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THE NEWEST IRISH AGITATION.-Our excellent and talented contemporary, the Dublin Medical Press, exhibits considerable soreness at the present "Scotch" ascendency. No less than three paragraphs are devoted to the subject in a recent number. One appears as a simple announcement, the other two under the apparently harmless headings of "Sanitary Science-Dr Gray," and "The Microscope." We append them for the curiosity of our readers, vouching, however, neither for the accuracy of the statements nor for the strength of the jokes :—

"The Edinburgh Monthly makes its appearance again, under its new editor. Amongst several matters of interest, it gives the result of the Turkish Contingent agitation in the northern Athens, under Professor Simpson, and the large salaries previously stated in the Press. We find Punch lately asking some ethnological questions of a puzzling nature-Why are all bricklayers' labourers, at least in London, Irishmen ? Why are all milkmaids Welsh girls? and Why are all army surgeons inevitably Scotchmen?' Yes, indeed, why?

Sanitary Science.-Dr Gray has again been explaining his excellent mode of sanitary irrigation in cities. We fear, however, our friend has no means of applying it practically during the war. What if his name were M'Taggert, Forbes, or Invercauldy-something very strongly Scotch-then we might promise the editor of the Freeman two guineas a day.

"The Microscope.-In an extract of a letter from a London correspondent, published last week under this head, referring to Mr Quekett's lectures, Malpighian novus was printed in mistake for Malpighian plexus. Our correspondent writes-Why does your typographist owe one such a grudge? He should be made at once a F.R.C.S. E.; we said Malpighian plexus, not nævus, as shown by Quekett.'

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UNIVERSITY PUFFING IN AMERICA.-The New York Medical College [Dr Green's] held its commencement on the 2d March. Degrees were conferred upon twenty-eight graduates and four Doctors of Medicine. We have not met with any account of the proceedings. We trust that at the commencement of the winter course, Dr H. Green may be able to state with more truth than on the last occasion (Oct. 18th), that in proof of the high qualifications of their graduates, an unusually large number have been able to obtain positions in our public institutions, the army and the navy," etc. [see "Daily Times," Oct. 19). The returns from the medical boards of the army and navy up to that period show that but one graduate (Dr Bernard J. D. Irwin, of N. Y.), has ever been received from the New York Medical College into the ARMY LIST, and that not one graduate from that College has been received into the NAVY LIST!-New York Medical Times. [The italics and small capitals are not ours.-Ed. M. J.]

REBUKE OF AN ANTI-MALTHUSIAN UNIVERSITY ORATOR.-The oration, pronounced by Professor J. M. Smith, at the opening of the Crosby Street University, was full of sound wisdom and instruction, truly parental in its character. Among other good advice, he recommended early matrimony, without any reservation. We beg leave to dissent from the advice of our learned friend on this subject; we would, from our own experience and observation, say to a young graduate, "Get married as early as you have any reasonable prospect of ability to support a wife. If your circumstances are moderate, unless you can persuade an heiress to marry you, beware; better remain without consolation for a few years, than that yourself and wife should die of starvation." Our friend will excuse this criticism.-New York Medical Times.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.-Chloroform, according to Dr Arnott, "has been expelled from the wards of the Massachussetts Hospital in America, by orders of the governors of that institution; and the exhibition of anesthetic vapours in operations, has been regulated by public authority in some parts of the Continent."

NEGRO HOSPITAL.-Drs J. J. Chisholm and F. Peyre Porcher, have opened an hospital for the reception of sick negroes, where all diseases except those of a contagious nature will be treated. Such an establishment will prove very convenient for those owners of negroes who are not provided with suitable accommodations for them when sick, and for those planters in the vicinity of the city who have negroes requiring surgical operations. We feel confident of the success of this undertaking from the known ability and experience of these gentlemen. With Dr Porcher our readers are well acquainted. Dr Chisholm is the lecturer on surgery in the Charleston Preparatory Medical School, and has devoted several years, at home and abroad, to the special study of surgical diseases. Charleston Medical Journal.

