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coast lias an article on vesico-vaginal fistula, in the May number, 

 and a case of extirpation of the parotid, in that for July. Dr. 

 Bryan has an Essay on Otorrhea, in the September number; Dr. 

 Clark reports six cases of inhalation of ether in labour, in that for 

 the following month ; that for November has a very entertaining 

 sketch of Burmah, and medicine among the Burmese, by Dr. Daw- 

 son; that for December, a long paper from Dr. Hare, entitled Ob- 

 jections to the Theory of Franklin, Dufay or Ampere, perhaps 

 rather too abstruse for the scientific appetite of most medical readers. 

 Dr. Bryan has furnished a long dissertation on Stricture of the 

 Urethra for this number. This and several other numbers contain 

 various articles on the use of ether and chloroform. In that for 

 March, a writer who may be recognized by his initials as Dr. Ruschen- 

 berger, has a very extended article upon the subject of the United 

 States Marine Hospitals. 



Those numbers of the Illinois and Indiana Medical and Surgical 

 Journal which have been brought to the notice of the committee, 

 contain several articles of merit. Dr. Mead has contributed a paper 

 to the number for June and July, 1847, on the employment of 

 Hydriodate of Potass in Hydrocephalus. In this, as in so many 

 attempts to show the utility of particular remedies, the great diffi- 

 culty is, that the diagnosis is not sufficiently clear to furnish the 

 basis of therapeutical deductions. Dr. Evans has written on Pro- 

 lapsus Uteri in the same number; and Dr. Brainard on the employ- 

 ment of Strychnine in Intermittent Fever. Dr. Brainard's article 

 on amputation in Scrofulous Diseases, published in the same Journal, 

 in the number for June and July, 184G, contains suggestions of 

 much practical value. Dr. Bicknell reports a case of Glossitis, in a 

 more recent number. 



The St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal numbers Mr. James 

 Bhike among its contributors, and contains a full account of his ex- 

 periments on the action of medicines. The committee look to its 

 pages with the desire of seeing in them full accounts of the diseases 

 of the important region which is represented by the rapidly grow- 

 ing place of its publication. 



Dr. Yandell's sprightly letters from Europe seem to have attracted 

 more attention to the Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 

 than any of its other contents. His portraits are drawn with spirit, 



