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reported since then, so that spring and summer are looked forward to with considerable anxiety.

Cholera Statistics.It is now officially stated that the number of persons who

died of cholera in Germany during the recent epidemic was8510, of whom 7611 died in the City and State of Hamburg.

Louis Pasteur.The Medical Section of the Institut de France has invited

the Society for Internal Medicine here to take part throughdelegates m the celebration of Pasteur’s seventieth birthday.The Society has elected Pasteur an honorary member.

Miscellaneous Items.Dr. Baginsky of Berlin University has been promoted to

the rank of Extraordinary Professor. - Surgeon-GeneralSchaper, the new medical director of the Charite, entered onhis office on the 14th inst.-Herr Köhler, Director of theImperial Office of Health, is seriously ill.December 26th.

VIENNA.(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Cholera zic Austria-Hungary FRESH cholera cases have occurred during the last week in

Galicia, near the Russian frontier. Single cases are reported from the town of Husiatyn and the villages Zalucze, Wier-bowka and Siekierzynce in Galicia. It is stated that the cholera is raging severely in the adjacent port of RussianPodolia. At Budapest there are still nine cases of choleraat the cholera hospital and a case of cholera was

stated to have occurred at Esseg in Crotia. It is feared by the sanitary authorities that the epidemic willspread in Austria and Hiin,-ary in next spring. At the lastmeeting of the Styrian Society of Physicians at Graz Pro-fessor Klemensiewicz announced that he had found a newmethod for staining the comma bacillus and that by thismethod the flagellum of the bacillus could be made visible,so that it could be easily distinguished from other similarbacteria. The researches on this matter, however, are notyet concluded.

Operation for Cataract.Professor Fuchs of Vienna gave recently an interesting

lecture on the methods of operating for cataract, in whichhe stated that the excellent results obtained by ProfessorWeaker of Paris with the old method of Daviel and Beer (whoperformed extraction without iridectomy) induced him to trythe same method again at his clinic. Between May, 1890,and November, 1892, 1344 cases of cataract were operatedupon-702 of them by Professor Fuchs himself and in 311 ofthese without iridectomy. The results were very favourablewith the elder (Beer’s) method, as only 0 ’9 per cent. of thecases were unsuccessful, while with the other method thepercentage of non-success was 2’3.

Pasteur’s Seventieth Birthday.At the last meeting of the Vienna Society of Physicians it

was resolved to present an address to M. Pasteur on hisseventieth birthday.

Medical Provideict Society.A new medical society has been formed here for the aid of

physicians who have become disabled or ill. The annual

subscription is 30fl. (50s.). Three hundred members have

joined the society.- December 26th.

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Obituary.WALTER HAYLE WALSHE, M.D. EMN., F.R.C.P. LOND.WALTER HAYLB WALSHE, the son of William Walshe, a

barrister of great promise who died at the early age of forty-eight, was born in Dublin on March 19th, 1812. He entered

Trinity College, Dublin, in 1827, and continued to the thirdyear of study, but did not proceed to the degree of B.A. The

intention up to this time had been that his profession shouldbe that of a barrister-at-law ; but he preferred another course,and in 1830 went to Paris, whither his mother had alreadygone with the idea of making her permanent residence inFrance. From advice then given by an old family friend, he

in 1830 began the study of Oriental languages, commencingwith Arabic, but after two years gave up the idea, to usehis own expression, of "pushing himself in life as

an Oriental linguist," although assured there was a fineopening" in India for anyone who could attain even

moderate skill in the use of three or four of the current

tongues. To those who know Dr. Walshe’s great classicallearning, and his latest work on the " Colloquial Faculty forLanguages," published in 1886, it may appear strange thatone so highly gifted as he was in this particular direction, aswell as in the mastery of language on its scientific side, shouldhave relinquished this pursuit at that time and have com-menced the apparently uncongenial study of medicine. Thiswas in 1832, but at that time physical and biological sciencepresented an immense attraction to young Walshe ; and sohe bega,n, in October of that year, to attend the practice ofBoyer and Roux at La Charite in Paris, and to dissect andfollow other kindred studies in the same metropolis.

