THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL

REVIEW

OR

QUARTERLY JOURNAL

OF

PRACTICAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

VOL. L.

JULY-OCTOBER, 1872.

LONDON

J. & A. CHURCHILL, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

MDCCCLXXII.

OF THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW.

JULY, 1872.

Analytical and Critical Reviews.

ART. I.-Anæsthesia, Hospitalism, Hermaphroditism, and a Proposal to Stamp

out Smallpox and other Contagious Diseases. Edited by Sir W. G.

SIMPSON, Bart., Scholar of Gonville and Caius Coll., Cambridge

ART. II.-1. Statistical Report of the Health of the Navy for the Year 1869.

London, 1871

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12

2. Army Medical Department Report for the Year 1869. London, 1871 ib.

3. Report on Barracks and Hospitals, with Description of Military Posts.

Washington, Dec. 5, 1870

4. A Report on Age and Length of Service, as affecting the Sickness,

Mortality, and Invaliding in the European Army. By JAMES L.

BRYDEN, Surgeon, Bengal Army, Statistical Officer, &c. Calcutta,

1871

ART. III.-Recollections of Past Life. By Sir HENRY HOLLAND, Bart.,

M.D., F.R.S., D.C.L., &c. &c., President of the Royal Institution of

Great Britain, Physician in Ordinary to the Queen

ART. IV.-1. The Use of the Laryngoscope. Third edition, with several addi-

tional illustrations and new matter. By MORELL MACKENZIE, M.D.

Lond., M.R.C.P., &c. &c. London, 1870

2. Essay on Growths in the Larynx: with Reports and an Analysis of

One Hundred consecutive Cases treated by other Practitioners since

the Invention of the Laryngoscope. By MORELL MACKENZIE, M.D.

Lond., M.R.C.P., Physician to the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat,

and to the Royal Society of Musicians; and Senior Assistant-Physician

and Lecturer on Diseases of the Throat at the London Hospital.

London, 1871

3. A System of Medicine. Edited by J. RUSSELL REYNOLDS, M.D.,

F.R.S. Vol. III. London and New York, 1871 Article, 'Diseases

of the Larynx.' By MORELL MACKENZIE, M.D., &c.

ART. V.-Fecundity, Fertility and Sterility, and Allied Topics. By J. MAT-

THEWS DUNCAN, A.M., M.D. Second Edition, revised and enlarged.

Edinburgh, 1871. Pp. 498

ib.

ib.

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32

ib.

ib.

ART. VI.-1. Asiatic Cholera in Bristol in 1866. By WILLIAM BUDD, M.D.,

F.R.S. Bristol, 1871

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2. Seventh Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the

Government of India, 1871. Calcutta.

ib.

3. Second Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioners for the Central

Provinces. Nagpur, 1870

4. Cholera in Southern India: a Record of the Progress of Cholera in

1870. By Surgeon W. R. CORNISH, Sanitary Commissioner for

Madras. Madras, 1871

5. Report on the General Aspects of Epidemic Cholera in 1869 : a Sequel

to a Report on the Cholera of 1866-68. By JAMES L. BRYDEN, M.D.,

Statistical Officer attached to the Sanitary Commissioners with the

Government of India. Calcutta, 1870 .

6. Note on the Epidemic Connection of the Cholera of Madras and Bom-

bay with the Cholera Epidemics of the Bengal Presidency. By JAMES

L. BRYDEN, M.D. Calcutta, 1870

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56

ib.

7. Report on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India,

from June, 1870, to June, 1871. Printed by Order of the Secretary

of State for India in Council. London, 1871

ib.

8. Hindu View of Cholera. By GOLAUB SING, M.D. London, 1871 ib.

9. Mode d'Invasion et de Propagation du Choléra étudié a Smyrna. Par

le Dr. CHASSEAUD. Constantinople, 1871

10. Epidemic Cholera, in Reynolds's System of Medicine. Vol. I. By

Dr. GOODEVE

11. Report on the Cause and Mode of Diffusion of Epidemic Cholera. By

WM. BALY, M.D. London, 1854

12. A Treatise on Asiatic Cholera. By C. MACNAMARA. London and

Calcutta, 1870

13. Etude Sommaire sur l'Importation du Cholera, et les moyens de le

prévenir. Par le Dr. SIRUS PIRONDI et le Dr. AUGUSTIN FABRE. Mar-

seilles, 1865

14. Ninth Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council. London,

1867

15. On the Mode of Communication of Cholera. By JOHN Snow, M.D.

London, 1855

ART. VII.-English and Scottish Lunacy

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ART. VIII.-1. A Practical Treatise on the Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treat-

ment of Diseases of the Heart. By AUSTIN FLINT, M.D., Professor

of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in

the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, &c. Second Edition. Pp. 550.

