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practice throughout the southern portion of the peninsula.Dr. Otto von Schrönn is a Bavarian, having been born atHof, on the Saale.

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PROFESSOR KUSSMAUL.

A HOLIDAY CONTRI]BUTOR writes :-The Medical Faculty of [

the University of Strasburg on the 3rd inst. entertained at 1

a public banquet the distinguished clinical teacher GeheimRath Professor Kussmaul, on his changing the academiccareer for that of a consultant at Heidelberg. Dr. Goltz, asDean of the Faculty, whose gifts as an after-dinner speaker

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are famous through Germany, outshone himself in doingjustice to the toast of the evening, scoring point after pointamid the rapturous plaudits of the four hundred banqueters,and emphasising each witty allusion and humorous sallywith a gigantic percussion hammer and pleximeter which,in honour of the guest, he had substituted for the usualmallet of the toastmaster. He concluded by predicting thatKussmaul, though abdicating the professor’s chair, will yetspeak with authority in the medical councils of Europe, andthat humanity will owe him an ever-increasing debt so longas his opinion and practice can be appealed to. Dr. Z6pffel,Rector of the University, made a personal contribution to thetoast by dwelling on the kindly and clubable qualities thathad endeared Kussmaul to his colleagues and to all withwhom he came in contact; and added that if the Strasburgschool ever attains the high ideal it has set itself, not only asa guiding light in science but as a bulwark of German civili-sation, it will owe its success in great measure to the powerand the influence of Kussmaul as a worker and a teacher.Dr. Freund, Professor of Gynaecology, was the next speaker,and after referring in humorous strain to the accident thathad made Kussmaul a physician-to wit, an accident to hisfoot which induced temporary lameness, and with it aninterval of sage reflection,-he evoked peals of langhterfrom his audience by hinting that, their names beingidentical in meaning, the Oribasius of the fourth centurywas no other than the Kussmaul of the nineteenth, but thatthe clinical teacher of Strasburg had greatly improved onhis alter ego, the body physician to the Emperor Julian theApostate. This was a highly effective sally, " Oribasius

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being an exact equivalent in Latin for the German"Kussmaul" (literally ’°kiss-mouth"). Professor von

Recklinghausen then gave the toast of their guest’s family,and took occasion to acknowledge how much his own field,that of pathological anatomy, owed to Kussmaul’s work.This remark brought up Professor Liicke, who said that, asa surgeon who appreciated the value of treatment, he couldadd his tribute of recognition to the catholic teaching oitheir guest, in honour of whom he called for a special toast"To the Unity of the Healing Art." So ended a memorabh

evening, in which academic orators of exceptional brillianc3vied with each other in bidding God-speed to an illustriou;colleague in a new departure in his life work.

PURPURA HÆMORRHAGICA AFTER A MENTAL

SHOCK.

DR. ED. DE SMET of Brussels has recently had a case of ayoung woman of a highly nervous temperament who, inconsequence of a severe fright, experienced an eruption ofpurpura baemorrhagiea, though she had never had anyeruption of the kind before. Some four months subse-

quently, however, in consequence of a fall, a similar erup-tion made its appearance. The treatment was directedmainly to the nervous system, which was evidently verymuch affected. Dr. de Smet refers to M. Lenoir of Lille,who has published cases of various skin diseases-eczema,psoriasis, herpes, pemphigus, and vitiligo-which havefollowed a mental shock.

THE CONVERSION OF CONSOLS.

MR. GoacHBN’s new Stock having been already dealtin, it is idle to put forward objections to his conversionscheme, or to dwell on the hardships which will inevit-ably result to investors here and there from the com-

pulsory reduction of incomes drawn from the public funds.It is perhaps more satisfactory to consider the operationunder the other aspect of the relief which it will afford tothe British taxpayer; and indeed the class of taxpayers isso much larger than the class of fundholders that the popu-larity in a general sense of any scheme which tends tobenefit the former at the expense of the latter is almost amatter of course. The reduction proposed by the Chancellorof the Exchequer will amount at first to per cent. upon thestock held or to 8 per cent. of the income drawn from it, andthis will eventually be doubled. This in the not verycommon case of an income drawn wholly from 3 per cent.Government stocks will be a very serious diminution, andit may be feared that many charities, among which not afew medical charities must be reckoned, will feel the pinch.In such cases it is a point to be considered whether it isnot worth while to seek other and more remunerative in-vestments for the displaced funds; and although the presenthigh price of securities makes the duty of reinvesting oneof more than ordinary difficulty, it is at least undeniablethat a better return may be obtained upon carefully chosensecurities of a perfectly sound description than the newstock offers. It appears to us that it will now become theclear duty of the guardians of charitable trusts who exercisediscretionary powers of investment, to face this problem,and submit to no impairment of the incomes subject totheir administration which it is possible by good husbandryto avoid.

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HOSPITAL PROVISION NEAR BRADFORD.

THE conference which Dr. Barry, representing the LocalGovernment Board, has had with the sanitary authoritiesaround Bradford, who are entitled to receive a sum of

money from the Corporation in compensation for their

losing the right to send patients into the borough feverhospital, is already taking practical effect. The ShipleyLocal Board have chosen a site which they propose to utilisejointly with the Windhill Local Board; it has been decidedthat a pavilion shall be erected on the model plan recom-mended by the Local Government Board, and that it shallcontain ten or twelve beds so contrived as to secure separa-tion of diseases as well as of sexes; and the Shipley authorityhave unanimously determined to apply to the central

authority for the issue of a provisional order uniting thetwo districts as a Joint Hospital District.

THE HEALTH OFFICER FOR ABERDEEN.

IT is sincerely to be hoped that candidates for the

ippointment of Medical Officer of Health for the City ofAberdeen will carefully consider the terms of the appoint-ment. The holder of this office will be required to act inaddition as police surgeon, medical attendant at the CityHospital, and examiner of the quality of gas, and will befurther required to devote the whole of his time to theduties of the appointment. Assuming that the payment forattendance upon the police force is at the rate of four

shillings per man per annum, the usual club rate, the

remaining duties will be paid for at the rate of aboutfifteen shillings per day, for the whole salary is only S300a year. Moreover, the medical officer of health must notbe absent more than one day without leave, and is obligedto provide a substitute at his own expense when absent.Such is the estimation in which the Town Council ofAberdeen hold important medical services. The salary is