PRINTED FOR ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, LONDON:
JOHN CUMMING, AND HODGES & SMITH, DUBLIN.

1845.

PRINTED BY STARK AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH.

THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

No. CLXIV.

CONTENTS.

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.

Page I

II. On the Vision of Objects on and in the Eye. By WILLIAM

MACKENZIE, M. D.,

III. On Inflammation of the Membrane of the Aqueous Humour of

the Eye. By ALEXANDER WATSON, M. D.,

IV. On Malarial Fevers, as observed in Canada, from 1838 to 1845.

I. On Malarial Continued Fever. By THOMAS STRATTON,

M. D.,

V. A Concise View of the Progress of Military Medical Literature

in this Country; being a Chronological Arrangement of Au-

thors, with Critical Remarks on their Works. By JAMES IR-

VING, M. D.,

VI. Inquiry into the Probable Cause of the continued Prevalence and

Fatality of Small- Pox. By JAMES STARK, M. D.,

VII. On the Period of Puberty in Hindu Women. By JOHN Ro-

BERTON,

Supplement to Mr ROBERTON'S Paper on the Period of Puberty in Hin-
du Women,

VIII. Case of Poisoning by Hemlock (Conium maculatum). By JOHN

HUGHES BENNETT, M. D.,

PART II-CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

ART. I. The Anatomy of Sleep, or the Art of procuring sound and re-

freshing Slumber at will. By EDWARD BINNS, M. D.,

II. 1. Human Magnetism; its claims to Dispassionate Inquiry. Being

an attempt to show the Utility of its application for the Relief

of Human Suffering. By W. NEWNHAM, Esq., M. R. S. L.

2. Letters on Mesmerism. By HARRIET MARTINEAU,

III. A Physiological Essay on the Thymus Gland. By JOHN SI-

MON, F. R. S.,

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