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VARIETIES. 
Thomas Farrington, President ; Joseph Burnett, Vice President; Henry 
Ware Lincoln, Secretary; Samuel N. Brewer, Treasurer; Joseph Kidder, 
Auditor; William A. Brewer, Corresponding Secretary ; William Brown, 
Henry D. Fowle, Andrew Geyer, Ashel Boyden, Trustees. 
The following gentlemen were chosen a committee to consider what mea- 
sures were necessary to increase the usefulness of the college to its mem- 
bers, and the public, and report at a future meeting : — Dr. George F. Jones, 
Joseph Burnett, S. M. Colcord, W. B. Little, G. W. Parmenter. Subse- 
quently the President and Secretary were added to the committee. 
The meeting was well attended, and remarks were made by several of the 
of the members ; and an interest was exhibited which guarantees continued 
strength to the institution, and its usefulness to the community. 
Voted, That the proceedings be published in the Boston Medical and 
Surgical Journal. Per order, Henry Ware Lincoln, Secretary. 
Boston Med. and Surg. Journ., March 26. 
Northern Dispensary, New York. — From the Annual Report of the 
Trustees of the Northern Dispensary of the City of New York, to the Legis- 
lature of the State, we learn that — 
" During the year 1850, their dispensary has furnished medical attend- 
ance and medicine to 19,047 individuals as recipients of their institution, 
of whom 8,090 were attended at their dwellings, and 10,957 were attended 
at the dispensary. Of these individuals, 5,140 were born in the United 
States, 12,680 in Ireland, 480 in England, 317 in Scotland, 281 in Germany, 
149 in other countries. 615 of the above mentioned individuals were vac- 
cinated." — Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., March 26, 1851. 
On the Health of Workmen Employed in the Manufacture of Sulphate of 
Quinine. By M. A. Chevallier. — The manufacture of sulphate of quinine, 
which has been carried on for thirty years in France, occasions with some 
of the workmen particular diseases, which have not hitherto been studied. 
Having become acquainted with this fact, I made several investigations on 
the subject; from which it appears that the workmen employed in this 
manufacture are subject to attacks of a cutaneous disease, which compels 
them to suspend their work for a fortnight, or sometimes for a month or 
longer. Some of them are even compelled to seek other employment. 
M. Zimmer, manufacturer of sulphate of quinine, at Frankfort, has found 
that the workmen employed in powdering cinchona bark are attacked with 
a fever which he has designated the cinchona fever (China fieber.) This 
malady is sufficiently severe to induce those attacked by it to renounce the 
occupation and leave the manufactory. This disease has not been observed 
in France. 
At present no means are known for preventing the cutaneous disease. 
It affects not only the workmen who are employed in the different opera- 
tions, but it also attacks persons who are merely exposed to the emana- 
