THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL

JOURNAL:

EXHIBITING

A CONCISE VIEW

OF THE

LATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES

IN

MEDICINE, SURGERY, AND

PHARMACY.

VOLUME FIFTY-SIXTH.

1841.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK:
LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, LONDON:
JOHN CUMMING, AND HODGES & SMITH, DUelin.

1841.

THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL

No. CXLVIII.

CONTENTS.

PART I.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

Page 1

ART. I. Cases and Observations illustrative of the Nature of Gangrene of
the Lungs. By DAVID CRAIGIE, M. D.
II. The Static Lung Tests. By WILLIAM AUGUSTUS GUY, M. B.

III. The influence of the Heart on the Motion of the Blood. By G.

CALVERT HOLLAND, M. D.

IV. Analytical Account of the Researches and Rectifications in the

practice of Auscultation and Percussion, made by Dr JOSEPH

SKODA. BY WILLIAM DRYSDALE, M. D. and JOHN R.

RUSSELL, M. D.

V. On the Action of certain Inorganic Compounds, when introduced

directly into the Blood. By JAMES BLAKE, Esq.

VI. Contributions to Anatomy and Physiology; communicated at vari-

ous times to the Anatomical and Physiological Society in Edin-

burgh. By R. Knox, D. M.

VII. Report of a Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Edin-

burgh, appointed to consider the best mode of framing Public

Registers of Deaths,

VIII. Practical Observations on the Diseases of Peru, described as they

occur on the Coast and in the Sierra By ARCHIBALD SMITH,

M. D.

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88

104

125

140

152

185

213

IX. Case of Abscess, seated among the Fibres of the Iliacus Internus,

and Psoas Muscles on the right side. By JAMES DAWSON, Esq. 182

X. On the Physiological and Therapeutical Effects of Colchicum au-

tumnale. By ROBERT LEWINS, Junior, M. D.

XI. Notice of the Molluscum Contagiosum. By WILLIAM HENDER-

SON, M. D.

XII. Postscript by Mr J. Massey, Nottingham, containing the conclusion

of the Case of Collection of Biliary Fluid in the Thyroid Body, 218

(Appendix to Original Communications.)

XIII. Cases and Observations on the Molluscum Contagiosum of Bate-

man, with an Account of the minute Structure of the Tumours.

By ROBERT PATERSON, M. D.

PART II.-CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

ART. I. Elements of the Practice of Medicine. By RICHARD Bright,

M. D., and THOMAS ADDISON, M. D.

279

219

III. The Anatomy of the Nerves of the Uterus. By ROBERT LEE,

M. D.

II. A Treatise on Amaurosis and Amaurotic Affections. By EDWARD

OCTAVIUS HOCKEN,

IV. Abhandlung über Perkussion und Auskultation. Von JOSEPH

SKODA,

272

V. The Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body, with its appli-

cations to Pathology and Operative Surgery. In Lithographic

Drawings, with Practical Commentaries. By RICHARD QUAIN, 276

VO L. LVI. No. 148.

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