OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW. APRIL, 1870. Analytical and Critical Reviews. REV. I.-General Medical Council. Report of the Committee on Professional Report of Medical Tutors's Convention, in the 'Transactions of American Medical Association' for 1867 . REV. II.—A Handbook of Therapeutics. By SIDNEY RINGER, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics in University College, Physician to University College Hospital. London. Pp. 485 REV. III.-El Pabellon Medico: Revista Cientifica y Professional de Medicina, Cirujia y Farmacia. Se publica los dias, 7, 14, 21, 28 de cada mes. Vol. viii, 1868. Madrid. The Medical Pavilion: Scientific and Professional Review of Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy. Eighth year. Published weekly. Madrid, 1868 REV. IV. On the Pathology and Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra. By Sir HENRY THOMPSON, Surgeon-Extraordinary to His Majesty the King of the Belgians; Professor of Clinical Surgery, and Surgeon to University College Hospital. London, 1869. Second edition. Pp. 430 PAGE 283 ib. 303 . 315 On the Immediate Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra, by the Employment of the "Stricture Dilator." By BARNARD HOLT, F.R.C.S., Senior Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital; late Lecturer on Surgery in the Westminster Hospital School of Medicine REV. V. A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, from its Foundation in 1765, with Sketches of the Lives of deceased Professors. By JOSEPH CARSON, M.D. Philadelphia, 1869. 8vo, pp. 227. REV. VI.-Nordiskt Medicinskt Arkiv. Redigeradt af Dr. AXEL KEY. Första Bandet, Andra, Tredje och Fjerde Häfterna. Med Planscher. 1869, Stockholm, Samson och Wallin, 8vo, pp. 599. [Northern Archives of Medicine. Edited by Dr. AXEL KEY. (With the cooperation of Committees in Copenhagen, Christiania, Lund, Stockholm, and Upsala.) First Volume, Second and Third Parts, with ten Plates; and Fourth Part, with four Plates.] . 325 ib. 332 . 337 REV. VII.-Six Reports of the Coroner for Central Middlesex. Various Pamphlets and Papers. By Mrs. BAINES. ACTON on Prostitution. Second edition PAGE 346 REV. VIII. Failure of Sight from Railway and other Injuries of the Spine and Head, its Nature and Treatment, with a Physiological and Pathological disquisition into the influence of the Vasomotor Nerves on the Circulation of the Blood in the Extreme Vessels. By THOMAS WHARTON JONES, F.R.S., F.R.C.S., &c. London. Pp. 309. 1869 . 370 REV. IX.-Army Medical Department Report for the Year 1867. Presented to Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. 8vo, pp. 563. 1869 . 376 REV. X.-1. FELIX VON NIEMEYER'S Klinische Vorträge über die Lungenschwindsucht: mitgetheilt von Dr. OTT. Zweite Auflage. Berlin, 1867. Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Consumption. By FELIX VON NIEMEYER, Professor in the University of Tübingen: published by Dr. OTT. 2nd Edition Pp. 112 389 ib. 2. Die Tuberculose, die Lungenschwindsucht und Scrofulose; nach REV. XI. Twenty-third Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the . REV. XIII.-1. Sixth Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, 1863 2. Hospitalism and Zymotic Diseases. By EVORY KENNEDY, M.D., &c. 3. Circular Report by the Surgeon-General of the Army Medical Ser- 4. Outline of Observations on Hospital Gangrene as it manifested itself 6. Edinburgh Medical Journal, December, 1869, and January, 1870 · Bibliographical Record. ART. I.-Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical. By HENRY GRAY, F.R.S., &c. Fifth Edition. With an Introduction on General Anatomy and Development. By T. HOLMES, M.A., &c. London, 1869. Pp. 768 ART II.—Human Osteology; comprising a Description of the Bones, with Delineations of the Attachments of the Muscles, the General and Microscopic Structure of Bone, and its Development. To which is added a brief notice of the Unity of Type in the Construction of the Vertebrate Skeleton. By LUTHER HOLDEN, F.R.C.S., &c. Fourth Edition. Illustrated by numerous Drawings on Stone, and Woodcuts. London, 1869. Pp. 282 PAGE 451 . 