# Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 5

Published on the behalf of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
CONTENTS.
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| Proceedings of the Anniversary Meeting at Manchester. | i |
| Report of the Council. | v |
| Reports of Committees, &c. | xiv |
| Part I. ||
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| I.—The Report of a Committee, to consider the best means of affording Medical Relief to the Sick Poor. | 1 |
| II.—The Retrospective Address, upon Medical Science and Literature, delivered at the Fourth Anniversary Meeting, held at Manchester, July Slat, 1886. By John Green Crosse, Esq. F.R.S. Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. | 37 |
| PART II. MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY. ||
| III.—A Medici:-Topographical, Geological, and Statistical Sketch of Bolton and its Neighbourhood. By James Black, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London. (With a Map.) | 125 |
| PART III. ESSAYS AND CASES. ||
| IV.—On Glanders in the Human Subject. By James Johnstone, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Physician to the General, Hospital, and Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, Birmingham. | 225 |
| V.—A Case of Ovarian Tumour successfully removed. By William Jeaffreson, Esq. of Framlingham, Suffolk. | 239 |
| VI.—On the Physiology of the Muscular Nerves of the Eye. By R. T. Hunt, Esq. one of the Surgeons of the Lying-in-Hospital, Assistant Surgeon to the Eye Institution, and Lecturer on Diseases of the Eye, Manchester. | 246 |
| VII.—On the Unity of Organic Structure. By Thomas Paris, M.D. Clifton, Bristol; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London. | 260 |
| VIII.—Cases of Encysted Dropsy of the Thyroid Gland. By Congreve Selwyn, M.D. late of Ledbury. | 281 |
| IX.—Observations on the Influence of Sleep on Digestion and Secretion. By Roger Wakefield Scott, M.D. Physician to the Liverpool South Dispensary. | 284 |
| X.—Cases and Dissections; chiefly in Reference to the Uncertainty of Diagnosis. By Thos. Poyser, Esq. of Wirksworth. | 295 ​ |
| XI.—A Case of Tetanus successfully treated by Carbonate of Iron. By J. Hamerton, Esq. of Elland, near Halifax. | 309 |
| XII.—A Case in which the Memory of Language was lost. By Thomas Shafter, M.D. Physician to the Exeter Dispensary and Lying-in-Charity. | 313 |
| XIII.—A Case of Maglignant Tumour within the Cavity of the Abdomen, with Remarks. By Thomas Salter, Esq. F.L.S. Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Poole, Dorsetshire. (With a Plate.) | 326 |
| XIV.—A Case of Diaphragmatic Hernia. By William Norris, M.D. of Stourbridge. | 344 |
| XV.—Some Cases of Metastasis of Rheumatism to Internal Organs. By J. K. Walker, M.D. Senior Physician to the Huddersfield Infirmary. | 350 |
| XVI.—Facts illustrative of the Effects of Chronic Pleuritis. By J. Windsor Esq. F.L.S. Surgeon to the Manchester Eye Institution, and Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence. | 375 |
| PART IV. REPORTS OF INFIRMARIES AND DISPENSARIES. ||
| XVII.—A Report of the Cases attended by R. Middlemore, Esq. at the Birmingham Eye Infirmary, from January 1st, to December 31st, 1886. | 391 |
| XVIII.—A Report of Medical Cases, attended by T. Ogier Ward, M.D. in the Birmingham Dispensary, from September 1st, 1885, to December 31st, 1886. | 405 |
| XIX.—A Report of the Cases attended at the Worcester Infirmary, from January 1st, 1885, to December Slat, 1836. | 423 |
| APPENDIX. ||
| Observations on the present condition of Medical Relief for the Sick Paupers, with Recommendations for an Altered and Improved System. By Nathaniel Rumsey, of Beaconsfield; Robert Chely, of Aylesbury; and H. W. Rumsey, of Chesham. | 441 |
| Observations on the Arrangements connected with the Relief of the Sick Poor, addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord John Russell. By John Yelloly, M.D. F.R.S. Physician to her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Gloucester; late Physician to the London Hospital, &c. Second Edition, with important additions. | 456 |