CONTENTS.

NUMBER XVII.

SELECTED PAPERS.

OBSERVATIONS on the vascular appearance in the hu-

man stomach, which is frequently mistaken for inflam-

mation of that organ. By John Yelloly, M. D.

On the muscularity of the uterus. By Charles Bell, Esq.

F. R. S. &c.

On the effects of evacuating the aqueous humour in inflam-

mation of the eyes, and in some diseases of the cornea. By

James Wardrop, F. R. S.

Observations on the cataract. By Benjamin Travers, Esq.

SELECTED REVIEWS.

Practical observations on the treatment of the diseases of the

prostate gland. Illustrated by copper plates. By Edward

Home, Esq. F. R. S.

Surgical observations on tumours, and on lumbar abscesses.

By John Abernethy, F. R. S.

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Manufacture of Gas of Coal,

Arthur Young's Farmer's Kalendar

Treatise on the Medicinal Leech,

ORIGINAL PAPER.

Copy of a letter from Benjamin Silliman, professor of che-

mistry at Yale College, to David Melville, patentee of the

improved gas apparatus,

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MEDICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE.

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131

Housham's Observations on the Formation of Human Bones, 131
Abstract of the Report of the Philadelphia Dispensary,

132

Meteorological Observations,
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE,

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134

NUMBER XVIII.

SELECTED PAPERS.

Observations on the Ligature of Arteries, and the Causes of
Secondary Hemorrhage; with a Suggestion of a New Me-
thod of employing the Ligature in Cases of Aneurism. By
Benjamin Travers, Esq.

Analysis of the Bones of the Spine, in a Case of Mollities
Ossium. By John Bostock, M. D.

Ap Account of the Anastomosis of the Arteries at the Groin.

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By Astley Cooper, Esq. F. R. S. -
Pathological Researches respecting the Diseases of Joints.
By B. C. Brodie, Esq. F. R. S.
Account of a Family having Hands and Feet with super-
numerary Fingers and Toes. By Anthony Carlisle, Esq.
F. R. S. -

Account of the Volcano of Albay,

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

Memoir, exhibiting a very simple method of perceiving ob-
jects formed at the back part of the Eye. Translated from
the French of M. Magendie, D. M. P., by N. C. Nan-
crede, M. D. &c. &c.

MEDICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Case of a Wound of the Knee Joint. By. Dr. Wm. Watson,
Description of a Sick-Bed, proposed by John Rhea Barton,
of the Pennsylvania Hospital, -

Eloge of Ambrose Paré, the father of surgery in France. By
Dr. Vimont,

M. Double's Essay on the Croup,

On the Cultivation of the Japan Tea Plant, in Europe,
On the Effect of Injuries of the Brain,

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