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George Farquhar, Charles W. Binny, Dr. John Coats, M. Sam. Du Gard, Robert Burton, Dr. Benjamin Rush, T. Watkins, Dr. John Redman Coxe, R. Hendrick, Dr. Benjamin Rush, R. B. Bishop, Benjamin Rush, John Church, Mr. John Phillips,

Frontmatter: Medical Museum. Essay: In the Historical Magazine, Vol. 2, P. 399, Is the Following Curious Information of the Destruction of the Polarity of the Needle by Garlick, Mr. Sebald of Ulm, Has Given an Account of a Great Quantity of Stones, Found in the Intestinal Canal of a Miller's Horse, The Artificial Musk Has Been Found by Dr. Hufeland, of Eminent Service in All Kinds of Nervous Diseases, as Well as in the Hooping Cough, Account of Two Cases of Rheumatism, Cured, One by Fear, the Other by Loss of Blood; &c. &c. Extracted from a Letter of Dr. Maxwell Sharp, of Logan County, Kentucky, to Dr. Benjamin Rush; Dated March 25,1803, The Medical Society of North-Carolina, at an Annual Meeting Held in the City of Raleigh on the 10th of Dec. Entered the Following Gentlemen, Officers of the Society for the Ensuing Year, The Following Cases, Extracted from the Philosophical Transactions of Great Britain, Are Introduced Here; as They Shew That Similar Instances Have Occurred at Various Periods, Though They Have Not Perhaps Been Always Noticed "A Strange Kind of Bleeding in a Little Child. By M. Sam. Dugard, A Brief and Convenient Method of Preparing Emetic Tartar. By Mr. Buchholz, Apothecary at Erfult, M. Funcke, a German Apothecary, Gives the Following as a More Economical, Expeditious, and Easy Process for Preparing Phosphate of Soda, than Any in Use, The within Account of the Exhibition of a Metal, Which, We Believe, Has Never before Been Administered, Is Only Intended to Excite Practitioners to Farther Trials of This and Other Hitherto Untried Metals, and to Shew That at Least It (the Oxide of Cobalt) May Be Given, without Any Bad Effects, in the Doses Mentioned, The Zincum Vitriolatum Combined with Opium, Is Highly Recommended by Mr. Elijah Impey of the Royal Navy, in Dysentery, to Obviate the Extreme Degree of Atony and Frequent Discharge of Fæces without Pain, Existing after the Disease, Dr. Sacco of Milan, Whose Experiments in Proof of the Vaccine Disease Originating in the Grease of Horses We Had Lately Occasion to Notice, Makes Some Additional Observations on the Subject Which Merit Attention, as Tending to Throw Light on the Nature of Morbid Poisons in General, The Following Communication Is Recommended to the Particular Attention of Apothecaries; as Containing Some Facts Highly Worthy of Their Notice, The Late Supposed Failures of Vaccination as a Preventative of Small-Pox, and Which Have Become so Numerous as to Have Excited Very General Alarm in the Minds of the Friends of the New Practice, Render Every Attempt to Ascertain the Precise Laws of the Vaccine Poison a Very Important Matter, The Following Interesting Experiment, We Are Assured, Was Lately Instituted at the Veterinary College by Mr. Coleman, the Professor, with a View to Determine Whether or Not the Glanders, a Well Known Disease in Horses, Can Be Cured by Letting out the Blood of the Diseased Animal, and Transfusing in Place of It the Blood of One in Health, Dr. Sacco of Milan, Has Lately Sent M. De Carro, of Vienna, a Glass Tube Containing Matter Taken Immediately from the Heels of a Horse, and Another Tube with Matter from the Same Origin, but Which Had Passed through the Medium of the Human Body, Medical and Philosophical Register Foreign and Domestic, Mr. William Henry of Manchester Recommends, from Several Years Experience, the Use of the Crystallized Acetite of Zinc as the Best Application in All Cases of Gonorrhœa, and Brings Forward the Authorities of Dr. Ferriar and Mr. Gibson, as to Its Superiority over All Other Injections, In the Evening of the 26th of September, 1775, I Was Called in Great Haste, to James Langford, a Young Man in the Twenty-First Year of His Age, Who Had Been Maliciously Stabbed with a Knife, in the Left Side of His Belly, The Agave Americana, (Whose Flower Is Delineated in the Engraving,) Is Thus Noticed in the Species Plantarum, "We Have Been Requested, in a Letter from Mr. Heron, to Inform the Public, That Potatoes Sweetened by Frost, If Sliced down, Subjected to Squeezing in the Press, Exposed (the Juice Which Has Been Expressed) to a Simmering, From a Report Lately Made by the Committee of the Hospital, (Small-Pox Hospital, London,) It Appears That 13,715 Persons Have Been Inoculated for the Vaccine Disease by the Officers of the Institution since January 1799, Abstract of Meteorological Observations for 1804, The Society Lately Instituted at Lausanne, to Exterminate the Small-Pox by Vaccination, Have Publicly Offered to Pay 100 Lives to Any Person Who, after Successfully Undergoing Vaccination under Their Care, Shall Take the Small-Pox, Dr. Henderson of Edinburgh, in a Letter to the Editor of Nicholson's Journal, Dated April 1804, Relates a Number of Experiments, Which Seem to Prove Decisively That a Portion of the Azotic Gas of the Atmosphere Is Absorbed by the Lungs, or at Least Disappears during