Report of the Standing Committee on Medical Literature ... presented to the American Medical Association, at its third annual meeting, held in Cincinnati, May, 1850.

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1850
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    Several other papers, based on original observation, possess decided merit, amongst which we would distinguish the following. On Hemorrhage from the Umbilicus in new-born Childien, by Dr. Bowditch. Observations on the prevention of Phthisis, and its tieatment in the early stage, by Dr. E. Hallowell. Observations on the Occipital, and Superior Maxillary Bones of the African Cranium, by Dr. J. Neill. On the use of Ether in Lithotrity and Lithotomy, by Dr. J. M. Warren. On the use of Chloroform in Midwifery, by Dr. G. N. Burwell. On Serous Effusion within the Arachnoid, by Dr. A. Flint. Subjects connected with General Pathology have been well treated of in several Essays, particularly in the Lecture of Dr. Flint on that subject; the Lecture of Dr. Le Conte on the Philosophy of Medicine ; an Essay on Inflammation, by Dr. Batchelder ; and two Memoirs on Malaria and Contagion, by Dr. S. H. Dickson. The articles most remarkable for research are :— An Investigation of the Cases of Hybridity in animals on record, considered in reference to the Unity of the Human Species, by Dr. Bachman. On the Mortality from Tying the Femoral Artery, by Dr. G. W. Norris. An Essay on Tumours of the Uterus, and one on the Signs of Portal Phlebitis, by Dr. W. C. Roberts. On Angina Pectoris, by Dr. Kneeland. It is remarkable, and it speaks but feebly in praise of our phy- sicians as scientific investigators, that there are but two experimental memoirs of any importance contained in the journals of the last year. One of these describes the continuation of Dr. Blake’s ingenious and interesting experiments on the action of poisons; they appear to have been conducted with a full knowledge of previously obtained results, and of the conditions essential to the discovery of new principles. In the other essay, which gives an account of Dr. Dowler’s experiments on the nervous system of the alligator, we recognize the author as a zealous and industrious cultivator of phy- siological science, but at the same time discover that the phenomena described by him are far from countenancing his general statements, and still farther from authorizing the tone of criticism which he adopts towards the most eminent physiologists of the age. It is greatly to be desired that such energy and perseverance, such quick- ness of conception and vivacity of style as distinguish the author of