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risk of contracting a disease we should inevitably en- 

 Cointer one far more revolting. 



It was rf-solved, on the proposition of the President, 

 that T)r Ayres interesting paper should be translated 

 into fiench and made public. 



l)r H. Rpgnaud read a paper on the anthelmintic 

 properties of (he almond of a creeper, Quisqualis In- 

 dica L. The few experiments he has been able to try 

 induce him to admit the seed of this plant into the 

 " Materia Modica," as a vermifuge. The administra- 

 tion of it to young children has been followed by the 

 expulsion of fragments of the Taenia Soleiim Tape worm 

 and of a large quantity of those diminutive worms so 

 difHcult to get rid of, and so troublesome, vizt.: the 

 oxyures. 



The ca«es mentioned by him are sufficient to induce 

 him to believe that the Quisqualis is a remedy the 

 more valuable from the administration of it being ex- 

 tremely easy. Plis intention is to make new trials ag 

 soon as the plant is again in seed, and to communicate 

 ihe result of liis experiments to the Society. 



The Secretary communicated a paper by Dr Fres- 

 sanges, on the formation, in a pregnant woman, of an 

 encpphalo'id cancer of the uterus, in the form of a tu- 

 mour, at the external right angle, outside the fallopian 

 tube, and the softening of which took place from cen- 

 tre to surface, threatening the peritoiiial cavity. 



The peritoneum shewed no trace of inflamation on 

 that side nor consequently of adhesion The neck of 

 the uterus, itself as well as the ovaries were perfectly 

 healthy. 



The presence of this tumour, in Dr Fressange's opi- 

 nion, gave rise to the following sym|)toms, viz: reten- 

 tion of the placenta by the hour glass contraction, and 

 hrrmorrhage, the loss of a portion of the amniHl waters 

 about one month before delivery, and lastly a club 

 foot with the child who was born alive at nine months. 



It is to be remarked that the insertion of the ])la- 

 centa took place at the internal portion of the left an- 

 gle of the uteru', that is to say, exactly opposite the 

 tumour which prc)jected in the cavity of the uterus. 



The woman died after being delivered, from puer- 



