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THE
BRITISH AND FOREIGN
MEDICO-CHIRURGICA
REVIEW
OR
QUARTERLY JOURNAL
OF
PRACTICAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY.
VOL. IV.
JULY-OCTOBER 1849.
LONDON:
JOHN CHURCHILL, 46, PRINCES STREET, SOHO,
AND
SAMUEL HIGHLEY, 32, FLEET STREET.
MDCCCXLIX.
Dr. J.C Warren 5 March 1924.
41.
C AND J. ADLARD, PRINTERS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.
CONTENTS OF No VII
OF THE
MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW.
JULY, 1849.
Analytical and Critical Reviews.
ART. I.-1. Parturition, and the Principles and Practice of Obstetrics. By W.
TYLER SMITH, M.D., Lond., Lecturer on Obstetrics in the Hunterian School
of Medicine
2. Obstetrics: the Science and the Art. By CHARLES D. MEIGS, M.D.,
Professor of Midwifery in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia,
&c. &c.
ART. II.-Medico-Chirurgical Transactions. Published by the Royal Medical and
Chirurgical Society of London
ART. III.-1. KOSMOS. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. Von
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
PAGE
1
ib.
36
54
2. COSMOS. A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe. By
Alexander VON HUMBOLDT. Translated from the German by E. C. OTTÉ ib.
3. Briefe über Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos. Ein Commentar zu diesem
Werke für gebildete Laien. Erster Theil. Bearbeitet von BERNARD Cotta,
Professor
4. Kosmos für Schulen und Laien nach Alexander von Humboldt. Von Dr.
K. G. REUSCHLE, Professor der Mathematik und Geographie zu Stuttgart
ART. IV.-1. Return of the Mortality in 117 Districts of England, for the Quarter
ending December 31st, 1847
2. On the Influenza or Epidemic Catarrhal Fever of 1847-8. By THOMAS B.
PEACOCK, M.D., Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Physician to
the Royal Free Hospital, &c. &c.
90
ART. V.-1. Lectures on the Causes and Treatment of Ulcers of the Lower Ex-
tremity. By GEORGE CRITCHETT, Esq., F.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Royal
London Ophthalmic Hospital, Assistant-Surgeon to the London Hospital, and
Lecturer on Practical Anatomy, &c. &c.
. 112
2. A Treatise on the Cure of Ulcers by Fumigation, in which a Rational Treat-
ment is deduced from the Physiology of Ulceration, and Proofs afforded that
the New Method produces more Speedy, Certain, and Permanent Effects
than any other in General Use, &c. &c. &c. By GEORGE ALFRED Walker,
Surgeon, Member of the several Learned and Scientific Societies, and Author
of 'Gatherings from Grave-yards,' &c.
ART. VI.-Nosologia Positiva. Scritta da VINCENZO LANZA
. 116
ART. VII.-1. The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By JONATHAN
PEREIRA, M.D., F.R.S., &c.
2. Traité de Thérapeutique et de Matière Médicale. Par A. TROUSSEAU et
H. PIDOUX.
3. Traité de l'Art de Formuler, ou Notions de Pharmacologie appliquée à la
Médecine. Par le Docteur MIALHE
. 128
4. Lectures on the Chemistry of Pathology and Therapeutics, showing the
application of the Science of Chemistry to the Discovery, Treatment, and
Cure of Disease. By ALFRED B. GARROD, M.D.
5. Lectures on the Influence of Researches in Organic Chemistry on Thera-
peutics, especially in relation to the Depuration of the Blood, delivered at
the Royal College of Physicians. By Dr. GOLDING BIRD, A.M., F.R.S., &c. ib.
ART. VIII.-1. On Infantile Laryngismus; with Observations on Artificial Feeding,
as a frequent Cause of this Complaint, and of other Convulsive Diseases of
Infants. By JAMES REID, M.D., &c.
.
160
2. Observations on the Pathology of Croup; with Remarks on its Treatment
by Topical Medications. By HORACE GREEN, M.D., M.A., &c.
ART. IX. Pathological and Practical Observations on Strictures, and some other
Diseases of the Urinary Organs. By FRANCIS RYND, M.A., M.R.I.A., Surgeon
to the Meath Hospital, and County of Dublin Infirmary, &c. &c. .
ART X.-1. On the Nature of Limbs. A Discourse, delivered at an Evening
Meeting of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. By RICHARD OWEN,
2. The Homologies of the Human Skeleton. By HOLMES Coote, F.R.C.S.,
Demonstrator of Anatomy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital
172
ART. XI.-1. The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology. Part XXX-I, Article
"Products, Adventitious." By W. H. WALSHE, M.D., Prof. Clin. Med.
Univ. Coll. Lond.
