London Medical and Physical Journal

THE

LONDON MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL

JOURNAL.

CONTAINING

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE OF EMINENT PRACTITIONERS,

AND

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF NEW WORKS

RELATING TO MEDICINE, SURGERY, MIDWIFERY, CHEMISTRY, PHARMACY,
BOTANY, AND NATURAL HISTORY.

A. B. GRANVILLE, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. M.R.I.

Physician in Ordinary to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence; Licentiate of the Royal College
of Physicians; Principal Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Children; Physician-Accoucheur to
the Westminster General Dispensary; Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of
Madrid; Foreign Associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Naples; Member of the Medico-
Chirurgical Society of London; of the Philosophical and Literary Society of Manchester; of the
Philomatic and Philotechnic Societies of Paris; Member of the Society of the Faculty of Medicine
of Paris, of the Societé Medicale d'Emulation, and the Cercle Medical of the same town; Corre-
spondent of the Prussian Physical Society of the Lower Rhine; Member of the Imperial Academy
of Lucca; of the Societies of Florence, Marseilles, Leghorn, Pistoja, Padua, Venice, &c. &c.

VOL. XLVI.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, 1821.

Et quoniam variant morbi, variabimus artes;
Mille mali species, mille salutis erunt,

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ANALYTICAL TABLE OF THE CONTENTS

OF

THE FORTY-SIXTH VOLUME

OF THE

London Medical and Physical Journal.

DESCRIPTIVE ANATOMY.

Of some points in the development of the heart and intestines

Of the structure of the human lung in different ages

Of the lymphatic vessels of birds

reptiles and fishes

Of the ultimate arrangement in the structure of the human body

Of a species of mucous follicle under the skin

Comparative anatomy of the brain

Elementary work on Anatomy

Kidney, internal anatomy of

Testicle, descent of.

VITAL PHENOMENA, in general.

On the functions of the spleen

Reflections on the relations of heat to vitality

NERVOUS AND SENSITIVE SYSTEMS, in general.

NUTRITIVE FUNCTIONS (organic, of BICHAT).

Appetite for, and administration of, food. Fasting for three days in an

infant

Example of rumination in man

Absorption. Experiments to ascertain the existence of a communica-

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Secretion. Properties and qualities of human urine

tion between the absorbents of the intestines and the vena portarum 13
Direct communication of the spleen with the lacteals of the intestines 14
'On the meaus of