PART 1.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

1. George W. Balfour, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed., Physician to the Royal Infirmary,

Edinburgh.-Lecture on Malposition of the Aorta, due to Rickets,

simulating Aneurism,

2. T. S. Clouston, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., Physician-Superintendent, Royal Edin-

burgh Asylum.-Royal Edinburgh Asylum Papers. Two Cases of

Tumour of the Brain Contrasted,

3. Thomas Annandale, F.R.S.E., Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and Lec-

turer on Clinical Surgery.-On a New Operation for the Cure of certain

Cases of Aggravated "Knock-Knee" (with Illustration),

4. William Yeats, M.D., etc., Bankfoot, Perth.-Remarks on the Present

Method adopted for the Disposal and Treatment of the Subjects of

Mental Disease,

5. J. Crawford Renton, M.B., etc., Glasgow.-Clinical Surgical Cases,

6. J. P. Bramwell, M.D., L.R.C.S., Visiting Physician to the County and

City of Perth Infirmary.-Scarlatina Anasarca and its Treatment,

7. Robert Saundby, M.B.-Practical Notes on Oxaluria,

8. John Macpherson, M.D., Inspector-General of Hospitals (retired).-

Glimpses at the Health Resorts of the Bay of Naples in Ancient and

Modern Times (concluded),

VIVISECTION,

PART II.-REVIEWS.

1. Clinical Lectures and Essays. By Sir JAMES BAGET, Bart., F.R.S., D.C.L.

Oxon., LL.D. Cantab., etc.,

2. Des Paralysies Bulbaires, etc. Par le Dr HALLOPEAU,

3. Virchow's Archiv. "Ueber das Verhalten der Vandungen der Blutgefässe

bei der emigration weisser Blutkörper." Von Prof. Dr JULIUS ARNOLD,

4. Cases in Surgery illustrative of a New Method of Applying the Wire

Ligature in Compound Fractures of the Lower Jaw. By H. O. THOMAS,

5. On Reflex Irritations throughout the Genito-Urinary Tract. By FESSEN-

DEN N. OTIS, M.D.,

6. Concerning the Army Medical Department. By UNION,

7. Annual Reports of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum; of the Crichton Royal

Institution and Southern Counties Asylum; of the Belfast District

Hospital for the Insane; of the Cheshire County Asylum; of the

Stirling District Asylum; of the State Lunatic Asylum, Utica, N.Y.;

and of the Northern Asylum for Insane, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for 1873,

8. Twenty-third Report on the District, Criminal, and Private Lunatic

Asylums in Ireland, etc.,.

9. Fourteenth Report of the Scottish National Institution for the Education

of Imbecile Children, Larbert, Stirlingshire,

PART III.-MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES.

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF Edinburgh.-SESSION LIV., MEETING VIII.—

Exhibition of Pathological Specimens, Patients, etc., by Messrs BELL,

ANNANDALE, and CHIENE, and Drs KEITH and WATSON. Paper by Mr

GILRUTH on the Physiological Effects of Section of the Spinal Cord in

Lower Animals. Paper by Dr T. J. MACLAGAN on the Pathology of

the Contracting Kidney, with Discussion by Drs HALDANE and DUNCAN,

OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.-SESSION XXXIV., MEETING VIII.—

Exhibition of Specimens by Drs SIMPSON and DUNCAN. Paper by Dr

MACDONALD on a Case of Puerperal Tetanus, with Discussion by Drs

STEPHENSON, SIMPSON, and DUNCAN. Notes on Intrauterine Craniometry,

by Dr DUNCAN,

PART IV.-PERISCOPE.

Gross on Syphilis in its Relation to the National Health.-Contagiousness of

Syphilis Hereditaria.-Treatment of Ulcers of the Leg by Circumci-

sion. Monthly Report on the Progress of Therapeutics. By W.

HANDSEL GRIFFITHS, Ph.D., L.R.C.P. Ed., etc., .

PART V.-MEDICAL NEWS.

