Clinique Ophthalmologique du Dr. DE WECKER, à Paris, Relevé Statistique, par le Dr. MASSELON, Chef de Clinique, des Opérations pratiques pendant l'année 1875. Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1876. Statistics, Medical and Anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau. Derived from records of the examination for military service in the Armies of the United States during the late war of the Rebellion, of over a million recruitsdrafted men, substitutes, and enrolled men. Compiled under the direction of the Secretary of War, by J. H. BAXTER, A.M., M.D., Col. and Chief Med. Purveyor U. S. A. 2 vols. Washington, 1875. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part II., Vol. II.—Surgical History; prepared under the direction of JOSEPH K. BARNES, Surgeon-General U. S. A., by GEORGE A. OTIS, Assistant Surgeon U. S. A. First issue. Washington, 1876. The Pathology and Treatment of Childbed; a Treatise for Physicians and Students. By Dr. F. WINCKEL, formerly Prof. and Director of the Gynecological Clinic at the University of Rostock. From the second German edition, with many additional notes by the author. Translated by JAMES R. CHADWICK, M. D., Clin. Lecturer on Dis. of Women, Harvard Univ. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1876. Lectures on Fever; delivered in the Theatre of the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary. By WILLIAM STOKES, M.D., D.C.L. Oxon., Regius Prof. of Physic in Univ. of Dublin. Edited by JOHN WILLIAM MOORE, M.D. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1876. An Introduction to Pathology and Morbid Anatomy. By T. HENRY GREEN, M.D. Lond., etc. Second American, from the third revised and enlarged English edition. Illustrated by 111 engravings on wood. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1876. Atlas of Skin Diseases. By LOUIS A. DUHRING, M.D., Prof. of Skin Dis. in Hospital of University of Penna. Part. I. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1876. Illustrations of Clinical Surgery. By JONATHAN HUTCHINSON, F.R.C.S. Fasciculus 3. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1876. An Elementary Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, for the use of Students and Practitioners. By HENRY G. PEFFARD, A.M., M.D., Prof. of Dermatology in Univ. of City of New York, etc. London and New York: Macmillan & Co., 1876. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System. By WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, M.D., Prof. of Dis. of Mind and Nervous System in Univ. of City of New York. Sixth ed. re-written, enlarged, and improved. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1876. Lectures on Orthopedic Surgery and Diseases of the Joints. Delivered at Bellevue Hosp. Med. Coll. during the winter session of 1874-1875. By LEWIS A. SAYRE, M.D., Prof. of Orthopedic Surgery, Fractures and Dislocations; and Clin. Surg. in Bellevue Hosp. Med. Coll., etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1876. A Series of American Clinical Lectures. Edited by E. C. SEGUIN, M.D. Vol. II., No. 2.--On Certain Forms of Morbid Nervous Sensibility. By J. S. JEWELL, M.D. No. 3.-The Treatment of Mild Cases of Melancholia at Home. By E. C. SEGUIN, M.D. No. 4.-Some Forms of Dyspepsia. By THOMAS DELAFIELD, M.D. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1876. Legal Chemistry: A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Stains, etc. etc., as applied to Chemical Jurisprudence. Translated, with additions, from the French of A. NAQUET, Prof. Fac. Med., Paris. By J. P. BATTERSHALL, Nat. Sc. D. With a Preface, by C. F. CHANDLER, M.D., etc. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1876. Cyclopa lia of the Practice of Medicine. Edited by Dr. H. von ZIEMSSEN, Prof. of Clin. Med. in Munich, Bavaria. Vol. IV.-Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, by Dr. FRAENKEL, of Berlin; Prof. VON ZIEMSSEN. of Munich; Prof. STEINER, of Prague; Dr. RIEGEL, of Cologne; and Dr. FRAENTZEL, of Berlin. New York: William Wood & Co., 1876. Medical and Surgical Memoirs: containing Investigations on the Geographical Distribution, Causes, Nature, Relations, and Treatment of Various Diseases. 18551876. By JOSEPH JONES, M.D., Prof. of Chemistry and Clin. Med. in Univ. of La. Vol. I. New Orleans, 1876. Mortuary Experience of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, from 1843 to 1874. On some Practical Points in the Treatment of those forms of Eye Disease of most frequent occurrence in General Practice.-Treatment of Acute Iritis in Adults; a Brief Report of Cases of Sympathetic Ophthalmia and Sympathetic Irritation. By A. M. ROSEBURGH, M.D. Toronto, 1876. Urinary Calculus: a Synopsis of Thirty-seven Cases. Immobility or Closure of the Jaw. With Report of Cases. By W. F. WESTMORELAND, M.D. Atlanta, 1876. On the Normal Urethra and its Constrictions in relation to Strictures of Larger Calibre. By ROBERT F. WEIR, M.D. New York, 1876. The Climatotherapy of, and the American Mountain Sanitarium for ConsumptionThe Opium Habit, and " Opium-mania Cures." By STANFORD E. CHAILLÉ, M.D. Review of "Hospital Plans," by JOHN R. NIERNSÉE, Architect of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. International Exhibition of 1876: Hospital of Medical Department, United States Army List of Skeletons and Crania in the Section of Comparative Anatomy of the U. S. A. Med. Museum, for use during the International Exhibition of 1876, in connection with the Representation of the Medical Dept. U. S. A. Description of the Models of Hospital Cars exhibited in room No. 2. No. 3. Description of the Models of Hospitals. No. 4. Description of the Models of Hospital Steam-vessel. No. 5. Description of Perot & Co.'s Improved U. S. A. Medicine Wagon, and of Perot & Co.'s U. S. A. Mess-Chest. By J. J. WOODWARD, Assist.Surg. U. S. A., in charge of the Representation of the Med. Dept. U. S. A. Philad. 1876. Hydrophobia and the Water Supply of Living Bodies. Clinically illustrated. By Z. COLLINS MCELROY, M.D. Cincinnati, 1876. On Stricture as the Initial Cause of Gleet; with Remarks on the Urethral Calibre. By FESSENDEN N. OTIS, M.D. New York, 1876. On the Wire Ligature in the Treatment of Ununited Fractures, and in Resections of Bones for Deformity. By WILLIAM A. BYRD, M.D. New York, 1876. The Normal Standard of Woman for Propagation. By NATHAN ALLEN, M.D., LL.D. New York, 1876. Peri-nephritic Abscess in Children, with a Report of Nine Cases. NEY, A.M., M.D. New York, 1876. By V. P. GIB Buffalo, 1876. Warm and Hot Water in Surgery. By FREDERICK E. HYDE, M.D. Report of Forty Recent Cases of Cataract Extractions. By GEORGE STRAWBRIDGE, M.D. Philadelphia, 1876. Remarks on the Proceedings of the Meetings of Physicians to discuss Carbolic Acid Disinfection. By C. B. WHITE, M.D. A Report on Dermatology, read before the Kentucky State Medical Society. By LUNSFORD P. YANDELL, Jr., M.D. Indianapolis, 1876. C. E. HOBBS' Botanical Hand-Book of Common Local, English, Botanical, and Pharmacopoeial Names, arranged in Alphabetical Order, of most of the Crude Vegetable Drugs, etc. in common use. Boston: James Campbell, 1876. Transactions of the State Medical Society of Arkansas, 1875-6. Little Rock, 1875. Transactions of the Texas State Medical Association, 1875. Columbus, 1875. Proceedings of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, Brooklyn, N. Y. April, May, June, 1876. Transactions of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. April, 1876. Transactions of the Iowa State Medical Society for 1872 to 1876 inclusive. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. October, November, December, 1876. Report of the Board of Health of the State of Michigan, 1875. Lansing, 1876. Rhode Island Twenty-second Registration Report, 1874. By EDW. T. CASWELL, M.D. Providence, 1875. Report of the Board of Health of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the City of Richmond for the year 1875. Richmond, 1876. Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, January, 1876. Report of the Health Officer of the City of Oakland, 1875. Nova Scotia Hospital for the Insane. Report for 1875. Halifax, 1876. Report of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason. Philadelphia, 1876. Report of New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, 1875. New York, 1876. Report of the Dispensary for Skin Diseases. Philadelphia, 1875. Report of the Massachusetts General Hospital, 1875. Report of the New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, May, 1876. New York, 1876. The following Journals have been received in exchange: Medizinische Jahrbücher, 1876, I. Deutsches Archiv für Klinische Medicin. Bd. XVII., Heft. 4, 5, u. 6. Archiv der Heilkunde, Heft IV., 1876. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliche Medicin, Nos. 5, 6, 1875. 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Nos. 10, 11, 12, 1876. The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, April, 1876. The Lancet. April, May, June, 1876. The Medical Times and Gazette. April, May, June, 1876. The British Medical Journal. April, May, 1876. The London Medical Record. April, May, June, 1876. The Sanitary Record. April, May, June, 1876. The Practitioner. April, May, June, 1876. The Obstetrical Journal of Great Britain and Ireland. April, May, June, 1876. Edinburgh Medical Journal. April, May, June, 1876. The Glasgow Medical Journal. April, May, 1876. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science. April, May, 1876. The Indian Medical Gazette. February, March, April, May, 1876. Canada Medical and Surgical Journal. April, May, June, 1876. The Canada Medical Record. April, May, 1876. L'Union Médicale du Canada. Mars, Mai, 1876. The Canadian Journal of Medical Science. February, April, June, 1876. The usual American exchanges have been received; their individual acknowledgment we are compelled to omit for want of space. Communications intended for publication, and books for review, should be sent free of expense, directed to ISAAC HAYS, M.D., Editor of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, care of Mr. Henry C. Lea, Philadelphia. Parcels directed as above, and (carriage paid) under cover, to Mr. Charles J. Skeet, Bookseller, No. 10 King William Street, Charing Cross, London, will reach us safely and without delay. All remittances of money and letters on the business of the Journal should be addressed exclusively to the publisher, Mr. H. C. Lea, No. 706 Sansom Street. The advertisement sheet belongs to the business department of the Journal, and all communications for it must be made to the publisher. I. An Account of some of the Earlier and hitherto Unpublished Cases of Ligations of Arteries performed at the Pennsylvania Hospital between 1802 and 1820; with a revised Table of the Arteries which have been tied, and the mortality following this operation in that Institution. By II. A Clinical Study on Herpes Zoster. By L. Duncan Bulkley, M.D., Physician to Skin Department, Demilt Dispensary, New York, etc. III. On the Catarrhal Type of Diphtheria and its Treatment by Cubeb. By Beverley Robinson, M D., Surgeon to the Manhattan Eye and Ear IV. The Efficacy of the Physiological Antagonism of Opium and Bella- donna in the Treatment of Poisoning, as shown by an Analysis of 370 Cases. By Charles A. Oliver, M.D, of Philadelphia. V. Hippuric Acid in the Urine produced by eating Cranberries. By Wm. Keller, M.D., of Philadelphia. VI. A Contribution to the Pathology of Epithelium. By Arthur Van Harlingen, M.D., Chief of the Skin Clinic, Hospital of the University of Pa. (With illustrations.) · VII. A Contribution to our Knowledge of Beef-tea. By Horace Binney Hare, M.D., Physician to the Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia. VIII. Some Remarks on Diseases Peculiar to Mountainous Regions. By W. H. Gardner, M.D., Asst. Surgeon and Bvt. Major U. S. Army; Post- IX. On