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Opened. The lectures are valuable chiefly as tending to invigorate 

 and excite the minds of the hearers, by presenting some new and 

 unwonted information, such as may awaken attention, and animate 

 the faculties to energetic operation. We do trust that the great 

 problem — the equalization of the advantages of intellectual culture 

 — approaches nearer and nearer to its solution. Let, then, bodies of 

 *' mechanics" listen to lectures on the mysteries of physical science on 

 the graces and glories of ancient art — on the venerable remains il- 

 lustrative of ancient manners — and on the progress and pleasures of 

 those elegantly recreative sciences, whose exercise is said, by the 

 poet, to 



** soothe the savage breast.'* 



Every lecture on such humane subjects, we hope and believe, brings 

 us nearer the desired solution. The approach of the consummation 

 may be slow, but it does approach, and the end will shew that no 

 effort is lost. 



LIVERPOOL MEDICAL SOCIETY. 

 Session 1835—6. 



The first meeting of this useful association, organized since Jan- 

 uary, 1833, and which already consists of upwards of seventy resi- 

 dent members, was held on the evening of Wednesday, the 7th of 

 October, 1835, in the Royal Institution, when the following mem- 

 bers were elected as officers by ballot : — Presidents , Dr. Carson, Dr. 

 Baird, Mr. Worthington, and Dr. Banning; Treasurer j Mr. Batty; 

 Secretary, Dr. Thorburn. 



October 21. — Dr. Carson, jun. stated, to the Society, the case of 

 a Dutch sailor, who had been exposed, in Holland, during the hat 

 season, to exhalations from the marshes, and was afiected with a 

 cutaneous eruption of a most peculiar kind, somewhat resembling 

 rupia or psoriasis. The most remarkable features in this case, were 

 the loss of sensibility in the extremities of the fingers, and the scars 

 or cicatrices (many of them a hand's breadth) which were placed in 

 contact with a heated poker, and burnt, without tho patient being 

 conscious of the application at the time. 



Mr. Bonner, the originator of the Society, called the attention of 

 the meeting to two cases of severe injury, (one of a child who sus- 

 tained a compound fracture of the outer ankle bone), the circum- 

 stances attending which, in connexion with the results of the treat- 

 ment, were illustrative of how much Nature will do when youth is 

 on the side of good surgery. 



Two cases of intense squinting were communicated by Mr. Neill, 

 and the particulars of a case of scarlet fever by Dr. Duncan. 



