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Pops' latest motto is "Quesco in Baccho." He is not yet convalescent from the Castlemaine outing.
The ruling question of the year, " Did Miss W— join the red-ribbon brigade ?
FIFTH YEAR.
Since our last issue fifth year men have shone forth in a new firmament. We can claim two representatives in the Inter- Varsity Boxing Team. The only drawback to this honourable achievement is the deterioration of Paddy's beauty. His Hibernian countenance absolutely screams for a Rhinoplasty.
The other representative was in the Ultra-microscopic Class, but he also was defeated. We hear on good authority that his Brownian movement was not so effective as the Sydney foot- work.
Two interesting try-outs are to be held soon. The examiner in Medicine is to meet the curly-headed lieutenant, and a well- • known figure at the W.H. is matched with the urethrorrhaphy expert. Business has been very brisk in the ring over these two events. Now-a-days we devour the criminal news of the dailies and are beginning to develop a Sherlock Holmes facies in anticipation of the Forensic Flutter. Many an appetite has been lost at that gruesome place by the Yarra Bank.
Work has begun to show its traces among the year. Hughie has left the church choir, Uttie's "mo" hangs with a weary droop, and Bert has withdrawn his subscription from two magazines.
We have sustained a great loss in the person of Dr. Jones, of the M.H., who was always ready to help us in any of our difficulties, but our loss is someone else's gain, for Ike starts in the " I will" stakes on the 6th August, wherefore we con- gratulate him and assure him that he carries the best wishes of every student in the course. We hope we will soon have him back again with the "comics" of the hospitals of Europe and the Continent.
The sympathy of the year goes out to Len Wright, who has the bad luck to be in a hospital as a patient instead of as a student. We wish him a record-breaking return to health.
Original research is not encouraged by our University, hence when we find a fifth year man leaving the beaten paths we admire him, but we are not yet convinced that the public will take up the new liqueur accidentally discovered by the Pituitrin King, in the L.W.
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Most of the men have decided to do a little work at last, and are at present quite busy over the Forensic flutter. Some know their notes backwards. Some know them only front ways, while others know nothing. What?
Special hospitals are still absorbing quite a lot of unneces- sary time, and causing a lot of trouble. Where, oh, where will it all end? We are thankful that the Sunday morning trips to Kew have at last been discontinued, pleasant though it was to walk five or six miles to get there. Other departments are, however, still going too strong, if anything, and rumours are circulated of various cases of incipient brain fever owing to the strain involved.
Press Cuttings.
A German scientific writer has been figuring out the money value of a man weighing 15o pounds, and finds that he comes to about 7.50 dollars. He finds in his body two and a half dollars' worth of fat ; while iron is so essential to health and vigour, he discovers hardly enough of it to make a nail an inch long. But there is plenty of lime, enough to whitewash a good-sized chicken-house. Of phosphorus he finds enough to put the heads on 2200 matches, and there is magnesia enough to make a good fire-works piece for July 4th. There is enough albumen for ioo hen's eggs, and a small teaspoonful of sugar and a pinch of salt are not overlooked.—Exchange.
There has been correspondence in the London press over an old problem—the authorship of certain " Lines to a Skeleton,"
published in the Morning Chronicle," eighty years ago. The quest has never succeeded. All that ever transpired was that the poem, in a fair clerkly hand, was found near a skeleton of remarkable beauty of form and colour in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn, London. The verses were as follows :-
Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull, Once of ethereal spirit full.
This narrow cell was life's mysterious seat.
What beauteous visions filled this spot ! What dreams of pleasure long forgot!
Nor hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear, Have left one trace of record here.
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Beneath this mouldering canopy Once shone a bright and busy eye ; But start not at the dismal void—
If social love that eye employed, If with no lawless fires it gleamed,
But through the dews of kindness beamed That eye shall be for ever bright
When sun and stars are sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern hung The ready, swift, and tuneful tongue;
If falsehood's honey it disdained,
And where it could not praise was chained, If bold in virtue's cause it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke, This silent tongue shall plead for thee When time unveils eternity.
Say, did these fingers delve the mine, Or with its envied rubies shine?
To hew the rock or wear the gem an little now avail to them.
ut if the path of truth they sought, Or comfort to the mourner brought, These hands a richer meed shall claim Than all that wait on wealth or fame.
Avails it whether bare or shod These feet the path of duty trod;
If from the bowers of ease they fled To seek affliction's humble bed,
If grandeur's guilty bribe they spurned, And home to virtue's cot returned, These feet with angel's wings shall rise, And tread the palace of the skies.
—Australasian.
Governess.—The widow of an officer of rank was so happy as very success fully to educate her own daughter, and whose knowledge of English, French, and Italian Languages, Music and its composition, Singing in the French and Italian styles, Painting upon silk and linen, etc., qualifies her to undertake the education of two or three young ladies, without the aid of masters, Dancing excepted. Would be happy to make herself useful in a respectable family, as she flatters herself she would not be found unworthy of such a trust, being persuaded that
August, 1913. THE SPECULUM. 97 the welfare and happiness of society depends greatly upon the right cultivation of the female mind.—A line addressed (post paid) to A.B., No. 16 Craven-st., Strand, will be immediately attended to. Most respectable characters can be referred to, who will attest the qualifications of the advertiser.—The Times, No. 3936. Monday, July 6; 1797, price 4Y2d.
