The mucous membrane of the gall bladder was thickly studded with minute hæmorrhages. The stomach and duodeum were similarly effected. The stomach also showed signs of chronic gastric catarrh. The spleer was considerably enlarged, its capsule tense, its consistence somewhat subnormal. On section it was of a uniform dark reddish-brown colour. The kidneys were enlarged and softer than normal. The capsule was somewhat adherent. The cortex was swollen and of a pale greyish colour. It was found microscopically to be in a state of cloudy swelling, and in places showed some catarrh of the tubules, with a great increase in the intertubular connective tissue cells. There were no enlarged glands in any part of the body. The skull was quite normal, and no sign of recent or old contusion of the tissues of the scalp was found. The brain, beyond some marked congestion of the vessels of the meninges showed nothing abnormal. Smear preparations of the spleen pulp and of the blood of the median basilic vein were made, stained by dilute aqueous fuchsin solution and found to contain large numbers of small oval-shaped organisms showing marked bipolar staining. Films were also treated by Gram's methed, but the organisms were found to remain unstained.

The case was therefore one of septicæmic plague and not, as was at first surmised, one of death from injury to the brain following upon an assault.

MEDICAL NOTES.

Treatment of Inebriety in Victoria.-The formation of a committee to investigate the different cures for inebriety has been completed by the Chief Secretary. The committee will consist of Messrs. M'Kenzie and J. W. Billson, M's.L.A., the Rev. Dr. Bevan, the Rev. Dr. Strong, and Dr. Godfrey, assistant Government medical officer About half a dozen methods of treating alcoholics have been brought under Mr. Trenwith's notice, and a number of persons have submitted themselves as willing to be treated.

Treatment of Inebriety in England.-The working of the Inebriates Act of 1898, says the Medical Press and Circular, is reported to be a success. Two drawbacks are quoted, lack of accommodation-there are at present only 22 institutions dealing with the inebriate in the United Kingdom --and reluctance on the part of magistrates to put the measure into full force. There is plenty of scope for well conducted private homes and for charitable institutions for the poor. So far the results of the measure are very encouraging and it is hoped that having started in such a good work, the legislature will go still further and help to stay the liberty of the habitual drunkard.

The Inverell Lodge. -The Inverell medical men are so far winning and no applications have so far been received by the local lodge. We trust that they will get no application and that the profession throughout the colonies will endeavour to assist in the fight to their utmost.

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bread within their respective districts. Registration is to be made annually, and a fee of £10 to be paid. is also provided that inspectors may be appointed, and such inspectors are empowered to enter any bakehouse or warehouse and weigh and try all bread which appears to have been baked within 12 hours preceding time of search. Every inspector can exercise all the powers and authorities conferred on any inspector of weights and measures. Every baker who fails to comply with the provisions of the Act shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £5, and on a second or subsequent conviction not exceeding £10.

The Sanitary Institute, London.-The Sydney local examination in sanitary knowledge conducted on behalf of the Sanitary Institute, London, was held in the Technical College Ultimo, on the 20th and 21st December, 1901, the examiners being Drs. Frank Tidswell, W. S. Armstrong, and R. Dick, and Messrs. J. S. Bruce and J. Sulman. Thirty-five candidates presented themselves for examination of whom seventeen have been recommended for the certificate of competency to act as inspectors of nuisances, and six for the certificate of proficiency in practical sanitary science.

PERSONAL ITEMS.

WE much regret that owing to our having been misinformed, we stated in our last issue that Dr. F. G. Brathwaite, the Chief Medical Officer of the New York Life Insurance Company in Australasia, had left Sydney for Wellington, New Zealand. Dr. Brathwaite was only absent on a visit there for a month.

Dr. A. A. DOYLE, late of Sydney, has succeeded to Dr. G. 8. L'Estrange's practice, in Roma, Q. Dr. L'Estrange has left with his family on a trip to Ireland and Nordrach.

Dr. R. F. HARDY, late of Clayfield, has begun practice in Toowoomba, in conjunction with Dr. Elliolt, of the Toowoomba Friendly Societies' Medical Institute.

Dr. A. G. SALTER, late of Pittsworth, Q., has returned after a two years' trip to England, and has purchased Dr. G. Comyn's practice at Red Hill, Brisbane.

Dr. A. Nicoll, of Tambo, Q., has sold his practice to Dr. G. Cory, and has left for Europe for a trip.

Dr. W. G. ARMSTRONG's laboratory, at Hornsby, Sydney, was utterly demolished by fire on Wednesday (8th inst.) night. We deeply sympathise with Dr. Armstrong in his heavy loss.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM leaves Sydney for Europe, ria China and Japan on January 25th. He expects to be absent for six or eight months, and intends to devote his attention to the methods of civic government in the larger towns of the old world, and to study the latest development in medicine and surgery.

