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of house-medicine administered, and theurine drawn off. On the following morn-ing the paralysis was entirely gone, and theboy was dismissed from the Hospital cured,on the lth.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.

ON Tuesday, June 10th, Mr. Lawrenceamputated the thigh of a woman, aged 45.The patient was admitted into the Hospital,May 16, with a simple fracture of the tibiaand fibula, about two inches above theankle joint. The leg was placed upon itsside in the semi-flexed position ; but thepatient became so restless that it was foundnecessary, in a few days, to change it forthe straight position, and the limb was

placed in a fracture-box. Inflammation ofthe leg supervened; leeches were repeatedlyapplied ; but it terminated in extensive

sloughing of the skin and subcutaneous cel-lular tissue of the foot, and lower part ofthe limb ; the broken end of the fibula be-came exposed, and there was copious dis-charge of matter. The strength of the pa-tient was much reduced; but by the freeuse of wine, ammonia, and nutritious diet,she rallied, and her pulse became quick andmoderately strong ; the tongue was cleanand moist, and the functions of the sto-

mach tolerably good. Extensive suppura-tion was, however, still going on, and therewere two or three fistulous openings at theupper part of the leg. Mr. Lawrence now

proposed the removal of the limb, as afford-ing the only prospect of saving the life of thepatient; observing, that the circumstanceswhich were favourable to this measure were,the age of the patient, the state of the pulseand tongue, and the absence of that excite-ment which is generally observed in casesof this description, nd which often conti-nues after the removal of the limb. The legwas removed above the knee, by the circu-lar incision. There was very little bloodlost during the operation. Two grains ofopium were given immediately afterwards,and repeated at bed-time; it produced restand some sleep. Brandy and water, andammonia, were given at short intervals. Shegrew more feeble, and expired on the fol-lowing day.

LONDON VETERINARY SOCIETY.

THE Members of this Society assembledby adjournment on Tuesday evening last, atAlr. Youatt’s, when F. C. Cherry, Esq., wasunanimously called to the chair.

The minutes of the previous meetinghaving’ been read and confirmed, the elecof officers was postponed to Tuesday eveningnext, June 24, at seven o’clock, when theSociety will again assemble at Mr. Der-mott’s theatre, Little Windmill Street.

In the course of the evening, several, in-teresting discussions took place, and somemorbid specimens exhibited, amongst which bwas the brain of a horse having two largetumours growing from it ; the history ofthe case will be detailed on the next even.

ing. This specimen was produced by llr,Rogers.The Society has commenced under the

most auspicious circumstances, and we hopthat the Members of the Veterinary pro-fession will give it their most ardentsupport.

ENGLISH PHYSICIANS IN PARIS.

To the Editor o,f’TrtE LANCET.

SIR,—The article you extracted from theGazette des Tribunaux, giving the Tepoi t oia trial for defamation, brought by Messrs.

Roberts and Langeois, against thirteen

English physicians, and in which theywere adjudged to payfive tliousand francs

damages, with costs, and to be placardedon the walls of Paris, as defamers, is a mat-ter of no slight consequence to the medicalcharacter of our countrymen abroad, mo.rally and professionally. What would besaid in this country, if thirteen physicianscombined, or rather conspired, had written,what seamen call a round robin to an au.

thority, such as that of an ambassador;which deprives an innocent man of his fairprofessional exertions, and causes him tostand in obloquy, if not sent out of the

country in which he is domiciles ? Wouldnot our blood curdle with indignation? andshould we not instantly appeal to twelvehonest men, (not physicians,) to remedysuch civil injury, as we would to the freeexercise of THE LANCET, to scarify ever ysuch depraved professional delinquent ?Upon what plea is all this done ? Whybecause they stispect that Mr. Roberts i-,

cognizant of an article in the French paperL’Hygi6, imputing some per cfntage un-derstandinlu between them and a Frenchpharmacien ; at least such is their ostensi-

ble plea. Mr. Barthe, the French counselon this trial, aware that our countrv vomitsforth upon the French shore practitioners,as well as subjects, whom our public WeJ!can well dispense with, particularly ali.dressed himself to Dr. B. the leader cfthe junta, and certainly if one half of what is

published in hand-bills, &c. of that indivi.