Volume 5

Biennial retrospect of medicine, surgery and their allied sciences, 1865-74 / edited by Henry Power ... [and others].

Date:
1867-75
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    REPORT ON THE PROGRESS OF PHYSIOLOGY AND THE ALLIED SCIENCES, DURING THE TEARS 1873 AN]D l874- BY HENRY POWER, E.R.C.S., M.B. Lond., SEXIOE OPHTHALMIC SUHGEON TO ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. The principal works that have appeared in Anatomy have been new editions of Quain and Sharpey, Gray, Ellis, and Heath. Sappey's 1 Traite d'Anatomie,' a very fine treatise, has nearly approached com- pletion. Henle's equally valuable ' Handbuch der Anatomie' has ended with a volume on the nervous system. In Physiology, Nichols, Hinton, Cleland, and Poster, have all published small works in Euglisb, whilst in Prench or German have appeared Kiiss and Duval, Budge and Wundt, and an important series of lectures by Briicke, with new editions of the works of Dalton, Her- mann, and Ranke. Colin has published two handsome volumes on 1 Comparative Physiology,' and Fleming a good translation of Chauveau's ' Comparative Anatomy.' Milne-Edwards lias completed the tenth volume of his valuable ' Lecons sur la Pbysiologie et l'Anatomie Comparee.' In Histology the two chief works have been ' The Handbook for the Physiological Laboratory, by Sanderson, Klein, Brunton, and Poster, and the excellent translation of ' Prey's Histology' by Mr. Barker. I.—ALIMENTARY SYSTEM. Teeth.—Kollmann1 has described the dentine, enamel and cement of various animals ; P. Magitot et Legros 2 the original formation of the dentary follicle in Mammalia, and Baume3 the process of eruption. Saliva.—E. Hering4 attributes the high pressure under which the saliva is secreted to the strong disposition to imbibe water—or, in other words, the high endosmotic equivalent—possessed by the mucin. Deglutition.—Mosso5 disputes the doctrine that the movements of ' ' Kolliker unci Siebold's Zeits. f. wiss. Zool.,' B. xxiii, p. 354. 2 'Comptes rendus,' 1873, p. 1000 and 1377, 1874, p. 357. 3 ' Vierteljabrs. fur Ziihiibeilkundc,' 1873. 4 'Wien. Sitznngs.,' 1872, Abtb. iii. • ' Giom. del. II. Accadcmia di Torino.'