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CONTENTS OF THE 



AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. April, 1850. 

 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Memoirs and Cases, pp. 291-402. 

 Art. 1. Warren on the Prevention of Constipation. II. Kirkbride on Heating and Ventilating Hospitals 

 and other Buildings, by Steam and Hot Water. ( With three wood cuts ) III. Atlee on Large Peritoneal Sec- 

 tion. IV. Dahon's Case of Malformation of the Cranium, Encephalon, and Spinal Cord. (With ei«;ht wood- 

 cuts.) V. Buckingham's Cases of Labor. (With five wood-cuts.) VI. Morland's Extracts from the Records 

 of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. VII. Bemis' Case of Hydrophobia. VIII Bennett on the 

 Identity of Erysipelas and a certain form of Puerperal Fever, and its Contagiousness. IX. Peaslee's Case 

 of Rupture of the Bladder, together with Seven Fractures of the Pelvis. X. McSherry's Medical Cases. 

 XI. Griffin's Case of Ascites, in wfyich the patient was tapped, in ten years, one hundred and eighty-six times, 

 and had seven hundred and fifty-o^e and three-fourths gallons of water drawn off. 



\ Reviews, pp. 402-434. 



XII. 1. Trait6 Theorique et Pratiqv^ des Luxations Congenitales du F6mur. Par le Doct. Ch. G. Pravaz. 

 4to pp 28S, with ten plates. 2. A Tretaise on the Etiology, Pathology, and Treatment of Congenital Dislo- 

 cations of the Head of the Femur. VV\h plates. By M. Carnochan, M.D. 8vo. XIII. The Transactions 

 of the American Medical Association. \ [. II. 



Biblio<^ APHICAIj Notices, pp. 435-474. 

 XIV. A Universal Formulary: containing the Methods of Preparing and Administering Officinal and 

 other Medicines. By R. E. Griffith, M.D 8? . XV. An Introductory Lecture. By J. Knight, M. D. 8vo. 

 XVI Lectures on Electricity and Galvanism Bv G. Bird, M. D. 12mo. Notes on the Medical Application 

 of Electricity. By W. F. Channing. 12mo. XVII. Curability de la Phthisie et des Scrofules. Par A. M. 

 Riofrey. 8vo. XVIII. Report of the Committee of the Legislature of Massachusetts on a Sanitary Survev 

 of the Stale. 8vo. XIX. An Essay on InUstiml Auscultation. By C. Hooker, M. D. 8vo. XX. Observa'- 

 tions on Asiatic Cholera. By J. Evans. 8V>. XXI. The History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832. By T. 

 Snapter, M. D. 8vo. XXII. Remarks on ybstetrical Forceps. By J. P. White, M. D. 8vo. XXIII. A 

 Practical Treatise on Inflammation of the U^rus uid its Appendages. By J. H. Bennet, M D. 8vo. XXIV. 

 \ Treatise on Midwifery. By P. Cazeaux. Translated by R. P. Thomas, M. D. 8vo. XXV. Medico Chi- 

 rurgicale Clinique et Iconographie. Par M. uiveri. XXVI. An Introductory Lecture. By P. F. Eve, M. D. 

 8vo! 



QUARTERLY SUMMARY. 



FOREIG ^INTELLIGENCE. 



Anatomy anYPhysiology. pp. 475-478. 

 1. Blanchet on Hearing independent of the tditory Nerve. 2. Brown SSquard on Regeneration of the 

 Sciatic iNerve. 3. Brown SSquard on the Patrlogical Changes that follow Section of the Sciatic Nerve. 

 4. De Froberville on the Ostro-Negroes of Eastei Africa. 5. Frerichs on the Uses of the Pancreas. 



Organic ci MISTEY . pp . 478-481. 

 6. Plouviez on Experiments on the Use of Salm. Jones' Contributions to the Chemistry of the Urine. 



Materta Medica Ah Pharmacy, pp. 481-483. 

 8. Rivallier on Monohydrated Nitric Acid as a^austic. 9. Hannon on Pharmaceutical Preparations of 

 Manganese. \ 



Medical Pathology and TherapeiVjs and Practical Medicine, pp. 483-503. 

