HALF-YEARLY ABSTRACT OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES: BEING A PRACTICAL AND ANALYTICAL DIGEST OF THE CONTENTS OF THE PRIN- TOGETHER WITH A SERIES OF CRITICAL REPORTS ON THE PROGRESS OF MEDICINE AND EDITED BY W. H. RANKING, M. D., CANTAB., PHYSICIAN TO THE NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL, AND C. B. RADCLIFFE, M.D., LOND. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN LONDON; Apparatu nobis opus est, et rebus exquisitis undique et collectis, arcessitis, comportatis. CICERO. NO. XXVIII. PHILADELPHIA: LINDSAY AND BLAKISTON, NO. 25 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. TERMS. Two Dollars per annum, free of postage, if paid for in advance. LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, Publishers. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Editors request that all communications be forwarded (free) to MR. CHURCHILL, The Editors are compelled to remind their American correspondents, that no parcels are COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 Lodge Alley. DEMARQUAY, illustration of a source of animal heat, DEVERGIE, advantages of an apparatus for inhaling anæsthetics, Diarrhoea, guarana in chronic, Diphtheria, on, Dislocation, resection in compound, Distemper from animals to man, propagation of the, Diuresis occurring in acute renal dropsy, 94 27 94 Drainage and water-supply on public health, influence of, EDWARDS, aneurism of the innominata treated by pressure on the distal Elbow, division of the tendon of the triceps in old dislocation of, 241 159 17 137 Epilepsy, on the use of oxide, of zinc in, Epilepsy, phosphate of zinc in, Epilepsy in which tracheotomy was performed, case of, ERICHSEN on "surgical diabetes," on excision of os calcis by a new method, Excrements in health, on the immediate principles of the, Facial paralysis, effect of galvanism upon the hearing in, Fatty degeneration, on idiopathic, FERGUSSON on division of the tendon of the triceps in old dislocation of the Fevers during the last forty years, on changes in the constitution of Flat feet, on pains and weariness of the limbs in persons having, 159 FLINT on the arrest of pulmonary tuberculosis, 76 Foetal movements by cold, excitation of, 169 Foetus, on the effect upon the mother of poisoning the, GARROD on the action of alkalies upon henbane, &c., 284 88 GIBB on pertussal glucosuria, GIBBS, pregnancy where menstruation had been absent for several Glaucoma, on some points in the pathology of, Glaucoma, a new method of treating, Glonoin, or nitro-glycerine, on, Glucosuria, on pertussal, GODDARD, case where uterus had been removed thirty years previously, Gout, on rheumatic, GREEN on lesions of the epiglottis, GREENHALGH, case of Cæsarian section, GREENHOW on the study of epidemics, GRENZER, turning by external manipulation, Guarana in chronic diarrhoea, GULL on abscess of the brain, HABERSHON on purpura and its connection with splenic disease, HAMILTON on resection in compound dislocation, on bending and partial fractures of the long bones, HAMMOND, effects of ague and quinine upon the urine, on the physiological effects of alcohol and tobacco, HARE on movable kidneys, on glonoin, on the physiological action of strychnia and brucia, Henbane, on the action of alkalies upon, HENNESSY on certain pathological characters of blood-corpuscles, Herpes circinatus treated by Kameela, HERPIN on the use of lactate of zinc in epilepsy, HERVE on guarana in chronic diarrhoea, HEWITT on coagula in the veins of puerperal women, HOLTHOUSE On squinting, paralytic affections of the eye, &c., HULKE on glaucoma, HUMPHREY on excision of knee-joint, HUTCHINSON on the application of powdered chlorate of potass to ulcers, on the fibrine of the blood and its significance in disease, Innominata treated by pressure on the distal side, aneurism of the, Insanity in penitentiaries, on, Iridectomy, on, JACKSON on amyloid degeneration of the liver in yellow fever, |