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Additional Remarks on the Climate of London and Philadelphia…

1805; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

Benjamin Smith Barton, A. Fothergill, Tucker Harris, Mr. John Birch, Mr. George R. Minot, Edwin L. M'Call, John Wilkinson, Mr. Isaac Gray, Benjamin Rush, William Dunbar, John Brickell, Mr. David Thomas, Felix Robertson, William Dunbar, Edward Cutbush, Thomas Massie, Dr. Thomas Massie, Dr. William Currie, Mr. John Arndt,

Essay: Facts and Observations Relative to Small-Pox and to (Variolous) Inoculation. By Dr. Franklin*, and by the Late Mr. George R. Minot, of Boston, The Editor Is Informed, That Several Cases of the Disease of Bronchocele, or Goitre, Have, within the Last Four or Five Years, Occurred, Especially among Females, at, and in the Vicinity of, the Town of Fort-Cumberland, in Maryland, Mr. Rafinesque, an Italian Gentleman, Has Put into the Hands of the Editor, a Ms. Catalogue of the Plants of the State of Delaware, and of the District of Columbia, Additional Remarks on the Climate of London and Philadelphia…, M. Desfontaines Has Published a Catalogue of All the Vegetables in the Jardin Des Plantes; a Valuable Work, Not Only for Those Who Frequent That Celebrated School, but Also for All Botanists, We Have Here (at Savannah) a New Species of Herbaceous Polygala, with Unpenniciliated Red Flowers in a Simple Terminal Racemus, and Narrow Ovate Lanceolate Leaves, Appendix Rapport, As a Valuable Supplement to the Preceding Paper, It May Not Be Amiss to Give, in This Place, Bernard Romans's Observations on the Great Hurricane of 1772, the Most Extraordinary Effect of This Hurricane Was the Production of a Second Crop of Leaves and Fruit of All the Mulberry-Trees in This Country, Facts and Observations Tending to Disprove the Efficacy of the Practice of Vaccination, as a Preventive of Small-Pox. By Mr. John Birch, Surgeon, in London Magna Est Veritas Et Prævalebit, In New-Mexico, There Is Found a Beautiful Animal, Which, Perhaps, May Be the True Leopard, Practice, The Editor Has Employed, with Very Evident and Even Remarkable Advantage, the Gum R. Kino, in Combination with Gentian, or with Columbo, in Several Cases of Intermittent and Remittent Fevers, It Is with the Highest Degree of Satisfaction That We Announce the Establishment of a Botanical Garden at Charleston, in South-Carolina, The Editor Thinks That He Has Exhibited, with Most Unequivocal Advantage, the Muriate of Lime in a Case of Goitre, The Editor of This Journal Has Made Very Considerable Progress in His Anatomical and Physiological Inquiries Concerning the Common Opossum of North-America, to Which He Has Given the Name of Didelphis Woapink*; Woapink Being One of Its Indian Appellations, Some Time Ago, I Was in Conversation with a Mr. Nathaniel Brittain, Living in Mount-Bethel Township, on the Topic of Some of Our American Antiquities, Meteorology, Biography Memorandums of the Life and Writing of Mr. John Clayton, the Celebrated Botanist of Virginia, In the Month of July Last, the Editor of This Journal Discovered, in the Neighbourhood of Reading, in Pennsylvania, Specimens of Zeolite, The Following Very Curious Tradition of Some of Our Indians, Relative to Serpents, Is Worthy of Publication in This Place, The Very Respectable and Ingenious Dr. Samuel Brown, of Lexington, in Kentucky, Informs the Editor, That There Has Recently Been Discovered, in One of the Nitrous Caves Which Are so Common in That Part of the United-States, the Cranium of a Large Species of Sus, or Hog, in a State of Excellent Preservation, A Table, Our University (Kiel) Has Considerably Increased the Number of Its Institutions for the Improvement of Medicine and Natural History, Some Cases of Small-Pox Have Lately Appeared in London, after the Vaccine Disease, Valedictory Charge, Delivered to the Graduates in Medicine, at the Commencement, Held June 5th, 1805, in the University of Pennsylvania. By Benjamin Rush, M. D., Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, &c., Tribute to the Memory of Linnæus, It Gives Me Great Pleasure to Learn, from Your Letter of the 25th of