ADVERTISEMENT TO No. I. THE earlier years of professional life should be devoted as much as possible to the acquisition of those branches of learning which are likely to make men sound thinking practitioners, to the storing up of facts, and to the study of principles which may be of use throughout life, to the investigation, and if this may be, to the discovery of new truths from which fresh researches will proceed. In this way Harvey, and Hunter, and Bell, and Astley Cooper, and many other distinguished practical physicians and surgeons passed the early, and not the early years only, of their professional life. Their labours prove that valuable scientific research is not incompatible with very active professional duties, and may be carried out by those who at the same time are engaged in practice, or are pursuing clinical work in Hospitals and Dispensaries. Even if it were certain that in our own time no practical gain in relieving suffering would be derived from scientific investigation, the want of results would be a very bad argument for abandoning our researches, seeing how many of the principles which we follow in the treatment of disease, are based upon the results of the scientific labours of those who have preceded us. It may surely be regarded as equally certain that scientific truths worked out in our own time will prove of real practical utility, if not to us, at least to our successors. In England, such investigations are almost entirely left to the members of our profession; and perhaps no education is better adapted to produce scientific investigators than that of the student of medicine. Compelled to study many branches of physical science, and accustomed to apply theoretical problems to practical ends, at the conclusion of his career as a student, he is in a position to select for himself that path of original investigation which his natural taste, and perhaps various accidental circumstances, seem particularly to point out to him, and in which earnestness, industry, and patience, will surely enable him to be of good service. It has long been my hope to be able to publish, from time to time, reports of the work done in my laboratory and micro scope room; but as this idea approached its fulfilment, I was led to form a more extended plan, and at length determined to ask for the help and co-operation of those who, like myself, are pursuing investigations bearing more or less directly upon medicine. Quite sure of receiving encouragement from many fellow-labourers, and fully conscious of a growing feeling in the profession of the real value and ultimate practical utility of scientific inquiry in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, I look forward with pleasure to the task of editing the "Archives," and shall feel thankful to friends who will give me any hints which are likely to increase the usefulness of the work. The opinion has been expressed, that a journal devoted to original researches and scientific investigations, in connection with medicine, would receive support; but to make many of the subjects really intelligible, the papers must be freely illustrated. I have, through the assistance of Messrs. Harrison, been able to adopt a plan, not often followed, by which illustrations may be introduced, at comparatively small cost. It has been considered the best course to publish the first number before applying for communications, in order that some idea of the general nature of the Journal may be formed by those whose support is so much desired. I have, however, received communications and cases from a few friends, to whom my thanks are specially due for this early help. I shall introduce copious illustrations, feeling confident that drawings are really of much more use than long descriptions. I am anxious that the text should be as short as is compatible with a clear statement of the facts; and it is my desire, as far as possible, to substitute accurate representations of the objects for a minute description of their characters. Each number will contain from four to eight octavo pages of lithographs besides several woodcuts inserted in the text. The illustrations will be accurate and drawn to a scale, but they will make no pretensions to artistic excellence. It is hoped, however, that their number will be progressively increased and their character improved. I shall be happy to receive suggestions and contributions for future numbers. Every contributor will receive 12 copies of his communication, free of expense. October 1st, 1857. LIONEL S. BEALE. ARCHIVES OF MEDICINE. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE 1, 53 60, 161 71 1. CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS On the treatment of acute disease, by Dr. TODD On measuring the configuration of the Chest in disease (Plate On the nature of various substances formed in or discharged from 76 Cases of calcareous deposit in the brain, by Dr. John Ogle 81, 187 86 88 89 Some observations on the diuretic action of iodide of potassium, .. 181 Case of paralysis accompanied by increased sensibility consequent . 192 194 Case of poisoning by chloride of zinc, by Mr. G. R. CUBITT 277 PAGE Cases illustrating the use of the ophthalmoscope, by Messrs. 284 287 II. ORIGINAL RESEARCHES IN ANATOMY AND PHYSIO- On excretine, a new immediate principle of human excrements, .. 98 Observations connected with bones, by Mr. HULKE (Plate XIII) 104 On the anatomy of the spinal cord (Plates XX and XXI), by 200 On some points in the anatomy of the kidney, by Dr. LIONEL 209 Papers on the anatomy of the liver in health and disease, I. On preparing injected preparations of the liver (Plates H. On the lobules of the liver of the ox. Portal and hepatic V. On the arrangement of the vessels of the gall bladder, VI. On cirrhosis of the liver (Plates XV and XVI) VIII. On congestion of the liver (Plate XXIII) 1. On diplosoma crenata, an entozoon inhabiting the human Remarks on the formation of certain urinary calculi and of the III. RESULTS OF THE CHEMICAL AND MICROSCOPICAL Urine On the presence of cholesterine in urine PAGE On cases of chylous urine, with analyses Curious form of uric acid crystals Urine containing cystine, with analyses Very large spherical crystals of urate of soda, Dr. KENNION 249 250 Bodies of a vegetable nature much resembling spermatozoa 251 311 317 42 From a case of very severe lepra, with analyses Analyses of softened cerebral matter surrounding an apoplectic Case of rape, with microscopic examination of the linen.. Tumor connected with the thyroid 46 48 Cancer diffused through the entire liver (Plate xviiii) Melanotic cancer of the penis, by Dr. CHARLES MURCHISON On the structure of the false membrane in some cases of diptheria, by Dr. LIONEL BEALE 242 Sugar detected in the liver of a diabetic patient, thirty hours Echinococci hooklets in fluid removed from the right side of the 253 Sarcinæ ventriculi from a patient who had only vomited shortly b |