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1827; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

James C. Cross, T. V. Wiesenthal, Ezra Michener, Wm. Tazewell, Marshal Hall, John North, A. G. Labarraque, J. Brown, Joseph Prior, Samuel S. Fitch, Geo. Hayward, John P. Batchelder, David Hosack, Samuel L. Mitchill, William James MacNeven, Valentine Mott, John W. Francis, John D. Godman, John Griscon, Peter S. Townsend,

Table of contents: Contents No. XXXVIII. Frontmatter: The Medical Recorder. Essay: Proceedings of the Counsellors of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Dr. Charles D. Meigs Gives a Short Account of a Child Who Had Taken Stramonium, and as He Observes "Accounts of This Affection Are Not so Very Numerous as to Have Become Fatiguing, " We Shall Present an Abstract of the Case, Several Cases of Poisoning with Arsenic, Illustrating the Delicacy of Chemical Evidence, &c., Related by Dr. Christison, Are Highly Valuable in a Medico-Legal Point of View, More Especially When Accompanied as They Are, by His Valuable Observations, Two Cases of Extraction of Calculi from the Female Bladder by Dilatation of the Urethra Occur in Succession, the First by Robert Hamilton, M. D., in Which the Dilatation Was with Difficulty Effected in Eighteen Hours, Attended with Great Suffering, and the Calculus Which Weighed One Oz., Was Not Extracted without the Aid of the Bistory; the Second by Dr. Ramsey of Dundee, Where More Gradual Efforts Were Employed with Complete Success; the Calculus Weighed Seven and a Half Drachms, More than Three Weeks Were Employed in Effecting This Object, the Instrument Used in Both Cases Was Weiss's Dilator, Dr. Cornelius Baldwin, Whose Death Was Last Week Announced, at the Advanced Age of Seventy-Six Years, Was One of the Few Survivors of That Patriot Band Who Fought and Won the Battles of the Revolution, and to Whom, under Providence, We Are Indebted for the Emancipation of Our Country from Foreign Servitude and Oppression, Dr. Williams Offers to the Consideration of the Profession a New Theory Respecting the Arterialization of the Blood, and the Generation of Animal Heat; He Conceives the First to Result from the Greater Affinity of Oxygen than Carbonic Acid, for the Blood, the Latter of Which Is Consequently Disengaged, from the Blood in Which It Resided in a State of Combination, We Cannot Follow Him in Detail, but the Impression Left on Our Mind by the Perusal Is That His Reasonings Are by No Means Conclusive, A Very Interesting Case of Mollities Ossium Is Communicated by John Howship, Esq., London, A Case in Which the High Operation of Lithotomy Was Performed, and in Which Unusual Difficulty Was Experienced in the Extraction of the Stone, by George Ballingall, M. D., A Child Six Months Old, of Healthy Appearance, and Born of a Very Healthy Mother, Who, However, during Her Pregnancy Lost Her Husband, and in Consequence of Her Loss Suffered Great and Long Continued Melancholy, Was Taken to Dr. Getterman for His Advice for a Spasmodic Affection Which It Had Been Labouring under for Two Months, Mr. Makenzie, One of the Surgeons to the Glasgow Eye Infirmary, in a Valuable Paper on Catarrhal Ophthalmia, Very Ably Discusses the Propriety and Absolute Necessity of a Nosological Arrangement of Ophthalmia, in Order to Secure Their Appropriate Treatment, John Gairdner, M. D. Narrates a Case of Carditis "Attended with Unusual Symptoms", Circular Berkshire Medical Institution, Dr. James L. Bardsley Communicates a Very Interesting Case of Paruria Mellita, Observations on the Effects of Inflammation and Injuries upon the Humours of the Eye, by Alexander Watson, Esq., The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, for October, 1826, We Pass over the Paper of Dr. Griffith on Infanticide; the Thesis of Dr. Shaw, of North Carolina, on the Modus Operandi of Medicines, Which Is Highly Creditable to Him as a Writer; and Pendleton's Observations on Monstrosities; to Matter of a Practical Nature, Dr. Parrish's Paper on Infantile Convulsions Arising from Spasms of the Intestines, Is One of Considerable Practical Importance, Circular Butgers' Medical College, Medical and Pathological Cases. By T. V. Wiesenthal, M. D., U. S. N., Member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, Honorary Member of the Boylston Medical Society of Massachusetts, and of the Medical Society of Maryland, &c. &c., A Case of Gunshot Wound, by J. Boggie, M. D., Is Interesting in a Physiological Point of View; the Wound Was Received at the Battle of Waterloo, from a Rifle-Ball, Which Shattered the Bones of the Leg, " a Very Great Proportion of the Whole Cylinder of the Tibia to the Extent of Several Inches" Was Removed in Fragments through an Incision Made for That Purpose, " yet in the Course of Little More than Four Months We Find That That Great Loss Was Completely Repaired by the Secretion of Callus, " and the Person Recovered, with a Slight Shortening of the Limb, Practical Observations on