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Medical Topography of Cincinnati. By Daniel Drake,

On the Diurnal Revolutions of the Pulse. By Robert Knox,

M. D.

On the Natural Production of Salt-Petre on the walls of

Subterraneous Buildings. By John Kidd, M. D.

An Account of some Experiments on Animal Heat. By

John Davy, M. D.

On the Cultivation of Senna. By John Whitaker,

On Cancer in the Female Breast. By John Rodman, M. D.

Observations on the Distinguishing Symptoms of the

three different Species of Pulmonary Consumption. By

Andrew Duncan, senior, M. D.

205

BIOGRAPHY.

Biographical Memoir of the late Henry Reeve, M. D.

232

ORIGINAL PAPER.

Description of a New Self-Registering Thermometer. By

Edward Clark, of Philadelphia,

249
MEDICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Small-Pox and Vaccination,

253

Native Epsom Salt,

253

Earthquakes in Weston, Massachusetts, -

254

Retreat for the Insane, at York, in England, -

254

Transactions of the Royal Society of London,

256, 258

Mr. Carpue's Restoration of the Nose,

259

Sir Everard Home's Publication on the Influence of the

Nerves upon the Action of the Arteries,

259

Bill of Mortality of Baltimore,

Appointments of Professors in the University of Pennsyl-

vania,

265

Graduates in Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 265

Officers of the Humane Society,

268

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania propose to es-

tablish a Botanical Garden,

268

Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of

New-York,

269

Professor Cleaveland's Elementary Treatise of Mineralogy

and Geology, -

270

Phosphorus Internally Used as a Tonic and Stimulant

Remedy,

271

Obituary Notice of Dr. Frederick Kuhn, of Lancaster, P. 272

NUMBER XXIII.

SELECTED PAPERS.

273

Qbservations on the application of Coal Gas, to the pur-

poses of Illumination. By William Thomas Brande, F.

R.S. &c.

Observations on the nature and properties of Ca Itcho

By Mr. Clark,

On Vaccination in Hindostan,

Account of a New Blow-Pipe. By John Newman,

Specimen of a New Nomenclature for Meteorological Sci.

ence. By Thomas Forsler, F. L. S. &c.

On Contractions after Burns or extensive Ulcerations. By

Henry Earle, Esq.

Report on the Epidemic Small Pox and Chicken Pox,

which prevailed in New York, during the last Autumn

and Winter,

An account of some Diseases of the Fingers and Toes. By

James Wardrop, F. R. S.

Further Observations on the Cataract. By B. Travers, Esq.

Observations on Pulmonary Consumption. By Dr. Southey,

A General Dispensatory, or Arrangement of the Pharma-

copæias of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. By S. Root-

sey, F. L. S.

352

360

Report, &c. respecting Madhouses,

BIOGRAPHY.

John Coakley Lcttsom, M. D.

MEDICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE.

389

391

392'

395

Communication from Dr. Physick,

Account of the Upas Tree,

An Ordinance providing for the Gratuitous Vaccination of

Persons in Indigent Circumstances,

Vaccination in Hayti, -

Proceedings of Philosophical Societies,

Professor Loebel's Observations upon the Benefit of Inso.

lation,

Flora of South Carolina and Georgia,

Literary Intelligence,

College of Physicians of Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania Hospital, Patients in,

Physicians,

407

411

412

414

415

Meteorological Observations,

Recent British Publications,

Medical Topography of New-Orleans: with an Account of

the Principal Diseases that affected the Fleet and Army

on the late Expedition against that City,

Account of an Hydraulic Machine for Raising Water, cal.

led the “ Water Ram.” By John Millington, Esq. -

Some Remarks on the Arts of India, with Miscellaneous

Observations, By H. Scott. M. D.

Accounts of a Soda Lake in South America. By M. Palacio

Faxar,

Proofs of the Bulam Fever attacking the Human Frame

only once. By W. Pym, M. D.

Case of Artificial Pupil. By Mr. Moore,

The History of the Small Pox. By James Moore,

Reports of the Pestilential Disorder of Andalusia. By Sir

James Fellowes, M. D.

On Gun-shot Wounds of the Extremities, requiring the

Different Operations of Amputation, with their After-

treatment. By J. G. Guthrie,

A Treatise on the Puerperal Fever, illustrated by Cases.

On Re-infection in the Ship Fever of Tropical climates. By

Samuel Powel Griffitts, M. D. .

Case of Hernia. By Joseph P. Nancrede, M. D.

MEDICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE.

On the Bad Effects of the Incautious Use of Magnesia,

Method of Separating Platina from the other Metallic Sub-

stances which are found with it in the state of Ore,

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London,

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,

Cinchona Bark,

On the Best Mode of Softening Adhesive Straps,

Establishment of “ The Faculty of Natural Science” in the

University of Pennsylvania,

Recent British Publications,

Proposed British Publications,

Recent and Proposed American Publications,

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