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E. A. Holyoke, E. A. Holyoke, Jedidiah Morse, Joseph Barrell, Dr. John Brickell, Dr. Nathaniel Dwight, Dr. William Dewees, Benjamin De Witt, Dr. Alexander King, Samuel L. Mitchill, Samuel L. Mitchill, Edward Miller, Charles Maclean, Benjamin Smith Barton, William Currie, John B. Davidge, Felix Pascalis Ouvière, Lyman Spalding, Adolph C. Lent, Israel Allen, J. Williams, W. Blair, T. Beddoes, W. Blair, Thomas Henry, Thomas Beddoes, Samuel Brown,

Frontmatter: Medical Repository. Essay: A Treatise on the Scarlatina Anginosa and Dysentery; and Sketches on Febrile Spasm, as Produced by Phlogiston. By Israel Allen, M. D. Leominster, (Massachusetts). Prentiss. 8vo. Pp. 60.1796, We Observe and Notice, with Great Satisfaction, the Re-Publication, in Philadelphia and Boston, of the Essays of Our Illustrious Countryman, Count Rumford; a Work, Which Deserves to Be Found in the Libraries and in the Hands of All Who Sincerely Desire the Prosperity of Their Country, and the Happiness of Their Species, An Inquiry Concerning Cutaneous Perspiration, and the Operation and Uses of Sudorific Remedies. By Edward Miller. M. D., At a Public Commencement Held in the University of Pennsylvania, on the 22d Day of May Last, the Degree of Doctor of Medicine Was Conferred upon the Following Gentlemen; Who, on This Occasion, Defended Their Respective Dissertations, The Art of Manufacturing a Soap from Refuse Wool, Hair, Horns, Hoofs, and Other Similar Animal Matters, Was Invented Last Year in France, and the Method Has Been Detailed in the Annales De Chimie, Theory of Puerperal Fever. Communicated in a Letter to the Editors of the Medical Repository, by Dr. John Brickell, of Savannah, The Reader Will Recollect the Account Given of a New and Successful Mode of Treating the Diabetes Mellitus, Discovered by Dr. Rollo, in Med. Rep. Vol. I. P. 248,2d Edition, Table of Births, Marriages, &c. For Nine Years, In a Letter Received from Dr. Dwight, by One of the Editors, since the Dissertation Was Written, He Observes, That He Has Met with an Additional Case, Confirmative of His Opinion, That the Bilious Colic and Sick Head-Ach Depend on the Same Cause, A Bill of Mortality, and of the Births, Marriages and Baptisms, and a List of Rateable Polls, for the Town of Charlestown (Massachusetts), for the Years 1789 to 1797, Both Inclusive: to Which Is Prefixed, a Description of the Town Description of Charlestown, Observations on the Causes and Cure of Remitting Bilious Fevers. To Which Is Annexed, an Abstract of the Opinions and Practice of Different Authors; and an Appendix, Exhibiting Facts and Reflections Relative to the Synochus Icteroides, or Yellow Fever. By William Currie, Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, &c. Philadelphia. Palmer. 8vo. Pp. 227.1798, We Understand That Dr. Benjamin De Witt, of Albany, the Author of the Paper on the Deleterious Effects of Stramonium, Inserted in the Present Number, Intends Speedily to Publish a Treatise on All the Principal Mineral and Medicinal Waters in the State of New-York, In Vol. I. P. 117,2d Edition, We Stated, in Very General Terms, an Account of Some Experiments Concerning the Effects of Compression of the Extremities by the Tourniquet, in Stopping the Cold Fit of Intermittents, Made by Mr. Kellie, a Surgeon in the British Navy, Published in the 19th Volume of Duncan's Medical Commentaries, We Have Received from Paris, since Our Last Number, the Work of Dr. Swediaur, Therein Referred to, Entitled,"Traité Complet Sur Les Symptômes, Les Effects, La Nature, Et Le Traitement Des Maladies Syphilitiques:" Published in March Last, in Two Vols. 8vo., Second Letter from Dr. Priestley, to Dr. Mitchill, Professor of Chemistry at New-York, A Treatise on the Autumnal Endemial Epidemic of Tropical Climates, Vulgarly Called the Yellow Fever; Containing Its Origin, History, Nature, and Cure; Together with a Few Reflections on the Proximate Cause of Diseases. By John B. Davidge, A. M. M. D. Baltimore. Pechin. 