Sydney Shop.
From a Third Year Point of View.
While in Sydney during the first vac. I met " Jim" Eakin, just recovering from septic peritonitis. Met also Henry Leahy, well loved and revered by all readers of the " Speculum." An appointment under the clock for II next morning having been made, I accordingly arrived punctually, but Henry was de- layed, owing to his lecture being unexpectedly held without the aid of artificial light. I beguiled the time by joining in a second year deputation waiting on a prof. to solicit a remission of a universal half-guinea fine. Soon Henry's smile appeared, accompanied by two others of even greater amiability and pro- portions. Henry's first suggestion was to adjourn for morn- ing tea to the new Union Rooms, of which they are justly proud. Built by the generosity of the Senate, this spacious Club House contains a cloak room, sitting room, billiard room, committee rooms, smoke room, Board room, dining room, concert hall, portico, balcony, and a poker school, and is sur- rounded by fine lawns and gardens and seductive seats. The membership fee is a compulsory half guinea. The sports' fee
is two guineas (optional), and is well patronised.
Thence to the Women's Hall, reminiscent of our erstwhile Pavilion at its best ; thence, for Henry was shy, to the Fisher Library, where the first things to attract attention are the num- erous trophies won by the University scouts, and the absence of books. Henry said the books were replaced by the at- tendant. On questioning him he graciously permitted us to enter the warshiplike bowels of the library, where the books are stored in fire-proof steel rooms. Thence we journeyed to the Med. School, where the meds., though the rest were on vac., were, as usual, still at work. The dissecting room was first visited. It is well lighted and roomy, and the second year meds. are separated from the third year by a partial platform, an obvious advantage, for it lets the second year know with the least possibility of danger to their fJelings, what year they
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are doing. Formalin is not in vogue. By pressing a pedal at the wash troughs a huge gas heater lights, and water descends in a fine hot spray.
On our way to the lecture theatre we passed some massage students, apparently women, but they appeared timid and I could not get sufficiently close to ascertain with any degree of accuracy. In the theatre the seats are numbered, and with backs are very comfortable. The chief object here is the Epi- diascope, a similar instrument to the one recently brought out by Professor Allen. It works, not by direct transmission of light through an object, but by reflection from a mirror, the light passing through the reflection and thus projectinc , the reflection in strong relief on to an aluminiumised screen. projecting kindly consideration, now-a-days proverbial in all anatomy at- tendants, the operator demonstrated the working. Henry placed various objects on the platform, such as pieces of brain, not necessarily sections, bones, cigarette cards, and other ob- jects of educational value. A radius reflected and projected on the screen, appeared a foot in diameter, and the effect produced was the same as if a foot thick radius were held against and resting on the screen, the shadow of the radius itself intensify- ing this fine effect. Henry's hand would have delighted and charmed the imagination of Prof. Osborne's friend, the inim- itable H. G. Wells. I was fortunate in having with me a M.U.C.U. handbook, and was thus able to display all the photos. therein, Hints to Freshmen, etc., much to the edifica- tion of the Sydney guides, who unhesitatingly declared that certainly our building and grounds outshine theirs, but as for our lake, well, they'd back their har—.
The museum is small and cramped, but what there is is per- fect. Revolving spectroscope views are greatly apreciated.
In 1911 a third year med. displayed such aptitude for dissect- ing that in 1912 he was employed by the Department at a salary of :Es a week, and his work certainly justified the ex- penditure. For such dissections as display at one glance the internal Carotid artery or Int. Pudic, and all branches from origin to termination in all their mysterious meanderings, com- pel in one a great love of anatomy and a reverent desire to linger long within the academic portals.
We were unfortunate in not being able to locate the Physio- logical Department, but Henry assured me that he had it on good authority that they had five lectures a week in that par- ticular section of his work.—M.
August, 19r3. THE SPECULUM. 99 Round the Hospitals.
THE MELBOURNE.
" How's the arm ?" is the universal salutation according to the Argus. "How's the leg?" seems more appropriate in hos- pital circles. One does not need the qualifications of our lecturer in Medicine to venture a diagnosis. Most of us have braved the ordeal, and many have become proficient as P.V.s.
The Press gives us the consoling information that the lec- turer in Therapeutics, etc., has vaccinated many. " For the cause of humanity," no doubt. We hope he did not hold the vaccinator between his teeth.
That one of our number narrowly missed the raid at the Francatelli has given us cause for thanksgiving. Had this calamity occurred, the cabman would not have had the benefit of a clinic on " Placeita Praevit," the honorary would have Missed his conjugal greeting, " Bean" by this time would have qualified for admission to the harems of Turkey, Surgery would have been without another cause of complete anuria, and a new kind of footwarmer would still be unknown to science.
