OBSERVATIONS ON THE NEW MEDICAL QUARTERLY. 
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QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE 
MEDICAL & PHYSICAL SOCIETY. 
When this journal was proposed and 
ordered to be published at the last meeting 
of the Society, we understood that the in- 
tention was to publish the Transactions 
quarterly instead of annually, and to notice 
the proceedings and works the Society 
might receive, — an arrangement we thought 
exceedingly good ; but the advertisement on 
the 3rd, and the editorial in the Englishman 
of the 4th, have convinced us that the 
Quarterly is arrayed against the India Jour- 
nal of Medical Science, the editor of which 
begs to say that, notwithstanding the mighty 
power and wealth of a Society, he intends to 
stand his ground, and to shew cause enough 
for doing so in his forthcoming number. But 
as the Editor of the Englishman would usher 
in the Quarterly by detracting from the 
merits of the monthly, we have deemed it 
right to give the opinion of the Indian 
Press, on the merits of the India Journal 
of Medical and Physical Science. We 
refer the readers to our advertising columns, 
and beg they will compare the fol- 
lowing extracts from the editorials of 
Englishman vsith. what the editor pub- 
lished on the 4th. We, who had so en- 
chanted our contemporary, little expected 
he could so soon cast us away to rush into 
the embraces of a stranger ; but, alas 1 he is 
like all faithless lovers. 
The Englishman, June 2d, 1835. 
“ The India Journal of Medical Science for 
the present month (published yesterday) 
contains many interesting articles, adapted 
to a diversity of tastes, of which we shall 
employ to variegate our pages in a day or 
two : we are sorry however to observe, by 
the following notice, that Messrs. Grant and 
Pearson have abandoned the editorial voca- 
tion, bequeathing it with all its cares and 
honors to Dr. Corbyn, a gentleman of whose 
writings we have seen enough to satisfy us 
that the seceding parties have provided their 
readers with a worthy and fitting successor.” 
The Englishman, Friday, July 3, 1835. 
“ If Mr. Corbyn proceeds thus in his edi- 
torial vocation, there is no fear but that he 
will go on and prosper ; and that his work 
will long continue, what its name proclaims 
it to be. The India Journal of Medical 
Science. 
The Englishman, Thursday, March, 3d 1836. 
Page 428. “ The recent proposition to 
establish an opposition Journal must fall to 
the ground. We know enough of the labor 
and anxiety of mind required in the manage- 
ment of a medical work to be convinced that 
no person will carry one on, for any great 
length of time, unless he is paid either by 
money or renown. A society’s Journal offers 
neither the one nor the other to its ex-officio 
editor ; and, if by any extraordinary chance, 
it should succeed in putting down Mr. 
Corbyn’ s publication, it would of itself die a 
natural death in less than twelve months 
afterwards. The profession has to choose 
only between the present Journal or none.” 
The Englishman, Monday, April \st. 1836. 
Page 644. “ We should do great injustice to 
Dr. Corbyn’ s industry and zeal were we to 
omit to bestow some attention upon the pre- 
tensions of the India Journal of Medical 
Science for the present month. The worthy 
editor has evidently been excited by the 
threats of the Medical and Physical Society 
to publish a Journal of their own, and, in a 
spirit of defiance, which we are disposed to 
admire, because it accords with our own no- 
tices of what should be the tactique on these 
occasions, produces a periodical unrivalled, 
and, we believe, unrivallable in India, for its 
variety and intelligence.” 
MEDICAL COLLEGE. 
The winter session for 1836 and 37 opened 
on the 6th of October. Anatomy, Physio- 
logy, and observations on Surgery, from Oc- 
tober 6 to March 31, on Mondays, Tues- 
days, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 10 a. m. 
M. J. Bramley and H. H. Goodeve, Ma- 
teria Medica and Pharmacy, from 1st 
November to February 28, on Tuesdays and 
Thursdays, 3 p. m. 
W. B. O’Shaughnessy, Surgery, from 5th 
December to April 30, on Mondays and 
Wednesdays, at half past 12 o’clock. 
Examinations on Saturdays, at 12 o’clock. 
DR. SMITH. — The talented Editor of 
the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 
and other scientific works has written to us 
for the skulls of animals peculiar to India. 
