An Epitome of Current Medical Literature
	Br Med J  1897;2:E29-E32, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.E29 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An Address on the Progress of Physiology During the Last Thirteen Years: Delivered before the Physiological Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Toronto, August, 1897
	Michael Foster
	Br Med J  1897;2:445-450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.445 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An Address on some Distinctive Characters of Human Structure: Delivered before the Anthropological Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Toronto, August, 1897
	William Turner
	Br Med J  1897;2:450-453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.450 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Signs and Symptoms of Perforated Gastric Ulcer, with Notes of Two Cases, in One of which Operation was Successful
	R. O. Adamson, J. Crawford Renton
	Br Med J  1897;2:453-455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.453 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A Case of Hæmatorrachis
	William Bain
	Br Med J  1897;2:455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.455 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Remarks on the Etiology, Symptoms, and Treatment of Latah, with a Report of Two Cases
	John D. Gimlette
	Br Med J  1897;2:455-457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.455-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Excision of Scapula for Sarcoma in the Infraspinatus Muscle, Occurring in a Girl Aged 8 Years: Recovery with Useful Limb
	George Henry Edington
	Br Med J  1897;2:457-459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.457 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	On Meckel's Diverticulum
	T. N. Kelynack
	Br Med J  1897;2:459-460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.459 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Remarks on Colitis in the Adult
	Arthur James Campbell
	Br Med J  1897;2:460-461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.460 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Successful Cœliotomies for an Intraperitoneal Rupture of a Tubal Gestation and Two other Uncommon Pelvic Tumours
	J. Lynn Thomas
	Br Med J  1897;2:461-462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.461 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Remarks on the Treatment of Cut Throat, with Notes of a Case Treated by Immediate Suture in Layers
	R. G. Hogarth
	Br Med J  1897;2:462-463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.462 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A Case of Acute Pulmonary Gangrene
	T. Armstrong Bowes
	Br Med J  1897;2:463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.463 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Disappearance of a Cardiac Murmur
	C. J. Whitby
	Br Med J  1897;2:463-464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.463-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A Case of Hystero-Epilepsy Simulating "Status Epilepticus."
	H. Hyslop Thomson
	Br Med J  1897;2:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.464 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Description of Conditions Found in the Head and Neck Two Years and A-Quarter after Ligature of All the Carotid Arteries, Jugular Veins, Etc., of the Left Side
	W. Thelwall Thomas
	Br Med J  1897;2:465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.465 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A Case of Abscess of the Temporosphenoidal Lobe, Opened and Drained through the Osseous Auditory Meatus
	Adolph Bronner
	Br Med J  1897;2:465-466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.465-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Notes of Two Cases of Dystocia Arising from Relative Shortening of the Umbilical Cord
	Alex. Maclennan
	Br Med J  1897;2:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.466 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Herpes Zoster of the Face with Paralysis
	H. Howard Murphy
	Br Med J  1897;2:466-467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.466-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A Case of Traumatic Tetanus Treated by Antitoxin and Morphine: Recovery
	George P. Goldsmith
	Br Med J  1897;2:467-468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.467 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reports on Medical & Surgical Practice in the Hospitals and Asylums of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies
	Br Med J  1897;2:469-472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.469 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reviews
	Br Med J  1897;2:472-475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.472 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Notes on Books
	Br Med J  1897;2:475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.475 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reports and Analyses and Descriptions of New Inventions in Medicine, Surgery, Dietetics, and the Allied Sciences
	Br Med J  1897;2:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.476 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	British Pharmaceutical Conference
	Br Med J  1897;2:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.476-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	British Medical Journal
	Br Med J  1897;2:477-484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.477 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Vaccination Statistics
	Br Med J  1897;2:485-488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.485 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Report on the Preparation and Storage of Glycerinated Calf Vaccine Lymph
	Br Med J  1897;2:488-489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.488 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interim Report of the Dangerous Trades Committee: Electrical Generating Works
	Br Med J  1897;2:489-490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.489 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Serum Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever
	Br Med J  1897;2:492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.492 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	United Kingdom Police Surgeons' Association
	Br Med J  1897;2:492-493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.492-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	At Last! the Death Blow to Pauper Nursing
	Br Med J  1897;2:493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.493 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A Cholera Scare in London
	Br Med J  1897;2:493-494, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.493-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The British Dental Association
	Br Med J  1897;2:494, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.494 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Literary Notes
	Br Med J  1897;2:494-495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.494-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Association Intelligence
	Br Med J  1897;2:495-496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.495 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Special Correspondence
	Br Med J  1897;2:496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.496 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Naval and Military Medical Services
	Br Med J  1897;2:501-502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.501-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medico-Legal
	Br Med J  1897;2:502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.502 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Public Health and Poor-Law Medical Services
	Br Med J  1897;2:502-504, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.502-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital and Dispensary Management
	Br Med J  1897;2:504, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.504 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	India and the Colonies
	Br Med J  1897;2:504, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.504-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Letters, Notes, and Answers to Correspondents
	Br Med J  1897;2:506-508, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.506 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

British Medical Journal Reports

This week's British Medical Journal Reports

	Special Report on the Condition of the River Brent
	E. Bailey Denton
	Br Med J  1897;2:490-492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.490 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	Snake Venoms
	Thomas R. Fraser
	Br Med J  1897;2:496-497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.496-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Government of India and the Plague
	James Cleghorn
	Br Med J  1897;2:497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.497 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The College of Physicians and Hospital Reform
	H. Nelson Hardy
	Br Med J  1897;2:497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.497-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital Reform
	T. Garrett Horder
	Br Med J  1897;2:498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.498 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Nursing Examination of the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland
	Br Med J  1897;2:498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.498-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Expulsion of Members from the British Medical Association and its Bearing on Hospital Reform
	James Brassey Brierley
	Br Med J  1897;2:498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.498-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Causation and Treatment of Spinal Curvature
	Richard Barwell
	Br Med J  1897;2:498-499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.498-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Supposed Immunity of Natives of India to Enteric Fever
	Francis H. Welch
	Br Med J  1897;2:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.499 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Founder of Bands of Hope
	Gordon Sharp
	Br Med J  1897;2:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.499-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Administration of Safe Anæsthetics
	H. Bellamy Gardner
	Br Med J  1897;2:499-500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.499-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Etiology of Beri-Beri
	H. C. L. Morris
	Br Med J  1897;2:500-501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.500 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Etiology of Beri-Beri
	J. A. Wetherell
	Br Med J  1897;2:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.501 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituary

This week's Obituary

	Dr. Juan Creus y Manso
	Br Med J  1897;2:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.501-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dr. David Hume Nelson
	Br Med J  1897;2:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.1912.501-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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