the Convulsions of Infants. By John North, Surgeon Accoucheur, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. London, 1826, The Use of the Chlorate of Soda and the Chlorate of Lime. By A. G. Labarraque, Pharmacien of Paris, Member of the Society of Medicine, &c. &c. Translated by James Scott, Surgeon. London, 1826. (Pp. 36), A Case of Tetanus and Lock-Jaw Is Narrated by Peter Gibson, Surgeon, Edinburgh, Which Was Successfully Treated by Means of Opiates and Stimulants, Together with Mercury; Cold Affusion Was Tried with Manifest Injury, Mr. Alexander Watson's Observations on Chronic Iritis Are Interesting; He Defines It to Be an "Affection of the Eye of Slow Progress and of Long Continuance, in Which Adhesion of the Iris, Contraction of the Pupil, and Effusion of Lymph upon the Capsule of the Lens and Inner Surface of the Cornea, Frequently Take Place to Such an Extent as to Cause Complete Blindness", James Fountain, M. D. of Yorktown, West Chester County, N. Y., Relates a Case of Chorea Sancti Viti, Stephen Brown, M. D. of New York, Relates Two Interesting Cases of Compound Fracture of the Patella, Analysis of Foreign Journals Bibliothek Der Practischen Heilkunde. By Hufeland and Osan. Berlin, 1826, Statement of Deaths With Diseases and Ages, in the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, from the First January, 1826, to the …, Hufeland's Case of Tic Douloureux Cured by Mineral Magnetism, A Case of Double Inguinal Hernia on the Same Side, by Hugh Fraser, Surgeon, Gibraltar, The Edinburgh Journal of Medical Science, Nos. 3 and 4, for July and October, 1826, Dr. Samuel Jackson, in a Valuable and Highly Interesting Paper, Presents a General Summary of the Principles of the Doctrine of Irritation, A Muscular Man, Æt. About 35, Was Brought to St. Thomas's Hospital June 27th, 1826, with a Wound of the External Carotid Artery, near the Angle of the Jaw, on the Right Side, In a Notice of the "University of the State of New York, " We Find the Following Statement, James Molleson, M. D. Presents Us with Notes of Some Remarkable Cases, Analecta, A Concise View of the Autumnal Fever of 1823, as It Occurred in Chester County Pennsylvania. By Ezra Michener, M. D., Transactions of the Medical Society of Virginia Case of Tetanus. By Wm. Tazewell, M. D., Read October 15, 1825, Dr. Heustis, of Cahawba, Alabama, Relates Several Cases; the First, a Case of Suppression of Urine from Stricture, in a Lad Eleven Years of Age, Relieved by the Introduction of the Bougie as Occasion Required, Cases of Phagedenic Ulcer, Communicated by G. Babington, Esq. Surgeon to the Lock Hospital, During the past Winter, Dr. I. Rhea Barton, of This City, Has Performed a Novel and Interesting Surgical Operation, Dr. Thomas Anderson, of Trinidad, Relates Several Successful Cases of Tetanus, Where the Tobacco in the Form of a Bath, Frequently Repeated, and Also in That of Injection Was Employed; We Give One of the Cases in a Condensed Form, Under the Head of "Syphilis Treated with Scruple Doses of Calomel, " in Which Notice Is Taken of Mr. Boyle's Cases, (and Published in the November Number of the London Medical and Physical Journal,) Successfully Treated by This Method, We Find the Following Passage, A Case of Purpura Hemorrhagica Is Detailed by Dr. Fairbairn, Which Terminated Fatally, as Might Have Been Anticipated from the Mode of Treatment Adopted by That Gentleman, When Viewed in Connection with His Account of the Symptoms When He First Saw the Patient; "His Tongue Was Covered with a Dark Fur, " and His Pulse 110, and a Pretty Copious Discharge of Dark Venous Blood from the Mouth, "Partly Oozing from Its Mucous Membrane and Partly Expectorated from the Lungs, " Together with "A Deep Seated Pain in the Left Breast, Aggravated by Frequent Fits of Coughing or a Full Inspiration", The Medical Society of Lyons Offers a Prize for the Best Essay upon Colica Pictonum, Dr. Gregory, Physician to the Small-Pox and Vaccine Hospital, Gives Some Valuable Observations on the Causes of Failure in Vaccination, Observations on Cutaneous Absorption, with Experiments, by John Dill, M. D., Are Interesting, They Tend to Support the Doctrine That the Skin Is Capable of Absorbing Moisture from the Circumambient Atmosphere, the Experiments Consist in Weighing Persons before and after Their Entrance into a Bath of a Given Temperature, the Hourly Expenditure of the Body Being Previously Ascertained and Allowed For, We Have Already Given a Brief Abstract of Dr. Ralph's Interesting Paper on the Yellow Fever, in Barbadoes in 1816-17, in Our Last Number Whilst Reviewing a Paper by Dr. Merill on the Same Subject, to Which We Must Refer the Reader, Philadelphia Medical Society.