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Peachey Harrison, Dr. Benjamin Rush, James Mease, William P. Dewees, Dr. Samuel K. Jennings, Joseph Klapp, Mr. B. Gibson, Thomas Girdlestone, S. Ffirth, M. Rossi, S. Sawrey, T. Girdlestone, Charles Hatchett, J. Adams, James M'Grigor, Thomas Bennion, James M'Grigor, J. Grivel, Everard Home,

Frontmatter: Medical Museum, Medical and Philosophical Register. Essay: Caldwell's Remarkable Case of an Ossified Fœtus and Uterus in a Woman Sixty Years of Age, Of the Efficacy of Blood-Letting in Parturition, and of a Salivation in the Pulmonary Consumption, On an Artificial Substance Which Possesses the Principal Characteristic Properties of Tannin. By Charles Hatchett, Esq. F. R. S., An Account of a Fœtus Found in the Abdomen of a Woman Eighty-Three Years of Age; by J. Grivel, Accoucheur in the Hospital of Villeneuve at Dresden, as Communicated in the Following Letter to Dr. Pearson, Leicester Square, Purification of Water, Whether Sensation Remains after Decollation, An Account of a Fifteen Years Pregnancy, Where the Child Was Contained in the Urinary Bladder; by Professor Josephi, of Rostock, Gardner, on the Effect of the Galvanic Fluid upon Vegetable Infusions, Dr. Shadrach Ricketson, of New York, Has Now in the Press, His Work, Entitled "Means of Preserving Health, and Preventing Diseases, &c.", Joseph Pursell, Seaman, Aged 20 Years, Was Admitted into the Hospital on the 8th July, 1806, for Phthisis, Pneumatic Tinder-Box, Silver, Superior to Plumbago, for Writing on Asses-Skin, A Manufacturer of Sheffield Has Not Only Rolled out Zinc into Plates, but Found That at a Certain Temperature It Is Both Very Malleable and Ductile, so That Wire Is Easily Made of It, Extract of a Letter from Prince Ypsilandy, Hospodar of Wallachia, to Dr. De Carro, of Vienna; on the Plague, Experiments on Hammering Metals, Frederick Moline, Seaman, by Birth a Swede, Aged 39 Years, Was Admitted into the Hospital on the 10th October, 1806, with Phthisis, Local Remedies, Of the Quantity of Potash Contained in, or Producible from, Different Kinds of Wood, Precipitation of Copper by Tin, Analysis of Dr. James's Powder, On the Anti-Putrefactive Property of Arsenic, Remedy in Ophthalmia, On Certain Obstinate Venereal Affections, Literary Intelligence, Method of Preserving Water Sweet at Sea, Factitious Puzzolana, The Work Closes with the Following "List of British Authors on Naval Medicine and Surgery", Fumigation, Quicksilver Proved to Be a Malleable Metal, From Experiments Made upon Gluten, by Charles Louis Cadet, of the College of Pharmacy, Paris, and Related in a Memoir in the Annales De Chimie, No. 123, the Following Conclusions Are Drawn, Poisonous Impregnation of Common Salt and of Muriatic Acid.—From the Manual of Health, Naphtha Aceti, Of the Nature of the Mephitic Air of Privies, Preparation of the True Copal Varnish, Contagious Ophthalmia, Caution Respecting Oil of Turpentine, Ross, on the Gibraltar Fever, Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in London to the Editor, Native Minium, Curious Phenomenon of Human Structure, Cure of Tinea, Itch, &c., An Account of the Efficacy of a Salivation in the Cure of the Pulmonary Consumption; in a Letter from Dr. Samuel Akerly, to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Extemporaneous Catheter, Nickel Proved to Be a Perfect and Even Noble Metal, Of the State of Medicine in Portugal. By J. Adams, M. D., Case of a Dolor Faciei, Where the Dissection of the Nerve Had No Effect. By Dr. Kopp, of Bayreuth, Foreign and Domestic Cure, Vomiting Excited by Emetic Tartar Injected into the Veins, The Following Extracts from "Turnbull's Naval Surgeon," Although They May Not Be Accounted Particularly Useful at Present, Are Introduced with a View to the Future Advantage of the American Navy, On the Late Very Mortal Fever of Gibraltar, Of the Identity of the Electric Fluid, Whether Produced from Glass or Resinous Bodies, Method of Procuring Tannin and Gallic Acid, Separately, from Gall-Nuts, Goetling's Improved Preparation of Kermes Mineral, Foreign and Domestic Bennion, on the Gibraltar Fever, Any Notifications of Lectures for the Ensuing Winter, Are Requested to Be Sent Immediately to the Editor; as the Next Number Will Be Put to Press without Delay, Whitlam, on the Use of Conium Maculatum, Of the State of Medicine among the Anglo-Saxons, Solution of Sulphur in Æther, The Same Author Has Assigned a Part of His Work to What He Calls a Naval Pharmacopœia, or Dispensatory, and as the Observations Arising from Long Experience, May Prove Useful to Our Infant Navy, the Editor Will Be Excused for His Copious Extracts, Collins, on the Use of Tinctura Ferri Muriati in Retention of Urine, Of the Utility of Dipping Surgical Instruments into Oil, Previous to an Operation, Vegetable Galvanism, Appearances on Dissection of a Case of Diseased Spleen, An Account of Two Cases of Fever, Induced by the Bite of a Venemous Insect, and Cured by Copious Depletion. Communicated to Mr. William Steptoe, Student of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, by Dr. Samuel K. Jennings, of