Dec. 22, I877. THE BRITISH MEDICAL 70URNAL. 91i

NOTICE To ADVERTISERS. -Advertisements for insertion in the OPERATION DAYS AT THE HOSPITALS. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, should be forwarded direct to the Queen Street, W.C., addressed to MONDAY...... Metropolitan Free, 2 P.M.-St. Mark's, p A.M. and 2 P.M.-Royal Publishing Office, 36, Great London Ophthalmic. II A.M.-Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, Mr. FOWKE, not later than Thursday, Twelve o'clock. 1.30 P.M.-Royal Orthopaedic, 2 P.M. ADVERTISERS are requested to take notice that the regulations ofthe Post TUESDAY ...... Guy's, 1.30 P.M.-Westminster, 2 P.M.-Royal London Ophthal- Ofice do not allow letters to be addressed to initials and directed to any mic, 1I A.M.-Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, I.30 P.M.-West Post Office in the UnitedKingdom, but letters may be addressed to initials London, 3 P.M.-National Orthopmdic, 2 P.M. other than a Post WEDNESDAY.. St. Bartholomew's, 1.30 P.M.-St. Mary's, I.3 P.M.-Middlesex, I to the JOURNAL Office or any stated address Office. P.M.-University College, 2 P.M.-King's College, 1.30 P.M.-Lon- COMPOSITION AND QUALITY OF THE MIETROPOLITAN WATER IN NOVENIBER 1877. don, 2 P.m.-Royal London Ophthalmic, 11 A.M.-Great Northern, Me- 2 P.M.-Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children, 2.30 THE following are the returns made by Dr. C. Meymott Tidy to the Society of P.M.-Cancer Hospital, Brompton, 3 P.M.-Royal Westminster dical Officers of Health. Ophthalmic, 1.30 P.M.-St. Thomas's, 1.30 P.M.-St. Peter's, 2 P.M. S. -A-.. Hardness. - - Ntoe Amoi. (Clarke's Scale.) THURSDAY.... St. George's, P.M.-Central London Ophthalmic, I P.M.-Charing 0-ci ' c Nitrogen Ammonia. cHare,usse) Cross, 2 P.M.-Royal London Ophthalmic, 3a A.M.-Hospital for NamesNamesoof WaterWater=tO 0v 0 & x0 Diseases of the Throat, 2 P.M.-Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, Companies. ti Beor Aft Cd v As Ni- '.30 P.M.-Hospital forWomen, 2 P. M.-St. Thomas's (Ophthalmic 0 aieOrancBfe Department), 4 P.M. C:4 ru:l 4 trates. &c. Saline. Organic Boiling. Boiling. _ .__ _ __ FRIDAY ...... Ryal Westminster Ophthalmic, 1.30 P.M.-Royal London Oph- Grains. Grains. Grains. Degs. Degs. thalmic, II A. M.-Central London Ophthalmic, 2 P. M-Royal South Thames Water Grains Grains. London Ophthalmic, 2 P.M.-Guy's, 1.30 P.M. Coimtanies. Grand Junction .. 2I.10 0.046 0.156 0.000 0.007 14.8 3.0 SATURDAY.... St. Bartholomew's, 1.30 P.M.-King's College, 3.30 P.M.-Royal West Middlesex .. 19 40 0.042 o.i6o O.O;z o.oo8 I5.7 4.2 London Ophthalmic, II A.M.-East London Hospital for Children, Southwark and 2 P.M.-Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, 1.30 P.M.-St. Thomas's, Vauxhall. 20.50 0.053 0.100 0.000 o.oo8 13-7 3.3 I.3o P.M.-Royal Free, g A.M. and 2 P.M. Chelsea ...... I7.90 0.042 0.110 O.Cot 0.008 I3.2 2.8 Lambeth ...... 20.6o 0.053 O0133 o.oco 0.009 14.3 2.8 LETTERS, NOTES, AND ANSWERS Othier Compfanies. Kent ...... 27.30 0.003 0.366 0.000 0.002 19.4 5.1 TO CORRESPONDENTS. New River ...... 20.50 0.050 0.100 0.000 0.006 14.0 2.4 East London .... 19.80 0.032 0.IIO 0.001 0.007 15.4 2.8 CORRE:SPONDENTS not answered, are requested to look to the Notices to Corre- spondents of the following week. Note.-The amount of oxygen required to oxidise the organic matter, nitrites, etc., AUTHORS desiring reprints of their articles published in the BRITISH MEDICAL is determined by a standard solution of permanganate of potash acting for three JOURNAL, are requested to communicate befosehand with the printer, Mr. Thomas hours; and in the case of the metropolitan waters, the quantity of organic matter Richards, 37, Great Queen Street, W.C. is about eight times the amount of oxygen required by it. The water was found to PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.-We shall be much obliged to Medical Officers of be clear and nearly colourless in all cases. Health if they will, on forwarding their Annual and other Reports, favour us with LLANDUDNO WATER-SUPPLY. Dutlicate Copies. SIR,-The Sanitary Record of October I2th last contained an analysis of and report WE CANNOT UNDERTAKE TO RETURN MANUSCRIPTS NOT USED. of the water-supply of this town by Mr. Wigner. Both were of a very unfavour- able and damaging character; and, extracts from these having been copied into COMMUNICATIONS respecting editorial matters, should be addressed to the Editor, and commented upon in some of the London and many of the provincial news- 37, Great Queen Street, W.C.; those conceming business matters, non-delivery of papers, will you do us the favour ofinserting the accompanying report and analysis the JOURNAL, etc., should be addressed to the General Manager, at the Office, 36, recently made by Professor Wanklyn, at the request of the Llandudno Improve- Great Queen Street, W.C., London. ment Commissioners.