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maxillary articulation. Considerable haemorrhage followedfrom an unusual number of vessels, which were tied withchromocised gut. The case has since progressed favourably.Mr. Ormsby also operated on a woman aged thirty, who hadundergone Symes’ amputation of the foot six years pre-viously ; and although the parts rapidly healed, she hadsuffered the most excruciating pain in one defined spotat the end of the stump. An exploratory incision wasmade over the spot indicated, and a small piece of silversuture that had become embedded in the soft parts close tothe bone was removed, and which had no doubt given riseto the pain for the past six years.An election for a medical officer to Dundalk Workhouse

took place last Monday, when Dr. Kearney was appointedat a salary of £100 per annum, with a fee of one guinea foreach consultation as sanitary officer.Dablin, Aug. 12th.

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PARIS.

(From our own Correspondent.

THE CHOLERA.

CHOLERA is still lurking in and about the neighbourhoodof Toulon and Marseilles, but the admissions and deaths aresteadily decreasing. The debate at the Academy of Medi-cine on the epidemic is being drawn out, and M. Fauvel,who is following it from his retreat in the country, has ’,written to say that nothing as yet, either in the course of themalady or in the debate at the Academy, has transpired to induce him to alter his opinion as to its nature. From the ’,discussions, however, it may be gathered that there are three I,opinions on the subject. The first, which is the most com- monly entertained, is, that " cholera nostras," or, as itis also termed, sporadic or simple cholera, is an " indi-vidual " malady-that is, it strikes only certain individuals;it is non-contagious, and very different from Asiatic or Indiancholera. The second opinion is that both the maladies areone and the same, differing only in degree. The third isthat maintained by M. Fauvel, and perhaps a few others, tothe effect that the malady reigning at Toulon and Mar-seilles is neither the one nor the other, but that the presentepidemic was brought about by special local conditions,and that it must die out without extending much further,as it is essentially non-contagious, and consequently untrans-portable. Dr. Ernest Besnier, well known for his writingson epidemiology, made a very important communication inresponse to M. Jules Guérin and other orators at theAcademy on the subject of cholera, and in expressing hissurprise at the slow progress that is being made in thescience of epidemiology, availed himself of the opportunityof proposing the creation of a chair of Epidemiology in allthe medical faculties of the French Republic.

A NEEDED REFORM.

A propos of epidemiology and public hygiene, Dr. Liou-ville has proposed at the Chamber of Deputies, a projet deloi tending to place under the same direction the differentoffices of public salubrity, which are just now dispersedamong the various Ministers of State, much to the incon-venience of individuals and the delay of public business.

PRIZES FOR WORKS ON TEMPERANCE.

The Temperance Society of Paris offers a prize of 2000francs for competition this year for works relating to

temperance and to spirituous liquors, in reference either totheir composition or to their action on the economy. Whileno special subject is proposed, the Society would drawparticular attention to the following subjects : " HereditaryAlcoholism," " Measures which should be taken concerningHabitual Drunkards." The money will be divided among.the successful candidates. The treatises, which may beprinted or in manuscript, are to be forwarded to the GeneralSecretary of the Society, 6, Rue de 1’Université, Paris, beforeJanuary 1st, 1885.

DEATH OF BARON THENARD.Baron Thénard, member of the Academy of Sciences and

son of the celebrated chemist of the same name, died onFriday last at the Chateau of Talmey, in Burgundy, froman attack of apoplexy, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. Heoccupied at the Academy the chair of Moquin-Tandon in

the Section of Rural Economy. The scientific works ofBaron Thénard are well known to chemists and agronomists.It was this distinguished chemist who first succeeded inliquefying phosphoretted hydrogen, which renders spontane.ously inflammable another gaseous substance similarly com.posed. It is this substance which forms the basis of theignis fatuus observed in marshy grounds and cemeteries.Baron Thénard devoted a great deal of his time and atten-tion to the phylloxera, and was mp.mber of the commissioninstituted in France in view of remedying the evil caused tothe vineyards in this country. Dr. Lannelongue has been appointed Professor of Surgical

Pathology at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, in the room ofDr. Le Fort, transferred to the Chair of Clinical Surgery.August 13th.

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MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT.

IN the House of Lords on Thursday, the 7th inst., theCanal Boats Act Amendment Bill was read a third time andpassed. On Friday, the 8th, the Criminal Lunatics Bill wasread a third time and passed.On Tuesday, the Disused Burial-grounds Bill, the object

of which is to make it illegal to erect any building upon suchgrounds except those connected with the church attachedthereto, was read a third time and passed. The Cholera&c. Protection Bill was also read a third time and passed.

Sewage of London.In the House of Commons on Friday, August 8th, in reply

to Mr. Borlase, Sir C. Dilke gave explanations as to theamount and cost of the disinfectants employed in deodorisingthe sewage of London. About twenty tons of perchlorideof lime, and between three and four tons of permanganateof potash, are used for the purpose, the cost for the latterbeing about £130, and of the former JE9 per ton.

The Army Medical Department,On Tuesday, Mr. Ross asked the Secretary of State for

War whether the prefix " Royal was to be omitted fromthe Army Medical Department, notwithstanding the recom-mendation of Lord Morley’s Committee that it should beconstituted a Royal corps.-The Marquis of Hartington saidthe recommendation of Lord Morley’s Committee referred to<in the question was not a very strong one, and might per-haps be regarded rather in the light of a suggestion.Looking at the position of other military departments whichhad not this distinction, he did not think it desirable to actupon the suggestion of the committee.

Obituary.SIR ERASMUS WILSON, F.R.C.S.

I THE death of Sir Erasmus Wilson, late President of theRoyal College of Surgeons, occurred at Westgate-on-Sea onthe 7th inst. On the 23rd ult. Sir Erasmus attended at theconsecration of St. Saviour’s Church, Westgate-on-Sea, ofwhich he had laid the first stone eleven months previously,and three days later he was attacked by inflammation of thebowels which terminated fatally. During the last twelvemonths he had endured the affliction of almost total blind-ness.

The son of a naval surgeon, James Erasmus Wilson was.born in 1809. He obtained his professional education inLondon and Aberdeen, and became a Member of the RoyalCollege of Surgeons in 1831. He was appointed Demon-strator of Anatomy at University College. On the retire-ment, however, from University College Hospital of Dr.Jones Qaain, Mr. Wilson severed his connexion with thatinstitution and established the Sydenham College School ofAnatomy, an undertaking which did not prove successful.He then commenced practice in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, and here, by means of taking pupils, &c., he struggledon for some years. His father, after retiring from thenavy, engaged a large mansion at Deham, Bucks, for the