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GLASGOW UNIVFRSITY.-Grieve Lectureship on Physiological Chemistry.GREAT NORTHERN CENTRAL HOSPITAL, Ilolloway, N.-Physician to

Out-patient Department for Diseases of Women. Also SeniorHouse Surgeon, Two Junior House Surgeons, and a Junior HousePhysician, in each case for six months. Salary of Senior Officerat rate of £60 per annum and of Junior Officers at £30 per annum,with board, lodging, and washing. Also Pathologist and Curator.Salary 50 guineas per annum.

HAMPSTEAD GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Resident Medical Officer for sixmonths, renewable. Salary at rate of £120 per annum and allow-ance for rooms.

LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY.-Resident Casualty Officer. Salary £ 100per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

LINCOLN COUNTY HOSPITAL.-Senior House Surgeon, unmarried.Salary £100 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing. AlsoJunior House Surgeon for six months, renewable. Salary £25 foreach period of six months, with board, residence, and washing.

LONDON HOSPITAL, Whitechapel, E.-Assistant Surgeon.LONDON TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon for six

months. Honorarium at rate of £75 per annum.MACCLESFIELD GENERAL INFIRMARY.-Junior House Surgeon. Salary

£50 per annum, with board and residence.METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL, Kingsland-road, N.E.-House Physician,

House Surgeon, Assistant House Physician, and Assistant HouseSurgeon, all for six months. Salaries of Senior Officers at rate of240 a year; of Assistants at rate of £20 a year.

MIDDLESBROUGH, YORKSHIRE, COUNTY BOROUGH ASYLUM.-MedicalSuperintendent. Salary B450 per annum, with house, rates, taxes,&c.

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL, W.-Second and Third Assistants to theDirector of the Cancer Research Laboratories. Salaries £125 and£100 respectively.

MORTLACH PARISH,* Duff town, Banffshire.-Resident Medical Officer.Salary £35 per annum and fees.

NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE RELIEF AND CURE OF THE PARALYSEDAND EPILEPTIC, Queen-square, Bloomsbury.-Assistant Physicianfor Out-patients.

NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL.-Second Assistant House Surgeonfor six months. Honorarium £20, with board, lodging, and

- washing.

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NORTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon, un-married. Salary;C5O per annum, with apartments, board, and washing.

OLDHAM INFIRMARY.-Senior House Surgeon. Salary oE100 perannum, with board, residence, and washing.

ROYAL DENTAL HOSPITAL OF LONDON, Leicester-square, W.C.-Demonstrator of Practical Dental Surgery. Stipend oElOO, risingto oE120 per annum.

ROYAL EAR HOSPITAL, Dean-street, Soho.-Honorary AssistantAnæsthetist.

ROYAI, HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST, City-road, E.C.-House Physician for six months. Salary at rate of JE60 per annum,with board, lodging, and washing.

ROYAL NAVY, MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE, 18, Victoria-street,London, S.W.-Three Dental Surgeons. Salary .El per diem.

ST. ALBANS, HERTS COUNTY AsYLUM, Hill End.-Junior AssistantMedical Officer. Salary oEl50 a year, with board, lodging, andwashing.

SALOP INFIRMARY.-House Physician for six months, renewable.Salary at rate of £50 per annum, with board and apartments.

WALSALL AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL, Walsall.-Assistant House Surgeon.Salary oE5O per annum, with board, residence, and washing.

WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith-road, W.-One House Phy-sician and Three House Surgeons, all for six months. Board,lodging, and laundry allowance.

WESTMINSTER GENERAL DISPENSARY.-Resident Medical Officer. Salaryat rate of £120 per annum, with rooms, gas, coal, and attendance.

WISBECH, NORTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE HOSPITAL.-Resident MedicalOfficer, unmarried. Salary £100 per annum, with rooms, attend-ance, coals, gas, and washing.

WOLVERHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.-AssistantHouse Surgeon for six months. Honorarium at rate of S75 perannum, with board, lodging, and washing.

THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice ofvacancies as Certifying Surgeons under the Factory and WorkshopAct at Winterton, in the county of Lincoln; and at Doune, inthe county of Perth.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS I

COLMAN.-On March 1st, at 9, Wimpole-street, W., the wife of W. S.Colman, M.D., F.R.C.P., of a son.

LANGDON-DOWN.-On Sunday, Feb. 26th, 1905, at Normansfield,Hampton Wick, to Reginald L. Langdon-Down, M.B., M.R.C.P.,and wife-a son.

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MARRIAGE.FORBES-PAUL.-On Feb. 27th, at All Souls Church, Langham-place,

W., James Graham, M.D., M.R.C.P., son of the Rev. E. Forbes,incumbent of Christ Church, Clevedon, Somerset, to MurielWatson, eldest daughter of the late Dr. Ernest Watson Paul, ofCowes, I. of W.

