The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-15 00:00:00

Course of the Exchauge—This Day.

Amsterdam
Ditto
' Rotterdam .. 12 0i 12„9±
Autwerp • • 25 70 '5
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Brussels — 25 70 25 75
Hamburgh — 13 81 13 81
Paris
Ditto
Nrarseilles -25 721 25 771
Frankfort on Maine -- 1191 1191
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin — -
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn — 25 90 25 95
Milan ..........
Genoa — 25 90 25 55.
Naples
Palermo
Messina ..
25 90 25 97/
Li5b0n............ 521 52a
Oporto ......... -52 g
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 9
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Death of

Mr. John Henry Green, F.l S,

The medical profession and the public generally
will regret to hear of the death of this estimable
and accomplished surgeon, which took place at his
residence, Hadley, near Barnet, an Sunday evening,
the 13th inst.
To the Council of Medical Education and Regis-
tration, of which he was president, and especially
to that of the Royal College of Surgeons of Eng.,
land, of which be had been twice president, as
active member, the loss will be
irreparable,
aarsaba most
le.
Mr. Green was an only child of wealthy parents,
and having received a liberal education, and
studied for some time at Berlin, pursued his pro-
fessional studies at St. Thomas's Hospital, under
the auspices of his maternal uncle, Mr. Cline. He
was admitted a member of the Royal College of
Surgeons on the Ist of December, 1815, having
for is o years previously acted as demonstrator,
the best proof of his proficiency as an anato-
mist, and so creditably were the duties attached
to this office performed, that in 1818 he joined Mr.
(afterwards Sir) Astley Cooper as joint lecturer in
anatomy and physiology. In 1820 he succeeded the
younger Cline as surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital,
and with Sir Astley Cooper delivered lectures on
surgery and pathology. As an operative surgeon he
was unequalled in the skill wi'h which be performed
the operation for lithotomy, having in 1827 operated
in 40 cases, and lost only one. This unequalled
SUCCEOSS created a great sensation at the time. In.
1830 he was appointed to the professorship of sur-
gery in King's College, of which institution he was
at the time of his death a member of council. On
the opening of the session no man was more eloquent
in his address ; his deportment was simple, chaste,
refined, dignified, and he was most successful in
impressing his principles and points of practice on
his class.

In 1831 he wrote a pamphlet, called, " Distinction
without Separation," addressed to the President
of the Royal College of Surgeons, to prove that the
distinction between physician and surgeon did
not really exist, and that such division was
highly injurious where it did. About this time

he was unfortunate in entering into a wordy war-
fare with the medical press about the publication of
his lectures, a contest in which he was severely
handled and totally discomfited. In 1834 he wrote
his memorable letter to the ?infer, suggestions re-
specting an intended plan of medical reform, pro-
posing that the medical student should have a
sound classical and mathematical education, and
that there should be a higher and lower grade of
distinction. As showing; the wisdom of these eng,
gestions, it may be mentioned that the council of
the Royal College of Surgeons has since adopted the
whose of them; and in the preliminary and
severe
professional examinations to which the medical
to.e
Public has the
stu-
dent
the
the councils
best
assurance isnows
of obtainingubjected, k
the general
in rato lveeliB3s, m
to
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Green
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ennc,ctieild surgeon
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the college, h
tothe
chair in
of that college of which he had become so bright a
member. In 1840 he was deputed to deli verthe annual
oration in memory of John Hunter, which at the
earnest request of his colleagues
gelled under the title Of he afterwards pub-
Vital Dynamics;" and
egain, in 1847, he became Hunterian orator, and
published the lecture
under the name of "Mental
Dynamics." They
thoughtful were the most eloquent and
discourses ever heard in that hall.
Partly on this acbased op the count and partly because they were
Coleridge, p}lilesophy of his friend and master,
they were neither of them popular.
In 1846, on the resignation of Sir Benjamin Bro-
die, Bart•, Mr. Green became a member of the Court
of Examiners, an appointment he held up to the
time of hi • s decease, and in 1849 obtained at the
hands of his colleagues the highest appointment
they had it in their power to confer, viz., the pre-
sident's chair, an honour again conferred on him in
1858. From her Majesty's Government he received
the appointment of President of the Council of
Medical Education and Registration of the United
Kingdom. The death of Mr. Green, though at
last sudden, was not altogether unexpected ; he
had been labouring for some months under a sharp
attack of
gout, complicated with disease of the
heart, from which it was hoped, by the kind and
skilful treatment cf Dr. Brinson, his attached friend
and physician, he had recovered. This gentleman
had suggested the resignation of several offices held
by the deceased, in order that by affording rest so
valuable a life might be spared for some time ;
and he had so far recovered as to be able to go to
his sitting room, when
on Sunday
which last he was sud-
denlyhis fatal illness,
seized with carried
him off in bis 728 year. lle leaves awi •
dow and a •
friends to deplore
large circle of
One of the greatest
losses which has occurred in the 1
-11 E d• ical profession
for Wany, Was
years. No man
more deservedly
honoured. His very person proclaimed his dignity.
Tall, of noble presence, the purity of his morals, the
sustaincd elevation of •
intellect,
his character, the active
penetration of a strong
of a
superior
hisamiable
and firm, his
gentl•enebs, at once
, tranquil modesty, his un-
varying rectitude, Were all peurtreyed in his noble
features.

A GROAT kIENIUS, BUT (we rather suspect also)
GREAT LODE.---Wheu ATAdanne De Steel visited
Germany, the
treat minds there shuddered at the mere rip-
Pr°aell of this impersonation of', 1 tench volubility." Her
inconceivable facility, her capacity of talking with freedom
'ad fluency on every subject, simply annoyed and digustcd
Goetile, who hated being cut oat of his way; and the more
amiable Schiller—who pronounces her "of all living crews
tures the most vivacious, the most ready for argunvat, tho
most fertile in words"—while he owns her to be the most
cultivated and intellectual of women, yet groans over the
" weary hours ho has to pass" in her cowpany,