seventy years of age. During lecture one day, he was struck with a slight attack of apoplexy, "comme un general est frappé d'un coup de feu sur le champ de bataille;" and although he recovered after a few weeks, he never resumed his professorial labours.

The character of his mind was that of sterling good sense and sagacity. His sturdy independence and liberality of sentiment were also generally appreciated. As a teacher, he was clear and systematic; and his lectures abounded with original and striking views. As a speaker, his manner was familiar, and to the point; in discussion, particularly in the Academy of Medicine, he has always displayed a ready command of reasoning power, combined with an animated elocution.

He wrote several things; such as the Analysis of the Absorbent and Lymphatic System, and his Medical History of the Army of the East; but his life was rather spent in action than in study, although the business of the camp did not prevent him from reading much, and of gathering from books a solid erudition, which he always knew how to use with discrimination.

He occupied his spare time in writing memoirs of his interesting and most eventful life, of which the third volume has recently appeared. His health, although infirm, continued to be tolerably good until the month of last February, when he most suddenly had another attack of apoplexy, from which he never recovered. "Mais il est temps de vous saluer d'un dernier adieu, venerable collégue. Adieu donc, trois fois adieu, O Desgenettes! Puissent vos precieux restes, se ranimant un instant, n'etre pas tout-a-fait insensible aux accens d'une voix respectueuse et devouée."-La Presse Medicale.

THE LATE M. DUBOIS.

We have to add yet another to our list of deaths, in announcing that of DUBOIS. This distinguished veteran died at Paris, on the 30th of March 1837, in the eightyfirst year of his age.

M. Dubois was the last remnant of a by-gone race-he was the pupil of Desault, and the friend of Bichat, Lavoisier, and other eminent men of the last century. His history was in several respects remarkable: he was born at Gramat; and having studied at the College of Cahors, set off for Paris at the age of twenty, where he arrived in a condition which reminds us of the early life of Goldsmith, having just two sous and a half in his pocket when he took up his abode in the gay metropolis of France. He obtained employment as a teacher of reading and writing, by which, and copying law-papers, he contrived to support himself and continue his medical education. He soon after procured an introduction to Desault, who had the penetration to discover his merit, and under whose countenance he procured employment in teaching anatomy privately. About the end of the reign of Louis XVI. he was appointed professor of anatomy, and progressively rose to a station of the highest eminence as a practitioner in surgery and midwifery. He succeeded to Baudelocque at the hospital of the Maternité. Dubois had not the inventive genius of Dupuytren, but was remarkable for his judgment, self-possession, and manual dexterity. The accuracy and quickness of his diagnosis has been long celebrated.

He was a very eloquent lecturer, and greatly respected by his pupils, including an immense number of the present race of medical men in France.—L. Med. Gaz.

EDWARD TURNER, M.D. F.R.S. L. & E., Professor of Chemistry in University College, London, died on Sunday, 12th February 1837, at his residence at Hamstead. During some years, Dr. Turner had suffered very much from pain in the right side of the abdomen, for the removal or alleviation of which he had recourse occasionally to local bleeding and blisters. Within the last two years his frame, never robust, became emaciated to such a degree, that, previously to the last fatal illness,all his acquaintances felt astonishment that, though so worn and wasted, he should have never failed to discharge his duties with his characteristic quickness and energy.

In the last days of January, Dr. Turner was seized with influenza, and this disease was the immediate cause of his death. On examination after death, it was found that the lungs were the seat of extensive inflammation (pneumonia,) which had its commencement in an attack of the then prevailing epidemic. The cause of the suffering and emaciation of so long continuance was found in the pyloric end of the stomach and in the duodenum. The former was the seat of chronic inflammation and slight ulcerations; the latter was studded with numerous ulcerated points.

Dr. Turner was born in Jamaica, in which island his father possessed considerable property; but at a very early age he was removed to this country. After having received his elementary education at Bath; and studied some time with a surgeon, he was sent to the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated as doctor of medicine. Soon after having taken his degree, he returned to Bath, his English home, with a view to the practice of his profession; but the active, nervous temperament of the young physician could ill brook the tedium of " waiting for practice." In a very short time, therefore, not more than a month we believe, he went to Paris, in company with his contemporary and fellow student, Professor Christison, who had long been, and who remained to the close of life, one of his most intimate and attached friends. It was at Paris, if we mistake not, that Dr. Turner determined to pursue the study of chemistry. In Gottingen he likewise devoted himself most ardently to his favourite science under the guidance of Professor Stromeyer. In 1824, Dr. Turner began to lecture on chemistry at Edinburgh, and, on the foundation of the University of London, now University College, (1828,) was elected professor of chemistry in that Institution.

