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but if certain readers had the hanging of them, some of those placed 

 highest would come down, and their situations be occupied by others 

 which he is disposed to undervalue. An article by Dr. Carroll, on 

 Cancrum oris, in the August number, is the most deserving of notice 

 among the other contributions to that portion of the Journal which 

 has been examined by the committee. 



The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal contains a very 

 respectable proportion of original articles. Among them are an 

 Essay on the Abortive Treatment of Remittent Fever, &c, by Pro- 

 fessor Ford (March, 1847) ; Means on Electro-Physiology, and Dugas 

 on Quinine in Intermittent and Remittent Fevers (Jan.) ; the Locality, 

 Climate and Diseases of East Tennessee (July); Cases of Convul- 

 sions, &c, during Pregnancy, by Dr. Joseph A. Eve (September); 

 and some curious notes on the Medicine of Moses, by Dr. Harden. 



The Annalist, published weekly at New York, is particularly 

 valuable for its numerous and ample Reports of Cliniques, of Hos- 

 pital cases, and of the doings of the principal Medical Societies. 

 The reader thus becomes acquainted, in an easy informal way, with 

 the state of opinion among the experts in different branches upon 

 the great points of inquiry constantly agitated in the forum of med- 

 ical science. Many remarkable cases will be found in its pages, 

 but comparatively few essays of a character to require analysis or 

 special notice in this brief survey, among which, however, that of 

 Dr. Stevens, on Croup, deserves special mention. Dr. Buck's new 

 operation for oedema of the glottis, more particularly described in 

 the Report on Practical Medicine, was also announced in this 

 Journal. 



The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, another weekly pe- 

 riodical, was established in the year 1828, and has maintained itself 

 to the present time. Its contents have been more various than those 

 of any of its contemporaries, and its pages have been used by 

 anonymous correspondents with a freedom which recalls the early 

 days of the Lancet. For this or other reasons much of the medical 

 literature of Boston and its natural tributaries has been diverted into 

 other and distant channels. Still it has received many valuable 

 contributions from the practitioners of New England and its Capital, 

 and continues to be a medium through which some eminent members 

 of the profession occasionally communicate with the public. 



