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The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences

0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

D. Caldwell, A. Perlee, John Bell, John D. Godman, A. J. L. Jourdan, John K. Mitchell, W. Gibson, R. Murphy, G. Emerson, Joseph A. Gallup, J. Brennan, L. Jurine,

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. Essay: The History and Treatment of Bony Tumours, Dr. Pertier, a German Physician, States, That He Has Found the Spirit of Hartshorn, (in the Dose of a Small Tea-Spoonful in a Glass of Water,) to Counteract the Inebriating Effects of Fermented Liquors and Spirits, Experiments on Hydrophobia, by M. Magendie, M. D., A Speedy and Simple Method of Procuring Ice Has Been Proposed by M. Grothus, Which Consists in Pouring, Very Gently, a Given Quantity of Æther over an Equal Quantity of Water Contained in a Metal Vase, so as Not to Mix the Two Liquids, Professor Walker, in a Memoir on Bronchocele, Has Proposed to Cure This Disease by Means of Ligatures Applied to the Superior Thyroideal Arteries, On the Efficacy of Oleum Terebinthinœ in Puerperal Fever. By J. Brennan, M. D., Dublin, A New Alkaline Body, Possessing Singular Properties, Has Been Announced to the World by the Younger Brugnatelli, Who Has Called It Apyre, from Its Prominent Faculty of Resisting the Action of Fire, Plate III Represents the Same Preparation Dried, The Name of Atropia Is Given to an Alkali, Found by M. Brandes in the Belladonna Atropia, Which Owes Its Peculiar Properties to This Substance, Historical and Critical Observations on Syphilis. By A. J. L. Jourdan, M. D. Translated from the French, by R. La Roche, M. D. Chapter III, Mr. White Has Succeeded in Demonstrating in the Horse, by Positive Evidence, What Hitherto Has Been Believed on Simple Conjecture, Namely, That the Thyroid Gland Is a Mucous Gland, and That Its Excretory Ducts Open into the Larynx, Opium, Toxicological Tables, in Which Are Exhibited at One View the Symptoms, Treatment, and Modes of Detecting the Various Poisons, Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal; According to the Latest Experiments and Observations [Most Respectfully Dedicated to the Royal Humane Society], Physiology, American Intelligence, Surgery, An Account Has Been Published by Dr. Mattaschka, of a Woman Who Vomited, at Different Times, and for the Period of Several Months, a Considerable Number of Small and Large Lizards, Some Alive, Some Dead, and Others in a State of Putrefaction, In the February Number of the Bibliotheque Universelle, There Is a Second Memoir of Dr. Coindet, on the Subject of the Use of Iodine in "Goitre", Medical and Philosophical Intelligence Anatomy, In the Press, Hyoscyama Is Extracted from the Hyoscyamus Niger, and Is Not Easily Altered Even by a Red Heat, Dr. Chomel Having Obtained a Large Quantity of the Sulphates of Quinine and Cinchonine from Pelletier Proceeded to Try Their Action in Intermittent Fevers, under the Following Restrictions, Some Account of the New Italian Doctrine of Counterstimulus. By John Bell, M. D. &c. &c., A Case of Ventral Gestation, in a Cat, Has Been Presented to the Society of Medicine, in Which Six Fœtuses, of Various Dimensions, Were Found in Different Parts of the Abdomen,—The Uterus and Its Appendages Remaining in Their Natural Condition, Chemistry, The Theory and Practice of Physic, and Materia Medica, The Introduction of Iodine into the Materia Medica, for the Specific Purpose of Curing Bronchocele, Is Due to Dr. Coindet, a Very Experienced Practitioner of Geneva, Dr. Jorg, a Prussian, Has Preserved Mummies and Anatomical Preparations in Perfection, for Several Years, with the Empyreumatic Oil from the Distillation of Wood, and with Pyroligneous Acid, Memoir on Angina Pectoris, Which Obtained the Prize Offered by the Medical Society of Paris. By L. Jurine, Corresponding Member of the National Institute, M. Ameline, Professor of Anatomy at Caen, in Normandy, Has Invented an Anatomic Model, Representing the Human Body, of the Size of Nature, Some Observations on the Propriety of Explaining the Actions of the Animal Economy by the Assistance of the Physical Sciences. By John D. Godman, M. D. Professor of Physiology in the Philadelphia Museum, and Lecturer on Anatomy, &c. Read before the Philadelphia Academy of Medicine, Explanation of Plate II, Dr. Tiedemann Endeavours to Demonstrate, That Instead of the Spinal Marrow Being a Continuation or Prolongation of the Brain, It Is the Latter and the Cerebellum to Boot, Which Proceed from the Spinal Marrow; Alias, That the Brain and Cerebellum Are an Efflorescence of the Marrow in Question, It Is Announced in the Journal De Medicine Pratique of Berlin, That the Belladonna Is a Preservative against Scarlet Fever, Cases Illustrative of the Efficacy of Sulphurous Fumigations, in Certain Cases—With Preliminary Remarks. By G. Emerson, M. D. Read before the Philadelphia Academy of Medicine, An Account of the Yellow Fever of Natchez, as It Prevailed in the Autumn of 1817 and 1819. By a. Perlee, M. D. Read before the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia, We Have Been Informed by a Correspondent Who Has Witnessed Some of Sir W. Adams's Dissections of the Eye, That He Has Clearly Demonstrated the Tunica Aranea to Be in No Degree Concerned in Retaining the Chrystalline Lens in Situ, as Has Hitherto Been Taught in Our Anatomical Schools; but That It Is so Retained by a Membrane of a Very Peculiar Structure, Respecting Which, Little, If Any Thing, Was Known in This Country Prior to Sir W. Adams's Demonstrations at the York Hospital, Three Years Since, M. Van Dam, Surgeon at Alckmaar, Performed the Cæsarean Operation, in December Last, on the Wife of J. Hoek, Aged Thirty Years, Who Had Been Seized Two Years and a Half before with Labour Pains at the Full Term of Her Pregnancy, When, after Many Ineffectual Efforts, the Uterine Contractions Ceased, and She No Longer Felt the Movements of the Child. Letter to the editor: Case of a Large Mass of an Amalgam of Tin and Mercury Retained in the Bowels. Communicated in a Letter to the Editor. By Joseph A. Gallup, M. D., An Account of a Monster. Communicated in a Letter to the Editor by John K. Mitchell, M. D., Observations on the Character and Treatment of the Spotted Fever, as It Appeared in the Lower Northern Neck of Virginia, and the Adjacent Country, in the Fall and Winter of 1814, and 15. Communicated in a Letter to the Editor, by R. Murphy, M. D. Read before the Philadelphia Academy of Medicine. Review: Reviews Versuche Ueber Die Wege, Auf Welchen Substanzen Aus Dem Magen Und Darmkanal Ins Blut Gelangen; …. Poem, verse: Mercury.