THE

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL

REVIEW,

AND

JOURNAL

OF

PRACTICAL MEDICINE.

(NEW SERIES.)

VOLUME FORTY-ONE,

[1st of APRIL to 30th of SEPTEMBER,]

1844.

VOL. XXI. of DECENNIAL SERIES.

EDITED HITHERTO

BY JAMES JOHNSON, M.D.

PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE LATE KING.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY S. HIGHLEY.

NEW-YORK:

RE PUBLISHED BY R. & G. S. WOOD,

No. 261 PEARL-STREET.

1844,

H, LUDWIG, PRINTER, Nos. 70 and 72, Vesey-st.

OF THE

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW,

No. LXXXI. JULY 1, 1844.

BEING No. XLI. OF A DECENNIAL SERIES.

REVIEWS.

I.

I. Illustrations of the Theory and Practice of Ventilation, &c. By DAVID BOS-

WELL REID, M.D.

II. Thermal Comfort: or Popular Hints for Preservation from Colds, Coughs,

and Consumption. By Sir GEORGE LEFEVRE, M.D.

II.

1

Crania Egyptiaca; or Observations on Egyptian Ethnography, derived from

Anatomy, History, and the Monuments. By SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON, M.D. 14

1. Čaucasian Race

I. Physiologische, Pathologische und Medicinisch-practische Untersuchungen über

die Spinal Irritation. Von Dr. STILLING

Physiological, Pathological, and Practical Investigations respecting Spinal

Irritation

II. Abhandlung uber Spinal Irritation. Von Dr. LUDWIG TURCK

Treatise on Spinal Irritation.

1. Symptomatic Spinal Irritation

2. Phenomena of Spinal Irritation

IV.

'. 15

15

On Regimen and Longevity: comprising Materia Alimentaria, National Dietetic

Usages, and the Influence of Civilization on Health and the Duration of Life.

By JOHN BELL, M.D.

1. Influence of Civilization on the Duration of Life

2. National Dietetic Usages

V.

Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay. No. V.

1. Report of the Diseases which have occurred in the Hon. Company's

Steam Flotilla on the river Euphrates, &c.

2. Annual Report of the Native General Hospital at Bombay, for the

Year 1841. By A. Graham, Esq.

3. Annual Medical Report of H. M. 2d or Queen's Royal Regiment,

from the 1st April, 1841, to the 31st of March, 1842. By R. H. A.

Hunter, Esq.

4. Report of the Medical Statistics of Upper Scinde, drawn up by the

Medical Officers serving with the force under the command of

Brigadier England

5. History of the Epidemic Fever that prevailed in H. M. 17th Regiment

during the Monsoon of 1841, when quartered in the Colaba Barracks,

Bombay. By Arthur S. Thompson, M.D.

6. Medico-Historical Abstract of the 1st Year's Service in the East Indies

of H. M.'s 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons, at Kirkee. By J. W.

Moffat, Esq.

The Influence of Climate and other Agents on the Human Constitution,_with

reference to the Causes and Prevention of Disease among Seamen. By ROBт.

ARMSTRONG, M.D.