Spasm of the Heart, as a Cause of sudden Death, and its Relation to Angina Pectoris. By Frederick D. Lente, M.D. X. An Automatic Method of Opening the Eustachian Tube and Airing the Tympanum. By H. S. Schell, M.D., Ophthalmic and Aural Sur- XI. Hereditary Multiple Exostosis; Four Cases, with Remarks. By V. P. Gibney, A.M.., M.D., of the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, XII. A Supposed Case of Rabies Canina treated with Strychnia and Woorara; Recovery. By B. A. Watson, M.D., Surgeon to Jersey City Charity, and St. Francis Hospitals, Jersey City, N. J. XIII. Case of Hydrophobia; Death. Early History of the Case. By T. J. M'Loughlin, M.D., of Jersey City, N. J. Subsequent History, with Remarks. By J. E. Culver, M.D., Physi- 91 XIV. Report on Eighty Cases of Chorea. By George S. Gerhard, M.D., Physician to the Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Dis- eases, and Assistant Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia. 99 XV. Fibromata of the Skin. (Fibroma Molluscum, cutis pendula, “ Fibro- cellular Tumours.") By De Saussure Ford, A.M., M.D., Professor of Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy in the Medical College of Georgia XVI. An unusual case of Cancer of Breast, with Tissue Infiltration and Cachexia; Child-birth and Post-partum Hemorrhage; Retrogression of Disease and apparent Restoration to Health for more than two years; Excision of Mamma owing to Renewal of Disease; Subsequent Appear- ance of Cancerous Nodules in the Skin; Death after two more years of slow decline, accompanied by some symptoms pointing to Intracranial Disease; Autopsy; Remarks. By James S. Greene, M.D. Harv., of XVII. Stricture of "The Esophagus," from the Action of Caustic Potash ; Esophagotomy; Death; Post-mortem. By Chas. W. Horsey, M.D., XVIII. Case of Gunshot Wound of the Spinal Cord. By Henry T. Dana, XIX. Case of Natural Catalepsy. By Thomas H. Streets, M.D., Passed XX. A New Curve for the Gum-elastic Catheter in Prostatic Retention. By T. H. Squire, M.D., of Elmira, N. Y. (With a wood-cut.) XXI. Inflammatory Fibrinous Growth in the Trachea; Tracheotomy; Diphtheria; Death on the fourth day after the Operation. By Andrew H. Smith, M.D., of New York, Surgeon to the Throat Department of the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, Physician to St. Luke's Hospital. 126 XXII. Diffused Popliteal Aneurism; Syme's Operation; Secondary Hemor- rhage; Ligature of Femoral Artery; Tetanus; Recovery. Operations by C. B. Porter, M.D., Surg. Mass. General Hosp., Subsequent care and Report by Assistant Surgeon S. Q. Robinson, U. S. M. H. S. XXIII. On the Subcutaneous Injections of Ergotine. By R. Crockett, XXIV. Case of Movable, or "Floating" Kidney. By G. W. H. Kemper, A CENTURY OF AMERICAN MEDICINE. 1776-1876. XXV. Obstetrics and Gynecology. By T. Gaillard Thomas, M.D., Pro- fessor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children in the College XXVI. Lectures on Orthopedic Surgery and Diseases of the Joints. By Lewis A. Sayre, M.D., Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Fractures and Dislocations, and Clinical Surgery in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, etc. etc. 8vo. pp. x., 476. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1876. XXVII. Reports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government Board. New series, Nos. iii. and vi. Report to the Lords of the Council on Scientific Investigations made under their direction in aid of Pathology and Medicine. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. London: XXVIII. Clyclopædia of the Practice of Medicine. Edited by Von Ziemssen, Professor of Clinical Medicine in Munich, Bavaria. Vol. iv. Diseases of the Respiratory Organs. By Dr. Fraenkel, of Berlin; Prof. Von Ziemssen, of Munich; Prof. Steiner, of Prague; Dr. Riegel, of Cologne; and Fraentzel, of Berlin. Albert H. Buck, M.D., New York, editor of American edition. 8vo. pp. xix., 805. New York: |