These beautiful lines of the poet Lucretius, I quote from the Treatise de Rerum Natura, and I do so in order that the dead Roman might speak, and say, in better language than any I could indite, how strong the motive that has induced me to this labor. Pray, then, receive this work of his head, his heart, and his hands, from your former Instructor, with kindness, and assist him to invoke for it the favorable consideration of all our brethren of the Medical Profession, who I hope will see in it the evidences of a sincere desire to promote the dignity and usefulness of our vocation.

I pray you ever to look upon the medical profession, not as a business, but as a great Morality-not as a trade, but as a Mission appointed by God, for the benefit of the children of men. Farewell, dear gentlemen, and believe

me, affectionately, your friend

and respectful servant,

CHARLES D. MEIGS.

Philadelphia, 26th Nov. 1847.

考

Carus' curve, 129, 317
Case,

of abdominal neuralgia, 131
of abortion, 524, 536, 537, 544
of absence of vagina, 85

of anæmia from polypus, 257
of chlorosis, 389

of chronic retroversion, 206

of cohesion of vaginal walls, 97
difficult, of retroversion, 203
of disease of clitoris, 122

of double vagina, 110

Dr. Ingleby's, of retroversion, 204

of dysmenorrhea, 439

of enlarged clitoris, 120

of excision of do., 122

of nymphæ, 117

Cesarian operation, motives for, 313
Champagne in vomiting, 484
Change of life, 444

Changes of puberty, 337

cause of, 444
dangers of, 446

management of, 448

time of, 453

Chapman on emmenagogues, 416
Child-bed fever, 576

Children, male and female, compared, 35
Chlorosis, 344

case of, 344, 359

causes of, 346

treatment of, 438

Chronic retroversion, 206

Churchill on round ligaments, 193

of fatal distension of Fallopian Cicatrix of perineum, 79

tubes, 325

of fibrous tumor, 274

of habitual abortion, 540

of hysteria, 465, 469

in male, 459, 460

of immobility of womb, 585

of imperforate hymen, 94

of inversion, 232, 234

of inverted bladder, 525
of large polypus, 285

of long retained pessary, 175
Mayor's, of retroversion, 203
of menorrhagia, 429

Miss Helen Blanque's, 145

of nymphomania, 123

of ovarian pregnancy, Granville's,
329

of ovaritis, 302

Circumcision in Abyssinia, 82
Cleanliness in cancer, 284
Climate of the United States, 355
Clitoris, the, 118

Blumenbach on, 118
enlarged, 120

Coherent labiæ, 113

nymphæ, 113

Cohesion of vaginal walls, 96
Colles, 59

Collins, Dr., 485

Colombat on inversion, 134
Common sense in practice, 26
Conduct, remarks on, 18
Congenital narrowness of vagina, 88
Constipation, 497

Contagion of puerperal fever, 580
Contracted vagina, dilatation of, 89

of protracted disease from false deli- Convulsions in puerperal women, Letter
cacy, 20

of puerperal anæmia, 503

of puerperal convulsion, 633, 640

of relaxed symphyses, 513, 517

of retroversion, 198

of salivation, 480

on, 631

Cork pessaries, 178

Corpus luteum, the, 32, 393
Counter-sunk nipple, 651

Crises of life, 335

Engorgement of uterus, treatment of, 450 Gordon on contagiousness, 587