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Associations of medical gentlemen for the promotion of science have been numerous, and productive of valuable results. In the United States, societies exist in many of the States, possessing the power of examining into the qualifications of every one who may be desirous of practising within their particular jurisdiction. In some of the States, however, the qualified and unqualified are permitted to exercise their profession with equal privileges and immunities. Amongst the medical associations that have issued from time to time useful transactions or publications, are the following: IN AMERICA, - The Massachusetts Medical Society; the Physico-medical, and Medical Societies of the State of New York; the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the American Medical Association. IN EUROPE, - The Association of Fellows and Licentiates of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians of Ireland; the Medico-Chirurgical and Phrenological Societies of Edinburgh; the College of Physicians, the Medico-Chirurgical the Medical and the Sydenham Societies of London; the Associated Apothecaries and Surgeon Apothecaries of England and Wales, and the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association; the Royal Academy of Surgery, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Societe Midicale d’Emulation, the Societe de Medecine, the Royal Academy of Medicine, the Societe Medicate d’ Observation, and the Sociite de Biologie, of Paris; the Medico-Chirurgical Academy of Vienna; the Medical Societies of Berlin and Copenhagen, &c., &c. IN ASIA,- The Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta. Valuable medical essays are likewise contained in the published Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; the Royal Societies of London, Edinburgh, Gottingen, &c.; the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Paris; the Imperial So-ciety of Sciences of St. Petersburg and Vienna; the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin; the Academia Imperialis Leopoldina Naturae Curio sorum, &c.