Recueil de Memoires de Medecine, de Chirurgie, et de Pharmacie Militaires. 1. Fragments from the Surgical Clinique of M. Sedillot 2. Several Cases of Congelation. By Dr. Shrimpton 3 On the early Use of Injections in Gonorrhoea. By Dr. Poullain 5; Report of the Venereal Patients under the care of M. Marchal (de V. Sullo Scorbuto Indagini, Osservazioni ed Esperienze di CARLO NOVELLIS 1. Apyretic or Chronic Scorbutus 2. Pathology of Scorbutus 3. Acute Scorbutus, or Scorbutic Synocha 4. Complications of Scorbutus 5. Curative Measures VI. Observations on the History and Treatment of Dysentery and its combinations. By WILLIAM HARTY, M.D. &c. 1. Simple Dysentery 2. Affinity between Dysentery and Rheumatism 3. Combinations of Dysentery with Intermittent and Remittent Fevers 5. Infectiousness of the Typhoid Form VII. On Wounds and Injuries of the Abdomen and Pelvis. By G. J. GUTHRIE, 88 1. Ventral Hernia 90 2. Employment of Sutures 91 3. Management of the Protruded Parts 91 4. 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On the Iodide of Potassium in Syphilis. By Dr. Aran 265 10. On the Use of Assafœtida in Pregnancy. By Dr. Laferla 266 11. Observations upon the Treatment of Squamous Diseases of the Skin. By M. Devergie 267 12. Devergie's Observations upon Itch 269 13. A Sketch of the Life and Works of Tommasini. By Prof. Giacomini 271 14. Practical Observations upon Foreign Bodies introduced into the Eye. By M. Petrequin THE MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW. JULY, 1847. I. ENTWICKELUNGSGESCHICHTE DES HUNDE-EIES. Von Th. L. W Bischoff. The History of the Development_of the Ovum of the Dog, with Fifteen Lithographic Plates. By Dr. T. L. W. Bischoff, Professor of Medicine, &c. in the University of Giessen. ~Brunswick, 1845. II. ZUSATZE ZUR LEHRE VOM BAUE UND VON DEN VERRICHTUNGEN DER GESCHLECHTsorgane. Von Ernst Heinrich Weber in Leipzig. Müller's Archiv. für Anatomie, 1846. Contributions to illustrate the Structure and Functions of the Sexual Organs. By Professor E. H. Weber. III. UEBER DIE GLANDULE UTRICULARES DES UTERUS DES MENSCHEN UND IHREN ANTHEIL AN DER BILDUNG DER DECIDUA. Von Th. Ludw. W. Bischoff. Müller's Archiv. 1846. On the Glandulæ Utriculares of the Human Uterus, and on the Share they take in the Formation of the Decidua. By Professor Bischoff. IV. DIE ENTWICKELUNG DES MENSCHEN UND DES HUHNCHENS IM EIE, &C. Von Dr. M. P. Erdl. Leipzig, 1845–46. On the Development of the Human Embryo, and of the Chick in the Ovum. By Professor M. P. Erdl. THE anatomy of the present day, when contrasted with that taught a quarter of a century ago, is eminently distinguished by its scientific, or, to speak more accurately, by its philosophic character; a change which has been brought about more especially by the increased attention that has of late years been devoted to those branches of organization upon which the whole subject, as a science, must eventually rest-structural anatomy, embryology, and comparative anatomy. Some have indeed questioned the advantage of the change as to any practical benefits that No. 109 1 have been attained; but whatever regrets of this kind may in certain quarters have been expressed, they can now have no result—the new direction impressed upon the study of anatomy having become what our nearest neighbours term " un fait accompli." Of the three divisions of anatomical science just named, Embryology may, in some and not unimportant points, be regarded as the most essential to the elucidation of the general laws of organization. To those indeed whose attention has been mainly restricted to human anatomy, the history of the development of the ovum has, for the most part, been regarded only so far as of importance, as it tends to explain the formation of the various membranes of the fœtus, and the relations existing between the latter and the uterus. But this inquiry has a much wider signification; for, inasmuch as it reveals the typical forms of the several classes of organs, and their subsequent modifications and metamorphoses, such an investigation assumes a much more imposing character, and by leading the observer to discriminate between the essential and the incidental, enables him to determine the fundamental principles of animal formation. It must clearly have been the perception of this truth, joined to the general interest attaching to the production of the new being, which has excited the most distinguished physiologists of all countries, among whom it will suffice to name Harvey, Malpighi, and Hunter, to scrutinize with such persevering zeal the process of generation. From what has been now stated, it is apparent that the study of Embryology divides itself into two branches :-one, and by far the most important and abstruse department, relates to the general laws of formation, to the essential construction of animal bodies and of their individual organs, and thus becomes, with its inseparable ally, comparative anatomy, the basis of all philosophic zoology; the second division has reference not to the development of the new being, but to the numerous and complex phenomena constituting the conditions upon which that development depends, including the various nutritive and defensive provisions by which the embryo is nourished and protected. In the present article, we shall, for the most part, confine ourselves to this latter branch of the inquiry, as being the more interesting of the two to the medical practitioner; it will,. however, be proper to notice some points connected with the more comprehensive division of the subject. It cannot have escaped the attention even of those who have considered this inquiry only in a cursory manner, that, owing to obvious causes, by far the larger portion of the information we now possess touching the constitution and development of the ovum, has been gained rather by observations made on the reproductive process of the lower animals than by any direct results that have been attained from the study of human embryology. The egg of the common fowl has been more particularly selected from the earliest periods, not less on account of its size than of the facility of making repeated examinations at successive and known epochs in the progress of its evolution. Some of the most successful inquirers of the present day, among whom we may name the justly celebrated Baer, also W. Jones, Coste, Valentin, M. Barry, and Bischoff, have, however, followed in the steps of the admirable De Graaf, of whom a distinguished physiologist justly remarks, that he "has made a series of |