QUARTERLY JOURNAL

MEDICAL SCIENCE;

CONSISTING OF

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

REVIEWS, RETROSPECTS, AND REPORTS.

INCLUDING THE

LATEST DISCOVERIES IN MEDICINE, SURGERY, AND THE COLLATERAL SCIENCES

THE

DUBLIN QUARTERLY JOURNAL

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MEDICAL SCIENCE.

Contents.

No. XXXVII. FEBRUARY 1, 1855.

PART I. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

Page.

ART. I.-On Excision of the Knee-Joint. By RICHARD G. H.

BUTCHER, Esq., Surgeon to Mercer's Hospital; Fellow and

Member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ire

land; Licentiate of that body, and Examiner on Anatomy, Phy-

siology, and Pathology thereto for five years; Member of the

Royal College of Surgeons in England, &c.,

ART. II. Pathological Affections and Relations of False Mem-

branes. By ROBERT LAW, M. D., Professor of the Institutes of

Medicine in the School of Physic in Ireland, &c.,

ART. III. Report of Two Cases in which Ligature was applied to

the Posterior Auris Artery. By WILLIAM COLLES, Surgeon to

Steevens' Hospital,

ART. IV. On Perineal Testicle. By THOMAS H. LEDWICH,

F. R. C. S., Lecturer, on Anatomy and Physiology, Original

School of Medicine, Peter-street,

ART. V.-" Unsoundness of Mind," in its Medical and Legal Con-

siderations. By JOSEPH W. WILLIAMS, L. R. C. S. I., Licen-

tiate of the King and Queen's College of Physicians, &c. (con-

tinued from vol. xviii. p. 287).

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Moral Insanity,

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ART. VI. Some Observations on Hydatids in the Human Body.

By THOMAS HAYDEN, F. R. C. S. I., Lecturer on Anatomy in the

Original School of Medicine,

ART. VII. Observations on Epulis, illustrated by Cases of the

Disease in the Upper Jaw. By SAMUEL G. WILMOT, M. D.,

Surgeon to Steevens' Hospital, Lecturer on Surgery in the Car-

michael School of Medicine,

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ART. VIII. A short Notice of a Ready and Simple Mode of Mea-

suring Microscopic Objects. By THOMAS HAYDEN, F.R.C.S.I.,

Lecturer on Anatomy in the Original School of Medicine, . 119

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