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vermiformis may be partially or wholly obliterated by 

 the contraction resulting from ulcers and abscesses ; 

 and, 2dli/ } That this was effected, in the cases which 

 have been under my observation in a definite manner, 

 by folding of the walls of the organ, and subsequent 

 ulceration of the attached edges, and the two surfaces 

 of these folds. — (Printed in Cormaclcs Monthly 

 Journal of Medical Science, April 1841). He read 

 a paper on continued fever in April 1842, marked 

 by a full symptomatology of the disease, and a 

 cautious observation as to the pathology being charged 

 upon " molecular " or " structural lesions." The de- 

 pletive system was in his eyes "the treatment sug- 

 gested by common sense (a faculty of more use to the 

 practical physician than all the science of Newton) 

 and approved of by the experience of every age." 

 A.gain — "A proper decision as to treatment requires 

 experience, tact, and long-headed ness." He was con- 

 vinced that in time the country would be mapped 

 out, so that the type of fever, cephalic or abdo- 

 minal, prevailing in or rather peculiar to each dis- 

 trict and town, will be ascertained by inspection of 

 the map ; and, lastly, believed that the type of fever 

 varied according to circumstances, social, meteoro- 

 logical, and geological, with the laws of which we 

 were not yet acquainted. He was elected Senior 

 President of the Royal Medical Society in 1841-2, 

 and continued in office tin- following year to every 

 niic's satisfaction. 



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