ture to be tightened every day till inflammation, suppuration and a detachment of the tumor should take place.

He passed the first forty-eight hours with but little alteration in symptoms or situation. On the morning of the third day, the tied portion of the tumor began to enlarge, and all the complaints it previously caused were much exasperated. Deglutition and respiration were so much impeded that prompt relief became necessary.

With a scalpel, I incised the portion of tumor which lay in the mouth; it discharged a quantity of grumous blood, which lessened its circumference, and caused the depending part in the throat to stop respiration entirely. I immediately passed a long dissecting hook, and fastened it as low upon the tumor as possible; and pressed it up and back, which gave the patient an opportunity to breathe. Extraction became immediately necessary. My assistant, Dr. Davis, fastened another hook into the tumor; with the two, I with much exertion brought the bottom of the tumor up, and out of the mouth, seized it with a pair of forceps, and brought out a large portion. Dr. Davis, at the same time, made a division as high in the mouth as possible. My patient was now relieved by the removal of nine ounces of the tumor, and his throat cleared so that he took food of any kind, and respired with ease. portion yet remaining inclosed in the ligature, which remained firm, I directed my patient to take wine and nourishment, and wait the effects of the ligature; this came away on the third day after; and the remaining portion of tumor thrown out of the mouth. My attention was next turned to the tumor in the left side of the face. After convalescing one week, my patient was so much recovered from his feeble state that I ventured to remove this tumor.

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A portion of it had passed out of the antrum, and rested in the muscles and integuments over the alveolar circle.

I first made an attempt to extract it from the antrum and upper part of the face, by making an incision in the mouth, through these muscles, or to the projecting portion of the tumor. After exposing it, I placed a firm pair of forceps, and made strong exertions to no effect the pain produced was excessive. I abandoned this course, and commenced an incision externally over the tumor, near the temporal bone, carried it down over the os maxillare superior, till I came into the incision I had made in the mouth: this exposed to view the two projecting portions from the antrum. I now applied a trephine, and opened into the antrum and divided

the remaining portion of the os maxillare. After dividing some membranous adhesions, I drew out with the forceps the whole tumor, and exposed its base, which was near the termination of the antrum into the posterior nostril.

I now twisted the tumor till it separated from its strong hold. A large artery was divided near this point, and was secured with a ligature. The passage of the antrum into the nostril was sufficiently large to admit the little finger of my right hand, which was passed through into the throat. By this means I ascertained that the whole tumor in the nostril, throat and face was removed.

FOURTEENTH MEETING, ALBANY, FEBRUARY, 1820.

1. Officers, members and delegates present.-Drs. John Stearns, President, New York; Westel Willoughby, Vice-President, Herkimer; Charles D. Townsend, Secretary, Albany; John Downs, Treasurer, Rensselaer; Peter Wendell, Albany; William Bay, Albany; Samuel Voorhees, Montgomery; Abraham Allen, Washington; John C. Moeller, Schoharie; Henry Mitchell, Chenango; Laurens Hull, Oneida; Thomas Broadhead, Columbia: Henry Van Hovenburgh, Ulster; John Miller, Cortland; Gamaliel H. Barstow, Tioga; Amasa Trowbridge, Jefferson; T. Romeyn Beck, Albany; Thomas Fuller, Otsego; Thomas Greenly, Madison.

The following gentlemen produced their certificates as delegates from their respective county societies and corporate bodies, and took their seats accordingly, viz:-Charles H. Havens, Suffolk county; Erastus D. Tuttle, Cayuga; Benjamin. J. Mooers, Clinton; Hezekiah L. Granger, Onondaga; Peter C. Adams, Greene; James R. Manley, New York; John D. Jaques, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; James Downs, Dutchess; Robert C. Hunter, Orange.

2. Admitted to practice.-The Censors of the middle district report that the following candidates have been admitted by them to the practice of physic and surgery, during the preceding year: Ezekial Allen, of Shelburn, Massachusetts; Adam Clark, Rensselaerville; Cornelius Williams, Claverack; Stephen Schuyler, Albany; John W. Poinier, Albany; Asa Spalding, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Charles H. Scheffelin was admitted by the Censors of the southern district.

3. Permanent and Honorary Members.-Drs. Felix Pascalis, of New York, and Amos G. Hull, of Oneida, were elected Permanent members. Benjamin Waterhouse, M. D., of Cambridge, Mas

sachusetts, and Valentine Mott, M. D., of New York, were duly elected Honorary members of this Society.

5. Degrecs.-Resolved, That in the opinion of this Society, the recommending of individuals to degrees of Doctors of Medicine, who have not attended at least one course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, or some other medical institution, and also studied three years with some respectable physician or surgeon, is highly improper, and derogatory to the character of said College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Resolved unanimously, That the above resolutions be adopted, and that a copy be transmitted to the honorable the Regents, by the Secretary.

6. Election of Officers for 1821.-Drs. John Stearns, of New York, President; Westel Willoughby, of Herkimer, Vice-President; Charles D. Townsend, of Albany, Secretary; John Downs, of Rensselaer, Treasurer; Samuel L. Mitchill, Felix Pascalis, James R. Manley, William Bay, T. Romeyn Beck, Peter Wendell, Westel Willoughby, Amasa Trowbridge, Samuel Voorhees, Amos G. Hull, Hezekiah L. Granger, Laurens Hull, Censors; Henry Mitchill, Abraham Allen, Felix Pascalis, Westel Willoughby, T. Romeyn Beck, Erastus D. Tuttle, James Downs, Committee of Correspon dence.

