Medical Times Volume 25 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...in the navy under the notice of the House of Commons, and referred to the testimony borne by Commodore Bruce as to their services at Lagos. Mr. Stafford acknowledged that the question respecting them was in an unsatisfactory state. The present Board, he said, (of the Admiralty, ) were not unmindful of the vote of the House, and felt that it ought to be carried out; but, at the same time, discretion must be allowed to the captains on board, and no abstract rule could be laid down as rigidly binding under all circumstances. The animus of the present Board was to treat the naval assistant-surgeons as gentlemen--(hear, hear)--and to give them every possible opportunity for study and research; and when those in command did not act in the spirit of the injunction of the House, it would be the duty of the Board of Admiralty to do all they could to remedy the inconvenience. (Hear, hear.) The italics respecting the captains are our own; as long as captains are allowed discretion in the arrangement respecting cabins for the assistant-surgeons, so long will there be some, and not a few, too, to whom that accommodation will be refused. The order should be imperative, not conditional; and'then it"will be obeyed, and with a facility that will show how futile were all the objections raised against it by the practical naval authorities. A Vote was taken in the House of Commons on Monday night for 23,000/. for medicines and medical stores for the navy. Dr. Letheby has accepted the appointment of gas-chemist to the City of London, to test the quality of gas furnished by the Central Gas Consumers' Company. The Chartered Gas Company have declined submitting their gas to testing, for fear of mismanagement and trickery beyond the control of the responsible officers appointed...