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views of Latham on Diseases of the Heart, Green on Bronchitis, 

 &c. Dr. Hamilton has contributed many cases, from his surgical 

 clinique or private practice, and written several agreeable letters 

 from Europe, besides a truly valuable paper on enlargement of the 

 tonsils (September, 1847). The new instrument for reducing dislo- 

 cations of small joints, described by Dr. Hamilton, in the number 

 for April, 1847, was shown several years since, by one of this com- 

 mittee, to the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. Dr. Gil- 

 man Davis, of Portland, brought a number of them to Boston, and 

 suggested the mode of using them since proposed by Dr. Hamilton. 

 The other most important articles in the Buffalo Journal, are Dr. 

 Coventry's account of "Stomatitis Materna," (Feb. 1848,) the Sore 

 Mouth of Nursing Women, first specially described by Dr. Hale, of 

 Boston; Dr. Jewett on Epidemic Erysipelas (Oct. 1847); Dr. Lock- 

 wood's note on the term of utero-gestation in man and the inferior 

 animals (July, 1847); and Dr. Congar's Monthly Meteorological and 

 Pathological Report. Two cases of trial for malpractice, in the 

 August and September numbers, are also deserving of notice. 



The Medical Examiner made its first appearance in the year 

 1838, at Philadelphia, under the editorial charge of Drs. Biddle and 

 Clymer. The earlier volumes are rich in Lectures and Clinical Re- 

 ports, among which those of Dr. Gerhard are particularly valuable. 

 Its character seems to have changed of late years, a smaller amount 

 of original matter being found in its columns. The articles most 

 deserving of notice contained in this journal, during the past year, 

 and a little more, are the following : — In the number for January, 

 1847, an account of a case in which the bones of a foetus were 

 retained for four years. In that for March, an article by Dr. Up- 

 shur, entitled Statistics of Cases of Miasmatic Fever. Some of his 

 conclusions are that in a large majority of cases of every type, pre- 

 paratory treatment is worse than useless, as leading to loss of time; 

 that large single doses of 15 or 20 grains of sulphate of quinine pro- 

 duce more certain and permanent effects than doses of one or two 

 grains often repeated; that this remedy acts as a sedative in the hot 

 stage; and that in uncomplicated cases, mercurials are not at all 

 essential. Dr. Paul Swift relates some experiments in illustration 

 of wounds produced by the discharge of firearms without ball — a case 

 of this kind, which he reports, having occurred in his practice. Dr. 

 Thorne, in the April number, gives some cases showing, as he be- 

 lieves, the depressing influence of large doses of quinine. Dr. Pan- 



