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sented to physiological science. Another is a Treatise on the Forces 

 which produce the Organization of Plants, by Dr. Draper, in which 

 is contained a theory of the circulation in the capillaries equally 

 simple and ingenious. The lectures of Matteucci on the Influence 

 of Physical Agents, etc., are full of novel and interesting experi- 

 ments, especially that portion of them relating to absorption and 

 secretion, the muscular, and the nervous functions. A little treatise 

 by Dr. Burrows, on the Cerebral Circulation, has settled, it may be 

 hoped, the long litigated points relating to this subject; it has at 

 least refuted by experiment the theoretical dogmas which have been 

 current, as to the uniform supply of blood to the brain under all 

 circumstances. 



SURGERY. 



The general treatises of American origin are those of Dorsey, 

 Gibson, and M'Clellan; the last but just published, a posthumous 

 work appearing under the editorial supervision of a son of the author. 

 A compilation entitled " Surgery Illustrated" containing many ex- 

 cellent figures, was published some years ago by Dr. Doane. A 

 CyclopEedia of Medicine and Surgery, which was commenced in 

 Philadelphia, never went beyond the first two volumes, which contain 

 several good articles. Of special treatises, those of Dr. Warren on 

 Tumours, Bushe on Diseases of the Rectum, Parrish on Hernia, 

 and Gross on Wounds of the Intestine are the most prominent. 

 The principal illustrated works besides those which have been men- 

 tioned, are Anderson's System of Surgical Anatomy, the Surgical 

 Anatomy of the Arteries, by Dr. N. R. Smith, Pancoast's Operative 

 Surgery, and Darrach's Drawings of the Anatomy of the Groin, the 

 two last of comparatively recent date (1844). Various smaller works 

 on surgical subjects have been published by American authors, several 

 of them quite recently ; among them, Chase on Hernia, Detmold on 

 Clubfoot, and some Analogous Diseases, Rivers on Accidents, with 

 directions for their treatment (1845), Sargent and Smith on Minor 

 Surgery, Dr. II. J. Bigelow on Orthopedic Surgery, Dr. Dix upon 

 Strabismus, and Dr. Warren upon Etherization and Chloroform. 



The translations of surgical works have been numerous. At the 

 head of the list stands Dr. Townsend's Translation of Velpeau, 

 made under the supervision of Dr. Mott. With some defects in 

 point of taste, which have furnished sufficient occupation for criti- 

 cism, this is allowed to be a work of genuine merit of its own, in 