8vo. Pp. 65.1798, Foreign, Outlines of Medical Geography: Being an Inquiry How Far Calcareous Soils and Strata Counteract the Septic Exhalations Which Occasion Distempers of a Febrile or Pestilential Type. In a Letter from Dr. Mitchill, F. R. S. E. Member of the Legislative Assembly, and Secretary of the Agricultural Society of the State of New-York, Professor of Chemistry in Columbia College, Fellow of the Societies of Philadelphia, Boston, &c. &c. To James Haworth, M. D. And Radcliffian Travelling Physician from the University of Oxford, Dated November 4,1797, An Account of the Contagious Epidemic Yellow Fever, Which Prevailed in Philadelphia in the Summer and Autumn of 1797; Comprising the Questions of Its Causes and Domestic Origin, Characters, Medical Treatment, and Preventives. By Felix Pascalis Ouvière, M. D. &c. Philadelphia. Snowden and M'Corkle. 8vo. Pp. 180.1798, Citizen Coulomb, Some Time since, Caused Several Large Poplars to Be Cut down on His Estate, An Inaugural Dissertation, Showing in What Manner Pestilential Vapours Acquire Their Acid Quality, and How This Is Neutralized and Destroyed by Alkalis, &c. &c. By Adolph C. Lent, Citizen of the State of New-York. T. And J. Swords. 8vo. Pp. 54.1798, Collections for an Essay Towards a Materia Medica of the United States. Read before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the 21st of February, 1798. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M. D. &c. &c. Philadelphia. Way and Groff. 8vo. Pp. 49.1798, Answer to the Two Letters from Dr. Priestley To Joseph Priestley, Ll. D. F. R. S. &c. &c., Medical Observations on the Virtues and Properties of the Seeds of the Datura Stramonium. By Dr. Alexander King, of Suffield, Connecticut, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Have Elected the Following Officers for the Present Year, A Letter from the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, D. D. To Mr. Smith, Including a Topographical Account of Charlestown (Massachusetts), with Bills of Mortality, &c. &c., In Reciting This Case, I Have Not Suggested Any Suspicions, Though I Had Many at the Time, That the Appearances Might, at Least in Part, Be Owing to the Tumefaction of the Glands of the Acetabulum, Which Furnish the Synovia of the Joint; Because It Was a Matter of Uncertainty, and Because the Evident Enlargement of the Hip Bone Seemed Adequate to the Observed Appearances; yet It Is Certainly Very Possible Such a Tumefaction Might Take Place, and If It Did, Would Naturally Lengthen the Limb, Translation from the Italian of a Paper of Father Lewis, of Smyrna, on the Use of Oil as a Cure for the Plague, Two Cases of the Effects of the Datura Stramonium (Thorn-Apple) on the Human Body; with a Few Observations and Remarks. By Benjamin De Witt, M. D. Physician in the City of Albany, Member of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures, of the State of New-York; Corresponding and Honorary Member of the Chemical and Medical Societies of Philadelphia, &c., Bill of Ages, Abstract of a Dissertation on the Sick Head-Ach, Read before the Medical Society of Hartford County, Connecticut, September, 1797, by Dr. Nathaniel Dwight, Mr. Webster, Whose Work on Epidemics May Be Expected in the Course of the Autumn, Has Lately Issued the Following Circular Letter, A Case of Difficult Parturition, Successfully Terminated by Bleeding. Communicated in a Letter to Mr. Smith, by Dr. William Dewees, of Philadelphia, A Case of Diseased Os Innominatum Successfully Treated. By E. A. Holyoke, M. D. of Salem, Massachusetts, Gerard Vrolick, Professor of Physic and Botany at Amsterdam, Has Published a Dissertation, at Leyden, on the Annual Defoliation of Trees and Vegetables; in Which He Maintains, That the Leaves of Trees Have a Distinct Vegetable Life, Characterized by Different Periods, Though Connected with the Life of the Parent Tree, and in