IV. Pathological and Practical Researches on Uterine Inflammation in

Puerperal Women. By ROBERT LEE, M. D., F. R. S.

V. Lectures on Anatomy: Interspersed with Practical Remarks.

Page 145

Vols.

168

I. II. and III. By BRANSBY B. COOPER, F. R. S.

VI. A Treatise on Deformities; exhibiting a concise view of the Nature

and Treatment of the Principal Distortions and Contractions of the

Limbs, Joints, and Spine. Illustrated with Plates and Wood-

cuts. By LIONEL J. BEALE, Surgeon,

VII, 1. An Introduction to the Study of Human Anatomy. By JAMES

PAXTON, M. R. C. S.

2. A Synopsis of the Bones, Ligaments, Muscles, and Blood-Vessels

of the Human Body. By WILLIAM SANDS Cox.

VIII. Maingault's Illustrations of the different amputations performed on

the Human Body, represented by Plates designed after Nature;

with Alterations and Practical Observations. By WILLIAM SANDS

Cox.

IX. Lithotrity and Lithotomy compared; being an Analytical Examina-

tion of the present methods of treating Stone in the Bladder, with

suggestions for rendering Lithotrity applicable to the Disease in al-

most all its Stages and Varieties, and remarks on the General

Treatment of Gravel and Stone. By THOMAS KING, M. D.,

M. R. C. S.

PART III.-MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Historical Examination of the Epidemic Cholera at Paris; account of the

different modes of Treatment employed against the different forms and pe-

riods of the Disease; and estimate of the results of these Methods,

Cholera Official Report by the Board of Health, Glasgow,

Licentiates of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, for the last six

months,

171

187

188

190

197

219

221

Report on the Fort Pitt Museum and Collections,

Spontaneous Amputation of the Limbs of the Foetus in Utero, by Dr W. F.

Montgomery,

221

225

Harveian Prize,

226

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

COMMUNICATIONS have been received from Dr GIBBS, Dr BENNATI,

Dr WILSON, and Mr C. THOMSON.

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Commentatio de Arteriis Anatis. Auctore E. Hahn, Med. Dr. Acce-

dunt Tabulæ Aeneæ. Hannoveræ, 1830. 4to. Pp. 59.

Practical Observations on Cholera Asphyxia, communicated in a Report

to the Greenock Board of Health. With an Appendix. By James B. Kirk,

M. D. Greenock, 1832. 8vo. Pp. 45 and 53.

Introductory Lecture to a Course of Forensic Medicine, delivered in the

Anatomical Theatre of St Bartholomew's Hospital, November 1831. By

George Burrows, M. D. Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge. London,

1831. Pp. 72. 8vo.

Life Tables founded on the discovery of a numerical Law, regulating
the Existence of every human being. Illustrated by a New Theory of
the Causes producing Health and Longevity. By T. R. Edmonds, B. A.
late of Trin. Coll. Camb. London, 1832. 8vo. Pp. 42 and 38.

Physiologie Medicale et Philosophique. Par Mm. Pelletier, de la Sarthe,

4 vols. in 8vo. Paris. et au Mans, 1831. Tome Premier seulement à present.

Pp. 496.

Histoire Generale et Particulière des Anomalies de l'organization chez
l'homme, et les animaux, &c. ou Traité des Teratologie. Par M. Isidore
Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, Tome premier, avec atlas. Paris, 1832. 8vo. Pp.
746.

Lectures delivered at the Mechanics Institution, 19th December 1831

and 13th February 1832, on Carbon, Oxygen, and Vitality, the three great

agents in the Physical character of Man; with Remarks on Asiatic Cholera.

By George Rees, M. D. M. R. C. Physicians Lond. London, 1832. 8vo.

Pp. 107.

An Account of the Life, Lectures, and Writings of William Cullen,

M. D. Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh.
By John Thomson, M. D. F. R. S. L. and E., &c. &c. In Two Volumes.
Vol. I. Edinburgh, 1832. 8vo. Pp. 668.

A Practical Treatise on the Forms, Causes, Sanability, and Treatment
of Pulmonary Consumption. By Edward Blackmore, M. D. Physician to
the Plymouth Public Dispensary. London, 1832. 8vo. Pp. 242.

Two Lectures on the Circulation, Respiration, and mode of Nutrition in
Animals and Plants; with a short account of the mode of Growth in Mo-
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Mutual Relation which subsists between these classes of Animated Nature,
&c. By W. H. Robertson, M. D. London 1832. 8vo. Pp. 32.

The Principles and Practice of Obstetric Medicine, in a series of Syste-

matic Dissertations, &c. &c. By David D. Davis, M. D. M. R. S. L. &c.

&c. London, 1832. Part V. VI. VII. and VIII. 4to.

On the Structure of the Human Placenta, and its connection with the

Uterus. By Robert Lee, M. D. F. R. S., &c. &c. Phil. Trans. 1832.

