NOTES OF SOME CASES IN PRIVATE PRACTICE.

Notes of Some Remarkable Cases

Lexy Cuthbert, December 31. 1823, upwards of nine years of age, was attacked, in the beginning of January 1823, during the night, while in the Orphan Hospital, with colic pains, succeeded by vomiting. After this, though there was no further vomiting of consequence, she never took her food regularly ; but a degree of bulimia, or craving for animal food, generally prevailed ; at other times appet...

Notes on Some Surgical Cases

was a distinct bulging between the sixth and seventh ribs in the posterior axillary line. The liver dulness began at the 4th intercostal space above, its lower border extended one inch below the margin of the ribs. The spleen was much enlarged, its lower border reaching to one inch below the umbilicus. The aspirating needle was inserted into the bulging prominence, and a little thick pus extrac...

Notes of Some Cases of Atresia Vaginæ

Notes on Some Cases of Aneurism

mon in this country to warrant my bringing forward this series ; at least, during the past two years I have not seen or heard of more than a dozen cases having been under treatment in the two medical wards in the General Hospital. I have only once seen a pulsating and bulging tumour of the chest, and which I diagnosed as an aneurism; in a native of India, and that in the person of a Bengali pri...

Notes on Some Cases of Frost Bite

These cases came under the two headings of moist and dry gangrene, affecting generally the fingers and toes, but sometimes half the foot, etc. Damp and wet clothing?as pointed out in the article abovementioned?was a predominant predisposing factor in their causation. The cases of lesser severity involving fingers and toes, etc., only came under the heading of dry gangrene. The striking point in...