THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL

JOURNAL:

EXHIBITING

A CONCISE VIEW

OF THE

LATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES

IN

MEDICINE, SURGERY, AND

PHARMACY.

VOLUME SEVENTY-FIFTH.

1851.

EDINBURGH:

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

1851.

THE EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL,

No. CLXXXVII.

CONTENTS.

PART I.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. History of the Epidemic Cholera in Chatham, Rochester, and Strood,

in 1849. By THOMAS STRATTON, M.D.,
Page 253

II. Contributions to the Military Medical Statistics of the Bombay

Presidency. By JOHN KINNIS, M.D. Part I.-On the Military

Stations, Barracks, and Hospitals, occupied by Queen's Troops,

in the Bombay Presidency, from October 1847 to July 1850,

III. Electro-biology successfully applied to Surgery. By WILLIAM

MARSDEN, M.D.,

IV. Notice of the Professional Life of the late John Walker, F.R.C.S.E.,

with an Account of his Method of treating Stricture of the Ure-

thra by means of Fused Caustic Potass. By WILLIAM BROWN,

F.R.C.S.,

294

343

348

V. Cases which appear to prove that Secondary Syphilis is capable of

being communicated to the Healthy. Ry JAMES STARK, M.D., 365

VI. Different Chemical Facts applied to Physiology. By M. BARRES-

372

VII. Essay on Idiopathic Convulsions of the Face. By M. V. FRANCOIS, 381

VIII. On the Use of the Speculum in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Ute-

rine Diseases. By ROBERT LEE, M.D.,
395

WILL,

PART II.-CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

ART. I.-1. An Essay on a New Mode of Treatment for Diseased Joints,

and the Non-Union of Fracture; with Cases, and Formulæ of

the various Preparations used. By THOMAS BUCHANAN,

C.M.

2. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Joints. By W. J. WICK-

HAM.

3. On Ankylosis or Stiff-Joint; a Practical Treatise on the Con-

tractions and Deformities resulting from Diseases of the Joints.

By W. J. LITTLE, M.D.,

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