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schist, grey-wacke, and slaty limestone, conformably stratified, crop up above the 
ocean in the Boonting Isles to the North, in the Kra to the S. E. and in the 
Saddle Island to the S. W. : the inclination of the strata being directed outwards 
from the main island, as a central ridge. In the course of his tour, Dr. Ward 
discovered limestone and iron ore in abundance, both hitherto unused by the 
inhabitants : stream tin works were once established, but the return did not 
compensate the expence, and the jungle on the hills is so thick, that no attempt 
has been made to seek for the ore in situ. 
2. — Medical and Physical Society. 
3d December , 1831. 
Messrs. Drummond, Phillipson, and Reid, and Dr. Goodeve, were elected Mem- 
bers of the Society, and Dr. Desnoyes of the Mauritius, a Corresponding Membei. 
The following communications were then laid before the Society : 
1. — A letter from. Dr. White of the Bombay Service, inclosing a Register of the 
Pluviameter at Puna, from the 1st June to the end ot October, by which it ap- 
pears, that during the period above specified, 20.83 inches of rain tell at that 
station. 
2. — A letter from J. P. Grant, Esq. of Penang, addressed to John Grant, Esq. of 
Calcutta, giving an account of a Native Christian woman at Pinang, above fifty 
years of age, who had borne no children for fifteen years, and who having care of 
one of her own grand-children, (whose mother had diedj, endeavoured to pacify 
the child by putting it to her breast, the result of which was, in a few dajs, an 
abundant supply of milk, and the infant has been very well nourished for eight 
months, by this old nurse. 
3. — A letter from Dr. Neil Maxwell, inclosing a drawing of the plant named by 
the natives Undha Oolie y which was mentioned in the Society s Circular of last 
month, as having been successfully used by the Natives in the vicinity ot Benares 
in the cure of snake-bites. The plant, preserved in spirits, has been since receive! . 
5. — An account of the Epidemic Catarrh, which prevailed at Penang, in July and 
August, 1831, by Dr. Ward of Pinang. 
6. — A second communication on Dracuncultis, from Dr. Mylne of Bombay. 
7. — Dr. J. R. Jackson’s account of a singular disease in a Hindu child. 
8. — W. Cameron, Esq. presented a copy of his printed Report on Vaccination in 
Bengal, with tables containing the numbers vaccinated during the last ten years, 
and a series of statements, in an Appendix, sliewingthe great mortality from small- 
pox in 1829-30, in districts where the natives were precluded from availing them- 
selves of vaccination, with many examples of the necessity of maintaining an ex- 
tensive and efficient vaccine establishment in Bengal. During the late Epidemic 
Variola, the natives, in several populous districts, were forced to acknowledge their 
confidence in the protection afforded by vaccination, and it is painful to ojserve 
that, in several instances, there were not means to aftord them the benefit ot the 
prophylactic, when they most earnestly sought for it. 
9. — Remarks on the mode of performing the operation of Vaccination, by J . 
Hutchinson, Esq. in which the author advises the vaccine lymph to be inserted into 
the usual puncture in the arm, by means of an ivory point in p rt ^" Ce h ^° hl t ^ 
lancet, as he thinks the lymph is more apt to be pushed back along the due e 
of the lancet instead of being effectually insinuated into the P unctu ^- . . 
The following communications were then read and discussed by the Meetir g . 
Mr. Brett’s case of Lithotomy on a Hindoo child, in which the operation was 
followed by tetanus, and the patient ultimately recovered. .. 
Dr FI Mackenzie’s case of inveterate ulcers, with diseased bone, in a native, 
quickly cured by the use of Madar, and Dr. Ward’s account of an Epidemic 
Catarrh tLt iJ prevailed very generally in the Island 
of l nl v and August 1831. This Epidemic seems to have depended on son cisor 
dered condition of the * atmosphere, and the pulmonary symptoms with fever 
were! iu many instances, very severe. The 
red during the progress of the malady 'ensivel/in the Island of Java, 
A similar disease appears to have prevailed e. - j * cases f ata i 
and in some districts to have been, m a consi eiai p ^ states that *in the 
The account of the disease at Java, transmitted ^ 
district of Soorabaya, where the P'dO' aUon i^ . , * the department of 
were attacked with *l» Epttoue, c d whom 03 < bed ■ ^ 
demic e ’of W wh h om P 8°S;!d a .%e? alsflhe diae^se wJaseribed to sodden alternations 
e np^alure! with an unusual degree of humidity of the atmosphere. 