FOREIGN APPOINTMENTS.-Professor Heyfelder of Erlangen has been nominated surgeon-in-chief of the Russian army in Finland. He has already set out for Sveaborg, and received, according to Russian custom, the rank of colonel in the army.-Gazette Hebdomadaire. April 27.

Dr Bernard Seyfert has been recently appointed Professor of Midwifery in the Faculty of Prague. Dr J. Sterig has, at the same time been elected Professor of the Art to the Sages-femmes.-Wiener Wochenschrift.

The College of France determined to appoint two Professors to the Chair of Natural History, founded by Cuvier and at present vacant by the recent death of M. Duvernoy. M. Flourens, we are glad to see, received the first appointment, and M. Valenciennes the second. M. Quatrefages on both trials had a minority-Gazette des Hôpitaux. May 5.

At the Séance of the Academy of Sciences, April 23d, Dr Bonnet of Lyons was elected, by 39 votes out of 52 members voting, a corresponding member in the sections of medicine and surgery, in the room of Orfila.-Gazette Hebdomadaire. April 27.

MM. Guérard, Devergie, Tardieu, Bondin, Bouchut, and Brierre de Boismont were candidates for a vacancy in the Academy of Medicine in the section of hygiene and legal medicine. The final vote stood as follows:-Guérard, 39; Devergie, 23; Tardieu, 10; Boudin, 2, and Brierre de Boismont, 1. M. Guerard took his seat accordingly.-L'Union Médicale. May 17.

By imperial decree dated April 28th, M. Lauton, surgeon of the second class in the French Marine, has been named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, for his courageous conduct before Sebastopol.-Gazatte des Hôpitaux. May 5.

THE LATE PROFESSOR LALLEMAND.-The Academy of Sciences has been authorised to accept the legacy of 50,000 francs bequeathed in the will of the late M. Lallemand. It will be devoted to founding a prize for the best series of observations on the nervous system.

M. BERNARD, Member of the Institute, and at present supplying the place of Majendie in the College of France, has commenced his Course of Physiology for the summer, the subject being, "The Functions of the Glands."

A WORTHY PRELATE.-The Bishop of Montpellier having generously offered to the French Government his magnificent country residence as a convalescent hospital for invalids from the Crimea, the administration have availed themselves of his munificence, and arranged this beautiful mansion for the accommodation of 1600 patients.-L'Union Médicale, April 28, 1855.

A PROSECUTION under the French REGISTRATION ACT.-A charge has been brought against a Dr Bessems of Antwerp, for having refused to insert the name of the mother in a declaration of a birth, the mother having, as he declared, bound him over to secrecy. The law authorities, on consultation, had to dismiss the case, as the article of the code in question was not sufficiently precise, and the 378th article of the penal code expressly forbids the prisoner to reveal any fact which the law does not compel him to confess.-Gaz. des Hôp., May 5. PARIS EXHIBITION.-Honorary Jurors for Medical Section, Sir Joseph Oliffe, M.D., Professor Royle, and Mr Chadwick.

THE VALUE OF ACADEMIC REPORTS.-The Secretary of the Academy of Medicine had the other day a very delicate duty to discharge, and to his honour be it said, he did not hesitate to speak his mind freely, and without respect of persons. A Report by M. Bousquet, on a work by M. Moreau (de Tours), was being read, when it was ascertained, that of three commissaries who were charged with the examination of the work in question, two declared that they had signed the Report without having read it, and one made the humiliating confession, that he had neither perused the Report nor the work itself; the contents and title were alike unknown to him. The astonishment of the Academy was, if possible, increased, by the subsequent discovery, that the two members who expressed in writing their approval of M. Bousquet's Report had inscribed their names in the list of debaters to oppose it. M. Dubois d'Amiens characterised, in severe terms, this gross infraction of all academic proprieties, usages, and rules. Commissaries, to sign a Report one minute, and be the first to impugn it the next! This certainly was very irregular, and very singular. Of what value was the decision of their commissions to be for the future? What became of the authority of the Academy itself in the midst of the clash. ing and jarring among those whose only mission it was to agree upon and indicate their report to the Academy?

