3. Jacquemier on Hydrorrhoea ..

4. Jacquemier on the Ergot of Rye

5. Negrier on Placental Presentations..

6. Negrier on Uterine Hæmorrhage

7. Jacquemier on Embryotomy

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V.

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Clinical Collections and Observations in Surgery. By W. P. ORMEROD..

1. Fracture of the Thigh, Leg, &c.

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2. Discharge of Serous Fluid from the Ear in Fracture of the Skull

3. Treatment of enlarged Subcutaneous Bursæ..

4. Amputation

5. Treatment of Syphilis

6. Mercury and Iodine in Syphilis

VI.

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Recueil de Memoires de Medecine, de Chirurgie, et de Pharmacie Militaires..

1. On the Climate and Diseases of Algeria. By Dr. Casimir Broussais..

2. Researches on the Condition of the Blood in the Endemic Diseases of

Algeria. By MM. Leonard and Foley

....

3. Cases of Wounds and Diseases of the Brain, which tend to prove that

the Faculty of Language is placed in the Anterior Lobes of that Organ.

By M. Bonnafont..

4. On Foreign Bodies in the Ear. By M. Latour

Guy's Hospital Reports. Second Series. Edited by Drs. BARLOW and BIRKETT,

and Messrs. Cock and POLAND. Vol. IV...

1. On the Fallacies attending Physical Diagnosis in Diseases of the Chest.

By Thomas Addison, M.D., &c. ..

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90

2. Examples of Ptosis, with illustrative Remarks. By John F. France..

3. Reports of the Clinical Society, from January 1845 to March 1846.

By Alfred Poland ..

4. Clinical Report of Cases admitted into the Petersham Ward. By John

C. W. Lever, M.D.

5. On the Physiology of Cells, with the View to elucidate the Laws regu-

lating the Structure and Function of Glands. By Thomas Williams,

M.D.

106

6. Case of supposed Spontaneous Perforation of the Stomach terminating

successfully. By Dr. Hughes. ..

7. Ulcer of the Stomach, leading to Perforation and Death in 19 hours.

By Mr. Ray and Mr. Hilton..

107

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8. Appearances in the Stomach after Death. By Mr. Wilkinson King.. 109

9. Dr. Hughes on Chorea

10. Cases and Observations in Medical Jurisprudence. By Alfred Taylor,

F.R.S.

112

VIII.

I. Conseils aux Mères sur l'Allaitement et sur la Maniere d'Elever les Enfans

Nouveau-nés. Par AL. DONNE, D.M., &c.

II. Dr. Underwood's Treatise on Children, &c. By HENRY DAVIES, M.D.,

1. On Suckling

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118

119

121

122

7. Treatment of Pertussis and Porrigo

IX.

On the Pathology and Treatment of Scrofula. By ROBт. MORTIMER GLover,

M.D., &c.

1. Identity of Scrofulous and Tuberculous Matter

2. Essential Nature of Scrofula

CONTENTS.

X.

1. Animal Chemistry, or Chemistry in its Applications to Physiology and Patho-

logy. By BARON LIEBIG. Edited by W. GREGORY, M.D., F.R S.E.

II. Experimental Researches on the Food of Animals and the Fattening of Cattle,

with Remarks on the Food of Man. By ROBERT DUNDAS THOMSON, M.D.}

1. Origin and Uses of the Bile ..

2. The Respiratory Elements of Food..

3. The Intestinal Canal an Organ of Secretion

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139

140

142

Practical Observations and Suggestions in Medicine. By MARSHALL HALL, M.D.

F.R.S. L. & E., &c.

1. Seat of the Passions and Sense of Pain..

2. Theory as to the Cause of Sleep

3. Experiments on Living Animals reprobated

4. Remarks on some Puerperal Diseases

5. Flourens' Experiments on Birds

6. Plan for the Institution of Bloodletting..

7. The Author's Merits and Failings ..

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XII.

Seventh Annnal Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages,

in England. (Abstracts of the two years, 1843, 1844)

1. The Moral Aspects of Medical Life; consisting of the "Akesios" of Professor"

H. F. K. MARX. Translated from the German, &c., by JAMES MACKNESS,

M.D., &c. &c...

