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The Anatomist's Vade Mecum: a System of Human Anatomy. By
Erasmus Wilson, with 186 Illustrations by Bagg. Third Edition. Lon-
don, 1845. 12mo. Pp. 648.

A Report of the Obstetric Practice of University College Hospital, Lon-
don. By Edward William Murphy, A. M., M. D., Professor of Midwifery
to the College, Obstetric Physician to University College Hospital, &c.
&c. Dublin. 8vo. Pp. 53.

A Practical Treatise on the Special Diseases of the Skin, enriched with
Cases and numerous Notes from the best authors, and the Clinique at
the Hopital Saint Louis. By C. M. Gibert, Physician to the Hospital
Saint Louis, &c. 2d Edit. corrected and considerably enlarged. Trans-
lated from the French by Edgar Sheppard, Member of the R. Coll. of
Surgeons of England. London, 1845. 12mo. Pp. 358.

On the Diseases of the Jaws, with a brief Outline of their Surgical Ana-
tomy, and a Description of the Operations for their Extirpation and Am-
putation, with Cases and Illustrations. By Richard O'Shaughnessy, Fel-
low of the R. C. of Surgeons of England, Bengal Medical Service, Demon-
strator and Lecturer on Surgical Anatomy in the Medical College of Ben-
gal, and Superintendent of the Gurrunhattah Dispensary. Calcutta, 1844.
Svo. Pp. 100.

A Thermometrical Table on the Scales of Fahrenheit, Centigrade, and
Reaumur; comprising the most remarkable Phenomena connected with
Temperature in relation to Climatology, Physical Geography, Chemistry,
and Physiology. By Alfred S. Taylor, Lecturer on Chemistry, &c. in
Guy's Hospital. London, 1845. 12mo. Pp. 11.

The Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Diseases of the Heart,
and of Aneurism. With Observations on Rheumatism. By J. J. Furni-
vall, M.D., Member of the R. C. of Physicians in London; late Physician
to the General Infirmary at Hertford, &c. London, 1845. 8vo. Pp. 216.
A Collection of Cases of Apoplexy; with an Explanatory Introduction.
By Edward Copeman, Surgeon. London, 1845. 8vo. Pp. 205.

The Natural History of Animals, being the Substance of Three Courses
of Lectures delivered before the Royal Institution of Great Britain. By
Thomas Rymer Jones, F. R. S., F. Z. S., Professor of Comparative Ana-
tomy in King's College, London, &c.; and with One Hundred and Five
Illustrations. Volume One. London, 1845. Post 8vo. Pp. 362.

The Gymnastic Orthopœdical Institution in Dessau, its Management
and Efficaciousness. By Dr Johann Adolph Ludwig Werner, Professor,
Director of the Ducal Gymnastic Orthopaedical Institution, and of the
Gymnastic Academy in Dessau, &c. Dessau, 1845. 8vo. Pp. 48.

Pulmonary Consumption successfully treated with Naphtha; with
Cases from other Medical Men in support of that Treatment; and an Ap-
pendix showing the Utility of puncturing Tuberculous Cavities, as an Ad-
juvant in the Cure of Phthisis. 2d Ed. revised and enlarged. By John
Hastings, M. D., Senior Physician to the Blenheim Street Dispensary.
London, 1845. 8vo. Pp. 260.

The General Treatment and Nature of Tumours. By George Macil-
wain, Author of Medicine and Surgery one Inductive Science, &c., late
Surgeon to the Finsbury Dispensary, &c. London, 1845. 8vo. Pp. 219.

A System of Surgery. By J. M. Chelius, Doctor in Medicine and Sur-
gery, Public Professor of General and Ophthalmic Surgery, Director of the
Surgical and Ophthalmic Clinic in the University of Heidelberg, &c. &c.
Translated from the German, and accompanied with additional Notes and

Observations. By John F. South, Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital.
London, 1845. 8vo. Part II. p. 113–208. Part III. 209-304.

