MRS. F. CARTER'S ABDOMINAL AND PERINEAL SUPPORTER, FOR THE RELIEF AND CURE OF PROLAPSUS UTERI, Is now offered to the public. It has been in use for the last five years, and has been tested by some of the most eminent physicians, and has proved to be one of the most valuable instruments of the kind now extant. REFERENCES.-Francis H. Stribling, M. D., Staunton, Va.; Professor Barbour, M. D., St. Louis, Mo.; Robt. H. Sears, M. D.; J. T. Foley, M. D.; T. H. Settle, W. A. Deatherage, Flint Hill, Rappahannock Co. Va;; J. J. Jackson, M. D., Woodstock, Va.; J. L. Hough, M. D., B. F. Kensey, M. D., Washington, Rappahannock Co., Va.; John H. Freeman, M. D., Col. Keyser, Luray, Page county; Wm. S. Alsop, M. D., Amisville, Va.; Dr. Sanders, Occoquan, Prince William county, Va.; Anderson Brown, M. D., Front Royal, Va.; Dr. John Dove, Richmond, Va. ADIE & GRAY, Agents, Richmond, Va. The subscriber (agent for the Patentee) will sell the right of any state, county or incorporated city or town that has not been sold. Address, postage paid, Slate Mills, Rappahannock county, Virginia. Aug. 1852-6t R. S. POWELL. PRINTING AND BOOK BINDING. WE take this occasion to inform our friends and the public that we have, at great expense and much labor, laid in the fullest supply of materials for executing all kinds of PRINTING AND BOOK BINDING promptly, and on reasonable and satisfactory terms. The new "Code of Virginia," "Stethoscope," and the "Mineral Springs of Virginia," by W. Burke, M. D., present a fair specimen of the typographical capacity of our office, and we are prepared to execute all kinds of work in the same style. JOB PRINTING Of every description neatly executed, in VARIOUS COLORS, (Gold, Bronze, &c.) BLANKS For Lawyers, Clerks of Courts, Sheriffs and Constables, printed to order. BLANK BOOKS For Merchants, Clerks of Courts, &c. made to order, and ruled to any pattern. Old Books re-bound. PRINTING INK. News, Book and Job Ink of different colors and the finest quality, always kept on hand. Address Two Charts, exhibiting in columns the Signs furnished by Auscultation and Percussion, and their application in the Diagnosis of the various diseases of the LUNGS AND HEART, By O'BRYAN BELLINGHAM, M. D. Translated from the French by Dr. P. C. GOOCH, and handsomely printed on fine parchment paper 25 by 22 inches in size. These charts are intended to hang in the office or studio, and exhibit, at a glance, the phenomena and physical signs existing in the various diseases (and in their different stages) of the lungs and heart. They are in general use at the French hospitals, and are valuable to practitioners and students in enabling them at once to make positive or differential diagnosis of chest diseases by the use of physical means of exploration. Price $1 per pair, or 50 cents each. For sale by the Booksellers in Richmond, and at the office of this journal. PRIVATE MEDICAL INSTRUCTION IN PETERSBURG. In accordance with a recommendation of the American Medical Association the undersigned have associated for the purpose of giving Private Instruction in Medicine. They are prepared, by an appropriate Library, by Models, Drawings, Preparations, Specimens, Dissections, &c. to teach and illustrate the elementary branches of Medicine and Surgery. They have at command resources sufficient to enable them to impart the necessary practical information as regards the observation of disease. Particular attention will be paid to Physical Diagnosis, as variously applied by modern Pathologists-auscultation and percussion illustrated on the healthy and diseased subjects. A city residence affords to the student of medicine facilities for the prosecu tion of his studies which cannot so well be obtained elsewhere. It presents a greater variety of disease, and concentrates matters of general medical interest. No student will be received who has not complied with the recommendation of the American Medical Association in reference to Preliminary Education. Students received after the 1st of February 1852. Terms for a course of twelve months, $100. J. F. PEEBLES, M. D. J. H. CLAIBORNE, M. D. Petersburg, Va., Jan. 1852. ly Address to the Medical Profession of Virginia. At the last annual meeting of the Medical Society of Virginia, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to address the medical men of the state, setting forth the nature of the measures of medical reform inculcated by this society, and to urge the importance of the efficient co-operation of all who feel an interest in the honor and prosperity of the profession." Having been appointed to carry out the objects of the above resolution, we desire to call your attention to the measures of medical reform which were acted upon by the society at its last meeting, and very briefly to urge upon your consideration the importance of your active and efficient co-operation in order to secure the success of these measures. There were but two measures definitely acted upon by the society during its last session, which we think should be embraced in this address: 1st. The recommendation to the legislature to enact a law requiring the registration of births, deaths and marriages; and 2d. The recommendation to the same body to establish a state board of medical examiners, whose approval should be necessary to entitle any one to practice medicine in the state. But there are two other measures, not specifically brought before the society, which we deem of great importance to the honor and prosperity of our profession, and absolutely