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1848.

LIST OF AUTHORIZED AGENTS.

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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

Communications have been received from Drs. Love, C. S. Fenner, Wm. A. Booth and Lewis Shanks.

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Our usual exchanges have been received.

We have received from the publishers the following:

"SOLLY, on the Brain."

"WHITEHEAD, on Abortion and Sterility." "STILLE'S Pathology."

"MATTEUCI'S Lectures on Living Beings."

BOWERS' Memoranda of Surgery and Anatomy;-The Young Stethocopist, or the Students aid to Auscultation. By HENRY BOWDITCH, M. D.; LATHAM, on Auscultation and Semiology.

A Lecture by Professor HARD, on Atresia Vagina; DUNGLISON, on the Practice of Medicine, 2 vol.; MULLER'S Physics and Meteorology.

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Dr. Arnett, G. W., to July 1849 $5

Atkinson, W. H., Jan'y 1848

Dr. Krouse, T. J.

vol. 4 $5

"Leslie, N. K.

to 1849

5

"Larche, N. E.

"Lipscomb & Love,

"Liddell, J. R.

"Lewis, J. E., Jan'y

1848 to

"Bates, F. A.,

1849

5

"Beck, J. F.

to 1849

5

1849

5

1849

5

"Booth,

Matthews, Alex., Nov. 1848 to

1849

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"Calderwood, Jno.

1849

5

to 1849

66

Childers, E. R., Jan'y 1848 to

Mitchell, Wm. Esq, Jan. 1848

Dr. McKee & Smith, March 1848

"Moore, Thos. E., Sept. 1847 to

5

5

1848

5

Murph, Jas. M.

vol. 4 5

"Malory,

"45

66

Massey, E. J.

"Oliver, T. P., Jan'y

1848 to

5

1849

5

5

35

5

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"Fenner, C. S.

1848 to

1849

5

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1848

"French, Wm. Sept. 1846 to

"Green, A. L.

George, W. W. Jan'y 1847 to

66

10

vol. 5 5

Rowland, J. A., March 1848 to

1849

"Stone, C. H.

"Sutton, David

66 Shanks & Frasier,
66 Sanders, J., March

1849

66 Terrell, Joel.,

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CONTENTS

OF

THE NEW ORLEANS

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

VOL. IV. No. VI. FOR MAY, 1848.

PART FIRST.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

PAGE

689

694

ART. I.-A History of the Epidemic which prevailed in Vicksburg dur-
ing the Fall of 1847. By A. L. C. MAGRUDER, M. D.
ART. II.-Case of Urinary Fistula, reported by F. M. FITZHUGH, M. D.,
of Madison County, Miss.
ART. III.-Operation for Strangulated Hernia. By ALEX. EWING, M.
D., Dexter, Michigan.

695

PART SECOND.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.

ART. I.-A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine. By GEORGE B.
WOOD, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania; one of the Physicians to the Pennsylvania
Hospital; one of the authors of the United States Dispensary, &c. &c.

&c.
ART. II.-On Disorders of the Cerebral Circulation; and on the connec-
tion between Affections of the Brain and Diseases of the Heart. By
GEORGE BURROWS, M. D., Late Fellow of Coin's College, Cambridge;
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London; Physician and
Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, at St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital. With Colored Plates. Lea & Blanchard. Phila-
delphia. 1848.

ART. III.-Adulterations of various substances used in Medicine and the Arts, with the means of detecting them; intended as a Manual for the Physician, the Apothecary and the Artisan. By LEWIS C. BECK, M. D., Professor of Chemistry in Rutger's College, New Jersey, and in the Albany Medical College, &c., &c., New York. Samuel S. and W. Wood. 1846.

pp. 332.

698

753

757

ART. IV.-The History, Diagnosis and Treatment of the Fevers of the United States. By ELISHA BARTLETT, M. D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic in the Medical Department of Transylvania University, &c. Lea & Blanchard. Philadelphia. 1847. pp. 534. 759 ART. V.-Tracts on Generation, No. 1. Proofs that the Periodic Maturation and Discharge of Ova, are in the Mammalia and the Human Female Independent of Coition, as a first condition of their propagation. By T. L. G. BISCHOFF, M. D., Professor of Physiology, &c., Giessen. Translated from the German, by Professor Gilman and Tellkampf, of New York.