North of England Medical Association.-A meeting of the Physicians and Surgeons of the northern counties of England (convened by a requisition bearing 100 signatures) was held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Thursday, 14th November, " to consider the steps proper to be taken, with a view to obtain from Parliament such legislative measures, in reference to the Medical Profession, as are best calculated to protect the interests of its members, and to promote the public welfare." Dr. Headlam (the senior physician of the town) having been called to the chair, and Mr. C. T. Carter requested to act as secretary, a number of resolutions were proposed, and unanimously adopted; the principal object of which related to the establishment of a "North of England Medical Association." The government of the society is to be vested in a president, eight vice presidents, a treasurer, a secretary, and a council, all of whom are to be chosen annually, by open vote; proxies being allowed for members residing more than fifteen miles from the place of meeting. Any gentleman is to be eligible as a member who possesses a physician or surgeon's diploma, or a license of the Society of Apothecaries, London, or who shall have been in practice previously to the year 1815. The subscription is 17. per annum. There are to be two regular meetings in each year, held at such times and places as the council shall determine, and a special meeting may at any time be called, either by the council, or by the secretary, in compliance with a requisition addressed to him, and signed by at least twenty members. A provisional committee has been appointed to arrange the preliminary proceedings of the first general meeting, which is to be held in January, and to prepare, for the consideration of that meeting, a report on the present state of the Medical Profession, and petitions (in connection therewith) to both houses of Parliament. Notwithstanding an extremely unfavourable state of the weather, about one hundred and fifty gentlemen attended the meeting, some from distant parts of Northumberland, Cumberland, and Durham; and the proceedings were characterised by the greatest harmony and unanimity. BOOKS RECEIVED. From the Author.-Memoranda for Practitioners in Midwifery. By Edward Rigby, M. D. &c., Lecturer on Midwifery, &c., at St. Thomas's Hospital, Assistant Physician to the General Lying-in Hospital, London. First American edition, with additions, by S. C. Foster, M. D., Licentiate of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, &c. 24mo. pp. 63. New York, 1840. From Professor J. B. Beck.-University of the State of New York. College of Physicians and Surgeons. Annual Catalogue, 1839-40. 8vo. pp. 12. New York, 1840. From the same. -The Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the New York Dispensary, Jan. 1840. 8vo. pp. 12. New York, 1840. Annual announcement of the Board of Visitors of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. 8vo. pp. 7. Baltimore, 1840. A Catalogue of the Officers and Philadelphia. Session 1839-40. Students of Jefferson Medical College of 12mo. pp. 12. Philadelphia, 1840. 1 Lond. Med. Gaz., Dec. 27, 1839, p. 526. York, Bicking, Dr., fatal salivation in hydro- Bieske, Dr., fatal inflammation of the Air-douche in diseases of the ear, 195, 220, | Blakiston, Dr., on sounds in respira- PAGE 255 16 32 96 256 34 217, 325 356 97 Blood corpuscles, vital phenomena of 381 76 321 176 1 40 274 rupture of the, Apoplexy, case of, 193 Bouvier, M., on club-foot, 79 Atlee, Dr. W. L., case of hydrophobia, 4, 20 Brainard, Dr., address to graduates of Disorganization, fatal, 106 Foville, M., anatomy of the brain, 216 of the neck of the femur with 45 385 Northern of Philadelphia, 356 Fricke, Dr., temperature of the vagina bony union, 72 Geddings, Dr., cases of episioraphy 145 Hydrocephalus, fatal salivation in, 323 Gibson, Dr., introductory lectures, 274 Graves, Dr. R. J., history of cholera, 386 Gross, Dr., pathological anatomy, Huston, Dr. R. M., Physician to the 55 32 pressure, 343 4, 20 - peculiarity in the trans- 94 mission of, 339 246 Hypochondriasis, 246 Hysteria, remarkable blood in, 321 92, 314, 356 Guerin, M., section of muscles in Infants, diseases of, 256 curved spine, 275 Inflammation, fatal, of the vermiform 203 Insane, asylum near Frankford, report Hamilton, Dr. J., death of, 324 asylum at Hanwell, 209 Hardy, Dr., epilepsy treated by in- hospital for the, in Maryland, 16 digo, Harris, Dr. C. A., dental surgery, Haynes, Dr., utero-abdominal truss, 191 sylvania, 109 Hayward, Dr., on the Virginia Heart, affections of the, 171 Institutes of Medicine, Dr. Gallup's, 290 Intermarriage, Walker on, 39 93 157 266, 277 Introductory lecture, Dr. Hamilton, 332 Dr. Hun, 314 Dr. May, 314 Dr. Wright, 348 Iodine, local use of in herpes, 34 158 PAGE Lecture, introductory, Dr. Mitchell's, 304 Medical College, Jefferson, Dr. Pancoast's, 289 Lee, Dr. R. S., case of malformed fœtus, 47 Dr. Robt., cases of uterine hemor- rhage from placenta PAGE 228 resolutions over os uteri, 181 at the, 372 on corpus luteum, College of New York, changes Leeches, 142 Life, art of prolonging, 58 Lisfranc, M., on the diseases of the Lithotrity, M. Sanson, Liver, congenital absence of the, Lytta and colchicum, effects of, Macartney, Dr., mode of repressing experiments on the ergot, 162 School of Pennsylvania Col- 227 64 172 42 16 29 159 nia, 209 School of University of Virgi case of purpura, 282 letter from, 213 School of Washington Univer- sity, Baltimore, 191 Marchand, M., formation of urea in Colleges, statistics of, 372 the body, 159 Schools of the west, 308 on pathological secre- section of the British Associa- Marshall, Dr., preservation of bodies for dissection, 370 Society, Connecticut, proceed- 126 of the State of New Mease, Dr., exposure in a drain, 85 of New York, Dr. Hull's address, 27 Maryland, New York, 324 Meningitis, case of, 35 16 111, 142, 158, 173, 209 Miescher, Dr., on inflammation of 94 temperature of Vagina, 31 &c. 215 |