Births, Marriages, and Deaths.

Abstract

Medicine and in Surgery, is at present frequently preparing for two and occasionally for three examinations at the same time. The studies for one examination clash, to some extent, with those for another, and under this influence, and that of the want of a practical character in many of the examinations, the student, towards the end of his career, when he ought to be making himself more and more familiar with disease at the bedside, frequently deserts the wards to be " erammed by the grinder." It.is extensively felt by the profession that these great evils, which weigh immediately.upon the public good, can only be remedied by a direct resort to the Legislature. The proposed remedies are threefold :

Rotatory movements of the apex of the exposed mammalian heart

“…Commenting in 1900 on this and the rest of the account of the exposed heart's movements, L. Hill wrote that "little can be added to Harvey's admirable description". He then went on to quote, as an example of a more recent statement, the account given by Sibson [1869]. In this we read that "When the ventricles contract they do so with a twisting movement....…”