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Our esteemed cotemporaries will please excuse our omission to notice in this number their varied and interesting contents. It will not be so again.

Communications have been received from Drs. Lopez, of Mobile, Nailor, of Miss., and E. Hughes, of Trinity, La.

In our next number, Dr. Wedderburn will give a new view of the position of the Epigastric Artery, and its agency in determining the position of the internal inguinal ring.

We have been compelled to postpone several reviews and bibliographical notices to our next number.

The following pamphlets have been received, viz:

1. Some observations on the Ethnography and Archeology of the American Aborigines. By SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON, M. D.

2. Experimental Researches on the Post-mortem contractility of the muscles, with observations on the Reflex Theory. By BENNET DOWLER, M. D.

3. A Practical Treatise on the art of preserving the Teeth, &c., &c. By A. L. PLOUGH, Dental Surgeon.

We have had access to the latest Foreign Medical Journals.

The following American Journals have been received regularly in exchange : American Journal of Medical Sciences. (July.)

American Journal of Science and Arts. (July.)

Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. (July and August.)

Western Lancet and Medical Library. (July and August.)

Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery. (July and August.)

Buffalo Medical Journal and Monthly Review. (July and August.)

St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal. (July and August.)

Missouri Medical and Surgical Journal. (July and August.)

Illinois and Indiana Medical and Surgical Journal. (July and August.)
New York Journal of Medicine.

(July.)

New York Medical and Surgical Reporter. (July and August.)

Medical Examiner. (July and August.)

Bulletin of Medical Science. (July and August.)

Medical News and Library. (July and August.)

Southern Journal of Medical and Pharmacy. (July.)

Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. (July and August.)

British American Journal of Med, and Physical Science. (July and August.)

us, for expressions uttered in the We have neither time nor room to

The Bulletin of Medical Science for August, which has just reached us, contains some bitter complaints against Review Part of our Journal for May last. notice the Editor's remarks at present.

CONTENTS

OF

THE NEW ORLEANS

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

VOL. III. No. II. FOR SEPTEMBER, 1846.

PART FIRST.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. 1.-Remarks on Gastrotomy. By JOHN P. FORD, M. D., of Nashville, Tennessee. Read before the Tennessee State Medical Society, and ordered to be published

ART. II.-A case of Congestive Fever, its history, symptoms and treatment. By A. L. C. MAGRUDER, M. D., of Vicksburg, Miss. ART. III.-Remarks on Dr. A. W. Ely's "Examination of the Riddellian Philosophy;" published in the July number of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. By J. L. Řiddell, M. D. ART. IV.-Strychnine. By BENJ. R. HOGAN, M. D., late U. S. A., Cambridge, Ala.

ART. V.-A case of Malignant Tubercle. By J. B. WILKINSON, M. D., of Louisiana

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ART. VI.-Ligature of the External Iliac Artery, with a Report of the
Treatment of Surgical Cases in the New Orleans Charity Hospital,
during the months of February and March 1846. By A. J. WEDDER-
BURN, M. D., Professor of Anatomy in the Medical College of Louisiana 158
ART. VII.-Report of a case of Trismus Nascentium. By W. B. LIND-
SAY, M. D., of New Orleans

ART. VIII.-Researches, Historical, Topographical and Critical, on
Yellow Fever. By BENNET DOWLER, M.D., of New Orleans
ART. IX. Observations on Congestive Fever. By T. A. COOKE, M. D.,
of Opelousas, La.

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ART. X.-Remarks on the disease properly known as the "Black Tongue." By P. E. H. LOVELACE, M. D., of Mississippi

ART. XI.-Brief Notes of a Medical Tour in the United States. Communicated in Editorial Correspondence to this Journal. By E. D. Fenner, M. D., one of the Editors

PART SECOND.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.

ART. I.-Lecture on Animal Magnetism-Delivered (by request) before
the Mobile Franklin Society. By J. C. Norî, M. D. Charleston, Bur-
gess & James, 1846.
ART. II.-Fevers: Their Diagnosis, Pathology and Treatment. Prepared
and edited, with large additions, from the essays on Fever in Tweedie's
Library of Practical Medicine. By MEREDITH Clymer, M. D., Prof.
of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, in Franklin Medical College
of Philadelphia, &c., &c. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1846;
1 vol, pp. 604.
ART. III.-An Introduction to Entomology, or Elements of the Natural
History of Insects, &c., with plates. By WM. KIRBY, M. A. F. R. S.
& L. Š., &c., and WILLIAM SPENCE, Esq., F. R. S. & L. S. From
the 6th London Edition, corrected and enlarged. Philadelphia: Lea &
Blanchard, 1846; 80.; p. 600.

ART. IV. Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Connecticut
Medical Society; May, 1846. Together with a list of members, and
the Annual Address. Hartford, Conn.
ART. V.-Observations on Remittent Fever, as it occurs in the Southern
part of Alabama. By Wм. M. BOLING, M.D. of Montgomery, Ala.
(From the Amer. Journal of Medical Sciences for April 1846.) Pamph-
let, pp. 56.

ART. VI.-A popular Treatise on the diseases of the Teeth. Including
a description of their structure and modes of treatment; together with
the usual mode of inserting artificial teeth. By ROBERT ARTHUR, D. D.
S. &c., &c., p. 187. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blackiston; 1846.
ART. VII.-Proceedings of the Medical Society of the State of Tennessee;
at the Seventeenth Annual Meeting; held at Nashville, May, 1846.
ART. VIII-A Dictionary of Medical Science. Containing a concise
account of the various subjects and terms; with the French and other
Synonymes; Notices of Climate, and of celebrated mineral waters;
formulæ for various officinal and emperical preparations, &c. By
ROBLEY DUNGLISON, M.D., Prof. of the Institutes of Medicine &c., in
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Sixth Edition, revised and
greatly enlarged. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1846; one vol.,
pp. 808.

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PART THIRD.

EXCERPTA.

ART. I.-Report on the Progress of Human Anatomy and Physiology, in the years 1844-55. By JAMES PAGET, Lecturer on General und Morbid Anatomy and Physiology, and Warden of the Collegiate Establishment at St. Bartholemew's Hospital.

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PART FOURTH.

MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE.

FOREIGN.

ART. I.-On Valerianic Acid, &c., and a substance produced from Caseine, and on vinous fermentation. By Baron LIEBIG, Professor of Chemistry,

Giessen.

ART. II.-Case of Schirrous Ulceration of the Esophagus, communicating with the Trachea. By J. P. HARRIS, Esq., Surgeon to the Eastern Dispensary.

ART. III.-Influence of the quality of the milk of the Nurse on the Health of the Child. By M. GIRARD.

ART. IV.-New Researches on the Movements of the Heart. By Signor
D. GOLA.

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ART. V. On the Natural History of Diseases. (Dr. Laycock's letter to
Dr. Forbes.)

ART. II.-An error corrected in regard to Dr. J. KEARNEY RODGERS' Ligature of the Left Subclavian Artery within the Scalenus Muscle. - 272 ART. III.-Medical Journals.

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