Miscellanies. 3G5 



i 



If minor praise may be allowed on a subject so grave, it may be 

 added that the work is written with a spirit and elegance, which 

 could scarcely have been thought compatible with details of some of 

 the most revolting and appalling sufferings which afflict the human 

 race. 



14. Pathological and Practical Researches on Diseases of the 

 Stomach, the Intestinal Canal, the Uvcr, and other viscera of the 

 Abdomen. By John Abercrombie, M. D. Fellow of the Royal 

 College of Physicians of Edinburgh, <^*c. and first physician to his 

 Majesty in Scotland. Carey & Lea, Philadelphia, 1830. 



15. Elements of General Anatomy, or, a description of every kind 

 of organs composing the human body, by P. A. Beclard, Professor 

 of Anatomy of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Preceded by a 

 critical and biographical memoir of the author, by Olivier, M. D. 

 Translated from the French, tvith notes, by Joseph Togxo, M. D. 

 Member of the Philadelphia Medical Society. Carey Sz, Lea, Phil- 



adelphia. 



foreign* 



L M. A. G. Labarraque's method of using the chloride of soda, 

 translated from the French, by Dr. Jacob Porter. — From the nu- 

 merous applications made by the most distinguished physicians, and 

 followed by uniform success, it results that the chloride of soda 

 should be used in the following manner : 



For ill-conditioned ulcers let a glass of the chlorated liquor be 

 mixed with five times its quantity of pure water, and in this mixture 

 dip the lint, with which the ulcers are to be dressed. The dressings 

 should be applied twice a day. If the sore becomes red and in- 

 flamed, this mixture should be still further diluted ; if, on the con- 

 trary, the sore does not change its appearance, it should be dressed 

 once or twice with some chloride diluted with only half its quantity 

 of water, so as to bring on a slight inflammation, which is indispensa- 

 ble for causing atonic ulcers to pass to the state of simple sores. 

 The healing will then go on rapidly. At the time when the chloride 

 is applied to the ulcer, the fetid smell is destroyed. 



Gangrene, hospital putrefaction, ill-conditioned burns and scalds, 

 old ulcers, corroding herpetic affections, and the like should be 

 treated in the same manner. 



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