HALF-YEARLY ABSTRACT

OF THE

MEDICAL SCIENCES.

JANUARY-JUNE,

1848.

LIST OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN PERIODICALS REFERRED TO IN

THE HALF-YEARLY ABSTRACT.”

British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Re- Annales de Chirurgie. view.

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions.

Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal.
London and Edinburgh Monthly Journal.

Dublin Quarterly Journal of the Medical
Sciences.

Lancet.

Medical Gazette.

Provincial Medical Journal.

Medical Times.

Dublin Medical Press.

Bell's Pharmaceutical Journal.

Guy's Hospital Reports.

Chemical Gazette.

Chemist.

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d'Hygiène.

British Record of Obstetrical Medicine and Journal de Chimie et de Pharmacie.
Surgery.

GERMAN.

N. B. Every periodical here specified is consulted directly by the Editor and his coadjutors.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS.

THE

HALF-YEARLY ABSTRACT

OF THE

MEDICAL SCIENCES:

762844

BEING

A PRACTICAL AND ANALYTICAL DIGEST OF THE CONTENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL MEDICAL WORKS PUBLISHED

IN THE PRECEDING SIX MONTHS.

TOGETHER WITH

A SERIES OF CRITICAL REPORTS ON THE PROGRESS OF MEDICINE AND THE

COLLATERAL SCIENCES DURING THE SAME PERIOD.

EDITED BY

W. H. RANKING, M. D., CANTAB.,

LATE PHYSICIAN TO THE SUFFOLK GENERAL HOSPITAL.

Apparatu nobis opus est, et rebus exquisitis undique et collectis, arcessitis, comportatis.-CICERO.

NO. VII.

JANUARY-JUNE, 1848.

PHILADELPHIA:

LINDSAY AND BLAKISTON.

1848.