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MR. TOTIIILL'S REPORT FOR 1844.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The only thing I have to add to my report of last year is, that I
feel still more convinced, from practical experience, of the truth of
Mr. Morison's Hygeian System of Medicine, and of the fallacy of the
organic theory taught in the schools of medicine. I have, during
the last ten years, treated gratuitously upwards of 5,001 poor per-
sons, labouring under all sorts of diseases, at the Exeter Hygeian
Dispensary, solely with Morison's Pills, of the British College of
Health, London, most of whom had been given up as incurable by
the most eminent medical men of Exeter. To all persons desirous
of investigating such cases, I shall be most happy to give them the
names and addresses of the parties cured, tothether with the names
and addresses of the medical men they were under. I beg to thank
Lady Sophia Grey, and the other subscribers, for their annual sub-
scriptions. (Signed) RICHARD TOTHILL, M.R.C.S.L.,

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hut now practising on the Hygeian System,
Exeter Hygeian Dispensary, 91, Fore-street-hill, Exeter,
January 6, 1845.

WINGERWORTH FARMERS' CLUB
(Abridged from the Derby Reporter.)

FIRST ANNUAL MEETING.
On Tuesday last the first anuual meeting of this
flourishing Club was held at the house of Mr. Turner,
Nag's Head, Wingerworth, near Chesterfield.
At the appointed hour, a large party of members
and friends sat down to a dinner comprising the usual
delicacies of the season, and which was served up in a
manner highly creditable to the host and hostess. The
dessert and wines were also excellent. John Brown,
Esq., Vice-President of the Society, occupied the chair;
Mr. Samuel Denham the vice-chair, &c.
_ _

After tl•e usual loyal toasts had been given,
The CHAIRMAN having called for a bumper, rose to
propose the toast of the evening—" Prosperity to the
Wingerworth Farmers' Club." It had been said that
farmers' clubs were designed more for the benefit of the
landlord than the tenant. He (the chairman) disputed
this. No doubt in this, as in every case where the tenant
learned to cultivate the soil upon improved principles,
the landlord would reap a proportion of the benefit; but
by improved culture the tenant derived increased pro-
duce, and ampler returns.—(Hear.) Farmers' clubs
afforded facilities to farmers which they could not obtain
from any other source. By assembling together, and
communicating the results of their respective experi-
ments, they diffused a knowledge of schemes beneficial
to the farmer within the range of a very large circle,
and induced, by their example, a very general adoption
of systems of improved culture.—(Cheers.) Some farmers
thought that it was a great disadvantage to them for the
landlords to learn too much; but he (the Chairman) was
certain, that the more landlord and tenant met together,
and discussed questions affecting their mutual interests,
the better would it be for both parties.—(Cheers.) The
late Lord Leicester, one of the greatest practical agri-
culturists of the age, knew how to appreciate a good
tenant, when a careless or an ignorant landlord could
not. In the one case the tenant was placed in a right
position ; in the other he was placed in a false one ; and
let the active and enterprising farmer not suppose, there-
fore, that his interests could be permanently promoted,
unless his landlord was capable of appreciating his worth,
his intelligence and industry.—(Hear, hear). Having
offered these few very imperfect remarks, he would
sehmit the toast for their approval. merely adding., that
long as he remained in the neighbourhood, the Win-
gerworth Farmers' Club should re t,ive his cordial sup-
port:--(Cheers).

Th, inaqt was drank with three times three, and " one
cheer more."

The CHAIRMAN next gave the health of "The Lord-
Lieutenant of the County." (Drank with musical
honours ar.d three times three).
The CHAIRMAN, after passing a few complimentary re-
marks, which were loudly applauded, called upon Mr.
James Brotherton to propose the next toast
Mr. BROTIIERTON, on rising, was received with loud
cheers. He said, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen—The
toast I shall have the honour to propose, is one which I
trust will meet with a cordial response from every indi-
vidual in this room. It commences with "Success to
Agriculture." And, gentlemen, I know of no period in
the history of this country, when that sentiment was
more pregnant with meaning, or more suggestive of
topics for calm and serious reflection, than the times in
which we live.—(Hear, hear). For with the apprehen-
sion of supposed danger from without, and the existence
of yet more formidable difficulties and hindrances within,
it may well become a question of grave import to the
farmers of England. how is the occupation in which they
have embarked their capital, and by which they are
striving to subsist, to be best maintained and its interests
most permanently secured.—(Loud cheers.) With re-
gard to one branch of this question, viz., so far as it
affects the mere practical cultivation of the soil, I am
happy to say the difficulty is comparatively small. For
in the improvements which have taken place during the
last twenty years, and more especially during the last
ten years, it must be obvious to every intelligent ob-
server, that au entirely new era has opened upon British
agriculture. Science is now lending her powerful aid to
combine sound theory with practice. New facts and
principles are almost daily being developed, which worked
out to their legitimate results, bid fair to secure to the
agriculturists of England a position and a fame equal
to any which has yet been enjoyed by those who are en-
gaged in the other branches of our national industry.—
(Cheers.) Of the advantages of combining theory with
practice in the cultivation of the land, few persons, now
a days, will have the hardihood to dispute. But if proof
were wanting, I know not that amongst a variety of
ethers, I could select a more notable instance than that
which is related of Lavoisoir, a celebrated French che-
mist. It is said that this intelligent individual (without
a minute knowledge of the art of farming), by fol-
lowing an enlightened system, doubled in nine years the
produce of his lands in grain, whilst he at the same time
quintupled the number of his flocks.—(Cheers.) But,
gentlemen, it would be impossible for me to give you
even a faint outline of the numberless advantages which
may be daily derived from the application of science to
farming. Take one branch only. It is scarcely possible
to enter upon any investigation in agriculture, without
land
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