PART SECOND.-Bibliographical Notices.

ART. I.-Observations on the Nature and Treatment of the more important Diseases

of the Nervous System. By a Physician

ART. II-Rapport Annuel sur les Travaux de la Société Médicale du Canton de

Genève. Pour l'année 1843. Par le Docteur MARC D'ESPINE

Annual Report of the Medical Society of the Canton of Geneva. By Dr. MARC

D'ESPINE.

ART. III.--Das Kindbettfieber in nosologischer und therapeutischer Beziehung.

Von Dr. C. T. LITZMANN

PAGE

. 273

274

275

The Nature, History, and Treatment of Childbed Fever. By Dr. LITZMANN.

ART. IV. An Act for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics; with

explanatory Notes and Comments. Edited by FORBES WINSLOW, M.D. 276

ART. V. Illustrations of Modern Memerism from Personal Investigation. By JOHN

FORBES, M.D. F.R.S.

ART. VI.-Notice sur les Variations du Poids des Prisonniers soumis au Régime

Pénitentiare. Par le Docteur MARC D'ESPINE

On the Variations in the Weight of Prisoners submitted to the Penitentiary

System. By Dr. MARC D'ESPINE, &C.

. 277

278

ART. VII.-Sopra Gentile da Fuligno, Medico Illustre del Secola XIV. Discorso

Storico-critico del Dottor GIUSEPPE GIROLAMI

279

A critical and historical Discourse regarding Gentili da Fuligno, a celebrated

Physician of the 14th century. By Dr. G. GIROLAMI.

ART. VIII.-Beiträge zur Erkenntniss und Heilung der Spinal-Neurosen. Von Dr.

GEORG. HIRSCH

Contributions to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Spinal Neuroses. By Dr. G.

HIRSCH, &C.

280

ART. IX.-Ueber eine bis jetzt noch nicht näher beschriebene Drüse im innern der

Zungenspitze. Von A. NüнN

281

On a Gland, hitherto not accurately described, in the interior of the tip of the

Tongue. By A. NÜHN, M.D.

ART. X.-A Clinical Introduction to the Practice of Auscultation, and other Modes

of Physical Diagnosis; intended to simplify the Study of the Diseases of the

Lungs and Heart. By H. M. HUGHES, M.D.

ART. XI.-The History of the Middlesex Hospital during the first century of its

existence. By ERASMUS WILSON, F.R.S.

282

ART. XII.-Elementa Physiologiæ specialis Corporis Humani. Auctore AUGUSTO

ARNOLDO SEBASTIAN

ib.

ART. XIII.-An Inaugural Address, delivered at the opening of the Norfolk and

Norwich Hospital Museum, Sept. 1845. By J. G. CROSSE, M.D. F.R.S.

Books received for Review

283

284

CONTENTS OF N° XLII

OF THE

British and Foreign Medical Review.

APRIL, 1846.

PART FIRST.-Analytical and Critical Reviews.

PAGE

ART. I. Die Operative Chirurgie von JOHANN FRIEDRICH DIEFFENBACH. Erster

Band

The Operative Surgery of J. F. DIEFFENBACH. First Volume.

.-287

ART. II.-1. Second Report of the Commissioners for inquiring into the State of

Large Towns and Populous Districts

2. A Bill for the Improvement of the Sewerage and Drainage of Towns and

Populous Districts, and for making Provision for an ample supply of

Water, and for otherwise promoting the Health and Convenience of the In-

habitants

333

ib.

ART. III.-Lectures on the more important Eruptive Fevers, Hemorrhages, and

Dropsies, and on Gout and Rheumatism, delivered in the University of Penn-

sylvania. By N. CHAPMAN, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of

Medicine, &c. &c.

ART. IV.—Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay for the Years

1842 and 1843

ART. V. Die Krankheiten des Gehirns und Ruckenmarks bei Kindern. Durch

Krankheitsfälle aus dem ersten Kinderspitale erläutert, von Dr. L. W.

MAUTHNER

A Treatise on the Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Chord in Children, illus-

trated by Cases occurring in the Wards of the First Children's Hospital. By

Dr. W. L. MAUTHNER.

ART. VI. Die angeborne Verrenkungen, mit Zwei Tafeln. Von LUDWIG Joseph

MELICHER, Doctor der Medicin und Chirurgie, &c. &c.

Congenital Luxations. By LUDWIG J. MELICHER.

358

373

381

393

ib.

€ 419

. 420

Dr. BRIERRE DE BOISMONT on the Acute Delirium observed in Lunatic

Asylums

Dr. PAYAN on Extra-uterine Interstitial Pregnancy

O. DE LAFOND's Exposition of Experiments made upon Animals
Professor HIPPOLITE LARREY'S Essay on Penetrating Wounds of the Abdo-

ART. VIII. The Nature and Treatment of Cancer. By W. H. WALSHE, M.D., Pro-

fessor of Pathological Anatomy in University College, Physician to University

College Hospital, and to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the

Chest

ART. IX.-Déontologie Médicale, ou des Devoirs et des Droits des Médecins dans

l'Etat actuel de la Civilisation. Par le Docteur MAX. SIMON

Medical Deontology; or, the Duties and Rights of Medical Practitioners. By

Dr. MAXIMILIAN SIMON.

