articulo mortis when the act is performed. Though no strictly Medical question is involved in the case, it is worthy of being recorded, as Medical witnesses might be the principal referees in any similar case to deeide if a patient were really in articulo mortis at the time of performing any act. MEDICAL NEWS. APPOINTMENT. MIDDLEMIST.-Mr. R. P. Middlemist has been elected Surgeon to the Royal South London Dispensary. DEATHS. ARDAGH.-April 28, Arthur Ardagh, of Lower-crescent, Belfast, M.D., aged 50. BELLIN.-April 20, John Bauks Bellin, of Malpas, Cheshire, L.S.A., aged 57. CLARK,-April 20, Robert Clark, of Fort Augustus, Inverness, L.F.P.S. Glasg. FREER.-May 2, at Oakford House, Exeter, John Freer, M.D., aged 75. MAJOR.-May 3, David Browning Major, of Watling-street, Canterbury, F.R.C.S. Eng. (Hon.), M.R.C.S., L.S.A., aged 59. MAITLAND.—March 23, at Coonor, East Indies, Dr. John Maitland of the 2nd European Light Infantry. MARRETT.-May 1, Thomas Charles Marrett, of Cosham, Hants. THOMPSON.-May 8, Seth Thompson, M.D. Univ. Edin., F.R.C.P. Lond., of Lower Berkeley-street, Portman-square, formerly Physician to the Middlesex Hospital and the Marlebone Dispensary. WIGHT.-May 3, at No. 39, Jermyn-street, Robert Wight, late SurgeonGeneral, Bombay, aged 62. At the same meeting of the Court, Mr. Raymond Harvey Carroll passed his examination for Naval Surgeon. This gentleman had previously been admitted a member of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons, his diploma bearing date April 1854. The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary Examinations for the Diploma were admitted Members of the College at meetings of the Court of Examiners on the 30th of April and the 1st of May :— (a) This College is the only one which does not send lists of New Mombers to the Medical Journals.-Hence frequent mistakes, for which the Journals are not responsible. Appleyard, J., Cleethorpes, near Brumwell, J. R., Burnley, Lancashire Caudle, A. W. W., Henfield, Sussex Clarke, E. G., Pontardulais, Llanelly, Carmarthen Dunlop, R., Drumhead, Dumbartonshire Eddowes, W., Pontesbury, Salop Ellery, R., St. Stephen's-by-Saltash, Cornwall Greaves, C. H., Great Easton, Leicestershire Greene, F. W., Upton-park, Slough Haswell, N. R., Falmouth Hodson, T., Cocking, Sussex Lawrence, F. G., Cambridge Martin, H. A., St. Austel, Cornwall Peel, R., Durham Smith, J. De, Cape of Good Hope UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.-The following degrees were conferred on April 24, 1861 : DOCTORS OF MEDICINE. F.R.S.-There were forty-eight candidates for the three letters this year; the Council recommend fifteen gentlemen for election-namely, Mr. C. S. Bate, Mr. H. Debus, Mr. C. De Morgan, Mr. T. A. Hirst, Mr. A. Matthiessen, Mr. J. C. Maxwell, Mr. F. Muller, Mr. W. Newmarch, Dr. E. A. Parkes, Mr. W. Pole, Mr. P. L. Sclater, Captain C. F. A. Shadwell, Mr. H. J. S. Smith, Dr. W. Stokes, and Mr. G. J. Stoney. IMPROVED LUNAR CAUSTIC.-We have seen and tried a specimen of nitrate of silver prepared in sticks by Mr. Mumford, of Bathurst-street, at the suggestion of Dr. Walter Bryant, which has the great advantage of being free from the brittle fracture of ordinary nitrate of silver. It is hard, may be scraped to a very fine point, and thus becomes very safe and economical in use. HER MAJESTY'S LEVÉE.-At the Levée last Saturday the following gentlemen were presented :-Deputy-InspectorGeneral W. C. Maclean, M.D., on return from India, and on appointment as Professor of Military Medicine in the Army Medical School, Chatham, by Major-General Y. Campbell; Dr. Muir, C.B., Inspector-General of Hospitals, by H.R.H. Duke of Cambridge; Dr. Paul, by Lieut.-Col. Money. The following Medical men attended:-Doctors: Forbes Winslow, Waller Lewis, Edward Meryon, Ferguson, Breslin, Ruttledge, Pickford, Granville. Surgeon M'Swiney (Royal Navy). UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.