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The Medical Repository

1798; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

Samuel L. Mitchill, Valentine Seaman, Dr. Thomas Archer, Elijah Parsons, Benjamin Rush, John Maclean, George Logan, Richard Peters, Samuel Brown, John Church, Benjamin De Witt, Robert Black, Mr. Julius Deming, Gardiner Baker, Hugh M'Lean, John Brickell, John Coulter, Joseph Allender, J. Jaquitt, Lyde Goodwin, Daniel Moores, John B. Davidge, Thomas Mifflin, Benjamin Rush, Charles Caldwell, William Dewees, John Redman Coxe, Philip Syng Physick, James Reynolds, Francis Bowes Sayre, John C. Otto, William Boys, Samuel Cooper, James Stuart, Felix Pascalis, Joseph Strong, Thomas Mifflin, John Redman, John Redman, Samuel L. Mitchill, Dr. David Hosack, Dr. Shadrach Ricketson,

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. Editorial: Errata. Essay: Medical News Domestic, Extract of a Letter from T. Reeve, Esq. (An Eminent Counsellor in Connecticut) to Mr. R. Smith, of Lichfield, A Singular Case of Difficult Parturition Successfully Treated [Communicated in a Letter, Dated September 22, 1797, to His Brother, Dr. Robert H. Archer, of Baltimore; …, Dr. Mitchill Has Received a Letter from a Physician of New-Jersey, Containing the Following Circumstances Concerning Canine Madness, The Following Morning, Five Members of the Board, Accompanied by Dr. Moores from the West Part of the City, Went to Fell's-Point, and, Desirous of Obtaining Full Information, Inquired of the Respective Physicians There of the Number of Their Patients, and How Many of Them They Thought Dangerous; and Being Conducted to the Worst of Them, Went into Their Houses with Dr. Moores, the Accompanying Physician, Two Lectures on Combustion: Supplementary to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry, Read at Nassau-Hall; Containing an Examination of Dr. Priestley's Considerations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston, and the Decomposition of Water. By John MacLean, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the College of New-Jersey. Philadelphia. Dobson. 1797.8vo. Pp. 7, Division of the State, for the Purposes of Agricultural Description, In Our Last Number, We Made Mention of a Calf Whose Heart Was Very Singularly Placed, From These Communications, the Board Was Satisfied That the Fever in Question Was Not Individually Contagious; and That There Was at That Time No Cause of Great Alarm, They Conceived Themselves Warranted to Believe, Inasmuch as out of Three Hundred Patients under the Care of Dr. Coulter, a Gentleman of Undoubted Veracity, He Lost Only so Small a Number as Eight, from the Third Week in June to the 26th of August, Corporation of the City of Baltimore, Sir, in Compliance with Your Request, the Subscribers Have Devoted Themselves to the Investigation of the Origin, Progress, and Nature of the Fever Which Lately Prevailed in Our City, and We Have Now the Honour of Communicating to You the Result of Our Inquiries and Observations, Article III, A Chemico-Medical Essay, to Explain the Operation of Oxygene, or the Base of Vital Air, on the Human Body. By Benjamin De Witt. Philadelphia. Woodward. 8vo. Pp. 35.1797, Account of Certain Memoirs Published by the Polytechnic School at Paris, The Result of These Investigations Was, That the Uneasiness and Fears of the People Began to Abate, It Being Generally Believed That the Complaint Was of the Bilious Remittent Kind; and the Few Deaths, Compared to the Number of the Sick, Inspired a Hope, That by Proper Attention and Assistance, the Sick Would Generally Be Restored to Health, Medical Facts, Hints, and Inquiries Facts Relative to That Faculty of Animals Which Has Been Called Instinct, To the Secretary of the Agricultural Society of New-York, Consumption and Fever, An Inquiry into the Cause of the Prevalence of the Yellow Fever in New-York, Some Account of a Disease among Cattle, Which Has Prevailed in a Part of Connecticut In a Letter to Dr. Mitchill, from the Rev. Elijah Parsons, Dated East-Haddam, October 17, 1797, Description of the Continent The Granitical Tract, To the Selectmen of Boston, Foreign, A Sketch of the Mineralogical History of the State of New-York The Commissioner Appointed to Make a Tour through the State of New-York, in the Vicinity of Hudson's …, An Inaugural Dissertation on Camphor. By John Church, A. M. Philadelphia. Thompson. 8vo. Pp. 70.1797, The Following Case of Lumbar Abscess, Remarkable for the Circumstances Attending the Discharge of Pus, Was Communicated by Dr. Borrowe, Too Late for Insertion in the Body of the Work, An Inaugural Dissertation on Fractures, &c. By Robert Black, &c. Philadelphia. Ormrod and Conrad. 8vo. Pp. 46. 