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exquisite dissector and delineator. The article which follows, by Dr. 

 Frick, is one of the first attempts at the investigation of the chemical 

 changes of the blood induced by disease, made in this country. Most 

 of the conclusions arrived at by the laborious observations which 

 served as its basis, coincide with those of previous observers. One 

 peculiar and novel result arrived at by Dr. Frick is, that the quan- 

 tity of the chlorides and phosphates of soda and potash is dependent, 

 not upon the particular disease, but upon the season of the year in 

 which the examination is made, being much higher in winter and 

 spring than in summer and fall. Dr. Foltz deserves credit for print- 

 ing his valuable Report on Scorbutus. It could be wished that all 

 officers in the public service would discharge their professional debt 

 as faithfully. Some of the author's expressions would seem to imply 

 that proteine exists only in vegetables, which cannot surely have been 

 what he intended to assert. Dr. Blake's paper appears to be founded 

 on the same experiments which this ingenious physiologist reported 

 some years ago to the British Association, and which have already 

 taken their place in physiological science. The indefatigable Dr. 

 Earle gives a brief analysis of five hundred and ninety-four cases of 

 delirium tremens admitted into the Bloomingdale Asylum. Then 

 folloAV several reports of interesting surgical cases. Under the name 

 of "Monograph" we have next "A Statistical Inquiry into the 

 Causes, Symptoms, Pathology, and Treatment of Rupture of the 

 Uterus," by Dr. Trask, of Brooklyn, whose labours have been already 

 mentioned with commendation. 



The first paper in the April number is an account, by Dr. J. M. 

 Warren, of Operations for Fissure of the Soft and Hard Palate, with 

 the result of twenty-four cases, at the close of which is an important 

 additional note upon the early operation for hare-lip. Dr. Warren 

 proposed, some years ago, and has often executed, a new operation, 

 which is fully described in this paper and the annexed cases. Dr. 

 Peebles' "Result of cases of Pneumonia, treated chiefly by Tartar 

 Emetic," may be well calculated to excite attention to the possible 

 ill effects of that remedy, but is deficient in the diagnostic elements 

 of its cases. The third patient, for instance, may have suffered, for 

 all that appears, from phthisis with ulceration of the bowels. It does 

 not appear from the record that the previous good health had per- 

 sisted unchanged up to the period of the acute attack. Cases of suc- 

 cessful vaginal hysterotomy and delivery by the forceps; of traumatic 

 trismus successfully treated ; of a fatal gun-shot wound of the neck ; 

 of ligature of both carotids; of the extirpation of a tumour of the 



