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regulations as being of more prominent importance. We are Ipleased to see that the security obtained by a broad and heavybase is insisted on. The substitution of a metal for a glass orchina reservoir is no less justly recommended. A wick-soft and not tightly plaited, dried, and saturated with oil-reaching to nearly the bottom of reservoir, which should befilled with oil each time the lamp is lighted, and kept free from’charred products &c., further and effectively provides againstthe possibility of explosion. An extinguishing apparatus isrecommended, though for obvious reasons no special form or-method can be advocated in a series of general directions. If

we were to try to add anything to this excellent code wewould advise that the apparatus in question should be of aself-acting character. Some contrivances of this kind are

extremely simple and inexpensive, and their addition to the- ordinary lamp machinery, while it entails but a triflingadditional outlay, is well worthy of adoption on the scoreof security against accident should the lamp be accidentallyupset.

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INFLUENZA IN THE DOUBRUGHA.

A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Kustendji, Roumania, on,this subject, says :-I Influenza is now very rife in this town.’The first cases I noticed occurred on Dec 23rd and the numberhas been daily increasing. The disease is of a mild form withfew exceptions. It is ushered in with general malaise, pains inthe muscles and bones, and severe pain down the spinal column.from the neck to the lumbar region. The feverish symptomslast for about two days, and catarrh of the bronchial tubesexists in almost every case. In some neglected cases in thefirst stage I have found one or both lungs pneumonic. IGastric catarrh was present in other cases ; in fact, the

symptoms vary greatly in each case-in one the stomach, in,another the heart, and in a third the lung is the part mostaffected. Up to the present adults seem to suffer the most.,Severe cephalalgia has been the first symptom in four of mycases, and in one of these profuse epistaxis occurred. The

treatment I have found most effectual is aperients at the’beginning, phenacetine where there is cephalalgia, then

diaphoretics in combination with tolu, salicylate of soda andantipyrin. In cases complicated with pneumonia or gastriccatarrh &c., I have, of course, adopted measures suited to: each. I may mention that the weather for the last monthhas been as mild as spring, but very damp. It still con-tinues to be very damp, with a slight frost at night and.strong N.E. wind. At this season the weather here should behard frost, say, from 18° to 20° below zero, and dry, strong,.northerly winds. Only last week I saw some sparrows mating,and carrying feathers in order to build their nests."

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Bonn -Dr. Kocks has been promoted to the rank of.Professor.

Halle.-Professor Febling, of Basle, has been offered the<;hair of Midwifery in succession to Dr. Kaltenbach.

St. Peterburg (Military Medical Academy) -Dr. L.

Bellyarminoff has been appointed Extraordinary Professor ofOphthalmology.

Vienna.-Drs. Hocbenegg and von Hacker have been pro-moted to the rank of Extraordinary Professors of Surgery.

DEATHS OF EMINENT FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN.

THE deaths of the following distinguished members ofthe medical profession abroad have been announced :-Dr.Adolf Heider, privat-docent in Hygiene in the University ofVienna. -Dr. Strohl, formerly Professor of Pharmacology andHygiene in the Strasburg Medical School.-Dr. Quinquaud,professeur-agri&eacute;g&eacute; in the Paris Faculty of Medicine.

AT the next meeting of the Epidemiological Society, to beheld on the 17th inst. at 8.30 P.M., Dr. J. C. M.Vail willread a paper on the Aerial Convection of Small-pox fromHospitals. The subject is one likely to prove of more thanordinary interest to epidemiologists.

THE January meeting of the Convocation of the Universityof London will be held at the buildings in Burlington.gardens on Tuesday, the 16th inst., at 5 P.M. The Report ofthe Royal Commission has not yet been signed, and theagenda, therefore, will be devoid of any medical interest.

ADVICES from Cape Town convey the information that theGovernment of Cape Colony has considered it expedient toappoint a commission for the purpose of taking evidence onpoints connected with the nature, treatment, and diffusion ofleprosy. -------

THE Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. John DaviesCleaton, M.R.C.S., to be an Honorary Commissioner in

Lunacy, in the room of Mr. Harry Tichborne Hinckes,resigned.

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THE vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. J. D,

Cleaton, M. R. C. S , as lunacy commissioner has been filled bythe appointment of Dr. John Augustus Wallis, lately medicalsuperintendent of the Whittingham Asylum, Preston, Lanca.shire.

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DR H. D. LITTLEJOHN, Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudenceand on Public Health, Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh, has beenelected a Foreign Associate of the Societe Fran&ccedil;aised’Hygiene. -

DR. FRANKLAND, Sir Douglas Galton, Professor von

Helmholtz, the Duke of Devonshire, and the Marquis ofSalisbury have been elected hon. members of the Institutionof Civil Engineers.

THE LATE PROFESSOR CHARCOT.

DR. BRISSAUD, who has been appointed provisionallyLecturer on Nervous Diseases at the Salpetriere, inauguratedhis course of lectures by rendering homage to his late

illustrious master, Professor Charcot. If his language to ourEnglish taste savours somewhat of hyperbole, it must be re-membered that all the circumstances under which the addresswas delivered, as well as the speaker’s nationality, con-

spired to account for the generosity of his words. Beggingfor the indulgence of his hearers, he said : "The task beforeme is difficult and painful. I have been appointed to followtemporarily, in this the first chair of the first clinique inthe world, that eminent and illustrious master, that incom-parable professor, who throughout the last twenty years wasthe greatest ornament of our profession, and whose namewill be handed down to posterity among the greatest ofour physicians. It does not become me, who am only hispupil-and proud of the fact-to pronounce any eulogyupon him. He desired that there should be silence over

his grave, and as none of his colleagues have yet spokenof him, I shall not claim the glory of being the first to

celebrate his memory. I will therefore say nothing of hiswork, which moreover transcends all panegyric, and is in itselfsufficiently eloquent. Time will not efface it. BeforeCharcot the whole of a science had yet to be established,though Duchenne of Boulogne had made some advances inthat direction. But neuro-pathology existed only in name.Professor Charcot elevated it to reality, and his historiccollaboration with Vulpian at the period when these twoyoung enthusiasts, friends from childhood, first started ontheir career at the Salpetriere marks the date of itstrue origin. But, while Vulpian left the hospital in order todedicate himself to the physiological work which has renderedhim so justly famous, Charcot remained there, gradually