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MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW,

No. LIX. JANUARY 1, 1839,

[BEING No. XIX. OF A DECENNIAL SERIES.]

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1. Urinary Diseases and their Treatment. By ROBERT WILLIS, M.D.

2. Traité des Maladies des Reins, étudiées en elles memes et dans leurs Rapports

avec les Maladies des Ureteres de la Vessie, de la Prostate, de l'Urethre.

Par P. RAYER, M.D.

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1. Functional Derangements of the Kidneys and their immediate Consequences

A. Morbid States in which the Secreting Faculty of the Kidneys is exalted.

B. Morbid States in which the Secreting Faculty of the Kidneys is lessened or

abolished

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c. Morbid States in which the Urine contains in excess Ingredients that occur

normally in smaller quantity

Des Maladies Mentales. Par E. ESQUIROL

3. Pathology

4. Treatment

OF THE

REVIEWS.

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III.

Statistical Report on the Sickness, Mortality, and Invaliding, among the Troops in the

West Indies ..

IV.

A Treatise on Neuralgia. By RICHARD ROWLAND, M.D.

1. Exciting Causes

2. Seat of Neuralgia

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V.

An Experimental Essay on the Physiology of the Blood. By CHARLES MAITLAND,

M. D.

VI.

Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Vol. I. ..

1. Cases of Cardiac Disease and of Tubercular Phthisis occurring in the 2nd

Regiment

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VII.

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, Vol. XXI.

1. Note on the comparative prevalence of Calculous Diseases, &c. By Mr.

COPLAND HUTCHISON

8. Facts and Inferences relative to the Condition of the Vital Organs and Viscera

in general, as to their Condition in certain Chronic Diseases. By JOHN

CLENDINNING, M.D.

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2. History of a Female who has four Mammæ and Nipples By ROBERT LEE, M D.
3. Results of Poisoning by Sulphuric Acid. By JOHN WILSON, M.D...

4. History of a Case of Popliteal Aneurysm. By SAMUEL HADWEN, Esq...
5. Account of a Case of Enormous Ventral Aneurysm, with the Post-mortem
Appearances. By Sir DAVID J. H. DICKSON, M.D.

6. On Necrosis; being an Experimental Inquiry into the Agency ascribed to the
Absorbents in the Removal of the Sequestruin. By GEORGE GULLIVER, Esq. 86

7. On the proportions of Animal and Farthy Matter in the different Bones of the

Human Body. By G. O. REES, M.D.

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9. On Increased Thickness of the Parietes of one of the Ventricles of the Heart,

with Diminution of its Cavity. By G. BUDD, M.B.

10. On Aneurysm of the Heart, with Cases. By JOHN THURNAM, Esq.

A. Aneurysm of the Ventricles ..

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B. Aneurysm of the Auricles

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c. Aneurysm of the Valves of the Heart

VIII.

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Report of the Malignant Fever called the "Pali Plague," which has prevailed in some

parts of Rajpootana, since July 1836. By JAMES RANKIN, M.D.

An Experimental Essay on the Relative Physiological and Medicinal Properties of

Iodine and its Compounds. By CHARLES COGSWELL, M.D...

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A Treatise on Inflammation. By JAMES MACArtney, M.D.

A. Consequences of Inflammation

Physiological Explanation of the Beauty of Form. By BENJAMIN F. JOSLYN, M.D.

XII.

Third Fasciculus of Anatomical Drawings, selected from the Collection of Morbid

Anatomy in the Army Medical Museum at Chatham. Drawn by WATER-

HOUSE HAWKINS..

Practical Remarks on the Diseases of the Skin, on the External Signs of Disorder, and

on the Constitutional Peculiarities during Infancy and Childhood. By

WALTER C. DENDY, Esq...

PERISCOPE.

Bibliographical Notices.

152

1. On the Successful Treatment of Consumptive Disorders, and Female Complaints

connected therewith; on Scrofulous Diseases, &c. By J. J. Furnival, M.D. 157

2. On the Improvement of Medicine. By Theophilus Thompson, M.D.

3. On the Causes of Epidemic Fever in the Metropolis, especially among the labouring

classes. By Holt Yates, M.D.

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4. Observations on the Oriental Plague, and on Quarantines, &c. By John Bowring,

Esq.

5. The Medical Annual or British Medical Almanack, 1839. Edited by William Farr 164

1. On Hospital Medical Staffs

6. An Account of some New Instruments for Tying Polypi of the Uterus, Nose and

Ear, and Enlarged Tonsils; with Cases. By William Beaumont, Esq.

RECENT WORKS ON SURGERY.

7. A System of Practical Surgery, with numerous Explanatory Plates. By John
Lizars, Esq.

8. The Principles of Surgery, Vols. I. and II. By John Burns, M.D.

1. Lancet Punctures in Inflammation

2. Chronic Hypertrophy of the Scalp

3. Linear Admeasurements for finding and securing the Femoral Artery

4. Diseases of the Bursa and Bunions

5. Malformations of the Shoulder and Hip Joints

RECENT WORKS ON ANATOMY.

9. Manual of Descriptive and Pathological Anatomy. By J. F. Meckel

10. Practical and Surgical Anatomy. By J. E. Wilson, Esq.

11. A Text Book of Human Anatomy, designed to facilitate the Study of that Science.

By Robert Hunter, M.D.

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12. The Science of the Cerebro-spinal Phenomena attempted. By John S. Waugh, M.D. 174

13. Outlines of Human Osteology.

By F. O. Warde, Esq.

