THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL

JOURNAL:

EXHIBITING

A CONCISE VIEW

OF THE

LATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES

IN

MEDICINE, SURGERY, AND

PHARMACY.

VOLUME FORTY-NINTH.

1838.

EDINBURGH :

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

1838.

THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL,

No. CXXXIV.

CONTENTS.

PART I.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. Statistical and Pathological Report of the Royal Infirmary of Edin-

burgh, for the years 1833, 34, 35, 36, and half of 1837. By JOHN

HOME, M. D.

Page 1

II. Report of Surgical Cases, treated in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary,

during the years 1836-7. By WILLIAM DAVIDSON, M. D.

III. A Selection of Cases presenting aggravated and irregular forms of

Hysteria; and an analysis of their phenomena. No. I.-Hyste-

rical Ischuria. By THOMAS LAYCOCK. Surgeon,

IV. An Experimental Investigation into the Functions of the Eighth Pair

of Nerves, or the Glosso-Pharyngeal, Pneumogastric, and Spinal

Accessory. By JOHN REID, M. D.

V. Observations intended to illustrate and determine the essential nature

of Inflammation, deduced from its phenomena. By G. HUME

WEATHERHEAD, M. D.

VI. Cases of Poisoning by Fungi, with Remarks. By ALEXANDER PEd-

DIE, M. D.

VII. Case of Presentation of the Face, in which sphacelus or ramollisse-

ment of that portion of the Peritoneum connecting the Uterus with

the Urinary Bladder occurred, followed by general Peritonitis and

Death. By JOHN RENTON, Esq. Surgeon,

VIII. Account of a remarkable Case of Suicide, with Observations on the

fatal issue of the rapid introduction of air in large quantity into the

circulation during surgical operations. By P. D. HANDYSIDE,

M. D.

Appendix to the Paper of Mr Laycock on Hysterical Ischuria,

PART II-CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

ART. I. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale de Medecine,

II. Notice relative to the Plague of Moscow of the i771.

year

31

78

109

176

192

203

209

221

222

By M.

233

Gerardin,

III. Recherches Anatomiques et Physiologiques sur l'Organe de l'Ouie,
&c. Anatomical and Physiological researches on the Organ of Hear-
ing and Audition in Man and Vertebrated Animals. By GIL-
BERT BRESCHET,

IV. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, published by the Royal Medical and

Chirurgical Society of London for 1836.

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions. General Index to the first Eighteen

Volumes,

VOL. XLIX. No. 134.

244

256

V. The British Medical Almanack, 1838; with a Supplement? Edited

by WILLIAM FARR,

Page 274

VI. A Treatise on the Malformations, Injuries, and Diseases of the Rectum

and Anus. By GEORGE BUSHE, M. D.

VII. On the Nature and Treatment of Diseases of the Heart, with some

New Views of the Physiology of the Circulation. By JAMES

WARDROP, M. D.

VIII. Transactions of the Glasgow and Clydesdale Statistical Society, insti-

tuted April 1836. 1. An Account of the Former and Present State

of Glasgow, comprehending its Commercial, Manufacturing, and

Ecclesiastical Concerns. By JAMES CLELAND, LL. D.

IX. 1. The Retrospective Address upon Medical Science and Literature,

delivered at the Fourth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Me-

dical and Surgical Association, held at Manchester, July 21st 1836.

By JOHN GREEN CROSSE, Esq.

The Retrospective Address, delivered at the Fifth Anniversary Meet-

ing of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at

Cheltenham, July 19th and 20th 1837. By JAMES L. BARDS-

LEY, M. D.

PART III-MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE.

275

291

296

304

On the Yellow Colour of the Leaves in Autumn. By BERZELIUS,

On the Red Colouring Matter of the Fruits, and on that of the Leaves in Au-

tumn. By BERZELIUS,

307

309

A new mode of increasing the Heart's action for restoring the powers of life in

persons apparently dead from drowning, or in syncope. By JonN HYS-

LOP, Esq. Surgeon,

Observations on the employment of Gunpowder, as a medicine in various mor-

bid states of the Gastro-Enteric Mucous Membrane. By ROBERT

DICK, M. D.

311

312

Mr Law on the use of Arsenic in Plethora,

313

The Air Condenser applied as a Remedy in Cases of Deafness. By Dr KRAMER, 316

Proposition by the Dublin College of Surgeons to regulate the Practice of

Apothecaries, Druggists, and Dispensers,

Obituary,

317

320

Explanation of the Plates.

PLATE I. Represents the section of upper lobe of left lung in Case 348, extensively
affected with the acute form of the diffused tuberculation, degenerated into a chro-
nic form, and displaying numerous excavations. One near the apex contained
blood, and two vessels, under which a probe has been passed, are seen to cross from
one wall to the other, the canals of which were quite pervious. The bronchial
tubes entering cavities are much reddened.

PLATE II. Perforation of the pleura followed by acute fatal pleurisy occurring in
Case 361. A probe has been passed from the bronchial tube behind through the
superficial cavity into the perforation, which was of an oval form, and situated
about the middle of the upper lobe. The lung (the left) is much compressed, and
covered with a thick coating of yellow lymph.

THE

EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

No. CXXXV.

CONTENTS.

PART I.-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. Report of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on the Adul-

teration of Drugs.—With Appendix. Observations on the Adulte-

ration of Drugs. By Dr CHRISTISON,

WILLIAM

Page 321

344

II. On Laryngismus Stridulus, or Spasm of the Glottis. By

KERR, Surgeon,

III. On the Evidence of the occasional Contagious Propagation of Malig-

nant Cholera, which is derived from Cases of its Direct importation

into new Localities by Infected Individuals. By JAMES Y. SIMP-

SON, M. D.,

IV. Observations on Cholera as it appeared at Collieston and Footdee,

Aberdeenshire. By JOHN PATERSON, Esq. Surgeon,

355

408

412

V. On Epidemic Puerperal Fever. By J. T. INGLEBY, Esq.

VI. A Selection of Cases presenting aggravated and irregular forms of

Hysteria, and an Analysis of their Phenomena. No. II. contain-

ing,-1. Hysterical Hemorrhages. 2. Hysterical Nervous Affec-

tions. 3. Part of the Analysis. By THOMAS LAYCOCK, Surgeon, 436

VII. Notice regarding the Composition of James' Powder. By DOUGLAS

MACLAGAN, M. D.

VIII. Contribution to Statistics of the Mortality among Horses in Cavalry

Corps serving in the United Kingdom, together with the number of

Horses cast, and some preliminary Observations respecting the Se-

lection, Training, and Feeding of Horses belonging to Dragoon

Regiments. By HENRY MARSHALL, Esq.

462

467

IX. Practical Observations on Chancre. By PHILIPPE RICORD, M. D. 474

X. Experiments and Observations on the Medicinal Properties of Euphor-

bium. By PAUL D. VEITCH, M. D.

483

XI. Case of Anthracosis or Black Infiltration of the whole Lungs. By

THOMAS STRATTON, M. D.

490

PART II.-CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

ART. I. Leçons de Clinique Medicale faites à l'Hotel-Dieu de Paris. Par le

Professor A. F. CHOMEL,

492

II. Report of the Proceedings under a Brieve of Idiotry, Peter Duncan

against David Yoolow, tried at Coupar-Angus, 28-30th January

1837; with an Appendix of relative Documents, and an Introduc-

tion. By LUDOVIC COLQUHOUN, Esq. Advocate,

530

VOL. XLIX. No. 135.

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