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and in that time, Mr. Coleman has consented to become the 
Patron of the Society, and Mr. Sewell the President; and besides 
a great many students, the following practitioners have declared 
their wish to form a part of so laudable an institution: — Messrs. 
Ainslie, Braby, John Field, William Field, Langworthy, 
Marshall, Mavor, Mayer, Jun., Morgan, Sibbald, Charles 
Spooner, Symonds, James Turner, and Youatt. It will be ne- 
cessary merely to read this list of names, in order to be assured 
of the character, usefulness, and stability of such an insti- 
tution. 
The promises of books to the amount of at least thirty volumes, 
as the nucleus of a future Library, have also been received. As 
soon as the intention of the establishment of such a society has 
become known to the profession at large, a meeting will be called 
to arrange the rules and regulations of it, and then it will be the 
fault of its members if it does not live for ever. 
We use no solicitation — let the thing speak for itself; and we 
will only say — let our brethren in the metropolis or in the 
country, who are disposed to enlist in so good a cause, with- 
out delay communicate (post paid) with Mr. Morton ; or 
if they will occupy one of their pages with a case, or a hint, 
or any thing that concerns the welfare of the profession, the 
resident editor of this Journal will be most happy to take charge 
of the letter. 
That obscure, protean disease, influenza, has, during the last 
month, been very frequent, and obstinate and fatal too, in the 
metropolis, and in various parts of the country. It certainly has 
been epidemic ; there are few or none of us under whose obser- 
vation it has not fallen ; yet it has assumed a more than usual 
endemic character. There have been some establishments whom 
it has spared altogether, and we have heard of others in which 
scarcely a horse escaped without an attack from it, in a more or 
less mild or serious form. We understand that, in one of our 
breweries, there were no fewer than one hundred and ten patients. 
Would our correspondents everywhere favour us with a sketch 