Some Measure Dependent Thereon, An Inaugural Dissertation on the Production of Animal Heat; Read and Defended at a Public Examination, Held by the Medical Professors, &c. Of Harvard College, for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine, July 10,1797. By Lyman Spalding. Walpole (New-Hampshire.) Carlisle, Jun. 8vo. Pp. 30.1797, Advertisement of the Chemical Society of Philadelphia To the Citizens of the United States, Entomology, An Easy and Cheap Method of Preparing Sal Aeratus. By E. A. Holyoke, M. D. Of Salem, Massachusetts, Multiple Essay Items, The Great Consumption of Soap, Which, of Course, Is Attended with a Proportionate Consumption of Oil, Renders the Manufacture of Woollen Cloths Very Expensive, The Cultivation of Rice Is Still Continued in Many Parts of the Kingdom of Valencia, in Spain, Notwithstanding Repeated Prohibitions, Since the Publication of the Last Number of the Repository, an Association Has Been Formed in the City of New-York, for "The Investigation of the Mineral and Fossil Bodies Which Compose the Fabric of the Globe; and, More Especially, for the Natural and Chemical History of the Minerals and Fossils of the United States," by the Name and Style of the American Mineralogical Society, We Learn from New-Haven, That an Useful Machine Has Been Lately Invented by Mr. Abel Buel, of That City, for the Purpose of Planting Onions, An Account of the Quantity of Rain Which Fell in Charlestown in Six Years, from 1792 to 1797, Both Inclusive. By Joseph Barrell, Esquire, Having Referred to Certain Parts of the Present Law of This State, Relative to the Prevention of Infectious and Pestilential Diseases, and for the Information of Those Who May Not Have Seen the Act Referred to, It Is Thought Proper to Insert the Material Parts in This Place, The Benevolent Dr. Letsom, of London, Published, in 1797, the First Volume of a Work, Entitled,"Hints Designed to Promote Beneficence, Temperance, and Medical Science", Proofs of the Origin of the Yellow Fever, in Philadelphia and Kensington, in the Year 1797, from Domestic Exhalation; and from the Foul Air of the Snow Navigation, from Marseilles; and from That of the Ship Huldah, from Hamburgh; in Two Letters, Addressed to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. By the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Bradfords. 8vo. Pp. 49.1798, Monthly Bill, Dr. Reimarus, Correspondent of the Hamburgh Society, Having Remarked, That a Few Drops of Belladonna, Dissolved in Water, and Applied to the Eyes, Cause the Pupil to Dilate in so Extraordinary a Manner, That the Iris Is Nearly Reduced to Nothing, Was Led, from This Circumstance, to Suggest the Propriety of Having Recourse to This Expedient, Preparatory to the Operation of Couching the Eye for a Cataract, Medical and Philosophical News Domestic. Letter to the editor: On the Use of the Radix Senekœ, (Polygala Seneka Linn.) in the Cure of Croup—(Cynanche Trachealis Cullen.) with Additional Remarks on the Treatment of This Disease. In a Letter from Dr. John Archer, of Harford County, Maryland, to Benjamin Smith Barton, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica, Botany, and Natural History in the University of Pennsylvania, &c. &c. Communicated by Dr. Barton to the Editors of the Medical Repository, Correspondence To the Editors of the Medical Repository, It Appears from the Succeeding Letters That Some Debate Concerning the Anti-Syphilitic Powers of Nitric Acid Still Continues in Great-Britain. In Our Next Number We Hope to Throw Some Light on This Subject, from Domestic Sources To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, The Following Additional Information, Respecting the Use of Oil as a Remedy for the Plague, Is Extracted from the Monthly Magazine for April Last To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. Review: Review A Treatise on the Action of Mercury upon Living Bodies: and Its Application for the Cure of Diseases ….