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Literary Notices.
The . Objects , Antiquity , and Universality of Musoyiry . An Address delivered in St . John's Lodge , No . 1 . New ' York . Feb . 28 , 1850 . By R . W . F . G . Tisdale . New York . J . Winchester . This address will fully repay for the perusal . It gives a most favourable idea of the progress of our Order on the other side of the Atlantic , and proves that wherever it exists it is fraught with the most considerable advantages to all its members . We would re-echo the sentiments it contains
, and especially that of the concluding paragraph . Nothing affords us greater satisfaction than to be made acquainted with the cheering fact that whereever Freemasonry prevails , there are sure evidences in glorious prominence of the universality of its charity , and of the soothing influences of its conciliatory spirit .
Memoir of James JBurnes , R . H ., F . R . S . Edinburgh . It is sufficient to mention the name of Bro . James Burnes to excite an interest in his behalf , and respect all things with which he was connected . This brief memoir will add materially to that interest , and tend to make his good qualities known as far and wide as they ought to be .
On Excision ofthe Enlarged Tonsil , and ils Consequences , in Cases of Deafness . With Remarhs on the Diseases ofthe Throat . By . W . Harvey , M . R . C . S ., F . R . M . C . S . Surgeon to the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear ; aud the Royal Freemasons' School for Female Children . Renshaw , London ; Hunton , York . 1850 , pp . 121 . When any peculiar surgical operation , or any especial mode of treating diseases becomes fashionable , as is occasionally the case , and is carried out
to a very great extent , afterwards sinking into oblivion , it becomes necessary and is certain to be serviceable to trace out and ascertain the final results of the said operation , or of the peculiar mode of medication , both as regards the disease itself on which the operation was performed , or the medicines exhibited , and also the state of the constitution , after it has been subjected to the operative proceedings , maguere so fashionable . This has been Mr . Harvey ' s object with regard to an operation which has been performed on several hundred persons , and we have in the book before us the results of
his investigations . Several years ago , we will not say " the isle was frighted from its propriety , " but the profession were gravely informed that stuttering was caused by enlarged tonsils , a reasoning of post hoc , ergo proptu hoc , led to this most illogical conclusion . A deaf patient , with tonsils enlarged so as to be an annoyance , stuttered , and the offending glands were cut away , and a powerful nervous impression was made in the system . The consequence was the patient no longer stutteredand then the conclusion was arrived atthat
, , enlarged tonsils were the cause of stammering . Hundreds of unoffending tonsils fellthe victims of this mistaken idea ; in some instances the stammer disappeared ; in a few , but very few , permanently ; in most of the cases it returned in a shorter or longer period ; in some it remained as bad after the operation as before it , while in other instances again , the stutter was aggravated , the impression on the nervous system being induced , but acting contrarywise to that which had occurred in the first instance , and increasing the disease on which the operation had been performed .
Years have elapsed since this operation was in full vogue . It may still , perchance , be occasionally , but rarely performed , the profession hear not of it . As a cure for deafness , of which the enlargement of the tonsil was asserted to be a principal cause , it was highly lauded . The same oblivion enshrouds it in the one case as in the other . We seldom hear even that a deaf person has had his tonsils excised in order to effect a cure of the loss of hearing . But , while acknowledging that this operation has been fruitless
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Literary Notices.
The . Objects , Antiquity , and Universality of Musoyiry . An Address delivered in St . John's Lodge , No . 1 . New ' York . Feb . 28 , 1850 . By R . W . F . G . Tisdale . New York . J . Winchester . This address will fully repay for the perusal . It gives a most favourable idea of the progress of our Order on the other side of the Atlantic , and proves that wherever it exists it is fraught with the most considerable advantages to all its members . We would re-echo the sentiments it contains
, and especially that of the concluding paragraph . Nothing affords us greater satisfaction than to be made acquainted with the cheering fact that whereever Freemasonry prevails , there are sure evidences in glorious prominence of the universality of its charity , and of the soothing influences of its conciliatory spirit .
Memoir of James JBurnes , R . H ., F . R . S . Edinburgh . It is sufficient to mention the name of Bro . James Burnes to excite an interest in his behalf , and respect all things with which he was connected . This brief memoir will add materially to that interest , and tend to make his good qualities known as far and wide as they ought to be .
On Excision ofthe Enlarged Tonsil , and ils Consequences , in Cases of Deafness . With Remarhs on the Diseases ofthe Throat . By . W . Harvey , M . R . C . S ., F . R . M . C . S . Surgeon to the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear ; aud the Royal Freemasons' School for Female Children . Renshaw , London ; Hunton , York . 1850 , pp . 121 . When any peculiar surgical operation , or any especial mode of treating diseases becomes fashionable , as is occasionally the case , and is carried out
to a very great extent , afterwards sinking into oblivion , it becomes necessary and is certain to be serviceable to trace out and ascertain the final results of the said operation , or of the peculiar mode of medication , both as regards the disease itself on which the operation was performed , or the medicines exhibited , and also the state of the constitution , after it has been subjected to the operative proceedings , maguere so fashionable . This has been Mr . Harvey ' s object with regard to an operation which has been performed on several hundred persons , and we have in the book before us the results of
his investigations . Several years ago , we will not say " the isle was frighted from its propriety , " but the profession were gravely informed that stuttering was caused by enlarged tonsils , a reasoning of post hoc , ergo proptu hoc , led to this most illogical conclusion . A deaf patient , with tonsils enlarged so as to be an annoyance , stuttered , and the offending glands were cut away , and a powerful nervous impression was made in the system . The consequence was the patient no longer stutteredand then the conclusion was arrived atthat
, , enlarged tonsils were the cause of stammering . Hundreds of unoffending tonsils fellthe victims of this mistaken idea ; in some instances the stammer disappeared ; in a few , but very few , permanently ; in most of the cases it returned in a shorter or longer period ; in some it remained as bad after the operation as before it , while in other instances again , the stutter was aggravated , the impression on the nervous system being induced , but acting contrarywise to that which had occurred in the first instance , and increasing the disease on which the operation had been performed .
Years have elapsed since this operation was in full vogue . It may still , perchance , be occasionally , but rarely performed , the profession hear not of it . As a cure for deafness , of which the enlargement of the tonsil was asserted to be a principal cause , it was highly lauded . The same oblivion enshrouds it in the one case as in the other . We seldom hear even that a deaf person has had his tonsils excised in order to effect a cure of the loss of hearing . But , while acknowledging that this operation has been fruitless