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 in adapting to its exigencies the doctrines of general Ethics, the principles of which exist in every well governed mind, and are identical in all circumstances, however variously they may be applied. Except the brief tracts of Gregory and Percival, we have no guidance furnished to us in this respect; and a well-digested code, adapted to the complex and much altered condition of the profession, is yet a desideratum.

It is, likewise, admitted, on all hands, that the organization of the profession which obtains is not what it ought to be; for the whole system of medical polity in this country, is both defective and erroneous. Opinions differ widely as to the evils and remedies, but few are found to commend the existing state of things. This subject is closely connected with the advancement of science, for, if the profession were constituted as it ought to be, and as reason and sound principles dictate, the harmony that would be thus established among the several departments, could not fail to prove a direct means of their co-operating more cordially and efficiently in extending the science and improving the practice.

With regard to the management by which the labours of the Association are to be regulated, I may notice that, for the first year, it is proposed to adopt the following provisional constitution, to be afterwards modified in whatever manner the first Annual General Meeting shall decide.

The Association to have a President, two Secretaries, and a Council.