EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL

JOURNAL:

EXHIBITING

A CONCISE VIEW

OF THE

LATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES

IN

MEDICINE, SURGERY, AND

PHARMACY.

VOLUME SEVENTY-SIXTH.

1851.

EDINBURGH:

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK;
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, LONDON;
AND HODGES & SMITH DUBLIN.

MDCCCLI.

THE EDINBURGH

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL,

No. CLXXXVIII.

CONTENTS.

PART I. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. Contributions to the Military Medical Statistics of the Bombay

Presidency. By JOHN KINNIS, M.D. Part 1I.-On the Health

of the Queen's Troops serving in the Presidency of Bombay, from

1st April 1847 to 31st March 1848.

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II. Antiquarian and Medico-Historical Notice of the Rochester and

Chatham Leper Hospital of St Bartholomew. By THOMAS

STRATON, M.D.

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III. Researches on Cretinisim in general, and Abstract of the Report of

the Commission named by the King of Sardinia, in order to study

this Infirmity. By M. BOUDIN, M.D.

IV. Deleterious Practice of some of the Irish Peasantry connected with

the belief in Fairies. By WILLIAM PICKELLS, A.B., M.D.

V. On the state of the Blood and the Blood-vessels in Inflamation,

ascertained by Experiments, Injections, and Observations by the

Microscope. The" Astley Cooper " Prize Essay for 1850. By

T. WHARTON JONES.

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VI. On the Mortality of Cholera among the European Troops of the

Indian Army. By JAMES STARK, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.R.S.S.A. 120

VII. Some account of the Life and Scientifie Writings of WILLIAM

PROUT, M.D., F.R.S.

PART II.-CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

ART. 1.-1. Vichy and its Environs; a description of the Thermal Waters

and of the Picturesque Situations by whieh they are surround-

ed; with some considerations upon the Medical Action of the

Waters (Eight Lithographs). By H. LECOQ.

2. Report on the Employment of the Mineral Waters of Vichy in

the treatment of Gout. Read to the Royal Academy of Medi-

cine on the 24th March 1850, in the name of a Commission, by

M. PATISSIER. Followed by an Answer to some Alegations

against the Solution of Urinary Calculi, by CHARLES PETIT,

D. M., &c.

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