THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL

JOURNAL:

EXHIBITING

A CONCISE VIEW

OF THE

LATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES

IN

MEDICINE, SURGERY, AND

PHARMACY.

VOLUME SEVENTY-THIRD.

1850.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, LONDON:
AND HODGES & SMITH, DUBLIN.

1850.

THE EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

No. CLXXXII.

CONTENTS.

PART I. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. Clinical Contributions to the Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treat

ment of Certain Chronic Diseases of the Heart. By CHARLES

RITCHIE, M. D.,

Page 1

II. Medical Remarks on Emigrant Ships to North America. By

THOMAS STRATTON, M. D., Edin.,

33

III. On the TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS, the Shaving Scall or Ring-

worm; a Contribution to the Comparative History of the

Diseases which cause Baldness. By P. H. MALMSTEN,

IV. Successful Case of Cæsarean Section, with Remarks. By THO-

MAS RADFORD, M. D.,

50

62

V. Upon the Structure of the Kidneys. By Dr GERLACH,

VI. Documents on the Hypothesis which ascribes Cholera to the

presence of Fungi,

73

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81

VII. On the Nervous Papillæ of VATER; the Corpuscula of PACINI.

By Dr J. CARL STRAHL,

118

VIII. Researches on the Acidity and Alkalinity of Certain Liquids of

the Human Body, in the state of Health and Disease. By

M. ANDRAL,

124

IX. An Experimental Inquiry into the Effects of Hydrocyanic Acid,

produced upon Animal Life. BY THOMAS NUNNELEY, Esq., 132

PART II-CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

ART. I. 1. Observations on the Use of the Microscope in Investigations

connected with Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology; be-

ing the substance of the Annual Oration delivered before

the Medical Society of London on the 8th March 1844. By

THOMAS BELL, F.R.S.

2. A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope; includ-

ing the different Methods of Preparing and Examining

Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Structures. By JOHN

QUEKETT,

161