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1299 Medical Diary June 5 to June 11 SOCIETIES ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.I. WEDNESDAY. History of Medicine. 5 P.M., Prof. M. F. Ashley-Montagu (New York) : Edward Tyson (1650-1708) Physician, Comparative Anatomist and Anthropologist. FRIDAY. ’ Ophthalmology. 4.30 P.M., cases. 5 P.M., annual general meeting. Mr. A. H. Levy and Dr. P. Manson-Bahr : Bilateral Keratitis and Cyclitis due to Filaria (Onchocerca Volvulus) Infection in a European from Kenya. SATURDAY. Surgery. 2.15 P.M. (Royal Infirmary, Leicester), cases. Dr. W. D. Jeans: Medical and Surgical Treatment of Goitre. Mr. D. McGavin : Chronic Non-tuberculous Epididymitis. Dr. Joan Walker: Unusual Pathological Specimens. FACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS. FRIDAY.—10 A.M. (Liverpool Medical Institution), Dr. R. E. Roberts : presidential address. 2 P.M., Dr. J. L. A. Grout : Diseases of Bone. 2.40 P.M., Dr. C. G. Teall : A Radio- logical Study of the Bone Changes in Anaemia and Leu- kaemia in Children. 3.20 P.M., Dr. A. E. Barclay: Radio- logical Demonstration of the Adult and Foetal Circulation. SATURDAY.-10 A.M., Prof. Henry Cohen, Prof. R. E. Kelly, Prof. W. M. Frazer, Dr. J. Ralston Paterson, Dr. J. F. Brailsford : The Cancer Problem. WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY. THURSDAY.-8.30 P.M. (Kensington Town Hall, W.8), Prof. J. B. S. Jlaldane, F.R.S. : Congenital Disease. (Cavendish lecture.) . MEDICAL SOCIETY OF INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY. THURSDAY.-8.30 P.M. (11, Chandos Street, W.1), Dr. E. B. Strauss : Escape into Normality. LECTURES, ADDRESSES, DEMONSTRATIONS, &c. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. TUESDAY.-5 P.lII. (University New Buildings), Mr. A. L. Bacharach : Vitamin E. FRIDAY.-5 P.M., Prof. C. A. Lovatt Evans, F.R.S. : Metabolism of the Heart. (Sharpey Schafer lecture.) ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH. THURSDAY and FRIDAY.-5 P.M., Dr. Henry Yellowlees : Problem of Adolescence. (Morison lectures.) HONYMAN-GILLESPIE LECTURE, EDINBURGH. THURSDAY.-4.30 P.M. (Royal Infirmary), Miss Gertrude Herzfeld : The Acute Abdomen in Childhood. NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE HEART. THURSDAY.-5 P.M. (1, Wimpole Street, W.1), Prof. W. T. Ritchie : Acute Rheumatic Carditis. (St. Cyres lecture.) ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL, W.2. , TUESDAY.—5 P.M. (institute of pathology and research), Prof. J. R. Marrack : The Chemical Bases of Immunity Reactions. BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, Ducane Road, W.12. MONDAY.—4.30 P.M., Dr. R. C. Wingfield : Pulmonary Tuberculosis. WEDNESDAY.—Noon, clinical and pathological conference (medical). 2 P.M., Prof. J. H. Dible : Pathology of the Gastro-intestinal Tract (I). 3 P.M., clinical and pathological conference (surgical). 4.30 P.M., Prof. H. W. C. Vines : Pathology of the Adrenal Glands. THURSDAY.-2.15 P.M., Dr. Duncan White : radiological demonstration. 3.30 P.M., Colonel L. W. Harrison: Gonorrhœa in Women. FRIDAY.—2 P.M., clinical and pathological conference (obstetrics and gynaecology). 2.30 P.M., Mr. Charles Donald : Acute Pyogenic Infections. Daily, 10 A.M. to 4 P.M., medical clinics, surgical clinics and operations, obstetrical and gynaecological clinics and operations. ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL, S.W.I. THURSDAY.- 5 P.M., Dr. Alfred Meyer: psychiatric demon- stration. HOSPITAL FOR SIOK CHILDREN, Great Ormond Street, W.C.1. THURSDAY.-2 P.M., Dr. Wilfred Pearson : Causes, Symptoms and Treatment of Bronchiectasis. 3 P.M., Dr. W. G. Wyllie : The Recognition and Treatment of Pulmonary Tubercle in Children. Outpatient clinics daily at 10 A.M. and ward visits at 2 P.m. TAVISTOCE CLINIC, Malet Place, W.C.I. MONDAY.—6 P.M., Dr. Emanuel Miller : Type Diagnosis. WEDNESDAY.—3 P.M., Dr. Cedric Shaw : Sexual Difficulties. 4.30 P.M., Dr. H. Crichton-Miller : Frigidity. THURBDAY.—6 P.M., Dr. Alice Hutchison : Disorders of Childhood—Hysterical Manifestations, Digestive, Respira- tory, and other Disorders. FELLOWSHIP OF MEDICINE AND POST-GRADUATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 1, Wimpole Street, W.I. MONDAY to SUNDAY.-ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL, W.2, Tues. and Thurs, 8 P.M., clinical and pathological M.R.C.P. course.-BROMPTON HOSPITAL, S.W.3, all-day thoracic surgery course. Mons. and Thurs., or Tues. and Fri., 5.15 P.M., M.R.C.P. course in chest diseases.-LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL, Victoria Park, E.2, Wed. and Fri. 6 P.M., M.R.C.P. course in heart and lung diseases.-CITY OF LONDON MATERNITY HOSPITAL, City Road, E.C.1, Sat. and Sun. course in obstetrics. SOUTH-WEST LONDON POST-GRADUATE ASSOCIATION. WEDNESDAY.-4 P.M., Dr. A. E. Tudor Hart: Recent Experiences in the War in Spain. MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY. FRIDAY.-4.15 P.M., Dr. C. S. Don : demonstration of medical cases. Births, Marriages and Deaths BIRTHS CUTHBERT.—On May 27, at Newcastle, the wife of Dr. Martin Cuthbert-a daughter. DARMADY.—On May 24, at Britford, Salisbury, the wife of Dr. E. M. Darmady—a daughter. GIBBS.—On May 25, at Cobham, Surrey, the wife of Dr. A. J. Gibbs-a son. HAMILTON-TURNER.—On May 25, the wife of Dr. Claude Hamilton-Turner, of Cadogan Place, S.W.1—a daughter. HICKS.—On May 23, at Hove, the wife of Dr. Leighton Hicks -a son. HUBBABD.—On May 13, at the Government Hospital, Madras, the wife of Captain Philip A. Hubbard, I.M.S.—a son. LLEWELLYN.-On May 27, at Datchet, the wife of Dr. E. E. Llewellyn, of Virginia Water-a daughter. TUKE.—On May 26, the wife of Dr. R. G. Tuke, of Bournemouth - a son. WILDE.—On May 21, in Dublin, the wife of Dr. J. F. Wilde, of Doughty Street, W.C.1—a son. MARRIAGES BRAY—DESPREZ.—On May 22 in Paris, John Storey Barwick Bray, M.R.C.S., to Elise Soulbieu Desprez. FLETCHER SHAW—STEVENSON.—On May 24, at St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, W. Fletcher Shaw, P.R.C.O.G., to Mabel Mary, widow of Archibald Campbell Stevenson, M.B. FRAZER—DICKINS.—On May 20, at the Church of the Sacred Heart, London, Walter FitzGerald Frazer, M.R.C.S., to Kathleen Miriam Tavener Dickins. DEATHS BARROW.—On May 29, Albert Boyce Barrow, M.B. Lond. F.R.C.S., aged 94. CAIBNETT.—On May 23, at Queen Victoria Hospital, Nice, Maud Christine Cairney, M.B. Glasg., D.P.H., D.T.M. & H. CLAPPEBTON.—On May 2 7, at Corby, Eettering, Thomas James Milner Clapperton, L.S.A. COOKE-TATLOR.—On May 24, at University College Hospital, London, Charles Ralph Cooke-Taylor, O.B.E., M.R.C.S., of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, aged 55. DAvIES.