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two minims of creosote when the vomitingcomes on. Five grains of calomel, and fifteenof compound powder of ipecacuanha directly.

2. Has been very noisy all night, and itis now evident that he is delirious ; from thegeneral appearance of the man, being pale,and having the appearance of a drunkard,Dr. ELLIOTSON ordered him half a grain ofthe muriate of morphia directly, and to be

repeated every four hours. Passed hiswater.

3. Has passed no water to-day, there isno fulness, however, over the region of thebladder. He is quieter, and the straight-jacketwhichhad been used was discontinued.Says to-day he has been a hard drinker. Tohave a purgative as his bowels are confined.

4. Better than he was yesterday, complainsof great thirst, caused probably by the mor-phia ; bowels well opened. Passes but littlewater, and that high-coloured. Still com-

plains of pain at the end of the penis. Tonguevery brown.

5. Much better. He continues well as faras the delirium is concerned ; but had anattack of inflammation of the eye, which wasrelieved in the usual manner, and he wasdischarged well on the 16th.Dr. ELLIOTSON spoke of the great necessity

of forming an accurate diagnosis in a case ofthis description. He had called the delirium" atonic," but it was of the same characteras the " asthenic " or " dei.rium c. tremore."There was no account how long the patienthad suffered from delirium, but it was oneof that sort of cases in which opium doesgood, and it was employed with success.

PROFESSIONAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

Messrs. ALEXANDER and GUNTER.—Thesegentlemen must employ the same amanuensis.They are both at the acm of their severalprofessions, but it is clumsy in their clerk notto diversify a little the style of their adver-tisements. Which of the two gentlemen feltmost uneasy at discovering the close approx-imation, in manner and situation, of the fol-lowing paragraphs in the Morning Chroaicleof Wednesday week ?

" Mr. Mangles, member for C, uildfoi-d, hasrecently undergone the operation of havingcataract removed from his eyes at his resi-dence in Cannon Row. The operation wasperformed by Prr. ALEXANDER."

" The Duke of Wellington honoured theJunior United Service Club with his com-

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other notices which have lately been madepublic, are some decent pufls of our adver-tising friend Sir HENRY, which may be ex-tracted at any time, but at present theopportunity must be seized of quoting the I

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subject with the greatest attention, andthe result has been a conviction, that thosestatements, so far from being exaggerated,are fully borne out, and that the adoption oftheir simple, but salutary mode of treatment,would in many cases lead to consequencesof the most lasting benefit and importance tosociety at large.-Advice gratis, every mom.ing from nine to eleven. CHARGES FOR ME-DlCINE REASONABLE.—Abrahams, Printer,Wellclose-square."

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Exposito7-.-The thing is not bad as a quiz,and probably is well-deserred; but surelyour correspondent did not seriously mean toforward it as an " almost verbatim copy."Will he be so good as to enable us to ascertainhow much of the matter or the manner (to azcord) is caricature, and transmit at the sametime his name and address, in confidence.There are obvious reasons for this precaution.We will find room for the communications

of Mr. Eagle, H., P. P., and Medicus. Theletter of Mr. Martin, of Windsor, was re-ceh ed too late for insertion this week. Itshall appear in our next number.

1111’. Smethurst cannot have reflected seri-ously on the means of carrying his proposalinto effect. For every bitten Pythias theremust be found a healthy Damon; and wereally cannot see what the population is to

gain by the sacrifice of twenty sound men tosa e twenty that are diseased. Nay, more;for every Pythias of the Lambert breed two oDamons must be prepared, for nothing shortof an entire transfusion would effect the sal-vation of the patient.

News.—Sir Charles Bell, the eminent sur-geon, who for a number of years was princi-pal surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, hasvacated that situation, and is appointed Pre-sident of the Royal University of Surgeonsat Edinburgh. Sir Charles is succeeded byHerbert Mayo, Esq.—Morning Herald, du-gust 24.