Respiration, An Account of the Successful Use of Opium, Cordial Drinks, and Animal Food, in Two Cases of Pulmonary Consumption. By Benjamin Rush, M. D. Professor of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, An Account of the Successful Treatment of an Obstinate and Dangerous Case of Menorrhagia and Fluor Albus, The Case of a Person Who Lived Fourteen Years without Any Discharge from His Alimentary Canal, Whilst upon the Subject of White Vitriol, It May Not Be Amiss to Notice Its Use in Agues, An Account of the Efficacy of Blood-Letting in the Cure of Dropsies. Extracted from Two Letters to Mr. John E. Cooke, Student of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, from Dr. Thomas Sim, of Leesburg, Virginia, The Following Mode of Preparing an Artificial Peat, of Dung and Straw, by the German Colonists on the Karamysk, Is Extracted from Professor Pallas's "Travels through Southern Russia", Letter VIII, At a Stated Meeting of the a. P. S. Held January 18th, 1805, the Following Persons Were Elected Members of the Society, The Angina Maligna Successfully Treated by Mercury and Capsicum Gargle. By George Farquhar, M. D. Of Clarendon, Jamaica, Professor Thomanis of Wurtzburgh Recommends the Use of Powdered Charcoal in the Tinea Capitis, as a Topical Application;"And Which," Says the Editor of the Medical and Chirurgical Review,"According to the Testimony Here Adduced, May Be Regarded as One of the Most Efficacious Remedies We Possess against Tinea Capitis, Dr. Caldwell Is about to Issue Proposals for Publishing by Subscription, a Translation of "A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations and Other Affections of the Bones, by P. J. Default, Surgeon in Chief to the Hotel-Dieu of Paris, Wherein His Opinions and Practice, in Such Cases, Are Stated and Exemplified; Edited by Xavier Bichat, with Plates", In the Same Place We Have an Account of the Periodical Evacuation of Blood, at the End of the Fore Finger in an Innkeeper, Which Continued Twelve Years, He Seldom Having a Respite of Two Months, and the Fits Never Returning Oftener than in Three Weeks, It Appears by Late Accounts from Constantinople, That M. Valli (Whom We Mentioned in a Former Number of Our Review as Having Inoculated Himself with a Mixture of Variolous and Pestilential Virus, and Who Had Exposed Himself in Various Ways to the Infection of Plague without Effect) Had Recently Contracted the Plague; but That the Symptoms Were Less Intense than Common, and That He Escaped with the Formation of an Abscess in the Leg, Dr. Drysdale's History of the Yellow Fever at Baltimore, Continued from Page 149 Letter VII, The Character of the Agave, Is Thus Given by Linnæus in His Genera Plantarum, Class Hexandria, Multiple Essay Items, New Publications, Account of the Efficacy of the Juice of the Poke-Berry in the External Hemorrhoids, Account of a Singular Case of Hemorrhage, Extracted from a Letter of the Late Dr. E. H. Smith of New-York, to Benjamin Rush, M. D. Dated New-York, April 9,1794, Dear Sir, I Have Made Inquiry Respecting the Loss of Three of the Sons of Benjamin Binny, Deceased, Dear Sir, Your Letter Was Duly Received, but at the Time, I Was Confined to My Bed by a Very Tedious and Painful Indisposition, Which I Offer as an Apology for Any Apparent Neglect, An Examination of Dr. Osburn's Opinion, of the Physical Necessity of Pain and Difficulty in Human Parturition. Editorial: In the Year 1793, the Late Mr. Richard Wells Put into My Hands a Manuscript Copy of Some Medical Cases, Which Had Occurred in the Practice of His Father, Dr. Wells, (Then Living near Sheffield, in England,) a Cotemporary of Drs. Mead and Cheyne, At an Extraordinary Meeting of the Philadelphia Medical Society Held the 6th of February, the Following Gentlemen Were Elected Officers for the Ensuing Year, Notice to Correspondents, The Following Valuable Extract from a Paris Paper, (the Gazette Nationale Ou Le Moniteur Universel, for Oct. 4,1804,) Will Doubtless Be Read with the Highest Satisfaction by the Friends of Vaccination throughout America, as an Ample Proof, in Addition to Former Testimonials, of the Security Obtained by That Practice against the Small-Pox, Singular Cases of Hemorrhagy, Abstract of a Case of Vaccine, of Uncommon Magnitude. (With a Plate.) by the Editor, Some Account of the Agave Americana, Which Flowered at the Woodlands, in the Summer of 1804. Extracted from a Letter of William Hamilton, Esq. To the Editor, Dated January 13th, 1805. (With a Plate), I Have Lately Succeeded in Exciting the Vaccine on the Arm of a Child, by the Eighteenth Attempt, Account of an Extraordinary Cure of a Wound of the Intestines, Errata. Letter to the editor: Observations on Mr. Goldson's Pamphlet, &c. In a Letter to the Editor, On the Purification of Pomatum by Charcoal. Communicated to the Editor by Mr. John Phillips, Description of the Curved Bistoury, as Improved by Dr. Physick, for the Operation of Fistula in Ano. (With a Plate.) by R. B. Bishop, Surgeon's Instrument-Maker, in a Letter to the Editor, Dr. Strong's Account of His Axle Tourniquet, in a Letter Addressed to the Editor of the Philadelphia Medical Museum. (With a Plate).