# Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 9

Published on the behalf of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
CONTENTS.
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| Proceedings of the Association at Southampton | 5 |
| —————— Address by Dr. Jeffreys | 5 |
| —————— Address by Dr. Steed | 8 |
| —————— Report of the Council | 16 |
| —————— Thackeray Prize | 24 |
| —————— Parochial Medical Relief | 25 |
| —————— Vaccination Section | 31 |
| —————— Medical Reform | 33 |
| —————— Report on Empiricism | 40 |
| —————— Report of the Benevolent Committee | 51 |
| —————— Medical and Surgical Papers and Cases | 54 |
| PART I. ||
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| I.—The Retrospective Address in Surgery, delivered at the Eighth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Southampton, July 22nd and 23rd, 1840. By A. T. S. Donn, Esq., Surgeon to the Infirmary, Chichester. | 57 |
| II.—The Retrospective Address, delivered at the Eighth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Southampton, July 22nd and 23rd, 1840. By Roger W. Scott, M.D., Physician to the South Dispensary, Liverpool. | 151 |
| PART II. MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY. ||
| III.—Medical Topography of Shrewsbury and its Neighbourhood. By T. Ogier Ward, M.D., Shrewsbury. | 247 |
| IV.—Statistics of Rheumatism. By Edmund Lyon, M.D., Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Dispensary, &c. | 338 ​ |
| Part III. ESSAYS AND CASES ||
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| V.—Observations relating to Injuries of the Skull and Brain, in which the Use of the Trephine is considered. By John M. Banner, Esq., Surgeon to the Northern Hospital, Liverpool, and Lecturer on Surgery at the Medical School of the Liverpool Royal Institution. | 354 |
| VI.—On the Moveable Cartilaginous Bodies found in the Synovial and Serous Cavities. By James Macartney, M.D., F.R.S., Hononary Member of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, &c. &c. | 427 |
| VII.—A Case of Amputation of the greater part of the Lower Jaw. By A. T. S. Donn, Esq., Surgeon to the Infirmary, Chichester. | 435 |
| VIII.—Cases of Abscess forming within the Pelvis after Labour, with Observations. By Thomas W. Wainwright, Esq. Surgeon to the Liverpool Northern Hospital. | 445 |
| IX.—Case illustrative of the pathology of Biliary Concretions. By George Mallett, Esq, surgeon, Bolton-le-Moors. | 463 |
| X.—On the Influence of the Depressing Passions on the Health and on Disease. By J. K. Walker, M.D., one of the Physicians to the Infirmary, Huddersfield. | 471 |
| Part IV. INFIRMARY REPORTS & MEDICAL STATISTICS. ||
| XI.—A Report of the Out-Patients, attended by F. Ryland, Esq., at the Birmingham Town Infirmary, between the 25th December, 1837, and the 12th December. | 481. |
| XII.—A Report of the Cases attended at the Birmingham Eye Infirmary during the Years 1838 and 1839. By Richard Middlemore, Esq, Surgeon to the Infirmary. | 499 |
| XIII.—Suggestions as to a form of Register for Hospitals, Dispensaries, and private Practice. By Charles Cowan, M.D. Physician to the Royal Berkshire Hospital and Reading Dispensary, Fellow of the London Statistical society, and Member of the "Société Médicale d'observation" de Paris. | 517 |