We understand a case of the successful treatment of trismus, has lately occured at the Westminster Hospital. A robust young man was brought in with his jaw firmly locked, in consequence, as was supposed, of the bite of a dog, between the finger and thumb. It was resolved to try the effect of copious bloodletting. He was bled from the arm till he fainted, which was evidently followed by a relaxation of the jaw. Next day he was cupped behind the ears, and upon the back, till the same effect took place. The jaw now opened almost half an inch, and he was enabled to take some nourishment, but the contraction returned towards evening. The third day he was again bled from the arm ad deliquium. The disease was now so far removed, that he was able to make a hearty dinner of boiled salmon, and drink some porter. Hearing some conversation about bleeding him the next day, to which he was always very averse, having no sense of his danger, he left the hospital without leave. It is known, however, that he perfectly recovered, and is now quite well. He lost in all about sixty ounces of blood. The only medicine he took was a grain of tartarized antimony with two grains of opium each night at bed-time. Though this may not be considered as a very decided case of that species of trismus which has almost invariably proved fatal, it at least affords encouragement to give the same remedy a more full trial than it has hitherto experienced.

Dr. Whitredge informs one of the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, that he performed the operation of tying up the external iliac artery for an aneurism in the groin, at Sacket's Harbour, on the 8th of January, and that the appearances of the patient promised a successful

'event.

We trust Dr. Whitredge, will favour the public with a minute account of this very interesting case.

PHILADELPHIA DISPENSARY.

Managers Elected, January 1815.
William White, President,
Lawrence Seckel,

Robert Blackwell,

Henry Helmuth,

Robert Smith,

Robert Ralston,

Godfrey Haga,

Ebenezer Hazard,
Isaac Snowden,

Joseph Crukshank,

Elliston Perot,

Samuel P. Griffitts, Secretary.

Officers Elected, January 1815.

Attending Physicians and Surgeons.

Doctor Joseph G. Shippen,

Joseph Woollens,

Aaron B. Tucker,

David Jones Davis,

Samuel Emlen, Jun.

Thomas Chandler.

Consulting Physicians and Surgeons.

Doctor Thomas Parke,

Caspar Wistar,

Philip S. Physick,
Thomas C. James.

Treasurer.

John Clifford.

Apothecary.

George G. Tresse.