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arranged set of the usual appliances for treating brokenlimbs. These are constructed in pieces so that they canbe placed in a saddle pocket. In another pocket variousbandages and preparations can be carried which are requiredin the antiseptic treatment of wounds. Another useful

appliance is the adaptation to holster-like openings in theforepart of the saddle of two wooden cases opening in theform of books, one containing surgical instruments andthe other medicines. An appliance for carrying thewounded is fitted with netting instead of drill, and thereis a feather pillow filled with spiral springs, on which thepatient’s head rests. When placed on a cart for trans-

port there can be springs placed underneath in such a

way that the effect of jolting is much diminished. Ambu-lance waggons of various forms of constructions are alsoexhibited.

THE PLAINT OF THE APOTHECARIES.

ON Friday, May 25th, a deputation from the LondonSociety of Apothecaries waited upon Mr. Mundella at thePrivy Council Office, for the purpose of urging that that bodyshould be represented on the new Medical Board to beformed under the Medical Act Amendment Bill now before the House of Commons. Mr. Saner (Master of the Society),Mr. Statham (former Master), Dr. Randall (chairman of theCourt of Examiners), and Mr. Upton (clerk of the Society),

pointed out that the Bill as originally framed allowed forthe representation of the Apothecaries’ Society on theDivisional Board, but the Society had been struck out onthe third reading of the Bill in the House of Lords. Thedeputation desired the Society reinstated as a part of theBoard. Mr. Mundella, in reply, said that the fact of theApothecaries’ Society being in the number of representativebodies that would form the Medical Council showed thatthe Government were in favour of the Apothecaries’ Societybeing included. However, in its passage through the Lordsthe Bill underwent several important modifications, andLord Salisbury moved to omit the name of the Society, andif the Government had not accepted this the Bill would havebeen wrecked. However, that arrangement was not bindingon the House of Commons. He should consult his colleagueson the matter, and see what could be done. The Govern-ment were anxious to do justice to those who had done goodservice in the past, and to take care that the medicaleducation of the future should be worthy of the country.A meeting of the members of the Apothecaries’ Hall of

Ireland was held last week for the purpose of asserting theclaim of the Hall, under the Medical Act Amendment Bill,to appoint a representative on the Irish Medical Board asone of the existing medical authorities in Ireland. It wasstated that of the 2450 medical men practising in Ireland byfar the greater number were acting as general practitioners,compounding and prescrining as well as dispensing medicineunder the Poor-law and Government Boards. If the Billwere passed in its present form the status of the licentiateswould be lowered, but it would also have an injurious effecton the future of the general practitioner. The Bill wasessentially one to provide a general practitioner for theUnited Kingdom, and therefore it was of the greatest im-purtance that the licentiates under it should be properlyeducated and suitably examined as regarded the pharma-ceutical position of their duties, as well as the medicaland surgical. The following resolution was unanimouslycarried :-" That this meeting, having considered theMedical Act Amendment Bill at present before Parliament,are filled with consternation by the discovery that theclaim of their branch of the profession is entirely ignored bythe Bill, and that this act of injustice has been committednotwithstanding that their claim had been duly recognised inthe first copy of the Bill introduced in the House of Lords."

WILLS OF MEDICAL MEN.

THE will and two codicils of Francis Ker Fox, M.D., Sof Brislington, Somersetshire, who died on January 7th last, twere proved on the 19th ult. at the Bristol district re-

gistry by Charles Henry Fox, M.D., Bonville Bradley (

Fox, M. D., and Herbert Francis Fox, the sons, the executors, I

the value of the personal estate amounting to over 230,000.The testator gives his capital and interest in the partnershipbusiness of the custody and care of lunatics, carried on atBrislington House Asylum, to his sons Charles Henry andBonville Bradley, subject to the payment thereout ofannuities of 91000 to his wife, Mrs. Mary Fox, and of f200to his daughter, Janet Sarah, for their respective lives, andof the capital sums of E3000 each to his sons, John CharlesBradley and Herbert Francis, and of E2000 each to his sonsEdward Long, Francis Frederick, and Lewis Wyndham.There are a few other bequests, and the residue of his pro-perty is to be divided between all his children exceptCharles Henry, Bonville Bradley, and Janet Strah.The will of James Manby Gully, M.D., formerly of

Great Malvern, but late of Orwell-lodge, Bedford Hill-road,Balham, who died on March 27th last, was proved on thelst ult., by Mr. W. C. Gully, Q.C., the son, the soleexecutor, the value of the personal estate amounting to over£29,000. The testator leaves his house and land in NewZealand, and an annuity of £400, to his son Charles Jamesfor life, with an annuity of E300 to his wife Marie if shesurvive him ; E500 to each of the three younger daughtersof his said son on their respective marriages ; an annuity of9300 to his sisters, Anne and Ellen, during their joint lives,and one of E250 to the survivor; E500 to his brother JohnPritchard ; and a specific legacy to a friend. The residue ofhis real and personal estate he leaves to his son WilliamCourt.The will and codicil of George Ireland Russell, M.D.,

F.R.C.S., late of 39, The Terrace, Gravei4end, who died onMarch 30th last, were proved on April 27th by Mr. E. T.Keeling and Mr. E. W. Bewley, the executors, the value ofthe personal estate being over £13,000. The testator givesan annuity to his granddaughter Emily Howard Coombe;settles his freehold property in The Terrace upon his eldestson George Ireland; and there are some special legacies to him,to his other son William, and to his daughter, Mrs. FrancesField. The ultimate is to be divided between his said threechildren and his daughter, Mrs. Laura Beaumont.The will of Richard Hunt, M.D., of 111, Boyson-road,

Walworth, who died on April 17th last, was proved onthe 8th ult. by Mr. Joseph Stanley Oakenfull, one of theexecutors. The only legatee under the will is the testator’sdaughter, Miss Mary Isabel Hunt.

Correspondence.

LORD BYRON’S FOOT. To the Editor of THE LANCET.

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"A.udi alteram partem."

SIR,-I have not yet had an opportunity of reading Mr.Jeaffreson’s work on "The Real Lord Byron," but I haveseen your interesting leader on the subject, and wouldventure to offer a few remarks on that portion of it whichrefers to the condition of his lordship’s foot. It is not to bewondered at that a good deal of public curiosity should havebeen exercised regarding the poet’s deformity. Byron wasa handsome man, and a sensitive one, so that he naturallyfelt his defect very keenly and took great pains to hide itfrom the observation of even his most intimate friends. Asevidence of this you point out that during his last illness hehad the blisters, which the doctors ordered, placed above hisknees, because he objected to have his feet exposed. Bear-ing out the same idea is a description which I have some-where read, given by one of his friends, of a stealthy visitmade to the room in which the dead body of the poet lay,her curiosity prompting her to lift the covering and to gaze,for the first time, in awe, upon the twisted foot and shrunkenlimb about which so much mystery existed. The abnor-malities of great men are often as much matters of observa-tion as their excellences, and if Byron has suffered morethan many in this regard he has himself in great measure toblame even in respect of his foot deformity. Mr. Jeaffre-son holds it, amongst other restorations, to be an errorthat Byron had what is commonly called a club-foot, anddescribes the deformity as consisting of some elevation of theheel, with a little distortion inwards, which shouldconstitute a slight form of equino-varus. Now, unless hehas undeniable authority for his description, this cannot be