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346 minister to their needy neighbours. Nor, is it, I think, a valid reply, that the distribution is made in accordance with the fixed principles of the Fund, since that is a matter which has not beea questioned. Nor, again, do I think it can be fairly said that it is too soon for Guy’s, one of the "large and rich hospitals" you mention, to claim a share of the Hospital Sunday Fund. With 200 beds vacant for want of funds, with an income reduced from £40,000 to .625,000 through the agricultural depression, and yearly decreasing, obliged to appeal to the public for £100,000 in order to pre- vent a further reduction in the number of occupied beds, it seems to me that only ignorance of the facts can excuse (though it ca.nnot’justify) its further exclusion from the benefit of the Fund. I am happy, however, to agree with your concluding remark, that the matter should be brought before the annual meeting of the constituents, as well as before the Distribution Committee. I am. Sirs. vours faithfullv. Dulwich, Aug. 6th, 1887. H. NELSON HARDY. TRACHEOTOMY AND INFLATION IN THE TREATMENT OF A STILLBORN CHILD. To the Editors of THE LANCET. SIRS,—In answer to your correspondent, Mr. Watson, in the case of apparently stillborn children which occurs so very frequently in the ordinary routine of practice, 1 have met with very great success by adopting a course of pro- cedure and treatment which, if efficacious, at the least is apparently a rather rough mode of restoring animation. The child being born and put into the receiver, I let the funis bleed a few drops; then rub the child’s body all over with spirit-brandy or gin, whichever comes the handiest; a few drops, diluted, are put into the mouth; a hot sponge is applied to the heart and head, and likewise down the spine; and the mouth cleansed. I get the nurse to put her mouth in close contact with that of the child, and so make a direct and com- plete inflation in this way, keeping up a complete and direct means of artificial respiration. I have not much faith in any other form or means of artificial respiration. Of course in chafing the child with the spirit as it lies in the nurse’s lap, a few little pats upon the buttocks will help to promote circulation. The above treatment failing, I place the child in a warm bath, but have never met from it any success, as the little patient has always then given up the tenancy of its short life. I am, Sirs, yours, &c., Grosvenor Villas, Ramsgate, August 6th, 1887. CHARLES CHITTENDEN. EDINBURGH. (From our own Correspondent.) UNIVERSITY COURT. AT the last meeting of the University Court, the course of Practical Pathology, conducted by Dr. William Russell, was recognised as a qualifying class in the University Medical Curriculum. GUESTS AT THE UNIVERSITY. Last week the University extended its hospitality to the members of the Association of Mechanical Engineers, who held their annual gathering in Edinburgh this year, largely in consequence of the proximity of the Forth Bridge, which is now in an advanced stage of construction. The Associa- tion was formally welcomed to Scotland by the Marquis of Tweeddale, and to the University itself by Sir William Muir. During their visit the members inspected the Forth Bridge, and other important engineering undertakings in the vicinity of Edinburgh, and a series of social festivities I were held in their honour. At one of these, a conversazione given by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh in the Museum of Science and Art, an address was delivered by Sir William Thomson on the subject of Ship Waves, which was attended by a large and interested audience. THE UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL. The draft of the Government Bill for the better admini- stration and endowment of the Universities of Scotland has been published in the leading Scottish newspapers. It is considerably altered since it was drafted by a Liberal Government in 1884, and it is in some respects distinctly an improvement upon that measure. It is in all respects a happy circumstance that it is to be brought forward so near the end of the parliamentary session, and at a time when the corporate bodies whose interests are involved are in a state of summer relaxation and indifference. This constitutes its chief chance of passing into law, since it may escape the outburst of polemical contention by which its predecessors have been encountered and disabled; and, since there is nothing un- equivocally bad in the text as now drafted, and a great deal that is good and much needed in Scotland, it is to be hoped that Mr. W. H. Smith’s suggestion will be taken, and that the Bill may be allowed to pass without serious molestation. Another point in its favour is the scepticism with which its reality is generally regarded by those most interested in it. They are so accustomed to the appearance and disappearance of these forensic Will-o’-the-wisps that they will now scarcely take the trouble to follow the course of this most recent example of its class. The public press consider the Bill doomed, and properly so, by its containing clauses of a reactionary or anti-popular tendency. This view is not taken by those in academic circles, and unless some specific obstruction arises, it is probable that the bulk of the Scottish members will take this view, and favour the passing of the Bill in a but slightly modified form from that in which it now stands. There can be no doubt that a commission of intelligent and impartial men, such as that contemplated in the Bill, and with powers such as those proposed, cannot but greatly improve the efficiency of the Scottish universities as at present constituted, by effecting reforms vitally important to their continued prosperity. DUBLIN. (From our own Correspondent.) ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: HONORARY FELLOWSHIPS, THE Council having recently conferred the Honorary Fellowship on several distinguished Surgeons, as mentioned in our last issue, a meeting of the College was held last week for the purpose. In opening the proceedings Mr. A. H. Corley, the President, said it had been his good fortune to occupy the presidential chair during the celebration of Her Majesty’s Jubilee. It was consequently his privilege to be present in Westminster Abbey at one of the most impressive, ceremonies of the century. He had personal gratification in taking part in that day’s ceremony in being the instru- ment of conferring honour on distinguished merit. Their Honorary Fellowship was a diploma which they deemed beyond money and beyond price. It was only bestowed upon those whom they looked upon as among the foremost of their profession. It had been objected that, as similar institutions in the neighbouring kingdom did not recipro- cate, they should be still more chary, but they could not help looking on this feeling as narrow and insular. In the City of Colles and Cheyne, of Carmichael and Graves, they could afford not to aspire to honours unless spontaneously bestowed, and they could afford to rise superior to those narrow prejudices which would debar them from conferring honour where honour was due. Sir George M’Leod and Mr. C. Macnamara, the only visitors who were able to be present, then signed the roll, and were admitted Honorary Fellows of the College. The new Fellows having returned thanks the proceedings terminated. THE DUBLIN MEETING OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The past week has been a busy one in Dublin, and it is gratifying to find that the meeting was in every respect successful. Independently of the scientific meetings, which included some excellent contributions in medicine and surgery, the members, so far as the social part of the programme was concerned, had their hands pretty full. On Tuesday, at four o’clock, a special choral service was held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where the Lord Bishop of Meath preached a most eloquent sermon. A service was also held earlier in the day in the Roman Catholic pro- Cathedral. The soirée given by the President (Dr. Banks) and the members of the Dublin Branch at the Royal Uni- versity on Wednesday evening was very successful, and the decorations of the ball-room, which were carried out under the personal superintendence of Sir William Stokes, re- flected the utmost credit upon that gentleman’s good taste,
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minister to their needy neighbours. Nor, is it, I think, avalid reply, that the distribution is made in accordancewith the fixed principles of the Fund, since that is a matterwhich has not beea questioned. Nor, again, do I think it canbe fairly said that it is too soon for Guy’s, one of the "largeand rich hospitals" you mention, to claim a share of theHospital Sunday Fund. With 200 beds vacant for want offunds, with an income reduced from £40,000 to .625,000through the agricultural depression, and yearly decreasing,obliged to appeal to the public for £100,000 in order to pre-vent a further reduction in the number of occupied beds, itseems to me that only ignorance of the facts can excuse(though it ca.nnot’justify) its further exclusion from thebenefit of the Fund. I am happy, however, to agree withyour concluding remark, that the matter should be broughtbefore the annual meeting of the constituents, as well asbefore the Distribution Committee.
I am. Sirs. vours faithfullv.Dulwich, Aug. 6th, 1887. H. NELSON HARDY.
TRACHEOTOMY AND INFLATION IN THETREATMENT OF A STILLBORN CHILD.
To the Editors of THE LANCET.
SIRS,—In answer to your correspondent, Mr. Watson, inthe case of apparently stillborn children which occurs sovery frequently in the ordinary routine of practice, 1 havemet with very great success by adopting a course of pro-cedure and treatment which, if efficacious, at the least isapparently a rather rough mode of restoring animation.The child being born and put into the receiver, I let the funisbleed a few drops; then rub the child’s body all over withspirit-brandy or gin, whichever comes the handiest; a fewdrops, diluted, are put into the mouth; a hot sponge is appliedto the heart and head, and likewise down the spine; and themouth cleansed. I get the nurse to put her mouth in closecontact with that of the child, and so make a direct and com-plete inflation in this way, keeping up a complete and directmeans of artificial respiration. I have not much faith in
any other form or means of artificial respiration. Of coursein chafing the child with the spirit as it lies in the nurse’slap, a few little pats upon the buttocks will help to promotecirculation. The above treatment failing, I place the childin a warm bath, but have never met from it any success, asthe little patient has always then given up the tenancy ofits short life. I am, Sirs, yours, &c.,Grosvenor Villas, Ramsgate,
August 6th, 1887.CHARLES CHITTENDEN.
EDINBURGH.
(From our own Correspondent.)
UNIVERSITY COURT.
