practitioner possesses a legal qualification. In Canada, we believe, a similar system of registration already exists; New Zealand possesses a Dentists Act almost identical with our own, and it is to be hoped that before long the Australian colonies will follow the example. BELLADONNA IN SALIVARY FISTULA. IN two cases of salivary fistula from injury to the Stenonian duct-one after incision, the other due to a stab― the application of belladonna extract, with glycerine, over the parotid gland of the affected side, was followed by arrest of glandular secretion. The fistula then speedily healed without interference.-JAMES ALLAN, New Wandsworth.Brit. Med. Journ. ODONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. THE Annual General Meeting for the election of Officers, the reception of the reports of the Treasurer, Librarian, and Curator, and other business, will take place at the Dental Hospital, Leicester Square, on the 10th inst., at 8 p.m. Mr. George Wallis will show Mr. Lennox Browne's adaptation of the lime-light, some casual communications will be given, and the retiring President (Mr. A. J. Woodhouse) will deliver his valedictory address. ODONTO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND. THE second ordinary meeting of this Society was held in the rooms of the Dental Hospital, 30, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, on the 11th December. Walter Campbell, L.D.S., Dundee, President, in the chair. The following gentlemen were nominated for membership: -John Stewart, Princes Street, Perth; W. P. Robertson, Aberdeen; Norman MacQueen, Hamilton; and Walter Whitehouse, L.D.S. Ed., 26, Denbigh Street, London. f An interesting and instructive discussion on the merits of nitrous oxide and nitrous oxide and ethidene-dichloride claimed the attention of the entire sederunt. "Notes on Alveolar Abscess," and several cases of interest were in consequence deferred till the next meeting. We hope to be able to give a report of the discussion in our next issue. WESTERN COUNTIES DENTAL ASSOCIATION. THE December Meeting of the Council of this Association was held in Exeter on Saturday, December 11th, at the Dental Hospital in Bedford Circus, G. T. Parkinson, Esq., of Bath, in the chair. Subsequently the Ex-Mayor of Exeter, Wm. Horton Ellis, Esq., who is the President of the Dental Hospital, entertained at dinner at his residence, Hartwell House, the Committee of Management and Medical Staff of that Institution, and the Officers of the Western Counties. Dental Association. SOCIETY OF LICENTIATES IN DENTAL SURGERY OF GLASGOW. THE annual business meeting was held in November at the rooms of the Dental Hospital, Anderson's College. The meeting, which took the form of a conversazione, was well attended, and several objects of interest to the Dental surgeon, as well as contrivances for mechanical purposes, means of testing stoppings, &c., were exhibited. After the more informal proceedings the President, Mr. Brownlie, took the chair, and the Society proceeded to elect officebearers for the ensuing year as follows: President-Mr. J. R. Brownlie. Secretary-Mr. Jas. Robertson, B.A., Oxon. Council-Messrs J. Crooks Morison, John Foulds, James Cummings, and W. H. Gray. Mr. William Martin was then proposed for the membership of the Society. The rest of the meeting was occupied with the revision of the rules, and the consideration of the question of forming the Society into a branch of the British Dental Association. This, however, was seen to be impracticable, as its present constitution only admitted licentiates, but, in order that there might be no obstacle whatever to any one joining both societies, it was decided to reduce the subscription from one guinea to half a guinea in this Society. It was then intimated that the next meeting would be held at the residence of the President, who would give demonstrations of the various processes of continous gum work. The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the Chairman. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. Ar the ordinary meeting of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, held on the 9th ult., on the motion that the minutes of the previous meeting be confirmed, a proposal was made that such part of them as related to Sir James Paget's motion be not confirmed; this was, after some discussion and a division, lost, and the minutes were confirmed as they stood. Sir James's motion-which, it will be remembered, is to the effect that after September, 1881, the examination in general education, held with the authority of the Council by the College of Preceptors, shall cease to be held-was therefore carried, and a committee was appointed to consider the resolution and the regulations relating to the several preliminary examinations recognised by the College, whether for the membership or the fellowship, and to report to the Council thereon. Mr. H. T. Butlin and Mr. Frederick Treeves were appointed Erasmus Wilson Professors for next year, the former to deliver two lectures on the structure and nature of certain tumours, and the latter one lecture on the pathology of scrofula. A letter from Dr. Haldane, on the part of a committee of the General Medical Council, suggesting the institution of a compulsory preliminary scientific examination, was read and referred to the Committee on Preliminary Examinations. Mr. Holden's motion for the discontinuance of the President's annual report on the affairs of the College was carried in the following modified form:-"That an abstract of the proceedings of the Council and of any documents presented to the Council relating to matters not otherwise contained in the Calender be prepared by the Secretary, and, subject to the approval of the President, be published annually in the Calender of the College, and that the abstract be headed 'Secretary's Report.' 