corps.

OBITUARY.—We have to record the death of T. Jones,Esq., F.R.C.S., &c., of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, at the earlyage of forry-six years, at the Manor House, Chesterfield, onFriday, the 18th nitimo. Mr. Jones had practised for upwardsof twenty years at Chesterfield, and was deservedly esteemedas a worthy mna and skilful practitioner. In addition to theunion and parish appointments, he was also one of the surgeonsto the Chesteriield and North Derbyshire Hospital and Dis-pensary, and assistant-surgeon to the 2ad Derby Militia. Thecircumstances attending his last illness were rather unusual. Aslight sprain of the 3r.kle induced an attack of gout, accom-panied with pain of great severity. The great suffering andwant of sifep were speedily followed by alarming exhaustion,and low dehriutn, from which he never rallied, but died ia lessthan a wetk from the receipt of the accident. In addition tohis professional duties, he had during the past year filled theoffice of mayor of the borough of Chesterfield to the great satis-faction of his fellow townsmen. This loss will be deeply feltby the poor of the town and neighbourhood.

MEDICAL VACANCIES.

Birmingham Dispensary-Junior Resident House-Surgeon, vice Mr. S. Burnie,resigned.

City of London Lunatic Asylum-Resident Medical Superintendent.Hull Infirmary-Resident House-Surgeon.Kent and Canterbury Hospital-Assistant House-Surgeon and Dispenser.

MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS.S. BRADSHAW, M R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer and Public Vac-

einatorfor the Halford District of the Shipston-on-Stour Union, Worcester- shire, vice K. Staninir, M.R.C.S.E.

W. M. BURKE, L.K. Q C.P.L., ona of the Phyicians to Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin, has been appoonted Medical Register for Ireland under the newRegistratiun Act.

P. EADE, M.D., has been appointed Physician to the Jenny Lind Infirmary forSick Children, Vorwich, vice E. Copeman, M.1)., resigned.

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A. L. FERNANDES. M.R.C.S., been appointed ftesident Medical Officer tothe Sheffield txenera;l Infirmary.

R. E. GIBSON, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Surgeon to the Jenny LindInfirmary for Sick Children, Norwich, vice C. E. Muriel, M.R.C.S.E.,resigned. ,

D. HUGHES. M.R.C.S.E., of Ruabon-road, Llaneollen, has been elected MedicalOfficer for the Eastern District of the Corwen Union. Merionethshire andDenbighshire, vice D. Hughes, L.R.C.P.Ed., of Regent-street, Llangollen,resigned.

G. W. MACKENZIE, M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Medical Officcr and PublicV:,ccinator tor the Croxtou District and t’’’e Workhouse of the TbetfordUniun, Nerfoik, vice H. W T:aitry, F.R.C.S.E., resigne’t.

S. NELSON, the Younger. M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Medical Officer andPublic Vaccinator for the Acomb or No. 1 District of the Great OuseburnUl1io:l, Yorkshire, vice i’I!r..1. M.Millan, deceased.

W. PATERSON, M.D., Junior House-Surgeon to the St. Anne’s Dispensary,Liverpool, li has been elected House-Surgeon to the Chorley Dispensary.

W. PRIEST, M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Medical Officer and Publie Vacci-nator for the Colsteworth District of the Grantham Union, Lincolnshire,vice T. Asstin, L.RC,P.Ed., resigned.

A. P. RAYNER, M.R C S.E., has been elected Medical Officer and Public Vacci-nator for the Shawbury District of the Wem Utuou, Salop, vice Mr. T.Drury, deceased.

W. SEdBROOEE, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Resident House-Surgeon tothe Brighton and Hove Lying-in Institution, vice M. Mackintoslh, M.R.C.S.Eng., resigned.

C. WHITE, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to the Dis-pensary, Warrington, Lancashire, vice J Taylor, M.B.*’.S.E., decc-ased.

P. WRT6HT has been elected Out-door Dispenser to the St. Pancras andNorthern Dispensary. _____

MILITARY AND NAVAL MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS.

J. B. BAKER, M.R.C.S.E., Assist,-Surg. to the 80th Foot at Sepree, has beendirected to assume medical charge of a Detachment of the 1st Bengal

, Native Infantry, in addition to his other duties.

