ABELL, Dr. Truman, death of, 425
Adams, Dr. H. M., on homeopathy, 39
Advertising by physicians, 225, 246
Alabama, Medical Association of, 285
Alligators, experiments on, 423, 433, 474
American Medical Association, 28, 366;
meeting of, 302, 323; officers of, 326;
special committees of, 388; transactions
of, 67, 286, 465; annual meeting of, in
New York, 349

American Medical Society in New York,

87

American physicians, abroad, 446; in Eu-
rope, 463

Anatomical depot, 367
Anatomy, comparative, 84

Aneurism, treated by rest and absolute
diet, 228; treatment of, 348
Anæsthesia in midwifery, 145
Anæsthetics, use of in rigidity of perinæ-
um, in first labor, 450

Apoplexy and inflammation of the brain,
boring the cranium in, 356; trephining
in, 283

Arteries, large, ligatures of, 108
Asphyxia, infantile, remedy for, 131
Assafoetida, syrup of, formula, 168
Asthma, spasmodic, nature and treatment
of, 309, 340

Backus's (Dr.) Unity of Disease, 386
Bamberg (Germany), Orthopedic Institu-
tion at, 126

Barnstable (Mass.) District Medical So-
ciety, 184

Bartlett, Dr. Josiah, accidental death of,
306

Bates, Dr. James, on successful treatment
of opium eaters, 77
Beard, growth of the, 464

Beaumont, Dr. William, death of, 388
Belladonna, therapeutic properties of, 328
Belmont (Ohio) Medical Society Transac
tions, 524

Bennett's (Dr. John Hughes) Introduction
to Clinical Medicine, 46
Berkshire (Mass.) Medical College, 486

Boletus Laricis, as a purgative, 88
Boston, lunatic asylum, 85; report of births,
marriages and deaths for 1852 in, 106;
report of deaths in, weekly
Boylston medical prizes, 67

Bristol (Mass.) District Medical Society,
187, 448

Broma and dietetic cocoa, 25

Buffalo (N. Y.) Hospital of the Sisters of
Charity, 348

Burmah, medicine in, 386

Burmese, recuperative power of the, 368
Butler (Providence, R. I.) Hospital for the
Insane, 166

Butter, a substitute for cod-liver oil, 466

Callus, provisional, in fractured bones, 106
Calcutta, new medical college in, 308
Canada, medical degrees in, 245; practice
of medicine in, 184

Cancer in aged persons, operation for, 381
Cancerous diseases, surgical operations in,
440

Canule-Dupuytren, remarkable accident
from use of the, 262

Carolina, South, Asylum for the Insane,
208

Carpenter's (Dr.) Physiology, 46
Cartwright, Dr. Samuel A. Hygienics of
Temperance, 373, 494; on the motive
power of the blood, 433, 474
Catalepsy, remarkable case of, 421
Chabert, Dr. J. X. Operation for the cure
of hydrocele, 123

Chandler, Dr. Charles W., obituary notice
of, 160

Chemistry, organic and physiological, 186,
245

Chloric ether, use of in puerperal convul-
sions, 163

Chloroform, death from, 288; used in a
case of infantile convulsions, 502; in
midwifery, 268

Cholera, 248; copper a preventive of, 465
Cincinnati (O.), medical societies in, 326
Circulation, motive power of the, 61
Clark, Dr., on vaccination at Council
Bluffs, 36

Clark's (Dr.) Address, 505
Clinical Phrase Book, 224

Clinic, surgical, at the Philadelphia Col-
lege of Medicine, 199
Cod-liver oil, action of, 454
Colby, Dr. John C., death of, 99
Colby, Dr. M. F. On typhus and typhoid
fever, 369; nature and treatment of scar-
let fever, 389; on veratrum viride in
fevers, 509

Columbia, Lunatic Asylum in the District
of, 205

Consumption, Dr. Turnbull's remarks on,

443

Consumption and other pulmonary diseas-
es, use of inhalations in, 469
Consumptives, Hospital for at Brompton,
England, 309

Copper, a preventive of the cholera, 465
Cornell, Dr. W. M., on the medical appli-
cation of electricity, 34

