Medical Consultations

and kindred phenomena, he concluded that irritants applied to the skin might in like manner, through the sympathetic, act upon and control the vascular supplies of the visceral organs beneath. He thought that, with increased knowledge of the laws which regulate this action and the selective preferences which are at present so inexplicable, the application of heat and cold, of blisters and irritants generally, would become more scientific and more precise; and that the present plan of irritating the surface in nearest proximity to the seat of pain would in all probability give way before a system of counterritation founded on accurate experiment and invariable sequence of effects.-After Dr. Wilson's paper, an. other discussion followed. Dinner.-The members afterwards dined together at the Plough Hotel. The next Meetinzg of the Branch will be held about the middle of November.