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Surgeons. At the quarterly meeting of the Directors, held in 

 September, seven new members were ballotted for, and admitted. 

 In addition to the benevolent fund above mentioned, there is, 

 under the same board of managers, another fund, totally distinct 

 from the former, for the purpose of granting Annuities of £50, 

 or £100, during the lives. of medical subscribers to it, after they 

 shall have attained the age of 60 years. The payments for this 

 purpose are regulated by the age of subscribers at the time of 

 their admission, agreeably to well-known rules of calculation, 

 settled under the direction of an eminent mathematician, and 

 may be made either in one sum or by annual instalments, at 

 the option of the party insuring. Further particulars, relative to 

 both these funds, may be known by application (if by letter, 

 post-paid,) to the secretary, 



Mr. H. C. Field, Surgeon, 95, Newgate Street, London. 



2. Effects of Cinchona. — An account has been published in 

 the Journal de Phartna.cie, for May, of some curious effects pro- 

 duced by Peruvian Bark. A French merchant, M. Delpech 

 residing at Guayra, in the Caraccas, had stored up a large 

 quantity of fresh cinchona, in apartments which were_^ after- 

 wards required for the reception of some travellers as guests. 

 These apartments contained each eight or ten thousand pounds 

 of bark, and in consequence of its fermentation, the heat was 

 much greater here than in the other parts of the house, rendering 

 the place somewhat disagreeable. One of the beds placed in 

 these rooms, was occupied by a traveller, ill of a malignant 

 fever ; after the first day he found himself much better, though 

 he had taken no medicine ; in a few days he felt himself quite 

 recovered without any medical treatment whatsoever. This 

 unexpected success induced M. Delpech to make some other 

 trials : several persons ill of fever were placed successively in 

 his magazine of cinchona, and they were all speedily cured, 

 simply by the effluvia of the bark. 



It happened that a bale of coffee and some common French 

 brandy were kept in the same place for some months ; one of 

 the brandy bottles happened to be uncorked, and on examina- 



