The Medical Repository
1797; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
James Mease, James Mease, Phineas Hedges, E. H. Smith, Samuel L. Mitchill, Edward Miller, Benjamin Rush, Joseph Priestley, P. A. Adet, Alexander Hosack Jr., William Bay, James Fisher, Colin M'Kenzie, Samuel Jones, Edward North, William Allston, Gardiner Baker, Hugh M'Lean, Stephen Hammick Jr., Sameul L. Mitchill, Thomas Beddoes, James Watt, Thomas Baynton,
ResumoFrontmatter: Advertisement, Medical Repository, The Medical Repository, TheCopy-Right of Each Number of the Medical Repository is regularly Secured According to Law. Table of contents: Contents. Editorial: Errata. Essay: Medical News Domestic, A Correspondent of the Norfolk Chronicle Recommends as a Means to Restore Infectious Air to Purity, to Wet a Cloth of Any Kind in Water Mixed with Quick-Lime, and to Hang the Cloth so Steeped in a Room till It Become Dry; after Which to Renew the Operation as Long as Appears Needful, Foreign The Following Extract of a Letter from John Marsillac, (a Member of the Society) Is Translated from the …, An Inaugural Dissertation on Hydrocele. By Samuel Jones, A. M. &c. Philadelphia. Ustick. 8vo. Pp. 27.1797, Further Facts Tending Towards an Explanation of the True Operation of Alkalis and Lime upon Other Substances In a Letter from Dr. Mitchill to Thomas Beddoes, M. D. Dated New-York, September 15, 1797, Extract of a Letter from Dr. Beddoes to Dr. Mitchill, Dated Clifton, June 15, 1797, A Return of Patients Admitted to the Care of the New-York City Dispensary, from the First of July to the First of October, 1797, An Inaugural Dissertation on the Dysentery. By Colin M'Kenzie, of Baltimore, &c. Philadelphia. Ormrod and Conrad. 8vo. Pp. 47.1797, Case of Fever, Supposed to Have Been Caused by Exposure to the Exhalations of Putrid Beef. Communicated by Samuel Osborn, Surgeon to the Federal Garrison on Governor's Island, Dr. Carmichael Smyth's Mode of Preventing or Stopping Contagious Diseases on Ship-Board, by Nitrous Fumigation, Is Now Generally Adopted throughout the British Navy, Remarks on a Singular Change in the Human Liver by Putrefaction [Translated for the Medical Repository, from the Third Volume of the Annales De Cbimie, P. 120 and Seq. …, Information Has Been Conveyed to Us, from a Part of Connecticut, of Some Distemper among Neat Cattle; but the Imperfect Statement of Facts Which We Have Received, and the Expectation of More Minute Accounts, Induce Us to Do Nothing More at Present than to Mention the Fact, Medìcaments, Et Precis De La Methode De Mr. Masdevall, &c. &c.—That Is, Prescriptions, and a Sketch of the Method of Mr. Masdevall, Physician of Charles the Fourth, King of Spain, for Curing All Epidemic, Putrid and Malignant Distempers, Fevers of Different Kinds, &c. &c. With the Means of Prevention. Divided into Paragraphs, for the Use of Families Who Are Unable to Procure Physicians. New-Orleans. Duclot. 1796. Pp. 8vo., Reponse Aux Reflexions Sur La Doctrine Du Phlogistique Et Sur La Decomposition De L'eau: That Is, Answer to the Reflections on the Doctrine of Phlogiston, and on the Decomposition of Water. By P. A. Adet. Philadelphia. Moreau De St. Mery. 8vo. 1797, Dear Sir, Pursuant to Your Request at Your Last Visit, I Take My Pen to Describe (If Possible) the Deplorable Conditions and Sufferings I Have Endured for near Two Years Last past, and the Almost Miraculous Deliverance Therefrom, by Your Care and Unwearied Attention Thereto, In a Meteorological Journal, Accompanied by Remarks on the Diseases of the Season, and Their Treatment, Which Has Been Kindly Transmitted to Us by That Curious and Careful Observer, Dr. Shadrack Ricketson, of Dutchess County, We Find the Following Remarks, Towards the Close of His Observations on the Three Spring Months, A Paper, as We Are Informed, Has Been Read at One of the Late Meetings of the Royal Society of London, Containing a Course of Experiments on the Combustion of the Diamond, Bennington, (Vermont) August 3, 1797. A Quantity of Purging Salts, Manufactured from a Spring in Orwell, in This State, Has Been Exhibited