II. Life of George Cheyne, M.D., with Extracts from his Works and Corres-

pondence

1. Life and Character of Boerhaave

2. Life and Character of Mead

3. Life and Character of Cheyne

4. Life and Character of Hallé

XIV.

1. Practical Remarks on Near-Sight and Impaired Vision. By WILLIAM WHITE

COOPER..

II. A Manual of the Diseases of the Eye. By S. LITTEL, Jun, M.D.

On Diseases of the Skin. By ERASMUS WILSON, F.R.S., &c.

1. Structural Anatomy of Hair..

2. Pathology of Lichen and Prurigo

3. Trichosis Furfuracea, or Ring-worm..

1. On the Minute Anatomy and Pathology of Bright's Disease of the

Kidney, &c. &c. By George Johnson, M.D...

2. Account of a Case of Congenital Deficiency of one Kidney, with Gra-

nular Degeneration of the existing one. By George Busk, Surgeon, &c. 222

3. On the Intimate Structure of the Human Kidney, &c. By Joseph

Toynbee, F.R.S. &c...

4. History of a Case of Ligature of the Left Subclavian Artery between
the Scaleni Muscles, &c. By J. C. Warren, M.D. &c.
5. Two Cases of Disease of the Brain, following the Application of a
Ligature of the Carotid Artery. By John P. Vincent, Esq. &c.
6. Case of Punctured Wound and Ligature of the Posterior Tibial Artery
in the Upper Third of its Course. By James Moncrieff Arnott, F.R.S.
&c.

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XVII.

A Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, including the Preparations of the

Pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh and Dublin, with many New Medicines.

By J. Forbes Royale, M.D., F.R.S. &c.

Bibliographical Notices, &c.

Observations on Hydropathy, with an Account of the principal Cold-Water
Establishments of Germany. By J. Stevenson Bushnan, M.D.

A Review of Homoeopathy, Allopathy, and Young Physic. By L. M. Lawson,

M.D. &c. .

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245

Liebig's Question to Mulder, tested by Morality and Science. By Dr. G. T. Mulder,

&c...

247

The Use of the Body in relation to the Mind. By George Moore, M.D. &c...

The Potatoe Plant, its Uses and Properties, &c. By Alfred Smee, F.R.S.

Notes on the Epidemic Cholera. By R. Hartley Kennedy, M.D. &c.

The Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Body in Health and Disease. By Arthur

Hill Hassall

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251

252

253

254

The Handbook of Human Anatomy, General, Special, and Topographical. Trans-

lated from the German of Von Behr. By John Birkett, Surgeon, &c.

Principles of Human Physiology, &c. By William B. Carpenter, M.D. F.R.S. &c. 254

Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, for the Year 1844.. 255

A Tabular view of the Physical Signs and Diagnosis of the Diseases of the Lungs,

&c. By James Turnbull, M.D. &c.

PERISCOPE.

Selections from the Foreign Periodicals.

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1. On the Retrospective Semiological Characteristics presented by the Nails. By

J. Beau, M.D.

2. Blisters in Confluent Small-Pox..

3. Harden on Isopathia

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257

4. M. Malgaigne on Simple Inflammation or Pseudo-strangulation of Hernias

5. On the Influence which Diseases of the Uterus exert in producing a Faulty

Position of the Child ..

7. On the Organic Causes and the Mechanism of the Production of Hysteria

8. On the Employment of Iodide of Potassium in the Treatment of Syphilis

9. On the Employment of Diluents in Urethritis

14. On the Elevation of Parts in the Treatment of some Surgical Diseases

15. M. Sichel on the Use and Abuse of Mercurial Preparations

16. M. Saucerotte on Latent Pneumonia

18. On the Nature of Insanity, and its Treatment by Irrigation and prolonged

Baths. By M. Brierre de Boismont

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CONTENTS

OF THE

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW,

APRIL 1, 1847.

I.