April, That the Vaccine Disease Maintains Its Credit Undiminished with You, Botany Vegetable Physiology, Botany Continues to Be Enriched with an Increasing Number of New Species, Genera and Species of Plants, Ophiology, I Have Found in the Woods of Washita, upon High Strong Ridges, What I Suppose to Be a New Species of Dwarf Cabbage, Partaking of the Taste of the Radish, Some Other Articles, More Properly Belonging to This than to Any Preceding Head of the Journal, May Be Seen in Pages 175,177,178, Literary and Philosophical Intelligence, Dr. William Liebsch Has Published, at Gottingen, a German Translation of the Editor's Memoir Concerning the Disease of Goitre, as It Prevails in Different Parts of North-America, An Italian Physician, at Messina, Has Nearly Completed the Translation of All Dr. Rush's Works, For the Following Highly Interesting Communication, the Editor Is Indebted to His Good and Learned Friend, Professor C. D. Ebeling, of Hamburgh, Character of the Elk, A Species of Cakile Grows on Our Sea-Shore, A Venus, without a Head, Has Been Found about Three Miles from Syracuse, Notes They Fly with Fearful Steps the Haunts of Man, Dr. Darwin Is of Opinion, That the Corolla Forms a Pulmonary System "Totally Independent of the Green Foliage," and That This Respiratory System Belongs to the Sexual or Amatorial Parts of the Fructification Only!, Note, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Have Established a Professorship of Surgery, to Which, in the Month of June Last, They Appointed Philip Syng Physick, M. D., of Philadelphia, Heat—Its Twofold State—Curious Effects.—Light and Heat—Their Great Importance, The Flowering of the Cotton Presented a Fact so Singular, on My Attending to It, That I Shall Notice It in This Place, Although I Am Pretty Certain It Is Already Known to You. Frontmatter: Preface, To the Students of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, The Whole, or the Greater Number, of These Papers Will Be Published in the Second Part of the Present, and in the First Part of the Next, Volume. Table of contents: Contents of Part I. Letter to the editor: Observations on the Preceding Paper. In a Letter from Dr. Currie to Dr. Harris. Communicated to the Editor by Dr. Currie, Notices of the Warm-Springs in the County of Bath, in Virginia. Communicated to the Editor by Bishop Madison, Some Account of the Great Hurricane of 1804. In a Letter from Dr. Tucker Harris to Dr. W. Currie. Communicated to the Editor by Dr. Currie, Facts and Observations, Chiefly Relative to the Yellow-Fever, as It Has Appeared, at Different Times, in Charleston, South-Carolina. In a Letter from Dr. Tucker Harris (of Charleston) to Dr. William Currie (of Philadelphia). Communicated to the Editor by Dr. Currie, Facts and Observations Relative to the North-American Woodcock. Communicated to the Editor by Dr. John Vaughan and Mr. Robert Milligan, Both of Wilmington, in the State of Delaware, Account of a Singular Convulsive Affection, Which Prevails in the State of Tenessee, and in Other Parts of the United-States. Communicated to the Editor by Felix Robertson, M. D., of Nashville, in Tenessee, Case of Hemorrhage, Successfully Treated by the Internal Use of the Acetite (or Sugar) of Lead. Communicated to the Editor by Dr. George Williamson, Physician in Baltimore, Observations on a Case of Petechiœ and Hemorrhage, without Fever. Communicated in a Letter to the Editor, from William Downey, M. D., Physician at Mercersburg, in Pennsylvania, Hydrophobia, Unsuccessfully Treated by Anagallis, Mercurial Ointment, Tincture of Cantharides, Blisters, &c. Communicated to the Editor by Dr. Branniman, of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, Miscellaneous Chemical and Medical Facts, Observations, and Conjectures. Communicated in a Letter to the Editor, from John Brickell, M. D., of Savannah, in Georgia, Observations on the Growth and Propagation of a Proliferous Onion. By the Late Mr. Isaac Gray, of Kingsessing, near Philadelphia. Communicated to the Editor (in 1794) by the Late Mr. David Rittenhouse, Observations on the Mammoth, or American Elephant. In a Letter to the Editor, from the