-On May 30, Frederick Mark Davies, L.R.C.P., of Rodney Court, W.9, aged 74. ELLIS.—On May 27, Frederick William Ellis, M.D.Aberd., F.R.C.S., of Birmingham. GILRUTH.—On May 25, at Arbroath, James Davie Gilruth, M.D. Edin., F.R.C.P.E., of Drumkemno, Carnoustie. PEBDBAU.—On May 2 9, at Guy’s Hospital, Jean Rene Perdrau, M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S. SwiNFORD EDWARDS.—On May 29, at Grosvenor Street, W.1, Frederick Swinford Edwards, F.R.C.S., aged 86. N,B.-A fee of 7s. 6d. is charged for the insertion of Notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths. THE LANCET 100 YEARS AGO June 1, 1839, p. 378. From a review of " Practical and Surgical Anatomy and Physiology " by W. J. Erasmus Wilson. ... On our first impressions much depends, and he who commences the study of his anatomy with confused and ill-arranged ideas, let him not suppose that he has merely lost his first season ; on the contrary, he will painfully find in the second that Locke somewhat too boldly advanced his doctrine, that the mind was a sheet of white paper, or wax ; if it have the one property of readily receiving impressions, it has another additional, and sometimes very inconvenient one, that of retaining more or less clearly imprinted all that has once been traced. In fact, to obliterate erroneous views, or give clearness to ideas once confused, are perhaps the most difficult tasks we ever have to perform, infinitely more so than to acquire new matter, however abstruse or elaborate.
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Medical DiaryJune 5 to June 11
SOCIETIESROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.I.WEDNESDAY.
History of Medicine. 5 P.M., Prof. M. F. Ashley-Montagu(New York) : Edward Tyson (1650-1708) Physician,Comparative Anatomist and Anthropologist.
FRIDAY. ’
Ophthalmology. 4.30 P.M., cases. 5 P.M., annual generalmeeting. Mr. A. H. Levy and Dr. P. Manson-Bahr :Bilateral Keratitis and Cyclitis due to Filaria (OnchocercaVolvulus) Infection in a European from Kenya.
SATURDAY.Surgery. 2.15 P.M. (Royal Infirmary, Leicester), cases.
Dr. W. D. Jeans: Medical and Surgical Treatment ofGoitre. Mr. D. McGavin : Chronic Non-tuberculousEpididymitis. Dr. Joan Walker: Unusual PathologicalSpecimens.
FACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS.FRIDAY.—10 A.M. (Liverpool Medical Institution), Dr. R. E.
Roberts : presidential address. 2 P.M., Dr. J. L. A. Grout :Diseases of Bone. 2.40 P.M., Dr. C. G. Teall : A Radio-logical Study of the Bone Changes in Anaemia and Leu-kaemia in Children. 3.20 P.M., Dr. A. E. Barclay: Radio-logical Demonstration of the Adult and Foetal Circulation.
SATURDAY.-10 A.M., Prof. Henry Cohen, Prof. R. E. Kelly,Prof. W. M. Frazer, Dr. J. Ralston Paterson, Dr. J. F.Brailsford : The Cancer Problem.
WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY.THURSDAY.-8.30 P.M. (Kensington Town Hall, W.8), Prof.
J. B. S. Jlaldane, F.R.S. : Congenital Disease. (Cavendishlecture.)
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MEDICAL SOCIETY OF INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY.THURSDAY.-8.30 P.M. (11, Chandos Street, W.1), Dr. E. B.
Strauss : Escape into Normality.
LECTURES, ADDRESSES, DEMONSTRATIONS, &c.
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.TUESDAY.-5 P.lII. (University New Buildings), Mr. A. L.
