Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London. Vol. V

f)oor bird doomed to expiate a fit of presumption by the oss of its plumes. Thus might he have been spared the torture of a feathering; and ourselves the pain, little less severe, of inflicting it. But to speak seriously, we think the honour and dignity of the College of Physicians compromised by the admission of a paper which the Editors of at least two of the three Medical Journals published in London, would, we are convinced, certainly have rejected.