MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL

REVIEW,

AND

JOURNAL

OF

PRACTICAL MEDICINE.

NEW SERIES,

VOLUME FIFTEEN.

[BEING VOL. XIX. of ANALYTICAL SERIES.]
[1st of APRIL, to 30th of SEPTEMBER,]

1831.

EDITED BY

JAMES JOHNSON, M.D.

PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN,

&c. &c. &c.

* Nec tibi quid liceat sed quid fecisse decebit

"Occurrat mentemque domat respectus honesti."—CLAUD.

REPUBLISHED

BY RICHARD & GEORGE S. WOOD,

No. 261 PEARL-STREET.

NEW-YORK.

CONTENTS

OF THE

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW.

No. XXIX. JULY 1, 1831.

REVIEWS.

I.

BARON LARREY'S "Clinique Chirurgicale;" or Experience on the Field of Battle and

in Military Hospitals, from 1792 to 1829

II.

Report of the Wellesley Female Institution. By SAMUEL CUSACK, M. B.

III.

The Life of John Walker, M. D. By Dr. Erps.

IV.

An Essay on the Influence of Temperament in modifying Dyspepsia. By Dr. T.

ΜΑΙΟ

V.

The Physiology of the Fœtus, Liver and Spleen. By Dr. HOLLAND

VI.

A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Eye. By W. Mackenzie, Esq.-(2d Article) 52

VII.

Outlines of Physiology, with Heads of Lectures on Pathology and Therapeutics. By

Dr. ALISON

VIII.

IX.

On Diseases of the Liver and its Appendages. By M. ANDRAL, M. D.

On the Use of Instruments in dangerous and protracted Labours. By J. BEATTY,

On Polypi of the Heart, as an Idiopathic Affection and Cause of Death. By W.

HARTY, M. D.

75

85

91

96

102

XII.

Treatise on the Excision of Diseased Joints. By JAMES SYMB, Esq.

113

XIII.

Medical Zoology and Mineralogy. By Dr. J. STEPHENSON

126