THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL

JOURNAL:

EXHIBITING

A CONCISE VIEW

OF THE

LATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES

IN

MEDICINE, SURGERY, AND
PHARMACY.

VOLUME TWELFTH.

1816.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by George Ramsay & Compuny,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH;
́LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, & BROWN, LONDON;
AND JOHN CUMMING, DUBLIN.

1816.

CONTENTS

OF

VOL. XII.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

No. XLV.

ART. I. Case of Carotid Aneurism. (With an Engraving.) By Mr
Thomas Duncan,

II. Case of singular Malformation of the Heart, with Remarks

on deranged Circulation. By James Thomson, M. D.

III. Case of the Effects of Tobacco. Communicated by Mar-

shall Hall, M. D. &c.

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IV. Observations on the Plague at Malta. By Mr William

Stafford,

V. Case of Fracture of the Skull, in which a quantity of Brain

was lost, and a real Hernia Cerebri successfully treated

by Pressure, &c. By Mr C. K. Crawford,

VI. Case of very extensive Wound of the Abdomen, with com-

plete Division of the Ileum, and Penetration of the Ca-

vity of the Thorax. By Mr Thomas Calton,

VII. On Puerperal Fever, as it appeared at Holloway, near

London, in the early part of the year 1812. By Mr

David Dunn,

VIII. Three Cases of Inflammation of the Heart, with the Ap-

pearances on Dissection. By Andrew Duncan, Jun.

M. D. &c.

IX. Case of Inguinal and Popliteal Aneurism, cured by tying

the External Iliac Artery. By William Newbigging, Esq.

X. The Inquirer. No. XXV. Medical Fragments,

No. XLVI.

ART. I. Medical Topography of New-Orleans; with an Account

of the principal Diseases that affected the Fleet and

Army on the late Expedition against that City. By a

Naval Surgeon,

II. Observations on the Utility of Bloodletting and Purga-

tives, in a Fever which prevailed in the Russian Fleet.

By D. J. H. Dickson, M. D. &c.

III. On the Malignant Fever which prevailed at Gibraltar in

1813, and its Treatment by Bloodletting. By Mr J.

Humphreys,

IV. Proofs of the Bulam Fever attacking the Human Frame

only once. By W. Pym, M. D.

VOL. XII, NO. 48.

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