VII.

Natural History, Pathology, and Treatment of the Epidemic Fever at present pre-

vai ing in Edinburgh and other towns: illustrated by Cases and Dissections.

By JOHN ROSE CORMACK, M.D...

VIII.

The Fifth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages

in England

59

2 Mr. Farr on the Construction of Life Tables

3. Mr. Farr on Public Health

1. Deaths by Childbirth

2. Causes of the High Mortality in the Town District

IX.

On the Nature and Treatment of Tic Douloureux, Sciatica, and other Neuralgic

Disorders. By HENRY HUNT, M.D.

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X

The Epidemics of the Middle Ages. From the German of J. F. C. HECKER, M.D.

Translated by B. G. BABINGTON, M.D.

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66

70

72

73

74

81

3. The Sweating Sickness

XI.

Report of the Commissioners appointed to take the Census for Ireland for 1841.

(With Classified Tables of Deaths, and Report thereon). By WILLIAM ROBt.

WILDE, Esq. Surgeon ..

On Dysmenorrhoea and other Uterine Affections in connection with Derangement
of the Assimilating Functions. By EDWARD RIGBY, M.D.

Manuel d'Anatomie Générale appliquée à la Physiologie et à la Pathologie. Par

L. MANDL

Manual of General Anatomy applied to Physiology and Pathology.

1. General Laws of Distribution..

2. Formation of the Organic Systems..

PERISCOPE.

Bibliographical Notices.

1. Mesmerism and its Opponents. By George Sandby, Jun. M.A.

2. Medicines, their Uses and Mude of Administration: including a complete Con-

spectus of the Three British Pharmacopoeias, an Account of all the New

Remedies, and an Appendix of Formulæ. By J. Moore Neligan, M.D.

3. Mental Hygiene; or an Examination of the Intellect and Passions, &c.

W. Sweetzer, M.D.

4. On certain Morbid States of the Liver. By Professor Schultz..

5. Morbid Formation of Sugar as a residuum of Abnormal Chylification, (not

Abnormal Chymification). By Professor Schultz

6. On the Origin of Melanosis. By Professor Schultz..

7. Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association. Vol. XII. 172

On the Actual Process of Nutrition in the Living Structure, demons-

trated by the Microscope, &c. By William Addison, F.L.S..

.. 172

Spirit of the Foreign Periodicals, &c.

1. Miscellaneous Remarks on Hematology

2. Observations on Pulmonary Gangrene

3. Microscopic Anatomy of Tubercles

4. Professor Forget on Adhesions of the Pericardium

5. On the Animalcular Condition of the Blood in Dogs..

6. M. Orfila's Reply to certain Misrepresentations..

7. Award of Prizes at the Academy of Science

8. On the Tendencies of Cotemporaneous Surgery..

9. A New Method to promote Cicatrization of Recent Wounds

10. M. Cazenave on the Treatment of Psoriasis

11. Strychnine a Test for the Administration of Morphia in Neuralgia

12. Utility of Savine in Atonic Metrorrhagia

13. Remarks on Iliac Phlebitis in Phthisical and other Patients

14. Notice of some recent French Works on Typhoid Fever

15. Moral Theology in Reference to Physiology and Medicine

16. On the Cure of Stammering..

17. On the Cause of the Lassitude and Panting in ascending High Mountains

18. Hygienic Effects of Swimming

19. On the Post-natal Descent of the Testicles, and the Accidents thereby occa-

sioned

20. On the Utility of Surgical Operations in Cancerous Diseases

21. M. Orfila's Reply to his Calumniators..

22. M. Mitscherlich on Fermentation..

23. Process of Embalming ..

21. The Neapolitan Phlebotomist

25. On the Treatment of Buboes

26. On the Treatment of Secondary and Tertiary Syphilitic Diseases

27. Applications of Subcutaneous Surgery

28. Use of Columba-root against Vomiting

29. Tobacco-smoke applied to Gouty Limbs

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30. Fallacy of the Numerical Method in Medicine

31. Long Tubular Membrane expelled in a Case of Croup

32. Creosote, a good Application to Burns..

33. Antiseptic Properties of Creosote..

34. Ammonia in Delirium Tremens

35. A Flock of Sheep poisoned by eating the Ranunculus Repens..

36. Animal Electricity..

37. Spontaneous Rupture of the Abdomen after the Cæsarian Operation

38. Quinine against Obstinate Hiccup

39. Treatment of Plethora

40. Useful Hint to Hospitals

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1. Report of Cases illustrating Diseases of the Brain and Nervous System.

