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.

SECOND EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by George Ramsay & Company,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGK
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME & BROWN, LONDON:
AND JOHN CUMMING, Dublin.

CONTENTS

OF

VOL. XII.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

No. XLV.

ART. I. Case of Carotid Aneurism. (With an Engraving.) By Mr Tho-

mas 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 Marshall Hall,

M. D. &c.

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 complete

Division of the Ileum, and Penetration of the Cavity 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 Appearances

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 Purgatives, in a

Fever which prevailed in the Russian Fleet. By D. J. H. Dick-

son, 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.

177

183

V. A short Description of an Obstinate Inflammatory Affection of the

Throat. (With an Engraving.) By Mr James Murray

186

VI. Case of Artificial Pupil. By Mr Moore

187

VII. Case of Conversion of the Heart, &c. By Thomas Spens, M. D. &c.

VIII. The Substance of a Clinical Lecture on a Disease of the Valves

192

of the Heart, producing Pulsation of the Jugular Veins. By

George Pearson, M. D.

194