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the above, in the pages of your valuable Journal ; and it is 

 with no small regret that I do relate such cases, and that I 

 see no prospect of the number of these cases being dimi- 

 nished, not even in London. Although here the physi- 

 cian can without delay have the advice of his colleagues, 

 the surgeon the immediate assistance of his professional 

 brethren, and the apothecary may have the advice and as- 

 sistance of both physician and surgeon almost instantly ; 

 yet that wilful perverse desire of pursuing a routine of un- 

 successful practice, of keeping the patient from proper as- 

 sistance, for the purpose of making merchandise of his 

 maladies, by the sale of a few medicines, still prevails and 

 is equally disgraceful to the profession, as it is almost cer- 

 tainly fatal to the patient. In the instance before us, a va- 

 luable parent was snatched from a numerous offsprings 

 surely hurried to an untimely grave by a want of that as- 

 sistance which had been successful in a former case, and 

 which would in all human probability have been again com- 

 pletely successful, had it been applied in proper time. 



The operation for hernia is simple, and, when performed 

 with care, in proper time, is almost certainly successful, 

 " Few, if any, would be the fatal cases of this operation, 

 if it was performed sufficiently early*." The result of many 

 years practice, in which the number of operations on per- 

 sons afflicted with this maladv has been very considerable, 

 enables me to speak with well grounded confidence on the 

 success of thij operation. 



21, Greville-street, Hatton Garden, JoHN TAUNTON. 



April ii3, 181-2. 



XLIV. Notice respecting the Geological Structure of the Vi' 

 cinity of Dublin ; with an Account of some rare Minerals 

 Jound in Ireland. /?// William Fitton, jif. D. Com- 

 municated by L. Horner, Esq. Secretary to the Geologi- 

 cal Society \., 



J. HE following observations are to be ascribed principally 

 to the late Rev. Walter Stephens. I communicate them to 

 the Geo'ogical Society in their present imperfect form, 

 with the hope that they may attract the attention of minera- 

 logists to the country in the vicinity of Dublin; for they 

 are oulficient to sliow that very interesting information may 

 be expected from a correct examination of that district, the 



• Hcy's Surgical Observations. 



■[■From the Transactions of the Geological Society, vol. i. with some ad- 

 ditions by the Ailthor. 



situation 



