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THE LANCET Office, July 20th, 1899.

Medical Diary for the ensuing Week.OPERATIONS.

METROPOLITAN HOSPITALS.MONDAY (24th).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St.

Thomas’s (3.30 P.M.), St. George’s (2 P.M.), St. Mary’s (2.30 P.M.),Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), Westminster (2 P.M.), Chelsea (2 P.M.),Samaritan (Gynecological, by Physicians, 2 P.M.), Soho-square(2 P.M.), Royal Orthopaedic (2 P.M.), City Orthopedic (4 P.M.),Gt. Northern Central (2.30 P.M.). West London (2.30 P.M.), LondonThroat (2 P.M.).

TUESDAY (25th).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), Guy’s(1.30 P.M.), St. Thomas’s (3.30 P.M.), Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), West-minster (2 P.M.), West London (2.30 P.M.), University College(2 P.M.), St. George’s (1 P.M.), St. Mary’s (1 P.M.), St. Mark’s(2.30 P.M.), Cancer (2 P.M.), Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.), London Throat(2 P.M. and 6 P.M.), Royal Ear (3 P.m.).

WEDNESDAY(26th St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), University College,2 P.M.), Royal Free (2 P.M.), Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), Charing-cross(3 P.M.), St. Thomas’s (2P.M.), London (2 P.M.), King’s College (2 P.M.),St, George’s (Ophthalmic 1 P.M.), St. Mary’s (2 P.M.), National Ortho-pædic (10 A.M.), St. Peter’s (2 P.M.), Samaritan (2.30 P.M.), Gt.Ormond-street (9.30 A.M.), Gt. Northern Central (2.30 P.M.), West-minster (2 P.M.), Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.), London Throat (2 P.M.),Cancer (2 P.M.),

THURSDAY (27th).-St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St. Thomas’s(3.30 P.M.), University College (2 P.M.), Charing-cross (3 P.M.), St.George’s (1 P.M.), London (2 P.M.), King’s College (2 P.M.), Middlesex(1.30 P.M.), St. Mary’s (2.30 P.M.), Soho-square (2 P.M.), North-WestLondon (2 P.M.), Chelsea (2 P.M.), Gt. Northern Central (Gynæco-logical, 2.30 P.M.), Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.), London Throat (2 P.M.),St. Mark’s (2 P.M.).

FRIDAY (28th).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St.Thomas’s (3.30 P.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.). Middlesex (1.30 P.M.),Charing-cross (3 P.M.), St. George’s (1 P.M.), King’s College (2 P.M.),St. Mary’s (2 P.M., Ophthalmic 10 A.M.), Cancer (2 P.M.), Chelsea(2 P.M.), Gt. Northern Central (2.30 P.m.), West London (2. 30 P.M.),London Throat (2 P.M. and 6 P.M.).

IATURDA Y (29th).-Royal Free (9 A.M. and 2P.M.), Middlesex (1.30 P.M.).St. Thomas’s (2 P.M.), London (2 P.M.), University College (9.15 P.M.).Charing-cross (3 P.M.), St. George’s (1 P.M.), St. Mary’s (10 P.M.),London Throat (2 P.M.).

At the Royal Eye Hospital (2 P.M.), the Royal London Ophthalmic(10 A.M.), the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic (1.30 P.M.), and theCentral London Ophthalmic Hospitals operations are performed daily. ,

LECTURES, ADDRESSES, DEMONSTRATIONS, &c. ’

THURSDAY (27th).--MEDICO-PHYSIOLOGICAL AssocmioN OF GREATBRITAIN AND IRELAND (11, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W.).-11 A.M. Annual Meeting.

FRIDAY (28th).--MEDICO-PHYSIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF GREATBRITAIN AND IRELAND (11, Chandos street, Cavendish-square, W.).-11 A.M. Annual Meeting.

BRITISH LARYNGOLOGICAL, RHINOLOGICAL, AND OTOLOGICAL Asso-CIATION (11, Chandos-st., Cavendish-square, W.).--3 P.M. Meeting.

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Heratd, Rangoon Tirnes, Oban Times, Indian Daily News, &c., &e.

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