Potatoes, antiscorbutic properties of, 126
Practitioners, duties of medical, 295
Precocity from excitement, (Guy's Hospi-
tal) 513

Pregnancy, signs of, 673; Cases in which,
may be the subject of medico-legal in-
quiry, 673; Feigned, ib.; Substitution of
one child for another, ib.; Plea of, in bar
of execution, 674; Early and late, ib.;
Difficulties of dangerous, 675; Proofs of,
afforded by dissection, 705

Prescribing, general precepts on the art of,
201; what diseases require medicines, ib. ;
Selections of medicines, ib.; Selections of
the best medicines, 202; Doubtful reme.
dies to be avoided, ib.; Medicines to be
fresh and genuine, ib.; Indigenous to be
preferred, ib.; Cheap and expensive me-
dicines, ib.; Prejudices of patients, ib.;
Medicines to be made agreeable, ib.;
Idiosyncrasies to be known, ib.; Sick
prefer. certain medicines, ib.; Tempera-
ment to be studied, ib.; Attention to ha-
bit requisite, ib.; Rules for, 203; State of
alimentary canal to be ascertained, ib.;
Actions of medicines on the economy, ib.;
Medicines act by contact, ib.; by conti-
nuity of organs, ib.; by absorption, ib.;
by mucous membranes, ib.; by friction
on the skin; or the Itraleptic method, by
raising the cuticle; or the Endermic me-
thod, ih.; Posology, or fixation of doses,
ib.; varies according to age, sex, and
temperament, &c., ih.; Doses to be pro-
portioned to the age, strength, constitu-
tion, idiosyncrasy, &c., 204; Principles
in, ib.; to augment the action, ib.; to se-
cure the effects, ih.; to modify the effects,
205; Medicines are combined to correct
irritating effects, 231; various illustra-
tions, ib.; to obtain the effects of two or
more medicines, 232; various illustrations,
ib.; to obtain effects, which, if taken se-

parately, would not result, ib.; to give
medicines a more agreeable and efficaci-
ous form. ib.; Rules for writing prescrip-
tions, ib.; Pharmaceutical preparations,
ib.; Officinal preparations, ib.; Magistral
preparations, ib.; Errors in compounding
prescriptions, 233; Chemical and unche-
mical prescriptions, ih.; Principal prepa-
rations, ib.; Baths, affusions, lotions, as-
persions, douches or dashes, fomentations,
234; Oleagenous medicines, ib.; Lini-
inents, ib.

Prizes of the Reform Association-Note
from Dr. Epps, 471

Profession, exposition of the past and future

state of the, 363; bad effects of the pre-
sent system, 364; Enviable state of the,
in Prussia-Infamous tyranny, 794
Prostate gland, diseases of the, 66; slow
hardening and enlargement of the, in
elderly subjects. 67; Effects on the ure.
thra, ib.; Symptoms of the disease, ib.;
Effects on the bladder, 68; Difference of
the symptoms from those of stone, ib.;
Treatment of the disease, 69; Observations

on catheters, catheterism, and the reten-
tion of urine from this disease, 69;
Sudden supervention of, 257; Dan-
ger of gonorrhoea and great sexual ex-
citement to elderly men, ib.; Pathology
and symptomatology of, ib.; Hæmorrhage
from the, 289; Treatment of, ib.; Ulcera-
tion of the, ib.; Treatment of, 290; Reten-
tion of urine from enlarged, ib.; Treatment
of, ib.; Perforation of the, ib.; Preference
of catheters, ib.; Mode of introduction,
291; Puncture of the bladder above the
pubes, ib.; Sir W. Blizard's cases of chro-
nic abscess of the, ib.; Pathology and
treatment of, ib.; Lecturers' objections to
operations, ib.

Prostatic abscess, C6; Calculi, ib.; enlarge -
ment, ib.
Prostitis, 66

Provincial Medical and Surgical Associations,
29

Prussic acid, uncertainty of strength of, 671
Psoas and lumbar abscess, 701
Puberty, temperament as influencing, 513.
Public health, 355

Pudenda, malignant tumour of the labium
and, 540

Pulmonary artery, inflammation of the,
280; Disease, chlorine in, 831
Pulse, effects of fever on the, SO; Affected
by the position of the body, 76; n
different animals, 304

Purgatives, effects of, in M. Andral's prac-
tice, 733

Purpura hæmorrhagica successfully treated,
797

Pus in the blood, 573

Q

Quackery, Dr. Mey's exposure of, 691
Quarantine, 87

Quakers, the shaking of America, 832

Quinsey, lingual, 147

R

RALES-Sonorous Râle, 714; Sibilous Råle,
715; Sonoro-mucous Rale, 715; Crepi-
tating Råle, 715; Muco-crepitating Râle,
715; Mucous Râle, 715; Gargouille-
ment, 715

Rape, definition of, 641; Of a wife by her
husband, 641; Physical signs of virgi-
nity, 642; Opinions as to the hymen,
642; Impregnation with unbroken hy-
men, 643; Ruysch's opinion. 643; Infer-
ences to be drawn, 643; Mode of exami-
nation after rape, 614; Diseases that may
be mistaken for the consequences of rape,
644; Preponderance of rapes on young
children, 644; Difficulties as regards the
detection of ape in adult females, 645;
Adjudication of Sancho Panza in a case
of rape, 645; Death as a consequence of
rape, 616; Legal meaning of a rape,
646; Can a rape be committed on a stout
healthy female? 617; Queen Elizabeth's
opinion on the point, 617; Rape in sleep

