The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine

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1840 - Medicine

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Observations on the Diseases incident to Pregnancy and Childbirth By FLEETWOOD
95
E Disorders arising from Mechanical Pressure or Distention
107
On the Nature and Structural Characteristics of Cancer and of those Morbid Growths
119
On the Minute Structure of Carcinomatous Growths
129
The Anatomy of Suicide By FORBES WINSLOW M R C
161
Illustrations of the Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System By Joseph
173
The intimate Structure of Secreting Glands By John Muller M D
174
B Summary of Anatomical Observations on the intimate structure of Glands
191
Physiological Corollaries on Secretion particularly of Glands
192
Spirit of the Foreign Periodicals
193
Lisfranc on some of the Diseases of the Mamma
194
On the Influence of Splenic Engorgement on Agues 4 M Cazenave on Scabies
198
On Convulsions during Pregnancy and Delivery
199
Chilblains treated with Mustard Baths 7 Memoranda on Cutaneous Transplantations 8 M Trosseau on the Pommade Antimoniacale and on Heat as Ve...
200
On the Ophthalmia in the Belgian Army
207
On the Purulent Ophthalmia of Children
209
Lisfranc on certain Fallacies in Surgical Works A Facility of Diagnosis in general B Difficulty of Diagnosis in certain cases
211
On Medical Meteorology
212
Fatal Effects from the Use of Colchicum and of Tartrate of Antimony
215
Memoranda on Insanity
218
Baudens on Glandular Swellings
220
On the Treatment of Certain Cases of Deafness
221
Remarks of a German on English Obstetricy 19 On Epidemic Hemeralopia 20 M Guerin on Subcutaneous Wounds 207
223
Guerin on Clubfoot Wryneck
230
Rayer and Breschet on Glanders
231
Clinical Review and Hospital Reports GUYS HOSPITAL 1 Guys Hospital Reports No X April 1840 Edited by George H Barlow M A c and James P B...
241
Practical Hints on the Treatment of Stricture By Bransby B Cooper F R S
244
Excision of the Elbowjoint By C Aston
247
Spirit of the British and American Periodicals
273

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