THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL

REVIEW

OR

QUARTERLY JOURNAL

OF

PRACTICAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

VOL. XXIV.

JULY-OCTOBER, 1859.

LONDON:

JOHN CHURCHILL, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

MDCCC LIX.

LONDON:

SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

CONTENTS OF No. XLVII.

OF THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW.

JULY, 1859.

Analytical and Critical Reviews.

REV. I.—Course of Lectures on the Physiology and Pathology of the Central

Nervous System, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of

England, in May, 1858, by E. Brown-Séquard, M.D. Illustrated by

numerous Engravings, representing the principal Experiments and

Pathological Cases. (From the 'Lancet,' 1858-59.) .

REV. II.-Copy of the Statistical Report of the Health of the Royal Navy for

the Year 1856. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed,

26th July, 1858

REV. III.-Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale de Médecine. Tomes XXI.

et XXII.

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1

36

46

REV. IV.-On Wounds and Injuries of the Eye. By WILLIAM WHITE

COOPER, F.R.C.S., &c.

64

REV. V. Klinik der Leberkrankheiten. Von Dr. FRIED. THEOD. FRERICHS,

Professor in Breslau. Erster Band

80

ib.

A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver. By Dr. FRIED. THEOD.

FRERICHS. Vol. I..

REV. VI.-1. On the Prevention and Treatment of Mental Disorders. By

GEORGE ROBINSON, M.D., &c.

2. A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftesbury on the Laws

which Regulate Private Lunatic Asylums; with a Comparative View

of the Process "De Lunatico Inquirendo" in England, and the Law of

"Interdiction" in France. By EDWARD J. SEYMOUR, M.D., &c.

3. What shall we do with our Lunatics? By ALFRED ECCLES, F.R.C.S.

87

ib.

ib.

PAGE

REV. VII.—1. The Oxford Museum. By HENRY W. ACLAND, M.D., &c.

2. A Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis. By A. BEAUCHAMP

NORTHCOTE, F.C.S., &c.; and ARTHUR H. CHURCH, F.C.S., &c.

3. A Handbook of Chemical Analysis, adapted to the Unitary Notation.

Based on the Fourth Edition of Dr. H. Will's 'Anleitung zur Chemischen

Analyse.' By F. T. CONINGTON, M.A., &c.

4. A Letter to the Provost of Oriel; on a Scheme for making Oxford more

Accessible to Medical Students generally. From C. H. PEARSON,

M.A., &c. .

5. A Letter to the Rector of Exeter; on some Proposed Changes in the

Residence required by the University for Degrees in Medicine. By

GILBERT W. CHILD, M.B., &c. .

REV. VIII.—The Diseases of the Stomach, with an Introduction on its Ana-

tomy and Physiology; being Lectures delivered at St. Thomas's Hos-

pital. By WILLIAM BRINTON, M.D., &c. .

. 94

ib.

ib.

ib.

REV. IX.—Practical Midwifery: comprising an Account of 13,748 Deliveries

which occurred in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital during a period of

Seven Years, commencing November, 1847. By EDWARD B. SINCLAIR,

A.B.F.K. and Q.C.P., &c.; and GEORGE JOHNSTON, M.D., &c..

REV. X.-The Works of John Hunter, F.R.S.; with Notes.

Edited by

JAMES F. PALMER. Four Vols. 8vo. Illustrated by a Volume of Plates

in Quarto.

ib.

109

119

. 131

Bibliographical Record.

ART. I.—Sur une Fonction peu Connue du Pancréas, la Digestion des Ali-

ments Azotés. Par LUCIEN CORVISART

On an Almost Unknown Function of the Pancreas, the Digestion of Nitro-

genous Food. By LUCIEN CORVISART

ART. II.-On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine.

By ALFRED S. TAYLOR, M.D., &c. Second Edition

150

ART. III.-Sulle Virtă Igieniche e Medicinali della Coca, e sugli Alimenti

Nervosi in Generale. Del Dottor MANTEGAZZA.

On the Hygienic and Medicinal Virtues of Coca, and Tonic Articles of Diet

generally. By Dr. MANTEGAZZA

ART. IV.-A Treatise on Fracture. By J. F. MALGAIGNE, Chirurgien de

l'Hôpital St. Louis. With One Hundred Illustrations. Translated

from the French by J. H. PACKARD, M.D..

PAGE

154

ART. V.-Pathology and Social Science. The Irritable Bladder: its Causes

and Curative Treatment. By FRED. JAMES GANT, M.R.C.S. Eng., &c. 156

ART. VI.-A Treatise on Medical Electricity, Theoretical and Practical; and

its Use in the Treatment of Paralysis, Neuralgia, and other Diseases.

By J. ALTHAUS, M.D.

. 157

ART. VII.--1. A Manual of Medical Diagnosis; being an Analysis of the

Signs and Symptoms of Disease. By A. W. BARCLAY, M.D., &c.

Second Edition .

2. Clinical Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Medicine. By JOHN

HUGHES BENNETT, M.D., &c. Third Edition

158

ART. VIII.-On Dislocations and Fractures. By JOSEPH MACLISE, Fellow
of the Royal College o Surgeons. Fasciculi V. to IX.

ib.

159

ART, IX.-1. Tracts of the Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion of

Sanitary Knowledge.

159

2. On the Hygienic Management of Infants and Children. By T. HERBERT

BARKER, M.D., &c.

ART. X.-A Guide to the Practical Study of Diseases of the Eye. With an

Outline of their Medical and Operative Treatment. By JAMES DIXON,

F.R.C.S., &c.

ART. XI.-Engravings of the Ganglia and Nerves of the Uterus and Heart.

For the use of Students in Anatomy and Physiology. By ROBERT Lee,

M.D.,

&c. .

ART. XII.-1. Illustrations of Typhus Fever in Great Britain, the Result of

Personal Observations made in the Summer of 1853; with some Remarks

as to its Origin, Habits, Symptoms, and Pathology: to which is ap-

pended a brief Account of the Reappearance of Typhus in Boston in the

Winter of 1857-58. By J. UPHAM, M.D., &c. .

2. An Essay upon the Relation of Bilious and Yellow Fever, prepared at

the request of, and read before, the Medical Society of the State of

Georgia, at its Session held at Macon, April 9th, 1856. By RICHARD

D. ARNOLD, M.D., &c.