MEDICAL EXAMINER,

A

MONTHLY RECORD

OF

MEDICAL SCIENCE,

EDITED BY

SAMUEL L. HOLLINGSWORTH, M.D.,

FELLOW OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, PHYSICIAN TO GIRARD COLLEGE,
AND TO WILLS' HOSPITAL, PHILADELPHIA.

VOLUME XI.-NEW SERIES.

PHILADELPHIA:
LINDSAY & BLAKISTON.

1855.

THE

MEDICAL

EXAMINER.

CONTENTS OF

NO. I. VOL XI.-NEW SERIES-JANUARY, 1855.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

Gastrotomy for the Removal of an Ovarian Tumor; error of diag
nosis; peculiar condition of the abdominal parietes and
contents; patient recovered. By Henry H. Smith, M. D.,
Consulting Surgeon and Lecturer on Clinical Surgery in the
Philadelphia Hospital, .

Cases of Albuminuria. By F. W. Lewis, M.D.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.

On the Nature, Signs, and Treatment of Child-bed Fevers, &c. By

Chas. D. Meigs, M.D., Professor of Midwifery, &c., in Jeffer-

son Medical College,

A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological and Practical, on the

Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America,

&c. By Daniel Drake, M.D. Edited by S. Hanbury Smith,

M. D., &c., and Francis G. Smith, M. D. &c. Second Series,

The modern treatment of Syphilitic Diseases, both primary and

secondary; comprising the treatment of constitutional and

confirmed Syphilis by a safe and successful method; with

numerous cases, formulæ and clinical observations. By

Langston Parker, Surgeon to the Queen's Hospital, Bir-

mingham. From the third and entirely re-written edition,

Nature in Disease, illustrated in various Discourses and Essays, to

which are added Miscellaneous Writings, chiefly on Medical

Subjects. By Jacob Bigelow, M. D., Physician and Lecturer

on Clinical Medicine in the Massachusetts General Hospital,

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