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MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS.
KOYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN.
Hospital, 45 Scott Street, Gaenethill.
Dispensary, 11 West Graham Street.
Patronesses, H.R.H. Princess Louise, Marchioness
of Lome, and H.R.H. Princess Christian. Office-
bearers for 1897 — President, the Duke of Montrose,
K.T.; vice-presidents. Lord Overtoun and Dr. H. C.
Cameron ; directors, T. Carlile, J. Raid, Dr. James B.
Russell, J. Thomson, W. E. Macgeorge, R. Philips, J.
D. Hedderwick, and David Tullis ; hon. secretary and
treasurer, Alan E. Clapperton, 91 West Regent St.;
hon. medical officers — physicians. Dr. James Finlay-
son and Dr. Samson Gemmell ; extra physicians.
Dr. George S. Middleton, Dr. J. Lindsay Steven,
Dr. R. S. Thomson, Dr. R. M. Buchanan, Dr. R.
Barclay Ness, Dr. J. B. Mackenzie Anderson, Dr. W.
K. Hunter, and Dr. Alice J. M'Laren; surgeons. Dr.
T. K. Dalziel and Dr. R. H. Parry; extra surgeons,
Dr. Henry Rutherfurd, Dr. G. Ritchie Thomson, Dr.
J. H. Nicoll, Dr. J. H. Pringle, and Dr. James Luke ;
pathologist. Dr. Joseph Coats; aurist. Dr. Thomas
Barr ; extra aurist, Dr. J. Walker Downie ; oculist,
Dr. Thomas Reid; eztra oculist, Dr. C. Fred. Pollock;
and dentist, Mr. Rees Price.
The objects of this institution are the medical and
surgical treatment of poor children suffering from non-
infectious diseases or accidents; to provide a dis-
pensary and furnish advice and medicine to those
who cannot be received into the hospital ; to pro-
mote the advancement of medical science with refer-
ence to the diseases of children ; and to provide for
the clinical instruction of students, the training of
nurses for children during illness, and the instruction
of lady pupils in the care of sick children. The hos-
pital, which has now eighty beds, and the dispen-
sary are entirely supported by voluntary contribu-
tions. Patients admitted to the hospital on Mondays,
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, between 10 and
11 a.m., on production of an order signed by a
subscriber. Accidents or urgent cases admitted at
any hour by day or night without an order. Friends
admitted to see patients on Wednesdays, from 9 to
9.30 a.m., and Sundays, from 2.30 to 3 p.m. Visitors
admitted to the hospital on Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Fridays, and Saturdays from 2 to 4 p.m., but
Wednesdays and Saturdays are preferable.
The Dispensary is open daily at 10.30 for the
treatment of outdoor patients. No line is required
for the dispensary, it is enough that the child is sick
and poor.
THE GLASGOW HOSPITAL FOR SKIN
DISEASES.— 8 Elmbank Street.
His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T., patron; The
Right Hon. Lord Overtoun, president; Jas. A. Camp-
bell of Stracathro, M.P., vice-president; Sir James
Bell Bart., ex-Lord Provost of Glasgow, Very Rev.
Principal Caird, D.D., Rev. Professor Charteris, D.D.,
Wm. Jamieson, Sir James King, Bart., ex-Lord
Provost, William Ker, Robert Gourlay, Geo. M'Call,
Col. J. M. Denny, M.P., Sir Chai--. Tennant, Bart.,
Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Bart., M.P., extraordinary
directors ; James Grahame (chairman), Charles M.
King, Hickson Fergusson, J. Pirrie, Hugh B. Crum,
Robert Maconechy, Brigadier General Sir Donald
Matheson, K.C.B., D. M. Crerar-Gilbert, and the
physician, treasurer, and secretary for the time being,
ordinary directors; Prof. M'Call Anderson, 2 Wood-
side Terrace, physician; W. R. Jack, M.B., 43
Lansdowne Crescent, assistant physician ; Archibald ;
Craig, LL.B.,156 St. Vincent Street, hon. secretary; ;
A. S. M'Clelland, 115 St. Vincent St., hon. treasurer. .
Gratuitous advice to the poor afflicted with diseases i
of the skin and hair, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and !
Fridays, at 2 o'clock p.m. In connection with the ;
Hospital two wards for skin diseases are provided in
the Western Infirmary, to which the directors have power
to send the more serious cases. Upwards of 45,000 '
patients have been treated since the foundation of th&
Hospital. A practical course for students is held
during the winter and summer sessions. The Hospital
is entirely supported by voluntary contributions.
THE GLASGOW CENTRAL DISPENSARY.
The object of the dispensary is to provide free
medical and surgical advice, and, when necessary,
medicine also to the sick poor. The premises are at
78 George Street (near High Street), convenient to a.
district of the city where such a charity is much
needed.
Directors — Dr. J. B. Russell, chairman ; ex-
Preceptor Osborne, Leonard Gow, J. Garroway, Jas.
Mann, Dr. Archibald Sloan, Dr. G. A. Turner, and.
Rev. Dr. William Jeffrey; dispensary staff — physicians,
Dr. Wm. Jeffrey, Dr. A. D. Moffat, Dr. Thos. Colvin,
Dr. John Gilchrist Gray ; surgeons. Dr. James Luke,
Dr. Geo. H. Edington, Dr. Thos. Kay; diseases oJf
women. Dr. Arch. Sloan, Dr. G. A. Turner ; diseases of
children, Dr. R. K. Currie, Dr. J. W. Nicol ; diseases of
the skin. Dr. D. Conper : diseases of the throat. Dr. R.
M'C. Service ; diseases of the ear. Dr. Jas. Erskine ;
diseases of urinary organs. Dr. J. H. Nicoll; dispenser,
JohnM'Millan, 17 Great Western Road; attendant,
Mr. A. C. Munday ; auditor, William Ferguson, C.A.,
150 Hope Street ; collector, Martin S. Grady, 136
Holland St. ; hon. secretary and treasurer, Archibald)
Paterson, writer, 109 Bath Street.
GLASGOW VETERINARY COLLEGE.
Founded 1861, and Incorporated under Royal Sign.
Manual with the Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons.
Patrons — His Grace the Duke of Argyll, the Hon,
the Lord Provost and Magistrates of the city of
Glasgow, the professors of the University of Glasgow,
the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland,
&c., &c. Principal, Professor M'Call.
Professors — Veterinary Medicine and Surgery,
Jas. M'Call, F.R.C.V.S. ; veterinary materia medica
and therapeutics, Jas. M'Intosh M'Call, M.B.C.M.,
M.R.C.V.S. ; veterinary anatomy, Wm. Limont, M.A.,
M.B. ; chemistry, T. S. Goodwin, F.C.S. ; botany,
G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A.Cantab, B.Sc.Edin., F.L S. ;
bacteriology, J. Wilson Cameron, M.B.C.M., D.P.H. ;■
pathology, J. M'Intosh M'Call, M.B. CM., M.R.C.V.S.;
physiology, William Limont, M.A., M. B. ; zoology
and parasitology, Jas. Murphy, F.Z.S. ; veterinary
obstetrics. Prof. M 'Call ; hospital practice and general
clinical instruction. Professors M'Call, J. M'Intosh
M'Call, and John Brown, M.R.C.V.S., F.H.A.S.;
R. Dobbie, secretary to the College.