Tickner, Dr., on sand in different parts of
the body, 17

Tissue, definition of a, 777; Ideas of the
antients on the, 777; Proportion of solids
and, in organized bodies 778; Ultimate
particles of the, and fluids, 778; Literary
history of the, 778; Globular structure of
lining, organized, doubtful, 779; Au-
thors of classifications of the, of plants,
779; classification of animal, with au-
thors, 780; Description of the cellular,
780; of the adipose, 780; formed from
the cellular, 781; Comparison of their
properties, 781; Description of the der-
moid, and its modifications, 711; Hypo-
thesis regarding coloured skin and per-
fection of being, 781; Speculations of Go-
ethe, Hunter Pallas, and Prichard, 781
The tissue school, 398

Tobacco, in spasmodic asthma, 351
Tormentilla, use of, 371

UMBILICUS, passage of sand from, 17
Union, preternatural, or cohesion of organs,
and of different infants, 809; of upper ex-
tremities, 810; of lower extremities, 810
University, the charter of the London, 183
Urethra, lumbricus in, 14; Escape of gas
from, 14; Hydatids passed by, 23; Obli-
teration of the, 130; Passage of sand by,
17; Strictures of the, 70
Urethral passages, false, 129
Urine, retention of, 69, 130, 607
Urinary calculi, gravel, and stone, 744;
Composition of the urine, 744; Experi-
ments on the urine, 744; Gravel, 744;
Calculi, their chemical composition, 745;
Suppression of urine, 746; Diabetes, its
treatment, 746

Uterine orifice, occlusion of, 87; diseases,
140; Gestation, duration of, 516; Pre-
mature birth, 546; Causes of protracted
gestation, 547; Comparative gestation
of animals, 547; Opinions and practice
of the ancients, 547; Gardner peerage,
547; Cases decided, 548; French law on
the subject, 549, English law on the
point in question, 550; Cases of early
marriage after widowhood, 550; Adju-
dications: of various courts, 550; Curious
decision by a Roman physician, 550
terus after delivery, cases of aqueous dis-
charge from the, 255; Spontaneous intra-
uterine amputation of upper and lower
extremities, 811

Utero-gestation, duration of, 577; adulte-
rine bastardy, 577; The Gardner peerage
cause, 577; Comments on the medical
evidence, 577; Children born after the
death of the father, 578; Writ de ventre
inspiciendo, 579; Family resemblance of
children, 579; Substitution of one child
for another, 579; Ambiguity of sex-
Hermaphrodites, 579; No perfect her-
maphrodites in the human species, 580;
Description of the male genital organs,
580; Description of the female organs,
581

Uwins' Dr., strictures on modern medi-
cine, 397

V

VACCINATION, Variola after, 537
Vacuum, formation of a, 443

Vagina, impalement of the, and peritoneum,
287

Vaginal Cæsarian operation, 87

Valves, influence of the, over the action of
the heart, 79

Vandyke, Dr., on Hepatic abscess, 15
Varicose ulcer-Operation-Erysipelas-
Vavasseur's, M., Formulary, 200, &c.
Recovery, 538
Velpeau's, M., substance of, first lecture on
Surgical Clinique, 636

Venables' Manual of Aphorisms in Che-
mistry, 598

Vertebræ, union of fractured, 280
Vesico-vaginal fistula, 413

Virey, M., on the generation of animals and
plants, 211, 492, 628; all organized be-
ings pass into new transformations, 492;
Love the source of life and generation,
493

Vision, erysipelas of the scalp causing loss
of, 604

Voice, the-Bronchophony, 715; Pectori-
loquy, 715; Egophony, 716; Tinte-
ment Metallique, 716

W

WAKLEY, Mr., return of, to Parliament, 795
Walker's Physiology, review of, 401; Prin-
ciples of Ophthalmic Surgery, 597
Warburton, Mr., address to, 23
Warming apartments, 106
Weekly Medical Press, the, 440
Westminster Hospital, Clinical lectures at
the, 101; Mr. Brooke's lithoscope, 829;
Cases of cut-throat, 766; Calculus-at-
tempt at extraction, 540; the New, to be
occupied by Parliament, 160, 412; Medi-
cal Society, report of the, 160, 384, 412, 670
Williams, Mr., letter of, of Portsmouth, on
the Portsmouth Cholera Gazette, and the
conduct of its publisher and editors, 827
Wills, legal incapacity to make, 449; Dis-
posing memory necessary, 449; Lucid in-
tervals, 449; Validity of deeds made in
them, 449

Women, Lying-in, mortality of, at Brus-
sels, 564; Hydrocele in, 151
Working of the Anatomy Bill, 366
Wounds, signs of, inflicted before and after
death, 801; no one can be convicted of
murder unless the dead body of the slain
is found, 801; Remarkable legal deci-
sion, 801; Circumstances to be consider-
ed when the dead body of an infant is
found, 801; Duties of medical practition-
ers, 801; Various cases, 802; Was the
infant born alive or dead? 802; Was it
born alive? 802; Proofs negative and po-
sitive, 802; Singular modes of infanticide,

803;
Diagnosis of contusions inflicted be-
fore and after death, 803; Death of in-
fant by sudden delivery, 804; Death by
twisting of the navel string round the
neck, 804; Has the infant been born alive?
804; Proofs in the circulation of the fœ-
tus, 804; Circulation of the fœtus, 805
Wright, W.,Esq., on the present state of all
Surgery, methods of treating Deafness,
diseases of the Eyes, &c., 342

Y

YOUTH, рuperty, 405; history of, in both
sexes, 483.