The _treatment_ of this misfortune is very simple and most satisfactory, and no mother out of apprehension of her child’s suffering should neglect to have the deformity cured; which, when in the simple form of the cleft lip, can be effectually done. The operation consists in making the two edges of the fissure even, bringing them together by means of two short silver needles, and keeping them in that position by silk thread passed over their ends like the figure 8, till the process of union has taken place, requiring about eight or ten days, when the needles are withdrawn, and in a week longer the permanent cure will be effected. The best period for performing the operation is between the age of six and twelve months, before the child can entertain any alarm at what is to be done, or by cries and restlessness materially interfere with the success of the operation. INFLAMMATION. By this term is generally understood that condition of a part in which it becomes painful, hotter, redder, and more turgid than in a state of health. The more considerable these symptoms become; or when they take place in very sensitive parts, they induce that condition of the system known as fever, and which, when the primary symptoms occur in certain tissues, becomes inflammatory fever. The seat of inflammation lies in the capillaries, those minute vessels or tubes that in health perform the office of secretion and nutrition, but diseased, become distended with red blood, consequently swell and cause the enlargement, the first symptom of inflammation; at the same time the increasing quantity of blood accumulating in the part, causes the redness and accession of heat; while the rigidity, tightness, and weight induced by the collected blood pressing on the sentient nervous filaments below, produce the dull, the sharp, or hot throbbing pain experienced according to the situation of the swelling, and constitute the last and most distressing symptom of local inflammation. All inflammations are either local or general; when local, and attacking an organ, the disease is named after the part affected, as hepatitis—inflammation of the liver; phrenitis, of the brain; gastritis, of the stomach, and so with respect to other organs; but when it is general, as already said, it is called inflammatory fever. As there are degrees in the rapidity or slowness with which inflammation takes place, and also in the time the disease continues, inflammation has been divided into the _acute_, the _sub-acute_, and the _chronic_, each form demanding a separate and peculiar practice. Nature, that in all forms of disease attempts to effect a cure, has in the case of local inflammation provided several means, the chief of which are— 1st. Resolution, which is a gradual absorption of the accumulated blood. 2d. By hæmorrhage, or the bursting of the distended part, and the escape of the blood.