14. The Surgical Anatomy of the Perinæum. By Thomas Morton

15. Quain's Plates. Fasciculi 62 and 63

NATURAL HISTORY.

16. A History of British Birds. By William Yarrell, F.L.S. Part IX...

17. A General Outline of the Animal Kingdom. By Thomas Rymer Jones, F.Z.S.

Clinical Review, and Hospital Reports.

GUY'S HOSPITAL.

1. Guy's Hospital Reports, No. 7.

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1. A Contribution to the Pathology of Congenital Deafness. By Edward Cock.. 177

2. On the Effect produced upon the Pulse by a Change of Posture. By William

A. Guy, M.B.

A. Influence of Sex

B. Influence of the Period of the Day

c. Experiments with the Horizontal Board

3. Observations on Intus-susception as it occurs in Infants

A. Inflammatory Intus-susception

4. Chemical Examination of the Liquor Amnii. By G. O. Rees, M.D..

5. On Diabetic Blood. By G. O. Rees, M.D...

6. Some Observations on the Cause of Strangulation in Hernia. By Mr. T. King 191

7. Cases and Observations on Medical Jurisprudence. By Alfred S. Taylor, Esq. 193

A. Survival after extensive Rupture of the Diaphragm

8. Observations on Abdominal Tumors and Intumescence. By R. Bright, M.D... 194

A. Alterations of the Substance of the Spleen..

9. Physiological Observations on the Muscles of the Eye. By Bransby B. Cooper,

F.R.S.

201

2. Hæmatology-M. Magendie's Lectures on the Blood..

203

3. An Introductory Discourse on the Studies required for the Medical Profession. By

Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart...

211

4. Clinical Observations on the Primary Treatment of Injuries, delivered at the New

York Hospital. By A. H. Stevens, M.D.

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NEW YORK HOSPITAL.

5. Lectures on Lithotomy delivered at the New York Hospital. By A. H. Stevens,

M.D...

A. On the Causes of Death from Lithotomy

ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH.

6. The Dangers of Lithotrity. By W. Fergusson, F.R.C.S.E.

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1. Discussion at the Royal Academy on the Contagiousness of Plague and other Fevers 225

2. Discussion at the Royal Academy of Medicine on the Etiology of Club Feet

3. Physiological and Therapeutical Examination of Veratria. By Dr. Forche

4. Incontinence of Urine successfully treated with the Nux Vomica

5. On the Use of Chlorine Inhalation in Catarrh

6. Remarks on, with case of, Pneumo-Thorax

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7. Observations on the Perforation of the Intestine by Worms. By

Dr. Monchiere.. 233

8. Expulsion of a Long Loop of Intestinal Canal by the Rectum

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9. Case of Remarkable Pulsation in all the Superficial Veins of the Arms and Neck.. 237

10. The Soupe à la Minute,' recommended by Baron Percy ..

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15. Inflammation of the Umbilical Vein in Infants..

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16. On Foundling and Bastard Children in France and in other Countries of Europe.. 248

17. On the danger of being Buried Alive, and of the Means to ascertain Death ..

18. Poisoning by Arsenic-Exhumation of the Body, and Conviction of the Criminal

three years after Death

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19. Case of Torticollis, or Wry-Neck, treated by Division of the Sterno-Mastoid Muscle 253

20. Fistula of the Corpus Spongiosum Urethræ treated by Suture..

21. Case of Hydatidic Goitre, or Hydrocele of the Neck, successfully treated by

Operation ..

22. Lipoma of large size in the Groin successfully extirpated..

23. Surgical Report of the Palermo Hospital

A. Case of Fungus Hæmatodes

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B. Urinary Calculi in the Feinale mistaken for Diseased Uterus

24. On the Application of Raw Cotton to Erysipelatous Surfaces..

25. The Pellicle of an Fgg, an excellent Adhesive Application to Wounds

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27. Encysted Tumors-Serous, Atheromatous and Meliceric-treated by Incision and

Injections ..

26. Diffuse Inflammation of the Scalp, in which a large extent of the Cranium exfo-

liated, and the patient recovered

28. Case of Ileus in which Gastrotomy was performed-Death

29. Case of Chronic Abscess in the Left Iliac Fossa, bursting into Intestine-Cure

30. On the most frequent Causes of Sudden Death. By M. Devergie

31. Delirium Tremens, History, and Treatment of, with Emetics.

32. On the State of Vaccination in various Countries of Europe; propriety of Re-

Vaccination, &c.

1. Researches on Suppuration. By George Gulliver, Esq.

2. On the Present State of the Laws of Lunacy. By a Barrister

3. Law of Lunacy. The Monthly Chronicle..

4. Hæmatophobia, or the Beauties of Continental Practice..

5. Saratoga Springs

6. Medical Reform. By A. B. Granville, M.D.

7. The late Mr. Lockley

8. Dialogue between a Physician and a Physiologist

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12. Further Testimony of the Remedial Value of the Carbonate of Soda

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Extra-Limites.

1. An Account of an Epidemic Cholera which prevailed in the District of Berchaven

in Ireland, in the Autumn of 1837. By Edmund Sharkey, M.B.

2. A Case of Perfect Anchylosis of the Five Superior Cervical Vertebræ to each other,

&c. By Stephen S. Stanley, Esq. .

ADDENBROOKE'S HOSPITAL.

3. Clinical Contributions from Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, for the Years

1836-37. By H. T. Bond, M.D.

A. Sanguineous Congestion, or Inflammation of the Liver

B. Enlargement or other Organic Disease of the Liver

4. On the Best Means of Applying Pressure to the Uterus after Delivery

5. "A Crust for the Critics."

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