out of the United Kingdom, by virtue of any of the qualifications enumerated in Schedule (B); and also in favour of persons who, after due examination, shall have obtained any foreign or colonial diploma or degree which, in the country where such diploma or degree has been granted, would entitle the holder to practise medicine or surgery; or in favour of such foreign medical practitioners as may at the time of the passing of this Act be holding any medical appointment in any hospital or public institution; and also in favour of any surgeons or assistant-surgeons in the army, navy, or militia; and also in favour of medical students who shall have commenced their professional studies before the passing of this Act.

LI. Notice of Death of Medical Practitioners to be given by Registrars Every registrar of deaths in the United Kingdom, on receiving notice of the death of any medical practitioner shall forthwith transmit by post to the medical registrar a certificate under his own hand of such death, with the particulars of time and place of death, and may charge the cost of such certificate and transmission as an expense of his office, and on the receipt of such certificate, the medical registrar shall erase the name of such deceased medical practitioner from the register.

LII. Chemists, &c., not to be affected: Nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prejudice or in any way to affect the lawful occupation, trade, or business of chemists and druggists.

[Here follow the various schedules.]

Vaccination in relation to Blindness.

Statistical researches show us that prior to Jenner's discovery, of 100 cases of blindness, 55 were due to small pox; and Dr. Dumont, Physician to the Asylum for the Blind, has recently supplied an interesting account of the progressive decrease of that proportion. Among the blind of sixty years of age he finds this variety of cause in 12 per cent.; in adults it only exists as 8 per cent; and in children only as 5 per cent. We may take as a mean, counting all ages, about 7 per cent., which, as at the commencement of the present century the proportion was 35 per cent., exhibits a diminution of 28 per cent.

Progress!

"There is yet another agent of great power and efficacy, in a certain class of cases, which it has heen the custom of the profession to sneer at, but which Dr. Esdaile's reports and returns place beyond a doubt. I allude to mesmerism."

Dr. Monat, C.B., Deputy Inspector General, in a communication read to the Crimean Medical and Surgical Society, April 19, 1856. Reported in the Medical Times and Gazette, August 30, 1856.

Prize.

At the annual assembly of the British Homœopathic Society, held the 27th and 28th of May, 1856, it was resolved :

"That a prize of one hundred pounds be offered for the best essay upon the physiological and therapeutic effects of substances derived from the class Ophidia.” *

CONDITIONS.

1. That each competitor shall send his essay in a sealed cover with a motto, and a sealed letter with his name and the same motto, to the President of the British Homœopathic Society, † on or before the 1st January, 1859.

2. That all the essays shall become the property of the Society; liberty, however, to publish any of these may be obtained by the authors on application to the president.

3. That the essays must be written in English, French or German.

4. That the president and council shall appoint three judges to decide upon the best essay, who shall not necessarily be members of the society.

5. That upon the decision of the judges the successful candidate shall be paid one hundred pounds.

6. That the successful essay shall be published in the British Journal of Homœopathy.

7. That this prize shall be announced in the British Journal of Homœopathy.

(Signed)

F. F. QUIN, M.D., President.
T. R. LEADAM, Hon. Sec.

[We beg to direct the attention of our colleagues to this important announcement, and to request those of them who have the direction of periodicals to cause its insertion in their journals. It is well that it should be known that the degree of industry and critical and literary ability, as well as the amount of original observations, will be taken into account in deciding upon the essay most deserving of the prize.-EDS.]

Under physiological are included both the toxical and pathogenetic effects.

† 111 Mount Street, Grosvenor Square, London.

Cinnamon in Metrorrhagia,

By M. CHOMIER.

M. Chomier, after adverting to the eulogiums, often exaggerated, passed upon this substance by some of the German writers, observes that, as far as he knows, M. Gendrin alone has laid down the indications for its employment. That author states, he has employed it with remarkably good effect in chronic metrorrhagia, as also in the acute form when the first symptoms have been subdued by bloodletting; and he has often been suprised at the rapidity of the results produced. The form that most promptly yielded to its influence was that occurring some days after delivery, unaccompanied by plethora. The author has observed it employed most beneficially by M. Teissier, of Lyons, and it is upon his cases the present memoir is based.