AT the last meeting of the University Court, the course ofPractical Pathology, conducted by Dr. William Russell, wasrecognised as a qualifying class in the University MedicalCurriculum.
GUESTS AT THE UNIVERSITY.
Last week the University extended its hospitality to themembers of the Association of Mechanical Engineers, whoheld their annual gathering in Edinburgh this year, largelyin consequence of the proximity of the Forth Bridge, whichis now in an advanced stage of construction. The Associa-tion was formally welcomed to Scotland by the Marquis ofTweeddale, and to the University itself by Sir WilliamMuir. During their visit the members inspected the ForthBridge, and other important engineering undertakings inthe vicinity of Edinburgh, and a series of social festivities Iwere held in their honour. At one of these, a conversazionegiven by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh in the Museum ofScience and Art, an address was delivered by Sir WilliamThomson on the subject of Ship Waves, which was attendedby a large and interested audience.
THE UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.The draft of the Government Bill for the better admini-
stration and endowment of the Universities of Scotland hasbeen published in the leading Scottish newspapers. It isconsiderably altered since it was drafted by a LiberalGovernment in 1884, and it is in some respects distinctly animprovement upon that measure. It is in all respects a
happy circumstance that it is to be brought forward so nearthe end of the parliamentary session, and at a time when thecorporate bodies whose interests are involved are in a state ofsummer relaxation and indifference. This constitutes its chiefchance of passing into law, since it may escape the outburstof polemical contention by which its predecessors have beenencountered and disabled; and, since there is nothing un-equivocally bad in the text as now drafted, and a greatdeal that is good and much needed in Scotland, it is to behoped that Mr. W. H. Smith’s suggestion will be taken, andthat the Bill may be allowed to pass without seriousmolestation. Another point in its favour is the scepticismwith which its reality is generally regarded by those mostinterested in it. They are so accustomed to the appearanceand disappearance of these forensic Will-o’-the-wisps thatthey will now scarcely take the trouble to follow thecourse of this most recent example of its class. The publicpress consider the Bill doomed, and properly so, by itscontaining clauses of a reactionary or anti-popular tendency.This view is not taken by those in academic circles, andunless some specific obstruction arises, it is probable that thebulk of the Scottish members will take this view, andfavour the passing of the Bill in a but slightly modifiedform from that in which it now stands. There can be nodoubt that a commission of intelligent and impartial men,such as that contemplated in the Bill, and with powers suchas those proposed, cannot but greatly improve the efficiencyof the Scottish universities as at present constituted, byeffecting reforms vitally important to their continuedprosperity.
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(From our own Correspondent.)
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: HONORARY FELLOWSHIPS,THE Council having recently conferred the Honorary
Fellowship on several distinguished Surgeons, as mentionedin our last issue, a meeting of the College was held lastweek for the purpose. In opening the proceedings Mr. A. H.Corley, the President, said it had been his good fortune tooccupy the presidential chair during the celebration of HerMajesty’s Jubilee. It was consequently his privilege to bepresent in Westminster Abbey at one of the most impressive,ceremonies of the century. He had personal gratificationin taking part in that day’s ceremony in being the instru-ment of conferring honour on distinguished merit. TheirHonorary Fellowship was a diploma which they deemedbeyond money and beyond price. It was only bestowedupon those whom they looked upon as among the foremostof their profession. It had been objected that, as similarinstitutions in the neighbouring kingdom did not recipro-cate, they should be still more chary, but they could nothelp looking on this feeling as narrow and insular. In the
City of Colles and Cheyne, of Carmichael and Graves, theycould afford not to aspire to honours unless spontaneouslybestowed, and they could afford to rise superior to thosenarrow prejudices which would debar them from conferringhonour where honour was due. Sir George M’Leod andMr. C. Macnamara, the only visitors who were able to bepresent, then signed the roll, and were admitted HonoraryFellows of the College. The new Fellows having returnedthanks the proceedings terminated.
THE DUBLIN MEETING OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION.