-Yours truly, CORRESPONDENTS, who wish notice to be taken of their communications, should JAMES NICOL, MI.D., late Medical Officer of Health. authenticate them with their names-of course not necessarily for publication. THos. T. MARKS, C.E., Engineer and Clerk to the Commissioners. Commissioners' Office, Llandudno, December 6th, I877. A RENEWED PLRA FOR BREVITY. [COPY.] " 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, S.W., Dec. 3rd, I877. WITH the continued increase of the number of readers of the BRITISH MEDICAL "Dear Sir,-I beg to enclose my analysis and report on the water you sent me, JOURNAL (which has now a circulation of eight thousand copies weekly), the pres- and have to congratulate you on the goodness of your water-supply. As you will sure on space by correspondents naturally grows apace, and we must once more re- see, I have made a very elaborate analysis, which I judged to be required in your mind our contributors of all classes of the necessity of cultivating brevity to the case.-Yours truly (Signed), J. ALFRED WANKLYN.-Thos. T. Marks, Esq., Com- utmost degree. Of many communications of great interest which we publish from missioners' Offices, Llandudno." time to time, it is difficult to suppose that the same amount of information could Report on the Water Sit >ied to Lsanddno.-Two stoppered bottles filled not be conveyed in fewer words. with water, tied over and securely sealed, were received in my laboratory and in IN consequence of pressure on space, we are obliged to defer insertion of communica- examined. Each bottle bore the following label: " The water contained tions from several corresponden:s. this bottle was taken from the service reservoir, whence the whole town is supplied, by the clerk of the Commissioners. The water was taken and the seal of the Com- ST. THOATAS's HOSPITAL. missioners applied in my presence this 29th day of November, 1877. It was a fair SIR,-May I be allowed to point out that the estimated cost of furnishing the trea- and honest sample of the Llandudno water. (Signed) JANmES NICOL, M.D."-Both surer's house at St. Thomas's Hospital is £3000, not £2000, as stated in the JOUR- bottles were opened, and the water from each was separately examined as to NAL of December 8th. This would, on your calculation, be equal to a salary of organic purity with the following results: Free ammonia, o.oo parts; albuminoid £5oo a year for six years, which you seem to consider of sufficient amount to secure ammonia, 0.02 parts; showing almost absolute organic purity. Llandudno is in a a thoroughly competent superintendent. Is such a salary large enough? I think mining district, and therefore a careful testing of the drinking-water for poisonous not; and as it will be far better to have no superintendent than to have an ineffi- metals is necessary. I have accordingly submitted the water to such testing, and cient one, I ask your permission to give my reasons for this conclusion. In the am able to report that the poisonous metals are entirely absent. Like nearly first place, the incomes of the medical superintendent of the Royal Infirmary, Man- all natural water, the water contains a little mineral matter in solution. This mineral chester (290 beds), and of the general superintendent at the Royal Infirmary, Edin- matter has been -carefully examined as follows. One gallon of the water yields burgh (500 beds), in each case exceed 50ooper annum. At Glasgow, the income 22.0 grains of solid residue (dry at 140 deg. Cent.), part of which, consisting mainly of the superintendent is 500 perannunz; and at Birmingham the house-governor's of carbonate of lime, does not redissolve on being boiled with a quantity of distilled emoluments nearly equal this sum. At the London Hospital (800 beds), the house- water; and the remainder, consisting of common salt and sulphates, dissolves in governor's income is £800 per annum. Relatively, the