Sir Morell Mackenzie; physician and operator; a memoir compiled and ed from private papers and personal reminiscences . es those institutions adopting it, and whichI am told is now given as the reason for not making a grantto the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat. The principle,however, commends itself to most thinking people, and isapproved both by the public and by the patients, as is shownby the numbers who throng the Hospital. The system onwhich this Hospital acts was fully explained by Sir Morell inhis evidence before the House of Lords during their recentCommission on Hospitals, and wi
Sir Morell Mackenzie; physician and operator; a memoir compiled and ed from private papers and personal reminiscences . es those institutions adopting it, and whichI am told is now given as the reason for not making a grantto the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat. The principle,however, commends itself to most thinking people, and isapproved both by the public and by the patients, as is shownby the numbers who throng the Hospital. The system onwhich this Hospital acts was fully explained by Sir Morell inhis evidence before the House of Lords during their recentCommission on Hospitals, and will be found in full in the BlueBooh issued by that body. Total number of out-patients, 132,729 ; in-patients, moneys received, nearly 100,O00Z. No record after thefirst few years has been kept of the attendances of medicalpractitioners, though, of course, all students are registered. Butin the six years ending 1874 more than 2000 medical menand students availed themselves of the teaching. With such results how can any one assert that the Hospitalhas not served a good purpose and filled a distinct want ?. APPENDIX E. E. Thyeotomy a Dangerous Operatiox. The German doctors maintained that theEmperors case in the earlier stages was onespecially favourable for the operation. See BritishMedical Journal, I. 1888, p. 1360. This viewdoes not seem to have been entertained by Hahn,Krause, Billroth, and others, who maintained,with Mackenzie, that the operation is always dan-gerous. Mr. Protheros remarks in the Nine-teenth Century, November, 1888, may also herebe read with advantage :— The False and the True Issue. The False issue is this :—The German doctors suggest that inMay, 1887, it was possible to extirpate the cancer by an opera-tion which was comparatively simple, safe, and certain. Tothis operation, known as laryngotomy, the Crown Prince hadconsented—but—but Mackenzies opinion that there was noevidence of the malignant nature of the growth, postponed itsperforman
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