(Guy's Hospital Reports, April 1844.)

2. Cases of Pelvic Inflammation, with Abscess, occurring after Delivery, with

Remarks. By John C. W. Lever, M.D.

3. On Paracentesis Thoracis. By Dr. Hughes and Mr. Edward Cock..

4. Observations on Lithotomy. By Mr. Cooper

Spirit of the British and American Periodicals, &c.

PATHOLOGY.

1. Observations on a peculiar Nervous Affection incident to Travellers in Sicily

and Southern Italy. By J. Hungerford Sealy, Esq. M.D., &c.

2. Case of Death following the excessive Use of Ardent Spirits. By John Inglis

Nichol, M.D...

3. Solitary Confinement

4. Two Cases of Scirrhus of the Pancreas. By F. Battersby, F.R.C.S. L., &c.

5. On Tubercular Leprosy. By A. S. Skene, Esq...

6. Ileo Cœcal Obstruction..

7. Internal Aneurisms

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243

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245

8. Observations on the Climacteric Disease, with Cases. By H. Kennedy, M.B. &c. 247

9. On the present State of Knowledge of the Nature of Inflammation. By T.

Wharton Jones, F.R.S...

10. Muscle, a Neuromagnetic Apparatus

249

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PHYSIOLOGY.

231

11. On the relative Proportion of Centenarians, of Deaf and Dumb, of Blind and of

Insane, in the Races of European and African Origin, as shewn by the Cen-

suses of the United States. By Dr. Forry..

251

252

12. On the Action of Coneia on the Blood. By Professor Hunefield

13. Contributions to the Physiology of the Human Ovary. By Chas. Ritchie, M.D. 253

14. Remarks on the Early Condition and probable Origin of Double Monsters.

By Allen Thomson, M.J., &c.

15. On the Chemical Phenomena of Respiration. By M. Gay-Lussac

16. On Moving Molecules in the Interior of Cells

17. On the Poisonous Properties of the Bark of the Laburnum Tree. By Robert

Christison, M.D.

18. On Arsenic as a Poison; its Test and Antidote.

19. Lecture on the State of Pharmacy in England.

20. Veterinary Pharmacy

21. On the Ready Curability of the more Acute Form of Hydrocephalus, in its
earliest Stage. By Alexander Harvey, M.D.

22. Case of Poisoning with the Leaves of Aconite, &c. By Al. Ramsay, Surgeon, 264

23. Tincture of Iodine ..

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264

24. On the Moral Treatment of Insanity in Bethlem Hospital. By R. Willis, MD. 264

25. On the Use of Oleuin Tiglii, externally applied, in Cases of Dysphonia, Cynanche

Trachealis, &c. By S. Corp Ellis, M D.

265

26. On the Use of Mustard in the Convulsions of Children. By C. S. Tripler, M.D. 266

MIDWIFERY.

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27. A Living Child, 39 Days after Quickening-147 Days after Conception.. 266

28. Inversio et Extirpatio Uteri ..

29. Dr. Ramsbotham's Report of the Royal Maternity Charity

30. Contributions to Midwifery, No. V.-On the Influence of Ergot of Rye on the

Fœtus in Utero. By Thos. Edw. Beatty, M.D., &c...

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267

269

3. Vivisection-Letter from the Earl of Caernarvon. From Rich. Jameson, Esq. 275

4. Instinct and Reason

7. Case of very large Stone in the Bladder, extracted through the Perinæum

8. Medical Reform Bill

1. On Schools of Naval and Military Surgery. By Sir George Eallingall, M.D.

2. Wyke House Asylum for Nervous Invalids of the Upper and Middle Classes 296

3. Circular addressed to the Medical Officers of the East India Company's Service

by the Medical Board at Calcutta

297

CONTENTS

OF THE

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW,

No. LXXXII, OCTOBER 1, 1844,

[BEING No. XLII. OF A DECENNIAL SERIES.]

