The retrospective address, upon medical science and literature, delivered at the fourth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association held at Manchester, July 21st, 1836 / by John Green Crosse.

  • Cross, John, 1790-1850.
Date:
1836
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    newest friiits of his researches into our hands through the most renowned channels. The experiments of Panizza have been controverted by Mr. Mayo* and Mr. Broughton.f The pathological conditions of certain organs have also been brought to support previous views of the nervous system, as in the remarks and experiments of Mr. NobleJ upon the tongue in a case of hemiplegia. No subject has so much occupied the physiologist, within the last year, as the action and sounds of the heart. Com- pelled to pass over the numerous memoirs in foreign publications, I cannot but allude to the excellent Report of the Dublin Committee^ at the last meet- ing of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which seems in many points to have set at rest the conflictius: evidence of Laenuec, Corri- gan, Williams, Bouillaud, Hope, and Magendie; the remark of the last author, ''that the first sound of the heart arises from its apex striking against the anterior walls of the chest, is proved to be incorrect, by the sound being still produced when the walls of the chest are removed. Some points in the Dublin Report have been opposed by Elliot,|| Spittal,ir Cowan,** and Bryan,ff shewing the necessity for further investigations. It must be admitted that the cause of the minute sounds of the heart, in its London Medical Gazette, vol. XVII. p. 16. t Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, vol XLV. p. 426. X London Medical Gazette, vol. XVII. p. 260. § Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science, ISeptember, 1835. II Ryan's Medical and Surgical Journal, March 19, 1836, ]). 232. II Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. XLVL j). 132. ** Loudon Medical Gazette, vol. XVII. p. 1015. tt The Lancet, 1835, p. 501.