The _Lancet_, for many years, was hated by that part of the profession interested in vested rights, and eagerly patronised by general surgeons and students. The language of the _Lancet_ was as violent as the many abuses it attacked could justify; and Cobbett, who was a friend and adviser of Wakley’s, was adopted as a model, while a barrister, named Keen, used to join the party on printing nights to see that the free strictures were not legally liable as libels. An active, though unpaid, member of the staff, was Lawrence, who, however, forsook his reforming principles when once he became a placeman, and was succeeded by Wardrop, whose scurrility, wit, and venom did much in giving the _Lancet_ a lasting reputation for raciness of style and satirical power. They were shortly afterwards joined by Mr. J. F. Clarke, who edited the periodical for upwards of forty years, and to whose amusing and graphic autobiography we are indebted for much of the preceding details. The success of the _Lancet_ soon enabled Wakley to enter Parliament as a representative of Finsbury, and he actually combined together the work of the legislator, the coroner, and the editor, often toiling unremittingly for eighteen consecutive hours. By the time the _Lancet_ was thus firmly established, Churchill, long out of his apprenticeship, had commenced medical publishing on his own account; and from his famous shop, in New Burlington Street, issued most of the standard works upon the subject; and, encouraged by the success of the _Lancet_, he determined to make his establishment the centre of periodical, as well as more permanent, medical literature. In 1836, was started therefrom the _British and Foreign Medical Review_, conducted first by J. Forbes, and afterwards by J. C. Conolly. In 1848, it was merged into the _Medico-Chirurgical Review_, which, from 1824 to 1847, had been under the editorship of H. J. Johnson. These two were now amalgamated into the _British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review_, which, dating from Churchill’s establishment, has acquired a professional standing equal to that of the _Edinburgh_ and _Quarterly Reviews_ in more general criticism. In 1839, appeared the first number of the _Medical Times and Gazette_, which, under the editorial care of T. P. Healey, and subsequently of J. L. Bushman, has found a very large and influential _clientèle_.