Lord Mount-Edgcumbe as private surgeon. During these travels he saw some fighting in the Sicilian rebellion of 1847-48, and gained experience in the treatment of the wounded there; and again in the attack on Rome by the French troops under General Oudinot in 1849. In that year he also took the degree of M. D., Rome. On his return to England he resigned his naval commission, and shortly afterwar...

FORTY MILES from Dublin at Castlebellingham on the coast of Co. Louth, Gordon Morgan Holmes was born in Dillon House on 22 February 1876. A scholar at Trinity College Dublin, he graduated B.A. in 1897, being senior moderator and gold medallist, and qualified in medicine the following year. After serving as a resident medical officer in the Richmond Asylum (now St. Brendan's Hospital), he studie...

The offer made by tlie President of the lloyal College of Surgeons to proceed to the Cape in the capacity of Consulting Surgeon has been accepted by Government with graceful alacrity; and, after a very hearty "send off" at Waterloo by the students of St. Thomas's Hospital and probably other schools, Sir William proceeded from Southampton by the Union liner Breton. He is to be associated in his ...

MANY years ago G. K. Chesterton called the English 'the eccentrics of the earth' because of their unawareness of the 'very existence of some of their most extraordinary claims to glory and distinction'. He referred to a neglect of Chaucer the Father of English Poetry but today, with science in the ascendant, his stricture may be applied to the medical profession for allowing obscurity to threat...