-Professor Ellis has been appointed Examiner for the Atkinson Morley Surgical Scholarship, jointly with the permanent Examiners—viz., the Professor of Clinical Surgery, the Professor of Surgery, and the Professor of Ophthalmic Surgery, and Mr. Marshall was appointed Substitute Examiner. Mr. Charlton Bastian and Mr. William John Smith having obtained from the Faculty certificates of the competency of their knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry, and Medicine, were admitted candidates for the Scholarships; May 10 was fixed for the commencement of the examination. On the recommendation of the Senate the Council determined that henceforth the Professor ship of Physiology (now held by Dr. Sharpey) should be attached to the Faculty of Arts, as well as to the Faculty of Medicine. AN OLD CATHARTIC REVIVED. The leaves of the Globularia Alyssum, which were known in the middle ages as a purgative, have been recently re-introduced by Dr. Planchon, of Montpelier, who claims for them that they are efficient as a purgative, without producing nausea or griping, and that their bitter properties give them a tonic action. THE SALE OF NOSTRUMS IN AMERICA.—A Correspondent of the Boston Medical Journal says that there has been within the past few years an immense increase in the sale of patent medicines, and that forty per cent. of the items, which make up the orders sent for drugs, are for such articles. The price current list shows that the number of quack medicines in demand is between five and six hundred. It is not uncommon for those who deal in them largely and exclusively, to make purchases of a single article at one time to the amount of 10,000 dollars. Notwithstanding the great success of some adventurers, the business is an extremley hazardous and precarious one. The cost of winning public attention and creating a demand is very great and usually exceeds the profits. Where one like Ayer, Brandreth, or Townsend succeeds, hundreds are driven into bankruptcy. WESTERN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SOCIETY.-The annual meeting was held on the evening of May 3, L. G. Cumberbatch, Esq., V.P., in the chair, when the following Officers were elected for the Session 1861-1862:-President, Dr. Seaton; Vice-Presidents, Dr. Fincham, Mr. Leggatt, Mr. Cumberbatch; Council, Mr. World, Dr. Marcet, Dr. Barclay, Mr. Scannell, Dr. Cahill, Mr. Pollock, Dr. C. G. Brown, Dr. Anstie, Dr. Stacpoole, Dr. Love, Mr. Bannister, Mr. C. Hunter; Honorary Secretaries, Dr. Baines, Mr. Milner; Treasurer, Dr. Seaton; Honorary Librarian, Mr. T. Dickinson; Auditors, Mr. F. W. Pettigrew, Mr. Godwin. The Report of the Council and Auditors were read and adopted. After the usual vote of thanks to the Retiring Officers for their past services, Mr. Barnes exhibited the stomach of a patient who destroyed himself by taking six drachms of essential oil of bitter almonds and six drachms of tincture of opium. He narrated the particulars, and remarked upon the congested appearance of the mucous membrane at the cardiac extremity of the stomach. No congestion was found elsewhere. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM.-At a meeting of the Professors, held on Saturday last, Professor Postgate proposed that the Professors should pay, as a body, a graceful and lasting compliment to the Dean of the Faculty, William Sands Cox, Esq., F.R.S. Mr. Postgate observed that Mr. Cox was an earnest man, who had struggled, and was struggling, to overcome difficulties of no ordinary nature, for the benefit of that town and district; and he believed the course he had taken lately with regard to the liabilities of the College would obtain the sympathy of every honest man in the neighbourhood. He was, therefore, anxious the Professors should evince their respect and esteem for Mr. Cox and his exertions, and prove to the town that unanimity prevails among the body. Professor Postgate's proposition was cordially received by the Professors, but declined by the Dean of the Faculty; at the same time, "he felt deeply the kind approval of his colleagues of the course he had taken, but that until the College debts were paid, and which were contracted by others, and the College again placed in smooth water, any recognition of his humble efforts would be premature." GOOD AND BAD SPIRITS.