7. Anniversary Address by the President, Dr. Stearns. Extracts from." A physician, destitute of a perfect knowledge of the mind, is a very incompetent judge of the influence which it exerts upon the body, in the production and cure of diseases. He cannot avail himself of the use of a remedy more efficacious than the most potent articles of the materia medica. Dr. Reid justly observes that all such practitioners are like a surgeon, who, while he secures one artery, suffers his patient to bleed to death by another."

"To obviate the difficulty of explaining the operation of spirit upon matter, some have assumed the materiality of the mind; others have ascribed all its operations to a certain organization of the body; while neither could advance one step farther in a process, which infinitely exceeds the comprehensive powers of feeble, presumptuous man. Who can ascend to heaven, and unfold the laws of the universe, or explain their operation upon earth in the creation or reproduction of a single particle of matter? In the original creation of man, his body was distinguished for strength and beauty, and animated by a soul which sustained the image of its Creator. Such perfection of mind and body, justly balanced

in all their operations, was destined to endure forever, and to enjoy that supreme felicity which is known only to the inhabitants of Paradise. Exempt from disease and undisturbed by any inordinate passion, this harmonious compound flourished in the health and vigor of youth, till a poison, artfully infused into the mind, contaminated the body with pain, disease and death. The effects of this infection were instantly evinced in the conviction of shame and guilt, which therefore may be deemed the real source of all the diseases which frequently afflicted mankind. Although the seeds of dissolution, thus planted by the act of disobedience, proved the literal execution of the threat, ' in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die,' they did not produce their mature and ultimate effects in depraving the mind and deteriorating the body, till after that most corrupt period of the world, the gene'ral deluge, when the duration of life was thereby reduced to the stationary limits of seventy years."

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Experience and revelation afford ample evidence that a life of virtue is necessarily connected with moral happiness, and if perpetuated through a lineal succession of generations, would probably restore that beauty, health and felicity which man lost in Paradise. That mental depravity produces not only disease, . but also corporeal deformity, may be inferred from that Jewish law which precluded deformed persons from performing, and consequently profaning,' the holy rites of the priesthood, and also prohibited the oblation of all animals with similar defects. This inference is fortified by tracing a similar connection between virtue and beauty, even to its figurative perfection in the Deity, and to its visible exemplification in the body which Christ animated on earth. It is for this reason that beautiful objects naturally excite the most ardent affections of the heart, which always increase as those objects approach the perfection of beauty, till they are consummated in the rapturous enjoyment of God himself. The propriety of this love and its necessary connection with our happiness, are susceptible of mathematical demonstration. The soul, which exerts such mighty powers upon this mass of inert matter, must, by its continued operation, produce an impress strong and durable as existence; and thence may be deduced important illustrations of the science of physiognomy. The time may yet arrive when a due culture of this science, founded upon correct principles, may disclose to the physiognomist the secret thoughts of the heart, and thus introduce the unerring language [Assembly, No. 170.]

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of truth preparatory to its universal reign on earth. Much of this may be accomplished through the organs of the eyes, which are emphatically denominated the windows of the soul. The irresistible lustre and energy which they sometimes impart, can only, be explained by the peculiar concentration of the soul in this organ. Suetonius says, 'Augustus had such piercing eyes that spectators could no more endure their brightness than the rays of the sun.' Barnardius says the same of Christ, and Peter Morales of the Virgin Mary; and all agree, that the eyes of the two latter were so peculiarly expressive of holy affection, that they excited a similar emotion in all beholders. But none could withstand that torrent of fire and indignation which flowed from the eyes of Christ, in the frequent reproofs which he administered to the hypocritical Pharisees. What else could have clothed with terrific power a single individual, armed only with a scourge of small cords, who so percipitately expelled from their favorite resort the hosts of merchants that thronged the temple; and which, on the night of his final apprehension, inspired such terror as to prostrate the hostile multitude at his feet? The near approach of Moses to the Deity, in Mount Sinai, so animated his soul, that his countenance was illumined by a lustre equally terrific to the Jews. Dr. Rush, who has devoted much practical attention to this subject, says the ferocity of the bull and the maniac may be perfectly subdued by an eye properly graduated.

"Drs. Alderson and Ferriar cured several patients, who were repeatedly afflicted with the apparitions of their deceased friends, and other terrific spectres, by depletion, purgatives and sudorifics. They consequently imputed all such delusive appearances to a morbid state of the corporeal organs, or to some strong and durable impression upon the mind. That the fluids also have some agency in producing similar effects, may be inferred from the following fact:

"Dionis says, that 'all those in France who were the subjects of that fashionable, but erroneous practice, the transfusion of blood, died of mental derangement.

"Dr. Cheyne cites a case in which the pulse, respiration, and all the vital functions, were so entirely suspended, by a simple effort of the will, as to induce an apparent death, that eluded his most rigid detection; the powers of life, in a few hours, were again gradually evolved in his perfect resuscitation, which was instantly succeeded by a presentiment of immediate dissolution, and which on the same day actually closed the tragic scene.