999 At the meeting of the Council, which was held on November 11th, it was decided, in accordance with a recommendation of the Board of Examiners in Dental Surgery, to recognise attendance on the practice of the Dental Hospital of Exeter as qualifying for the Dental Diploma of the College. APPOINTMENT. MR. W. S. BURROWS, L.D.S. Eng., has heen appointed Dental Surgeon to the North-West London Hospital. To Correspondents. 1. Communications intended for insertion in the ensuing number must be for warded to the Editor, at the Office, 11, New Burlington Street, London, W. by the 8th and 23rd of the month, or they cannot be published in the ensuing issue; they must also be duly authenticated by the name and address of the writer. 2. We cannot undertake to return communications unless the necessary postage stamps are forwarded. 3. It is earnestly requested of our correspondents that their communications be written on one side of the sheet only; and we also beg to call particular attention to the importance of a carefully-penned signature and address. 4. All communications relative to subscriptions and advertisements are to be addressed to the Publishers, Messrs. J. and A. Churchill, 11, New Burlington Street, London, W. 5. The Journal will be supplied direct from the office on PREPAYMENT of subscriptions as under: Twelve Months (post free) 14s. Od. Post-office Orders to be made payable at the Regent Street Office, to J. and A. Churchill, 11, New Burlington Street, W. A single number sent on receipt of seven (penny) stamps. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BAST ANGLIAN.-We shall keep the subject in view, but should prefer not to do more than this at present. MR. C. DE LESSERT.-The announcement is in very bad taste, but we cannot find much fault with strangers when some of our own graduates have so little regard for their own dignity. ALIQUIS.-It is quite useless. You have not only wasted your money, but have given encouragement to a shameful traffic. We can give you neither advice nor sympathy. Communications have been received from Messrs. J. Crooks Morison (Glasgow), F. Canton (London), Jas. Hardie (Alloa), C. de Lessert (Wolverhampton), W. Hodgskin Hope (Wellingboro'), H. B. Mason (Exeter), B. T. Hutchinson (Cape Town), &c. BOOKS AND PAPERS RECEIVED. 'Lancet.' 'Medical Times and Gazette.' 'British Medical Journal.' 'Chemist and Druggist.' 'Journal of the Chemical Society.' NOTICE.-We desire that it may be clearly understood that our pages are open to all for free expression of their views on matters connected with our profession. We only ask for terseness of expression and MODERATION IN TONE. When otherwise unobjectionable, difference of political or other opinion will never be regarded by the Editor as a disqualification for the admission of any communication to the pages of the BRITISH JOURNAL OF DENTAL SCIENCE. British Journal of Dental Science. No. 312. LONDON, JANUARY 15, 1881. VOL. XXIV. Dental Surgery and Medicine. SYPHILIS ABOUT THE MOUTH. A paper read before the Students' Society of the Dental Hospital of London, December 13th, 1880. By F. NEWLAND PEDLEY, L.D.S. MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN,-Syphilis is a subject upon which we have had no paper for some years. Yet it is a disease that is constantly exhibiting itself in the mouths of our patients, and exposing us and others to the chance of contagion by inoculation. I regret to say that a thorough knowledge of the contagiousness of this disease is not as general amongst members of our profession as it should be, and I shall think that a good result has been achieved this evening if I induce you to take extreme care that neither operator nor patient be needlessly exposed to the inoculation of this horrible infection. No one knows how old syphilis is, but it seems to have been well known to the Moors at the Siege of Granada. The first description that we get of the disease in Europe comes from Barcelona in 1494. The physicians at that date called it Morbus Gallicus, and said that it came from France, where it was commonly known as the disease of St. Semente. A Messinese traveller, writing from Barcelona on June 18th, 1494, says: On arriving at this port, which is a flourishing city in Spain, I really shuddered at the sight of so many victims of contagious disease." He describes it from report, as "lasting for a year, beginning in the private parts, and then breaking out in other parts of the body." After this it gradually became a recognised and familiar disease, celebrated for its virulent and persistent character. You are aware that under the head of syphilis are often included two diseases that are locally characterised, the one by soft sores, and the other by a hard sore. I shall make VOL. XXIV. 4 |