superintendents and secre- boiling water. The relative portions of the insoluble and soluble residue are as taries of the smaller London Hospitals are in most cases better paid in proportion. follows: Insoluble residue, I4.2 grains per gallon ; soluble residue, 7.8 grains per Thus at University College Hospital, with less than 200 beds, a resident medical gallon-in all, 22 grains. On submitting the 22.0 grains to further analysis, they officer, a secretary, and a clerk to the committee, receive together about £8oo per were found to contain: Silica (traces); carbonate of lime, I.o grains; carbonate annum. At the present moment, there is a vacancy at the Children's Hospital, of magnesia, 2.1 grains; sulphate of soda, 2.1 grains; chloride of sodium, 4.9 Manchester, for a medical superintendent, with a salary of £500 per annumn, and grains. The hardness of the water is a little less than that of the ordinary London the privilege of engaging in private practice. It must be evident, therefore, that, water: it is about thirteen degrees. In conclusion, I have to remark that I consi- judged by the average of other hospitals, much smaller and much more manage- der the Llandudno water to be of excellent quality, and that in the whole course of able, a salary of £500soer annum is scarcely likely to secure the right kind of super- my experience I have not met with a better water for general domestic purposes. intendent for St. Thomas's Hospital. In addition to this, it must be remembered (Signed) J. ALFRED WANKLYN, Corresponding Member of the Royal Bavarian that there are at the present time at least two resident officials at St. Thomas's Academy of Sciences, Lecturer on Chemistry and Physics at St. George's Hospital. Hospital with a salary of quite £500. Musips. With a knowledge of these facts, and knowing the necessity that exists for a disease was introduced by officer to fill a at so SIR,-I have the medical charge of a large school. This highly qualified such responsible post large and important a a day-boy on November 25th. On December ist and 3rd, four lads were attacked, hospital as St. Thomas's, is it unreasonable to declare that to avoid half measures and at once sent to the " sick-house". A parent writes: " Whether there will be it is better to remain for the present unreformed ? It is declared on good authority the sliglitest danzger of his giving the 'mumps' to his brothers and sisters? We that, having furnished the treasurer's house, the reformers will rest content with have six of them here." Can a boy who has not had this affection, but who has their labours. They had better do this, unless they determine to take a statesman- been the whole time with those affected, convey (as in scarlatina) the contagion to like view of all the circumctances, and thus ensure that any changes shall be really M.D. to the advantage of St. Thomas's NEMO. others ?-I am, etc., Hospital.-Yours, etc., AN O.D FASHIONED CURE (?) FOR TOOTHACHE. DR. A. S. JONES. -To take any notice whatever in these columns of such a produc- THE compiler of a curious book, printed in i668, entitled A Rich Cabinet, states: tion as that from which our correspondent quotes is, in our opinion, to give it undue " I have been certified (but how true it is I know not) that three teeth taken out of a prominence. The person who uses such language on such a subject is self-con- dead man's skull and sewed in a ciout or piece of leather, and worn about them demned in the eyes of all reasonable men. It would at least be a degradation to which were subject to the toothache, it gave them present ease, and they never consent to quote from such writings, or to condescend to argue with their author. were troubled with the same so long as they had those about them." 912 THE BRITISH MEDICAL 70URNAL. [Dec. 22 1877.

