A correspondent of the Times says, that the authorities of
the Lon- don University College having intimated that they will no longer tole- rate the absurd and indecent mummeries of " animal magnetism," Dr. Elliotson has tendered his resignation.
At the last meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Dr. Gregory, the Physician to the Smallpox Hospital, stated, that in the middle of November 1837, there had been a sudden and marked in- crease in the number of patients admitted into the Hospital, and which had continued up to the present time ; so that from the 1st of January 1838, 681 cases have been admitted, and of these 281 had previously been vaccinated. Startled at this increase, he had made inquiries from various sources, and found that the disease was spreading in the same fearful manner throughout England; scarcely a. town or village having been free from it since last November. The increase throughout Europe had also been great ; but on the Continent the alarm had been taken, and revaccination practised to a great extent. In 1833-1, smallpox was very prevalent at Copenhagen ; and in twenty-one months 1,000 patients were admitted into the hospitals, of which 900 had been vaccinated. These are important facts, bearing on the pre- valence of smallpox, and the present failure of the vaccine lymph as a prophylactic measure; and should these statements be borne out, will show the necessity for the immediate adoption of sanatory measures to prevent the spread of so dreadful a disease.—Morning Chronicle.
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