REVIEWS.

I.

First Report of the Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of large Towns

and populous Districts..

II.

The Superstitions connected with the History and Practice of Medicine and Sur-

gery. By THOMAS JOSEPH PETTIGREW, F.R.S.

III.

301

319

Traité de Pathologie Cerebrale ou des Maladies du Cerveau, &c. Par SCIPIO

PINEL

A Treatise upon Cerebral Pathology or the Diseases of the Brain. By SCIPIO

PINEL

341

1. General Principles of the Pathology of the Nervous System

2. Anatomy of the Brain

3. Physiology of the Brain

341

4. Lesions of the Understanding..

IV.

Miscellaneous Contributions to Pathology and Therapeutics. By JAMES RICHARD

SMYTH, MD..

On the Decrease of Disease effected by the Progress of Civilization. By C. F. H.

MARX, M.D. and R. WILLIS, M.D.

Chemistry as Exemplifying the Wisdom and Beneficence of God. By G. FoWNES,

Ph. D. .

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VII.

Graefenberg or a True Report of the Water-cure, with an Account of its An-

tiquity. By ROBERT HAY GRAHAM, M.D.

On the Chemical and Physiological Balance of Organic Nature. By M. J. DUMAS,

and J. B. BOUSSINGAULT

Enchiridion Medicum, or Manual of Practical Medicine, the result of Fifty Years'

Experience. From the German of M. Hufeland, by Drs. BRUCKHAUSEN and

NELSON ..

X.

Therapeutique Appliquée, ou Traitements Speciaux de la plupart des Maladies

A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Eye. By WILLIAM JEAFFRESON, Esq.

A Practical Treatise on Midwifery. By W. CHAILLY. Translated from the French

and Edited by G. S. BEDFORD, M.D.

1. Premature Artificial Delivery and the Cæsarian Section

2. The Forceps

XIII.

I. Traité complet de l'Hypochondrie. Par J. L. BRACHET

II. Traité Philosophique de Medecine Pratique. Par A. N. GENDRIN, D.M..

XIV.

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404

407

The Hospitals and Surgeons of Paris. &c. By F. CAMPBELL STEWART, M.D... 429

XV.

Observations on Phthisis in Martinique. By E. Rufz, M.D...

1. Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, the Mediterranean, &c. By W.

R. Wilde, M.R.I.A.

2. Report of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, for the years 1841 and 43.

By Thomas S. Kirkbride, M.D.

3. Researches into the Physical History of Mankind. By J. C. Pritchard, M.D.

4. On the Occurrence of Sarcina Ventriculi along with Acetic, Lactic, and Car-

bonic Acids in Waterbrash. By George Wilson, M.D.

5. Letter to the Home Secretary of State. By J. Perceval, Esq...

6. On the Physiological and Medicinal Properties of Bromine and its Compounds,

&c. By R. M. Glover, M.D.

7. The American Journal of Insanity. Edited by the Officers of the Lunatic

Asylum in Utica. No. 1

450

8. Further Observations on the Use of Nitric Acid as an Escharotic in Vascular

Tumors of the Rectum. By John Houston, M.D.

454

9. Transactions of the New York State Medical Society. Vol I. Part I.

10. The Auriscope

4. Mineral Salts, taken by the Mouth, discoverable in the Urine..

5. M. Malgaigne on the Abuse of Tenotomy in various Deformities

6. Section of the Flexor Tendons of the Knee in White-swelling..

8. On the Formation of the Ammoniaco-Phosphate in Putrescent Matters..

9. Cæsarian Operation on a Dead Woman: Child saved

14. On the Traumatic Curvature and incomplete Fracture of the Long Bones in

Childhood...

15. On the Mechanism or Nature of Atrophy

16. Fatal Case of Glanders, with Remarks..

17. M. Brachet's Opinion of Animal Magnetism

18. Remarks on the Molluscum Contagiosum

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