Dr. W. R. CLAY is returning to Sydney by the s.s. "Bungaree," which is due to sail from London about the middle of January.

The Water and Sewerage Board has granted leave of absence to the medical officer, Dr. T. Mailler Kendall, in order that he might represent the Board at the medical congress, to be held at Hobart in February next.

Dr. F. D. JERMYN, of Mount Gambier, S.A. has received from the Duke of Norfolk a valuable silver inkstand, suitably inscribed, as a memento of their acquaintance in South Africa. The Duke suffered a fracture of the hip joint through a fall from his horse in the great march of Lord Roberts army to Pretoria, and Dr. Jermyn successfully treated him for the injury. A complimentary note accompanied the present.

Dr. SEABROOK, late House Surgeon at the Broken Hill Hospital, left on December 22nd en route to Port Darwin. Prior to his departure the officers and nursing staff of the hospital presented the doctor with a gold repeating chronograph watch and a neatly-framed testimonial as tokens of their esteem.

Dr. JOHN THOMSON of Brisbane, has been appointed to represent the Government of Queensland at the medical congress, to be held at Hobart in February.

On 30th ult., the nurses and staff of the Hobart General Hospital presented Dr. Macgowan (late House Surgeon of that institution) with a memento in recognition of his services and kindnesses rendered them during his term of office. The memento was in the form of a collection of portraits of the staff, together with external and internal views of the operating theatre, the whole beautifully mounted in an oak frame.

Dr. R. BELLI, late of Walgett Hospital, has settled at Coonamble, N.S.W.

Mr. E. T. THRING, one of the Honorary Gynecological Surgeons at Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, has obtained six months' leave of absence, and left Sydney on a visit to England on January 18th.

Dr. C. C. McDONALD, Mayor of Mount Gambier, S.A., recently fined himself 10s. for allowing his chimney to catch fire, The Municipal Council wished to refund the amount, but the Mayor refused it on the ground that he had broken the law and must accept the consequences.

We are glad to state that Dr. C. V. Bowker, Medical Superintendent of the Sydney Hospital, who has been indisposed for some time, has now recovered and resumed duty at the Hospital.

MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS.

The following Medical Appointments are announced :

NEW SOUTH WALES.

O'Connor, Arthur Charles, M.B., M.Ch. Univ. Syd,, to be Government Medical Officer and Vaccinator at Bulli and Coalcliff, vice Dr. Clifton Sturt, deceased.

Shortt, Dr. W., has been appointed Coroner for the police district
of Corowa, in lieu of Mr. A. D. Barnett, P.M.
Zimpel, Adolph, M.B., M.S. Aberd., to be Junior Medical Officer,
Department of Lunacy.
The following gentlemen have been appointed to the Commission
of the Peace :-Charles Ayres, M.B., etc., Hamilton; Henry
Rufus Bell, M.B., etc., Murrurundi; Harold Graves Bennetts,
M.B., etc., Temora; Dr. A. G. Henry, Coast Hospital, Little
Bay; Henry James Dempster Innes, M.R.C.S. Eng., Mount
Victoria; John Smith-Gutridge, M.D., Bungendore; Dr. Frank
Tidswell, Board of Health, Sydney; Gustave Henry Stephen
Zichy-Woinarski, M.B., etc., Trangie.

Sydney Hospital.-The following were appointed resident medical
officers for 1902, viz. :-Messrs. H. M. Anderson, M.B.; Theodore
Ambros, M.B.; E. W. L. Combes, M.B.; W. A. R. Sharp, M.B.;
William Seldon, M.B.; and F. Webb, M.B.

Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney.-The following have been appointed resident medical officers :-E. W. Moncrieff, M.B.: E. C. Page, M.B.; A. Muscio, M.B.; D. Wallace, M.B.; P. L. Broadbent M.B.; E. M. Stephen, M.B.

VICTORIA.

Baldwin, G. R., F.R.C.S. Eng., to be Hon. Surgeon to Out-patients St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne.

QUEENSLAND.

Doyle, Andrew Aloysius, L.R.C.S. Irel., etc., etc., to be Medical Officer at Roma, and Visiting Surgeon to the Prison at that place, vice Guy Stuart L'Estrange, L.R.C.8. Irel., resigned.

WEST AUSTRALIA.

Evered, Dr. A. C., to be Quarantine Officer at Albany, vise F. J.
Ingoldby, resigned.
Harvey, Dr. William, to be District Medical Officer for West
Kimberley, Quarantine Officer for the Port of Derby, and Public
Vaccinator for the Urban and Suburban Districts of Derby and
Rural District of West Kimberley, vice G. Harward Brown,
deceased.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Seabrook, Thomas Edwin Fraser, M.D., to be Acting Medical Officer at Palmerston, Acting District Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for the District of Palmerston, Acting Health Officer at Port Darwin, and Acting Protector of Aborigines for the Northern Territory during the absence on leave of Frederick Goldsmith, M.B., Ch.B. Adelaide Hospital.-The following have been appointed resident medical officers:-Constance Helen Frost, M.B., Ch.B.; Elizabeth Eleanor Weld, M.B., B.S.; Helen Shaw, M.B., B.S.; Frances Snow, M.B., B.S.; and Oscar Sydney Flecker, M.B.