I. Histoire de la Medecine depuis son Origine jusqu'au XIX. Siecle. Par le

Dr. P. V. RENOUARD

II. Essai sur l'Histoire et la Philosophie de la Chirurgie. Par M. MALCAIGNE

1. The Age of Foundation ..

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310

310

314

7. An Account of a Case in which the Corpus Callosum, Fornix, and

Septum Lucidum were imperfectly formed. By James Paget, F.R.C.S. 317

8. Case of Aneurism presenting some Peculiarities, with Remarks. By

Prescott Hewett, Esq.

9. Case of Cyanosis of Forty Years' standing, depending upon Congenital

Obstruction in the Pulmonary Artery and Patulous Foramen Ovale.

By Robert J. Spitta, M.B..

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10. On the Ganglionic Character of the Arachnoid Membrane of the Brain

and Spinal Marrow. By George Rainey, M.R.C.S.

11. An Account of a Case of partial double Monstrosity. By William

Acton, Esq.

12. Some Remarks on Wounded Arteries, Secondary Hæmorrhage and

False Aneurisms. By Robert Liston, F.R.S.

13. A Case in which a large Tumour was developed in the Substance of

the Fifth Nerve and its Ganglion. By James Dixon, Esq.

14. On the Capacity of the Lungs, and on the Respiratory Functions, &c.

By John Hutchinson, Surgeon

15. Hydatid Cyst, either originating in, or pressing upon the Prostate

Gland. By George Lowdell, Surgeon

16. Cases of Varicocele treated by Pressure, with Observations.

B. Curling, Esq.

17. On a particular Derangement of the Structure of the Spleen.

B. S. Jackson, M.D., Boston, U.S.A...

18. On a Luminous Appearance of the Human Eye, and its Application to

the Detection of Disease of the Retina and Posterior part of the Eye.

By Wm. Cumming, Esq.

19. Account of a Case in which an Abscess in the Neck communicated by

an Ulcerated Opening with the Arch of the Aorta, &c. By George

Busk, Esq.

336

20. On the Relation between the Constituents of the Food and the Systems

of Animals. By R. D. Thomson, M.D.

339

III.

I. Lectures on Subjects connected with Clinical Medicine, comprising Diseases

of the Heart. By P. M. LATHAM, M.D. &c.

II. Traité de Nosographie Medicale.

Par J. BOUILLAUD..

1. Auscultatory and other Phenomena of Chlorosis, &c...

2. Murmurs in the Veins

3. Causes and Treatment of Hypertrophy..

4. Connection between Hypertrophy and Valvular Lesions

5. Atrophy and Softening of the Muscular Substance of the Heart

6. Consecutive Lesions of the Lungs..

7. Consecutive Lesions of the Liver, Kidneys, &c.

8. Cases of Angina Pectoris..

9. Heberden on Angina Pectoris..

10. Causes of Endocardial Disease

11. Diagnosis between Endocarditis and Pericarditis

12. Various Organic Lesions..

13. Arteritis, its Symptoms, Causes, &c.

14. Inflammation of the Aorta and Pulmonary Artery

IV.

1. The Vegetable Kingdom; or the Structure, Classification, and Uses of Plants,

illustrated upon the Natural System. By JOHN LINDLEY, Ph. D., F.R.S.,

F.L.S., &c...

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II. Outlines of Structural and Physiological Botany. By ARTHUR HENFREY,

F.L.S., &c...

7. Properties of the Leguminosa-Porous Cells?

V.

Clinical Facts and Reflections; also, Remarks on the Impunity of Murder in some

Cases of presumed Insanity. By THOMAS MAYO, M.D., F.R.S., &c.

1. Petechial Fever, Gastrodynia, lleus, &c.

2. Periodicity of certain Diseases

3. Treatment of Scarlatina Maligna

4. Claims of Mesmerism

5. Recent Medical Heresies

6. How to improve the Art of Medicine

VI.

I. Histoire de la Medecine depuis son Origine jusqu'au XIX. Siecle. Par le Dr.

P. V. RENOUARD

II. Essai sur l'Histoire et la Philosophie de la Chirurgie. Par M. MALGAIGNE,

(Continued from page 316)..

3. The Age of Renovation

G. The Erudite Period-Modern Anatomy

Fernel-Ambrose Paré..

New Diseases-The Occult Sciences

Cornelius Agrippa-Jerome Cardan-Paracelsus

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H. The Reformatory Period

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