 10. Jenner on the Identity or Non-identity of Typhi Fever, Typhus Fever, and Relapsing Fever. 11. Ben- 

 son on the Use of Cod-Liver Oil— its Effect in produ\,g Congestion of the Lung. 12. Bennett on Tubercular 

 Exudation into the Lungs— Diseased Aortic Valves-4 us i ca i Heart- Sounds— Ulceration in the Lungs check- 

 ed by Cod-Liver Oil. 13. Walton on Conversion of \bercle into Earthy Matter. 14. Mauthner on Blood- 

 letting in the Pneumonia of Children. 15. Sibson on«ui n g i n f the Chest during Inspiration, in some Dis- 

 eases of the Chest. 16. Fliess on Paralysis which k n d s Dentition. 17. Schneider on Sulphuric Acid in 

 <*in"-ultu« 18 Brown on the Diagnosis of Ovarian BrW jg, p pham on Obstructions of the Rectum from 

 theLJ^e of Diseased Potatoes. 20. Griffith on the so c^q Cholera Bodies. 21. Robertson on Cholera (?) Cor- 

 puscles. 22. Benson on the Gutta Percha Stethoscope^ 



Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics W, Operative Surgery, pp. 503-521. 

 23. Banon on Aneurism of the Popliteal Space treaten ccess f u iiy by Compression. 24. Madden on Poo- 

 liteal Aneurism treated by Compression. 25. Taylor on\ r0 nic Hydrocephalus— Tapping— Death. 26. JVe- 

 vins on Tapping in Spina Bifida. 27. A Case of Dislocai f t h e Neck successfully treated by Mechanical 

 Means. 28. Sedillot on Gastrotomy for Impassable Strictlof me (Esophagus— Death in twenty-four hours. 

 - 29 Field and Clarkson's two Cases of Complete Intestiiupbstruction arising from Disease of the Sigmoid 

 Flexure of the Colon and the Rectum, in which the Dese|ing Colon was successfully opened in the Loin. 

 30 Robert on Annular Stricture of the Rectum. 31. -F^jn the Statistics of the Mortality from Fractures 

 of the Head. 32. Blick on Large Punctured Wound of tlifectum and Dislocation of the Coccyx. 33 Can- 

 ton on Ununited Comminuted "Fracture of the Surgical r% of the Humerus; also, Unreduced Dislocation 

 of the Radius forwards at the Elbow, with Partial Luxaf f the Ulna inwards. 34. Simpson on the Use 

 of the Exploring Needle in Pelvic and other Tumors. 3*aciborskVs Method of Preventing the Ingress of 

 Air in evacuating large Collections of Fluid. 36. TufneltfauWA Percha Bougies. 



Ophthalmology. 1521-525. 

 37. Jacob on Tumors of the Eye and Orbit. 33. Canfcwtiysteiical Ptosis. 



Midwifery, ppp-532. 

 39 Diday on a New Method of Plugging the Vagina, &dV>. Lever on the Use and Advantages of Opium 

 in the Practice of Obstetncy. 41. Webster on Insanity trol e Use of Chloroform during Parturition. 42. 

 Cormach on Puerperal Convulsions- their dependence oil xa; mia. 43. Kesteven's Examination iuto the 

 Grounds of the Ovular Theory of Menstruation. 44. GilletA Pregnancy in a Female who had never Men- 

 struated. 45. Rogers on Vicarious Menstruation. 46. lylekith on the Length of the Umbilical Cord. 

 Medical Jurisprudence and tJology. pp. 532-537. 

 47 Miller on Infanticide— Retention of Life after Longhosure. 43. Bracket on the Cessation of the 

 Heart's Sounds as a Sign of Death. 49. Bernard on the A* of Amygdaline and Emulsine. 50. Lands- 

 ber" Vastus Uterinus. 51. Simpson on Fatal Venous U^rhage from the Pudenda. 52. Christison on 

 Poisonin^ with Hydrocyanic Acid. 53. Mitscherlich on the l nous Effects of Oil of Cinnamon. 



Miscellaneous, pnj-541. 

 54. Davy on Action of Lime on Animal and Vegetable Sul C es. 



(Continued on Pa.1) t 



