Upward of 20 prisoners at Calcutta were found to be provided with this pouch-formation.

The resources of the professional malingerer are exceedingly varied, and testify to no small amount of cunning.

The taking of internal irritants is very common, but would-be in-patients very frequently overshoot the mark and render recovery impossible.

Castor-oil seeds, croton beans, and sundry other agents are employed with this object in view, and the medical officers of Indian prisons have to be continually on the lookout for artificially induced diseases that baffle diagnosis and resist treatment.

Army surgeons are not altogether unfamiliar with these tricks, but compared with the artful Hindoos the British soldier is a mere child in such matters.
Excision of the larynx has found its chief indication in carcinoma, but has been employed in sarcoma, polyps, tuberculosis, enchondroma, stenosis, and necrosis.