PRINTED FOR ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK:

LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN & LONGMANS, LONDON:
JOHN CUMMING, AND HODGES & SMITH, DUBLIN.

1838.

PRINTED BY JOHN STARK, EDINBURGH.

ART. I. Researches into the History of the Umbilical Cord in the Human

Subject. By FLEETWOOD CHURCHILL, M. D.

II. Analytical Essay on Irregular and Aggravated forms of Hysteria.

By THOMAS LAYCOCK, Surgeon,

281

302

III. Observations on Lithotrity, as practised in France, particularly by

MM. Amussat and Labat. By HENRY GRAHAM, Surgeon,

357

361

369

IV. On Lithotrity. By W. FERGUSSON, F. R. C. S. E.

V. Surgical Cases. By JAMES SYME, Esq.

VI. Contributions to Intra-Uterine Pathology.

Part I. Notices of Cases

of Peritonitis in the Foetus in Utero. By JAMES Y. SIMPSON,

M. D.

390

VII. Case of Chorea Rotatio. By Dr DANIEL KENNEDY, Dumbarton, 416

VIII. Case of extensive detachment of the Skin. By the late JAMES

WEIR, M. D.

421

PART II.-CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

ART. I. Statistical Report on the Sickness, Mortality, and Invaliding among

the Troops in the West Indies, prepared from the Records of the

Army Medical Department and War Office Returns,

II. 1. Isis Revelata: An Inquiry into the Origin, Progress, and present

state of Animal Magnetism. By J. C. COLQUHOUN, Esq.

2. Hints on Animal Magnetism, addressed to the Medical Profes-

sion in Great Britain. By J. C. COLQUHOUN, Esq.

424

3. Animal Magnetism and Homœopathy. By EDWIN LEE,

4. An Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism. By the

Baron DUPOTET de Lennevoy,

III. Outlines of the principal Diseases of Females. Chiefly for the use

of Students. By FLEETWOOD CHURCHILL, M. D.

IV. A Medico-Legal Treatise on Homicide, by external violence, with

an account of the circumstances which modify the Medico-Legal

characters of Injuries and Exculpatory Pleas. By ALEXANDER

WATSON, Esq. Surgeon,

V. Flora Medica; A Botanical Account of all the more important

Plants used in Medicine in different parts of the World. By

JOHN LINDLEY, Ph. D. F. R. S.

469

503

504

514

VI. The Flora of Jamaica; a Description of the Plants of that Island,

arranged according to the Natural Orders: With an Appendix

containing an enumeration of the Genera according to the Lin-

næan System, and an Essay on the Geographical Distribution of

the Species. By JAMES MACFADYEN, M. D.

VII. A Treatise on Ruptures. By WILLIAM LAWRENCE, Surgeon,

VIII. The Works of John Hunter, F. R. S.; with Notes.

JAMES F. PALMER, Senior,

517

520

Edited by

522

IX. Counter-Irritation, its Principles and Practice, illustrated by one

hundred Cases of the most Painful and Important Diseases, effec-

tually cured by external applications. By A. B. GRANVILLE,
M. D.

[APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.]

Account of a Case in which a Child was expelled from the Womb

after Interment of the Mother. By JOHN DUNN, Surgeon, Scar-

borough, and J. SAVILE, Surgeon, Nafferton,

PART III.-MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE.

A short Treatise on the External Characters, Nature, and Treatment of

the different forms of Porrigo, or Scalled-Head and Ringworm. By
WALTER DICK, M. D., &c.

525

533

536

Cause, Statistics, and Treatment of Bronchocele,

539

Vicarious Menstruation,

541

Bad effects of warming close Chambers by means of Choffers containing
burning Charcoal,

541

On the Use of a Combination of Iodine, Mercury, and Zinc in Syphilitic
Ulcerations and Sibbens,

545

Medical Graduations at Edinburgh,

545

Surgical Examinations at Edinburgh,

547

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Communications have been received from Dr INGLEBY, Dr FERGUSSON, Dr LONSDALE, Dr Davy, Dr SPITTAL, Dr LEWINS, and Mr SIDEY.

The following Publications have been received :

Topography of Assam. By John M'Cosh, Officiating Second Assistant Surgeon General Hospital, &c. Printed by Order of Government. Calcutta, 1837, large 8vo. Pp. 166.

A Dictionary of Practical Medicine, comprising General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, &c. By James Copland, M. D. F. R. S. &c. Part V. Heart-Infection. London, 1838. Elements of Physiology. By J. Muller, M. D. Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Berlin, &c. Translated from the German. By William Baly, M. D. &c. Part III. containing the Nervous System. London, 1838. P. 591 to p. 848.

Practical and Experimental Chemistry adapted to Arts and Manufactures. By E. Mitscherlich, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Berlin. Translated from the first portion of his Compendium. By Stephen Love Hammick, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. London, 1838. 12mo. Pp. 316.

A Treatise on Inflammation. By James Macartney, M. D. F. R. S., F. L. S. &c. London, 1838. 4to. Pp. 214.

Flora Medica; a Botanical Account of all the more Important Plants used in Medicine in Different parts of the World. By John Lindley, Ph. D. F. R. S., &c. London, 1838. 8vo. Pp. 665.

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, published by the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of London. Second Series. Vol. the Third. XXI. of Original Series. London, 1838. 8vo. Pp. 450.

First Principles of Medicine. By Archibald Billing, M. D. A. M. &c. 3d Edition, considerably enlarged and improved. London, 1838. 8vo. Pp. 282.

Observations on the Management of Madhouses, illustrated by Occurrences in the West Riding and Middlesex Asylums. By Caleb Crowther, M. D. London, 1838. 12mo. Pp. 145.

The Science of Cerebro-Spinal Phenomena attempted, by John S. Waugh, M. D. Annan. London, 1838. 12mo. Pp. 172.

The Third Fasciculus of Anatomical Drawings, selected from the Collection of Morbid Anatomy in the Army Medical Museum at Chatham. Drawn on Stone by Waterhouse Hawkins. London, 1838. Folio. 10 Engravings.

A Catalogue of the Collection of Mammalia and Birds in the Museum of the Army Medical Department at Fort Pitt, Chatham. Chatham, 1838. 8vo. Pp. 48.

General View of the sources of Difficulty and Fallacy in Diagnosis. (Being the Article Practice of Physic from the 7th Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.) By William Thomson, M. D., F. R. C. Physicans. 4to. Pp. 22.

General View of the Proximate Causes of Diseases, Organic and Dyna