4to.

A Practical Treatise on Uterine Hemorrhage, in connection with Preg-
nancy and Parturition. By John T. Ingleby, Member of the Royal Col-
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sary, Surgeon to the Magdalen Asylum, and Lecturer on Midwifery at the
School of Medicine at Birmingham. 8vo. Pp. 276. London, 1832.

Observations on the General Principles, and on the particular Nature

and Treatment of the various species of Inflammation. By J. H. James,

Surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital, &c. London, 1832. 8vo. Pp.

565..

The Anatomy of the Thymus Gland. By Sir Astley Cooper, Bart.,

F. R. S. Sergeant Surgeon to the King, &c. &c. London, 1832.

Pp. 47.

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12th April to 9th June 1832, inclusive.

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11, 16th June.

Medico-Chirurgical Journal, and Review of Practical Medicine. By
James Johnson, M. D., &c. No. 32. April 1832.

Exposition de la Doctrine Médicale Homœopathique, ou Organon de
l'Art de Guerir; Par S. Hahnemann; Accompagné de Fragmens des Au-
tres Ouvrages de l'Auteur, et suivie d'une Pharmacopée Homœopathique,
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THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

No. CXIII.

CONTENTS.

PART I.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. An Inquiry into the Natural History of the Menstrual Function. By

Mr JOHN ROBERTON,

Page 227

II. Observations on some circumstances which prevent the rejection of the

contents of the Stomach by vomiting. BY JONATHAN OSBORNE,

M. D.

255

III. Case of Melanosis of the Stomach, &c. By F. OGSTON, M. D., &c. 259

IV. Observations on Natural Phimosis and its effects; with a new Ope-

ration adapted to its removal. By JOHN HOUSTON, M.D.,

M. R. I. A.

263

V. Case of Cæsarean Section. By WILLIAM CAMPBELL, M. D.

VI. Essay on Tubercles. By NATHANIEL ROGERS, M. D.

VII. Account of an Epidemic Attack of Indian Cholera of Spontaneous

Origin. By JAMES GIBSON, M. D.

271

273

289

VIII. Some Observations on a species of Entozoon or parasitical Animal

found in the Bronchial Tubes and Pulmonary Vesicles of the Com-

mon Porpoise. By DAVID CRAIGIE, M. D.

301

IX. Ninth Report of the Edinburgh Surgical Hospital, from February to

August 1832. By JAMES SYME, Esq.

312

X. Sketch of the Geographical Distribution of Diseases. By HENRY

MARSHALL, Esq.

330

XI. Case of Gunshot Wound, in which a Musket-ball, after fracturing the

Arm bone, penetrated the Abdomen, and afterwards perforated the

Intestines, and was discharged by Stool. By THOMAS SHORTT,

M. D. F. R. S. E.

XII. Further Observations on the Worms of the Porpoise. By DAVID

CRAIGIE, M. D. &c.

PART II.-CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

ART. I. Exposition de la Doctrine Medicale Homoeopathique, &c.Exposi

tion of the Homoiopathic Medical Doctrine; or Organon of the Art

of Healing, by S. Hahnemann; with Fragments of the other Works

of the Author, and a Homoiopathic Pharmacopoeia, recently trans-

lated from the fourth Edition. By A. J. L. JOURDAN,

352

354

355

II. An Account of the Life, Lectures, and Writings of William Cullen,

M.D. Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edin-

burgh. By JOHN THOMSON, M. D.

384

III. Clinical Reports of the Surgical Practice of the Glasgow Royal Infir-

mary. By JOHN MACFARLANE, M. D.

421

C

IV. The Anatomy of the Thymus Gland. By Sir ASTLEY COOPER,

Bart.,

Page 428

V. A Practical Treatise on Uterine Hemorrhage, in connection with

Pregnancy and Parturition. By JOHN T. INGLEBY,

VI. Views of the Pelvis, &c. By JOHN HOUSTON, &c.

438

453

PART III-MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE.

On the Uses of the Thymus Gland. By Dr WILLIAM FORRESTER BOW,

Alnwick,

454

On the Employment of the Alkaline and Neutral Salts in Cholera. By Dr

WILLIAM STEVENS, formerly of Santa-Cruz,

455

On the use of Cold Water in Cholera. By Dr HARDWICKE SHUTE, of

Gloucester,

459

Ipecacuanha in Cholera,

463

Case in which the Hydrostatic Bed has been used with advantage. By Dr

R. SPITTAL,

463

An Act for regulating Schools of Anatomy,

465

Medical Graduations at Edinburgh,

468

Surgical Examinations at Edinburgh, &c.

470

Dr Carswell's Lithographic Illustrations of Objects in Pathological Anatomy, 470

Provincial Medico-Chirurgical Association,

471

ERRATA.

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