The past week has been a busy one in Dublin, and it isgratifying to find that the meeting was in every respectsuccessful. Independently of the scientific meetings,which included some excellent contributions in medicineand surgery, the members, so far as the social part ofthe programme was concerned, had their hands prettyfull. On Tuesday, at four o’clock, a special choral servicewas held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where the Lord Bishopof Meath preached a most eloquent sermon. A service wasalso held earlier in the day in the Roman Catholic pro-Cathedral. The soirée given by the President (Dr. Banks)and the members of the Dublin Branch at the Royal Uni-versity on Wednesday evening was very successful, and thedecorations of the ball-room, which were carried out underthe personal superintendence of Sir William Stokes, re-flected the utmost credit upon that gentleman’s good taste,
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On Thursday morning, in the new Leinster Hall, a break-fast was given by the Dublin temperance societies, andupwards of 300 sat down to a well-served repast. Thesame evening the public dinner took place, over 400 beingpresent, and was honoured by the presence of his Excellencythe Lord-Lieutenant. On Friday there was a garden partyin the Fellows’ Garden, Trinity College, which was wellattended and very successful; an excursion to Christ ChurchCathedral, when some interesting antiquarian details weregiven by the architect; and in the evening a conversazione,given by Surgeon-General Hassard, C.B., and the officers ofthe Medical Staff, in the Science and Art Museum. Therewas also a breakfast given to several members of the Asso-ciation at the gardens of the Royal Zoological Society ofIreland, and every member present at the meeting had, ifdesired, his photograph taken and copies presented free ofcharge by an enterprising photographer. Dublin is notedfor the hospitality of its citizens, and on this occasion itdid not forfeit its usual reputation in this respect. Dr.Banks gave a banquet to leading members of the Associa-tion, at which the Lord-Lieutenant was a guest, and SirGeorge Porter followed closely in the good example set byentertaining several distinguished guests. I could mentionmany others who entertained their visitors in the mosthospitable manner if it were at all necessary. ProfessorRawdon Macnamara was unable to take any share in look-ing after our recent visitors owing, I regret to state, tosevere illness, from the effects of which he is but now con-valescing. The weather, it may be added, was all that couldbe desired, and the excursions which took place on Satur-day were much appreciated by those who joined in them.
ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND.
The Senate recently fixed the annual meeting of con-vocation for Friday, October 7th. The regulation per-mitting candidates to enter three times for the same exami-nation on payment of a single fee has been repealed. TheSenate have resolved to elect a curator, to take charge ofall the University collections, instruments, &c., and be com-petent to act as examiner in one or more of the experimentalor natural sciences.
MEDICAL HONOURS.
A, London illustrated paper in its issue of the 6th inst. hasgiven a portrait, and an excellent likeness it is, of a dis-tinguished Dublin physician, and has stated that a baronetcyhas been conferred upon him. I trust the announcement
may be correct, for there is no member of the professionwho will grudge Dr. Banks this mark of Her Majesty’sapproval; but at the time of writing this we in Dublin havehad no official announcement of the fact. Several knight-hoods have been gazetted, but the Jubilee Honours tomedical men in Ireland have so far -been conspicuous bytheir absence.
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(From a Correspondent.)
FRENCH ASYLUMS.
THE Minister of the Interior has sent a circular tothe Prefects calling attention to the fact that they areentrusted with the duty of periodically visiting publicand private asylums, and explaining the great import-ance attaching to the discharge of this legal formality.The Minister enjoins one visit a quarter, and this to be madewithout the previous knowledge of the proprietor or super- !,intendent of the establishment. The condition of thepatients is to be ascertained, and all complaints heard;shower baths are to be abstained from as a mode ofpunishment; and a report is to be furnished after eachvisit of the general management ,of the asylum, detail-ing the care bestowed upon the patients, and the resultof any inquiries which the visiting Prefect has thoughtit his duty to make with reference to any parti-cular inmate. The removal of patients from one hos-pital to another before being definitely placed in a specialasylum, a course of procedure which has been practised incertain departments, is strictly forbidden. The issue of thisplainly worded circular is a step in the right direction, andthe Minister of the Interior is deserving of all praise andacsistance in his efforts, by no means too speedily taken, todo away with abuses in the control of lunatics in France.
HYGIENE IN FRENCH SCHOOLS.
The Academy of Medicine has to-day been occupiedin the discussion of the conclusions come to by a com-mittee appointed to report on intellectual overwork inschools and other places of education. After consider-able discussion, in which MM. Lagenan, Trélat, Hardy,and Brouardel joined, the following conclusions were
adopted :-" The Academy of Medicine calls the attention ofthe public authorities to the necessity of modifying, in con-formity with the laws of hygiene and the necessities of thephysical development of children and young people, thepresent arrangements of our scholastic.establishments. Itthinks that the colleges and lycées for boarders should beremoved to the country; that wide, open spaces should beset apart for games; and that the class-rooms should beimproved as regards lighting and ventilation." Withoutdealing with the course of study-which it desires to seesimplified,-the Academy calls special attention to the follow-ing points :-Increase of the time for sleep as regards youngchildren; for all pupils a diminution of the time devoted tostudy and classes-that is to say, to sedentary occupations-and a proportional increase of the time for amusement andexercise; the absolute necessity of submitting all the pupilsto daily exercise in physical training proportioned to theirage-namely, walking, running, jumping, formations, evolu-tions, regulated and prescribed movements, gymnastics withapparatus, fencing of every kind, games of strength, &c.