Virginia Case I, Palmer's Processes for Preserving Lime Juice, &c. From the Calcutta Gazette, On a Case of Premature Delivery, by Mr. Simmons, Singular Case of the Alteration of the Colour of the Hair, during Parturition. Read before the Medical Lyceum of Philadelphia, by Wm. P. Dewees, Dec. 24th, 1806, Fluoric Acid in the Enamel of Teeth and in Ivory, Balsamic Vinegar, A New Theory of the Effects of Medicines, Foreign and Domestic Medical Graduation in the University of Pennsylvania, Case of Fracture Cured by the Use of Nitric Acid. By Dr. Penel of Abbeville, Harrison, on the Spontaneous Cure of Hydrocele Harrisonburg, Rockingham, (Vir.) October 23d, 1806, Diagnosis of Measles and Scarlatina, Rhodium and Palladium, Their Existence Proved, J— A— S—, Once of Reputable Connections, in Consequence of the Death of Her Parents, Had Thrown Herself upon the Town, and Had Lived Several Years as a Prostitute, in Which Situation She Sell into a Consumption, in the Nineteenth Year of Her Age, Edwards's Case of Scurvy, Cured by the Arsenical Solution; Addressed to the Editor of the Medical and Physical Journal, Thomas, on the Gibraltar Fever, Syphon, Foreign and Domestic A Practical Treatise on the Superior Efficacy and Safety of Stizolobium or Cowhage, (the Dolichos Pruriens …, James M'colgan, Seaman, Aged 36 Years, Was Admitted into the Hospital on the 30th May, 1806, with an Inflammation of the Lungs, The Following Very Interesting Paper Is Translated from the Supplement to the Madrid Gazette, of the 14th October, 1806. A Copy of Which Was Presented by the Marquis De Casa Yrujo, to the American Philosophical Society, Defour's Case of Plica Polonica, Surgical Division, Syphon Used as a Refrigerator, Proust, on the Properties of Potash, On the Hatching of Eggs. By the Royal Society of Sciences of Copenhagen, Extract of a Letter from Dr. William Jones to the Editor, Dated Owego Village, Tioga County (N. Y.) March 4th, 1806, "Office for Sick and Wounded Seamen, the 28th January, 1805, Observations on the Effect of Madder Root on the Bones of Animals. By Mr. B. Gibson. From the Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. Vol. 1, Second Series, Observations on the Effects of Dr. Fowler's Mineral Solution in Lepra and Other Diseases; by Thomas Girdlestone, M. D. Physician at Yarmouth, (Great Britain). From the London Med. and Phys. Journal, "Dear Sir,"Accept of My Congratulations upon Your Rare Triumph over a Case of Hydrophobia", On the Absorption of Azotic Gas in Respiration, New Thermometer, The Editor Requests the Indulgence of the Subscribers to the Museum, for the Delay Attending the Present Number, Horse-Shoe Found in the Middle of a Tree, On the Excision of Carious Joints, New York Medical Society, On the Cure of Fistula Lacrymalis: by S. Sawrey, Surgeon, Of the Uncertainty of the Doses of Medicines, History of a Case of Mania, Which Was Succeeded by Pleurisy, and a Peculiar Form of Mortification in the Toes, in a Letter Addressed to Dr. Samuel Stringer, of Albany, New York. By Joseph Klapp, M. D., Weston's Case of Fatal Treatment of Tinea Capitis, Observations, Dissections, and Experiments on the Bite of Enraged Animals: by M. Rossi, Platina and Palladium Now Articles of Sale, Observations on Dr. Burton's Account of a Supposed Case of Hydrophobia, by James Mease, M. D., Symptoms of the Fever Which Prevailed at Gibraltar in September, October, November and December, 1804, Explanation of the Supposed Fact, That Rhubarb Is Rendered More Astringent by Roasting, Method of Obtaining Prussic Acid in a Pure State, Medical Division, Remarks by Dr. Pearson, Benjamin Smith, of a Corpulent Habit, and beyond the Meridian of Life, Has Been Now about Four Years Well of That Species of Hernia, Which Has Been Denominated Hydrocele; the History of Which Is Shortly This, Injections of the Nerves, An Account of a Small Lobe of the Human Prostate Gland, Which Has Not before Been Taken Notice of by Anatomists; by Everard Home, Esq. F. R. S., Sir, the Garrison Is Now Perfectly Clear of That Cruel Disease Which Proved so Fatal Both to the Soldiers and to the Inhabitants Here, Bishopp's Case of Optical Illusion from Hysteria, Of All the Objects of Chemistry Animal Matters Are the Most Embarrassing to It, on Account of the Great Complication of Their Elements, and Because the Simplest Agent That Can Be Applied to Them Produces in Them a Thousand Movements and Transformations, the Play of Which Escapes Us, and of Which We Judge Only by the Results, Observations on Hydrophobia.—From the Manual of Health, Important Information to Booksellers, Result of Experiments on the Torpedo, Of the Supposed Decomposition of Muriatic Acid, Extracts from a Review of Dr. Sutton's "Practical Account of a Remittent Fever", On the Composition of Bile. Letter to the editor: On Plica Polonica, Curious Case of Cutaneous Affection. By T. Girdlestone, M. D. Addressed to the Editors of the Medical and Philosophical Journal, Correspondence Letter to the Editor, from Dr. Ffirth, in Answer to a Review of His Thesis on "Malignant Fever," in the …. Editorial: Errata. Death notices: Deaths.