Bacharach : Vitamin E.FRIDAY.-5 P.M., Prof. C. A. Lovatt Evans, F.R.S. :Metabolism of the Heart. (Sharpey Schafer lecture.)
ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH.THURSDAY and FRIDAY.-5 P.M., Dr. Henry Yellowlees :Problem of Adolescence. (Morison lectures.)
HONYMAN-GILLESPIE LECTURE, EDINBURGH.THURSDAY.-4.30 P.M. (Royal Infirmary), Miss Gertrude
Herzfeld : The Acute Abdomen in Childhood.
NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE HEART.THURSDAY.-5 P.M. (1, Wimpole Street, W.1), Prof. W. T.
Ritchie : Acute Rheumatic Carditis. (St. Cyres lecture.)ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL, W.2. ,
TUESDAY.—5 P.M. (institute of pathology and research),Prof. J. R. Marrack : The Chemical Bases of ImmunityReactions.
BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, DucaneRoad, W.12.
MONDAY.—4.30 P.M., Dr. R. C. Wingfield : PulmonaryTuberculosis.
WEDNESDAY.—Noon, clinical and pathological conference(medical). 2 P.M., Prof. J. H. Dible : Pathology of theGastro-intestinal Tract (I). 3 P.M., clinical and pathologicalconference (surgical). 4.30 P.M., Prof. H. W. C. Vines :Pathology of the Adrenal Glands.
THURSDAY.-2.15 P.M., Dr. Duncan White : radiologicaldemonstration. 3.30 P.M., Colonel L. W. Harrison:Gonorrhœa in Women.
FRIDAY.—2 P.M., clinical and pathological conference(obstetrics and gynaecology). 2.30 P.M., Mr. CharlesDonald : Acute Pyogenic Infections.
Daily, 10 A.M. to 4 P.M., medical clinics, surgical clinics andoperations, obstetrical and gynaecological clinics andoperations.
ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL, S.W.I.THURSDAY.- 5 P.M., Dr. Alfred Meyer: psychiatric demon-
stration.
HOSPITAL FOR SIOK CHILDREN, Great Ormond Street,W.C.1.
THURSDAY.-2 P.M., Dr. Wilfred Pearson : Causes, Symptomsand Treatment of Bronchiectasis. 3 P.M., Dr. W. G. Wyllie :The Recognition and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberclein Children.
Outpatient clinics daily at 10 A.M. and ward visits at 2 P.m.
TAVISTOCE CLINIC, Malet Place, W.C.I.MONDAY.—6 P.M., Dr. Emanuel Miller : Type Diagnosis.WEDNESDAY.—3 P.M., Dr. Cedric Shaw : Sexual Difficulties.
4.30 P.M., Dr. H. Crichton-Miller : Frigidity.THURBDAY.—6 P.M., Dr. Alice Hutchison : Disorders of
Childhood—Hysterical Manifestations, Digestive, Respira-tory, and other Disorders.
FELLOWSHIP OF MEDICINE AND POST-GRADUATEMEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 1, Wimpole Street, W.I.
MONDAY to SUNDAY.-ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL, W.2, Tues.and Thurs, 8 P.M., clinical and pathological M.R.C.P.
course.-BROMPTON HOSPITAL, S.W.3, all-day thoracicsurgery course. Mons. and Thurs., or Tues. and Fri.,5.15 P.M., M.R.C.P. course in chest diseases.-LONDONCHEST HOSPITAL, Victoria Park, E.2, Wed. and Fri. 6 P.M.,M.R.C.P. course in heart and lung diseases.-CITY OFLONDON MATERNITY HOSPITAL, City Road, E.C.1, Sat.and Sun. course in obstetrics.
SOUTH-WEST LONDON POST-GRADUATE ASSOCIATION.WEDNESDAY.-4 P.M., Dr. A. E. Tudor Hart: Recent
Experiences in the War in Spain.MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY.FRIDAY.-4.15 P.M., Dr. C. S. Don : demonstration of medical
cases.
