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Lieut. Conolly’s collection consists of one gold coin of the Sassanian dynasty, 
with the head and fire-altar very rudely executed : four gold coins with inscrip- 
tions in ancient Kuphic characters, but too much obliterated to he deciphered 
bv any but an experienced medallist. Also two silver coins of the Khalifs of 
tlie race of Ommieh : on the most legible of the two, the inscription informs us, 
that it was struck at Wasit in the year 129 Hij. (A. D. 746). 
In Hallenberg’s Numismata Orientalia are described several coins of the same 
period, the legends of which precisely correspond with those before us : the nearest 
in date is of the year 126 Hij. (A. I). 743). Merwan the twenty-first Kbalif and 
fourteenth of the race of Ommieh came to the throne in 127 Ilij. and was killed 
in 132 Hij. being the last of that family. fVasit the town, on the Tigris, at which 
the coin was struck, was so called, says the same authority, f rom being halt way 
( middle ) between Basra and Kufa: it was built by lbn-Gjuzi A. II. 75, and 
remained the seat of the Khalifat (or at least ot the coinage) until the Alias 
succession, when the capital was established at Mohaincdiah, or Baghdad, as 
proved by coins struck in the year 137 Hij. 
2. — Medical and Physical Society. 
At the meeting of the 3d September, Messrs. Shean, Foley, and Watson, were 
elected Members, and J. N. Casanova, M. D. ot Cadiz, was elected a Coi- 
responding Member. A communication was then laid before the meeting 
from Dr. D. Stewart, of Howrah, stating the case of a boy who had received a seveie 
injury of the head, with extensive fracture, and deep depression of a portion <>t 
the skull. A diagram descriptive of the injury, and two portions ot bone remov- 
ed by trepanning, accompanied the communication. The case was lemarka > i , m 
consequence of the fracture of the inner table of the bone running to a distance 
of nearly half an inch from that of the outer table. On this account some devi- 
ation from the usual mode of operating was requisite. Prior to the operation, t le 
patient was quite insensible, and the worst symptoms were present; alter me 
operation, he spoke in a composed and rational manner ; and all the bad symptoms 
disappeared. . f , 
The following communications were also submitted. A case of disloca ion o i . 
neck from a fall, which proved fatal next day, by Mr. Twining. I reparation trom 
a subject, in which diseased hip joint followed a severe injury on board ship. 
Case of a native woman, who was so severely lacerated by a tiger that it was 
necessary to remove the arm at the shoulder, by Mr. J. Blackwood. Account 
of a singular nervous affection to which the Malays at Pinang are su jec , y 
Mr. Boswell. Case in which the operation of lithotomy was followed by tetanus, 
nnd the patient was cured, by Mr. F. H. Brett; and a case o um, us uni 
in the orbit of a native, extirpated successfully, by the same. _ 
Hie following communications, formerly presented to the ocie y, 
read and discussed by the Meeting; viz. Mr. Galt’s case of tever. 1 . 
r ed in a S»poy, who came to Hospital after an illness of a month s duration, 
and died suddenly of rupture of the heart. The case was remarkable, ftom the 
laceration taking place at the apex of the organ. There were appearances about 
fi>e heart, indicating chronic disease of long duration. Dr. . . 
munication contained an account of a Hindoo, who was bitten u i the toot oy a 
Cobra de Capello. At the end of three hours the man became conj dse l, an 
scarcely sensible. Ammonia, brandy, and laudanum were 
*l>e wound was scarified. The patient recovered, but his limb rem - ^ 
for some days. Mr. Preston’s case of strangulafi ed Hernia f h d 1)C ' ( . n 
European, on whom tlie operation was performed after the pa . 
suffering symptoms of strangulation for ten days, during ie i 
>e avoided coming into Hospital. The bad symptoms ceased soon after „theop^ 
•dion ivas performed, and the patient recovered in a few day*. R, y , J 1 Thc rc . 
communication is a translation from an Oriental work on the • f P 
autions, which are directed in native medical works, to be ^erred m feelmg 
* Pulse, for the purpose of obtaining useful information 
?* te , of heakh > and the nature and tendency of any existing disease, , 
of f^eifully described. The whole account has relation F ' of jj en _ 
he old doctrines of the Humorrhal pathology, upon whic i > modification 
Sf ee pathology and practice would appear to be founded. Bach 
diff 1C P u l se described, is referred to a morbid condition exclusively 
humours > to which the attention of the Physician ■ - g ff te f 
d-fected Accordingly, as one or more of these may be 
ls Physician’s opinion, diognosis, and mode of tr - consider- 
35? 18 a curious record of one branch of a system, which still, to a consider 
e extent, exists in this country. 
