OF

MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

C. S. BRIGGS, M.D,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

59.

Vol. 81-January-June, 1897.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

JOHN RUNDLE & SONS, PRINTERS, 321 UNION STREET.

1897.

CONTENTS VOL. LXXXI.

An Extraordinary Retention in Utero of the Fetal Head.........

A New Test for Albumin.........................

Are Virtues, Vices and Habits Hereditary ?.......

A New Method of Wound Treatment......

Amputation of a Carcinomatous Breast During Labor.......................

A New Method for Reducing Hernia.........

A Contribution to the Pathology of Epilepsy.

A Circular Letter-A Tax on Newspapers...............

A Peerage for Sir J. Lister.........................

A Most Valuable Reconstructive.........
A Practical Method of Humanizing Cow's Milk..

Annual Commencement Exercises of Medical Department University
of Nashville............

A Simple Remedy for Enuresis..

Book Notices........

Cocaine in the Treatment of Salivary Fistula.............................

Carcinoma of the Cervix Uteri in a Girl of Fourteen.....

Contraindications of Altitude in Phthisis......

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Chloroform Anesthesia........

Charge to the Graduating Class of 1897 of the Medical Department

of the University of Nashville..

Clinical Notes on the Analgesic Effect of Lactophenin.................

Changes in Medical Colleges......

Disseminated Sclerosis........

Dr. Wm. H. Pancoast.....

Death of Sir Thomas Spencer Wells.............

Direct Treatment of Tubercular Cavities.......

Dystocia Due to Pelvic Tumor.....

Double Ovariotomy at Third Month; Delivery at Term..........

Dr. C. S. Briggs' Resignation from the Chair of Surgery in the Med-

ical Department of the University of Nashville.........

Eclampsia and the Milk Treatment......

Extirpation of the Rectum...........

Eucaine Hydrochlorate.......

Eucaine as a Local Anaesthetic in Ophthalmic Surgery...

Editorial Items...........

Extraordinary Hereditary Prolificacy.

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