There are gentlemen of the medical and surgical professions, whose high reputation, for science and skill, is perfectly established, and who have humanely associated their honorable names with certain benevolent societies. Such is the fact, in regard to Dr. John Collins Warren, who, by his adoption of the broad ground of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors, as a beverage, by men in health, and by his consistent practice and example, has become entitled to the grateful respect of every well-wisher of the temperance cause. To the best of my ability, I have long endeavored to do, for the sextons, the very thing, which that distinguished man would accomplish for the doctors, and other classes. Never did mortal more certainly oppose his own interest, than a physician, or a sexton, who advocates the temperance reform. There are, however, personages, in the medical profession, regulars, as well as volunteers, who cling to certain societies, with the paralyzing grasp of death--holding on to their very skirts, as boys cling behind our vehicles, _to get a cast_. The patronage and advocacy of some of these individuals are absolutely fatal. It may be surely affirmed of more than one of their number, _nihil tetigit quod non damnavit_. I have long been satisfied, that, without a great increase of societies, it will be utterly impossible to satisfy the innumerable aspirants, for the offices of President, Vice President, &c., in our ambitious community. A sagacious, medical friend of mine, whose whole heart is devoted to the public service, and I am sorry to say it, to the injury of his wife and children, has handed me a list of several societies, for the want of which, he assures me, the citizens of Boston are actually suffering, at the present moment. For myself, I cannot pretend to judge of such matters. A publication of the list may interest the benevolent, and, possibly, promote the cause of humanity. I give it entire:-- A society, for soothing the feelings and relieving the apprehensions of criminals, especially midnight assassins. A mutual relief society, in case of flatulent colic. A society, for the diffusion of buttermilk, with funds to enable the visiting committee to place a full jug, in the hands of every man, woman and child, in the United States, upon the first Monday of every month. A friendly cockroach-trap society. A society, composed exclusively of medical men, without practice, for the destruction of sowbugs and pismires, throughout the Commonwealth. A society, for the promotion of domestic happiness, with power to send for persons and papers. A society, for elevating the standard of education, by introducing trigonometry into infant schools. An association, for the gratuitous administration, to the poorer classes, by steam power, of anodyne clysters.