Lectures on Certain Views on the Nature and Treatment of Phthisis Pulmonalis
	Edward Smith
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.151 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reviews and Notices
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.153 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	British Medical Journal
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:154, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.154 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Week
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:155, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.155 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reports of Societies
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:156, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.156 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

EDITOR'S LETTER BOX

This week's EDITOR'S LETTER BOX

	On the Amount of Mortality from Chloroform
	T. Holmes
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:157, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.157 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Poor-Law Medical Reform
	Richard Griffin
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:157, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.157-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Exhumation of the Body of the Late Mrs. Bacon
	Edward Barber
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.158 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Encouragement of Homœopathy by Legitimate Practitioners
	J. R. Humphreys
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.158-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Tobacco-Smoking Controversy
	J. Paxton
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:159, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.159 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Illustrations of Hospital Practice: Metropolitan and Provincial

This week's Illustrations of Hospital Practice: Metropolitan and Provincial

	St. George's Hospital
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.145 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital for Sick Children
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.145-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	St. Mary's Hospital
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.146 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	King's College Hospital
	W. Fergusson
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.146-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Westminster Hospital
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.147 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS

This week's ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS

	Puncture through the Abdominal Parietes in Impassable Obstruction of the Bowels
	Henry Cooper
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.147-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Death following the Inhalation of Chloroform in Surgical Operations
	T. Holmes
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.148 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical Observations on the Treatment of Fractures by the Immovable Apparatus
	Joseph Sampson Gamgee
	BMJ  1857;s4-1:150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s4-1.8.150 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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