by military surgeons in the operations of amputation at the hip joint, shoulder joint, thigh, arm, leg, foot, and hand, during the Peninsular war. INTENDED PUBLICATIONS. Shortly may be expected, a History of the Pestilential Disorder that broke out in Andalusia in 1800, with detailed accounts of the fatal epidemics at Gibraltar in 1804, and at Cadiz in 1810 and 1813; to which will be added, observations on the remitting and intermitting fever in the military hospitals at Colchester after the return of the troops from Zealand in 1809: by Sir James Fellowes, physician to the forces, and inspector of military hospitals. Mr. Astley Cooper is preparing for republication his work on the Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Hernia. Sydenham Edwards, Fellow of the Linnean Society, and late designer of the Botanical Magazine, is now publishing in monthly numbers, The Botanical Register, each number to consist of eight coloured plates, accompanied by their history and mode of treatment. The designs to be made from living plants. INTENDED AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS. Thomas Dobson will publish in a few days, an edition of MURRAY'S MATERIA MEDICA, with Notes by Dr. CHAPMAN, Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Pennsylvania; in two volumes octavo. Now in the press, Prodromus Flora Philadelphicæ; Plantarum quæ hactenus exploratæ fuere, qæque in ipso opere ulterius describentur, exhibens enumerationem: or, Prodromus of the Flora Philadelphica; exhibiting a list of all the Plants to be described in that work, which have as yet been collected. By William P. C. Barton, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Member of the American Philosophical Society, &c. This work contains a list of about four hundred and fifty genera of indigenous and commonly cultivated plants, collected within a circuit of ten miles around the city of Philadelphia; and though purporting, according to the title, to be a mere catalogue, contains beside, brief descriptions of the essential generic characters, the form of the leaves, and the natural families of Jussieu. It will serve as a Manual for the students of Botany, as well as botanists, who make excursions in the vicinity of this city in quest of plants. This Prodromus will be published about the first week in November next, when it may be had only of the author, No. 222, Walnut Street, and at the Pennsylvania Hospital; price one dollar and fifty cents. The author has printed but a small edition, and as nearly one half of the number of copies printed, is already subscribed for, those persons who are desirous of possessing the work, are informed, that subscribers who send in their names to the author after the appearance of this notice, and before the publication of the work, will purchase it at one dollar and twenty-five cents. INDEX. Page APPARATUS, Gas, improved by Melville Analysis of the Bones in Mollities Ossium of the Spine 123 157 162 Albay, Volcano of Anæsthesia, Case of 219 349 Aqueous Humour, effects of Evacuating the Abscess of anterior Chamber of the Eye Abernethy's Surgical Observations on Tumours and on Lumbar Abscesses Abscesses, Lumbar, Observations on Arteries, on the Ligature of Aneurism, on the Ligature of Arteries in cases of 52 70 109 - 120 137 137 Arteries at the Groin, Anastomosis of American Philosophical Society, Officers of Adhesion of Separated Parts Alibert, his Elements of Therapeutics & Materia Medica Barton, Jno. Rhea, his Description of a Sick Bed 235 Baltimore Bill of Mortality 266 Bark, of the Coccoloba Uvifera, Experiments on 297 Barton, Dr. Wm. P. C. his Translation of Gregory's Dis- sertation, &c. 380 Balfour's Observations on the Reunion of Parts Bitumen, Analysis of a new, found in Saxony 542 Bladder, Anatomy of the Neck of - Bloodletting cures Trismus Bones, on the formation of Human of the Spine, Analysis of, in Mollities Ossium 342 258 258 259 131 157 139 157 265 Chaptal on the Manufactures injurious to Health 464 476 Climate, Change of, its influence in curing Diseases 380 Cornea, on some diseases of 52 Opacities of 78 Cooper, Astley, on the Anastomosis of the Arteries at the D'Abuisson's account of a shower of Meteoric Stones Dissertations, Inaugural, presented to the Faculty of Paris 405 257 524 94 of the Joints Distillation, double, by Steam 168 131 Dispensary, Philadelphia, Annual Report of Managers and Officers of 132 263 Elements of Medical Jurisprudence Eye on the effects of evacuating the aqueous humor of the on the Inflammation of Eye-Ball, on the Injuries of the 592 52 ib. 76 Eye, on perceiving objects on the back part of 224 Eddy's hints for treatment of the Insane Extravasation, Spontaneous, within the Theca Vertebralis Fingers and Toes, supernumerary 114 Fishes of the State of New York-Mitchill's History of |