452 ART. III.-Practical Anatomy: a Manual of Dissections. By CHRISTOPHER ART. VI.-A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical Changes of Carbon. ART. VII.-Outlines of Chemistry, or Brief Notes of Chemical Facts. By London, 1870. Pp. xiii, 468 The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences. Edited by W. ART. X.-The Liverpool Medical and Surgical Reports. Vol. iii. October, ART. XI.-The Mechanism of Dislocation and Fracture of the Hip, with the ib. 455 . ib. 456 457 ib. ib. . 458 459 . 460 ART. XIII. The Food Journal: a Review of Social and Sanitary Economy, ART. XV.—Haandbog i Therapien. Af Dr. Prof. Oluf Lundt Bang, Conferentsraad, Storkors af Dannebrog, Commandeur af Vasa, Dannebrogsmann Kjöbenhavn. Den Gyldendalske Boghandel. MM. ANDEN OMARBEIDEDE UDGAVE. 1869, 8vo, pp. 463 PAGE 462 463 466 Manual of Therapeutics. By Professor D. OLUF Lund Bang, Privy Councillor, Grand Cross of Dannebrog, Commander of Vasa, Dannebrogsman, &c., &c. Second edition, revised. Copenhagen, 1869 ib. ART. XVI.—The Medical Directory for 1870, and General Medical Register : including the London and Provincial Medical Directory, the Medical Directory for Scotland, the Medical Directory for Ireland, &c. London, 1870. Pp. 1845. ART. XVII.—A Clinical Note Book for Hospital and Private Practice. 469 . 470 Original Communications. ART. I.-Report on a Case of Railway Injury. By WILLOUGHBY FRANCIS WADE, B.A., M.B., Physician to the General Hospital, Birmingham. 471 ART II. On some points in the Pathology of Cholera and Apnoea. By GEORGE JOHNSON, M.D., F.R.C.P., Physician to King's College Hos pital, Professor of Medicine in King's College, London ART. III.—An Inquiry into the Real Nature of Hysteria. By D. De BERDT HOVELL, F.R.C.S.E., &c. ART. IV.-On Animal Vaccination. By P. M. BRAIDWOOD, M.D., &c. 480 . 497 . 511 Chronicle of Medical Science. (CHIEFLY FOREIGN AND CONTEMPORARY.) Report on Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By ROBERT HUNTER SEMPLE, M.D. . Report on Pathology and Principles and Practice of Medicine. By FRANCIS Report on Toxicology, Forensic Medicine, and Hygiene. By BENJAMIN W. THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW. APRIL, 1870. Analytical and Critical Reviews. I.-Medical Tuition.' IT is as rash for a workman to complain of his wood as of his tools. We shall, on that ground, at once repudiate all sympathy with those who are tempted to shift the blame of the medical student's shortcomings back to his antecedent education. It is for them to take the raw material as it is sent to them, and hew it into the best shape of which it is capable. That raw material is, for the most part, an average youth of about seventeen or so, just able to fulfil the modest demands of the examiners in previous knowledge at the College or Hall, rather shy, easy to lead but hard to drive, willing to learn what is clearly put before him, but averse from thinking, and especially from putting his thoughts into form. What has to be made of him is an observant, thoughtful man, familiar enough with the usual means of relieving sickness to apply them readily. If they expect better material, or do less with it, without just excuse, they are not acting up to the parts which the country assigns to teachers of the art of healing. There is a variation of species produced by some young men coming straight from school, and some having previously attended the practice of a private practitioner; but what these latter have gained by a certain familiarity with the outside 1 General Medical Council. Report of the Committee on Professional Education (1869), with Appendices, containing 124 replies of Medical Teachers addressed by Circular, the Reports of the Medical Teachers' Association,' a Sketch of the Systems of Medical Education in North Germany, Austria, and France,' and Observations on Medical Education?' Report of Medical Tutors' Convention, in the Transactions of American Medical Association' for 1867. 90-XLV. 19 |