termination to do all in their power to promote the true and permanent interests of their state, and fellow-citizens at large, have induced the expenditure of millions in rail roads, canals, and various other internal improvements, will promptly respond to the cry for relief, and advocate the desired provision for their destitute insane, if made to comprehend its necessity. Such an institution, assuming a high rank among our state enterprizes, would prove a blessing to a helpless, and heretofore neglected class of our people, and continue an admired monument of her benevolence. HOSPITAL REPORTS. INFIRMARY. REPORT OF THE HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT OF THE ABSTRACT from the books of BALTIMORE INFIRMARY, showing the number of cases treated, and the results of the treatment in the Institution, for the twelve months ending December 1, 1840, with the Surgical operations for the same period. E. M. HALL, Senior Student. BALTIMORE ARMY REPORTS. Gentlemen: SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE. The enclosed special report of a case of axillary aneurism, and the operation of tying the subclavian artery, has recently been received at this office. If you think proper to give it a place in the "Maryland Medical and Surgical Journal," it is at your service. I have the honor to be, gentlemen, Your obedient servant, G. C. M. ROBERTS, M.D., H. L. HEISKELL, Acting Surgeon General. NATHANIEL POTTER, M.D., and others, Editorial Committee Medical and Surgical Journal, REPORT OF A CASE OF AXILLARY ANEURISM, IN THE GENERAL HOSPITAL, U. S. A., AT PICOLATA, E. F. BY SURGEON CHARLES M'DOUGALL, U. S. ARMY. JOHN KANE, ætat. 24, a private of company K., third artillery, while escorting an officer some weeks since, to St. Augustine, was shot by the Indians, and wounded in two places; one ball striking midway between the eighth dorsal vertebra and the angle of its rib, appeared in front, under the integuments, without having penetrated the abdominal cavity; the other, entering about two inches above the lower angle of the scapula, came out anteriorly in a line with, and severing the axillary artery, equidistant from the middle of the clavicle and the axilla. He ran his horse for a half mile, after being shot, when he fell, exhausted |