In 1821, 90,000 persons were vaccinated in Ceylon, 20,149 in the Presidency of Fort William, and 22,478 in that of Bombay.

Extracts from Dr. Kitchener's work on the "Economy of the Eyes."

"Spectacles are always preferable, because, both eyes, by being kept in action are kept in health-vision is brighter and easier; and the labour of each eye is considerably lessened.

When persons who have long patronised one eye and slighted the other, take to spectacles, they will (generally,) require glasses of a different focus for each eye.

Forcing the eyes to work at night, even for a few moments after they are tired, will often put them out of humour for the whole of the following day, and is, of all eye-spoiling acts, the most mischievous.-Want of mercy in this respect has prematurely ruined the eyes of thousands."

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Our next, or twenty-sixth number, will complete the Register for half a year.— A variety of circumstances lead us to bring it to a termination at this point. We find a weekly Register in this city, where three or four Quarterly Medical Journals are published, by no means encouraged, either by communications which may interest the Editors, or by punctuality in complying with the terms of subscription, in which the publisher alone is concerned.-Such being the case, we have considered it a justice due to the publisher, no longer to continue this paper. At a future day we may, perhaps, resume it under an enlarged form.

Our next number will contain a title page and index-which will, as usual be forwarded to those who have paid up their subscriptions. Those who have not, can receive it by calling at the publisher's, (Mr. Desilver, No. 110, Walnut street,) and liquidating his claim upon them.

Any gentleman who has paid his subscription for a whole year, will have the balance returned by applying as above. We have only to add, that as the work is complete in itself, so far as it goes, it will be kept half bound, or in numbers, at the same place, where it may be at all times procured.

PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY,

After going through the ordinary preparatory business, the Rev. Dr. Beasley, at the last meeting, read a paper on "the Science of Phrenology."

The members had been partially prepared to hear from this gentleman views of their science, not altogether the most favourable; but we are disposed to think he rather exceeded their expectations. Conceding the general and fundamental principles of the science, as regards the connection between the mind and brain, &c.-end heartily concurring in the importance and utility of the investigations to which the Sooiety directs its attention, he, nevertheless, professed himself a sceptic in regard to the faculties of the mind being located as phrenologists would have them, and requested satisfactory proofs of one single faculty developing itself externally. The fact is, that the reverend gentleman is so deeply imbued with metaphysics, that he discards and contemns facts, observations, and experience, and asks for reasoning upon the subject. He maintained that phrenologists have too much neglected metaphysics, condemned Gall as having erred from the commencement, and suggested the most proper way, in his opinion, of proceeding in phrenological inquiries. We are sorry to have to have to say, that the doctor showed himself little versed in the history and progress of phrenology, or very forgetful of what he had read npon the subject, as his proposed method is almost exactly what phrenologists have uniformly followed.

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and materialism; the few but cogent reasons for this conclusion, given by him, must have convinced all present, of its justice, and would, we think, readily cccur to any one attentively examining the subject. GAMBOGE.

This is no new article of the materia

medica, especially in the treatment of tached much importance to it; indeed worms-but we never, until lately, atwe were so well satisfied with our usual

mode of treatment, which did not include this article, that we thought not of it: we now, however, rank it high in the list of vermifuges, and cannot forbear recommending it to the particular notice of our readers. A case, not long ago, occurred to us, in which we had tried in vain to induce these visiters to leave their quarters: (if they were scavengers here, they exceeded their instructions, for a complete intermittent was caused, and the system otherwise deranged by their presence.) At length we had recourse to the gamboge, in a dose rather exceeding the usual quantity, and had the satisfaction the next day, of learning that several stools had been the consequence, each laden with several living worms; (which we found dead,) and in the course of three or four days, nearly twenty had been expelled, the effects of that single dose: they were of the lumbricoid species.

In this case, it was very severe in its operation, and would not do, we should think, to be often repeated.

We have subsequently seen the same good effects from it, though not in so remarkable a degree, and all the worms that have been expelled by this means,

have been alive.

Error loci.-It was reported at the Society of Medicine, at Bordeaux, that a boy, five years old, had complained of a constant pain at the root of his nose: he had a hectic on him, and at the end of three months, died in strong convulsions. When his head was opened, a worm like our earth worms, four inches long, was found in the longitudinal sinus. The worm lived from 6 in the morning till 3 in the afternoon.

MEDICAL STUDENTS.

If our country should not reap a rich and abundant harvest of improvements and discoveries in the field of medical science and its various branches, it will not certainly be from want of labourers in the vineyard: quantity, however, may not be, in this instance, as in some others, a full equivalent ior quality, and we fear that many are idle, many work without steadiness or system, and many, from their too great desire to excel and outstrip their fellow labourers, leave much undone or badly done.

In a former number of the Register, it was mentioned that there were in the United States, upwards of a dozen medical schools; most of them are now in operation, and it might be a fair statement to say, that perhaps there are between 1200 and 1500 students at these fountains, more or less anxiously imbibing that knowledge, which will hereafter prove of service to themselves, their

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country, and mankind. Between 300 and 400 annually receive diplomas, and are scattered over our immense continent. It may naturally be asked, what becomes of them all-can they possibly all be duly encouraged and supported? the negative may, we think, be fairly asserted, at least as regards those who commence their career in our large cities, and though many depart and seek their fortunes elsewhere, a large portion certainly remain, who live upon the expectations the future affords them. The enemy against whom they contend in the cause of suffering humanity, not unfrequently turns and spends his quiver upon them. A few, too, after a short trial, desert their standard, and enlist under other colours. Those who sacrifice their homes, their friends, their every comfort, in pursuit of an honourable independence, deserve to be rewarded, and we wish them success, and a happy return in happier times to the spot of their choice.