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The Charleston Medical Journal and Review was known until 

 the present year as the Southern Journal of Medicine and Phar- 

 macy. The numbers which have been examined by the committee 

 contain several articles of interest. That for May, 1847, has a very 

 interesting account of four operations for the removal of abdominal 

 tumours. In this number, also, is included the first part of " A 

 Medico-botanical Catalogue of the Plants and Ferns of St. John's, 

 Berkly, South Carolina," by F. P. Porcher, M. D. ; a Thesis, pre- 

 sented for graduation, which obtained a prize awarded by the Medi- 

 cal Faculty of the College of South Carolina. 



Dr. Cain's paper on the Gastric origin of Croup, in the number 

 for July, does not recognize the essential distinctions of the several 

 affections which bear that name. An Essay, by Dr. Wragg, on the 

 use of Animal Ligatures, in the September number, has been exten- 

 sively copied in other journals. 



The most prominent article in the November number is the paper 

 of Dr. Harris, on Intermittent and Remittent Fever, which is con- 

 tinued in the number for March. Readers at a distance infinitely 

 prefer closely observed and faithfully delineated histories of epidemic 

 and other diseases to speculations about their nature and causes, 

 however ingenious. 



The principal articles in the January number are Dr. Nott's, upon 

 Yellow Fever, Michel on Menstruation, Horlbeck on Superfoetation, 

 and Strobhart on Malaria. That for March contains, besides the 

 conclusion of Dr. Harris's paper, a singular case of Congenital 

 Absence of both Globes of the Eye, illustrated by a figure. 



The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal contains a large 

 number of valuable papers on yellow fever, an account of which may 

 be found in Dr. Bartlett's work on Fevers, (pp. 532, et seq., 2d edi- 

 tion.) In the number for January, 1847, is an essay by Dr. Car- 

 penter on Periodicity as an Element of Diseases, which may be 

 profitably compared with the remarks on the same subject in the 

 work just cited (p. 380). In the number for May, Dr. Lewis com- 

 mences his Medical History of Alabama. He follows the epidemic 

 constitution through the different changes it has undergone in the 

 period during which his observations extend. That such general 

 changes in the character of disease, occur from year to year, or at 

 longer intervals, is as true now as it was in the time of Sydenham, 

 and it is equally true that it is an element very difficult to appre- 

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