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188 there should arise a doubt that bronchocele might have been usually transferred to the surgeons of the institutions, from which the statements are made, and did not, therefore, appear on the lists of Drs. Willan, Bateman, or Woolcombe. I can, however, refer to a more recent instance respecting which there can be no doubt, as the list includes the medical and surgical cases indiscriminately—I allude to the admirable Reports of the Birmingham Infirmary, published in the Transactions of the Association, by Mr. Parsons. In the Reports for the years 1832-3-4, in a list of 10824 cases, not a single case of bronchocele is recorded.

Nyctalopia.—This disease is markedly endemical in many countries. It is an extremely rare affection in Great Britain: I only met with a single case during my residence in Cornwall, and I heard of no other. The case of nyctalopia occurred in the person of a fisherman, aged 52, in the summer season. It was accompanied by, and apparently dependent on, gastric and intestinal disorder, as the man had been for some time affected with dyspepsia to a great degree, and also diarrhœa. It was irregularly intermittent, coming, on after intervals of some weeks, and lasting from four to eight days.

Colica pictonum.—From the great prevalence of this disease in the adjoining county, in former times, so great as to obtain for it, as is well known, the name of Devonshire cholic, we should not have been surprised to have met with it in this district. It will be seen, however, that no case of the kind is recorded on the Dispensary lists; I myself never met with a case, nor could hear of more than one as