Remedy for Weak Eyes. Placing a piece of green glass on the book, instead of wearing green spectacles, has been recommended in a London Magazine, for those who are affected with weakness of the eyes. College of Physicians of Philadelphia. JULY 4, 1815. The following officers of the College, were this day duly elected, pursuant to their Charter. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. State of the weather at Philadelphia during the first six months of 1815. JANUARY. Thermometer-Lowest, at 8 A. M. 10. 30th day of the month. Highest, at 3 P. M. 46. 2d and 3d. Winds-northerly and westerly-snow on the 13th, and heavy snow on the 22d. River frozen over on the 27th and continued closed to the 5th of March. On the 30th the mercury in some situations was at 3° below zero-at five o'clock, A. M. in the open air, it stood at 5° below zero and continued so until sunrise. FEBRUARY. Thermometer-Lowest, at 8 A. M. 15. 1st day of the month. Highest, at 3 P. M. 40. 21st. Thermometer-Lowest, at 8 A. M. 29. 22d day of the month. Highest, at 3 P. M. 60. 15th. Thermometer-Lowest, at 8 A. M. 41. 1st day of the month. Highest, at 3 P. M. 72. 18th and 27th. Winds-westerly winds prevailed. Thunder and lightning on the 19th, early in the morning. The shad fishery not so productive as at some other seasons, although the fish were large. The spring was cool and backward. MAY. Thermometer-Lowest, at 8 A. M. 50. 1st, 2d, 3d, and 15th days of the month. Winds-westerly for the most part. Rains frequent. Severe thunder on the night of the 2d inst. Snow six inches deep and sleighing at Plattsburgh, New-York, on the 20th. The waters of Lake Erie, of the rivers Ohio and Mississippi, have been very high this month. JUNE. Thermometer-Lowest, at 8 A. M. 62. 7th day of the month. .70. Winds-westerly winds prevalent-frequent rains-violent wind on the 20th P. M. with rain. Many accounts of the early appearance of ice islands in the Atlantic Ocean, in this and the last month. The newspapers from Halifax, Nova Scotia, mention, that owing to the coldness of the weather, planting had not commenced in many parts of that province; that considerable quantities of ice were formed in the harbour on the 1st instant. The Quebec papers also mention the backwardness of the season; that on the 4th of June, the trees were not in leaf, only the aspen and birch began to show a little verdure. The season has been healthy. A few severe cases of typhus fever appeared during the first three months of the year. The measles have continued in a mild form in the present month. No small pox. Vaccination amongst the poor, has been practised to a greater extent than usual. Good prospects of harvest of every kind. LIST OF RECENT BRITISH PUBLICATIONS. Medicine, Surgery, &c. Facts and Observations on Liver Complaints and Bilious Disorders in general, &c. &c. by John Faithorn. A Philosophical Dissertation on the Hereditary peculiarities of the Human Constitution, by Joseph Adams, M. D. F. L. S. A Practical Treatise on Porrigo, or Scald Head and Impetigo, the Humid or Running Tetter, with coloured Engravings illustrative of the Diseases, by the late Robert Willan, M. D. F. R. S. edited by Ashby Smith, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, 4to. Cases of Tetanus and Rabies Contagiosa, or Canine Hydrophobia, with Remarks, chiefly intended to ascertain the characteristic Symptoms of the latter Disease in Man and certain Brutes, and to point out the most effectual means of prevention, by Caleb Hillier Parry, M. D. F. R. S. 8vo. Observations on Adhesion, with two cases demonstrative of the powers of nature to reunite parts which have been by accident totally separated from the Animal System, by William Balfour, M. D. 8vo. A Series of Engravings of Cutaneous Diseases, illustrative of all the principal Genera and Species described in the Practical Synopsis of the Classification of Dr. Willar, published by Dr. Bateman. An Essay on the Diseases which have been confounded with Syphilis, and the Symptoms which exclusively arise from that poison; illustrated by drawings of the cutaneous eruptions of true syphilis and the resembling diseases, by Richard Carmichael, M. R. I. A. A Treatise on Fever, with observations on the practice adopted for its Cure, in the Fever Hospital and House of |