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F. J. Chaffee, sis assistants and five internes. The in- 

 ternes are selected from the graduating class of tli' 

 university on their college standing. One of these in- 

 ternes is a woman, who assists Mr. Giles in his sur- 

 gical work. The women internes in this hospital have 

 made an excellent record. The internes, as in all Aus- 

 tralian hospitals, receive a small salary and serve for 

 one year. The training school for female aurses con- 

 nected with the hospital has 50 pupils, several sisters 

 and a matron. The nurses remain in training for three 

 years and receive annually from $100 to $200, accord- 

 ing to the length of time of their service. The new 

 laboratory is capacious, well lighted and is in charge 

 of a graduate nurse, who does all the mechanical work 

 and prepares the culture mediums. Patients suffering 

 from tuberculosis of the lungs do not remain in the 

 hospital for any length of time, as they are sent, from 

 here to a sanatorium in the mountains seven miles 

 from Adelaide, built specially for this purpose and 

 managed bv the same administration. Other infective 

 diseases are not admitted to the hospital. Turpentine 

 and hiniodid of mercury solution are favorite anti- 

 septics with many Australian surgeons in hand disin- 

 fection. Catgut and kangaroo tendon have been largely 

 displaced by fine silk. 'On the whole, chloroform is used 

 more 1 frequently than ether as an anesthetic. Cvanid 

 gauze as an inner dressing for wounds remains popular. 

 I had the pleasure of seeing considerable of the sur- 

 gical work of two of the clinical professors of surgery in 

 the university. Dr. Poulton and Mr. Giles. The former 

 I found operating on a case of prostatic hypertrophy in 

 a man 65 years of age. who had suffered from the ob- 

 struction for several years. The usual long suprapubic 

 vertical incision was made, . the peritoneal reflection 

 pushed upward, and the bladder incised on the pout 

 of a sound previously introduced into the bladder and 

 held in position by an assistant. Eepeated efforts to 

 enucleate the gland after incision of the mucosa failed. 