R. CANNON, Acting Assist.-Surgeon R.N., has been appointed to the " Sala-mander."

H. CAYLEY, Assist.-Snrg. at Goruckporc, Bengal has been directed to affordmedical aid t, a Detachment of the 17th Bengal Cavalry, in addition to,

his other duties, vice Surg. C. Johnson, proceeding on duty to Delhi.F. CORBYN, M.D., Assist.-Surg. Indian Service, has been promoted to Surgeon,

vice Surg. H. W. Tytler, deceased.Staff Assist.-Surg. CULLEN (from Chatham) has been appointed to the Royal

Arsenal Infirmary, Woolwich, vice Dr. Burton, retired.F. W. A. DE FABECK, Assist.-Surgeon attached to the 19fli Brigade Royal

Artillery, has been posted to the 35th Bengal Native Infantry, vice Assist.-Surg. Govan.

J. FAYRER, M.D., Assiat.-Surg. (Brevet Surg) Bengal Army, has been pro-moted to Surgeon, vice Surg-.Major A. Webb, M.D.. deceased.

M. B. GALLWFY, M.R.C.S.E., Surg.-Major, in medical charge of the 90th LightInfantry at Meernt, has been appointed Surgeon to the Depot Hospital ofH.M.’s Troops at Kidderpore.

J. G. GIBBS, Assist -Surg. Madras Service, has been posted to the 6th NativeInfantry.

J. G. GnANT, Assist.-Surg. to the 48th Foot at Oude, has been directed to re-ceive charge of the office of Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals cluringthe absence on duty of Deputy Inspector-General J. H. K. Iunes, C.B.

J. HENDERSON. Assist.-Surg. 33rd Regt. Madras Native Infantry, has been ap-pointed to aid the Acting Surgeon of the Mysore Commission at Banga-lore, in addition to his military duties.

J. HOOPER, Assist.-Surg. Indian Army, has been promoted to Surgeon, viceSurg.-Major H. Diaper, deceased.

J. W. JOHNSTON, M.D., Assist.-Sn.rg. Benzal Service, in civil medical chargeof Goojrat, hts been dirc eted to assume civil medical charge of Jhelum, in addition to his present duties, as a temporary arrangement.

P. KEELAN, Assist.-Surg. E.N. March 8th, 1859, has been appointed to the" Aurora."

J. A. LAMB, Assist.-S’m’g. to the 54th Font at Bengal, hss been directed toassume medical charge of the 26th Bengal Native Infantry at Morabad, inaddition to his other duties, during the absence on du:y to Ailyaurh ofAssist.-Surg. A. H. Hilson.

C. LOWDELL, As-sist.-Surg. Indian Army, has been promoted to Surgeon, viceJ. Batfotir, Deputy Inspector-Genera.l of Hofpitids. retired.

G. G. W. MAITLAND, Surgeon Bombay Service, has been promoted to Surg.-Najor.

T. D. MILBURN, M.R.C.S.E., Staff Assist.-Surg. Madras Service, has been ap-pointed to the medical charge of the Artillery and Detachment of the105th Regt. at Trachinopoly until further orders.

J. T. SANDERSON, M.D, Surg. Bombay Service, has been appointed Staff Surg.and Deputy Medical Storekeeper at Kurrachæ, vice Pelly.

M. TREVAN, M.R.C.S.E., Assist.-Surg. R.N., has been appointed to the " RoyalA’ie)aide" for Plymouth Hospital.

C. H. WARD, Assist: Surg. R.N., has been appointed to the " Victory" forHaslar llospital.

D. YouNG, ,,1. D., As,ist..Sm’g. Indian Service, h,s been p’omoted to Surgeon,vice Deputy Inspector-General ufHosp’taIs it. W. Faithfull, deceased.

H. YOUNG, Surgeon-Major, has been removed from the 6th Madras lativelntant;y to H.M.’s 102nd Regiment.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

On the 2Sth ult., the v. i!c of Dr. Adams, of Green-street, Sittingbourne, Kent,of a daughter.

On the 28th ult., ’1.t Normanton, Yorkshire, the wife of George Redford,L.F.P. & S. Glas., of a soti.

On the 29th nJt., at Petersham-terrace, South Kensington, the wife of RichardCoc1:ei-tpn, M.R. C.S.E., of a son.

On the 31st ult., at Waltham Abbsy, the wife of Arthur Priest, M.E.C.S.E., of £a daughter.