Paris, Aug. 9th.
Medical News.VICTORIA UNIVERSITY : FACULTY OF MEDICINE.-The
following gentlemen have passed the Final Examination:-PART 1.—First Division : J. H. Barker, Owens College; F. E. Mathews,Owens College. Second Division: E. C. Lomas, Owens College.
PART 2.-F. C. Bury,* Owens College ; F. G. Robinson, Owens College.Recommended for distinction in Medicine, Clinical Surgery,
and Morbid Anatomy.
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.-At the graduationceremony last week, the degree of Doctor of Medicine wasconferred on the following gentlemen :-J. Archibald, Scotland; *G. Armstrong Atkinson, England; IThomasRidley Bailey, England; Peter Bailie, Scotland; tG. Beckett Batten,
India; J. Bowes, Scotland; C. Boyce, Ireland; lR. Adams Brewis,England; *Alexander Bruce, Scotland; tJ. Milne Chapman,Scotland; W. Jones Douie, Scotland; IThomas Easton, Scotland;jAlexander Duncan Fraser, Scotland ; C. Herbert Gage Brown,England ; *J. Gibson, Orkney; W. Bruce Gowans, Scotland; tDavidGrant, Scotland; IHugo M’Cauley Hardcastle, Egypt; JamesHeath, Ireland; lR. Dundas Helm, Scotland; Alexander Hewston,New Brunswick; J. Gilpin Houseman, England; tJ. Hunter,Scotland ; G. Irvine, Scotland ; G. H. Kenyon, England; E. DormerKirby, England ; David Laing, Scotland ; JR. Laurie, England;C. Lewis Lightfoot, England; Duncan Romaine M’Arthur, Ceylon;Alexander Flyter Mackenzie, Scotland ; R. Mackenzie, Scotland;R. Mackinlay, Scotland; C. J. Russell M’Lean, Scotland; HerbertChristopher Male, England; ’4’J. Williamson Martin, Scotland; *W.Cornfoot Strettell Miller, Scotland ; Daniel Mowat, Scotland; IJ.Oliver, Scotland; IDonald Rose Paterson, Scotland; *R. W. Philip,Scotland; Adam Scott Purves, Scotland; IDaniel Ritchie, Scotland;kErnest Roberton, New Zealand; tJ. Robertson, England ; ThomasMurray Robertson, India; Frank Rothera, England; IHarry Scott,England ; Joseph Stapleton, Australia; *John Stevens, Scotland;tAtex. Williamson Stirling, Scotland ; tHenry Welch, England ;tDavid Welsh, Scotland; 10laude Wilson, England ; tRalph W.Wilson, England.* Those who have obtained Gold Medals for their Dissertations.
t Deemed worthy of competing for the Dissertation Gold Medals.1 Commended for their Dissertations.
The following candidates have passed the Final Profes-sional Examination for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicineand Master of Surgery :-Johnston Hamilton Acheson, England; C. M’Arthur Allan, Scotland;W. Allan, New Zealand; Douglas Hamilton Anderson, England; JeanJoseph André, Mauritius; Edmund Antrobus, England; Mihangel ApIwan,Wales ; H. J. Bailey, England; John Barclay, Scotland; HerbertLlewellyn Barker, New South Wales; Benjamin Barnard, Mauritius;H. T. Barton, England ; Gilbert Taylor Beatton, Shetland; C. H.Bedford, England; Albert Jobson Beehag. New South Wales ; JohnStothart Bell, Scotland; W. Leonard Bell, Scotland; W. J. Bell,England; Arthur Bentham, England; Wilfred W. Ogilvie Beveridge,Scotland ; *Arthur Birt, England; Theodore Meyor Blumenreich,Scotland; G. Pirrie Boddie, Scotland; Douglas J. Mayhew Bone,England; H. E. Bower, England; C. W. Brown, Scotland; DanielWalter Brown, England; James Brown, England; *Andrew ArthmanBruère, West Indies; Francis Oke Buckland, England; Ernest J.Burnett, England; Matthew Bernard Burton, England ; T. W.Butcher, England ; Francis John Butt, England; James Cameron,England; Walter Stuart Campbell, Scotland; W. Graham Campbell,Scotland; Ernest Christison Carter, England; G. Arnold Casalis,
* With distinction.
