REVIEAV.—RENAULT ON TRAUMATIC GANGRENE. 657 
A friend will see that his request has been complied with. It 
was, indeed, an interesting subject, and it has been well and 
scientifically treated. 
The Editor is fully aware of, and deeply regrets the change 
which has taken place in the proportions and character of the two 
grand divisions of our periodical in some of the late numbers, 
and he has taken such measures as will in future prevent its 
recurrence. He confesses that some matter has found its way 
into the reports of the meetings of the Association which might 
have been better confined to that most valuable period of time, 
“ the students’ nightyet, on the other hand, he will point with 
pride and exultation to many of the Essays and the debates which 
the records of this institution during the last session contain. They 
will bear to be placed in competition with the proceedings of any 
society, however noble its object, however talented its members. 
The practitioners have it in their power to remedy the present 
evil, and, at all events, they who were indebted so much to a simi¬ 
lar association in their younger days should not be the first to com¬ 
plain. 
The protracted illness of the Editor in the early part of the 
session has principally contributed to cause the heaping together 
of so much matter now. It shall not be his fault if the noble nights 
of the first and second session of the Association do not permanently 
return* 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—lion. 
A Memoir and Clinical Observations on Traumatic 
Gangrene. By M. Renault. 
By “Traumatic Gangrene,” this excellent philosopher 
means the mortification or death of a part connected with, or the 
conseijuence of a wound; Iroin Tpaujxa, a wound, and yquca, 1 de¬ 
vour. From our inability to confine or close many wounds in our 
natients, and especially to protect them from the access of air, we 
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