Births, Marriages and DeathsBIRTHS
CUTHBERT.—On May 27, at Newcastle, the wife of Dr. MartinCuthbert-a daughter.
DARMADY.—On May 24, at Britford, Salisbury, the wife ofDr. E. M. Darmady—a daughter.
GIBBS.—On May 25, at Cobham, Surrey, the wife of Dr. A. J.Gibbs-a son.
HAMILTON-TURNER.—On May 25, the wife of Dr. ClaudeHamilton-Turner, of Cadogan Place, S.W.1—a daughter.
HICKS.—On May 23, at Hove, the wife of Dr. Leighton Hicks-a son.
HUBBABD.—On May 13, at the Government Hospital, Madras,the wife of Captain Philip A. Hubbard, I.M.S.—a son.
LLEWELLYN.-On May 27, at Datchet, the wife of Dr. E. E.Llewellyn, of Virginia Water-a daughter.
TUKE.—On May 26, the wife of Dr. R. G. Tuke, of Bournemouth- a son.
WILDE.—On May 21, in Dublin, the wife of Dr. J. F. Wilde,of Doughty Street, W.C.1—a son.
MARRIAGESBRAY—DESPREZ.—On May 22 in Paris, John Storey Barwick
Bray, M.R.C.S., to Elise Soulbieu Desprez.FLETCHER SHAW—STEVENSON.—On May 24, at St. Mary
Abbots, Kensington, W. Fletcher Shaw, P.R.C.O.G., toMabel Mary, widow of Archibald Campbell Stevenson, M.B.
FRAZER—DICKINS.—On May 20, at the Church of the SacredHeart, London, Walter FitzGerald Frazer, M.R.C.S., toKathleen Miriam Tavener Dickins.
DEATHSBARROW.—On May 29, Albert Boyce Barrow, M.B. Lond.
F.R.C.S., aged 94.CAIBNETT.—On May 23, at Queen Victoria Hospital, Nice, Maud
Christine Cairney, M.B. Glasg., D.P.H., D.T.M. & H.CLAPPEBTON.—On May 2 7, at Corby, Eettering, Thomas James
Milner Clapperton, L.S.A.COOKE-TATLOR.—On May 24, at University College Hospital,
London, Charles Ralph Cooke-Taylor, O.B.E., M.R.C.S., ofChepstow, Monmouthshire, aged 55.
DAvIES.-On May 30, Frederick Mark Davies, L.R.C.P., ofRodney Court, W.9, aged 74.
ELLIS.—On May 27, Frederick William Ellis, M.D.Aberd.,F.R.C.S., of Birmingham.
GILRUTH.—On May 25, at Arbroath, James Davie Gilruth,M.D. Edin., F.R.C.P.E., of Drumkemno, Carnoustie.
PEBDBAU.—On May 2 9, at Guy’s Hospital, Jean Rene Perdrau,M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S.
SwiNFORD EDWARDS.—On May 29, at Grosvenor Street, W.1,Frederick Swinford Edwards, F.R.C.S., aged 86.
N,B.-A fee of 7s. 6d. is charged for the insertion of Notices ofBirths, Marriages, and Deaths.
THE LANCET 100 YEARS AGO
June 1, 1839, p. 378.From a review of " Practical and Surgical Anatomy
and Physiology " by W. J. Erasmus Wilson.... On our first impressions much depends, and
he who commences the study of his anatomy with confusedand ill-arranged ideas, let him not suppose that he hasmerely lost his first season ; on the contrary, he will
painfully find in the second that Locke somewhat tooboldly advanced his doctrine, that the mind was a sheetof white paper, or wax ; if it have the one property ofreadily receiving impressions, it has another additional,and sometimes very inconvenient one, that of retainingmore or less clearly imprinted all that has once been traced.
In fact, to obliterate erroneous views, or give clearnessto ideas once confused, are perhaps the most difficulttasks we ever have to perform, infinitely more so than toacquire new matter, however abstruse or elaborate.