NOTICES of Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Appointments, intended CORRESPONDENTS are particularly requested by the Editor to observe for insertion in the BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, should arrive at that communications relating to Advertisements, changes of address, the Office not later than 10 A.M. on Thursday. and other business matters, should be addressed to Mr. Francis MEDICAL ETIQUETTE. Fowke, General Secretary and Manager, at the Journal Office, 36, SIR,-I am much obliged for your reply to my letter of inquiry on the simple ques- Great Queen Street, W.C., and not to the Editor. tion of professional etiquette. C. D. has since published an explanation so much CHYLOUS URINE. at variance with my view of the facts, that I feel compelled, reluctantly, to ask SIR,-Dr. Leared was perfectly correct in his surmise, that the patient suffering from your insertion of the following. I had long suspected that C. D. was interfering urine in whose case I related in the for No- with chylous (some points briefly JOURNAL my patient, and now I have his own acknowledgment of meddling, by sug- vember s7th, I877) had at one time been under his care. Trommer's copper and gesting a consultation with Dr. William Roberts of Manchester. To this in itself test was in the detection of sugar, with a and unmistak- I could potash employed positive have no possible objection, excepting only that I had been for some time able result on twelve occasions, and was used with filtered as well as unfilered in correspondence with Dr. George Johnson of Savile Row, London; and when urine. The corroborative evidence of the sugar-fungus and crystals, undiatinguish- the patient proposed this consultation with Dr. Roberts, I at once consented, and able from those of grape-sugar, leave little doubt of the presence of that substance. immediately put myself in communication with that eminent physician, of whom My reason for laying so much stress upon this point is, that although the weight of our Association may well feel proud. Ultimately, he came over to see him, and evidence seems to favour that view of the etiology of chyluria, which deduces it confirmed Dr. George Johnson's and my own view of the gravity of his case. After from a regurgitation of chyle into some portion of the urinary apparatus through a awhile, I resumed my communication with Dr. Johnson, and continued in close leak in the lymphatic vessels, yet it remains to be proved whether cases may not correspondence with him until his case was taken out of our hands and transferred likewise occur where such an explanation may seem less probable than that which to the care of the homceopathic doctor. supposes the elimination of an excess of chylous material from the blood by the C. D. may he right as to the period; and possibly it was some time in October kidneys. I would suggest that the latter view is most rational, when, from an ex- that the patient, when in a very low and desponding mood, asked me if I would cessive in a patient addicted to food (as in the present in- like to see or glycogenesis oleaginous C. D., any other medical friend, to 'chat over his case" (his own stance), an abnormal quantity of sugar enters the circulation, putting too great a words). As this proposition was dictated by personal rather than professional strain upon the resources of the organism to utilise an excess alike of chyle and of motives, my reply was, that if it would afford him any satisfaction I should be saccharine material; hence, possibly, the imperfect transformation of both, and the most happy to meet C. D. ; but as I was in correspondence with Dr. G. Johnson, excretion of the surplus chyle and sugar by the renal emunctories. Such an inter- I had no wish to " chat" with anyone else. He then said that, "personally, he pretation is favoured by the remarkable diffusibility of chylous urine through filter- cared not, so long as I did not desire it". I had, however, made up my mind that ing paper. I may add that the case in question was detailed at the meeting of the if he should again name this subject I would unhesitatingly ask C. D. to see him Pathological Society on December 4th, and that specimens of the urine have been with me in consultation; but this he never did. I do not suppose, nor have I said, submitted to the Chemical Committee of that Society to investigate and report that C. D. met' the homceopath in consultation, but that he visited the patient when upon.