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The Medical Repository

1798; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

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, Gardiner Baker, Hugh M'Lean, N. Webster Jr., J. Williams, W. Blair, T. Beddoes, W. Blair, Thomas Henry, Thomas Beddoes, Samuel Brown,

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. Essay: 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, 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., At a Stated Meeting of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Held July 3d. 1798, the Following Officers Were Duly Elected, The Reader Will Recollect the Account Given of a New and Successful Mode of Treating Diabetes Mellitus, Discovered by Dr. Rollo, in Vol. I. P. 259, A Case of Diseased Os Innominatum Successfully Treated, A Case of Difficult Parturition, Successfully Terminated by Bleeding Communicated in a Letter to Mr. Smith, by Dr. William Dewees, of Philadelphia, Table of Births, Marriages, &c. For Nine Years, 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, 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. 1797.8vo. Pp. 30, 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., At a Public Commencement Held in the University of Pennsylvania, on the 22d of May Last, the Degree of Doctor of Medicine Was Conferred upon the Following Gentlemen; Who, on This Occasion, Defended Their Respective Dissertations, 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, We Have Received from Paris, since Our Last Number, the Work of Dr. Swediaur, Therein Referred to, Entitled, "Traité Complet Sur Les Symptômes, Les Effets, La Nature, Et Le Traitement Des Maladies Syphilitiques; " Published in March Last, in Two Vols. 8vo., 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. 1798.8vo. Pp. 49, Foreign, 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. 1798.8vo. Pp. 65, Second Letter from Dr. Priestley to Dr. Mitchill, Professor of Chemistry at New-York, Citizen Coulomb, Some Time since, Caused Several Large Poplars to Be Cut down on His Estate, Gerard Vrolick, Professor of Physic and Botany at Amsterdam, Has Published a Dissertation, at Leyden, on the Annual Desoliation 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, Medical Observations on the Virtues and Properties of the Seeds of the Datura Stramonium, An Account of the Contagious Epidemic Yellow Fever Which Prevailed in Philadelphia in the Summer and Autumn of 1797; Comprizing 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. 1798.8vo. Pp. 180, June, 1798, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Have Elected the Following Officers for the Present Year, 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, A Table Exhibiting the Number of Patients Received into the New-York Hospital, in Each Month; Their Diseases, and the Event of Each Case April, 1798, 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. 1796.8vo. Pp. 60, 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", 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, In Vol. I. P. 123, 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, Outlines of Medical Geography Being an Inquiry How Far Calcareous Soils and Strata Counteract the Septic Exhalations Which Occasion …, Summary, After This Attempt to Restrict the Use of Sudorific Remedies to Such Narrow Limits, It May Not Be Improper to Recall the Reader's Attention to a Substitute Better Adapted to the Nature, Circumstances, and Varieties of Fevers, Advertisement of the Chemical Society of Philadelphia To the Citizens of the United States, 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. 1798.8vo. Pp. 227, Entomology, 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 a 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, 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. 1798.8vo. Pp. 49, A Return of Patients Admitted to the Care of the New-York City Dispensary, from the 1st of April to the 1st of July, 1798 April, Circular To the Clorgymen or Other Well-Informed Gentlemen in the Several Towns in Connecticut, An Inaugural Dissertation, Shewing 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. 1798.8vo. Pp. 54, The American Philosophical Society Have Recently Published the Following Circular Letter, Which We Insert with the Hope of Forwarding Their Design, The Benevolent Dr. Lettsom, of London, Published, in 1797, the First Volume of a Work Entituled, "Hints Designed to Promote Beneficence, Temperance, and Medical Science", 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, Medical, Philosophical, & Economical News Domestic, May, 1798, An Inquiry Concerning Cutaneous Perspiration, and the Operation and Uses of Sudorific Remedies, An Account of the Quantity of Rain Which Fell in Charlestown in Six Years, from 1792 to 1797, Both Inclusive. By Joseph Barrell, Esquire, Answer to the Two Letters from Dr. Priestley To Joseph Priestley, LL. D. F. R. S. &c. &c., Meteorological Observations for April, 1798, Made by Gardiner Baker, in the Cupola of the Exchange, in the City of New-York, General Result for the First Half-Year of 1798, It Deserves to Be Mentioned, as an Incentive to Similar Undertakings in the Different States, That the Proposed Editor Has Already Received Some Materials for His Intended Work, and That There Is the Best Reason to Expect, from Him and His Correspondents, the Amplest Satisfaction, That Circumstances Will Permit, on the Several Subjects Proposed for Investigation, 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, 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, Translation from the Italian of a Paper of Father Lewis, of Smyrna, on the Use of Oil, as a Cure for the Plague, 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, An Easy and Cheap Method of Preparing Sal Aeratus. Letter to the editor: Correspondence To the Editors of the Medical Repository, Theory of Puerperal Fever Communicated in a Letter to the Editors of the Medical Repository, by Dr. John Brickell, of Savannah, 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, On the Use of the Radix Seneka, (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, 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, To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. Editorial: 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. Review: Review A Treatise on the Action of Mercury upon Living Bodies; and Its Application for the Cure of Diseases ….