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Contents of the First Volume of the Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal

1804; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

D. Caldwell, Benjamin Smith Barton, James Taylor, A. Fothergill, Samuel Cramer, Mr. James W. Stevens, Mr. John Bartram, William Bartram, Mrs. S. Wright, William Bartram, Mr. James Geddes, Mr. James V. A. Anderson, Mr. John Heckewelder, Mr. James W. Stevens, John R. Young, N. G. Dufief,

Table of contents: Contents of the First Volume of the Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal Part First. Frontmatter: General Plan of the Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, The Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, District of Pennsylvania, Advertisement, To Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, Dedication. Essay: Extracts from a Ms. Journal of the Late Mr. James Boyd, of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, The Stramonium Is One of Those Narcotic Vegetables, Which, When Taken in Large Quantity, Sometimes Induce the Disease of Tetanus, The Stramonium Is, Unquestionably, a Southern Plant, and Is Gradually Diffusing Itself into Many Parts of the United-States, &c., in Which, a Few Years since, It Was Entirely Unknown, A Plant Called the Scour-Grass Is Very Common in Many Parts of the United-States, &c. It Is the Equisetum Hyemale of Linnæus. There Are Many Acres of This Plant in the Neighbourhood of Fort Detroit, September 11th, 1801, Meteorological Observations Made at Nazareth, in Pennsylvania, for the Year 1793, A Gentleman, from Georgia, Mentioned to Me, an Instance of the Yellow-Fever, Which Broke out among the Negroes of One of His Plantations, from the Putrefaction of Many Bushels of Cotton-Seed, Heaped up in the Open Air, Additional Observations on the Cicada Septendecim. By the Late Mr. John Bartram. From a Ms. In the Possession of the Editor, The Following Observations, Copied from an Original Manuscript, in the Editor's Possession, Can Hardly Fail to Be Interesting to the Curious in Inquiries Concerning the Subject of the Last Article, Notice of the Travels of a Mohawk-Indian, About the Year 1785, the Scarlet-Fever, with Sore-Throat, Appeared among the Children at Detroit, and Swept off, in This Little Place, Upwards of Sixty Children, and Even a Few Grown Persons, in the Term of a Few Weeks, The Cheerake-Indians Are Subject to Intermittent Fevers, Which (It Is Said) They Cure by Means of Certain Roots, American Philosophical Society, Directions for the Management of Silk Worms. By the Late Mrs. S. Wright, of Lancaster-County, in Pennsylvania, Some Account of the Disease Called the Hollow-Horn, August 27th, 1801. A Large Full-Grown Male Rabbit Was Put into a Cage, Which Contained a Large and Vigorous Rattle-Snake, Supplement, Dr. John Abraham De Normandie Informed the Editor (in 1789), That He Did Not Think That the "Nervous Fever" Was Known in the Middle States, Viz. New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Lower Counties (Delaware), before the Year 1735, "Near the Waters of Buffaloe-Creek (Which Runs into Lake-Erie), a Most Curious Stone Has Lately Been Found, Which Appears to Have Been of a Vegetable Growth, Last Summer, When I Was near the Settlement of the Oneida-Indians (in the State of New-York), the Dysentery Prevailed Much, and Carried off Some of the White Inhabitants, Who Applied to the Indians for a Remedy, N. B. A Supplement to This Sketch, Containing Some Account of Mr. Bartram's Writings, and an Estimate of His Services as a Discoverer and Collector of Natural Objects, Will Be Printed in a Subsequent Number of This Journal, Biography Some Account of the Late Mr. John Bartram, of Pennsylvania. By William Bartram, The People in the Neighbourhood of the Genessee River Are Very Sickly This Season, The Itch, I Believe, Is Not Common among the Indians; at Least, I Do Not Recollect of Seeing One Instance of an Indian That Had It, An Intelligent Physician, and Who Has Inoculated a Great Number of Negroes in North-Carolina, Informs the Editor, That He Has Remarked, That Very Generally the Eruption Makes Its Appearance, in This Variety of Men, Forty-Eight Hours Earlier than It Does in the Whites, and That the Fever Is Proportionably Early, On the Medical Virtues of the Warm and Hot Springs, in the County of Bath, in Virginia. From the Ms. Journal of the Reverend Dr. A. Green, of Philadelphia. 