Body Surgeon (as
lie is
called)
should be
intimately acquainted
with its machinery, and be able to help the Viceroy with valuable information respecting it, when required to do so. Without, being, in the remotest degree, the adviser or referee on medical
questions, he may yet, occasionally, give an opinion based upon own experience; whilst he should be qualified to discus? all medical questions- brought before the Government, whether by the head of the medical department or in any other way. The appointment of "Surgeon to the Governor-General in India" is something more than a mere private appointment; his
and
we
venture to assert that its delicate functions
were
well,
though unostentatiously, fulfilled by the lato incumbent. Who his successor may be, we are not very sure. Names have been mentioned, but only, wo presume, to raise a smile. It is whisr pered that a medical officer is to be summoned from a sister presidency, and not from the Indian service, out of whose body the appointment has always, we believe, hitherto been made. A new Viceroy is naturally unacquainted with the usual course of procedure in this matter; but he shoidd bo informed by his immediate councillors of what is the practice; and what a grievous disappointment to the old medical service of India it would be if the Viceroy's surgeon were to be one whose career has been out of Bengal, whose interests are not theirs, anil whose functions, therefore, would be imperfectly, and so unsatisfactorily, performed. Far be it from us to write in a querulous or a dictatorial spirit. But, as representing the current of medical opinion in this presidency, we should fail in our duty if wc hesitated to give expression to those feelings of mingled surprise and regret with which the profession sees one of the greatest prizes of the service?the high appointment of surgeon to the GovernorGeneral of India?conferred upon a stranger.
THE
GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S
-^N this country the Euling Power is
family physician, At
at
SURGEON. liberty
to
choose the
the arrangement. the same time the members of the various departments of
tlle State have
their chief
,
:
and
an
no
one
can
object
to
interest in the selection.
The health of
is dear to them ; and
they are, therefore, anxious tllat it should be placed in good keeping. Moreover, the Medical department of the State, notwithstanding that it may ),:lve an independent organization and action of its own, should the
kindly
influence of the State
physician
for whom its
^elfanj and its progress ought to possess a special interest. The 'lend of our department governs his own service, of course, quite independently of any other power: still, the ^ iccroy's
lie is
called)
should be
intimately acquainted
with its machinery, and be able to help the Viceroy with valuable information respecting it, when required to do so. Without, being, in the remotest degree, the adviser or referee on medical
questions, he may yet, occasionally, give an opinion based upon own experience; whilst he should be qualified to discus? all medical questions- brought before the Government, whether by the head of the medical department or in any other way. The appointment of "Surgeon to the Governor-General in India" is something more than a mere private appointment; his
and
we
venture to assert that its delicate functions
were
well,
though unostentatiously, fulfilled by the lato incumbent. Who his successor may be, we are not very sure. Names have been mentioned, but only, wo presume, to raise a smile. It is whisr pered that a medical officer is to be summoned from a sister presidency, and not from the Indian service, out of whose body the appointment has always, we believe, hitherto been made. A new Viceroy is naturally unacquainted with the usual course of procedure in this matter; but he shoidd bo informed by his immediate councillors of what is the practice; and what a grievous disappointment to the old medical service of India it would be if the Viceroy's surgeon were to be one whose career has been out of Bengal, whose interests are not theirs, anil whose functions, therefore, would be imperfectly, and so unsatisfactorily, performed. Far be it from us to write in a querulous or a dictatorial spirit. But, as representing the current of medical opinion in this presidency, we should fail in our duty if wc hesitated to give expression to those feelings of mingled surprise and regret with which the profession sees one of the greatest prizes of the service?the high appointment of surgeon to the GovernorGeneral of India?conferred upon a stranger.
THE
GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S
-^N this country the Euling Power is
family physician, At
at
SURGEON. liberty
to
choose the
the arrangement. the same time the members of the various departments of
tlle State have
their chief
,
:
and
an
no
one
can
object
to
interest in the selection.
The health of
is dear to them ; and
they are, therefore, anxious tllat it should be placed in good keeping. Moreover, the Medical department of the State, notwithstanding that it may ),:lve an independent organization and action of its own, should the
kindly
influence of the State
physician
for whom its
^elfanj and its progress ought to possess a special interest. The 'lend of our department governs his own service, of course, quite independently of any other power: still, the ^ iccroy's