Metrorrhagia is very rarely primary, being most commonly connected with a general affection of which it is merely an epiphenomenon, or dependent upon a local affection of the uterus and its appendages; and it is only in certain cases that the cinnamon can be usefully given:-1. Metrorrhagia due to the chlorotic condition. This, both in its manifestation and recurrence, seems closely connected with the regular return of the menses, whence, indeed, its name "menorrhagia." Iron, properly administered in the intervals, will often rapidly modify the chlorotic condition; but, even when well supported, it often proves powerless against menorrhagia, and when we resort to the hæmostatic power of alum, tannin, or ergotine, gastralgia or other disorders of the stomach often oblige us to renounce their employment. It is in such cases M. Teissier has found cinnamon, given a few days prior to the period, so useful. It is only palliative and fugacious in its effects; and, in order to operate upon the chlorosis itself, M. Teissier combines iron filings with it. 2. Metrorrhagia symptomatic of cancer. According to M. Teissier's observations, ergotine and tincture of cinnamon are the best means for treating the hæmorrhage of the advanced period of cancer; but the former, while possessing a remarkable power over the hæmorrhage, produces such an aggravation of pain, as to compel its rejection. The tincture of cinnamon exerts a similar power over the discharge, without this inconvenience.

Given in doses of from two to four grammes, it suppresses the metrorrhagia, often in a very short time. In all cases, by its prolonged employment, we are able very sensibly to diminish those daily losses of blood which take place in almost all women in the second stage of cancer of the cervix, and we often succeed in suspending all discharge for more or less time. The cinnamon also exerts a beneficial effect on the economy. The strength and digestion are improved; and when we allay the pain also by anodynes, so great an improvement occurs in some cases as to lead the patient to hope for a speedy cure. 3. Puerperal metrorrhagia. Lymphatic,

feeble, cachectic women, with lax tissues and languid circulation, and liable to irregular menstruation or chronic leucorrhoea, are often seized with hemorrhage during pregnancy, which in the end may lead to abortion. Here a tonic treatment, as by iron and bitters, is clearly indicated, and cinnamon exerts the same useful effect as in chlorotic patients with too abundant menstruation. Such women are also very liable to hæmorrhage from inertia of the uterus after delivery, and constitute the cases in which ergot is so beneficially given just prior to the expulsion of the child. From facts he has observed, however, M. Teissier is convinced that the ergot is mischievous to the child; and for such women he prescribes, hour by hour from the commencement of labour, a draught containing four grammes (31.) of the tincture of cinnamon; and in the limited number of such cases that have occurred to him, with the best effect. Such women are liable to repeated hemorrhage during the puerperal state, and although the discharge may not be abundant, it becomes important by its persistence, and the alarming degree of chloro-anæmia it may rapidly induce. The cinnamon is here of surprising efficacy. Six of the cases observed in M. Teissier's wards are given.-Rev. Med. Chir., tom. xviii, p. 10.

Death of Dr. Samuel Brown.

"Died this morning, at Church Lane, Morningside, Dr. Samuel Brown. Saturday, 20th September, 1856."

This announcement cannot fail to excite deep emotion in very many of the readers of this Journal. The event is too recent, and the loss has too much the character of a personal bereavement to permit us to do more than record it at present, and to express our keen participation in the grief and disappointment it will cause to his numerous and widely scattered friends, who never would believe that his long seclusion was to be but the prelude of his being withdrawn for ever from their eyes.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

Wahre Wirkungen der Thermen zu Lippspringe und Paderborn, von Dr. BOLLE. Paderborn, 1856.

Nachrichten über Lippspringe, von Dr. BOLLE. Paderborn, 1855. Populäre Homöopathische Zeitung, von Dr. BoLle.

F. Schöningh. Nos. 1 to 13.

Journal de la Société Gallicane.

The Canadian Journal of Homœopathy, No. 7.

Paderborn,

Homeopathic and Allopathic Medical Institutions, by CHARLES T. PEARCE, M.D. Northampton, Taylor, 1856.

Report of the Hull Homœopathic Dispensary.

Report of the Northampton Homœopathic Dispensary.

Die Therapie unserer Zeit, von Dr. STENS. Bonn, 1856.

W. DAVY & SON, Printers, 8, Gilbert Street, Oxford Street.