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MEDICAL BILL. 
Class a — injury of the brain proper. This may possibly be 
explained by the fact, that the nerves with which the blood- 
vessels are supplied decussate in the cerebro-spinal axis at a 
higher point than the ordinary sensitive nerves — apparently 
above the corpora quadrigemina. Hence, if the brain proper 
be divided on one side, dilatation of the blood-vessels on the 
opposite side will be produced. The occurrence of increased 
temperature on the paralysed side in injuries of the brain has 
frequently escaped notice; although Cheyne, Portal, Morgagni, 
and others, observed it. Though frequent, it can scarcely be 
said, as far as has been ascertained, to be a constant pheno- 
menon . — Association Journal, July 10, 1858. 
THE MEDICAL BILL. 
[We extract the following comments on the passing of 
the Medical Bill from the J Pharmaceutical Journal’ of the 
last month, being satisfied that, as members of a branch of 
the medical profession, any measure affecting its interests 
must in some degree also affect us.] 
“To the surprise of many persons, the Medical Bill has 
passed both Houses of Parliament. Various opinions are in 
circulation respecting its probable influence on the character 
and well-being of the profession. Considering the compli- 
cation of interests affected by such a measure, it w^as not to 
be expected that the result wmuld give universal satisfaction ; 
the only source of surprise is the fact, that at last a Bill has 
been framed which has not shared the fate of every previous 
Medical Bill during more than a quarter of a Century.” 
“The first merit w^hich is observable on comparing this Bill 
w T ith its predecessors, is, that it does not commence with a 
general repeal of almost every Act relating to the medical 
profession since the date of Henry VIII, thus reducing the 
profession to a state of chaos. The object of the Bill, as 
stated in the preamble, is to enable persons requiring medical 
aid to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners. 
For this purpose, a General Council of Medical Education 
and Registration of the United Kingdom’ is to be established, 
and branch Councils for England, Scotland, and Ireland, 
respectively. The General Council is to consist of eighteen 
members, of w r hom one is to be nominated by each of the 
medical corporations (enumerated in schedule A) in England, 
Scotland, and Ireland, and six by her Majesty with the advice 
of her Privy Council, also a president, to be elected by the 
