Report on the progress of human anatomy and physiology in the year 1843-4 / [Sir James Paget].

  • James Paget
Date:
1845
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    Its ashes also contained peroxide of iron and magnesia, with a trace of phosphate of lime and chloride of sodium. In the vernix caseosa he has found,— Epithelium (epidermis,) plates . . . 13-2a Oleine . . . . . 5’15 Margarine ..... 3 • 13 Water . . . . . 77 37 and in the very minute quantity of ashes which remained he found phate of lime and sulphur. ti aces of phos- The subjoined list includes references to the more valuable of the physiological Essays published last year, of which, for various reasons, no notice is contained in the body of the Report. They are arranged according to the subjects to which they relate, in the same manner as the Report itself. Prof. Harting—Observations on the original forms and subsequent altera¬ tions of organic and inorganic precipitates ; on the phenomena of the formation of crystals; &c. in the Tijdschrift voor Naturel. Geschied. en Physiologie, 1843, St. 2, 3. Mr. T. W. Jones—Muscle a neuro-magnetic apparatus, in the Medical Gazette, Oct. 20, 1843; and Dr. Letheby’s Remarks on the same in the Physio¬ logical Journal, Dec. 1843. Dr. Houston—On the circulation in acardiac foetuses; in the Dublin Journal of Med. Sciences, Jan. 1844 ; and Dr. Marshall Hall’s reply, in the same. Sept. 1844. Dr. Thompson, Prof. Draper, and others—On the diffusion of gases, in the Philosophical Magazine, July 4, 1844. Mr. Sibson—On the changes induced in the situation and structure of the in¬ ternal organs in health and disease; in the Trans, of the Prov. Med. and Surg. Association, vol. xii, 1844 ; [a very important paper, the title of which led me to suppose, till it was too late to correct my error, that it could have little interest in physiology.] S. Rusconi—On the respiratory organs of the proteus. Oken’s Isis, viii, 1844. Prof. Nasse—On the application of percussion to the study of gast ric digestion ; in the Med. Corresp.—Blatt, Rhein, und Westphal. Aerzte. No. xvii, 1843. Dr. Heintz—On a supposed new acid contributing to give the acid reaction of urine; in Poggendorf’s Annalen, No. viii. 1844. M. Parise—On a new method of bleaching bones, by alkaline and alcoholic in¬ jections of their texture through small holes bored in their walls; in the Ann. de la Chirurgie, Fevr. 1844. Dr. Todd—The article Nervous Centres, in the Cyclop, of Anatomy. M. Flourens—The new edition of his researches on the nervous centres. Dr. Wigan—On the duality of the mind ; in the Lancet, March 30, 1844. Dr. Playfair—On sleep and some of its concomitant phenomena; in the Northern Journal of Medicine, May, 1844. M. de Haldat—The summary of his researches on the crystalline lens; and M. Prevost, on single vision with two eyes; in Poggendorf’s Annalen, 1844, Heft viii. S. Rusconi—On the non-erectile tissue of the tongue of the chamelionand its pro¬ trusion by a muscular apparatus; in the Ann. des Sciences Naturelles. Mars, 1844. Dr. J. Y. Sympson—On the fruitfulness of females born co twins with males ; in the Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journ. Jan. 1844. M. Serres—On the corpora Wolffiana and allantois [referred to in the last Re¬ port,] in the Ann. des Sciences Nat. 1843. p. 4, Pt. i. Lund—On fossilized human bones in chalk caves in Brazil, [the caves contain bones of several extinct species, but admit each year the waters of adjacent lakes ;] in the Edinb. New Philos. Journal. Jan. 1844. Various papers on anthropology and ethnology, from the proceedings of the Ethnological Society ; in the numbers of the Edinb. New Philos. Journal. Dr. Laycock—Contributions to proleptics, in several numbers of the Lancet. A summary of them was given in the Brit, and For. Med. Rev. July, 1844.