24 EPSOM COLLEGE.-ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE.

MY MOORLAND PATIENTS.

By a Yorkshire Doctor. Edited by J. C. PowELL.London : John Murray. 1924. Pp. 242. 7s. 6d.

WE are glad to see that this book, the first editionof which was reviewed in our columns, is now issuedin a cheaper edition, especially as the cheapness, sofar as we can see, has not been put into the paper,the printing, or the illustrations. As a record of astate of manners and customs which are rapidlypassing, or indeed have entirely disappeared, thevolume is most valuable, and makes excellent reading.The " Yorkshire Doctor " was Dr. R. W. S. Bishop,who died in 1921.

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EPSOM COLLEGE: THE ANNUALMEETING.

THE annual meeting of the governors of EpsomCollege was held at the offices, 49, Bedford-square,London, W.C., on June 27th, when Dr. RaymondCrawfurd presided. The secretary read the namesof the successful candidates as follows :--

I" Christie," " Pugh," and Ordinary Pensionerships.

* " Christie pensioner. t Ordinary Pensioners.t " Pugh " Pensioners.

Foundation Scholarships.

Addressing the governors, the Chairman said thathe hoped this would be a memorable year in theannals of the College and one pregnant of far-reachingresults. Increased support from the profession andothers had enabled the Council to face increasedcommitments in various directions. In their deter-mination to attain the highest educational level,they had made substantial improvements in thepecuniary prospects of the masters. The year hadseen the completion of the rebuilding of the chapelas a memorial to the masters and boys who fell inthe war. The reconstructed chapel, a brick basilicaof admirable internal proportions, now embodiedworthily the spiritual aspirations of the College.A new chemical block, that had been thought andtalked about for so many years, was now actuallyin hand, and had been made possible by severalgenerous bequests that had come to hand. Thevacated space would afford much-needed additionalaccommodation for class-rooms and lecture-room, andfor an improved natural history museum. TheCouncil were now in the position, by the munificenceof a good benefactress, to carry. out a completetransformation of the existing library, and to makeit far more attractive and serviceable to the boys,and Dr. Crawfurd expressed the hope that similarhelp from some other quarter might be forthcomingtowards the equipment of a museum, worthy of aschool that supplies so many recruits to scientificprofessions ; 2500 would solve all difficulties in thatdirection. Another need of the College, that mightwell appeal to those of sporting instincts, was thelevelling and extension of some parts of the playingfields, so that all the boys might play their gamesunder more inspiriting conditions. The Bursar hadsecured an estimate for the work, which showed thatit could be well done for ;81500. These things werebeyond the capacity of the normal revenue of the

College, which this year was bearing the cost of anextensive substitution of electric light for gas, andwhich would almost at once have to provide betterwashing and drying facilities in the Lower School,and probably in the not distant future to undertakethe centralisation of a scattered and wasteful systemof heating and hot-water supply.The Chairman concluded on a note of gratitude to

all who had helped them ; to their good subscribers,donors, and benefactors ; to their organisation oflocal secretaries, which he wished to extend far morewidely ; to the great medical institutions, and themedical press. He also asked for special thanks toMr. Gerald Stanley who had established at his ownexpense a scholarship giving free education at theCollege, and to Mr. Arthur Chudleigh, who hadgiven to the chapel a silver-plated cross, six candle-sticks, and vases for the altar, and an alms dish.He hoped that the generosity of all these mightprove contagious in many quarters.On the motion of the Chairman, the report of the

income and expenditure account was adopted andthe Council and officers for the year were elected orre-elected. On the motion of Dr. F. de HavillandHall, seconded by Sir StClair Thomson, Dr. Crawfurd,who has worked so untiringly for the College

I and has collected over 21000 in subscriptions, waselected a Vice-President..

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SECTION OF ANÆSTHETICS: PROVINCIALMEETING.

A PROVINCIAL meeting of this Section was heldon June 27th at Manchester, Mr. H. E. G. BoYLE,President, in the chair. The members were mosthospitably entertained by their northern fellows,and after luncheon in the University Refectoryadjourned to the lecture room and physiologicallaboratories.-Dr. H. P. FAIRLIE read a paper onChloroform Anaesthesia, in which he deprecated theview that chloroform should never be used. It was,in his view, often the best anaesthetic, but only inthe hands of those who were thoroughly experiencedin its use. The fatigue caused to the patient byprolonged ether inhalation could often be avertedby judicious employment of chloroform.-Dr. J.BLOMFIELD- pointed out the difference between thetwo kinds of chloroform fatality, one avoidable andthe other not, and agreed that when proper selectionof anaesthetics for all cases was practised chloroform

I would often be chosen and used by the expert.-Dr. S. R. WILSON described the causation of ventricularfibrillation, and pointed out the fallacy of preliminaryatropine if chloroform fatalities were ascribed to vagusinhibition.-Dr. W. J. MCCARDlE alluded to theadvantages of mixture with varying proportions ofchloroform.—Mr. G. RAMSEY PHILLIPS alluded to thearrangement for increasing concentration of chloroforminto the VernonHarcourt inhaler.-Dr. KIRKBYTHOMASdescribed the safety inherent in the low position ofthe patient’s head.-Dr. ANDREW WILSON describeddeaths which had occurred before the administrationof the anaesthetic had commenced and agreed with theobservations of Dr. Fairlie and Dr. Blomfield.-Dr.H. W. FEATHERSTONE described the difference in resus-citating those patients who collapsed under chloroformcompared with similar cases under other anaesthetics.-In the laboratory Dr. S. R. WILSON and Dr. S.McSwiNEY demonstrated the effects of intravenousinjection of adrenalin into animals anaesthetised with

, ether and with chloroform, and a number of charts and of different kinds of apparatus was also demon- strated.

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