British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review

THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL

REVIEW

QUARTERLY JOURNAL

PRACTICAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

VOL. III.

JANUARY-APRIL 1849.

LONDON:

SAMUEL HIGHLEY, 32, FLEET STREET,

AND

JOHN CHURCHILL, 46, PRINCES STREET, SOHO.

MDCCCXLIX.

der. J.C. Warren,
5 March 1924.

41.

C. AND J. ADLARD, PRINTERS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.

CONTENTS OF N° V

OF THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW.

JANUARY, 1849.

Analytical and Critical Reviews.

ART. I.—1. Einige Bemerkungen über die Asiatische Cholera, &c. &c. VON C.

MÜLLER, DR. MED.

2. Report on Asiatic Cholera in Regiments of the Madras Army, from 1828 to

1844; with Introductory Remarks on its Mode of Diffusion and Prevention,

and Summary of the General Method of Treatment in India. By SAMUEL

ROGERS, F.R.C.S.E., and Surgeon of the Madras Army.

3. Observations on the Asiatic Cholera, during a Residence in St. Petersburg

in 1848, &c. By ADAIR CRAWFORD, M.D., Member of the London College

of Physicians (Metropolitan Sanitary Commission)

4. Observations on Malignant Cholera, &c. By ANDREW BUCHANAN, M.D.,

Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the University of Glasgow, &c.

5. On the Treatment of Asiatic Cholera. By ARCHIBALD BILLING, M.D.

6. Cholera.-Practical Observations on a Successful Method of treating Cholera.

By CHARLES PATTERSON, M.D.

PAGE

ib.

7. A Few Thoughts on Cholera, in reference to its Origin, the Nature of the

Exciting Cause, and the Principle of Treatment. By M. T. SADLER, M.R.C.S.E.

8. Plain Directions for the Prevention and Treatment of Cholera. By THOMAS

ALLEN, M.R.C.S.E.

9. A Letter to Lord Morpeth, &c., on the Question, Is Cholera contagious or

not? By WILLIAM REID, M.D.

10. Practical Observations on the Prevailing Epidemic, called Cholera, &c.

By JAMES KEIR, M.D., Knt., &c.

ART. II.-1. Reports from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on

Medical Education; with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix

2. Reports from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on the

Medical Registration Bill; with the Minutes of Evidence, &c.-July, 1847;

March, 1848.

ART. III. On the Nature and Treatment of Stomach and Renal Diseases; being

an Inquiry into the Connexion of Diabetes, Calculus, and other Affections

of the Kidney and Bladder, with Indigestion. By WILLIAM PROut, M.D.,

F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

ART. IV.-Erfahrungen über die Krankheiten des Gehöres und ihre Heilung, vom
Medizinalrathe EDUARD SCHMALZE, Docter der Medizin, Gehör-und Sprach-
Arzte zu Dresden, &c.

Practical Observations on Diseases of the Ear, and their Treatment. By Dr.
EDWARD SCHMALZE, Aurist at Dresden.

ART. V. Clinical Observations on the Pathology and Treatment of Continued

Fever, from Cases occurring in the Medical Practice of St. Bartholomew's

Hospital. By EDWARD LATHAM ORMEROD, M.B., Demonstrator of Morbid

Anatomy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital

ART. VI.-A Treatise on Diet and Regimen. By WILLIAM HENRY ROBERTSON,

M.D., Physician to the Buxton Bath Charity

ART. VII.-Mémoires de l'Académie Royale de Médecine

PAGE

101

. 123

ART. VIII.-1. Females and their Diseases; a Series of Letters to his Class. By

CHARLES D. MEIGS, M.D., Professor of Midwifery and the Diseases of

Women and Children in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, &c. 138

2. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases peculiar to Women. Illustrated

by Cases derived from Hospital and Private Practice. By SAMUEL

ASHWELL, M.D.

ART. IX.-On Femoral Rupture; its Anatomy, Pathology, and Surgery. With a

new Mode of Operating, applicable to Cases of Strangulated Hernia gene-

rally. With Plates. By JOHN GAY, F.R.C.s., Surgeon to the Royal Free

Hospital, &c.

ib.

. 165

ART. X.-A Dispensatory, or Commentary on the Pharmacopoeias of Great Britain.

By R. CHRISTISON, M.D., &c., President of the Royal College of Physicians,

and Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Edinburgh.

ART. XI.-A Course of Lectures on Dental Physiology and Surgery, delivered at the

Middlesex Hospital School of Medicine. By JOHN TOMES, Surgeon-Dentist

to the Middlesex Hospital

ART. XII.-A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope, including the

different Methods of preparing and examining Animal, Vegetable, and

Mineral Structures. By JOHN QUEKETT, Assistant Conservator of the

Museum, and Demonstrator of Minute Anatomy at the Royal College of

Surgeons of England

ART. XIII.-1. Hints towards the Formation of a more Comprehensive Theory of

Life. By S. T. COLERIDGE. Edited by SETH WATSON, M.D., Oxon.

