Hospital Reports
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:1, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.1 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lectures on Certain Views on the Nature and Treatment of Phthisis by Physicians
	Edward Smith
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.6 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reviews and Notices
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.9 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	British Medical Journal
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.9-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Week
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.10 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reports of Societies
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.12 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

EDITOR'S LETTER BOX

This week's EDITOR'S LETTER BOX

	The Spinal and General Orthopædic Association
	Joseph Amesbury
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:13, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.13 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Encouragement of Homœopathy by Legitimate Practitioners
	A. G. Field
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:14, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.14 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Intestinal Obstruction from Gall-Stone
	S. H. Swayne
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:14, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.14-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Black Drop or Anodyne Tincture
	Thomas Radford
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.15 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Uncertain Action of Cannabis Indica
	Thos. Hayes Jackson
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.15-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Poor-Law Medical Reform
	Fred. James Brown
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.15-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Payment of Medical Witnesses
	Joseph Godden
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.15-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS

This week's ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS

	Medical Notes on the Militia
	J. I. Ikin
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:1, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.1-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Case of Acute Lithiasis
	H. Payne
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.3 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lithotomy: Median Operation
	J. Seaton Smyth
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.3-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	On the Treatment of Ulcers of the Leg without Rest
	Thomas Hunt
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:4, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.1.4 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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