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increase, it was seven feet six lines; the stalk was then three 
inches and four lines in circumference at the base, and two inches 
and ahalf half way up. The flowers to the number of a hundred - 
and nine are borne upon alternate peduncles, and have a pleasing 
effect. The colour of the flower is a greenish yellow, that of 
the stamina a golden yellow. - 
**T intend to make a drawing of the plant, in order that it 
may be compared with the figure published by Foster in Capt. 
Cook’s Second Voyage. 1 have made some very strong ropes 
with the leaves, from which I obtained the flax by a very simple 
process. I shall send these ropes to the Museum of Natural 
History.” 
ClTY OF LONDON TRUSS SOCIETY 
For the Relief of the ruptured Poor throughout the Kingdom. 
We give puoliaty to the following official statement respect- 
ing this useful and extensive charity with great pleasure. From 
the great number of persons among the labouring poor who 
were afflicted with hernia, and for “whose relief no adequate 
provision existed, on the 14th of October 1807 Dr. Squire, Dr. 
Herdman, John Taunton, the Rev. H.G. Watkins, James Hor- 
wood, Michael Bartlett, Joseph Atkinson, John Middleton, 
John Gar duer, and John Whitford, met at the City Dispensary, 
and formed themselves into a Suciety “for the Relief of the 
ruptured Poor throughout the Kingdom, the City of London Truss 
Society.” 
From this very humble beginning, the Society has increased 
in its meaus by the exertions of a few individuals, and is now 
extending relief to nearly 2,000 patients annually. 
The following account of herniary cases, and their varieties, 
must be interesting to the philosophical as well as medical 
reader. 
The great facility of obtaining trusses, and the liberality of 
the Committee in allowing Governors to recommend patients for 
relief, the expense of which often exceeds the amount of their 
subscriptions ten-fold, have contributed in no small degree to 
the exteriaion. of its benches, whilst the strict ceconomy observed 
ia its expenditure has enabled them to meet the demands with 
but a trifling defalcation. 
The little extra expense and the statement. of accounts are 
perhaps unparalleled. The whole subscriptions from the com- 
mencemeut of the Society, which are brought into one view, 
will enable a liberal public to judge at once of the correctness 
with which its benevolence is applied. i 
The following statement of the situation and occurrence. of 
hernia, at different periods of life, has been extracted from the 
register 
