WESTERN JOURNAL

OF

MEDICINE AND SURGERY:

EDITED BY

DANIEL DRAKE, M.D.,

AND

LUNSFORD P. YANDELL, M.D.,

PROFESSORS IN THE LOUISVILLE MEDICAL INSTITUTE,

AND

THOMAS W. COLESCOTT, M.D.

VOL. VI.

LOUISVILLE, KY.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRENTICE & WEISSINGER,

FROPRIETORS AND PRINTERS.

Fracture of the tibia, with avulsion of the internal malleolus,

and penetrating wound of the ankle-joint; consecutive ab-

scesses; necrosis of the tibia, and resection of its inferior ex-

tremity-recovery.

Comparative frequency of tuberculous disease.

Diabetes mellitus.

ORIGINAL INTELLIGENCE.

Experiments on Mesmerism.

College of Professional Teachers.

Influence of Auscultation on Practical Medicine.

Correction.

CONTENTS

OF NO. II.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ESSAYS AND CASES.

ART. I.-A History of the Improvements which Practical Med-

icine has derived from Auscultation; being the Essay

to which the Medical Society of Bordeaux awarded

its prize in November, 1839. By G. PEYRAUD, Doc-

tor of Medicine of the Faculty of Paris, Correspond-

ing Member of the Bordeaux Medical Society. Quæ

fundata sunt in natura, crescunt et perficiuntur; quæ

vero in opinione, variantur, non augentur.—Baglivi.

Translated from the French for the Western Journal of

Medicine and Surgery, by CHARLES A. POPE, M. D.,

of St. Louis, Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery, Phy-

sician to the St. Louis Dispensary, &c., &c.

SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN AND FOREIGN JOURNALS.

Minute Anatomy of Fatty Degeneration of the Liver.

Fatty Liver.

Researches into the Physical Causes of Metallic Tinkling, or

Amphoric Rhonchus.

Diagnosis of Gonorrhoea, in accusations of Rape.

Treatment of old Fractures by Division of Tendons.

On the Treatment of Paraphymosis.

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Fall Course of Lectures on Anatomy and Surgery.

Private Medical Instruction.

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