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XXTV. Report of Surgical Cases in the City Dispensary 

 from the 1st of January to the 30th of June 1 SuG. Com-* 

 municatcd by John Taunton, Esq. Sturgeon to the City 



and Finslmry Dispensaries, and Lecturer on Anatomy, 

 Surgery, &c. 



Oince the last report (Philosophical Magazine, vol. xxiii. 



p. 312.) there have been admitted into this dispensary 3(j2 



patients. 



Cured - - 215 



Relieved - - 17 



Irregular 5 



Dead 2 



Under cure - - 123 



362 



Sixty-six have been visited at home, and nine have under-' 

 gone operations. 



In the surgical report (see January 1S0G) there were 115 

 patients under cure, of whom 107 have been cured, G re- 

 lieved, and 2 are not known. 



Surgical Cases. 



S. B., set. 2G, observed a tumour in her left breast for 

 several years, without being enabled to assign any cause for 

 its appearance, having a hard irregular surface, attended 

 with darting pain, and occasionally with a sensation of heat. 

 The emplastvum hydrarg. cum ammoniac, was applied, the 

 camphorated and saponaceous liniments were used, and 

 other gentle stimulant applications, from which, in manv 

 cases, the most happy results have been experienced. This 

 mode of treatment having been persisted in for several 

 months witho.it any benefit being obtained, (die tumour 

 had even become larger, and was attended with more pain,) 

 as there was no doubt with respect to the nature of the case, 

 it was thought right to propose the extirpation of it by ex- 

 cision ; to which the patient most readily acceded, and the 

 operation was performed on the lGth of April. As the dis- 

 ease 