-I am, etc., ALEXANDER MORISON, M.B.Edin. under treatment by a homceopathic doctor, who (after much deliberation) had been Canonbury, December 6th, 1877. sent for from Birkenhead, involving, of course, the payment of a considerable fee ; him and it is hardly reasonable, nor can we suppose, that the homceopath, who was A MEMBER would feel greatly obliged if any gentleman would kindly inform only called in on Thursday, would be dismissed on Friday or even Saturday, and where he could obtain lectures on the five senses, or any of them, written in a especially as the opinion he gave was not altogether without some hope of amend- popular style, for a country audience. ment. WE are indebted to correspondents for the following periodicals, containing news, My original inquiry was simply one of etiquette ; but I am sorry to see person- reports, and other matters of medical interest :-The Birmingham Daily Post; alities introduced which cannot possibly interest the profession at large ; and I the The Scotsman; The Cork Constitution; The Freeman's Journal; The Hampshire more regret it, as they require correction. C. D. says that " A. B. called upon the Post; The Somersetshire Herald; The Isle of Man Times; The Sussex Adver- patient and expostulated with him in such a manner on the steps he and his friends tiser; The Herts Advertiser; The Manchester Guardian; The Evesham Journal; had taken, that he became greatly agitated", etc. The plain facts are as follows. The Devonport Independent; The St. Pancras Gazette; The Bath Herald; The When I discovered that a homoeopathic practitioner had been to see the patient, Western Morning News; The Hull News; The Redditch Indicator; The Derby and absolutely taken charge of and prescribed for him, I necessarily felt that I Mercury; The Preston Guardian; The Scarborough Express; The Jewish World; must absent myself; but, fearful lest I should hurt his feelings by abruptly dis- The Durham Chronicle; The Harrogate Herald; The Sunderland Times; The continuing my visits, without one word of explanation to him, I resolved on Friday Lincolnshire Chronicle; The Bromsgrove Weekly Messenger; The Manchester morning to make a friendly call upon him, and, in words as gentle and considerate, Courier; The Broad Arrow; The Cork Examiner; The Cork Daily Herald; The and withal as kind as I could utter to a sick man, I explained my position, and Rotherham and Masbro' Advertiser; The Liverpool Daily Courier; The York said that I had no right there professionally, and that he must excuse me repeating Herald; The North Wales Chronicle; The Sheffield Daily Telegraph ; The Blyth my visits, as I should lay myself open to a charge of unprofessional conduct, as Weekly News; The Glasgow Herald; The Nottingham Journal; The Eastbourne well as dishonourable interference with another man's patient. This he at once Standard; The Scarborough Daily Post; The Isle of Wight Observer; The Sussex understood, though the friends could not see it, nor had he anticipated it; and he Daily News; The Metropolitan; The ; The Belfast News Letter; observed that " etiquette was a necessity in all professions", but he painfully de. The Yorkshire Post; The Coventry Herald; The Wisbech Advertiser; The West plored the circumstance which was to cause a separation between us. His distress Briton and Cornwall Advertiser; etc. of mind was of the most and most poignant character, I sincerely sympathised with *** We shall be greatly obliged if correspondents forwarding newspapers will him in his but I was and a trouble, powerless, only passive spectator of events, for kindly mark the passages to which it is desired to direct attention. which the family alone were responsible. No angry or unkind word escaped his lips or mine, and we parted, as we had always lived, in perfect friendship. And COMMUNICATIONS, LETTERS, etc., have been received from:- let me mention, that within a week of his death he expressed in fervid language his " Mr. great obligation to me and to the consultant physicians, and said that he felt fully Dr. J. Burdon Sanderson, London; Dr. W. Fairlie Clarke, Southborough; convinced that all that science and skill could do, aided by every kind attention, T. Spencer Wells, London; Dr. Saundby, Birmingham; Dr. Grimshaw, Dublin; had been done for him". That I should treat an old and much valued friend with Dr. J. B. Bradbury, Cambridge; Dr. Tilbury Fox, London; Dr. J. W. Moore, unkindness or harsh expostulation on his dying bed, is too improbable to be seri- Dr. entertained. Dublin; Dr. J. Marion Sims, Paris; Dr.Wade, Birmingham; J. W. Stallard, ously Mr. Dr. Having stated the plain unvarnished facts, with much regret that so much of San Francisco; Mr. W. A. Thomson, Sudbury; Burrows, Witheridge; your space should be occupied with matter foreign to the subject (etiquette), and Mackey, Birmingham; Dr. J. Johnson, Bolton; The Secretary