The letters before the numbers express the relative lengths of the digits, with a being the longest, b the next, and c the shortest. There was some smart bleeding, one large branch of the sciatica was very difficult to fix. REPORT ON SURGICAL CASES ILLUSTRATING THE ADVANTAGE OF THE USE OF CARBOLIC ACID IN COMPOUND FRACTURES, dm.
I amputated the thigh of a girl, Jane Williams, who was suffering from osteo-carcinoma involving both tibia and fibula. Complete union took place in four days, not a drop of pus even in the groove of the ligature. I was satisfied that the cartilage was affected and recommended excision of the joint, which the patient readily agreed to.
ON A CASE OF THYROID CARCINUS AND DEATH OF THE DEVICE FROM RUPTURE AND VIOLATION OF THE GLOTTIC PAS. I noticed that not only in the deceased, but in his brothers, the angle of the thyroid cartilage was extremely prominent. The loose tissue around the trachea and on the left side, even at the edge of the esophagus, had not gone away.
This unusual set of necks nevertheless provides the required explanation and clears up this doubtful point.
HOSPITAL REPORTS
This expansion of Melbourne's flagship charity's operations has been long overdue. Gillbee, and if his suggestion had been adopted, a good part of the abuses of this institution would have been avoided. It is well known, though it has been repeatedly denied, that a large number of the recipients of relief at the Melbourne Hospital have no right to the benefit of the charity.
Barker for the mental anguish and monetary loss he has suffered as a result of the vexatious action recently taken against him by a patient at Melbourne Hospital. every member of the profession, and should summon their esprit de corps. Experience of the difficulties encountered in obtaining successful treatment of this fracture would make any improved procedure highly desirable. The difficulty always turned out to be the unavoidable restlessness of the patients themselves, who often shifted out of position and thus disrupted the dressings.
Barker, in using the ring, had taken every possible care, and the unfortunate result was probably due to the restless displacement of the patient from the proper position, which produced unequal pressure on the bandages and subsequent gangrene. Barker was not charged with either mismanagement or neglect in the handling of Donaldson's case, as was clearly established by the evidence adduced and by the verdict of the jury." He was entitled to the warmest support of the profession; and he (Mr. Gillbee) would happy cooperation in carrying out the purpose of the meeting.
Barker's long and loyal service to the institution, the Hospital Committee, and indeed the iPhe subscribers, should have come forward and refused to allow him to suffer any loss. He (Professor Halford) would be happy to help provide meeting facilities. He (Dr. M'Crea) would be glad to join in organizing the proposed fund, and hoped it would be a complete success.
James had correctly described what happened - the displacement of the patient by turning an ordinary comfortable bandage into a tight ligature. He hoped that this would show that the good cause begun that night would find friends outside the profession; and he felt sure that the Hospital committee would come out and help. FARRAGE said the committee appointed that night should include the names of some of the leading citizens outside the profession.
WOOLDRIDGE bad always been opposed to the system of free medical services on the part of hospital physicians, but he thought that since the governors and committee of the Melbourne Hospital had accepted such services from Dr. GILLBEE advised the addition of laymen to the committee, as this could show that the movement was not limited to members of the medical profession.
CORRESPONDENCE
J. THOMAS
Many members of the profession in this city are fully aware that there are people practicing medicine who have had their qualifications revoked in their home country for various reasons. There is one infamous case of a man who was prosecuted for a crime that ultimately involved his professional reputation. The prosecution was dropped, not because there was no evidence of guilt, but because the prosecutor did not care to run into trouble and trouble against the accused, but contented himself with alerting the public to the crime . .
They believe, however, that the accused was struck off the British register, and that his arrival in this colony was the consequence of this justly deserved degradation. The particulars of the disgraceful business in which he was involved are preserved in the journals of the time, and may be consulted by those interested in such matters. However, the Medical Board, in my view, has no power whatsoever to remove this man from the Victorian register, even if they had official information of his offence.
Another example of a non-degraded offense is in the case of a person who I believe was sent to Pentridge for the general offense of robbing a lodger. The Board at first refused to register it, but the Mandate forced them to do so, and it now flourishes in a conspicuous situation in defiance of the Board, and, it seems, under the protection of the law. Moreover, I think that the board should have power to refuse to register diplomas which are known not to be adequate evidence of qualification, although they meet the literal requirements of the statute, such as, for example, the diplomas of the homoeopathic and certain other American colleges.
The Board are fully aware of their powerlessness in the matter, but their hands are practically tied, and I trust that some effort will soon be made to remedy so undesirable a state of affairs.
LOCAL TOPICS
It appears that the defendants did not acquiesce in the decision of the judges, but appealed to the Supreme Court, boldly insisting that they had a right to have their back quarters soiled for that reason. The father of the deceased, a boy of seven years, went out and procured some arsenic for destroying mice. 163 The appalling condition of the Chinese lepers in Ballarat has recently given occasion for strong comment in the local press.
During the weekly meeting of the committee of the Benevolent Asylum on 29 ult. a letter was read from the honorary medical staff, in response to the resolution passed by the committee the previous week regarding the vaccination of prisoners, visitors, etc. . The notice stated that the honorary staff did not question the authority of the committee to refuse to implement their recommendations, but that, having provided them at the request of the committee, they believed that they had fulfilled their duty and discharged themselves of all responsibility in the matter. They denied refusing to cooperate with the committee, and believed that the committee's reference to "eminent members of the trade" who had views different from those of the honorary staff seemed to imply that the committee's professional capabilities in doubted. latter.
Several committee members said they were confident the committee had no intention of questioning the expertise of any of the officers, and after a brief discussion it was agreed to simply receive the letter. He produced a diploma issued to his client from a medical college in America, and he also produced a certificate from the American consul that the diploma was an authentic document from a recognized medical college in the United States. The strange ignorance of some sections of the daily press of this city, when dealing with any of the sciences connected with medicine, is sometimes laughable.
Hill, said the fracture extended to the "oranium magnum," whatever that is, and that there was a laceration of a large vein called the "sinus of Lahrm." To add to the absurdity, there was a leading article in the same issue in which he referred to Pareiro's "Materia Medica" and questioned whether the members of the Medical Society were generally aware of the teachings of that text-book. The task of the evening seems to have been to discuss some rules; and not read the paper on uterine bleeding.
The tenders for the construction of the Alfred hospital were decided by the 7th century Some people in the Western District vaccinated rabbits with the syphilitic virus to get rid of the scourge of these animals. BENJAFIELD.— On the 21st inst., Charles Coutts Benjafield, M.R.C.S., and L.S.*A., late Resident Surgeon of the Immigrant Home, Prince's Bridge, aged 65 years.
