TY  - JOUR
T1  - LEtter from london.
AU  - G. O. M.
Y1  - 1889/08/03
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1889.02401040033010
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 177
EP  - 178
VL  - XIII
IS  - 5
N2  - (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)The Father Damien Memorial Meeting at the Mansion House—Picrotoxin as an Antidote to Morphine—Honors to Sir Andrew Clark—The Lord Mayor Inaugurates a Fund for the Pasteur Institute—A New Method of Disposing of the Dead—A New First Field Dressing—The New Commissioner in Lunacy—Consumption can be Transmitted to Human Beings through Milk.The first meeting of the committee for promoting a memorial of Father Damien has been held at Marlborough House, under the presidency of the Prince of Wales. The proposal is to erect a monument to the deceased missionary over his grave at Molokai, to establish a leper ward in one of the London hospitals, to endow one or two traveling studentships for the special study of leprosy, and finally to set on foot a full and exhaustive inquiry into the whole question of leprosy in India. It is calculated that there are in the Indian Empire
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1889.02401040033010
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1889.02401040033010
ER  -