The reports of the committee appointed to consider the claims made for collargol by its American agents, which appear elsewhere in this issue,1 form, we believe, one of the most remarkable contributions ever made to medical literature.
Never before, probably, in the history of medicine has a body of scientific medical men acted in a judicial capacity in a matter of this kind — a matter that would, at first view, seem to be one of apparent insignificance, but which is found on examination to have a most profound significance for the progress of medicine. The amount of labor involved in the investigation, while enormous, has been in the highest degree altruistic, for let the results be what they might, the task was not only a thankless one, but one liable to call forth abuse on those completing it. The fact that men of such standing as those who composed