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The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences

0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

D. Caldwell, M. Morgan, Robert Milnor, A. J. L. Jourdan, J. C. Rousseau, John Bell, Benjamin H. Coates, William P. Dewees, James Norcom, P. W. Little, John Thomson, William Baynham, P. N. Scott, John Redman Coxe, W. H. Richardson,

Frontmatter: The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to Wit. Table of contents: Contents. Editorial: To Readers and Correspondents, Much of the Preceding Intelligence, We Have Extracted from a Very Interesting Review, in a Late Number of the Medical and Physical Journal of London, of the Progress of Medicine for the Last Six Months. Essay: University of Pennsylvania, On Phrenology, or the Study of the Intellectual and Moral Nature of Man. By John Bell, M. D. Read before "The Central Phrenological Society, Established at Philadelphia," at Its Meetings on the 4th and 18th of March, 1822, Four Important Questions in Medeography Have Been Discussed, among Many Others of Minor Interest, during the Last Half-Year, in This Country and on the Continent, The Separation of the Active Principles from the Different Species of Cinchona Bark, by Messrs. Pelletier and Caventon, and the Preparation of the Different Salts Resulting from the Combination of Those Bases with Acids, from an Epoch in Analytical Pharmacy, M. Le Chevalier Yelin, a Learned Bavarian, Discovered, Some Time Ago, That Needles of Steel Become Magnetic When Placed in a Glass Tube Surrounded with a Metallic Spiral, and When Electrical Sparks, or the Charge of a Leyden Battery, Were Transmitted along the Spiral, Chemistry, &c., Cases A Case of Suppression of the Menses, Attended with Unusual Circumstances, Relieved by …, Midwifery A Case of a Separation of a Portion of the Uterus during Labour. By P. N. Scott, Esq., Nasal Polypi, Physiology, Surgery, Ligatures on the Extremities Recommended in Certain Diseases, Few Instances of Posthumous Parturition Have Ever Been Recorded, The Punica Granatum Has Been Employed Medicinally from the Earliest Ages, Both in Egypt, Palestine, and in Most Eastern Countries Wherein It Is Indigenous, An Account of the Varioloid Disease, Which Has Lately Prevailed at Edinburgh, &c. &c. By John Thomson, M. D., Professor, &c. &c., On the Effects of Deleterious Effluvia upon the Animal Economy. Read before the Medical Society of Philadelphia on the 16th of February, 1822. By J. C. Rousseau, M. D., Class I, Historical and Critical Observations on Syphilis. By A. J. L. Jourdan, M. D. Translated from the French, by R. La Roche, M. D.—(Continued from No. 6) Chapter V, The Notion That Mercurial Remedies Pass from the Stomach and from the Skin into the Circulation, and Penetrate, Equally, the Solids of Our Animal Economy, Has Been so Prevalent, That Dr. Rhades, of Halle, Must Find It a Matter of No Little Difficulty to Support a Contrary Opinion, On Burns and Scalds. By Benjamin H. Coates, M. D. Read before the Philadelphia Academy of Medicine, Cases Illustrative of the Efficacy of Blisters over the Eye in Ophthalmia. By P. W. Little, M. D., A Case of a Man Having Two Distinct Noses Has Been Mentioned by Dr. Bidault De Villiers, Who Twice Examined the Individual Presenting That Deformity, at Different Times, Very Particularly, and Has Clearly Described the Phenomenon in the Tenth Volume of the Journal Complementaire, Prophylactic against Hydrophobia, Magnetism, Literary Intelligence, Both the French and the Americans Have Endeavoured to Support a Claim of Priority in the Application of Steam Engines to Navigation; but a Fact Has Been Ascertained by, and Is to Be Forthwith Published in a Work of, Mr. Partington, of the London Institution, Which Sets the Disputed Point at Rest, We Have Much Pleasure in Announcing, That Dr. Coxe, Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Pennsylvania, Has in Considerable Forwardness a Translation of the Work, the Title of Which Is Annexed, Theory and Practice of Medicine, and Materia Medica, Cases of Varioloid Disease. Communicated in a Letter to Professor Coxe, from James Norcom, M. D., A New Division of the Animal Tissues in the Human Body Has Been Proposed by Professor Mayer, of the Prussian University of the Lower Rhine, under the Name of Histologia, Anatomy, Two Curious Papers on Anatomical Subjects, by Mr. Magendie, Are Inserted in the Last Number of His Physiological Journal, Multiple Essay Items, Practical Facts in Midwifery Have Been Somewhat More Frequently Detailed in the Public Journals, and in Other Publications, College of Physicians and Surgeons, City of New-York, The Case of Tetanus Successfully Treated in the York Military Hospital, at Chelsea, by M. A. Burmester, Esq. Is Very Interesting, Biography Biographical Sketch of William Baynham, Esq. Surgeon, Late of Essex County, Virginia, Cholera Morbus at Samarang, Medical and Philosophical Intelligence Phrenological Society of Philadelphia, Botany, The French Physicians Have of Late Directed Much of Their Attention to the Treatment of Intermittent Fevers by Means of a New Remedy, Obtained from the Bark of Cinchona, Combined with Sulphuric Acid, Experiments and Observations on the Absorption of Active Medicines into the Circulation: and Also, on the Effects of Nutritive Enemata. By Robert Milnor, M. D., An Account of the Yellow Fever in the River Oronoko, in August, 1819. By M. Morgan, M. D. U. S. Navy, Transylvania University. Review: Reviews Observations Sur La Fièvre Jaune, Faites À Cadix En 1819, Par Mm. Pariset Et Mazet, Docteurs ….