THE PRACTITIONER:

A JOURNAL

OF

THERAPEUTICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

EDITED BY

FRANCIS E. ANSTIE, M.D. F.R.C.P.

Physician to Westminster Hospital;

Lecturer on Medicine in Westminster Hospital School; and
Physician to the Belgrave Hospital for Children.

VOL. XI.

JULY TO DECEMBER.

London and New York:
MACMILLAN AND CO.

1517

1873.

LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,

BREAD STREET HILL.

CONTENTS OF VOL. XI.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS:-

"Writer's Cramp :" its Pathology and Treatment. By G. V. Poore,

M.D. Part II. . . .

Some Observations on the Use of Phosphorus in Neuralgia. By J.

:-

Ashburton Thompson.

Note on the Paralysing Action of Aconite on the Sympathetic Nerve.

By Frederick Bagshawe, M.A., M.D. Cantab., M.R.C.P.L.

On Vesicating Insects. By Dr. Fumouge, Paris

The Value of Sodic Bromide as a Nervous Sedative. By W. Ainslie

Hollis, M.D.

"Writer's Cramp:" its Pathology and Treatment. By G. V. Poore,

M.D. Part III.

Migraine from Injury to the Head. By Douglas Morton, M.D.

Slight Poisoning from the Medicinal Use of Phosphorus. By Dr.

Anstie

The Eaux-Bonnes and Pulmonary Phthisis. By M. le Dr. Leudet

Notes on Guarana. By W. Macdowall, M.D. (Edin.).

On the Treatment of Enteric Fever by the Use of Internal Disinfec-

tion. By Stephen Skinner, M.B..

On Digitalis in Acute Febrile Diseases. By Dr. Anstie

The Treatment of Neuralgia by Electricity. By George M. Beard,

M.D., of New York

On the Pathology and Treatment of Shock and Syncope.

By T.

Lauder Brunton, M. D., D.Sc. .

On the Doses of Remedies recommended in the Pharmacopoeia. By

the Editor.

A Case of Rheumatic Fever Treated with a Cold Bath; Death occur-

ring immediately on leaving the Bath. By Sydney Ringer, M.D.

On a Case of Pericardial Effusion, in which Paracentesis was per-

formed. By Thomas Barlow, B.Sc., M. R.C.S.

Some Observations on the Use of Phosphorus in Neuralgia. (Second

Paper.) By J. Ashburton Thompson