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nethy considers the stomach to be the seatof this disease ; and Dr. Wier, late a com-

missioner of the Transport Board, sagaci-ously attributes it to an acrimony of the

blood. In spite of all this, the brethren of

I’all Alall are to be entirely set aside : yet,of this body, Sir Andrew is a meritorious

licentiate, and on his bended marrow bones

must have plighted his troth to the existingDagon or Baal for his admission; and bysuch supple genufleiction, have compromisedhis adhesion to their municipal regulations.This projected bill is, however, to be

propped up by doctors of some sort; pro-bably imported from those seats of classiclore; and exuberant science, the universitiesof Aberdeen and St. Andrew’s. Three of

these medici nothi, with two magistrates,are to form a board of general control, but

police magistrates (the most intelligent andefficient of this tribe) are to be excluded.

In this proposed legislative whirligig, the

principal secretary of state for the Home

Department is to be the head-keeper, and

by his deputation, the intrusive spirit of

official authority is to penetrate into the re-cesses of every private family. There are

many cases where domestic calamity, the

termination of fever, the suppression of pe-riodical secretions, puerperal irritation, sud-den alarm impressed on a system highlysensitive, together with many other excitingcauses, that might render the separation ofthe patient from his family, with an adequateguardian, in the house of a relative or

friend, expedient and highly beneficial. In

such instances is the posse comitatus of the

Hoard of General Control, consisting of

three unlicensed soi disans physicians, re-

centlv landed from a northern steamer. with

two peeping and loquacious dunces of thequorum, to intrude with their unfledged ad-vice and brutal authority, into the privateabodes of the kindest and most affectionate

of relatives.

There are many other subjects in Sir

Andrew -Halliday’s volume, which might

have been unfavourably noticed ; but we for-bear to misapply argument, or to point ridi-cule at imbecility.

Circle of the Seasuns, c. 12mo. Hookham,Bond-street ; 1828.

Tms little work may be regarded as a

compendium of the natural history of everyday in the year; which also comprises the

artificial, as well as the natural history ofeach day. Each page in the book describes

one day, and it is divided into three por-

tions ; 1st, The calendarian history of theday, including the ceremonies observed in

each ; 2d, The natural history, including alist of plants which blow, birds which ar-

rive, fruits in season, and prevailing dis-

eases of each season. This part is suppliedby Dr. Forster, of Chelmsford. 3d, The last

part is made up of poetry, relating to plants,and quotations from the Greek and Latinauthors, as Virgil, Dioscorides, and others.The whole forms a portable pocket volumefor the student of natural history.

" ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN LONDON.

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Regulations of the Council relating tn the Ageand Professional Education of’ Cand dites for the Diploma of the Colleoe.1. The only schools of anatomy, and

physiology, recognized, are Londou, Dablin.Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen.

II. Attendance upon the surgical prac-tice of an Hospital will be recognized, pro-Tided such Ilospital contain at least onehundred patients.

III. Xo person under twenty-two yearsof age shall be admitted a member of’ the

college.IV. The following certificates will be re-

quired of candidates for the diploma of thiscollege :

1. Of having been engaged six years,at least, in the acquisition of profes-sional knowledge :

2. Of having regularly attendedthree or more winter-courses of anato-my and physiology ; and two or morewinter-courses of dissections and de-

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monstrations ; delivered at subsequent’periods.

Two courses of anatomy and physiologyin Edinburgh or Dublin, which are of sixmonth’s duration, and the accompanyingcourses of dissections and demonstrationswill be considered as equivalent to thefore-going attendance.

3. Of having regularly attended twoor more courses of lectures on the prin-ciples and practice of surgery; one ofwhich shall have been delivered in a

recognized school of anatomy.4. Of having also attended the fol-

lowing lectures, viz.Two courses on the theory and

practice of physic of three monthseach, or one of six months.One course on materia medica,

and botany.Two courses on chemistry, of £

three months each, or one of sixmonths.Two courses on midwifery, of

three months each, or one of sixmonths.

5. And of having attended, duringthe term of at least one year, thesurgical practice of one or more of thefollowing Hospitals ; viz. ST. BARTHO-

LOMEW’S, ST. THOMAS’, the WEST-

MINSTER, GUY’S, ST. GEORGE’S, the

LONDON, and the MIDDLESEX, in Lon-don: the RICHMOND, STEVEN’S, andthe MEATH, in Dublin ; and the ROYALINFIRMARIES, in Edinburgh, Glasgow,and Aberdeen ; or during four yearsthe surgical practice of a recognized

. provincial Hospital, and six months, atleast, the practice of one of the abovenamed Hospitals in the schools of ana-tomy.

V. Candidates under the following cir-cumstances, of the required age, and whohave been engaged five years in the acqui-sition of professional knowledge, will beadmissible to examination, viz.

Members, or licentiates in sur-

gery, of any of the legally consti-tuted colleges of’ surgeons in theunited kingdom.And graduates in medicine of any

of the universities in ths united

kingdom, provided they have at-

tended lectures, the practice of anHospital, and performed dissections,as required in regulation IV.

VI. The required certificates shall ex-

press the dates of the commencement andof the termination of attendance on eachcourse of lectures, and dissections; andalso of attendance on hospital-practice.

VII. The required certificates shall be

delivered at the college ten days before can.didates can be admitted to examination.

By order,EDMUND BEI FOUR, Secretary.

5th day of January."

We. have neither time nor temper to dis.

sect these new regulations this week. Butwe would ask, when will the impudence and

folly of these jachs in office have an endDo they suppose that the patience of themembers has no limits 1

EDMUND BEI FOUR, Secretary.

SINGULAR CASE IN MIDWIFERY.

By Dr. Hare, Great Baddow, Essex,I BEG to transmit the following midwifery

case for insertion in your widely-extendedpublication, as the most effectual means ofrescuing it from oblivion, which I feel itdoes not merit, being the only one of thekind upon record.When I resided at Southminster, Sarah

Maynard, of the adjoining parish of Burn-ham, came to engage me to attend her inher approaching confinement; this was inthe autumn of 1789. She was about twenty.eight years of age ; a short, thin, delicatewoman.

I arrived a few hours after she was takenin labour, on the 10th of ;,November; thepains were strong and regular, with muchbearing down. I had her laid on herleftside, in order that I might examine andjudge of her situation. 1 found the uteruslow down in the pelvis, cle to the osexternum. I hoped the labour would soonbe over, should the os uteri dilate; I en-deavoured to find it in every direction, firstbackward towards the anus, then all roundthe pelvis, without being able to make anything out. I could find no entrance into the

vagina, nor could I introduce my fingerhorizontally between the perinsum anduterus, which 1 had never failed to do in allother cases, however low the presentingbody might be. I felt convinced, duringthe last examination, that the uterus ad-hered all round the pelvis, and that the

vagina was totally obliterated. It was abouteight o’clock on Wednesday evening whenI came to her, and by the time I had satis-fied myself of these extraordinary particu-lars, the night was pretty far spent. I pra-posed to lie down for an hour or two, morewith a view of reflecting upon the case

without interruption, than with any inten-tion of going to sleep. Her pains comingon stronger, attended with severe sickness,