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PREFACE.

In completing our fourth and concluding volume, we gratefully return our hearty thanks to the profession for the kind, cordial, and annually increasing support which they have extended towards our labours. THE LONDON JOURNAL OF MEDICINE was established to supply what was much wanted in Englanda suitable medium for Original Communications of the highest class-and none of its projectors regarded it as a mere commercial speculation. Profit never was the aim of this JOURNAL: and, as regards money, we have been contented to strive for the current expenses of publication. So indifferent, indeed, have we been to all selfish interests, that we have not remonstrated when innumerable abstracts and translations from foreign journals, which have cost us both money and midnight oil, have been appropriated periodically for the parasitical press by the lazy stroke of a compiler's scissors.

It is with no small amount of satisfaction that we print the subjoined list of contributors, which cannot, we believe, be equalled in character by any medical periodical which has appeared in England during the same or any similar period:

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE LONDON JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
SINCE ITS COMMENCEMENT IN JANUARY 1849.

ALISON, S. Scott, M.D., 1849-50-51-52
BALLARD, Edward, M.D., 1851
BECK, T. Snow, M.D., F.R.S., 1851-52
BENNET, J. Henry, M.D., 1850-51
BIRD, Golding, A.M., M.D., F.R.S., 1849
BIRD, James, A.M., M.D., 1849-50-51-52
BOWMAN, W., Esq., F.R.S., 1849
CADGE, William, Esq., 1850
CHAMBERS, T. K., M.D., 1852
COGSWELL, Charles, M.D., 1852

| COOPER, W. White, Esq., 1849-50-51-52
CORMACK, John Rose, M.D., F.R.S.Edin.,
1849-50-51

COTTON, R. P., M.D., 1851
COULSON, William, Esq., 1851-2
CURLING, Thos. B., Esq., F.R.S., 1849-50
DESMOND, L. E., Esq., 1852
DEWES, Edward, M.D., 1852
DUNDAS, Robert, M.D., 1851-52
ELY, George E., M.D., 1851

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It appears from the above, THAT DURING THE PAST NINE MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, we have had more contributions both from old and new contributors than during any previous complete year.

The following is a list of the contributors to volume for 1852.

ALISON, S. Scott, M.D.
BECK, T. S., M.D., F.R.S.
BIRD, James, A.M., M.D.
CHAMBERS, T. K., M.D.
COGSWELL, Charles, M.D.
COOPER, White, Esq.
COULSON, William, Esq.
DESMOND, L. E., Esq.
DEWES, Edward, M.D.
DUNDAS, Robert, M.D.
FALLOON, Edward L., Esq.
GAMGEE, J. S. Esq.
GARDNER, W. H. Esq.
GREAM, G. T., M.D.
HALL, C. Radclyffe, M.D.
HARVEY, William, Esq.
HERAPATH, W. B., M.D.
HOSKINS, S. E., M.D., F.R.S.

JONES, C. Handfield, M.D., F.R.S.
JONES, Ellis, Esq.

LEE, Henry, Esq.
MACKENZIE, F. W., M.D.
MAYNE, R. G., M.D.

MOORE, William, M.B.
NORMAN, H. B., Esq.
PEACOCK, Thomas B., M.D.
POWELL, R. H., M.D.

ROUTH, C. H. F., M.D.
SANDWITH, Humphry, M.D.
SEMPLE, R. H., M.D.
SMITH, Tyler, M.D.
SNOW, John, M.D.

TOYNBEE, Joseph, Esq., F.R.S.
URE, Alexander, Esq.

WALLER, Augustus, M.D., F.R.S.
WATSON, Eben, M.D.

WEBSTER, John, M.D., F.R.S.
WILLIAMS, C. J. B., M.D., F.R.S.
WRIGHT, H. G., M.D.
WYLD, George, M.D.

In conclusion, it only remains for us earnestly to commend to our friends, contributors, and subscribers, the important work with which the LONDON JOURNAL is now incorporated; and to express a hope that the New Weekly Series of the JOURNAL OF THE PROVINCIAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIATION may accomplish the useful and noble ends for which that great Society was founded, and which it is so well calculated to fulfil.

At p. 958 will be found an address by the " Journal Committee" of the Association, which merits the attention of all who love and honour their profession. It will be obvious to all that no private journalist could command so much talent, and such entire freedom from the insidious bias of commercial expediency.

London, 1st October 1852.

JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

A MONTHLY

Record of the Medical Sciences.

VOLUME IV.

BEING FOR THE YEAR

1852.

LONDON:

TAYLOR, WALTON, & MABERLY,

UPPER GOWER STREET, AND IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW.