255 



American Journal of Medical Sciences (Philadelphia). Those pub- 

 lished every two months, are the New York Journal of Medicine, 

 the Charleston Medical Journal and Review, the New Orleans 

 Medical and Surgical Journal, and the Western Lancet (Cincin- 

 nati). The monthly journals are the Buffalo Medical Journal, the 

 Medical Examiner (Philadelphia), the Illinois and Indiana Medi- 

 cal and Surgical Journal (Chicago), the Missouri Medical and 

 Surgical Journal (St. Louis), the St. Louis Medical and Surgical 

 Journal, the Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, the South- 

 ern Medical and Surgical Journal (Augusta, Georgia), the Medical 

 Neivs and Library (Philadelphia), and the South-western Medical 

 Advocate (Memphis). Two weekly journals are published, the Bos- 

 ton Medical and Surgical Journal, and the Annalist, at New York, 

 to which must be added a small sheet called the Journal of Health, 

 published in Boston. The New Jersey Medical Reporter and Trans- 

 actions of the New Jersey Medical Society, is the title of a periodical, 

 published at Burlington, N. J., the first number of which appeared 

 in October last, and which is promised to be continued quarterly. 



In addition to the publications just enumerated, there are the 

 American Journal of Insanity (Utica), the American Journal of 

 Pharmacy (Philadelphia), and the American Journal and Library 

 of Dental Science (Baltimore) ; each of which is a prominent repre- 

 sentation of the department to which it is devoted. Several foreign 

 periodical publications are reprinted in this country. The British 

 and Foreign Medico- Chirurgical Review is published by two separate 

 houses, in New York and in Philadelphia. The Messrs. Wood pub- 

 lish, in connection with their edition, a supplement called "Addenda," 

 containing an abstract of the principal articles found in the American 

 journals for the quarter preceding its appearance. The London 

 Lancet, and the well known " Braithioaite s Retrospect" and 

 " Ranking s Abstract," are also republished and extensively cir- 

 culated. 



The general plan of the original periodical publications which have 

 been enumerated is very similar. The first part of each number is 

 devoted to original articles, consisting of essays, histories of epi- 

 demics and endemics, series of cases, and single cases, and accounts 

 of operations. Occasionally a more detailed and comprehensive 

 history of some disease is introduced under the name of monograph, 

 and not unfrequently extensive statistical tables are given, bearing 

 especially upon surgical and obstetrical practice. Then follow 

 Reviews or formal examinations of works recently published, usually 

 analytical in character, and having for their principal object the 



