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1798; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

Samuel L. Mitchill, William Buel, E. H. Smith, Dr. James Walker, Edward A. Holyoke, Dr. Charles Coffin, David Hosack, E. H. Smith, Samuel L. Mitchill, Joseph Priestley, Rev. Azel Backus, Major C. Swan, William Yates, Charles MacLean, Joseph Priestley, James Woodhouse, Francis K. Huger, George Logan, Joseph Browne, Samuel Cooper, John Edmonds Stock, Joseph Johnson, James Walker, Gardiner Baker, Hugh M'Lean, Mr. David Macliesh,

Frontmatter: Advertisement, Medical Repository, The Copy-Right of Each Number of the Medical Repository Is Regularly Secured According to Law, The Medical Repository. Table of contents: Contents. Editorial: Errata. Essay: Medical News Domestic, To the Citizens of the United States, Medical Essays.—No. II Introduction, A Letter to Dr.— —, in Answer to His Queries Respecting the Introduction of the Mercurial Practice in the Vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts, A Letter to Dr. Mitchill, in Reply to the Preceding, by Joseph Priestley, LL. D. &c., As to the Pathology of This Disease, I Dare Scarcely Offer a Conjecture, Having yet Seen but Five Cases of It, Proceedings of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Relative to the Prevention of the Introduction and Spreading of Contagious Diseases. Philadelphia. Dobson. 1798. 8vo. Pp. 37, Mr. Stephen Hammick, Jun. One of the Assistant Surgeons to the Royal Hospital at Plymouth, in a Letter to Dr. Garthshore, Physician, London, Gives the Following Account of the Benefit Obtained from the External Use of Hops, in the Cure of Large Sordid Ulcers, Dr. Swediaur, in a Late Publication, from a Variety of Arguments, Endeavours to Render It Probable, That Mercury, in Curing the Venereal Disease, as a Specific and Sure Remedy for Syphilis, Acts Only on the Venereal Virus, in Virtue of the Oxygene Which Enters the Different Mercurial Preparations and Compositions, In This Volume of the Annals of Medicine, We Also Find an Analysis of the Reports on Nitrous Acid, of Which Our Readers Will Remember We Gave Some Account in Our Number II. And from Which We Inserted Several Cases in Number III, Sketches on Rotations of Crops, and Other Rural Matters. To Which Are Annexed, Intimations on Manufactures; on the Fruits of Agriculture; and on New Sources of Trade, Interfering with Products of the United States of America in Foreign Markets. Philadelphia. Charles Cist. 1796. 8vo. Pp. 76, On the Origin of the Pestilential Fever, Which Prevailed in the Island of Grenada, in the Years 1793 and 1794, The Following Article Is from a Letter, Just Received, from Dr. Brickell, of Savannah, Whose Botanical Communications We Shall Always Be Happy to Admit, Albany, March 2, 1798, Result for March, 1798, Foreign, Treatise on the Yellow Fever; Shewing Its Origin, Cure and Prevention. By Joseph Browne. New-York. Argus-Office. 1798. Pp. 31. 8vo, Doctor William Currie, of Philadelphia, Has Addressed a Letter to the Editors of the Repository, in Which He Consider Himself Improperly Treated by Some Personal Observations of Dr. Seaman, The Young Chemist's Pocket Companion; Connected with a Portable Laboratory, &c. &c. By James Woodhouse, M. D. Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. Oswald. Pp. 56. 8vo. 1797, New-Haven, January 4, 1798. Deaths in New-Haven, A. D. 1797, Dr. Thomas Garnett, Professor of Physics, in Anderson's Institution, Glasgow, in a Letter to Dr. Duncan, Gives Him the Following Account of the Benefit He Has Observed from the Oxygenated Muriate of Pot-Ash, Employed as a Medicine, An Inquiry into the Causes of Sterility in Both Sexes; with the Method of Cure. By James Walker, M. P. M. S. &c. Philadelphia. Oswald. 1797. 8vo. Pp. 22, A Table Exhibiting the Number of Patients Received into the New-York Hospital, in Each Month, Their Diseases, and the Event of Each Case, A Case Similar to Those Which Form the Subject of the Preceding Article, An Account of the Bilious Fever and Dysentery, Which Prevailed in Sheffield, Massachusetts, in the Year 1796, An Inaugural Essay on the Effects of Cold on the Human Body. By John Edmonds Stock, &c. Philadelphia. Joseph Gales. 1797. 