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SOME OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIETY. 
paper, regarded as a geological heresy. In tlie same paper the 
opinion was advanced that, hereafter, these extinct pachyderms might 
be proved to have been coeval with man. A description of the 
superficial deposits in the valley of the Aire was read before the 
British Association at Leeds in 1858, and published in the report 
for that year. 
In 1843 Mr. Teale was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of 
Surgeons. He had the honour of being appointed, by the Queen, a 
member of the General Medical Council, at its institution in 1858. 
In 1862 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Having held, 
during a period of thirty-one years, the office of surgeon to the Leeds 
General Infirmary, he resigned it in 1864, when he was appointed 
consulting surgeon. 
Mr. Teale is the author of several works of great practical 
value. His earliest production is a small vohime on Neuralgic 
Diseases dependent upon Irritation of the Spinal Marrow, and 
Ganglia of the Sympathetic Nerve. In the course of his practice the 
writer had been convinced that the difficulty and embarrassment 
attendant on the diagnosis and treatment of the several neuralgic 
affections, arose from mistaken views of their pathology. They had 
too often been regarded as actual diseases of those nervous filaments 
w^hich are the immediate seat of the neuralgia, instead of being 
considered as sympathetic of disease in the larger nervous masses 
from which those filaments are derived. Hence the treatment was, 
too frequently, local and superficial. By this publication Mr. Teale 
contributed to more scientific views of neuralgic diseases and to a 
successful mode of treatment, based upon a large induction from 
well-recorded cases. 
In 1846 Mr. Teale published a Practical Treatise on Abdominal 
Hernia, with numerous illustrations. This is a complete and 
valuable text book on the subject, and gives the results of extensive 
experience. With regard to the taxis, Mr. Teale states that, in 
several cases, he has succeeded in reducing the hernias by placing the 
aponeurosis in a state of tension, after he had failed in his attempts 
whilst the nniscles w^ere relaxed. He gives a full account of M. 
Gerdy's operation for obliterating the hernial aperture by the 