1800, Description of the Falls of Niagara. Extracted from the Journal of a Gentleman, Who Visited Them, a Few Years Since, I Have Used the Saccharum Saturni in Three Cases of Uterine Hæmorrhage, with Complete Success, Notices of the Epidemics of Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, in the Years 1746, 1747, 1748, and 1749, Permit Me to Offer Some Observations on Your Ideas (Relative to the Fascinating Faculty Which Has Been Ascribed to Serpents), Which Seem, like the Egg of Columbus, Difficult to Find, but When Found so Clear, That One Can Hardly Conceive How They Could Have Remained Latent, for so Long a Time, In This Place, It May Not Be Amiss to Mention (Though the Fact Has but Little Connection with the Preceding Ones), That the Wood of the Liriodendron, Especially the Variety with Yellow Wood, Owing to Its Great Sensibility with Respect to the Changes of the Atmosphere, Is Found to Make an Excellent Hygrometer, The Following Passage from Ligon's History of Barbadoes, Seems Not to Have Been Generally Noticed by the Writers on the Malignant Fevers of the West-Indies, Anecdotes of an American Crow. By William Bartram, Miscellaneous Facts and Observations, In the Wyoming Settlement of Pennsylvania, the Inhabitants Are Said to Employ, with Great Advantage, the Bark of a Particular Vegetable, as a Substitute for the Peruvian Bark, Our Indians (the Delaware, &c.) Are Acquainted with a Plant, with Which They Often (Intentionally) Destroy Themselves, Since My Last, a Contagious Fever Has Raged Amongst Us, Which Admits of No Relief, Cure, or Abatement; Never Intermitting to the Last Moments of Life, Multiple Essay Items, The Moravians Had Been Settled for Some Time at the Upper-Moravian Town, upon the River Muskingum (a Branch of the Ohio), and Had Enjoyed a Great Share of Health There, The Datura Stramonium (Jamestown-Weed, French-Chesnut) Grows, in Great Abundance, about St. Vincennes, on the River Wabash, It Is a Circumstance Worthy of the Attention of Our Citizens, That Oysters Can Be Preserved upon Heaps of Coal, Beaten into Small Pieces, for a Longer Time than in Any Other Situations, Except Those in Which They Are Naturally Found, It Is Believed, That Hitherto Plaster Has Been Found in the Greatest Abundance, and Indeed Almost Only, in Those Districts of the Union, in Which We Discover the Most Decided Vestiges of Organic Remains, in the Strata of Limestone, About the Year 1762, the Inhabitants Living upon Carver's-Creek, a Branch of the River Called Cape-Fear, in North-Carolina, at the Distance of about One Hundred Miles above the Mouth of This River (but, Perhaps, Not More than Forty Miles, in a Straight Course, from the Sea-Coast), Were Severely Afflicted with a Malignant Fever, Which Was Deemed Contagious, The Society Are Preparing for Publication the Second Part of the Above-Mentioned Volume, Which Will, in All Probability, Be Put to Press Early in January Next. Letter to the editor: Notices of the Fevers of the City of Norfolk, in Virginia. In a Letter from Dr. James Taylor, to the Editor, On the Medical Virtues of the Humulus Lupulus, or Common Hop. Communicated to the Editor, by Anthony Fothergill, M. D., Observations on the Power of Habit in Vegetables. In a Letter to the Editor, from William Barnwell, M. D., Additional Notice Concerning the Falls. Communicated to the Editor, in September, 1801, A Topographical and Medical Sketch of Bristol, in Pennsylvania. Communicated in a Letter to the Editor, by Dr. Amos Gregg, Junr. Of Bristol, Some Particulars Concerning the Locust of North-America. Written at Nazareth, in Pennsylvania, August 27th, 1793. Communicated to the Editor, by the Reverend Mr. Charles Reichel, of Nazareth, On the Medical Virtues of the Orobanche Virginiana, or Cancer-Root, in Cancerous and Other Ulcers. In a Letter to the Editor, from Dr. George Bensell, of Germantown, Pennsylvania, Some Account of the Autumnal Bilious Fever of the Atlantic Side of Virginia. In a Letter to the Editor from the Late Dr. James Greenway, of Dinwiddie-County, Virginia, Memorandum Concerning the Influence of Music on the Common Mouse. Communicated to the Editor, by Samuel Cramer, M. D. Of Jefferson-County, in Virginia, Case of Tetanus, Cured by Mercury. Communicated to the Editor, by the Late John R. Young, M. D. Of Hagerstown, in Maryland, On the Use of Plaster of Paris (Different Varieties of Gypsum, or Sulphate of Lime), as a Manure, in Virginia. In a Letter to the Editor, from His Brother, Mr. Richard P. Barton, of Frederick-County, Virginia, On the Use of Cod-Fish, in the Disease of Bronchocele, or Goitre. In a Letter to the