Coroner, medical, appointed in Boston,
346

Cretins, Dr. Guggenbuhl's hospital for, in
Switzerland, 44

Croton oil, recovery from an overdose, 297
Crucifixion, medical queries respecting the,
405

Cryptogamia, principles of botany in the,

245

Curtis (Dr. J.) on occupational influences
upon health, 64
Cyanosis, case of, 322

Davis's (Dr. N. S.) Address at Rush Me-
dical College, 225

Deane, Dr. James. Union of divided fin-
gers, 329

Deming, Dr. E. S., on syncope after child-
birth, 32

Dengue, yellow fever, &c., 9

Dental science and dental Journals, 125
Dental toilet articles, 444
Diabetes, treatment of, 265

Dix, Dr. John H. Remarkable accident
from the use of the Canule-Dupuytren,
262

Dowler, Dr. Bennet, 228

Drake, Dr. D., biographical sketch of,
142; his work on the diseases of the in-
terior valley of North America, 108
Dropsical poisonous inoculation, 407
Drug inspectors, 24; in the U. S., 284
Drugs, adulteration of, 196

Dublin (Ireland) Medical Press, 67
Dunlap, Dr. James, on the use of chloric
ether in puerperal convulsions, 163
Dustan, Dr. Daniel, on veratrum viride in
fevers, 510

Dysentery, hydropathic treatment of, 146
Dyspepsia, or chronic gastritis, use of ni-
trate of silver for, 197

Easton (Md.) Medical Institute, 286
Electricity, human, 264

Electricity, medical application of, 34
Empyema, case of, 298

Epidemic of 1851-52, in Newton (Mass.)
and vicinity, 189; in 1852-'53, 249, 275,
289

Epilepsy, experiments to establish the
truth of Dr. Marshall Hall's theory,
240; influence of posture in the treat-
ment of, 43

Esculapian, the, 124

Essex North (Mass.) District Medical So-
ciety, 508

Ethnological researches, new work on, 63

Fame, purchased, 443

Febrile tympanitis, pounded ice in, 468
Female Medical College (Pa.), commence-
ment of the, 208
Female physicians, 66
Fergusson's (Dr.) Surgery, 126
Fever, scarlet, Dr. Wood's treatment of, 68
Fever, typhus and typhoid, 369; abortive
treatment of, 428; in Paris, 429
Fingers, union after division, 329
Foreign substance in the lung of a child,
128

Frisselle, Dr. M. M. On impracticable

theories, 21; on Rhizodontrypho-Neur-
hæmaxis, &c., 415, 438
Fungi, poisonous, 28

Fusel oil in pulmonary affections, 404

Galloupe, Dr. J. F. Case of hæmoptysis, 75
Galvanism, as a remedial agent, 404; ́ in
accidents from lightning, 461
Gillespie, Dr. W. A., on the use of nitrate
of silver in dyspepsia and chronic gas-
tritis, 197

Glycerine ointment, formula for, 148
Gray, Dr. J. H., accidental death of, 306
Green, Dr. John O. Biographical sketch
of Dr. Calvin Thomas, 19

Griswold, Dr. S. H. Case of compound
fracture of the skull, 22

Gross's (Prof.) discourse on the life, cha-
racter and services of Dr. Drake, 142
Guano, for mummifying, 288

Hæmatocele, operation for, 138
Hæmoptysis, case of, 75; turpentine in,
488

Hall, Dr. Geo. W. Case of cyanosis, 323
Hall, Dr. Marshall, on the influence of

posture in the treatment of epilepsy, 43
Hamilton's (Dr. F. H.) Address, 507
Harvard University Medical School, gra-
duates at the, 127, 526

Harvard Natural History Society, 525
Hayward's (Dr. Geo.) Remarks at the fes-

tival of the Mass. Medical Society, 383
Health of cities, 305

Heart, wounds of the, 409
Hemorrhage, after extraction of a tooth,
treatment of, 315, 377; different modes
of arresting, 500

Henle's General Pathology, 385
Hernia, reducible, report on the permanent
cure of, 79, 102, 109; Dr. Heaton on the
permanent cure of, 402; Dr. J. S. Jones
on, 417, 510

Hip joint, dislocation and reduction of the,
by rheumatism, 141
Hippocrates, proposed order of, 344
Histology, Pathological Atlas of, 204
Hodges, Dr. Richard M., on a new appa-
ratus for fracture of the radius, 177
Holmes, Prof. O. W., on microscopic pre-
parations, 337

