^823.] 



Medical Report. 



459 



rally.is entitled "Ad Act for ameuding the Persons solemnizine marriage in any 



Lawsrespectingtlie Solemnization of Mar- other place than a church or chapel, or 



riages in England.'' The following are its without banns or licence, or under pre- 



le.iding provisions:— tence of being in holy orders, shall be 



After Ihe preamble of the expediency transported. Prosecution to be com- 



of this Act, it repeals, after the Ist of menced within three years. Marriage to 



November next, the 26 Geo. II. c. 33. be void, where persons wilfully marry in 



(for the better prevention of Clandestine any other place than a church, &.C. or 



Marriages,) aud 4 Geo. IV. c. 5. (an Act without banns or licence 



of the present Session repealing certain Voidability for want of consent of fa 



provisions of the Marriage Act of last 

 Session.) 



It then enacts the publications of banns, 

 as at present practised. Also aiitho- 



ther, &c. by suit commenced withia 

 twelve months. 



Liability of the husband for the charge 

 of maintenance of wife and children during 



rizing such publications in chapels, by the the coverture, to continue after the avoid- 



bishop, with the consent of the patron and ance of the marriage. And «hen niar- 



incurabent, riage solemnized between parties under 



Noticeof the names, and place and time age, contrary to this Act, by false oath or 

 of abode, of parties to be given to minister fraud, the guilty parly to forfeit all pro- 

 seven days before publication of banns. perty accruing from the marriage. 



Ministers not punishable for marrying Proof of the actual residence of the par- 

 minors without consent of parents, &c. un- ties not necessary to the validity of » 

 less they have notice of dissent; if dissent marriage, whether after banns or by 

 publicly declared, publication of banns licence 



void. 



Re-publication of banns necessary, if 

 marriage not solemnized within three 

 months. 



Licences to be granted to many in the 

 church, Stc. of such parish only, wherein 

 one of Ihe parties resided for fifteen days 

 before ; and, where caveat entered, no 

 issue till matter examined by judge, and 

 oath to be taken before the surrogate, be- 

 fore licence is granted.— Bund not to be 

 required before gram ing licence. — Consent Jews, 

 of parents, <S;c. where parlies under age. 



No suit shall be had to compel celebra- 

 tion of marriage by reason of any contract 

 of marriage. Marriages to be in the pre- 

 sence of two witnesses, and to be re- 

 gistered. 



Persons convicted of making a faJse 

 entry, or of forging, dec. any snch entry ; or 

 of forging, &c. any licence ; or of de- 

 stroying such register ; to be transported. 



Act not 10 extend to Royal Marriages, 

 nor to the luaniages of Quakers and 



MEDICAL REPORT. 



Report o/" Diseases and Casualties occuri-ing in the public and private Practice 

 o/ the Physician who has the care of the Western District of the City Dispensary, 



WHEN rheuiuatisui leaves its most 

 common locality, the joints, aud 

 attacks the chest, the consequent disease 

 is often one of complicated demands and 

 diflicult niunageuicnt. The writer has just 

 left a patient luider these circumstances, 

 and the case has proved one full of what 

 medical men call contra-indicatious ; the 

 degree of the disorder rccpiiring, its nature 

 aud tlje constitution of tlic suft'erer forbid- 

 ding, very free and vigorous plans of treat- 

 ment. 



It Li under these circunistanics that the 

 carbonate of anmionia, so managed in its 

 exhibitioji as not to prove over-irritating, 

 shows itself possessed of considerable 

 poweis, and it is often advisable so to su- 

 persaturate the acetate of anmioiiia with 

 the latter ingredients as to make the me- 

 dicine at oirce antl-hpasniudic and anti- 

 intlamiiiatory. This useful drug (annuo- 

 nia) will bo found especially applicable 

 when the iheumalic aflection is attended 

 by a gouty diathesis. 



Pectoral complaints in general are in- 

 deed those which present to the piacti 



tioner the most abundant sources of em- 

 barrassment ; in atiections of other organs 

 you have For the most part a more simple 

 and satisfactory series of disturbed func- 

 tions: but, when the chest is the seat of 

 the disorder, it is often not easy to predi- 

 cate its precise locality, its absolute nature, 

 or its immediate cause. Whether, for in- 

 stance, the serous or the mucous membrane 

 be the part especially implicated, or whe- 

 ther the actual substance of the lung itself, 

 may not rather be the residence of Ihe 

 evil. Again, whether does tiie impediment 

 ef breathin.; depend upon an inflamed aud 

 tightened membrane ; upon a difficulty in 

 the transmission of blood through the pul- 

 monary vessels; upon an irregular or spas- 

 modic action of the pectoral muscles; upon 

 ail irritation of the fascia lining those mus- 

 cles ; or upon a conslricted or loaded state 

 of the air-cells of the lungs. Further, is 

 the iiiilaramation (if it be inflaminalion,) 

 common or specific, constitutional or ac- 

 cidental ? Has it a tendency to pour out a 

 watery etl'usion, and thus to give rUe to 

 drop.<y of the chest ; to occasion a deposit 



of 