—Officers for 1827, Some Interesting Cases of Preternatural Apertures, by James Sym, Surgeon, Kilmarnock, Are Offered to Our Notice, Health Office, Baltimore, January 1st, 1827, Treatise on Repelling the Paroxysm of Intermittent Fever, Illustrated with Cases. By J. Brown, M. D. Fellow of the Linnean Society, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, &c. Boston, (England,) 1826. Pp. 60, Next in Order Is a Highly Interesting Case of Compound Luxation of the Astragalus Inwards, in Which the Efforts at Reduction Proving Ineffectual, Professor Stevens Immediately Removed the Bone; the Scaphoid End of the Bone Was Brought out Foremost; Not More than an Ounce of Blood Was Lost, Extract of a Letter from Our Respected Correspondent, Dr. Doucet, of New York, Dated, An Interesting Case Is Related by H. Earle, Esq. Exemplifying the Influence of Mechanical Local Irritation on the Constitution, Analysis of American Medical Journals The North American Medical and Surgical Journal, for Jan. 1827, Andrew Berry M. D., Communicates a Description of Two Children United Together by the Sternum in the Manner of the Letter V, They Have Only One Navel, They Were Perfect in Every Other Respect, Case of Death from a Blow with a Whip Staff, by Dr. Henze, of Waldenburg, The London Medical and Physical Journal, from September to January, 1827, A Case of Disorganization of the Stomach of an Infant Is Narrated by Dr. John Gairdner, William Shanahan Describes a Number of Selected Cases of Apoplexy, among Which We Recognize Three That Possess the Usual Character of Apoplectic Seizure; Apoplexy Associated with Epilepsy in Two Cases; and the Remaining Four Illustrate Its Complication with Bronchitis, Which Greatly Augments the Violence and Intractability of the Case, and Renders the Treatment Exceedingly Complex and Embarrassing, In a Paper on the External Use of the Ext. of Belladonna, by T. Wm. Chevalier, We Find Much That Is Practically Useful, A Very Interesting Paper Is Selected from the Med. And Chir. Zeitung, for Feb. 1826; It Is "On the Effects of Hyoscyamine and Atropia, by Dr. F. Reisinger, A Case of Incontinence of Urine Is Given by T. Brown, Surgeon, Together with a Description and Figure of an Instrument by Which It Was Relieved, The New York Medical and Physical Journal, for October, November, and December, 1826, Dr. Hoyt, of New York, Makes Some Very Judicious Observations on the Use of Calomel in the Cases of Children, Multiple Essay Items, An Essay on the Circulation of the Blood. By James C. Cross, M. D., Lexington, Kentucky, A List of Subscribers Who Have Commenced with Our Last Number, Dr. A. H. Renton's Account of the Dysentery of Madeira, Contains Nothing Particularly Striking; He Relies Principally on Mercurial Salivation Early Produced after Venesection Has Been Premised, It May Be Recollected by Our Subscribers, That in the Last October Number of the Recorder, under the Review of the New York Medical and Physical Journal, Notice Was Taken, among Others, of a Paper on Irritation, by a Dr. Fountain, of New York; Part Second of Same Paper Was Noticed in Our Last Number; and in as Much as Dr. F. "Complains" That the above Were "Barely Noticed, " and That "No Information Whatever Is Conveyed of the Different Subjects of Which He Treats, " We Have Thought Proper, "In Justice to Dr. F. " as Well as for the Benefit of Our Readers, to Give Them Some Further Remarks Teeming with "Irritation, " from the Same Pen, Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburg. Vol. II., 1826, At a Special Meeting of the Counsellors of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Held at the Medical College, Mason Street, November 7th, 1826, Thoughts on the Pathology and Treatment of Hydrocephalus, We Recognize as the Valuable Lecture of Professor Chapman, Antiquity of Vaccinia, and the Origin of Variola from It, A Statement of the Number of Medical Students Attending Lectures (1826-27) in the Several Medical Schools in the United States, We Proceed Next to Notice a Paper on the Use of a New Substance Called Silk-Worm Gut, for Securing Divided Arteries, by George Fielding, Esq., Surgeon of Hull, The Next Case Is One of Physconia, &c. Presenting Some Remarkable Appearances on Dissection, Three Cases of Cæsarian Section, and One Where the Entire Uterus Was Extirpated, Are Selected from the German Journals; They All Terminated Fatally, Dr. Gairdner Gives a Case of Disorganized Stomach in an Infant, The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences, for February, 1827, Mr. Charles Miller Presents the Details of a Case of Hydrocephalus Chronicus, Which Affords "Some Unusual Symptoms and Appearances on Dissection", Dr. La Roche's Observations on the Use of Balsam Copaiba, in Chronic Inflammation of the Mucous Membrane of the Lungs, Are Valuable, Several Cases of Inflammation of the Larynx and Trachea, Constituting an Epidemic of Limited Locality, Are Related by Samuel Webber, M. D. of Charleston, N. H.. Review: Reviews Medical Essays. By Marshal Hall, M. D. F. R. S. E. Physician to the General Hospital, near Nottingham, …. Letter to the editor: Medical Intelligence To the Editors of the Medical Recorder, To the Editors of the "Medical Recorder", To the Editors of the Medical Recorder. Obituary: Obituary Notices.