INCREASE OF INSANITY IN THE DEPartment of the SEINE.-It appears from the researches of the Director de l'Assistance Publique, that the number of the insane in the department has in 10 years increased by 1073 individuals, or 107 yearly. If we go back to former years the increase becomes still more strik ing. Thus, in 1801, the number of insane on the 1st of January of that year was 946; it rose by the end of 1820 to 2392; to 2445 in 1838; to 2602 in 1844; and to 4189 on the 31st of December 1853. When we attempt to determine the causes of this extraordinary increase, so out of proportion with that of the general population, we soon perceive their diversity. First, the legislature itself has contributed to it by increasing the number of admissions, by adding idiots and imbeciles to the number of the insane, and by admitting children at all ages. On the other hand we must keep in mind the law of sequestration now applied to dangerous lunatics, and the facilities given for the private treatment of this malady; lastly, the lowering of the mortality, as a direct consequence of the increased care and attentive treatment of the insane, contributes to the increase in the number of the survivors.-Annales MedicoPsychologiques.

VACCINATION-FREE-TRADE ECONOMY.-Vaccination in England is now done so badly, from free-trade views of the cheapest estimate, that Mr Henley lately stated in parliament, that in Oxford, with 30,000 inhabitants (about one-third the size of Cork or Belfast), those who have been attacked within a twelvemonth could be counted by thousands. Dr Brady knew loathsome diseases imbibed from the same source.

ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Dr W. Begbie has been appointed a Physician in room of Dr W. Robertson, resigned.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Mann's Guide to the Knowledge of Life.
Headland on the Action of Medicines, 2d ed.
Reynold on Diagnosis of Diseases of the
Brain, Spinal Cord, etc.

Mayo on Medical Evidence in Lunacy Cases.
Report of Trial, Glover and Syme.
Waring's Statistics and Pathology of Ab-
scess in the Liver.

Beaseley's Pocket Formulary, 6th edition.
Dixon's Guide to the Diseases of the Eye.
Micrographic Dictionary, Parts 9 and 10.
Jones' Ophthalmic Medicine, 2d edition.
Fresinius Qualitative Analysis, 4th edition.
Carter on Nervous Affections.

Bouchut on the Diseases of Children.

INDEX.

Abortion, recurrent, by Dr Keiller, 177.
Abscess, cerebral, Dr Young's case of, 230.
Actual cautery in a case of lithotomy, Mr
Erichsen, 433.

Adams, Mr, cases of hypertrophied fingers
and toes, 170.

Agassiz and the Edinburgh Chair of Natu-
ral History, 363; theory, 365.
Air, atmospheric, iodine in, Chatin on, 153.
Alma, on some interesting cases among the
wounded, by Dr Johnston, 351, 395.
Amennorrheal cases, mammary treatment
of, by Dr Keiller, 347.
Ammonia evolved in respiration, Viale and
Latini, on, 58.

Anæsthesia by chloroform, aptitude for, by
M. Ancelon, 271.

Anæsthetic, chloroform and ether combined,
by M. Robert, 164.
Asphyxia neonatorum, by Dr Hamilton, 401.
Astragalus, dislocation backwards and in-
wards, 437.

Auscultation of the heart, Stokes on, 159.

Baizeau on croup, treated with tartar emetic,

430.

Balfour, Professor, biographical sketch of
the late Golding Bird, 424.

Ballingall, Sir George, on the necessity of
improving the condition of army surgeons,
185; introductory lecture to course of
military surgery, 473.

Barry, Dr Martin, on impregnation, 33; on
spermatozoa, 140; postscript, 313.
Bastick, Mr, on cod liver oil with quina, 345.
Baths of Creuznach, medicinal effects of, by
Dr Engelmann, 483.

Battye, Mr, on a sixth sense, 122, 215, 288.
Baudens, M., on resection of the head of
the humerus by a new method, 431.
Bayes, Dr, on gallic acid in pyrosis, 344.
Becquerel and Rodier on the treatment of
vaginitis, 340.

