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Switzerland.
The Administrative Council of tbe Alpina G . L ., availing itself of all the poiver at its disposal , will forthwith direct its labours to concentrate in the circle of the union of Swiss Lodges every Masonic element and every partial or scattered energy . No possible means shall be neglected , and no difficulties shall discourage them in their endeavours to acquire , stone after stone , all the materials requisite for our Masonic edifice . It will endeavour by words , by writings , as well as by communicationsand missionsif necessaryto maintain and
, , , uphold , more and more , an active and energetic interchange of the vital forces of our Masonic organization . It will receive joyfully every opinion , every developement of views , every individual suggestion bearing the impression of Brotherly love and dispassionate truth . Over us all is the law . The indissoluble tie which unites us is " Brotherly love towards our neighbours . " To those who would resolve the problem of their love , we say : — " AVatch closely over yourself , that you may become a perfect corner-stone . "
AVe recommend ourselves to the continuation of your fraternal good-will , and your beloved Brethren , as well as ourselves , to the high protection of the G . A . O . T . U . In the name of the Administrative Council of the " Alpina , " Grand Lodge , ( signed ) The Grand Master , C . G . JUNG . The Grand Secretary , EM . SCHNEIDER , The Deputy Grand Master , EMANUEL HOFFMAN .
Literary Notice.
LITERARY NOTICE .
The Report of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear for 1850 . By "William Harvey , Esq ., Surgeon to the Institution , and to the Royal Freemasons' Girls' School . Pamphlet , pp . 20 . Renshaw . This Dispensary , as the Report states , was established in 1816 , for the treatment of Diseases of the Ear , Noises in the Head , and other diseases of a kindred nature . Mr . Harvey has placed in review in this pamphlet , the various causes of deafness , and alludes also to the most efficient plans of treatment . He saysit is frequentla source of great difficulty to
, y determine , in some eases , their cause ; inasmuch , as in tbe incipient stage of the disease , it often passes unobserved , because pain is seldom felt . On the other hand , deafness , or a discharge from the external ear , and noises in the head , often alone engross all the attention of patients , although the disorder may have existed along time previously : this truth leads to the point ; namely , that all remedies in relation to partial deafness must be grounded on the inductfve process ; that is , that all the varying causes of the disease be as nearly as possible consideredand the remedy adjusted to tbe result of this
, consideration . They impress a necessity upon the minds of such of the readers as are interested in this topic ; for quackery has beset this class of diseases and their cure to an extent almost without parallel in the history of surgery . At one time every possible disease of the ear was to be cured by a newly invented pair of forceps ; at another , by an instrument for passing up tbe nose ; at a third , by cutting away certain glands ofthe throat ; but people might as well attempt to find one exclusive remedy for the evils of governmentone golden panacea for povertyor one wholesale method for
, , making mankind virtuous and happy . Dean Swift , when in his heartiest satiric vein , never imagined anything finer than some of the curatives for deafness which quacks have propounded . This report of Mr . Harvey ' s is interesting , and furnishes much room for reflection on this important subject .
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Switzerland.
The Administrative Council of tbe Alpina G . L ., availing itself of all the poiver at its disposal , will forthwith direct its labours to concentrate in the circle of the union of Swiss Lodges every Masonic element and every partial or scattered energy . No possible means shall be neglected , and no difficulties shall discourage them in their endeavours to acquire , stone after stone , all the materials requisite for our Masonic edifice . It will endeavour by words , by writings , as well as by communicationsand missionsif necessaryto maintain and
, , , uphold , more and more , an active and energetic interchange of the vital forces of our Masonic organization . It will receive joyfully every opinion , every developement of views , every individual suggestion bearing the impression of Brotherly love and dispassionate truth . Over us all is the law . The indissoluble tie which unites us is " Brotherly love towards our neighbours . " To those who would resolve the problem of their love , we say : — " AVatch closely over yourself , that you may become a perfect corner-stone . "
AVe recommend ourselves to the continuation of your fraternal good-will , and your beloved Brethren , as well as ourselves , to the high protection of the G . A . O . T . U . In the name of the Administrative Council of the " Alpina , " Grand Lodge , ( signed ) The Grand Master , C . G . JUNG . The Grand Secretary , EM . SCHNEIDER , The Deputy Grand Master , EMANUEL HOFFMAN .
Literary Notice.
LITERARY NOTICE .
The Report of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear for 1850 . By "William Harvey , Esq ., Surgeon to the Institution , and to the Royal Freemasons' Girls' School . Pamphlet , pp . 20 . Renshaw . This Dispensary , as the Report states , was established in 1816 , for the treatment of Diseases of the Ear , Noises in the Head , and other diseases of a kindred nature . Mr . Harvey has placed in review in this pamphlet , the various causes of deafness , and alludes also to the most efficient plans of treatment . He saysit is frequentla source of great difficulty to
, y determine , in some eases , their cause ; inasmuch , as in tbe incipient stage of the disease , it often passes unobserved , because pain is seldom felt . On the other hand , deafness , or a discharge from the external ear , and noises in the head , often alone engross all the attention of patients , although the disorder may have existed along time previously : this truth leads to the point ; namely , that all remedies in relation to partial deafness must be grounded on the inductfve process ; that is , that all the varying causes of the disease be as nearly as possible consideredand the remedy adjusted to tbe result of this
, consideration . They impress a necessity upon the minds of such of the readers as are interested in this topic ; for quackery has beset this class of diseases and their cure to an extent almost without parallel in the history of surgery . At one time every possible disease of the ear was to be cured by a newly invented pair of forceps ; at another , by an instrument for passing up tbe nose ; at a third , by cutting away certain glands ofthe throat ; but people might as well attempt to find one exclusive remedy for the evils of governmentone golden panacea for povertyor one wholesale method for
, , making mankind virtuous and happy . Dean Swift , when in his heartiest satiric vein , never imagined anything finer than some of the curatives for deafness which quacks have propounded . This report of Mr . Harvey ' s is interesting , and furnishes much room for reflection on this important subject .