# Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 2

Published on the behalf of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
CONTENTS.
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| List of Officers and members, | v |
| Proceedings at the Anniversary | xxiii |
| Part I. ||
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| I.—An Address delivered at the First Anniversary of the Association. By Edward Barlow, M. D. Physician to the Bath United Hospital, &c. | 1 |
| Part II. Medical Topography. ||
| II.—Sketch of the Medical Topography of the Hundred of Penwith, comprising the district of the Landsend, Cornwall. By John Forbes, M. D., F. R. S. Physician to the Chichester Infirmary, &c. With a Map. | 32 |
| III.—Medical Topography of Bristol. By Andrew Carrick, M. D. Senior Physician to the Bristol Infirmary; and John Addington Symonds, M.D. Physician to the Bristol General Hospital, and Lecturer on Forensic Medicine, | 148 |
| IV.—Topographical Account of Stourport, Worcestershire, and its immediate neighbourhood. By Kenrick Watson, Esq. Surgeon. | 181 |
| Part III. Essays and Case. ||
| V.—Additional Facts and Observations on the Efficacy of Strychnia in some forms of Paralysis. By James Lomax Berdeley, M. D. Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, &c. | 200 |
| VI.—Observations on the Treatment of Syphilis without Mercury. By Thomas Green, M. D. Bristol, | 241 |
| VII.—Observations on Chronic Peritoneal Inflammation and its Treatment, with Cases. By Rdward Thomson, Esq. Whitehaven, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, | 268 |
| VIII.—History of a Case of Lithotomy by the Rectum. By James Dawson, Esq. Surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary, | 301 |
| IX.—Case of Hydrophobia. By Ralph Barnes Grindrod, Esq. Surgeon Manchester. With a Plate. | 311 |
| X.—On the Variations in the Production of Certain Diseases not usually supposed subject to Epidemic Influence. By J. Brown, M. D. Physician to the Sunderland an Bishopwearmouth Infirmary, | 329 ​ |
| XI.—A Case of Tuberculous Affection of the Right Kidney, with extensive disease of the Spinal Column, preceded by the expulsion of a Biliary Concretion. By John Prichard, Esq. Surgeon, Leamington, | 340 |
| XII.—A Case of Uterine Hydatids. By William Daniel Watson, Esq. Surgeon, Warwick. With a Plate. | 349 |
| XIII.—Singular Case of a Foreign Body found in the Heart of a Boy. By Thomas Davis, Esq. Surgeon, Upton-upon-Severn. With a Plate. | 357 |
| XIV.—On Dislocation of the Shoulder. By W. F. Morgan, Esq. late House Surgeon to the Bristol Infirmary, | 361 |
| XV.—A Description of the Anatomical Structure of the Liver of a Rat, from Cuba. By Heny Riley, M. D. Senior Physician to St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol. With a Plate. | 364 |
| XVI.—Observations upon Cholera, as it appeared in Wolverhampton and its Neighbourhood, in August, September, and October, 1832. By T. Ogier Ward; M. B. Physician to the Dispensaries of Wolverhampton and Lichfield, | 368 |
| XVII.—Some Observations on the Peculiarities of Diseases of Infants and Children. By J. K. Walker, M. D. Senior Physician to the Huddersfield Infirmary, | 391 |
| XVIII.—Some Observations on the Influence of Sleep on the Vital Functions. By Roger Wakefield Scott, M. D. Physician to the Liverpool South Dispensary, | 423 |
| Part IV. Medical Jurisprudence. ||
| XIX.—An Attempt to ascertain, by experiment, the exact differences between the changes produced in the Lungs of still-born Children, by their artificial initiation, and those produced in the Lungs of new-born Children, by natural respiration. By Egerton A. Jennings, Esq. F.L. S. Surgeon to the Leamington Charitable Bathing Institution, | 435 |
| Part V. Reports of Infirmaries. ||
| XX.—Report of the Birmingham Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1833. By Richard Middlemore, Esq. Assistant Surgeon to the Eye Infirmary, &c. | 457 |
| XXI.—A Report of the Out-Cases attended by George Parsons, Esq. at the Birmingham Infirmary, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1833. Biography. | 474 |
| Part VI. Biography. ||
| XXII.—Biographical Memoir of the late Dr. John Darwall, of Birmingham. By John Conolly, M. D. of Warwick, | 489 |