—“Good spirits," said Dr. Druitt, in an excellent lecture delivered for the Ladies' Sanitary Association, are the faculties possessed by hopeful, selfsatisfied, wide awake, energetic, brave men,--the men who are not easily rebuffed, and who have the knack of keeping their heads above water, and always falling, as the vulgar say, on their legs. Bad spirits, on the other hand, may consist in an utter stagnation of mind and want of ideas, or else in a state of mind which views everything in a low, hopeless, miserable way. Such are the thoughts of men who are nervous, who do not trust themselves nor believe in themselves, -who are afraid of every effort,-who always look at the worst side of things,-who are apt to view the most trifling circumstances as intentional insults,' who are irritable, touchy and quarrelsome, who can not shake off griefs or unpleasant impressions, but go on brooding over them. Between melancholy views of real matter of fact, and that state of mind which suggests positively unreal ideas of a noxious and injurious cast, and hypochondriasis and hallucinations, there are infinite steps and stages, but they are all of one family. Whence then come good spirits ?-From abundant nourishing food, pure air, sunlight, and above all from the satisfaction derived from the daily honest discharge of the duties of ordinary life; from a pure conscience; from such an education as gives power of taking pleasure in objects of art, or natural history, or works of imagination. The mind must be stored with agreeable ideas, and these must be stirred up and renewed from time to time. And whence come bad spirits ?-From causes both physical and moral. Some people are born with brains naturally weak; but any kind of bodily weakness is liable to be attended with defective energy of the brain in supplying a good flow of thought. When the blood gets impure, poor and pale; when food is deficient or of bad quality -(Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them,' says the Hebrew poet,)-when the stomach is irritable, and does its duties slowly and painfully, and when the skin is dirty. It is well observed by Mr. Urquhart, that no man can be altogether responsible for the state of his liver, but that his skin is under his own control, and that there can be no excuse for an uncleanly state of it. Few things cause greater exhilaration of mind than the feeling of a healthy glow after the use of the bath and towel. Then there are the moral causes. Want of occupation is one,-ennui, the French call it,-when the mind does not present a succession of agreeable images of its own accord, and when there is nothing to excite them. This state of mind is quite intolerable, more painful by far than bodily anguish. Very few men, indeed, have ever destroyed themselves to escape from bodily pain, although they may be racked with it for years, but numbers destroy themselves to escape from ennui, or the painful sensations arising from an unoccupied mind." BOOKS RECEIVED. Second Edition. Phila Human Physiology. By J. C. Dalton, M.D. Méthode Pratique de Laryngoscopie. Par le Dr. L. Türck. Paris: 1861. The Climate of Egypt. By D. Dalrymple, M.D. London: 1861. Third Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland. Our Domestic Animals in Health and Disease. By J. Gamgee. Edinburgh: 1861. Operative Surgery. Part II. By C. F. Maunder, F.R.C.S. London : 1861. A Student.-We do not see any possible relation between the effects of marriage with a cousin and with a deceased wife's sister, unless the sisters were cousins of the husband. Professor Morris clearly means. cousins who are the offspring of parents who were cousins. Dr., R. N.-Inquiry shall be made as to the reason why the F.R.C.S, is removed from after the names of all the Fellows in the Navy List of April last. The letters had appeared for years previously, and we do not know what the College of Surgeons has done to offend the Admiralty. The Report of the Obstetrical Society is unavoidably delayed until next week. It would be a great convenience if the copy could be supplied earlier to the Printers. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MEDICAL TIMES AND GAZETTE. SIR,-Perhaps the following cases may be of interest to some of your readers, as bearing on the connexion between scarlatina and diphtheria, and the infectious nature of the latter. Three children, in the same family, had scarlatina; during the third week from the seizure of the first, the mother had a severe attack of diphtheria. Within a month of her convalescence, the nursemaid (who had scarlatina at the same time as the children) went home (a distance of three miles) for a holiday, and in two days was taken with diphtheria. About ten days after she was well, two of her younger sisters were attacked with it and died. A day or two after their death, the mother was attacked and recovered; before she was quite well her son, aged four, had scarlatina. I am, &c. HUGH GEORGE, M.R.C.S. Revesby, May 