_Treatment._—Of all the remedies that have at various times been employed with the hope of curing this unsightly deformity, one only has ever produced any permanent benefit, namely, _Iodine_, in one or other of its forms. All operations are inadmissible and dangerous; and the cure is to be effected solely by a combination of external and internal remedies. In the first place, where possible, the patient should be removed from the neighbourhood where the disease was produced, the tumour is then to be gently excited by the application of three or four leeches, and the following ointment rubbed well into all parts of the swelling every night, intermitting for a day or two, whenever the skin becomes tender from the rubbing. Take of Powdered Camphor 15 grains. Calomel 1 scruple. Iodine 30 grains. Spermaceti Ointment 1 ounce. Mix thoroughly, and make an ointment. At the same time a table-spoonful of the following mixture is to be taken three times every day. Take of the hydriodate of potassa one drachm, mint water, six ounces, mix. This system should be persevered in for several weeks, the patient, however, carefully taking the measurement of the throat and tumour before commencing either course of treatment; and having accurately recorded the number of inches in circumference, test the diminution every week, by re-measuring the tumour till its absorption and the restoration of the throat to its natural figure. HARE-LIP. This disease, so called from a fancied resemblance to the appearance of that animal, is one of those distressing malformations that are born with a child. Hare-lip is more frequently found in the upper than in the under lip, and fortunately it is so, for, in the latter case, the child is unable to articulate or retain the saliva in the mouth, creating a source of ceaseless discomfort and pain. The disease consists of a fissure or longitudinal division of one or both lips, having a space between, wider at the bottom and narrowing to an apex at the gum, resembling the outline of the letter V reversed, Ʌ. This condition is called the simple hare-lip, but sometimes the fissure is double, having a pendant piece of the lip in the centre of both fissures. The compound hare-lip is that condition of deformity where the cleft extends along the bones of the palate, over the whole arch of the mouth, while in some cases the bones of the palate are entirely wanting—a most distressing malady, as the child can never articulate, and only with great difficulty eat or drink, as all sustenance passes into the nostrils. Independent of the deformity attending this malformation, the infant so afflicted is prevented from sucking, and must be reared by hand.