2. Reflections on Organization; or Suggestions for the Construction of an

Organic Atomic Theory. By HENRY FREKE, a.b. M.B. T.C.D., M.R.I.A.

ART. XIV. On the Treatment of Ulcers on the Leg without Confinement. With

an Inquiry into the best Mode of effecting the permanent Cure of Varicose

Veins. By H. T. CHAPMAN, F.R.C.S., &c.

ART. XV.-1. A Practical Treatise on Chemical Analysis, including Tables for

Calculations in Analysis. By H. ROSE. Translated from the French and

Fourth German Edition, with Notes and Additions, by A. NORMANDY. In

Two Vols. Vol. I. Qualitative. Vol. II. Quantitative.

2. Practical Introduction to H. Rose's Treatise on Chemical Analysis, illustrated

by Synoptic Tables and numerous Formulas. By A. NORMANDY

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ART. I.-Surgical Anatomy. By JOSEPH MACLISE, Surgeon. Fasciculus I

ART. II.-1. Elements of General Pathology. BY ANDREW STILLÉ, M D., Lecturer

on Pathology and the Practice of Medicine in the Philadelphia Medical

Association

. 205

207

2. The Principles and Practice of Midwifery. By DAVID H. TUCKER, M.D.,

Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, &c. With numerous

Illustrations

ART. III.-Kurt Sprengel's Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde.

Vierte Auflage, mit Berichtigungen und Zusätsen versehen von Dr. JULIUS

ROSENBAUM, &c. &c. Erster Band. Aelteste Geschichte der Medicin bis

zur empirischen Schule.

. ib.

203

ART. IV.-American Medical Biography; or Memoirs of Eminent Physicians,

embracing principally those who have died since the publication of Dr.

Thacher's work on the same subject. By STEPHEN W. WILLIAMS, M.D.,

&c. &c. With Engravings

ART. V. Clinical Midwifery; comprising the Histories of Five Hundred and Forty-

five cases of Difficult, Preternatural, and Complicated Labour. With

Commentaries. By ROBERT Lee, M.D., F.R.S., &c.

ART. VI.-1. The Student's Clinical Memorandum Book, or Medical Practitioner's

Remembrancer, and Vade-Mecum

2. The Clinical Repertory, Synoptical Tabular Form

ART. VII.-1. School Chemistry; or Practical Rudiments of the Science. By

ROBERT DUNDAS THOMSON, M.D., Lecturer on Chemistry in the University

2. An Introduction to Practical Chemistry, including Analysis. By JOHN E.

BOWMAN, Demonstrator of Chemistry in King's College, London

ART. VIII.-The Periodoscope: with its Application to Obstetric Calculations, and

the Periodicities of the Sex. By W. TYLER SMITH, M.B. Lond., Obstetric

Lecturer in the Hunterian School of Medicine

ART. IX.-Chemical Technology; or Chemistry applied to the Arts and Manufac-

tures. By Dr. F. KNAPP, Professor at the University of Giessen. Edited, with

numerous Notes and Additions, by Dr. EDMUND RONALDS, Lecturer on

Chemistry at the Middlesex Hospital, and Dr. THOMAS RICHARDSON, of

Newcastle-on-Tyne

ART. X.-Remarks on the Extension of Education at the University of Oxford.

By HENRY WENTWORTH ACLAND, M.D., F.R.S., Lee's Reader in Anatomy,

&c. &c.

ART. XI.—Hand-Book of Physiology. By WILLIAM SENHOUSE KIRKES, M.D.

Assisted by JAMES PAGET, Lecturer on General Anatomy and Physiology at

St. Bartholomew's Hospital

ART. XII.-Elements of Chemistry, including the Applications of Science in the

Arts. By THOMAS GRAHAM, F.R.S., V.P.R.S., Corresponding Member of the

Institute of France, Professor of Chemistry in University College, London,

ART. XIII.-Wonders displayed by the Human Body in its Endurance of Injury.

From the Portfolio of DELTA

ART. XIV.—A Dictionary of Medical Science; containing a concise Explanation of

the various Subjects and Terms; with the French and other Synonymes;

Notices of Climate, and of celebrated Mineral Waters; Formulæ for various

Officinal and Empirical Preparations, &c. By ROBLEY DUNGLISON, M.D.,

Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, &c., in Jefferson Medical College,

Philadelphia.

ART. XV.-Medical Jurisprudence. By ALFRED S. TAYLOR, F.R.S., Licentiate of

the Royal College of Physicians, and Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and

Chemistry in Guy's Hospital

ART. XVI.-Portraits of Diseases of the Skin. By ERASMUS WILSON, F.R.S.

Fasciculus IV

ART. XVII.-The Natural History of Man; comprising Inquiries into the Modi-

fying Influence of Physical and Moral Agencies on the Different Tribes of

the Human Family. By JAMES COWLES PRICHARD, M.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.A.,

Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, &c. &c.

ART. XVIII.-Pathology of the Human Eye. By JOHN DALRYMPLE, P.R.C.S.

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