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 138 the ages of 1 year and 32, and 3 more from acute inflammatory disease of the brain and its meninges between the ages of 13 and 16. The results are exhibited in the following table:

Bronchocele is common in Worcestershire, and many cases are witnessed in the district around Malvern. In some females the diseased gland grows to a large size without producing any, or only trifling inconvenience—a little difficulty of breathing in walking up hill. Persons afflicted with this unsightly complaint, are chiefly, but not universally, females: in one or two instances I have observed male children born with a decided fullness and enlargement of the thyroid gland. Very few of the common people use any remedy for it.

Bronchocele is not confined to the peasantry, a tendency to the disease often shewing itself in young females in the middle and higher classes: these generally, have recourse to medical treatment. Iodine, given internally, and used externally in the form of ointment, usually reduces the incipient enlargement: it is, however, liable to recur.