Barrett. Edith Helen, Albert Park, M.B. et Ch.B. Melb. 1901.
Cooke, James Douglas, Melbourne, M.B. Melb. 1901.
Fearnley, Warren James, Canterbury, M. B. et Ch.B. Melb. 1901.
Forshaw, William Joseph, Carlton, M.B. Melb. 1901.

Gutteridge, Matthew Wilkins, Melbourne, M.B. et Ch.M. Edin.;
M.R.C.S. Eng. 1883.

Haig, Thomas Baker, Auburn, L.R.C.P. et L.R.C.S. Edin. 1900;
L.S.A. Lond. 18.0; M.D. Brussels 1901.

Mackenzie, John Forbes Cock, Cheltenham, M.B. Melb. 1901.
Marsden, Charles Edward, West Melbourne, M.B. Melb. 1901.
Rigby, Ernest Horatio, Kyneton, M.B. et Ch.B. Melb. 1901.
Thomson, John, East St. Kilda, M.B. et Ch.M. 1875; M.D. Aberd.
1877.

Triado, Antonio Joseph James, Box Hill, M.B. Melb. 1901.

Additional Qualification Registered:

Griffith, James De Burgh, M,D. Univ. of Dubl. 1886.

QUEENSLAND.

Money, Percy Frederick, Woodlark Island, British New Guinea, M.R.C.S. Eng. 1883; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1883.

Re-publication.

Cole, Christopher Dillon Croker. Life Association of Australasia' Toowoomba, L.R C.S. Irel. 1875; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1877.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Steel, Dr. William Hart, B.M., B.Ch. Glasg. 1898.

TASMANIA.

Murphy, John Thomas, M.B. Melb. 1899.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

DAMMAN.-On the 20th December, at Penguin, Tasmania, the wife
of G. W. Damman, M.B., of a daughter.
ROCK-On the 8th December, at Clifton Hill, Charlton, the wife of
William Rock, L.R.C.S. Edin., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

COLE JENNER.-On the 16th December, 1991, at the residence of Sir Frederick Sargood, Rippon Lea, Elsternwick, by the Rev. Frederick Warner, Frank Hobill Cole, M.B., et Ch.B., of Carlton, to Claire Josephine, fifth daughter of the late Hon. C. J. Jenner, of Melbourne.

HODGE-SADLIER.-On the 10th December, 1901, at St. Mary's, Caulfield, by the Rev. A. J. H. Priest, Theodore Hodge, M.R.C.S., of Claremont, W.A., son of the late Rev. Henry Vere Hodge, rector of Middleton, Warwickshire, to Dora Webber, daughter of John Sadlier, " Orwell," Kooyong-road, Elsternwick. LITTLEJOHN-CLOSE.-On the 18th December, 1901, at St. John's Darlinghurst, Dr. E. Sydney, third son of Mr. Thomas Littlejohn of Manly, to Margaret Alice Bowyer, eldest daughter of Mrs. Peter Close, of "Malua," Elizabeth Bay.

DEATHS.

CLUNE. On the 3rd January, 1902, at his residence, Palmyra,
Ridge Street, North Sydney, M. J. Clune, M.D., aged 54 years.
R I.P.
WILLIAMS.-On the 13th January, at his residence, No. 1 Royal
Terrace, Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, Ezra Hulbert Williams,
M.D., the beloved husband of Georgina Leonora Williams,
aged 38 years.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

STUDENTS' HANDBOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. By H. Aubrey Husband, M.B., C.M. Fifth edition. Edinburgh: E. and S. Livingstone THE URINE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE TOGETHER WITH ITS CHEMICAL EXAMINATION. By H, A. Husband. Fourth edition. Edinburgh: E. and S. Livingstone.

THE POCKET FORMULARY FOR TREATMENT OF DISEASE IN CHILDREN. By L. Freyberger, M.D. Vienna. Third edition. Rebman, 129 Shaftesbury Avenue, Cambridge Circus, London.

WATER SUPPLIES. By J. C. Thresh, D.Sc. Lond., M.D. Vic., D.P.H. Camb. Rebman, Limited, 129 Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.

TEXT BOOK OF PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS. Edited by W. Hale White, M.D., F.R.C.P. Young J. Pentland.

AN INDEX OF SYMPTOMS. R. W. Leftwich M.D., Second edition. Smith, Elder and Co., 15 Waterloo Place.

THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. Wm. Osler, M.D., LL.D. Edin., F. R. S., F.R.C.P. Young J. Pentland, Knox Place, Edin.

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