Begbie, Dr, jun., account of cases treated in
the Cholera Hospital, 183.
Belladonna in scarlatina, 529.
Bellucci on digitalis pommade for hydrocele,
270.

Bennett, Prof., on the treatment of the more
common forms of skin diseases met with
in Edinburgh, 19; clinical medicine, re-
viewed, 41; expulsion of the tænia solium,
107; case of disease of brain, with amyloid
NEW SERIES.-NO. VI. JUNE 1855.

bodies, 108; case of multiple abscesses,
111; on cracked pot sound, 114; trial of
phosphorus in paraplegia, 115; chlorides
in urine, 116.

Bickersteth's, Mr, simple operation for fis-
tula lacrymalis, 297.

Bierbaum, Dr, on lead poisoning, 341.
Blood of the insane, Lindsay on, 153.
Bouchut, M., on borax injections in infantile
diarrhoea, 165.

Brain, cyst at base of, Dr Ogle, 253.
Bromide of potassium, properties of, Thiel-
man, 163.
Bronchitis, plastic, Peacock on, 155; hydro-
chlorate of ammonia for, Delvaux, 154.
Brown, John, on the epidemic measles of
1854, in Leith, 299, 385.

Brown, Jos., case of epilepsy treated by liga-
tion of artery, 175.

Cæsarean section, cases of, by Dubois, 542.
Cancer, curability of, and diagnosis by mi-
croscope, 62, 166, 259; successfully treated
by caustic, Dr Gillespie, 75.
Carpentier on incision of the vulva in labour,

518.

Cazeau on neck of uterus in pregnancy, 548.
Charrier and Ancelon on the effects of com-
pression by maternal soft parts, 546.
Chatin on iodine in atmospheric air, 153.
Chloroform, combined with ether, as an
anæsthetic, 164; aptitude of individuals
for anæsthesia, 271; employed in the mili-
tary hospitals in the East, 434, 456.
Chorea, sulphate of strychnia for, Professor
Trouseau, 164.

Christison, Prof., on digitaline, 1; on pre-

served meat juice, 6; on the properties
of the ordeal bean of Old Calabar, 193.
Cloquet, J., particular method of cauteriza-
tion, 432.

Cod liver oil with quina, Bastick, 345.
Compression by maternal soft parts, effects
of, Charrier and Ancelon, 546.
Conien, external uses of, Marawjeff, 269.
Copa va balsam, action of, Roquette, 163.
Coryza, fumes of opium in, Lombard, 270.
Crighton's, Dr, case of tape-worm, 517.
Cyanuret of mercury, M. Desmartis, 271.

Death, sudden, Zschokke on, 151.
Debout and Zambaco on lupulin as an ana-
phrodisaic, 269.

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Delirium tremens, Peddie on, 158.
Delvaux, Dr, on hydroclorate of ammonia
in bronchitis, 161.

Dentition, on infantile, and its mortality, by
Dr John Smith, 506.

Deparc, M., on arseniate of iron in herpetic
and squamous eruptions, 164.
Desmartis, M., on cyanuret of mercury, 271.
Diarrhoea, infantile, borax injections in, M.
Bouchut, 165.

Discutient, oxide of copper ointment,
Hoppe, 166.

Dislocation of the lower jaw, Dr King's case,

265.

Dubois, cases of Cæsarean section, 542.
Duncan, Dr, on pelvic articulations in par-
turition, 179; on the statics of pregnancy,
181; uterine blood-letting, 380, 550.

Ecthyma on the fore-arm, after attending
labour cases, 429.

Eczema, application of intense cold in, M.
Aran, 61.

Edinburgh College of Physicians, late pro-
ceedings of, 188.

Eichman, M., on vapour of iodine in mam-
mary tumours, 270.

Engelmann, Dr, on the baths of Creuznach,
483.

Epidemic measles of 1854, in Leith, by J.
Brown, 299, 385.

Epilepsy treated by ligation of artery, Jos.
Brown, 175; atropin in, Dr Lange, 270.
Erichsen, Mr, case of lithotomy, secondary
hæmorrhage, the actual cautery, 433.
Eruptions, herpetic and squamous, Duparc,-

164.