of the Glasgow many apologies for the length of this communication, I close this correspondence, Medico-Chirurgical Society; Mr. A. Downes, Shrewsbury; Dr. Wattie, Sophia; and remain, yours faithfully, A. B., M.D. Dr. T. Lauder Brunton, London; Dr. Joseph Rogers, London; L.R.C.P.Ed.; ENGLISH WINTER STATIONS. Mr. G. Ware, Dover; Mr. Blount, London; Mr. Henry R. Hatherly, Notting- column to would inform or as SIR,--In your correspondents you kindly me, put it a Mr. Lennox question, What is the most suitable resort on the South Coast for a patient recover- ham; Mr. Charles Gaine, Bath; Browne, London; M.D.Edin.; ing from haemoptysis, who has a delicate chest ? Is there any work on our health- Dr. Sieveking, London; Mr. W. Rivington, London; Mr. H. Morris, London; resorts-its author and price?-I am, etc., ANXIOUS. Mr. A. Bernard, Liverpool; Mr. G. W. Bond, Great Yarmouth; Dr. Fennings, *** If there be much tendency to haemoptysis, places with a comparatively seda- London: Dr. Boyd Mushet, New Brighton: Mrs. Honeywill, Alveston; Dr. C. tive climate-in order, Torquay, Bournemouth, or Ventnor, usually answer best. Parsons, Dover; Dr. Rickards, Birmingham; Dr. Tripe, London; Dr. A. Emrys We believe that there is no text-book on English health-resorts devoted to the consi- Jones, Manchester; Dr. Fearnside, Preston; Dr. Clifford Allbutt, Leeds; The deration of their fitness for cases of pulmonary affections. Dr. C. T. Williams's Secretary ot Apothecaries' Hall; Surgeon-Major W. M. Cormick, Madras; The little volume (Messrs. Smith and Elder) affords a good deal of information, Registrar-General of England; Dr. Lardner Green, Marseilles; Dr. Hardwicke, chiefly of a statistical nature. It is entitled Influence of Cli£uate on Piul- Sheffield; Mr. Joseph Bell, Edinburgh; The Registrar-General of Ireland; Dr. monary Consunmtion, but it does not supply a full account of any health-resort. J. Milner Fothergill, London; Dr. Phillimore, Nottingham; Dr. V. Jagielski, Dr. Williams considers that the results at eastern stations, such as Hastings and London; Dr. Warner, London; Mr. C. M. Jessop, Clifton; Dr. J. Northcote St. Leonards, have been more satisfactory than at the western ones, but this is Vinen, London; Mr. R. E. Unthank, Appleton Wiske; Mr. H. L. Bernays, disputed. Charlton; Dr. S. Moritz, Cheetham Hill; Messrs. Salt and Son, Birmingham; CAUSTICO DI LONDRA. Mr. Tweedie, London; Mr. W. Sneddon, Bath; Dr. Bennett, Liverpool; DR. C. RUATA of Padua writes :-Could you tell me the composition of the caustic John of Mackenzie, and how it must be used ? I do not know if it is called Mackenzie's Dr. Fryer, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Dr. Galton, Croydoi ; Dr. Brabazon, caustic: in Italy, it is known as " caustico di Londra". Bath; The Registrar of the Royal College of Physicians of London; Mr. F. S. %* Perhaps some one of our correspondents will enable us to answer the question. Warren, London; Dr. H. Gervis, London; The Secretary of the'Royal Medical AN INDIAN GUIDE WANTED. and Chirurgical Society; Dr. C. Ruata, Padua; Our Edinburgh Correspondent; SIR,-I am very frequently asked by young men proceeding to India to fill appoint- Dr. A. Robertson, Glasgow; Mr. Lakin, Perry Bar, Birmingham ; Dr. J. Bassett, ments in the military or civil services, whether there is any small book to be recom- Birmingham; Dr. J. Maunsell, Barnsley; Mr. R. Gomeril, Windermere; Mr. mended which will give useful hints on clothing, diet, and hygiene, with a list of W. K. Walters, Faringdon; Mr. J. Hill, London; Mr. R. T. Wright, Hodnet; moderate length of those medicines it may be useful to take, and with short indica- Dr. Trollope, St. Leonard's-on-Sea; Mr. C. Nelson Gwynne, Sheffield; Dr. W. tions for their use. I have been obliged to confess that I know of no such useful R. Thomas, Sheffield; Mr. Lowndes, Liverpool; Mr. H. Nelson Hardy, Lon- work. As I doubt not many other practitioners are often asked a similar question, don: Dr. John Macpherson, London; Mr. W. H. Box, Chirk; Mr. T. Holmes, I would suggest that a small book of the nature indicated, written by one of Indian London; Mr. Howard Marsh, London; Mr. T. W. Reid, Canterbury; Dr. experience, would supply a real want, and would be sure to meet with a ready Sheen, Cardiff; Dr. Lush, Weymouth; Dr. Bindley, Birmingham; Mr. R. W. sale.-Yours faithfully, LENNOX BROWNE. Soper, Dartmouth; etc,