THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

MEDICAL REVIEW

OR

QUARTERLY JOURNAL

OF

PRACTICAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY

EDITED BY

JOHN FORBES M.D. F.R.S. F.G.S.

VOL. XXIII.

JANUARY-APRIL 1847

LONDON

JOHN CHURCHILL PRINCES STREET SOHO

MDCCCXLVII.

C AND J. ADLARD, PRINTERS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSP

CONTENTS OF N° XLV

OF THE

British and Foreign Medical Review.

JANUARY, 1847.

PART FIRST.-Analytical and Critical Reviews.

ART. 1.-1. An Experimental and Critical Inquiry into the Nature and Treatment of

Wounds of the Intestines; illustrated by Engravings. By SAMUEL D. GROSS,

M.D., Professor of Surgery in the Louisville Medical Institute, Surgeon to the

Louisville Marine Hospital, &c.

2. Recherches sur l'Emploi d'un Nouveau Procédé de Suture contre les Divisions

de l'Intestin et sur la possibilité de l'Adossement de cet Organe avec lui-

même dans certaines Blessures. Par J. A. GELY (de Nantes), M.D. Mé-

moire adressé à l'Académie Royale de Médecine

Researches on the Application of a New Method of Suture in Wounds of the
Intestines, and on the possibility of inflecting the Intestine on itself in certain
Wounds of that Organ. By J. A. GELY, M.D., of Nantes. Memoir presented
to the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris.

3. Die Operative Chirurgie. Von JOHANN F. DIEFFENBACH. Erster Band.

Capitel LXII. Operation des widernaturlichen Afters

ART. II.-Nosologia Positiva. Scritta da VINCENZIO LANZA, Dottore in Medicina,

Professore nella Cattedra di Medicina Pratica della Regia Universita' degli

Studii di Napoli, Medico Primario e Direttore della Clinica dello Spedale della

Pace, &c. &c.

Positive Nosology. By V. LANZA, M.D., Professor of the Practice of Physic in

the Royal University of Naples, &c.

ART. III. Elements of Pathological Anatomy. By SAMUEL D. GROSS, M.D., Pro-

fessor of Pathological Anatomy in the Medical Department of the Cineinnati

College, &c. Second edition

.

ART. IV. Recueil de Mémoires de Médecine, de Chirurgie, et de Pharmacie Mili-

taires; redigé sous la Surveillance du Conseil de Santé des Armées. Publié

par Ordre de S. Ex. le Ministre Secrétaire de l'Etat au Département de la

Guerre

Collection of Memoirs on Military Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy. Published

officially. Fifty-eight Volumes.

ART. V.—1. Histoire de la Médecine depuis son Origine jusqu'au XIXe siècle. Par

le Docteur P. V. RENOUARD. Tom. ii

PAGE

I

ib.

ib.

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63

73

85

2. Saggio sopra il Modo e le Regole di osservare e massime in Medicina. Dei

Dr. L. EMILIANI, Prof. Emer. di Clinica Medica e Medicina Pratica nella

Regia Universita di Modena, &c.

ib.

3. Zur Charakteristik der Medicin der Gegenwart. Von Dr. J. M. LEUpoldt,

offentl. ord. Professor an der Universität zu Erlangen

ib.

4. The Medical Police of the United Kingdom. From the Westminster Review

for March

ib.