Right Reverend Bishop Madison, Notice of the Yellow-Fever, as It Lately Prevailed in Philadelphia. In a Letter from Dr. Currie to the Editor, Case of Ptyalism (Apparently) Produced by the External Application of the Lunar Caustic, or Nitrate of Silver. Communicated, in a Letter to the Editor, from Thomas Walmsley, M. D., of Elizabeth (or Hager's) Town, in Maryland, Observations and Experiments on the Extraordinary Degree of Cold, at Northampton (a Midland County in England), during the Intense Frost of 1776-7. With Remarks on the Climate of London, Philadelphia, &c. In a Letter to a Friend. By A. Fothergill, M. D., F. R. S., &c., and by Him Communicated to the Editor, An Account of the Introduction of the Vaccine Disease into the Isles of France and Reunion. In a Letter to the Editor from M. Laborde, M. D., On the Preparation of a Fine Sago from the Root of the Arum Triphyllum, or Indian-Turnip,—And on the Growth of Maranta Arundinacea, or Arrow-Root, in the State of Georgia. In a Letter to the Editor from Mr. Edwin L. M'Call, Student of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. Editorial: Captain Merewether Lewis Has Transmitted to the American Philosophical Society (through the Hands of the President of the United-States) a Number of Plants, Which He Has Collected in Different Parts of the Country That Is Watered by the River Missouri, and Its Branches, Miscellaneous Facts and Observations Natural History, The Reverend Dr. Henry Muhlenberg, of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, Is Preparing for Publication a Work, Entitled, Descriptio Uberior Plantarum Lancastriensium, Mineralogy, Archaeologia, Medicine Materia Medica, The Editor Is Also Informed, from Another Source, That Some Cranial Bones, Supposed to Be Those of a Species of Rhinoceros, Have Been Discovered in Kentucky, in One of Those Muriatic Licks, or Marshes, Which Have so Often Furnished Us with Elephantine Bones, A Memoir Has Been Read before the American Philosophical Society, in Which the Author Has Shown, That at Least Two Distinct Species of Meleagris, or Turkey, Are Known within the Limits of North-America, It Is Not Generally Known to the Naturalists, That the Turkey (Meleagris Palawa), in Its Wild State, Lives upon Shell-Fish, Different Species of Serpents, and Other Animal Matters, as Well as upon Vegetables, The Editor of This Journal Is Preparing for Publication His Prodromus of a Flora of the States of New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, Language, In a Case of Rather Mild Gonorrhoea, Which Came under the Notice of a Physician (in Pennsylvania), an Injection Composed of White Vitriol (Sulphate of Zinc) and of the Sugar of Lead (Acetite of Lead) Was Advised, Ornithology, Several American Species of Maple, Besides Acer Saccharinum, or the Sugar-Maple, Are Found to Afford an Excellent Sugar, and in Considerable Quantity, Some Account of the Late Professor Vahl, of Copenhagen. By the Editor, Note on the Natural History of the Substance Called Guano. By the Editor, Note on the Preceding Paper. By the Editor, Some Account of the Tayè, a Species of Sheep. By the Editor, Elephantine Bones, of Two Distinct Species, Continue to Be Found in Various Parts of North-America, The Bark of the Magnolia Tripetala, or Umbrella-Tree, Is Much Used, in Some Parts of the United-States, Particularly in the State of Tenessee, as a Tonic, in the Management of the Same Forms of Fevers, Mr. Jefferson Has Spoken of Clayton as a Native of Virginia, Almost All Amphibious Animals (Says Professor Fabricius), the Tortoise Excepted, Live by Preying upon Other Animals, Note, Among the Animals Which Have Lately Been Observed in the Missouri-Country, by Mr. Lewis, Are the Following, Viz, "The Canvas-Back Has Been Killed at Columbia (on Susquehanna), and Has Been Seen by Mr. R., of Delaware, Mr. L., by a Clergyman from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and Others, Who All Pronounce It to Be, Unquestionably, the Real Canvas-Back, The Bark of the Cornus Florida, or Common Dogwood, Does More than Support Its Former Reputation, Note by the Editor. Poem, verse: Extract. Character of the Elk.