As a chemist, Dr. Turner became very early distinguished for the extent and accuracy of his knowledge, and as an acute and original observer. He published several papers in the Transactions of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh. The work by which he was most known is the "Elements of Chemistry," which has for some time been, perhaps, the most popular treatise on the subject in this or any other language. Its sale in this country has been very great, (averaging 3,500 in the space of two years,) and its circulation in America has been much more extensive still.

It is impossible to speak truly of Dr. Turner's general character or his moral qualities without running the risk of being accused of exaggeration. He was beloved by all who knew him for the amenity of his manners, the cheerfulness of his disposition, and his enlarged and active benevolence: while he was no less respected for his integrity, his love of justice, and the stainless purity of his life. We hold that almost universally the truest evidence as to the character of a public teacher, whether as an instructor or as a man, may be derived from his pupils; and, applying this test to Dr. Turner, no one could have excelled him. It would be a culpable omission not to notice the sincere piety and firm Christian faith which adorned Dr. Turner, and enabled him to support ill-health, and even to contemplate death, with cheerfulness. This important point of his character was detailed and powerfully dwelt on by his friend and former colleague, the Rev. Thomas Dale, the distinguished Rector of St. Bride's, in an extemporaneous address delivered, at the request of the family, over the grave "when earth was returned to earth;" and subsequently at St. Bride's Church, in an admirable sermon, which we trust will be given to the public in a permanent form.-Brit. and For. Med. Rev.

THE LATE DR. MACNISH.

THIS Well-known author died at Glasgow, on the 26th of December 1837, in the 35th year of his age. The first of his writings which brought him into notice, were the able papers which he contributed to Blackwood, with signature of "A Modern Pythagorean." But the works which have rendered his name widely celebrated, have been the Anatomy of Drunkenness and the Philosophy of Sleep. These have gone through several editions, both here and in America, and have been translated into most of the continental languages.

His premature death is the more to be regretted, as every successive production of his pen evinced a gradual increase of mental power, which would have

enabled him to achieve, had he lived, much more than he has done. He is said to have been carried off, after a few days' illness, by the typhous fever, which is at present so rife in Glasgow.-Lond. Med. Gaz.

THE following have been received, and would be more fully noticed at the present time did space allow :

Mr. BIRD's Address before the American Physiological Society, at their First Annual Meeting, June 1, 1837.

Introductory Address, and Catalogue of Students attending the Annual Course of Lectures on Anatomy and Surgery, delivered by F. H. HAMILTON, M.D., Auburn, 1837.

The Medical Student; or, Aids in the Study of Medicine, &c. By ROBLEY DUNGLISON, M.D., Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence in Jefferson Medical College, &c., &c. Carey, Lea, and Blanchard. Philadelphia, 1837, pp. 323, 8vo.

It will be seen that the essential parts of the Circulars of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and of the President and Faculty of the Louisville Medical Institute, have found a place in our pages.

We believe that we shall best express in brief phrase our course of editorial action for the past year, by asking our readers to refer to the Index of the JOURNAL and to the Table of Contents of the LIBRARY. They can there learn, at a glance, how far the promises held out in the commencement of our enterprise have been realised, and can form some judgment of the extent to which they will continue to foster our future labours.

In the volume which the collected numbers of the Eclectic now forms, will be found many valuable papers, giving a clear and full idea of some of the most important diseases and their means of treatment; reviews of the works of the day; curious and novel details, available for practical purposes; in therapeutics, pathology, medical statistics and hygiene. The attentive reader will meet in its pages with matter of intrinsic and abiding worth, fitted to more than gratify the mental appetite at the moment-it will serve, also, for future substantial repast and nourishment.

Of the varied character of the Library it is not necessary here to speak. The immediate and allowable calls of the practising physician have been mainly attended to in the selection of its contents, without, however, an oversight of the wishes of the reflecting student and of professional literati. Systems of Medical and Surgical Practice, and monographs on Insanity, Tetanus, Diseases of the Lungs and of other Viscera, direct and dependent on remote irritation, Rheumatism, Clinical Medicine and Medical Institutions, have been the main subjects during the period which has elapsed.

In the Library of next year will be found monographs, full and complete in Midwifery, Diseases of Children, Diseases of the Skin, Clinical Lectures, &c. &c., with intermediate shorter works illustrative of the prominent points of medical inquiry of the day.

Armstrong, John, Lectures by, and Life of, Cataract, Brewster on, 42.

Bell, John, editor of Armstrong's Lectures, Cogswell on iodine and its compounds,308.
173-8.

Dysmenorrhoea, mechanical dilatation in, | Heart, neurosis of the, 263-4.

Hunter, John, sketches of, 433-43.

Humerus, reducing luxations of the, 277.
Imlach on softening, erosion, and perfor-
ation of the stomach, 361-75.

Elocution, Comstock's institution for, Imposture, surgical, 179.