Eye Infirmary, Edinburgh, quarterly report
of, 518.

Fistula lacrymalis, simple operation for,
by Mr Bickersteth, 297.

Foetus, blighted, case of, by Dr J. G. Wilson,
36; Webers' case of foetus in fœtu, 70;
deformity of, Gerrard, 348.

Forbes, the late Prof. E., biography of, 75.
Forget, Professor, on typhus and typhoid
fever, 161.

Frazer, Dr, on recognition by microscope, of
vegetable poisons, 343.

Fredreich on tumours within the cranium,
256.

Gairdner, Dr W. T., aneurism of subclavian
artery with contraction of pupil, 71; case
of cancer, 350; on administration of gallic
acid, 353; diagnosis of pneumonia and
pleurisy, 551.

Gallic acid in pyrosis, Dr Bayes, 344; in
Bright's disease, 353.

Gases of digestion in horses, Valentin, 251.
Gastrotomy in a case of rupture of the
uterus, Mason, 336.

Gerrard, Mr, case of foetal deformity, 348.
Gillespie, Dr, case of cancer successfully
treated by external application of caustic,

75.

Glasgow Faculty's report on new bill, 456.
Goitre and cretinism by Morel and Mines-
tral, 61.

Gregory, Dr, on elementary chemistry, re-
viewed, 248.

Haffter on the greater splanchnic nerve, 153.
Hamilton, Dr, on asphyxia neonatorum and
infantile mortality at birth, 401.
Hammond, Dr, on urea and uric acids, 249.
Harris on uva ursi instead of ergot of rye,
346.

Heart, cause of movement, Hiffelsheim, 252.
Henry, Dr, case of necrosis of lower jaw, 267.
Hiffelsheim on the cause of the heart's
movements, 252.

Hoppe, Professor, on oxide of copper as a
discutient, 166.

Hospital system in the East, 357.
Hughes, Dr, foetid absence of the lung from
presence of a foreign body, 427.
Huxley, on sulphuric acid versus urine, 62.
Hydrocele, cure of, by chloroform, Sangen-

beck, 269; digitalis pommade, Bellucci,
270; collodion, Malik, 345.

Hypertrophied fingers and toes, Adams and
Simpson, 170.

Impregnation, on, by Dr Barry, 33, 313.
India Board, recent examination at, 275.
Injury to orbit, Jamieson's case of, 514.
Insane, blood of the, Lindsay on, 153.
Iodine in atmospheric air, Chatin on, 153.

Jamieson's case of fatal injury of orbit, 514.
Jaw, lower, dislocation of, King, 265; necro-

sis of, Henry, 267; extensive removal of,
Spence, 350.

Jobert, M., case of vesico vaginal fistula,

434.

Johnston, James F. W., on the composition
and physiological action of the water used
in Durham jail, 377.
Johnston, Dr, on some interesting cases
among the wounded at Alma, 351, 395.

Keiller, Dr, on recurrent abortion and pre-
mature labour, 177; novel vaginal plug,
178; case of spina bifida, 179; presenta-
tion of cord, 347; mammary treatment of
amennorrheal cases, 347.

Kidney, case of single, M. Labe, 62.
King, Dr, case of dislocation of the lower
jaw, 265.

Kroeger on the pancreatic juice, 150.
Kuchenmeister, on phosphate of lime, 345.

Labe, M., case of single kidney, 62.
Labour pains, effect of, on pulse, Mauer, 69;
premature, induced, Thomson, 178.
Lang, Dr, on atropin in epilepsy, 270.
Langenbeck, Professor, on the cure of hydro-
cele by chloroform, 269.

Laugier, M., on retro-uterine hematocele,

425.

Lead poisoning, by Dr Bierbaum, 341; chlo-
roform and iodide of potassium as reme-
dies, M. Aran, 342.

Le Coeur, on vinegar in scabies, 165.
Legal cases, who ought to be medical ad-
visers in, 189.

Liebig's albuminous soup, 345.
Lindsay, Dr, on the blood of the insane, 153.
Lithotomy, Mr Erichsen's case of, 433.

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