The qualified surgeon who has devoted himself to the practice of dentistry, may be legally qualified to treat any and every kind of case, but would he be morally right in undertaking the treatment of a case, say of fever or of stone? all his knowledge of which diseases lies in a misty memory of facts brought before his notice, and studied for a pass examination in long past student days. As a matter of fact, the dental surgeon of necessity limits his practice to his speciality, and the general surgeon as a further fact, where selection is possible, declines to take Dental cases, though legally entitled so to do. In the absence of special training, he cannot be expected to possess the special knowledge requisite to successful treatment, and to add the Dental to the over loaded Medical curriculum, would be to greatly increase the rejections which, in the case of the College of Surgeons, have already risen to the formidable amount of upwards of thirty per cent. of the candidates for diplomas. Hence it is that Dr. Michael Foster, in asking for more physiology, asks for less topographical anatomy. The Dental curriculum requires for its honest fulfilment, the whole of the assigned four years, and more must not be attempted in the same four years, for to repeat the words of Professor Burdon-Sanderson,—“The precious years which immediately precede a man’s entry on professional duty, are far too valuable to be wasted in learning anything he does not intend to retain,” to which may be added, or which his subsequent occupation will not allow him to retain. If then more medical knowledge is required of the student than is embraced in the dental curriculum, more time must be given for its acquisition. Transplantation and Replantation. (_Continued from page 425._)