EXHIBITING A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYTICAL RECORD OF
PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE AND SURGERY;

EQUALLY ADAPTED TO ALL RANKS OF THE PROFESSION.

CONDUCTED BY

ASSOCIATED PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS;

AND SUPERINTENDED BY

JAMES JOHNSON, M. D.

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.

(ANALYTICAL SERIES.)

VOLUME II.-for 1821-2.

Nec tibi quid liceat sed quid fecisse decebit
Occurrat mentemque domat respectus honesti. CLAUD.

LONDON-PUBLISHED.

NEW-YORK ·

REPUBLISHED BY J. V. SEAMAN, 296 PEARL-STREET.

Johnstone & Van Norden, Printers.

PREFACE TO VOLUME II.

ANOTHER year has rolled away-another volume has completed its orbit-and still the horizon of the Journal's circulation ceases not to extend. This, however, has been the asserted condition of all journals, at all periods--whether in their infancy, acme, or decline. It will hardly be contended that we have not exhibited some authentic proofs, in our list of subscribers, that the prosperity of the work was regularly progressive.* Nor do we lay claim to any other merit than that of industry, common sense, and good intentions-ceding, without reserve, the palm of talent, genius, and erudition to each and every of our cotemporaries; satisfied as we are that, for the humble attributes above mentioned, there is ample scope for exertion, and perhaps some reward in store.

The object of this Journal, professed at first, and inflexibly pursued afterward, is that of more equally balancing professional information among the different gradations of medical society through the medium of an ANALYTICAL REVIEW, which, rejecting all acerbity of criticism, directs its whole strength towards the selection. and concentration of what may prove useful in the daily walks of practice. This task, simple and easy as it may seem, is one of no trifling labour and difficulty. Besides the necessity of some tact and natural sagacity in discriminating the grain amid the chaff, there is necessary, in addition, a clearness of conception, a facility of expression, and a command of language-powers that cannot always be assumed, at will, with the critic's chair or censor's rod.

* When the present Editor undertook the sole management of the Journal, on the 1st July, 1818, the sale was under 200. The quarterly return for No. VI. from Messrs. Burgess and Hill, on the 1st December, 1821, was 1375 numbers sold during the preceding quarter. For the truth of this statement the Editor pledges his word of honour, and refers any gentleman to the books of the publishers for its correctness.