As the question of general hospitals has already been raised in these notes, something more on this subject may not be out of place. The discussion raised by "the narrow minded opposi- tion at the Melbourne" has at least broadened the minds of some hospital committees, who, it is understood, will include lady residents if eligible. Should this be the only outcome of the conferences, it was well worth our "girding up our hobble skirts" to attain. We shall no doubt profit by our experience, and when our services are next required in the suffragette Movement, we shall pause to think before setting fire to Gov- ernment House or putting acid in the pillar boxes. To have helped advance the great cause some few steps on the long road to full achievement will be a sufficient reward if nothing else comes of their proposal.
Who said, " Chaperon"? Extern students at the Women's Will be pleased fo learn that in future they are to be accom- panied to their cases by the usual nurse and a missionary. That the sister at the Nursing Home should have thought this neces- sary seems rather suggestive, considering that it came into force just after our two friends from Caulfield had completed their term. No doubt some will be pleased at the opportunity to clinic, but we trust that " Bluey" will be called " Doctor" by these ladies, or the result may be disastrous.
We have lost the Fred.—a bird of gay plumage—but we are glad to say it is only for a few months. Men doing their finals
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much prefer an avian to a reptilian oral. Of course Dougie is greatly missed in O.P. Surgery clinics,—by the patients—but it would be hard on a young man of Dougie's tastes to make him spend more than a few months of the year away from Nice, Monte, and all the other Continental resorts. Fred's gout, he swears, is due to the "sins of the fathers," but we have our doubts about Dougie's.
That 'ard doer, Ike Jones, has left our little lab. since the last
" Speculum" was issued. He is going to a better spot. There is a rumour that Hillis intends to become the great man's body servant for the trip. Ike stands foremost and unchallenged among the Medical graduates as the students' champion. He has been President of the S.R.C. for—years and during this time has exerted himself without stint to obtain that recogni- tion of the undergrads which is so evident in properly con- ducted and constituted Universities.
According to the books the effects on the system of exposure to continued X rays are in a few words, Dermatitis, Carci- noma, Articular and Osseus Changes and Sterility. It re-
mains for our very own resident skiagraphist to demonstrate to us the first evil effect produced. The symptoms are appar- ently an intense oedema of the cranium, thus necessitating a much larger size of hat and a dimness of vision so that the person afflicted cannot readily perceive those to whom he used to give a cheery " Good morning."
We deeply sympathise with Dr. Kent Hughes, and for the present we miss his cheery voice raised in argument with some - body. We are glad, however, to hear that he is progressing
favorably.
Instruction in anaesthetics is proceeding very slowly at the Melbourne. Already several men have gone to the Women's Hospital for this work, and more are likely to do so. We are pleased, however, to see that Dr. Yule is now attending in the afternoon to take the place of Dr. Embley, who is away on a trip to England.
A student who wishes to see any cases has now to get uP very early indeed, for unless he reaches the wards by about 9.15 or so, he will find that there have been dozens in front o f him, so that the patient is just about full up, and naturally re' sents examination. These things are bound to happen as the final looms in the distance.
The delightful St. Vincent's humourist, etc., Ernie, has op' peared at the Melbourne of late, and is continually raking up peculiar cases.
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THE ALFRED.
The scope of the Hospital has been extended by the incep- tion of a Psycho-therapeutic clinic, and Dr. Tennant has al- ready convinced the most sceptical of us of the efficacy of Hypnotism ; his results with the cases now under treatment Will be watched with the keenest interest, and if the powers of suggestion prove to be of more avail, in a certain case of hysterical hand, than the "sight of a white coat," our last shreds of doubt will be swept away.
The Mask and Domino Ball was a great success, and it is understood that the Hospital will receive material financial benefit therefrom. Everyone is agreed that the leading lady of Ward 3 fully deserved the prize for the most original cos- tume; but even in her absence we feel confident that a certain Pink Doll (whose identity we cannot divulge for fear of creat- ing Hi//feeling) would have proved equal to the task of up- holding the prestige of the Nursing Staff in this direction.
Vaccination is the chief topic of conversation at present, but so far the proportion of negative results among the Hospital Staff has been very large ; we wish to deny the rumour that this is due to the fact that the task of puncturing the fair Cuticles of the nurses proved so enjoyable that the Medical Super. ensured for himself a repetition of the event by using a skin prep. warranted to kill any vaccine ever made.
We are beginning to have our suspicions of Andy ; his Powers as a raconteur seem incompatible with the blameless existence with which we have always credited him; and a fur- ther sidelight was thrown on his career the other day by a small damsel in the Michaelis, who in reply to his enquiry as to her place of residence, promptly answered, " Oh, in Clar- endon-st., just there by the Star Hotel—you know!"
Klotz's Cure
Dr. Klotz, of Berlin, has found, that, by going about on hands and knees for a certain number of hours each day, almost every malady can be prevented, or cured.—Vide Age.
A genius has arisen in a land across the sea,
Who's found relief for every ill, that flesh can heir to be ; So simple, and so elegant ; so pleasant, and so sure.
Oh, listen, while I tell you all of Dr. Klotz's cure.