Charles Cowan

Observations on Cholera

parts to the extent of a quarter of -an inch, and like fibro.cartilage. Dislocation of the Spane.-On the 16th February, 1848, Mr. Dunn presented, what he considered to be, a dislocation of the spine, between the last cervical and first dorsal vertebrw, in a young man aged 22, who was caught by the smock-frock, and dragged into a thrashing mill. It seemed to be a laceration of the intervertebral substance, but there did not appear to be any fracture of the articulatory surfaces. Mr. Dunn considered this to be a case of pure dislocation of the spine, though this is denied by most writers.

Retrospective Address of the Reading Pathological Society

MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN,-If there be one feature more characteristic than another of the present aspect of the medical professioni, it is that of combination. Societies and associations have multiplied and extended beyond all former precedent, the principle and advantages of union being more generally and simultaneously acknowledged, while the effect has evidently been to inierease our power and our usefulness, to elicit our kindlier and better feelings, to cultivate and