to the District Medical Society, Which Are Found to Be Equal, If Not Superior, to Any of the Imported Salts, I Feel a Greater Interest in Making the Foregoing Case Public, as, since It Came under My Care, I Have Learnt That an Insane Person, Who Refused Food, Starved to Death, Case of Mania Successfully Treated by Mercury, As the Following Case of the Successful Application of Caustic to a Stricture in the Urethra Tends, as Far as a Single Fact Will Go, Towards Settling the Contested Question between Two Celebrated Writers (Hunter and Bell) in Regard to the Propriety of That Practice, It May, Perhaps, Have Some Claim to a Place in Your Repository; If You Think It Will Pay for Its Page, It Is at Your Service. From Your Friend, Valentine Seaman. To the Publishers of the Medical Repository, An Inaugural Essay on Dropsy, or the Hydropic State of Fever. By William Allston, of George-Town (S. C.) &c. Philadelphia. Woodward. 8vo. Pp. 60.1797, Meteorological Observations for July, 1797, Made by Gardiner Baker, in the Cupola of the Exchange in the City of New-York, Observations upon the Yellow Fever, and Its Proximate Cause In a Letter from Dr. George Davidson, Dated Fort-Royal, Martinique, Sept. 20, 1796, to James Mease, M. …, On the Effects of Abstinence at the Approach of Acute Diseases, Summary, I Might Go on to a Greater Length with This Kind of Writing, If I Had Not Already Violated the Poetical Precept,"Non Fumum Ex Fulgore;" Therefore the Sample You Have Now Got Must Suffice at This Time, An Inaugural Dissertation on the Operation of Pestilential Fluids upon the Large Intestines, Termed by Nosologists Dysentery. By William Bay, Citizen of the State of New-York. New-York. T. and J. Swords. 1797.8vo. Pp. 109, Professor Reich, of the University of Erlangen, in Germany, Writes, That Several of Dr. Mitchill's Pieces on Pestilential Fluids Have Been Translated into German, and Published in the Literary Journals of That Country, The Editor, in Company with Another Person, Met Mr. H. At Mr. Baynton's, Observations upon the Bad Effects Some Times Produced by Eating Pheasants, An Inaugural Essay on the Yellow Fever, as It Appeared in This City (New-York) in 1795, &c. By Alexander Hosack, Jun. A. M. of New-York. New-York. T. and J. Swords, 1797.8vo. Pp. 40, Dear Sir, I Received Your Obliging Favour on the Day It Was Written, and Perceive by Its Manner That You Are as Much and as Agreeably Surprized by the Information Mr. H.'S Letter to Me Affords, as I Expected You Would Be, A Table of Patients Admitted into the New-York Hospital, from the 1st of July to the 1st of October, 1797; Shewing the Disease for Which Each Was Received, with the Event of the Case, Multiple Essay Items, An Inaugural Dissertation on That Grade of the Intestinal State of Fever Known by the Name of Dysentery. By James Fisher, of Delaware, &c. Philadelphia. Ormrod and Conrad. 8vo. Pp. 52.1797, On the Digitalis Purpurea, The Following Article, Which Appeared in a Boston Paper Last August, Has Excited Much Unsatisfactory Observation and Inquiry, Foreign Additional Account of the Use of Nitrous Acid in Syphilis. Republished from Appendix, No. V. To Part …, An Inaugural Dissertation on the Rheumatic State of Fever. By Edward North, of South-Carolina, &c. Philadelphia. Woodward. 8vo. Pp. 37.1797, Mr. Nicholson, Well Known by His "Introduction to Natural "Philosophy," "First Principles of Chemistry," &c. Has Commenced the Publication of a Periodical Work, Entitled "A Journal "Of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, Case of an Extraordinary Disease, in a Child, Apparently Scrophulous, Appendix Domestic, Considerations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston and the Decomposition of Water. By Joseph Priestley, L. L. D. F. R. S. &c. &c. Philadelphia. Dobson. 1796.8vo. Pp. 39. Poem, verse: The Doctrine of Septon Attempted after the Manner of Dr. Darwin. Review: Review Medical Inquiries and Observations: Containing an Account of the Bilious Remitting and Intermitting Yellow-Fever. Obituary: Medical Obituary.
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