THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL

JOURNAL:

EXHIBITING

A CONCISE VIEW

OF THE

LATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES

IN

MEDICINE, SURGERY, AND

PHARMACY.

VOLUME SIXTY-THIRD.

1845.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, LONDON:
JOHN CUMMING, and hodges & SMITH, DUBLIN.

1845.

THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

No. CLXII.

CONTENTS.

PART I.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. An Experimental Inquiry into the Pathology and Treatment of

Asphyxia. By JOHN E. ERICHSEN,

II. On the Period of Puberty in Esquimaux Women. By JOHN

ROBERTON,

III. Cases of Diabetes, with Observations, shewing the influence of a

warm climate in the cure of that disease. By KEITH IMRAY,

M.D.,

IV. A Concise View of the Progress of Military Medical Literature

in this country; being a chronological arrangement of Authors,

with Critical Remarks on their Works. By JAMES IRVING,

M.D.,

V. Some Observations on the Tubercular or Gypseous Disease of the

Lower Animals. By DAVID CRAIGIE, M.D.

VI. Researches on the Brain, Spinal Chord, and Ganglia; with re-

marks on the mode by which a continued flow of Nervous

Agency is excited in, and transmitted from these organs. By

JAMES STARK, M.D.

.

VII. Description of a new form of Fever as it occurs in Anstruther and

the Eastern District of Fife. By HARRY D. S. GoorsIR,

Surgeon,

PART II.-CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

ART. I. 1. A Practical Treatise on Midwifery. By M. CHAILLY, M.D.

2. A Practical Treatise on Midwifery; exhibiting the present

advanced state of the Science. By F. J. MOREAU,

II. On Medical Reform. By JOSEPH HENRY GREEN, F.R.S;

WILLIAM COOKE, M. R.C.S.; JOHN ALLEN, Esq.; a LICEN-

TIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LON-

DON; Sir G. L. TUTHILL, M.D.; JAMES KENNEDY, M.R.C.S.L.;

MARTIN SINCLAIR, M.D.; WILLAM ELLIOT, M.D.; G. CROOK,

M.P.S.; JOSEPH HENRY GREEN, F.R.S.; RICHARD CARMI-

CHAEL, M.R.I.A.; Sir JAMES CLARK, BART.; CHARLES

COWAN, M.D.; J. E. FELDMAN, M.D.; SAMUEL COOPER, 159

III. The Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body, with its appli-

cations to Pathology and Operative Surgery, with a Series of

Lithographic Drawings, with Practical Commentaries. By

RICHARD QUAIN,

a

199

ART. IV. Principles of Forensic Medicine. By WILLIAM A. GUY, M.B. 203

V. Traité du Ramollissement du Cerveau. Par MAX. DURAND-

FARDEL,

VI. 1. First Principles of Surgery, being an Outline of Inflammation

and its Effects. By GEORGE T. MORGAN, A. M.

2. A System of Practical Surgery. By WILLIAM FERGUSSON,

F.R.S.E.

3. The Principles of Surgery. By JAMES MILLER, F.R.S.E.

Account of the late Dr Abercrombie,

PART III.-MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Anatomico-physiological Researches on the Uses of the Thymus Gland,

Researches on the Functions of the Spinal-Accessory Nerve,

204

223

225

234

ib.

Researches on the Ovum and Corpus Luteum of Man and the lower Animals, 236

Effects of Extirpation of the Spleen and Thyroid Gland,

Case of Rupture of the Heart,

237

ib.

Prognosis of Chancre with reference to the probabilities of Secondary Symptoms, 238

Copaiba more active when combined with Purgatives,

ib.

Extirpation of the Lachrymal Gland for the cure of Fistula Lachrymalis,

Cases of Premature Delivery,

ib.

239

Resolutions relative to the Bill for the better Regulation of Medical Practice,

adopted by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, at an Extraor-

dinary Meeting, held on 11th October 1844,

ib.

Report by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on "A Bill for the

better Regulation of Medical Practice throughout the United Kingdom," 240

Report of the Trial of a Chemist for Unlicensed Practice,

242

Results of American (United States) Experience as to the suppression of

Unlicensed Practice by Legislative Measures and Penal Enactments,

246