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tumour was so large as to cause a visible swelling on the abdominal wall. The patient made an uninterrupted recovery.?Dr. Allan Jamieson showed a patient suffering from tylosis and nsevus neuroticus.?Dr. Aitchison Robertson showed a large tonsillar calculus.?Dr. James read a paper on tubercular neuritis, and included under this term inflammation of any part of the nervous system. The symptoms are very varied. Thus there may be sensory disturbances, muscular atrophy, herpes, etc., according to what portion of the nervous system is affected. The symptoms sIioav a tendency to disappear and to reappear elsewhere. In some cases there is quite a sudden commencement. The causeless hemiplegias of tubercular subjects may be due to a poisoning of the affected tract of nervous tissue by tubercular toxin. The convulsive attacks in tubercular meningitis are also possibly due to tubercle toxin. The mental stupor of dying phthisis cases is probably due to tubercular toxin poisoning. Patients suffering from phthisis are more susceptible to malaria and alcohol than they were when in health, and thus a neuritis may easily be brought on in them.?Dr. Kobertson Dobie read a paper on a case of acute yellow atrophy with recovery, which appears in this number of the Journal.