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in Jefferson Medical College. Delivered Nov. 4, 1844. By- 

 Professor Dunglison. 8vo. — From the Author. 



Introductory Lecture to the Course of Chemistry, delivered in Jeffer- 

 son Medical College, Nov. 3, 1841. By Franklin Bache, M.D. 

 8vo. — From the Author. 



Introductory Lecture to the Course of Chemistry in Jefferson Medi- 

 cal College. Delivered Nov. 6, 1843. By Franklin Bache, 

 M.D. 8vo. — From the same. 



Introductory Lecture to the Course of Chemistry, delivered in Jeffer- 

 son Medical College, Nov. 1844. By Franklin Bache, M.D. 

 8vo. — From the same. 



An Inquiry into the Distinctive Characteristics of the Aboriginal 

 Race of America. By Samuel George Morton, M.D. Second 

 Edition, 1844. 8vo. — From the Author. 



A Memoir of William Maclure, Esq. By Samuel George Morton, 

 M.D. Second Edition, 1844. 8vo. — From the same. 



On a supposed New Species of Hippopotamus. By S. G. Morton, 

 M.D. From the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences of Philadelphia, for February, 1844. — From the same. 



The Committee, consisting of Dr. Meigs, Dr. Dunglison, and 

 Dr Hays, on the paper of Dr. Bond, entitled, " Case of Spina 

 Bifida," read at the last meeting of the Society, presented a 

 report thereon, recommending that an abstract of the same be 

 made by the Reporter, to be published in the Proceedings of 

 the Society; which recommendation was agreed to. 



The child was born at term, July 5, 1833; the mother aged 40 

 years. The pregnancy went several days beyond the reckoning. 



Upon washing the child, a spot as large as a half cent, looking like 

 a coagulum, but covered with a thin film of membrane, was discover- 

 ed at the lower end of the lumbar spine. It was destitute of the com- 

 mon integument, and was not raised above the surface. The spinous 

 processes on the sacrum were absent ; those of the lumbar vertebrse 

 were present. 



On the third day, the tumour was as large as a walnut, and con- 

 tinued steadily to increase in size, until it opened on the 27th of Au- 

 gust, fifty-three days after the birth of the child. Although, for the 

 first few weeks, the tumour exhibited a low and suppurating surface, 

 yet it afterwards became covered with a tense, glossy, heated surface, 