Professor LISTER in Munich.-Presentation to Dr K. N. MACDONALD, .

CORRESPONDENCE-On the Diagnosis of Erectile Tumours within the Orbit.

Banquet to Professor Lister at Leipzig, .

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

PART I.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

1. H. D. Littlejohn, M.D., F.R.C.S. Ed., Surgeon of Police and Medical Officer

of Health for Edinburgh; Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence and

Hygiene, School of Medicine, Edinburgh.-On the Practice of Medical

Jurisprudence,

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2. James Spence, Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh.—

Record of the Completed History of a Case of Recurrent Tumour,

3. W. W. Ireland, M.D., Medical Superintendent of the Larbert Institu-

tion.-Report upon Some Cases of Microcephalic Idiocy and Cretinism,

4. William Macewen, M.D., F.F.P.S.G., Glasgow.-Clinical and Pathological

Observations on Some Cases of Fracture of the Skull and Intracranial

Lesions,

5. Robert Somerville, M.D., Galashiels. On the Hydrostatics of the

Catheter, and a proposed Modification of its Form (with Illustrations),

6. Charles E. Underhill, M.B., F.R.C.S.E.-Note on the Uterine Mucous

Membrane of a Woman who died immediately after Menstruation,

7. Francis W. Moinet, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed., Lecturer on Materia Medica,

Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh.—On the Administration of Opium,

8. Holland J. Cotton, M.B., etc., House Physician to the Royal Infirmary,

Edinburgh.-On the Mechanical Means of Washing out the Stomach

(with Illustrations),

9. George Fleming, M.R.C.V.S., F.R.G.S., Royal Engineers.-The Toxical

Properties of Lolium Temulentum and Lolium Linicola,

1. Cyclopædia of the Practice of Medicine. Edited by Dr H. von Ziemssen,

2. On Paralysis from Brain Disease in its Common Forms. By H. CHARL-

TON BASTIAN, M.A., M.D., F.R.S.,

3. A Manual of Diet in Health and Disease. By T. K. CHAMBERS, M.D.,

On Diet and Regimen in Sickness and Health. By HORACE DOBELL, M.D.,

4. Animal Mechanism: A Treatise on Terrestrial and Aerial Locomotion.

By E. J. MAREY,

5. A Guide to the Practical Examination of Urine, for the Use of Phy-

sicians and Students. By JAMES TYSON, M.D.,

6. Myringomycosis Aspergillina (Fungus Ear Disease). By J. CASSELLS, M.D.,

7. Zeitschrift für Geburtshülfe und Frauenkrankheiten. I Band, 1 Heft,

PART III.-MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES.

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.-SESSION LIV., MEETING IX.—

Exhibition of Patients by Dr GRAINGER STEWART; and of Pathological

Specimens by Drs HALDANE and MACDONALD, and Messrs ANNANDALE

and CHIENE. Paper by Professor SPENCE on the Completed History of

a Case of Recurrent Tumour, with Discussion by Drs HALDANE,

WYLLIE, and MATTHEWS DUNCAN, and Messrs ANNANDALE and BELL.

Paper by Dr FOULIS on the Pathology of the Ovary,

Annual Meeting of the Forfarshire Medical Association,

PART IV. PERISCOPE.

Dermatitis Circumscripta Herpetiformis.-Is Drinking Water a Source of

Typhoid Epidemics?-Formation of Vesical Calculi through Foreign

Bodies in the Bladder.—Influence of Different Antisyphilitic Remedies

on the Pregnancies of Syphilitic Women.-Iodoform in Chronic Sup-

puration of the Middle Ear.-Dislocation of the Penis.-Alternate

Hemiplegia. The Processes by which the Circulation is Re-estab-

lished in Veins occluded by Thrombosis.-Lactation of New-Born

Infants.-Monthly Report on the Progress of Therapeutics. By W.

HANDSEL GRIFFITHS, Ph.D.,

PART V.-MEDICAL NEWS.

