00 Surgical Cases in the City and Finshury Dispensaries, 

 third sets will be alike in colour and size, but alternate in 

 both particulars with the primary set. 



The same thing will happen when four sets are visible ; 

 for all the sets that are formed from the primary one will 

 resemble each other, but will be alternate in the colour and 

 dimensions of their rings with those of the primary set. 



[To be continued.] 



XIX. Report of SurgicQl Cases in the City and Finshury 

 Dispensaries for September 1807. J5y John Taunton, E^^. 



JLn the month of September there were admitted on the 

 books of the City and Finshury Dispensaries 237 surgical 

 patients. 



Cured or relieved - - 205 

 Died - - - - 4 



Under cure - - - 28 



237 



.Since which time there have been admitted 963. 

 One of the fatal cases was that of Mrs. M. S. aet. 67^ who, 

 soon after the birth of her ninth and last child, was seized 

 with femoral hernia : the tumour was small, but painful, 

 attended with sickness and inclination to vomit; these 

 symptoms did not last long, as the hernia receded without 

 assistance : she had another attack in about six weeks, 

 which was also of short duration ; the hernia soon became 

 irreducible, and she had been exposed to similar attacks for 

 the last sixteen years of her life, for which time it had never 

 been completely returned : these were occasionally longer 

 and more severe ; the symptoms frequently continued for two 

 or three days, but were removed without any operation or 

 medicine, except some Daffy's elixir. 



On the 22d of August she was seized with the usual 

 symptoms, viz. pain over the whole belly, particularly in 

 the region of the stomach, with a sensation of heat, vomit- 

 ing, cold sweats, intermitting pulse, and suppression of 

 stools for four days : the tumour was now much larger than 

 before, being nearly the size of a child's head at birth : at 

 ..|his period she had a motion of a small quantity of feculent 



matter. 



