THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL:

EXHIBITING

A CONCISE VIEW

OF THE

LATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES

IN

MEDICINE, SURGERY, AND PHARMACY.

VOLUME EIGHTY-ONE.

1854.

EDINBURGH:

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK;
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, LONDON;
AND HODGES AND SMITH, dublin.

MDCCCLIV.

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

No. CXCVIII.

CONTENTS.

PART I.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. Illustrations of Gout and the Gouty Diathesis. By JAMES BEGBIE, M.D., F.R.S.E., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Physician in Ordinary to the Queen in Scotland, Page II. Cases of Xerophthalmia, with Remarks. By R. TAYLOR, Surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital,

III. Two cases of Partial Chorea in Pregnancy; with Remarks. By
. J. MATTHEWS DUNCAN, A.M., M.D., F.R.C.P.E.; Lecturer on
Midwifery; Physician-Accoucheur to the Royal Dispensary,
Edinburgh, &c., &c.,

IV. Tropical Fever and Dysentery; being the result of an experiment by order of Government, in the General Hospital, Calcutta, and Garrison Hospital, Fort-William, in the years 1849-50, with a Sketch of the Theory resulting. By E. HARE, Surgeon 1st Bengal Fusiliers,

V. On the Nature of Inflammation. By JAMES CAPPIE, M.D.,
Edinburgh,
VI. Case of Death occurring forty hours after the administration of
Chloroform; with Remarks on the Causes of Death from the
Use of Anæsthetic Agents. By KELBURNE KING, M.D.,

VII. Report of Surgical Cases occurring in Hospital Practice. By
JAMES DUNSMURE, M.D., F.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Royal In-
firmary, Edinburgh,

VIII. Clinical Surgery-Report on Surgical Cases occurring in Hos-
pital Practice, &c. By R. J. MACKENZIE, Esq., F.R.C.S., Sur-
geon to the Royal Infirmary, Lecturer on Surgery,
IX. On the Inflammatory Affections of the Mucous Lining of the
Larynx. By ALEXANDER WOOD, M.D., F.R.C.P., Lecturer
on Practice of Medicine,

PART II.-CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

ART. I. The Science and Art of Surgery. By JOHN ERICHSEN, Professor of Surgery in University College, and Surgeon in University College Hospital,

II. A Treatise on Âuscultation and Percussion. By Dr JOSEPH SKODA, 174 III. 1. Elements of Psychological Medicine. By DANIEL NOBLE,

F.R.C.S.,

187

2. On the Nature and Proximate Cause of Insanity. By JAMES
GEORGE DAVEY, M.D.,

187

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3. Popular Errors on the subject of Insanity examined and exposed. By JAMES F. DUNCAN, A.M., M.D., IV. Urinary Deposits, their Diagnosis, Pathology, and their essential Indications. By GOLDING BIRD, A.M., M.D., F.R.S., &c., &c., 190 V. On the Prevalent Treatment of Disease. Two Lectures delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in July 1853. By FREDERIC C. SKEY, F.R.S.,

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