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<¢ The cause of this affection is shewn by 
the stream of urine being obstructed in its 
passage from the bladder; from its not hav- 
ing that equal and proportionate egress out 
of the urethra as itis poured into the urethra 
from the bladder. ‘Lhe contracted prepuce 
makes a pressure upon the glans penis, by 
which the urine recotls upon the neck of the 
bladder, irritating and infaming it more and 
more, till the bladder, and in process of time, 
the kidnies, become as much diseased from 
this cause, (as the following cases will de- 
monstrate) as they possibly can be, from any 
other cause whatsoever.” 
The cases do not appear to us perfect- 
Jy conclusive. In the operation for 
phymosis, which the author recommends, 
he only divides the inner duplicature of 
the prepuce. He employs a smail bill- 
hook knife, a plate of which is given ; 
we shall give his description of the 
operation. 
«¢ About the sixth of an inch of the outer 
cutis, is to be divided from within outward ; 
so that the point of the knife shall be scen 
passing out, and dividing about one-sixth of 
an inch of the outer cutis ; and this is all of 
the outer cutis that needs to be divided. This 
~ will naturally enable as much of the cutis as 
is divided, to be slid back ; when only the 
duplicature will present itself; as much as 
MEDICINE, SURGERY, ANATOMY, &c. 
does present. itself, must be divided in thé 
same manner. This will allow fresh undi« 
vided duplicature to present itself, which is 
also to be divided after the samé manner ; 
and so on, till the whole is thus divided, and 
till the whole can be slid back behind the 
glans penis, leaving it completely denudated. 
«© The treatment of the part is to be ac* 
cording to the principles of common surgery } 
to be dependent upon the degree of inflam- 
mation, and the previous habit. and age of the 
patient. One point must be always attended 
to; the prepuce must never’be suffered to res 
niain, for any time, slid back, as in one in- 
stance, where that was the case, it was with 
the utmost difliculty, that I could again bring 
it forward. The strangulated glans had hy« 
datids upon it, and in the shortest time 
must have sloughed away. When the con-+ 
sequent inflammation will permit it, the pre- 
puce should be slid backward and forward 
two or three times in a day, and whilst that 
was doing, the glans should be smeared over’ 
with oil of almonds. ‘This will be sufficient 
in the simplest cases, and the whole willbe 
well in a fortnight.” ee r 
A plate is given with the second part, 
shewing the instrument for injecting. the 
bladder. It is simply an elastic gum 
bottle, to the neck of which is fixed a 
flexible catheter. repr 
Arr. XXXV. Anatomical Plates of the Thoracic and Abdominal Viseera, for the Use of 
Students in Anatomy, and Artists; accompanied by explanatory Maps. . By Rosert 
Hoorrr, Mé. D. Fellow of the Linnean and London Medical Societies, resident Phy- 
sician to the St. Mary-le-bone Infirmary, Sc. Se 
THE title of this little work suffici- 
ently explains its contents. The size of 
the plates is the same as that of the au- 
thor’s reduced Albinus, and as the parts 
‘There represented are larger and not so 
much involved as the muscles, the stu- 
dent may obtain from them a very good 
general idea of the situation of the tho- 
racic and abdominal viscera. They have 
every claim to be as well received as the 
former fasciculus. 
Art. XXXVI. 4 Diagram of the Human Eye. 
A Single-coloured plate giving a very 
accurate transverse section of the eye 
much magnified, accompanied with a 
short explanation. 
The exact ratio of enlargement is not 
mentioned ; the length of the figure is 
nine inches, which well adapts it for de- 
monstration in a lecture room. 
Art, XXXVII. A Map of the Human Ear. 
AN enlarged coloured view of the ex- 
ternal and internal ear. *The explana. 
‘ tion is not so full as that of the eye, and 
Dr: Hooper has equally omitted to men- 
tion the natural dimensions. From this 
plate the operation of puncturing the 
tympanum may be seen with great cor- 
rectness. ila 
Arr. XXXVI. The Anatomy of the Human Body, Vol. III : containing the Nervous 
System ; with Plates. Part £. The Anatomy of the Brain and Description of the Course 
of the Nerves. Part II. The Anatomy of the Eye and Ear. By Cwarves Bert, 
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 
THOUGH nominally a third vo- 
lume, this work may with propriety be 
8vo. 
considered separately, the two former 
volumes being written by a different 