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DEATHS.ALLEN.-On Feb. 25th, 1905, at 3, Carlisle-parade, Hastings, Ella

Louise Katherine, wife of Bryan H. Allen, M.D., and daughter ofthe Rev. R. H. Dover, late vicar of Wilsden, Yorkshire, aged 56years.

HALSE-FRANCIS—On Dee. 27th, 1904, suddenly, Ferdinand Henry Halse-Francis. M.D. Durh., of Victoria Lodge, West Norwood, England,and Kaikoura, Marlborough, New Zeatand, aged 41 years.

KERR.-At 3, Hanger-lane, Ealing, W., suddenly, on Feb. 25th, in herninth year, Helen, the only daughter of Dr. James Kerr.

N.B.-A fee of 58. i8 charged for the insertion of Notice8 of Births,Marriages, and Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

HARVEY AND FINCH : A REMARKABLE MS.

IT will no doubt interest most of our readers to know that Messrs.Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Ilodge will include in a sale at theirrooms on March 4th a folio MS. Common-Place Book, inthe original calf binding, of the celebrated lawyer, Heneage

! Finch, afterwards Earl of Nottingham and Lord Chancellor, whichcontains two pages with long and curious medical directionsin the autograph of his far more illustrious uncle and physician,Dr. William Harvey, written in 1647, when Harvey was aged69 and Finch 26 years. As the sale catalogue states, "Even thesignature of this great anatomist is of the utmost rarity. Nowhereelse outside the British Museum can so much of his handwriting befound as in the present MS., which came from Miss Finch ofMaidstone at her death some 40 years ago." The well-knownantiquary and Harveian scholar, Mr. W. J. Harvey, has examinedthe MS. and added several interesting particulars, stating that

probably the medical directions alluded to above were for therelief of rheumatism, from which it is not generally known thatFinch suffered in his younger years. Mr. Harvey has discoveredthat about 70 years ago there was extant among the Southwell MSS.a most interesting letter from Thomas Henshaw, F.R.S., to Sir RobertSouthwell, dated May 16th, 1682 (about seven months before Finch’sdeath), mentioning inter alia, " Our present Lord Chancellor was formany years in his younger days much grieved with a rheumatism,and never could get a cure for it until he followed the advice of hisbrother, Sir John Finch, and Dr. Baines, both newly returned fromItaly, which was to drink three pints of Bordeaux claret every day.If you should object to me, my Lord Chancellor’s gout and stone,I can answer that neither of these seized him till many years afterhis use of wine, and may very justly be attributed, to his muchsetting." The interest and the importance of the MS. Common-PlaceBook are, however, vastly increased by the remarkable anticipa-tion of the electric telegraph and wireless telegraphy which it con-tains on p. 467.

AN IMPROVED HAMMOCK FOR INVALID RAILWAYTRAVELLERS.

To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,-May I add my testimony to the value of the improvedhammock for invalids travelling? I was present at the trial trip fromKing’s Cross to Cambridge and back on Feb. 15th. A great part of thejourney I was in the hammock and can speak of it as exceedinglyrestful and comfortable. We travelled express speed and to make thetest more severe were at the end of the train. There was absolutely nolateral swaying, no jarring, and vibration was reduced to a minimumso as to be scarcely perceptible. The only movement was a rockingfrom head to feet whilst passing over points or round sharp curves, andthat is easily preventable. The Great Northern Railway inspectorwould, I believe, corroborate these statements. It is much to be hopedthat these hammocks may be adopted by the railway companies andso make it possible for invalids of moderate means to travel in easeand comfort. I am, Sirs, yours faithfully,

Feb. 25th, 1905. THE MOTHER OF AN INVALID.

SUPERFLUOUS HAIRS.

M.B., having read Dr. Balmanno Squire’s article on enelectrolysiswhich we published last week, asks for further advice from ourreaders in the treatment of superfluous hairs occurring on thechin, putting the following questions: Has treatment by thex rays any advantage over electrolysis ? Is either a permanentcure? Is there any scarring where the x rays are used? Dothe x rays inhibit a further accumulation of new hairs or do theyonly destroy those already existing ?

THE REMOVAL OF BODIES.

SOME criticisms have been made as to the action of the police in a casewhere Mr. E. A. Gibson, the Manchester coroner, ordered the removalof a body for the purpose of having a post-mortem examination made.He had, of course, the right to do this by virtue of his office. Thereseems to be no special provision made for the removal of bodies in thecomparatively few cases where the coroner may deem it necessary.A newspaper correspondent charged the police with carrying outthe removal "in a brutal manner" and suggested that the horseambulance should have been requisitioned, which would have beenpreposterous. Ambulances are intended and used for conveyingpatients to the hospitals and it would not tend to make them

popular vehicles for that purpose if it were known that they werealso used for carrying dead bodies. The charge of brutality seemsunfounded. A stretcher was taken into the house, the body wasplaced upon it, covered up, and carried away on the " handambulance," as it is called-that is, the framework with wheels onwhich the stretcher is placed. No doubt the method might beimproved on. It is not a pleasant spectacle to see this gruesomecarriage with its dead or injured burden wheeled along the street, but