NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Communications have been received from Dr TURNBULL, Dr FLEET-
WOOD CHURCHILL, Dr BANKIER, Mr WHARTON JONES, and Mr Ni-
NIAN HILL.

The following works have been received:-

Sketches from the Case-Book, to illustrate the influence of the mind on
the body, with the treatment of some of the more important Brain and
Nervous disturbances which arise from this influence. By R. Fletcher,
Esq. Surgeon to the Gloucester General Hospital, and Consulting Surgeon
to the Lunatic Asylum, near Gloucester. London, 1833. 8vo. Pp. 391.
Outlines of Human Physiology. By Herbert Mayo, F. R. S., F. G. S.,
Professor of Anatomy in King's College, London. Third Edition.
Pp. 478.

8vo.

An Essay on Inflammation; being an Inquiry into the Causes, Pheno-
nomena, Treatment, and Terminations of this Condition, with a view to
the elucidation of the Proximate Cause. By Phillip Lovell Phillips, M.D.
Oxon. London, 1833. 8vo. Pp. 153.

A Treatise on those disorders of the Brain and Nervous System, which
are usually considered and called Mental. By David Ewins, M. D. Lon-
don, 1833. 8vo. Pp. 235.

A Manual of Experiments illustrative of Chemical Science, systemati-
cally arranged. By John Murray, F. S. A., F. L. S., F. H.S., F. G. S.
Third Edition. London, 1833. 12mo. Pp. 149.

An Inquiry into the Causes of Respiration, of the Motion of the Blood,
Animal Heat, Absorption, and Muscular Motion; with Practical Infe-
rences. By James Carson, M. D. Liverpool. Second Edition. London,
1833. 8vo. Pp. 447.

Essays.-1. On the Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology, of the Great
Sympathetic Nerve. By Mr James Wilkes.-2. On the Anatomy of In-
guinal Hernia. By Mr William Hammond. Birmingham, 1833.
Pp. 43 and 22.

8vo.

Embryologie, ou Ovologie Humain, contenant l'histoire descriptive de
l'œuf humain. Par Alf. A. L. M. Velpeau. A Paris. Folio. Pp. 104. 1833.
The Origin and Progress of the Malignant Cholera in Manchester. By
Henry Gaulter, M. D. London, 1833. 8vo. Pp. 206.

A New Exposition of the Functions of the Nerves. By James William
Earle. Part I. London, 1833. 8vo. Pp. 195.

A Report of the Method, and Results of the Treatment, for the Malignant
Cholera. By Joseph Ayre, M. D. London, 1833. 8vo. Pp. 167.

Observations on Injuries and Diseases of the Rectum. By Herbert Mayo,
F. R. S. Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. London, 1833. 8vo. Pp. 220.
The Principles and Practice of Obstetric Medicine, &c. &c. By David
D. Davis, M. D. &c. &c. London, 1833. Nos. 21, 22, 23.

The Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science, exhibiting a com-
prehensive view of the Latest Discoveries in Medecine, Surgery, Chemis-
try, and the Collateral Sciences. No. IX. July, and X. September. Dub-
lin, 1833.

Traité Pratique des Maladies de l'Uterus et de ses Annexes. Tome II.
Svo. Par Mad. Boivin.

Atlas 5ieme, sixieme, septieme et huitieme livraisons. Fol. Paris, 1833.
London Medical Journal, from No. 73, June 22, to No. 84, September
7th, Vol. IV. August 24, 1833.

Liverpool Medical Gazette, No. 8, Vol. I. August 1833. We beg to
inform the Editors of this Periodical, that we have received only the 1st,
2d, and 8th Nos.

The Maryland Medical Recorder, devoted to Medical Science in Gene-
ral. Conducted by Horatio G. Jameson, M. D. Vol. III. No. 2, Novem-
ber 1832. Baltimore. 8vo. Pp. 468.

London Medical Gazette, for the Session 1832-33, from No. 37, June
15, to No. 50, September 14, 1833. Pp. 301.

ERRATA in Mr GASKELL's paper.

Page 56, line 16, for in that of the spinal marrow read within the sheath of
the spinal marrow.

56,

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26, for is presented read was presented.

58, last line, for conjuuctiva read conjunctivæ.

63, line 11, for somewhat approaching read approaching.

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EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

1. JULY 1833.

PART I.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I.—Supplement to the Essay on the Classification of Cutaneous Diseases, presenting a view of that of M. Alibert. By JOHN PAGET, M. D. formerly President of the Royal Medical Society.

IN this supplement it is my intention to present the English rea

der with an outline of the natural method of arrangement to which M. Alibert has reduced the diseases of the skin. I am induced to adopt this course, as well in justice to myself and the author to whose tenets I have so freely expressed my adherence, as in the hopes of furnishing the reader with information which cannot as yet be obtained from any other source.

It is well known that some years ago (1806) M. Alibert commenced the publication of a work on cutaneous diseases, containing a series of the most splendid engravings, but deficient in arrangement and classical, nomenclature. At this period the knowledge of diseases of the skin was at the lowest possible ebb in France. The Hospital of St Louis was a kind of lazaretto to which skin affections were sent, with other chronic diseases which were suppos ed to be of little interest, and almost beyond hope of cure. Alibert's first endeavour, on applying to the study of these diseases, was the determination of species, and, as far as possible, the formation of genera, leaving the classification and nomenclature to a later period, when these first points should have been fully settled. This was all that was attempted in M. Alibert's first work.

M.

About the same time, or somewhat previously, Dr Willan began the publication of his well known work on the very opposite principles; he adopted and modified a system, and applied the diseases VOL. XL. NO. 116.

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