8vo. Pp. 43, Dr. John Wilson, Physician at Spalding, in Lincolnshire, in a Letter to Dr. Duncan, Gives Him the Following Account of the Good Effects of the Argentum Nitratum, in Cases of Epilepsy, Since Writing the Preceding Essay, I Have Again Looked over a Paper, by Dr. Chisholm, Published in the Edinburgh Medical Commentaries for 1793, and Intituled "History of an Uncommon "Epidemic Fever, Observed in the Island of Grenada, &c., The Following Articles of Medical Information Are Extracted or Abridged from the 2d Volume of the "Annals of Medicine," Which Was Not Received in Season for a More Copious Display of Particulars, It Is Now Time to Close This Essay, Which Has Already Extended Far beyond the Writer's First Expectations, March, 1798, An Account of the Pestilential Fever Which Prevailed at Newbury-Port, State of Massachusetts, in 1796; in a Letter to Mr. Smith, Paris, 3 Brumaire, October 24. The Following Article Has Appeared in the Journal De Paris, The Following Observations Were Made by the Late Mr. David Macliesh, during the Years 1795 and 1796, While He Was Surgeon to the 57th Regiment, Then in the Island of Corsica, Meteorological Observations for January, 1798, Made by Gardiner Baker, in the Cupola of the Exchange, in the City of New-York, A Dissertation (Inaugural) on the Properties and Effects of the Datura Stramonium, or Common Thorn-Apple; and on Its Use in Medicine. By Samuel Cooper, &c. Philadelphia. Samuel H. Smith. 1797. 8vo. Pp. 58, This Country Is yet New, and Almost in a State of Nature, like Its Inhabitants, Correspondence, Some Account of the Epidemics Which Have Occurred in the Town of Bethlem, Connecticut; from Its Settlement to the Present Time. Extracted from a Letter to Mr. Smith, A Sketch of the Mineralogical History of the State of New-York The Alluvial Tracts, Singular Cases of Disease in Infancy. Communicated in a Letter to Doctor James Hamilton, Junior, of Edinburgh, by David Hosack, M. D., On Comparing the Table of Observations, Which Is Annexed, with Observations Made on the Same Days in This City, the Difference Will Appear so Remarkable, That the Reader May Suspect Some Error in the Instrument Made Use of by Major Swan, Since Writing a Part of the above, Another Season Has past, Which It May Not Be Improper to Give Some Account Of, Observations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston and the Decomposition of Water. Part the Second. By Joseph Priestley, LL. D. F. R. S. &c. &c. Philadelphia. Dobson. 1797.8vo. Pp. 38, Summary, Summary For January, February, and March, 1798, Dr. Mosman, of Bradford, in Yorkshire, in a Letter to Dr. Duncan, Gives Him an Account of a Remarkable Case, in Which Epileptic Fits Were Arrested, by Extending the Jaws, and Keeping the Teeth Asunder, Committee, Result for February, 1798, A Return of Patients Admitted to the Care of the New-York City Dispensary, from the 1st of January, to the 1st of April, 1798, Multiple Essay Items, Some Account of a Pestilential Fever, Which Prevailed in the Island of Jamaica, in the Years 1793, 1794, and 1795. Extracted from a Paper Presented to a Medical Society in That Island, by Dr. James Walker, Some Account of the Country and Climate of the North-Western Lakes, An Attempt to Accommodate the Disputes among the Chemists Concerning Phlogiston. In a Letter from Dr. Mitchill to Dr. Priestley, Dated 14th Nov. 1797, February, 1798, Result for January, 1798, With Respect to the Nature of This Disease, the Result of My Reflections on It Is, That It Must Be Ranked under the General Name of Asthma, and with That Particular Species Called Convulsive Asthma, by Dr. Darwin, An Experimental Inquiry into the Properties of Carbonic Acid Gas, or Fixed Air; Its Mode of Operation, Use in Diseases, and the Most Effectual Method of Relieving Animals Affected by It. Being an Inaugural Thesis. By Joseph Johnson, &c. Philadelphia. Ustick. 1797. Pp. 50, Fourteen Agricultural Experiments, to Ascertain the Best Rotation of Crops: Addressed to the Philadelphia Agricultural Society. By George Logan, M. D. Philadelphia. Francis and Robert Bailey. 1797. 8vo. Pp. 41, The Unbecoming and Undeserved Censure, Which the Authors of This Work Have Cast on the Zoonomia, Must Not Be Passed over in Silence, Table of the Degrees of the Heat Observed on Fahrenheit's Thermometer, from August 4th to September 4th, 1797, An Inaugural Dissertation on Gangrene and Mortification. Review: Review A View of the Science of Life; on the Principles Established in the Elements of Medicine of the Late ….