4. COMMUNICATIONS have been received from :Professor SIMPSON; M. CLAUDE BERNARD: Dr. ROBERT LEE; THE PROFESSORS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE; THE PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY; Mr. BELL; Dr. WEBER; Dr. MAYNE; Mr. HEAD; Mr. HINE; Mr. J. GAMGEE; Mr. HUGHES; REGISTRAR-GENERAL; Dr. HALFORD; Dr. WILDE; Mr. SOELBERG WELLS; Dr. CORFE; Mr. BULLEY; Mr. CROSS; and Dr. R. D. THOMSON. APPOINTMENTS FOR THE WEEK. May 11. Saturday (this day). Operations at St. Bartholomew's, 1 p.m.; St. Thomas's, I p.m.; King's, 2 p.m.; Charing-cross, 1 p.m. ROYAL INSTITUTION, 3 p.m. Max Müller, Esq., "On the Science of Language." ROYAL SOCIETY, 9 p.m. Sir B. Brodie's Soirée. 13. Monday. SUBSCRIPTIONS CAN COMMENCE FROM ANY DATE. Post-office Orders should be made payable to Mr. JAMES Lucas, 11, New Burlington-street, W. NOTES, QUERIES, AND REPLIES. He that questioncth much shall learn much.-Bacon. We cannot insert any communication received from an anonymous correspondent. Mr. Hughes's letter arrived too late for insertion this week. A Subscriber cannot enter Army, Navy, or Indian Medical Service at the age he names. The extreme limit is twenty-six years. Dr. W. Stuart Munro.-"W. A., Mr. Hamilton, 5, Park-street, Boroughmarke, London. Dr. Robert Lee's reply to Dr. Druitt has been delayed by an accident until next week. R. T. H.-The "Scale of Medicines for the Merchant Service," etc., published by Mr. Churchill. Dr. Corfe's Paper on Fatty Degeneration shall be inserted as soon as possible. Mr. Bulley's Cases will appear in an early number, Dr. Mayne.-We cannot conceive any combination of circumstances which would justify the publication of a letter sent to the Editor of any Journal as "PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL. " No communication will be inserted from Dr. Hildige for the future without a distinct assurance that it has not been sent to any other Journal. No.1,2,3,is J. Alderman's Patent Graduating Elastic Spinal and General Invalid Couch, COMFORT FORA HER MAJEST-Y J. ALDERMAN, 16, Soho Square, LONDON. No. 4, 4, is J. A.'s improved Spinal and General Invalid Couch No.7 is J. A.'s improved Exercising Horse, which he fits upon a variety of ways, so as to give any No. 8, 8, 8, is J. A.'s Patent Portable Equilibrium Carrying a most elegant and easy Carriage, free from all oscillation. No. 11, 11, is J. A.'s improved Three-wheel Albert Chair, with and without a hood. It is elegant and easy. KING OF THE DR. DE JONGH'S (Knight of the Order of Leopold of Belgium) LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL. SELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS. Sir HENRY MARSH, Bart., M.D., Physician in Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland"I consider Dr. de Jongh's Cod-liver Oil to be a very pure Oil, not likely to create disgust, and a therapeutic agent of great value." Dr. BARLOW, Physician to Guy's Hospital:-"I have been well satisfied with the effects of Dr. de Jongh's Cod-liver Oil, and believe it to be a very pure Oil, well fitted for those cases in which the use of that substance is indicated." Dr. LANKESTER, F.R.S, late Lecturer on the Practice of Medicine, St. George's School of Medicine:-"I consider that the purity and genuineness of this Oil are secured in its preparation by the personal attention of so good a Chemist and intelligent a Physician as Dr. de Jongh, who has also written the best Medical Treatise on the Oil with which I am acquainted. Hence I deem the Cod-liver Oil sold under his guarantee to be preferable to any other kind as regards genuineness and medicinal efficacy." Dr. COWAN, Senior Physician to the Royal Berkshire Hospital:-"The material now sold varies in almost every establishment where it is purchased, and a tendency to prefer a colourless and tasteless Oil, if not counteracted, will ultimately jeopardise the reputation of an unquestionably valuable addition to the Materia Medica. Dr. Cowan wishes Dr. de Jongh every success in his meritorious undertaking. Sole Consignees and Agents-ANSAR, HARFORD & CO., 77, Strand, London, W.C. J. & E. BRADSHAW, late Shoolbred and Bradshaw, Liquor Folii Ricini, for increasing 34, JERMYN-STREET, beg to call attention to the various improvements in Patent ELASTIC STOCKINGS, BELTS, KNEE-CAPS, SOCKS, and Ladies' and Gentlemen's SPINE SUPPORTERS. A new description of BELT, invaluable for prevention of Cholera and the cure of Rheumatism, Lumbago, &c. N.B. Every Description of INDIA-RUBBER BAN- Directions for measurement sent by post. Mr. Le Gros Clark's Hernia-Knife. Vide Medical Times and Gazette, January 12, 1861. "12, Norfolk Villas, Bayswater.