On Medical Reform

Abstract

SIR,-With reference to the report in the JOURNAL of the 4th inst., of a paper on the above subject by Dr. Hughes Bennett, will you do me the favour to give space in your next issue to the few following words? I. It is not true that any man at Netley ever had " the ointment of the biniodide of mercury rubbed into his side twice, and sometimes thrice, daily". 2. No man was ever "furnished with two large boxes of the ointment" to be used as described in the report. If the man exhibited at the meeting of the Society in Edinburgh took any of the ointment in question away with him, he did so without authority, and without the knowledge of any of the officers of the Royal Victoria Hospital ; and if he used what was thus improperly obtained in the manner described by Dr. Bennett, the man is alone responsible for whatever consequences followed. I am, etc., WV. C. MACLEAN. Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Feb. 6th, I871.