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HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY MANAGEMENT.

THE death- of the undermentioned officers is announced:

Deputy Surgeon John Anderson Cox, retired, Indian
Medical Service, in London, on January 6th; SurgeonMajor John George Gibbe, on December 27th, 1906; and
Captain William Edward James Tuohy, at Kamptee, India,
on January 19th.
DEPUTY INSPECTOR-GENERAL GEORGE CURTIS, R.N(retired), died at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, on February
1st, at the age of 61. He joined the Royal Navy Medical
Service as Surgeon, October 8th, 1861, became Staff
Surgeon, October 20th, 1875; Fleet Surgeon, September 1st,
1882; and Deputy Inspector-General, April 20th, 1895, at
which time he retired from the service.

Dr. MATJIIAS DUVAL, Professor of Histology in the

University of Paris, died recently, at the age of 63.
Born at Grasse, he studied medicine in the old-Faculty of
Strassburg, where he took his Doctor's degree in 1869.
After the annexation of Alsace by Germany he went to
Paris, where, in 1873, he became a Professor Agr6gr; the
thesis on the structure and uses of the retina, presented
by him on the occasion, attracted a good deal of attention.
He became succesSively Director of the Anthropological
Laboratory at the Ecole des Hautes Eitudes and Professor
of Anatomy in the School of the Fine Arts. In 1882 he
was elected a member of the Academy of Medicine, and in
1883 he succeeded Charles Robin in the Chair of Histology.
He was the author of a manual of physiology, originally
written in collaboration with Professor Kuss of Sirassburg,
which has gone through countless editions; a handbook
on the microscope (1873); a compendium of microscopical
and histological technique (1878); a manual of anatomy
for artists (1881); lectures on the physiology of the nervous
system (1883); a treatige of histology; and numerous
memoirs on subjects of histology, embryolo2y, anthropology, including one on the brain of Gambetta. Mathias
Duval was very popular as a teacher and held a high
position in the scientific world of France.

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Guard. For thishe received the. special honour of -what

is called "fgrand. -naturalization." Galezowski contributed much of value to the literature of ophthilmology,
his papers ranging over nearly the whole field of eye
diseases. .Two of his writings attracted special attention.
In one of these he dealt with changes in the optic nerve
and the cerebral disease on which they depend.; in the
other with the diagnosis of eye diseases- by means of
retinal chromatoscopy. Galezowski was. married to the
only daughter of the famous singer Tamberlick.
DEATHS IN THE PROFESSION ABROAD.-Among the
members of the medical profeesion in foreign countries
who have recently died are Dr. G( A. Nivert, a wellknown obstetrician of Paris, aged 73; Professor Roux,
Director of the Surgical Clinic of the University of
Lausanne; Dr. Adalbert Tilkowsky, Director of the Lower
.Austrian National Lunatic Asylum, and a prominent
.reformer of the treatment of' the insane, aged 65;
Professor Paul Krabler, Director of the Clinic of Children's
Diseases of the University of Griefswald, aged 66; and
Dr. Thomas, Professor of Materia Medica and Children's
Diseases in the University of Freiburg, .and head of the
TJniversity Poliklinik, aged 69; Dr. Alexander Ritter von
Weismayr, Lecturer on Medicine in the University of
Vienna, and one of the leadders in the movement. for the
repression of tuberculosis in Auts, aged 40 ;Dr Michael
Pilcicki, sometime Professor of Antomy in the UniversIt
of Warsaw, aged 80; Dr. Alessaeidro, Petraglia, th
oldest medical practitioner of Rome, aged 91; Dr. Tabeds,
Profesor of Operative Surgery in the University -.'of
Toulouse, and Dean of the Medical Faculty; Dr. Adolph
Gad, Director of the Ophthalmologicl Department of the
Copenhagen Polyclinic, aged 60; and Dr. George, Bingham
Fowler, one. of the leading physicians of New York,
founder and ed-itor of the Dietetic Gazette, a former President of the Medical Society of the County of New York,
in his 60th year.

HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY MANAGEMENT.

