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thus created^ and is thus withdrawn. The great merit of 
this invention consists in its obviating the necessity for the 
painful and dangerous operation of cutting out bullets, and 
by its means a medical man, w 7 ith the aid of an assistant to 
work the air-pump, would be able to accomplish the work 
which now occupies many surgeons. When the cylinder is 
once exhausted, it "would extract several bullets without the 
necessity of again working the air-pump. The Medical 
Board has given directions to Mr. Coxeter, the eminent in- 
strument maker to the University College, to fit up the 
apparatus. The inventor, who has given the instrument 
gratuitously to the French and English Governments, has 
offered, should it be deemed necessary, to go out to the East 
in the spring, in order to instruct the medical men as to the 
mode of application. It is believed, by those competent to 
judge, that the invention may be applied to many other pur- 
poses in surgery. The Medical Board has also directed Mr. 
Miles to turn his attention to the construction of cars for the 
removal of the wounded. The public are already indebted 
to that gentleman for the invention of the hydrostatic rail- 
way break, which he is now applying to the carriages on the 
Hereford and Shrewsbury Railway. By this break a train 
can be stopped in an almost incredibly short time, and 
consequently it will have a great tendency to prevent railway 
accidents. 
ARMY APPOINTMENTS 
It affords us much pleasure to state that Mr. Thomas Jex 
has been appointed Veterinary Surgeon to the 1st Life 
Guards, vacant by the decease of Mr. Percivall; and that 
Mr. John Legrew succeeds to the 2nd Life Guards, in place 
of Mr. John Wilkinson, who has received the appointment 
of Principal Veterinary Surgeon to the Army. 
OBITUARY. 
Died, on the 28th of October, 1854, Mr. W. Hubbick, of 
Alnwick, Northumberland. Mr. Hubbick entered the pro- 
fession in 1826, and conducted, up to the time of his death, 
a highly respectable veterinary practice. 
ERRATA IN NO. 325. 
Page 3, line 9, for “ wide and unmerited abuse/' read, “ rude and unmerited 
abuse.” 
„ 4, „ 4, „ “ last each human trace,” read, “ lost each human trace.” 