-I have had one of your Mincing Machines for the Dinner Table in use for some time, and findit everything that can be wished. I recommend it to all my friends who suffer from indigestion. Yours obediently, “T. SAUNDERS. "Messrs. Nye and Co." LARGER MACHINES for Public Institutions, Lunatic Asylums, Hospitals, Schools, and other establishments, effectually and quickly mincing all kinds of meat and vegetables, for soups, &c., forced and potted meats, and a variety of dishes; also for making sausages, cutting, mixing, and forcing into the skins at the same time. Price 30s., 42s., 63s., and £7 7s. Also MILLS on an improved construction for Coffee, Spice, &c., &c. Dépôt and Manufactory, 79, Wardour-street, London, W. the Secretion of Milk in Suckling Women. Mr. GREENISH solicits the attention of the Profession to the above Preparation, which is now in great demand. Dose: One teaspoonful, three times a-day. Prepared by THOMAS GREENISH, Chemist, 20, New-street, Dorset-sq. Mr. Howard, Surgeon-Dentist, 52 FLEET-STREET, has introduced an ENTIRELY NEW DESCRIPTION of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without Springs, Wires, or Ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth, as not to be distinguished from the original by the closest observer; they will NEVER CHANGE COLOUR or DECAY, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will give suppoît and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication; and that Mr. Howard's improvements may be within the reach of the most economical, he has fixed his charges at the lowest scale possible. Decayed Teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastication. 52, Fleet-street. At home from Ten till Five Spiral Abdominal Belt is constructed on a principle which secures the required support without being liable to displacement, and is invaluable, when properly constructed, in cases of Pregnancy, Obesity, Ovarian Dropsy, &c. When required, it is fitted with Air-pads for Umbilical, Inguinal, and Femoral Hernia, and band with Air-pad for Prolapsus Uteri and Prolapsus Ani. These goods, in addition to Stockings, Thighpieces, Knee-caps, &c., supplied 30 per cent. lower than the prices hitherto charged, every article being of the very best quality. Measures required: Circumference, at a, b, c, depth, from a to c. Priced and Illustrated Catalogues on application to E. HUXLEY, 12, Old Cavendish-street, Oxford-street, W. A CUP OF COFFEE IN ONE MINUTE. Dunn's Essence of Coffee, warranted to keep good in any Climate. This Essence of the finest kinds of Coffee, improved by a process, the result of the experience of more than half a century, contains all the fragrant and exhilarating properties of the Coffee in the highest perfection. It is admirably adapted to persons travelling, and to Officers in the Army and Navy. Extracts from the "Commercial Handbook of Chemical Analysis,” by A. Normandy, M.D. "Coffee is met with in commerce as a manufactured article in the state of Essence, or rather Extract of Coffee. That preparation, providing it be genuine, is peculiarly adapted to the use of Travellers, who are thus enabled to procure a cup of good Coffee without trouble or apparatus. Of all the attempts which have been made to manufacture such an Extract, and of most of which I have had samples, I have found on examination that only one kind, that manufactured by DUNN, of Pentonville, would keep. "I think I can coufidently assert that Dunn's Essence of Coffee is the only one which has stood ground; all other attempts, for some reason or other, have hitherto proved failures, and eventually have been abandoned." Sold in bottles, from 1s. to 2s. each. DUNN'S UNADULTERATED CHOCOLATE and COCOA. DUNN'S CHOCOLATE BON-BONS, CHOCOLATE DROPS, CHOCOLATE STICKS, &c., and every kind of French Chocolate. All articles manufactured by the firm of DUNN and HEWETT are guaranteed free of adulteration under a penalty of £50, to be given to some charitable institution, if found at any time adulterated, under certificate of Dr. Normandy, Analytical Chemist to the House of Commons. Manufactory, Pentonville, London.-To be had of all Grocers. |