Philadelphia, 1870 .

2. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic, delivered at King's

College, London. By Sir THOMAS WATSON, Bart., M.D., F.R.S.

Fifth Edition, 1871

3. Oppolzer's Vorlesungen. Die Krankheiten des Herzens. Pp. 111.

Erlangen, 1866

ART. IX.-1. The Origin of Cancer: considered with reference to the Treat-

ment of the Disease. By CAMPBELL DE MORGAN, F.R.S., Surgeon to

the Middlesex Hospital. London, 1872

2. Cancer. An Article in Holmes's System of Surgery,' vol. i. By C.

H. MOORE. London, 1870

3. Die Krankhaften Geschwulste. By RUDOLPH VIRCHOW. Berlin,

1863

4. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics. In Fifty Lectures.

By TH. BILLBOTH. Translated by CHARLES E. HACKLEY. New

York, 1871

ART. X.-Traité des Maladies des Yeux. Par X. GALEZOWSKI, Docteur en
Médécine de la Faculté de Paris, &c. Avec 416 figures, intercalées
dans le texte. Pp. 895. Paris, 1872.

ART. XI.—A Report of Surgical Cases treated in the Army of the United

States, from 1865 to 1871. War Department, Surgeon-General's Office,

Washington, Aug. 17th, 1871

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128

ART. XII.-The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs. By

WILLIAM ACTON, M.R.C.S. Fifth Edition. London, 1871. Pp. 262 135

Bibliographical Record.

ART. I.-Notice of the Life and Writings of Dr. Ermerins, Professor of

Medicine in the University of Groningen

141

ART. II.-Leçons de Pathologie Expérimentale. Par M. CLAUDE BERNARD,

Membre de l'Institut de France, et de l'Académie de Médecine, Pro-

fesseur de Médecine au College de France, Professor de Physiologie

Générale au Muséum d'histoire naturelle. Paris, 1872

ART. III.—Lectures and Essays on the Science and Practice of Surgery. By

ROBERT M'DONNELL, M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.S.I., M.R.I.A., Surgeon to

Steeven's Hospital, Dublin. Part I. 1871

ART. IV. On the Treatment of Fractures of the Limbs. By SAMPSON

GAMGEE, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Surgeon to the

Queen's Hospital, Birmingham. London, 1871. Pp. 296.

ART. V. On the Pathology and Treatment of Gonorrhoea. By J. L. MIL-

TON, Surgeon to St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin. London,

1871. Pp. 219

ART. VI.—Notes on Syphilis, with an Appendix on the Unity of the Syphi-

litic Poison. By S. MESSENGER BRADLEY, F.R.C.S., Lecturer on

Comparative Anatomy, Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, Man-

chester. London, 1872. Pp. 48

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ART. VII.-1. Note-book for Cases of Ovarian and other Abdominal Tumours.

By Mr. SPENCER WELLS. Third edition. London, 1871. Pp. 25 151

2. Suggestions for a Ready Method of Recording Surgical Cases in

Hospital Practice. By EDWARD LUND, F.R.C.S., Lecturer on Ana-

tomy, and one of the Surgeons to the Manchester Royal Infirmary.

Manchester, 1872. Pp. 17

ART. VIII.-Sciatica, Lumbago, and Brachialgia; their Nature and Treat-

ment, and their Immediate Relief and Rapid Cure by Hypodermic

Injection of Morphia. By HENRY LAWSON, M.D., Assistant-Physician

to St. Mary's Hospital, &c. London, 1872

ART. IX.-Worms. A Series of Lectures on Practical Helminthology, de-

livered at the Medical College of the Middlesex Hospital; with Cases

illustrating the Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Internal Para-

sitic Diseases. By T. SPENCER COBBOLD, M.D., F.R.S., &c. &c.

1872

ART. X.-Science Primer-Chemistry. By Professor RoscoE.

1872. Pp. 104

ART. XI.-A Dictionary of Chemistry. By H. WATTS. Supplement. London.

Pp. xiii and 1136 .

ART. XII.—A Yearbook of Pharmacy for 1871. London. Pp. 640

ART. XIII.—Science Primer-Physics. By BALFOUR STEWART.

ib.

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ABT. XIV.-Consumption and the Breath Rebreathed. Being a Sequel to
the Author's Treatise on Consumption. By HENRY MACCORMAC,