ART. X.-The Descriptive and Physiological Anatomy of the Brain, Spinal Cord,

and Ganglions, and of their Coverings. Adapted to the Use of Students. By

ROBERT BENTLEY TODD, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Physiology in King's Col-

lege, London, &c.

ART. XI.-Vermischte Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Heilkunde, von einer

Gesellschaft practischer Aerzte zu St. Petersburg. Sechste Sammlung

Medical Essays. By a Society of Physicians in St. Petersburg. Volume the

Sixth.

Dr. HERZOG on Insanity

Professor BusSCH, Cases of Sudden Death

Dr. DOEPP's Report on the Foundling Hospital

Dr. DOEPP's Operation for Varicose Aneurism

Dr. WEISSE'S Report on the Children's Hospital

421

421

438

. 452

460

Dr. OCKEL on the Uses of Calendula and of Fuligo in the Diseases of Women 472

Dr. W. LERCHE's Report of the Private Ophthalmic Institution

ART. XII.-An Essay on the Properties of Animal and Vegetable Life; their depend-

ence on the Atmosphere, and Connexion with each other, in relation to

the Functions of Health and Disease. By EDWARD JAMES SHEARMAN,

M.D., &c. &c.

ART. XIII.-Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis; being the Fossil Zoology of the Sewalik

Hills, in the North of India. By HUGH FALCONER, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S.,

&c. &c., and PROBY T. CAUTLEY, F.G.S., Captain in the Bengal Artillery,

&c. &c. Part I.

. 473

473

. 476

A Manual of Physiology, including Physiological Anatomy; for the Use of the

Medical Student. By WILLIAM B. CARPENTER, M.D., F.R.S., &c.

A System of Practical Surgery. By WILLIAM FERGUSSON, Esq., F.R.S.E., Pro-

fessor of Surgery in King's College, London, &c. Second Edition

A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence. By ALFRED S. TAYLOR, F.R.S. Second

Edition

ART. XV.-The Practice of Surgery. By JAMES MILLER, F.R.S.E., Professor of

Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, Surgeon to the Royal Infir-

mary, &c. &c.

ART. XVI.—Leçons sur les Maladies de la Peau, professées à l'Ecole de Médecine de

Paris en 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844. Par ALPH. CAZENAVE, Médecin de l'Hô-

pital Saint Louis, &c. Livraisons I, II, III

Lectures on Diseases of the Skin, delivered in the College of Medicine at Paris

in 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844. By ALPH. CAZENAVE, Physician to the Hospital

of St. Louis, &c. Parts I, II, III.

480

483

484

488

491

PART SECOND.—Bibliographical Notices.

ART. I.-First Steps to Anatomy. By JAMES L. Drummond, m.d., Professor of

Anatomy and Physiology in the Royal Belfast Institution

ART. II.—Insect Life. By DAVID Badham, m.d., late Radcliffe Travelling Fellow

of the University of Oxford, &c.

ART. III.-The Modern Treatment of Syphilitic Diseases, both Primary and Se-

condary. Comprising numerous formulæ for the preparation and mode of

administration of the new remedies; and an account of a safe and successful

mode of treating chronic, protracted, and constitutional syphilis, by the mer-

curial vapour-bath. By LANGSTON PARKER, Surgeon to the Queen's Hos-

pital, Birmingham, &c. &c. Second Edition

ART. IV.-A Natural History of the Mammalia. By G. R. WATERHOUSE, Esq.,

of the British Museum

. 493

494

. 495

496

€ 497

ART. V.-On Scarlatina and its Successful Treatment by the Acidum Aceticum

Dilutum of the Pharmacopoeia. By ISAAC B. BROWN

ART. VI.-On the Present State of Therapeutical Inquiry. By JAMES Arnott, m.d. 499

ART. VII.-Elements of Anatomy. By JONES QUAIN, M.D. Fifth Edition. Edited

by RICHARD QUAIN and WILLIAM SHARPEY, M.D., Professors of Anatomy

and Physiology, University College, London. Parts I, II

499

PART THIRD.-Natural History and Treatment

of Diseases.

PAGE

I.-Prefatory Notice. By the EDITOR

II. On the Observation of Nature in the Treatment of Disease. By ANDREW

COMBE, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, one

of the Physicians in Ordinary, in Scotland, to the Queen, &c. &c. In a Letter

to the Editor

. 501

505

III.-On the Methods for obtaining a Natural History of Diseases. By THOMAS

LAYCOCK, M.D. In a Letter to the Editor

525

IV. On the Patronage of Quacks and Impostors by the Upper Classes of Society.

By the EDITOR

533

PART FOURTH.-Original Reports and Memoirs.

Report on the Progress of Human Anatomy and Physiology in the years 1844-5.

By JAMES PAGET, Lecturer on General and Morbid Anatomy and Phy-

siology, and Warden of the Collegiate Establishment, at St. Bartholomew's

Hospital

541

Books received for Review

. 570

INDEX, TITLE, &c.