Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-06
MAGAZINES.
NASHVILLE JoUESAL OF MEDICINE AND SUE
gerry, edited by Drs. w. N. Bowling and W.
Z. Briggs.

NASHVILLE JoUESAL OF MEDICINE AND SUR
gerry, edited by Drs. w. X. Bowling and W.
7. Briggs.
The February number of this monthly is
before us, filed with articles valuable to
The practitioner. Among the original ar
ticles are several of great interest to the
medical profession, and the selections are
highly instructive and varied in character.
DIR. Bowling has a Characteristic editorial,
being san Inquiry concerning Priority in
the LEGATION of the Internal Carotid Ar
tery.r 1t will be remembered that DIR.
Briggs performed this extraordinary and
difficult operation before the class at our
Medical College, in February, 1911, and
with such success, that the patient may be
said to have recovered in about ten DAYS,
and has been ever since, and is now (more
than three years after the operation) in
good health. DIR. III. b. Sands, of New
York, also performed this operation, and
recently published the details thereof ia
the Nelu York Medical JOlrrRdl. DR..
Sands appears to have overlooked
the case of DR.. Briggs, for, in wind
ing up his report, he says: ''The case
| have reported is the only one, so far as |
am aware, in which lesion of the internal
carotid has been treated by the application
of double ligature to the injured vessel,
tone on the prOximal and the other on the
distal side of the bleeding vessel" To
this remark DR.. Bowling, in closing his
long and very interesting Enquiry" re-
plies-'sThis was in October, 1872. Our
colleague did this precise thing in Februa-
~, 1ST1-eighteen months before. DIR.
Sands researches back of DR.. Briggs seem
quite exhaustive and reliable. II so, then
DR.. w. T. Briggs is the first surgeon, from
the institution of Surgery, to treat a lesion
of the internal carotid by the application
OF double ligature to the injured vessel,
one ON the proximal and the other on the
distal side Of the bleeding vessel" We
can heartily commend this magazine as one
of the best of its class. IT is neatly
printed, and remarkable for the correctness
of its typography-a feature which ewmed-
ical journals can boast of.
OF all periodicals, the Popular Science
MOnthlg, is our favorite. The number for
March opens with an interesting paper from
Prof. Hitchcock on the eWorld before the
introduction of Life" when it doubtless
experienced quite as important changes as
any that have transplred since. Prot.
Rogers found the rocks in Virginia and
Pennsylvania which contains the remains
of plants and animals about forty thousand
feet in thickness; vet there was sedimen-
tary and chemical age OF great, but I'M
known length, that preceded all forms
of life, after the earth had become cold
enough TO hold water as seas and oceans on
its surface. This water would dissolve so
much caustic and recently burnt lime as TO
be fatal to all plants and animals; but in
time the carbonic acid in the atmosphere
would combine with this mineral, destroy
its causticity, and form vast deposits Of
calcareous rocks insoluble in pure water
and harmless to all living beings. Rocks
formed OF sand, clay ard lime, 90 back
through all ages to the fall of the
| first rains on hot globe.
But we cannot pursue the process and
progress of creation on this planet as re-
Fealed BY geology and kindred sciences;
suffice it to say that at no time in all the
past was creation more active or formative
than it is now everywhere recognized as
''energy" and EVOLUTION" From star dust
TO trilobites, and from trilObites to think
ing, reading and writing man, evolution
is something LlOne than revolution in an
endless circle. There is an otyiGus
growth which never returns to its start
| ing point, no more than New York
will some day become a Babylon
or Thebes. According to Prof. Cooke in
his isSey Chemistry boiler-iron would be
shivered to atoms If driven through the air
as rapidly as our earth and atmosphere are
passing through space, never TO return tC
| the same track in the heavens, going will
the sun forever, nobody knows where, but
| not to return into this part of the universe
within twenty-five billion years, The Pop
iddr Sciense AOathly has become desev.
edly very popular, and is educating a large
class of studious pupils. ID. Appleton &
| Co., New York, Publishers.
The Westminster ReUieJg for January
has ;usl bsGn reprinted by the Leonard
Scott Publishing DGmp-nT, Of New York
Its leading article is on /" The DisesiSb.i=h
/ ment and Disendowment of the Churcl
| Of England in which many abuses ar
pointed out, and a separation Of Churcl
and State strongly advocated. Article >
Metropolitan Police System. in which the
London police regulations toaeR tiishi,,
commended) receive a sharp oriti-
cism, and appear to stand in need o
reform. Art. 3. 1.-The Christian Mission:
10 the Heathen.n All who give money e
eyangeiize cannibals and others of low
type of humanity, should read this mis-
sionary paper. Art. 4. The Wor!dn.
Classes The writer of this able articIi
sees much to commend in the labOring PEG
pie of Great Britain and their tiaie-uniOns
All is transition toward a perfect II.
dustrial cooperation and independence
Art. ,. John Stuart MILL a highly ap
pFeciatige article, and very encouraging 4
all students. Art. o. Third Glass Pas
senser Traffic Advocates cheap trans
portation, and furnishes mass of instruc
tive statistics showing the enormous cost 0
British railways and tbs high price
charged for all passengers and iTeigili
to pay interest on investments
Art. Z. {" Medical Charity Its
Extent and Abuses" is statistical, giyin!
lists of London hospitals, dispensaries
asylums. etc. The remainder OF TIN
Reuie7v is devoted as usual to brief notice
of Contemporary Literature, which gOe
far to post the reader up to date in tn
progress Of letters.