WE regret to announce the death of Dr. EMAN1UEL
SCHREIBER, Senior Medical Officer of the 11th East
Siberian Regiment of the Russian army, which occurred
at Cronstadt on March lst. The deceased officer, who
was in his 41st year, fell a victim to his zeal in scientific
He was carrying out an investigation in the
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laboratory of the Institute of -Experimental Medicine in
Fort Alexander I at Cronstadt on plague bacilli, on which
to found a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and in 'makiing experimental cultures he infected
himself. After a short illness he died, with all the
classical symptoms of the' pulmonary form of plague.
His bodywas burnt in the crematory of the fort, and
his ashes will be kept there in an urn. Dr. Schreiber
studied medicine at Kieff, and entered the medical service
of the Russian army in 1890. 'He served in the war with
Japan, and was afterwards attached to 'the Military
Medical Acalemy, St. Petersburg.

WE regret to announce the death of the well known Paris

ophthalmologist, Dr. XAVIER GALEZOWSKI. 'He was born at
Lipowice in Poland in 1833; hM was therefore in his 74th
year. He studied medicine at the University of St.
PEetersburg, where he took his doctor's dgree in 1858. In
the following year he went to Paris to pursue his studies,
and worked in the clinics of Trousseau and Barthez.
After a time he became Ch-f de Clinique in the Qphthalmic
Service of Desmares. This determined him to take up
his permanent abode in France. At that time, with few
exceptions, ophthalmic surgery in Paris was in the hands
of foreign specialists. Having taken the Paris degree in
1865, Galezowski proceeded to found a clinic for diseases
of the eyes, which during- many years was a recognized
centre of eye surgery. Large numbers of students -were
attracted by the accuracy of Galezowski'a diagnosis and his
operative dexterity. He acquired a European reputation,
and was on several occasions summoned to foreign courts.
He went to Persia at the invitation of the Shah Nasereddin.
In .1870 Galezowski did excellent service to his adopted
in the ambulances during the siege, of Paris.
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H? servel as surgeon-major of a battalion of the National

THE TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL.

AT the annual meeting of the supporters of the Temperance
Hospital on March 11th it was stated that the new out-patient
department would shortly be ready. There seems little hope
at present of the completion of the rebuilding scheme in its
entirety, as last'year income f-ell so far short of ordinary
expenditure that some capital had to be sacrificed.
THE KENSINGTON GENERAL HOSPITAL.
AT the annual meeting on March 16th of the 'Queen's Jubilee
Hospital, Earl's Court, now called the Kensington Gleneral
Hospital, the Chairman,, Sir James Clark, after describing the
financial position of the institution, proposed that the wards
should be closed -for six months,- and a special meeting tlaen be
.held to decide the fature of the ho'spltal. 'After discussion, an
alternative suggestion-that 'half the beds Should for the
present be reserved for paying patients, and that out-patients,
other than (those with subscribers' letters and sent bys locai
practitioners, should pay for their medicine-was approved.
It will be remembered that the Committee of the King
Edward's Hospital' Fund, which investigated the affairs of this
institutionm in 1905, expressed an opinion' adverse to its maintenance other than as an out-patient clinic, with a few
emergency beds attached.
THE YARROW CONVALESCENT HOME.
THE eleventh'' annual report of this institution -states that
during last.year the admissions numbered: 1',000, of whom 490
v'ere bov's and 510 girls. The home, which is at Broadstairs, is
intended for children belonging to the educated middle classes
whose parents are under ordinary circumstances not in a
osition to send, them away to the 'seaside after illness. The
is supported entirely by private endowument.
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THE ROYAL DENTAL HOSPITAL.

THE financial affairs of the Dental Hospital in Leicester
Square, as represented in the thirty-fourth annual report
appear to be in a sufficiently satisfactory state, the number ok
annual subscribers having increased. The details, of work
given include 67,667 extractions,7the great-majority being
under. anaesthesia. The planr of supplying patients with the
preparations they may require,- and at, cost prioe, has -been
found. 4onvenient and satisfactory.' Mr.- . Lloyd Williame,
after twenty years' work at the hospital, has be'en s,deceeded in
the post of lecturer'on deiital 'mechanics by Mr. J. Mav,,while
Mr. BElisAichards bas. ben appointed to the post of lecturer
on Dentsl Metallurgy, resigned by Dr. Forster Morley.