It is a little strange, that the surprising efficacy, of which so much has been boasted by its eastern professors, and the safety, at least, with which acupuncturation may be performed, having been so fully demonstrated; it is strange I repeat, that it has not met with an earlier encouragement amongst us. It is probable, that the hyperbole in which it has been related, has induced the sober minds of our Northern soil, to treat these relations as the fictions of Eastern imagination, and to reject them without examination, as fables calculated only for amusement. There have not, however, been wanting sensible minds, and men of talent and reputation, to recommend this operation; and the names of Ten-Rhyne, Bidloo, Kœmpfer, and Vicq-d’Azyr, stand conspicuous on the list of those who speak in its favour; but still, neither of them had undertaken to put its merits to the test, by actual experiment. Several practitioners in France, however, have now taken up this neglected operation, and their report verifies the praises which have been bestowed by others upon it. My attention was lately directed to it by my friend Mr. Scott, of Westminster, who, as far as my knowledge goes, was the first who performed it in England, and some successful cases which I witnessed in his practice, assured me of its efficacy, and led me to its adoption. The success of my own subsequent practice, warrants a recommendation of it, in almost any terms I could give it; but I shall content myself in laying before my readers, the opinion and experience of some physicians of eminence, accompanied by a relation of some cases of my own, where the benefit of the operation has been decidedly successful; upon a better foundation than which it cannot at present rest for public examination; it remains for the medical profession to ascertain its claims to attention by the test of experience, and having undergone the ordeal of experimental enquiry, it will, I have no doubt, so fully develope its merit, as to obtain a conspicuous rank in medical estimation, as a valuable curative measure. ACUPUNCTURATION.