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SECTION. Recent meetings of this Society have felt the Dr. Bramacliari, influence of the hot weather. of the Campbell Medical School, read a paper on a mosquito, which he claims to be a new species. This paper we have already published. The same writer read a long paper on the everinteresting subject of the nature of the great fever epidemic in Bengal in the seventies and arrives at the not improbable conclusion that there was a combined epidemic of malarial fever and of Kala-azar, two diseases which recent research has differentiated, but who knows if further and future research may not again join them and then explain many similarities in symptoms and in etiology. Assistant-Surgeon Sarasi Lai Sarkar, of Arambagli, Hughli, read a paper on a Particular form of Fracture of the Skull." The case is briefly as follows :?Hindu male, robust, aged GO, mixed was attacked and severely up in a land dispute, The beaten and left unconscious on the field. able to mention a few names, and man was just died on the fourth day. P.-M.?A skin cut half an inch long in middle line of to]) of head, and lacerated wound?hair of seal}) long and thick. The skin injury was found to be across the anterior end of the sagittal suture, more on the left than on the r'ght. Extravasation of blood. Two fragments were found broken off from the upper and inner end of both parietal bones ; forming triangular pieces, the left fragment was slightly depressed. Fissured fractures also found in parietal bones, but more marked on left side. It was proved in court that the injury was due The Sessions Judge to a blow of a Koclali. "

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the charge to one of grevious hurt and the assailer got 3 years' imprisonment. Assistant-Surgeon Sarkar claims that this fracture is a definite variety, having characteristic features of its own.

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