GENEEAL MONTHLY MEETING. 



Monday, March 5, 1860, 

 W. A. HA.RRISON, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



ITie following Gentlemen were duly elected Members of the 

 Society : — 



Mr. Albert E. Ollive London. 



Mr. John Belisario Sydney (corresponding). 



Mr. Henry Jordan Queensland (corresponding). 



The following Gentleman was proposed for the Membership of the 

 Society : — 



Mr. T. Bell, E.R.S., P.L.S., &C....17, New Broad Street, City. 



Mr. Spencer Cookings presented to the Library " Berdmore's Trea- 

 tise on the Teeth." 



Mr. Jameson, a collection of Models. 



Mr. Ash exhibited specimens of Vulcanite. 



Mr. Blackburn, a machine for holding mineral Teeth whilst fitting 

 or grinding them. 



Mr. Palmer presented some models illustrating the wasting away of 

 the edges of the upper Incisors. 



Mr. Maclean exhibited the model of a Mouth, the incisors of which 

 had been lost by a blow from a stone at nine years of age. The model 

 was taken at the age of forty -five, showing that nature had repaired the 

 loss by the approximation of the adjoining teeth. 



Mr. Sercombe then read the following paper " On Inflammationy as it 

 appears -in the Tissues of the Mouth, and its Treatment:'' — 



The mouth, though a small region, is made up 

 of many parts, which, when the seat of idiopathic 

 disease, no more fall to our care as dentists, than 

 does the eye or the ear, yet these parts, when 