1797, Case III, Experiments on the Cultivation of the Poppy-Plant, and the Method of Procuring Opium, &c. By Dr. Shadrach Ricketson, of Dutchess Country, New-York, Some Time in October Last, the Town of New-Hartford, Connecticut, Was Alarmed by the Sudden Appearance of Hydrophobia, or Canine Madness, among the Dogs of That Place, The Following Relation Was Likewise Made to Me, by Mr. Deming, the Gentleman Mentioned as the Communicator of the Preceding Facts, An Inaugural Dissertation on the Bilious Malignant Fever, Read at a Public Examination in the University of Cambridge, for the Degree of M. B. July 10, 1797. By Samuel Brown, A. M. Boston. Manning and Loring. 8vo. Pp. 54.1797, A Table of Patients Admitted into the New-York Hospital, from the 1st of October, 1797, to the 1st of January, 1798; Shewing the Disease for Which Each Was Received, with the Event of the Case, Mr. Sheldrake, Truss-Maker, of the Strand, London, Has Lately Obtained a Patent for Several New Invented Trusses, Which, from the Account Given of Them, Promise to Be of Very Great Importance in Removing Various Disagreeable and Even Dangerous Deformities; Such as Club Feet, the Wry Neck, Incurvated Spine, &c., To Rest Our Security from the Yellow Fever (Should It Finally Appear That It Is Always Imported) Solely upon the Slight Precaution of Making Such Vessels, from the West-Indies and Southern States, as May Have, or May Have Had Persons with That Complaint on Board Them, Do Ten Days or Two Weeks Quarantine, Must Certainly Be a Very Venturesome Business, Discovery, Name, and Settlement, Calvin Philips, a Remarkable Dwarf, Has Been Exhibited as an Object of Curiosity, to Several Thousand Spectators in This City, during the Course of Last December, A Case of Hydrocele, Cured by Injection. Communicated to G. Pearson, M. D. By Dr. David Hosack, of New-York, Agricultural Experiments on Gypsum, or Plaister of Paris; with Some Observations on the Fertilizing Quality and Natural History of That Fossil. By George Logan, M. D. Philadelphia. Baileys. 8vo. Pp. 18.1797, Summary, In the IIId Part of His "Surgical and Physiological Essays," (Which, I Believe, Has Not yet Reached America,) Mr. Abernethy Has Added a Long Supplement to His Essay on the Lumbar Abscess, After the Preceding Title Was Sent to the Press, the Two Following Articles Were Received from the Rev. Dr. Morse, of Charlestown, (Massachusetts) in a Letter to Mr. Smith, Sir, We Have Duly Considered Your Letter of the 24th Ult. and Shall Cheerfully Comply with the Requisitions Contained Therein, To Noah Webster, Junior, Esquire, Agricultural Inquiries on Plaister of Paris. Also Facts, Observations, and Conjectures on That Substance, When Applied as a Manure, &c. By Richard Peters. Philadelphia. Cist and Markland. 8vo. Pp. 111.1797, Case II, Meteorological Observations for October, 1797, Made by Gardiner Baker, in the Cupola of the Exchange in the City of New-York, "On Saturday the 28th of October, 1797, James Remington, a Lad of about Six Years of Age, Was on a Visit at a Friend's, Multiple Essay Items, The Next Set of Facts Also Relate to the Robin (Turdus Migratorius); and Though Less Curious than the Preceding, Tend Still Further to Illustrate the Character of This Bird. They Were Communicated to Me by My Father, Mr. Reuben Smith, of Lichfield, Connecticut, Symptoms of Madness in Dogs, A Return of Patients Admitted to the Care of the New-York City Dispensary, from the 1st of Oct. 1797, to the 1st of Jan. 1798, Mr. Adam Fonerden, Chairman of the Board of Health, Mr. Van Marum, Superintendant of the Teylerian Institution at Haarlem, Has Discovered, That a Piece of Phosphorus, Wrapped in a Little Cotton, and Placed under the Receiver of an Air-Pump, Inflames Spontaneously, When the Air Is Exhausted to a Certain Degree, and Continues to Burn till It Is Consumed, To the Same, The Following Is an Accurate Return of All the Interments in the Several Burying-Grounds in This City and Precincts, from the 1st Day of August to the 11th of September Following, Including Both Days, as Certified under the Hands of the Respective Clergymen and Sextons, Viz., To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Memorial of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Represents, A Case of Canine Madness, Which Terminated Fatally, at Suffield, in Connecticut, on the 11th of November, 1797 Communicated for the Medical Repository, in a Letter, (Dated Suffield, Nov. 18, 1797) to Dr. Mitchill, …, Cases of the Anti-Syphilitic Efficacy of the Nitric Acid, by Mr. Hammick Case I, Foreign On the Culture of Opium, Analysis of a Memoir of Citizen Bonhomme, on the Nature and Treatment of Rachitis, or the Rickets, Case IV, Appendix Domestic, Article II. Review: Review Medical Inquiries and Observations: Containing an Account, &c. By Benjamin Rush, M. D. &c. ….