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486 122 104 53 72 154 239 175 122 106 78 42 18 2 1773

NOTE. Of the above there were 540 males of twenty years and upwards, 373 under twenty years: of females, 425 of twenty years and upwards, 289 under twenty years, and 156 children, principally under one year, whose sex is unknown. To the above may be added, 354 which were not received at this office from the Public Burial Ground, making a grand Total 2137.

Deaths in each month of the above period.

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RECENT BRITISH PUBLICATIONS.

The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, exhibiting a Concise View of the latest and most important Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy. (Published Quarterly). No. XL. which completes volume X.

Letters to the Duke of Kent, on the Efficacy of Equable and Artificial Temperature, in the treatment of Consumption. By Thomas Sutton, M. D.

An Index to the Anatomical, Medical, Chirurgical, and Physiological Papers, contained in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, from 1665 to 1813; chronologically and alphabetically arranged, with brief explanatory remarks. Quarto.

A Practical Account of the Fever commonly called Bilious Remittent, as it appeared in the Ships and Hospitals of the Mediterranean Fleet, with Cases and Dissections. By William Burnett, M. D. Physician to the Fleet. Octavo.

Lectures on Inflammation, exhibiting a view of the general Doctrines, Pathological and Practical, of Medical Surgery. By John Thompson, M. D. F. R. S. E.

An Essay on Bronchitis, or Inflammation of the Secreting Membrane of the Lungs; second edition, much enlarged. By Charles Badham, M. D.

Observations on the distinguishing Symptoms of three different Species of Pulmonary Consumption: with Remarks on the Remedies and Regimen, best fitted for the prevention, removal, or alleviation of each species. By Andrew Duncan, Sen. M. D.

An Account of a successful Method of treating Diseases of the Spine, with Observations and Cases in illustration. By Thomas Baynton.

View of the Progress and Present State of Animal Chemistry. By I. J. Berzelius, M. D. Octavo.

Essay on the Theory of the Earth. By M. Cuvier. Translated from the French, by R. Kerr, F. R. S., with Mineralogical Notes. By Professor Jameson. Octavo.

Essay on Light and Vision. By John Bywater.

Essay on Electricity. By the same.

Flora America Septentrionalis: or a Systematic Arrangement and Description of the Plants of North America; containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare Species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. By Frederick Pursh. Two volumes, octavo, with coloured plates.

RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS.

A Complete Treatise on the Symptoms, Effects, Nature, and Treatment of Syphilis. By F. Swediaur, M. D. Translated from the fourth French edition, by Thomas T. Hewson, one of the Surgeons of the Alms-House. Thomas Dobson, Philadelphia.

Abernethy's Surgical Observations on Tumours, and on Lumbar Abscesses. This completes the American edition of Abernethy's Surgical Observations, in which the four volumes are comprised in two. Octavo. Thomas Dobson, Philadelphia.

A Dissertation on the Pathology of the Human Fluids. Octavo. Van Winkle and Wiley, New-York.

An edition of Benjamin Bell's Work, on the Venereal, with Notes. Octavo. E. F. Backus, Albany.

Dr. Hosack, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, in the University of New-York, has recently published, "Observations on the Laws governing the Communication of Contagious Diseases, and the means of arresting their Progress." This memoir was originally read before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia; but is now published under the auspices of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York: considerably extended and improved by the addition of some interesting Notes. Not having received the work until this number had nearly passed through the press, we are obliged to defer a fuller account of it until the publication of our next.

PROPOSED AMERICAN PUBLICATION.

In the course of the ensuing summer will be published: Flora Philadelphiensis: sive Enumeratio plantarum absque omni cultura crescentium, in circuitu decem milliarium in territorio Philadelphiensi; additis descriptionibus, synonimicis, ac denominationibus cujuscunque earundem Anglico idiomate exhibitis; quæ enumeratio in ordinem est redacta secundum Linnæi Systema Sexuale: auctore Gulielmo P. C. Barton, Medicinæ Doctore.

J. G. Exilious, engraver, Philadelphia, should he receive sufficient encouragement, proposes to publish by subscription, a Series of Engravings, tending to illustrate the Generation and Parturition of the Human Species. The engravings to be selected (under the direction of the Professor of Midwifery in the University of Pennsylvania) from the Plates of Smellie, Hunter, Denman, Soemmering, and Baillie. To be published by Thomas Dobson, Philad.

THOMAS DOBSON HAS IN THE PRESS,

A Dissertation on the Influence of Change of Climate in curing Diseases; by Professor Gregory, of Edinburgh. Translated from the original Latin, and enlarged with occasional Notes. By William P. C. Barton, M. D.

Professor Cooper's Work on the Practice of Dyeing. Octavo.

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An account of the malignant Epidemic which has lately prevailed in the Southern States. By DR. J. NORCOM, of Edenton, North Carolina.

[Communicated by Dr. D. Hosack of New York.]

SOME time in the month of October, 1814, there appeared in this neighbourhood a fever of an extraordinary type. The first cases of it which fell under my observation, took place on Salmon creek, about two miles from the mouth of Chowan river, and ten miles from this town. After affecting several persons with different degrees of force and severity, it gradually subsided and disappeared. During its continuance, however, a remarkable circumstance occurred: the hooping cough, which prevailed in the same family, exhibited a character of a similar description, and yielded only to the influence of the same remedies that proved successful in its cure. In the month of December, as I have been informed by a respectable physician in this place, the disease occurred on Chowan river, about fifteen miles above us. In January it appeared on Salmon creek again; and, from the cases which have now and VOL. V. 2 M No. 19.

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