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 and surgeons. Neither should it be forgotten, that we have already before us, in the brilliant success which attended the publication of the Memoirs of the Manchester Society, and the Essays which have appeared in the Midland Medical and, Surgical Reporter, an additional stimulus to engage us zealously in the present undertaking.

But let it never be forgotten, that a long debt is owing from the medical officers of Provincial Hospitals, Infirmaries, and Dispensaries, in the shape of reports of those institutions. It is manifest that, if the valuable results of hospital and dispensary practice, throughout the kingdom at large, could be brought before the public in an authentic shape, the measure would be attended with the greatest possible advantages. At present, little has been done in this way, to which we can appeal with any satisfaction. The Midland Medical and Surgical Reporter has, in this respect, claims to consideration, in affording valuable reports of the Birmingham Town Infirmary, by Mr. Parsons; the Birmingham Eye Infirmary, by Mr. Middlemore; and the Worcester Dispensary, by Dr. Streeten. It is much to be desired that this line of inquiry should be assiduously followed up; for thence would, in future, arise most valuable documents, that, at any rate, would be authentic and impartial evidence, from which conclusions might be drawn or improvements suggested, that might lead to very favourable results in every branch of the healing art. I cannot press too strongly upon the members, the necessity of attention to this subject, and I do so the more earnestly, because I feel