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CORRESPONDENCE,

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

PART 1.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

1. Joseph Lister, F.R.S., Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of
Edinburgh.-Demonstrations of Antiseptic Surgery, before Members
of the British Medical Association, 4th and 5th August 1875, .
2. T. Laycock, M.D., Physician in Ordinary to the Queen for Scotland, and
Professor of the Practice of Physic and of Clinical Medicine, Edinburgh
University.-A Case of Tubercular Leprosy: with a Comment,

3. W. W. Ireland, M.D., Medical Superintendent of the Larbert Institu-
tion.-Report upon Some Cases of Microcephalic Idiocy and Cretinism
(with Illustrations),

4. Robert Farquharson, M.D., etc.-On the Grouse Disease,

5. James Cumming, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed., etc.-On the Uterine Souffle and the Foetal Heart,

6. George Fleming, M.R.C.V.S., F.R.G.S., Royal Engineers.-The Toxical Properties of Lolium Temulentum and Lolium Linicola (continued), CREMATION AND WICKER COFFINS,

THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION,

PART II.-REVIEWS.

1. Diseases of the Kidney, and Urinary Derangements. By W. Howship
DICKINSON, M.D.,

2. A Manual of Diseases of the Heart. By ROBERT HUNTER SEMPLE, M D.,
3. Lectures on Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, etc. By A. L. LOOMIS, M.D.,
4. Consumption and Tuberculosis. By JOHN FRANCIS CHURCHILL, M.D.,
5. On Winter Cough, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Asthma, etc. By H. DOBELL, M.D.,
6. Consumption in Australia. By C. A. REEVES, B.A., M.D.,

7. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Ear. By D. B. ST J. Roosa, M.D.,
8. Lectures on Diseases and Injuries of the Ear. By W. B. DALBY, F.R.C.S.,
9. Principes de Thérapeutique Générale. Par J. B. FONSSAGRIVES,
10. The Diseases of Tropical Climates and their Treatment. By J. A. B.
HORTON, M.D.,

11. On Alcohol. BY BENJAMIN W. RICHARDSON, M.A., M.D.,
12. The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology,

13. Note on the Treatment of Skin Discases. By ROBERT LIVeing, M.D.,
14. The Maintenance of Health. By J. MIlner FothergiLL, M.D.,
15. Therapeutic Means for the Relief of Pain. By JOHN K. SPENDER, M.D.,
16. Essays on Conservative Medicine and Kindred Topics. By AUSTIN
FLINT, M.D.,

17. The Breath, and the Diseases which give it a Fœtid Odour. By JOSEPH
W. HOWE, M.D., .

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PART III.-MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.-SESSION LIV., MEETING X Exhibition of Pathological Specimens, Patients, etc., by Drs LITTLEJOHN, G. W. BALFOUR, WATSON, and BATTY TUKE. Case of Accidental Poisoning of a Child by Bow's Liniment, by Dr CUTHBERT, with Remarks by Dr MACDONALD. Note on a Case of Malignant Pustule, by Mr BELL, with Discussion by Drs BALFOUR and WATSON. Paper by Mr CHIENE on the After-Treatment of Excision of the Knee-Joint, with Discussion by Drs BALFOUR and WATSON, OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.-SESSION XXXIV., MEETING IX.Paper by Dr FOULIS on the Development of Cysts in the Stroma of the Ovary, with Discussion by Drs MACDONALD, SIMPSON, KEILLER, and MATTHEWS DUNCAN. Dr UNDERHILL'S Note of a Case in which the Foetal Heart was heard at an Early Period of Pregnancy, .

PART IV. PERISCOPE.

Mauriac on Synovitis of Tendons Symptomatic of Syphilis and Gonorrhoea.-
Monthly Report on the Progress of Therapeutics. By W. HANDSEL
GRIFFITHS, Ph.D., L.R.C.P. Ed.,

PART V.-MEDICAL NEWS.

International Congress of Ophthalmology.-Successful Candidates for Appointments in Her Majesty's British Medical Service.

Obituary Notice of ROBERT PRIDIE, M.D.-Correspondence, etc.,

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