The Treatment of Spina Bifida 1 The Treatment of Spina Bifida by a New Method. By James Morton, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica, Anderson's University, and Surgeon and Clinical Lecturer on Surgery in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Glasgow, 1877.

Abstract

with, the majority of surgeons that injection is the most promising mode of arriving at the radical cure of spina bifida, and in accord with Velpeau and witli Brainard of Chicago, regards iodine as the most suitable active agent for the injected fluid. Novelty, however, is claimed for the method described in this book, as the author uses as an injection, not a simple solution of iodine or a combination of iodine and iodide of potassium, but