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Contents of the Medical Journal Continued. 



QUARTERLY RETROSPECT, 



A SUMMARY OF THE IMPROVEMENTS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. 



Foreign Intelligence— Anatomy and Physiology— 1. Quekett on Intimate Structure of Bone. 2. Meckel 

 on Process of Secretion. 3. B londlot on the Properties of the Bile. 4. Bainbriggeon Supplementary Spleen, 

 death from the patient being placed in the supine position. 5. Robinson on the Nature and Source of the 

 contents of the Foetal Stomach. 6. Prof. Bischoff on the Absorption of Narcotic Poisons by the Lymphatics. 



Materia Medica and Pharmacy.— 7. Battley on Syrup of Iodide and Chloride of Iron. 8. Ricord on Bro- 

 mide of Potassium as a substitute for the Iodide. 9. Vqillemier on Santonine. 10. Guibourt on the changes 

 of composition which the Tincture of Iodine undergoes in keeping. 11. Mellon on the Action of the Acetate 

 of Morphia on Children. 



Medical Pathology and Therapeutics and Practical Medicine.— 12. Bennett on Anormal Nutrition 

 and Diseases of the Blood. 13. Rostan on Acute Spinal Myelitis. 14. Rostan on Curability of Hypertrophy 

 of the Heart. 15. Crisp on Rupture of the left Ventricle of the Heart. 16. Francis on Aneurism of the Basi- 

 lar Artery. 17. Lombard's Observations on Sudden deaths, probably dependent on Diseases of the Heart 

 and large Blood-vessels. IS. Carson on Obliteration of the Vena Cava Descendens. 19. Thompson on 

 Treatment of Chronic Bronchitis and Bronchial Asthma. 20. Muhlbauer's Microscopic Researches on the 

 Absorption of Pus. 21. Briquet on Mercurial Ointment in Variola. 22. Bell on Rupture of Lateral Sinus of 

 Dura Mater. 23. Watts on Tubercles in Bones. 24. Gendrin on Hysterical Affections. 25. Cottereau's 

 Remedy for Toothache. 26. Prof Trousseau on Anatomy of Pneumonia in Infants. 27. Volz on Hooping 

 Cough an Exanthemata. 23. Crisp on Infantile Pleurisy. 29. Youl on Abscess of the Brain in a Child. 30. 

 Trousseau on the Employment of Nux Vomica in the Treatment of St. Vitus' Dance. 



Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics and Operative Surgery.— 31. Prof Syme on Amputation at 

 the Shoulder Joint for Axillary Aneurism. 32. Whipple on Amputation at the Hip Joint. 33. Prof Ehr- 

 mann on Successful Extirpation of a Polypous Tumour of the Larynx. 34. Bellingham on Compression in 

 Aneurism. 35. Orr's Case of Tracheotomy. 36. Holmes Coote on Cancer of the Breast in the Male. 37. 

 Moore on Gunshot wound of the Luug, where the ball lodged fifty years. 33. On the Employment of Iodide 

 of Potassium in the Treatment of Syphilis. 39. Application of ice in the treatment of injuries. 40. Lenoir on 

 Ununited Fracture successfully treated by Acupuncturation. 41. Prof Syme on Amputation of the Thigh. 

 42. Curling's Case of Fatal Internal Strangulation caused by a cord prolonged from a Diverticulum of the 

 Ileum. 43. Golding Bird and John Hilton on Case of Internal Strangulation of Intestine relieved by Opera- 

 tion. 44. Fergusson on Strangulated Congenital Hernia in an infant seventeen days old, requiring opera- 

 tion. 45. Guersant, Jr., on Surgical Treatment of Croup. 46. Geoghegan on Partial Amputation of the Foot. 



47. Report of a Committee of the Surgical Society of Ireland, relative to the use and effects oi Sulphuric 

 Ether. 



Ophthalmology.— 4^. Prof Jacob on Foreign Bodies in the Eye. 49. Dixon's Remarkable Case of Injury 

 of the Eye. 50. Szokalski on Obscurations of the Cornea in their Histological relations with reference to the 

 Practice of Ophthalmic Surgery. 51. BerncasUe on Amauro sis from Hydatid Cyst in the Brain. 



Midwifery.— 52. Robiquet on Remarkable case of spontaneous rupture of the Uterus during labour— Re- 

 covery. 53. Le ChaptoW Case of Vaginal Emero-hysterocele reduced by taxis, and maintained in place 

 by the introduction or sponges in the Vagina. 54. Kuhne on Rupture of the Uterus— abdominal section — 

 recovery. 55. Ctajewski on Wound of the Gravid Uterus— premature delivery— peritonitis-recovery. 56. 

 Bennett on Inflammatory Ulceration of the Cervix Uteri during Pregnancy, and on its Influence as a Cause 

 of Abortion. 57. Caesarian Operation performed bv Mr. Skey, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the patient 

 being rendered insensible by ether. 59. Pochhammer on Congenital protrusion of the Liver through the 

 umbilical ring. 59. Caesarian Section. 60. Roux on Lacerated Perineum. 61. Depaul on Asphyxia neona- 

 torum. 62. Klencke on Diet in Infancy. 



Medical Jurisprttdence And Toxicology.— 63. Taylor on Contested identity determined by the teeth. 

 64. Blake on Poisous. 65. Delirium Tremens in an Infant. 66. Hamilton on the Echites ;berecta. 67. 

 Bupasquier on Vapours of Phosphorus, Lucifer Matches. «6. Thompson on the mode of te rig the presence 

 °fmitiute quantities of Alcohol. 69. Invalidity of a Contract made by a Lunatic. 70. Procuring of Abortion. 

 'I. Lepage's Case of Poisoning by Arsenic relieved by the use of Magnesia. 72. Sale of Poisonous Sub- 

 stances. 



Medical Education.— 73. The Edinburgh Statutes regarding the Degree. 74. Medical Organization in 

 Spain. . 



Foreign Correspondence.— Letters to the Editor from London. Sulphuric Ether in Surgical Operations 



&t Vienna. 

 American Intelligence— Original Communications.— Parkman>s Anatomical Anomaly. Tyler's Ante- 



*ersion of the Womb with adhesion of Os Uteri to body of 4th Lumbar Vertebra, Ac. 



Domestic Summary — Beck on Effects of Mercury on the Young Subject. Bramard on Amputation for 

 Scrofulous Diseases of the Joints. Baker on Case of Vicarious Menstruation from an L leer on the right 

 Mamma. Allen on Singular case of laceration of the Broad Ligaments. WLcan on Blindness caused by 

 £e use of Sulphate of Quinine. Harrison's Speculations on the Cause of Yellow Fever. Herrxck on .Foreign 

 Bodies in the Organs and Tissues of the Body. Swett on Case of Empyema in which the operation for Para- 

 centesis Thoracis failed from a cause not generally noticed. M'Pheeters on Rheumatism, with Hypertrophy 

 of both eyes. Draper on the Cause of t*e emulation of the BlOod. Lutli ori Ischuria Renalis. Hogan on 

 •Pennine in Chorea. Deadenck on Excision of the Inferior Maxil ary Bone for ^eo^arcoma. Camom 

 Imperforate Prepuce. Couper on Medical Schools of the United States Warren on Inhalation of I.i : cr. 

 Zurwell on Absence of one Kidnev. Brainard on Dislocation of the Elpow. Gdman on Presentation of 

 the Bhoulder,-pro?A)8ed Cord -cord not pulsating, yet child born alive. National > edical Co^nvcniion. 

 Delegates to 'National Medical Convention! Arrangements for the Meeting of the National Medical Con- 

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