necessary to the maintenance and successful prosecution of the other measures of reform already indi cated, and which, we have reason to believe, would have met with the entire approbation of the society had they been before it. We refer to the establishment and strict observance of a uniform code of medical ethics, and to the thorough and efficient organization of the profession. We would direct your attention to each one of these measures in succession. First-The necessity of the establishment and strict observance of a uniform code of medical ethics. The importance of this measure is so obvious that we need scarcely dwell upon it. There is no physician, more especially in the country, who does not often feel the want of it, and who, in consequence thereof, does not frequently find himself embarrassed in his conduct either towards his brother practitioner or towards his patient. So important did the National Medical Association consider this subject, that at its first meeting a committee was appointed to prepare a report upon it. This duty the committee performed by presenting, at the next meeting of the association in Philadelphia, an elaborate and most carefully prepared code of ethics, proposing to the profession the rules which should govern the conduct of its members in all their relations as medical men. This report was unanimously adopted by the association, and its adoption recommended to the State Medical Societies. This measure was also the subject of action by the Medical Society of Virginia some years since, when a most excellent code of ethics was prepared and adopted by that society. During the last few weeks, by order of the executive committee of the society, a number of copies of this code have been issued for the purpose of giving it a general circulation among the members of the profession throughout the state, and we would most respectfully, but earnestly, urge upon every medical man in the state to provide himself with a copy of it, with the full assurance that the justness of its recommendations and the evident propriety of its regulations will ensure its strict observance by every honest member of the profession. Second-A more thorough and efficient organization of the profession. This subject we regard as second in importance to none which has engaged the attention of the profession during the last few years. Indeed, we consider that unless some measures are adopted for the purpose of effecting this object, no permanent impression can ever be produced by the efforts which are now being made at medical reform. Individual action can accomplish but little. It is only by the concerted action of a united body that anght of magnitude and of importance can be effected. The more thorough organi zation of the medical profession was one of the grand objects had in view in the formation of the National Medical Association; and this body has repeatedly urged the necessity of a more thorough organization of the profession in the separate states. In our state it has been a subject which has commanded much of the attention of the profession for several years past. In the State Medical Convention which assembled in Richmond in December 1846, a committee was appointed to prepare a plan for the organization of the profession in the state. That committee, looking to the ample powers conferred by its charter upon the Medical Society of Virginia, thought that the proposed organization ought to take place under the auspices and through the instrumentality of that society, and reported to the convention that the subject be referred to the Medical Society of Virginia. That society, composed at that time almost exclusively of members of the profession from Richmond and its vicinity, took up the subject, and had presented to it, through a committee, a carefully prepared plan for the organization of the profession of the state under the charter of the society. This plan was rejected, and no substitute was at that time offered. By a subsequent action of the Society, however, the material features of the plan referred to were incorporated into its constitution; but the interest which had been previously exhibited by the profession throughout the state in the subject had then very much subsided, and no steps were taken to second the action of the society. But about eighteen months ago, the society, observing in the profession in the state at large unmistakable evidences of a desire to organize, again took the subject into consideration, and presented to the profession the system which is now in operation, and by which the Medical Society of Virginia, with its charter, its rights and privileges, has been transferred from the physicians of Richmond and its vicinity to the profession of the whole state, to whom of right it has always belonged. In the Medical Society of Virginia, as at present constituted, there have been already enrolled a little less than 450 members of the profession of our state; and there can be but little doubt that a few years will see almost the entire medical corps of the state organized into one harmonious and efficient body. Such a body, representing as it will all sections of the state and all medical interests of the state, and combining as it will the medical talent and influence of the whole state, cannot fail, in its annual deliberations, to exert a wholesome influence upon the profession, and to uphold and elevate the true interests of medical science. In accomplishing thus much towards the organization of |