In the beginning of 1834 the most important event of hisprofessional career occurred. It was then that he becameacquainted with M. Louis, and the impetus given to his mindwas intensified by his devoted study in the clinique of thatphysician at La Fitie ; and thenceforward, until the end ofhis long life, he never swerved from the lines laid down andillustrated by his great master. The natural inborn bias ofDr. Walshe’s mind was towards strict observation and in-ductive reasoning; and in the school of Louis this bias wasso accentuated as to develop in him a,n equally potent’’ polar " repulsion in regard of imperfectly noted facts anda priori reasoning of all or any kind. The great teachers"at whose feet he sat," to use his own expression, andwhom he specially remembered with gratitude and admira-tion, were Berard, Orfila, Dumas, Cruveilhier, Andral,de Blainville, Dubois, Velpeau, Ricord and Marjolin. Hewas dresser to Dupuytren for some months and attended theextra-professional lectures of Michelet, Flourens and Aragoamong others. In 1835 he was elected a member of theSociete Médicale d’Observation, being nominated by his friendsand colleagues, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and M. Valleix-M. Louis being president. In the August of the same year,1835, Dr. Walshe left Paris for Edinburgh, and therebecame acquainted with his uncle, the Rev. R. 0. Shannon ofthe Episcopal Chapel, York-place, who had for a long timebeen one of the most popular and socially prominent men inthe "Modern Athens." To this intercourse Dr. Walshe oftenreferred as being one of the great helps he had received inthe cultivation of his literary taste. In 1836 he proceeded tothe degree of M.D. in Edinburgh, and immediately aftergraduating returned to Paris M. Louis was kind in intro-

ducing him to a few English families, but Dr. Walshe feltthat he was wasting time, and in 1838 came to England andcommenced medical practice in a very humble manner in thenorth of London.

During the years 1839 and 1840 Dr. Walshe was a vigorouswriter on pathology, contributing the articles on Cancer,Endosteitis, Cephalhasmatoma, Ectopia, Emphysema (surgical),Empyema and Thoracic Fistula to Costello’s " Cyclopædia ofSurgery " ; and, but several years later, the very remarkablepaper on Adventitious Products to Dr. Todd’s "Cyclopædiaof Anatomy and Physiology." The article on Cancer waswritten in 1840, and was the foundation of his importantand quite classical work 14 On the Nature and Treatment of

, Cancer," published separately in 1846. In the preface tothis book Dr. Walshe refers to the" flattering reception with

which the article on Cancer in the Cyclopædia of Surgery’was honoured by the profession," and to the fact that in1844 Dr. Mason Warren, of Boston, produced an Americanedition of it as a separate book. It was doubtless in

consequence of the high distinction as a pathologistobtained by Dr. Walsbe as the author of these masterlypapers that the Council of University College in 1841elected him, in succession to the late Sir R. Carswell, astheir Professor of Morbid Anatomy, an office which he held

. during the following eight years, when he succeeded the latea, Dr. John Taylor as Special (Holme) Professor of Clinical

Medicine. The duties of this office were those ot minutepersonal instruction of the students in the wards of the hos-pital and the delivery of clinical lectures. Those were very’ high days in University College and its hospital. The

e colleagues of Dr. Walshe in the Faculty of Medicine weredLindley, Grant, Graham, Fownes, Quain, Sharpey, C. J. B., Williams, A. T. Thomson, Ellis, S. Cooper and Liston ; whiley in the Faculty of Arts, in which he always took a most livelyn interest, were Augustus de Morgan, H. Malden, George Long,eT. H. Key, R. Potter, R. G. Latham, Tom Taylor, Merlet, Creaky,