Homœopathic agencies, Dr. Pallen's ad-
dress on, 167; provings, 66
Homeopathy, 39; in England, 466; its
tenets and tendencies, 484
Hooping cough and asthma, 449
Horner, Prof. W. E., decease of, 248
Hoyt, Dr. G. Case of empyema, 298
Hughes's (Dr.) Lecture at Iowa Medical
School, 185

Hydrocele, operation for the cure of, 123
Hydropathists, and Water-cure Almanac,
506

Hydropathy in California, report on, 428
Hygiene, female, 244

Hygienics, temperance, 373, 494

Idiots, Institution for at Barre, Ms., 226
Inoculation, bill to restrain the practice of
in Canada, 488

Insane hospitals, association of medical
superintendents of, 365

Insanity, Dr. Ray's Medical Jurisprudence
of, 223

Intestinal canal, foreign substance in the,
468

Invalid food, 206, 265

Iowa, Medical Association in, 324

Iron and manganese, syrup of, 254, 301
Italy, climate of, in relation to pulmonary
consumption, 49

Jackson's (Dr. S.) Address on Medical
Education, 452, 462
Jefferson (Philad.) Medical College, leave-
taking, 266

Jones, Dr. Jos. S., on medical testimony
and treatment of hernia, 417, 510

Kentucky Medical Society, transactions
of, 286

Kentucky, vital statistics in, 188

King, Dr. Dan, on causes and effects of
quackery, 209

Lawson's (Dr.) Address, 84

Lead pipes, diseases produced by, 65
Leigh, Dr. Edwin. Philosophy of Medi-
cal Science, 69, 89, 115
Leprosy in Norway, 41

Liberia, colored physicians for, 264

Life insurance, lectures on, 224
Life, tenacity of, 88
Lightning, injury from, 461

Little's (Dr. W. J.) Treatise on the defor-
mities of the human frame, 487
Liver, diseases of the, 524; hydatids of
the, 126

London, celebrated medical men in, 40;
health of, one week in May, 468; the
weather and mortality in 1852, 129
Longevity, 46

Lord's (Dr. S. A.) Memoir of Dr. A. Nich-
ols, 446

Lowell (Mass.), mortality of for 1852, 127
Lunatic asylum, in Boston, 85; So. Caro-
lina, 208; New York, 405; N. Hamp-
shire, 525; Pennsylvania, 145; N. Jer-
scy, 146; District of Columbia, 205; R.
Island, 166; Massachusetts, 166

McCormac's (Dr.) moral sanatory econo-
my, 164

McRuer, Dr. D. Removal of an ovarian
tumor, 74

Mal-practice, causes and prevention of
suits for, 525; prosecution for, 281, 304,

503

Manikins, 444

Marriages, births and deaths, registration
of, 317

Massachusetts, Lunatic Asylum, 166; Re-
gister, 186

Massachusetts Medical Society, 263, 346;
anniversary of, 364, 368; members of
the, 307; new rooms for the, 307; peti-
tion to the, 244; Dr. Hayward's remarks
at the festival of the, 383; District Me-
dical Societies, 184, 187, 226, 347, 405,
448, 508

Materia Medica and Therapeutics, new
work on, 149

Medical advertising, 246

Medical Catalogue, Blanchard & Lea's, 85
Medical degrees, claimed by colored stu-
dents, 304

Medical delusions, philosophy of, 489, 517
Medical electricity, 446

Medical matters at the West, 26
Medical men, busts of, 425; eccentricities
of, 423

Medical miscellany, 27, 47, 67, 87, 147,
167, 187, 207, 227, 247, 287, 327, 367,
387, 407, 447, 467, 507, 528
Medical profession in Paris, 108; duties,
discouragements and hopes of, 404
Medical science, 248; the philosophy of,
69, 89, 115

Medical testimony, 345; Dr. Heaton's
pamphlet considered in this connection,
417

Medicinal agents, concentrated, 426, 473
Medicine, action of, 367; nothing new in,
406; old school of, 246; periods for re-
peating doses of, 85

Melanosis, case of in the horse, 33
Memphis (Tenn.), health and mortality
of, 485