The London Medical Directory, 1845. Containing the Name, Address,
Qualification, Official Appointments, Honorary Distinctions, and Literary
Production of every Physician, Surgeon, and General Practitioner resi-
dent in London. London, 1845. 12mo. Pp. 180.,

Sixth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Deaths, Births, and
Marriages in England. London, 1845. 8vo. Pp. 666.

The Structure of the Lungs Anatomically and Physiologically consi-

dered; with a view to exemplify the Wisdom, Power, and Goodness of

God, as declared in Holy Writ. The Warneford Prize Essay for the year

1844. By John Moore, Student of the Queen's Coll. and Resident Med.

Officer of Queen's Hospital, Birmingham. London, Birmingham, 1845.

8vo. Pp. 106.

Observations on the Growth and Irregularities of Children's Teeth; fol-

lowed by Remarks and Advice on the Teeth in General. To which is

added a Short Essay on Artificial Teeth. By W. H. Mortimer, late Sur-

geon-Dentist to the British Embassy at Paris. Second Edition revised.

London, 1845. 12mo. Pp. 129.

Hints to Mothers and other Persons interested in the Management of

Females at the age of Puberty. By Jonathan Toogood, Licentiate of the
R. Coll. of Physicians, Fellow of the R. Coll. of Surgeons, and Senior Me-
dical Officer of the Bridgewater Infirmary. London, 1845. 8vo. Pp. 20.

A Few Words on the Claims of the Medical Profession upon the Public-
By John Robinson, M.B. 2d Edition revised. London, 1845. 8vo. Pp. 8.
Seven Lectures on Somnambulism, Translated from the German of Dr

Arnold Wienholt; with a Preface, Introduction, Notes, and an Appendix.

By J. C. Colquhoun, Esq. Advocate, Author of Isis Revelata, &c. Edin-

burgh, 1845. 12mo. Pp. 219.

Objections to Animal Magnetism or Mesmerism, with Remarks on Mr

S. Hall's Lectures. By Charles Vines, Surgeon. Reading, 1845. 8vo.

Pp. 23.

The Medico-Chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine.

Edited by James Johnson, M.D., &c. New Series. No. 84, April 1845.

The British and Foreign Medical Review or Quarterly Journal of Prac-

tical Medicine and Surgery. Edited by John Forbes, M.D., &c. No.

XXXVIII. April 1845. London.

The London Medical Gazette, Session 1844, 1845. No. 26, 22d March

1845. No. 30, 25th April 1845. New Series, No. 1, (909) May 2d.

No. 914. New Series. No. 6, 6th June 1845.

The Northern Journal of Medicine, &c. Edited by William Seller,

M.D., &c. No. XIII., May. No. XIV. June 1845.

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Edited by Isaac Hays,

M.D., Surgeon to Wills Hospital, &c. No. XVIII. New Series. April

1845. Philadelphia.

The Quarterly Medical and Surgical Journal for the North-Western

Provinces, (India.) Nos. I., II., III., IV., 1844. Delhi, 8vo. A new

Indian Journal, edited, it is said, by Dr W. L. Macgregor.

The Medical Examiner and Record of Medical Science. Edited by

Robert M. Huston, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and General The-

rapeutics in the Jefferson Medical College, &c. Nos. I., II., III., IV.

New Series. January, April 1845. Philadelphia. 8vo.

Weekly Tables of Mortality for the Metropolis. No. 12, Saturday, 22d

March 1845, to No. 23, Saturday, 7th June.

Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal. Edited by Robert J. N.

Streeten, M.D., No. 13, Wednesday, 28th March 1845, to No. 24, Wed-
nesday, June 11th, 1845.

THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

1. JULY 1845.

PART I.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I.-Report upon the Tables of Deaths in the Census of Ireland for the year 1841. BY WILLIAM ROBERT WYLDE, Esq. (Continued from Vol. lxiii. No. 163, p. 285.)

DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS.

No. 39. TEETHING.-The deaths attributed to this cause amount to 3,033, as 100 males to 87.67 females. The civic district offers, in comparison with its general deaths, a larger return from this cause than the rural. During the 1st year the deaths enumerated are 1,394 males and 1,195 females; up to the end of the 2d, 299 males and 289 females; in the 3d and 4th years, 60 males and 50 females have been registered. These latter, as well as 16 cases returned as deaths from teething in the A. Forms, up to the 6th year, must have arisen from some of the infantile diseases whose symptoms simulate dentition. Although death from the process of teething or cutting the milk teeth very rarely takes place, yet the term is one in very common use, as expressing, in popular phraseology, a number of infantile diseases, chiefly of the digestive organs. For this reason, deaths from teething form too prominent a feature in all modern bills of mortality. Convulsions being a frequently attending symptom of difficult dentition, complicated with disease of the gastro-enteritic mucous membrane, and also diseases of the nervous system, it is possible that many deaths from teething (popularly so called) may have been returned under that head.

VOL. LXIV. No. 164.

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The Irish term for this affection is expressive-Cur Fiacul,—a sowing, or planting of the teeth.

No. 40. JAUNDICE.-1,306 deaths-100 males to 68.51 females, are registered under this disease; it has prevailed most in the rural districts, and is to the total deaths from all the diseases of this class 1 in 94-81. Being so frequently a symptom of other diseases, particularly of the liver, gall-bladder, duodenum, &c., the observations already offered upon such symptomatic affections refer with equal propriety to this. Cases of jaundice were registered from 12 months to extreme old age. At the infantile period the term yellow gum, Icterus Infantum, is commonly applied to it; the words black and yellow jaundice are used to express its degrees of intensity. There is an affection specified in the Irish MSS. as Buidheachair Chrochda -the yellow spotted disease of the skin-a saffron yellow eruptive disease, different from Galar Buidhe-the ordinary jaundice. the period of extreme age, deaths from gall-stones may be included in this item of the mortality. 51 patients died of jaundice in hospital. The peculiar appearance of this disease renders it improbable to have been mistaken for other affections.

No. 41. WORMS.-3,895 deaths are attributed to this cause, which is to all of the same class 1 in 31-79, the sexes being 100 males to 112-6 females. What is generally termed worm fever, and infantile remittent fever must form a large portion of these cases. From the 11th month to the end of the 10th year, 3,263 deaths from this disease have been registered, or nearly nine-tenths of the whole. The term worms is very frequently applied by the lower orders of the Irish to a variety of abdominal affections, and is, as well as marasmus, another cause of early decline. Thus, "worms picking the heart," is a common expression for cardialgia, gastrodynia, and other symptoms of dyspepsia. Ascarides, the long, the round, and tape worms, have all separate appellations in the Irish language. Only three cases occurred in hospital.

No. 42. COLIC.-1,663 cases are said to have died of this disease, as 100 males to 33-04 females;-at all ages. Abdominal pains of every kind, and proceeding from such a variety of causes, of a chronic as well as an acute or inflammatory nature, have no doubt formed the data on which a large number of these cases were returned. In infancy and early life the griping pains and tenesmus attending many diseases of the abdominal cavity, may have likewise given rise to this expression. In the northern districts in particular, the term bowel or bole-hive is in common use to denote this affection in children; and throughout the country generally, "died of a pain in the stomach -pain in the belly-an inward pain-an inward fit; or, colicky pains," are of too vague and general a nature to offer any explanation of it. A windy colic applies either to tympanites, or to some abdominal affection, with flatulence and eructation. 8 cases are returned by the hospitals; they were chiefly from the effects of lead-Colica Pictonum. Treighid, a piercing pain in the abdomen, from Treághadh, to pierce with the spear, is an old term for colic, used in the medical MSS., and also found in the "Annals of the Four Masters;" but

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