Royal Society of London. 873 
18. Extraordinary Surgical Cpeneys. 
The most surprising and most honorable operation of sur- 
gery is, without any contradiction, that execute 
Richerand, by par away a part of the ribs and of the 
“pleura. The p tient was himself a medical map, and not 
ignorant of the eee he ran in the operation he had re- 
course to, but he also knew, that his disorder wasochemls 
incurable. He was attacked with a cancer on the internal 
surface of the ribs and of the pleura, which continually 
produced enormous fungosities, that had been in vain. at- 
tempted'to be suppressed by the actual cautery. M. Rich- 
erand was obliged to lay the ribs bare, to saw away two, 
to detach them from the pleura, and to — . all the 
cancerous partof that membrane. As soon as he | 
made the opening, the air rushing into die’ chest, occasion- 
ed for the first day, great suffering, and distressing shortness 
of breath; the surgeon could touch and see the sis 
- through the pericardium,whie lass, an 
could assure himself of the total insensibility of both ; ak 
serous fluid flowed from the wound, as long as it remained 
open, but it filled up niece hy means of the adhesion of 
the lungs with the m, and the fleshy grai 
that were formed in it. emias patient got so well that 
on the twenty-seventh day after the operation he could not 
resist the desire of going to the medical school to see the 
fragments of the ribs, that had been taken from him, and in 
three or four days after, he returned home and went about 
his ordinary business.— Thomson’s An. 
4. Royal Society of London. ag 
Dr. Wollaston has been chosen ad: interim President™ of 
the Royal Society of London. It would be difficult to 
aoe any phimeopher of the present day, who excels him 
n acuteness of perception, as well as depth of attainment. 
A paper by him was read before the Royal Society in June 
last, on sounds inaudible to human ears. On observing that 
the ears of, Se ape oe 
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