2. On Cancerous and Cancroid Growths. By JOHN HUGHES Bennett, m.d.,
F.R.S.E., &c. .
ART. XII.-General Board of Health: Report on Quarantine. Presented to both
Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty
ART. XIII.-1. On Healthy and Diseased Structure, and the True Principles of
Treatment for the Cure of Disease, especially Consumption and Scrofula;
founded on Microscopical Analysis. By WILLIAM ADDISON, M.D., F.R.S.,
Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians
2. Thoughts on Pulmonary Consumption; with an Appendix on the Climate of
Torquay. By WILLIAM HERRIES MADDEN, M.D., Physician to the Torbay
Infirmary and Dispensary, &c.
3. De l'Analogie et des Différences entre les Tubercules et les Scrofules;
Mémoire qui au Concours, fondé par Portal, a mérité de l'Académie de
Médecine une mention honorable. Par A. LEGRAND, Docteur en Médecine
de la Faculté de Paris, &c. &c.
4. The Undercliff of the Isle of Wight; its Climate, History, and Natural
Productions. By GEORGE A. MARTIN, M.D.
205
220
Bibliographical Notices.
ART. I.-Elements of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical; including the most
recent Discoveries and Applications of the Science to Medicine and Pharmacy,
to Agriculture, and to Manufactures. By Sir Robert Kane, m.D., M.R.I.A.,
President of the Queen's College, Cork, &c. &c.
ART. II.-Lectures on Medical Missions, delivered at the instance of the Edinburgh
Medical Missionary Society
. 237
ART. III.-Letters on the Truths contained in Popular Superstitions. By HERBERT
MAYO, M.D.
ART. IV.-1. The Hunterian Oration delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons
of England, on the 14th of February, 1849. By CESAR H. HAWKINS,
Surgeon to St. George's Hospital
238
240
241
2. The Retrospective Address on Diseases of the Chest, delivered at the
Fifteenth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical
Association, held at Derby, 1847. By EDWARD JAMES SHEARMAN, M.D. ib.
ART. V.-1. The Pathology of the Human Eye. By JOHN Dalrymple, f.r.c.s.
Fasciculus II
242
2. Portraits of Diseases of the Skin. By ERASMUS WILSON, F.R.S. Fasciculus V. ib.
3. Surgical Anatomy. By JOSEPH MACLISE. Fasciculus III
ART. VI.-Some Thoughts on Natural Theology, suggested by a Work, entitled
"Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation"
ART. VII.—Questions and Observations in Hygiene: recommended to the con-
sideration of Naval Medical Men; suggested to the mind of the Author by
the approach of the Asiatic Cholera. By FRED. JAMES BROWN, M.D., Loud.,
&c., Assistant-Surgeon R.N.
ART. VIII.-Portraits of Diseases of the Scalp, with the Safest and most Efficient
Modes of Treatment. By WALTER COOPER DENDY, Senior Surgeon to the
Royal Infirmary for Children, &c. &c. Fasciculus I
ART. IX.-1. Memoirs on the Ganglia and Nerves of the Uterus. By ROBERT
Lee, M.D., f.r.S., Lecturer on Midwifery at St. George's Hospital, &c. &c. . 245
2. Practical Observations on the Diseases of the Uterus. By ROBERT Lee,
M.D., F.R.S., &C. The Coloured Illustrations from Original Drawings by
Mr. PERRY
ART. X.-Lectures on the Parts concerned in Operations on the Eye, and on the
Structure of the Retina, delivered at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital,
June, 1847 to which are added, a Paper on the Vitreous Humour, and also
a few Cases of Ophthalmic Disease. By WILLIAM Bowman, f.r.s., f.R.C.S.,
Professor of Physiology and General and Morbid Anatomy in King's College,
London
ART. XI.-A Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels, and on the
Affections which may be mistaken for them: comprising the Author's View
of the Physiology of the Heart's Action and Sounds. By J. Hope, M.D.,
F.R.S., &c. &c.
ART. XII.-On the Cryptogamous Origin of Malarious and Epidemic Fevers. By
J. K. MITCHELL, A.M., M.D., Professor of Practical Medicine in the Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia
ART. XIII.-The Training Institutions for Nurses, and the Workhouses: an attempt
to solve one of the Social Problems of the present day. By EDWARD
SIEVEKING, M.D., Physician to the Northern Dispensary, &c. &c.
ART. XIV.-On the Science of those Proportions by which the Human Head and
Countenance, as represented in Works of Ancient Greek Art, are distin-
guished from those of Ordinary Nature. By D. R. Hay, f.r.s.e., Author of
First Principles of Symmetrical Beauty,' &c. &c.
ART. XV.-Essay on the Use of Alcoholic Liquors in Health and Disease. By
JOHN CHADWICK, M.D.
246
247
250