Editor, from Mr. James Geddes, On the Digestive Power of the Pike (Esox). In a Letter to the Editor, from Mr. Andrew Ellicott, Now of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, Account of the Most Successful Method of Treating the Yellow-Fever, in the Island of St. Thomas. In a Letter from Dr. Frederic Detlef Meyer, Lately of That Island, to the Editor, On the Salivating Effects of Digitalis Purpurea, or Common Foxglove. In a Letter from Dr. Mahlon Gregg, to Dr. Thomas Walmsley. Communicated by the Latter to the Editor. Editorial: "The Juice of the Fruit of the Papaw, and of All the Other Parts of the Tree in Its Fresh State, Is Milky, and Extremely Acrid; It Is Used in the Indies as a Remedy for the Ringworm", "I Lived Five Full Years in the Two Towns of Mixco and Pinola, An Extensive Bed of Porcelane-Earth (Argilla Porcelana) Has Been Discovered in the State of Maryland, The Vegetable Which Produces the Genuine Ipecacuanha of the Shops, Is, at Length, Discovered, The Locusts Mentioned by Gage Must Not Be Confounded with the Cicada Septendecim, of Which Accounts Are Given in the First Section of This Journal, The Preceding Facts Will, Perhaps, Appear the More Worthy of Notice, When It Is Recollected, That the Celebrated Dr. Withering Seems to Have Remarked the Salivating Effect of Digitalis, Many Years Ago, A Decoction of the Sanicula Marilandica, or Maryland Sanicle, Is Said to Be Employed, with Good Effect, by Some of the Country Practitioners, as a Diuretic, in Cases of Dropsy, Facts Somewhat Similar to the Preceding, but Not (That I Know) so Circumstantial, Are Recorded by Different Authors, Naturalists Have Observed, That When Shells Are Found in Slate, and Other Schistose Rocks, They Are Generally Observed to Be in a Compressed State; Whereas Little, or Nothing, of This Compression Is Observed upon Shells That Are Impressed in Limestone, The Æsculus Pavia, or Scarlet-Flowered Horse-Chesnut, Is a Native of Many Parts of North-America, Particularly of the Counties South of Virginia, Inexhaustible Beds and Quarries of Coal Have Already Been Discovered in the United-States, Particularly in the Western Parts, beyond the Allegeny Mountains, The White-Mountains, in the State of New-Hampshire, Have Lately Been Ascended by Mr. William Peck, a Very Intelligent Naturalist; and by the Reverend Dr. Menasseh Cutler (of Ipswich), to Whom We Are Indebted for Some Account of the Indigenous Vegetables of New-England, Dr. Bostock, of Liverpoole, in England, Has Lately Analysed, with Great Care, the Saline Matter, Which Is Found upon Stone-Walls, and Other Similar Situations, A Decoction of the Root of the Zanthorhiza Apiifolia* of L'heritier Is Used by Some of the Southern Tribes of Indians, as a Lotion, in Certain Diseased States of the Eyes, Some Few Months since, a Considerable Quantity of a Medicinal Article Was Brought from the Western Parts of Virginia, and Offered for Sale in Philadelphia, as Ipecacuanha, Facts Relative to the Food of the Humming Bird. By the Editor, Notes on the Preceding Paper. By the Editor, One of the Favourite Cathartics of Our Indians, in Cases of Obstinate Costiveness, Is a Large Draught of Bear's-Oil, In One of These Caverns, upon a Water of Green-Bryar, a Branch of the River Kenhaway, There Were Found Several of the Bones of an Animal, of Which Same Account, with Ingenious Conjectures, Is Published in the 4th Volume of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, The Botanical History of the Tree Which Furnishes Us with the Valuable Bark, Known by the Name of Angustura, and Used, with so Much Advantage, as a Tonic, Especially in the Diseases of Children, Has Not Been Ascertained until Lately, Memorandum Concerning the Use of Indigo in the Disease of Cynanche Trachealis, Memorandums Concerning the Earthquakes of North-America. By the Editor, In 1794, Dr. Appleton, of Boston, Informed Me, That in the Summer of 1778, a Genuine Typhus Carcerum, or Goal-Fever, Was Generated in the Goal, among the Prisoners, in Nova-Scotia, The Root of the Adelia Ricinella, or Ram Goat-Bush, Is Said to Be a Powerful Emmenagogue, Observations on the Internal Use of the Rhus Radicans. In a Letter from Colonel George Gibson, to Colonel Isaac Kagey, Remarks, The Editor Is Informed, That Very Considerable Quantities of Plaster of Paris Have Lately Been Discovered in the State of Virginia, upon One of the Head-Waters of the Staunton (Which Runs into the Roanoke), and at the Distance of about Twenty-Five Miles from Fincastle, The Extremely Viscid Juice of the Bulbs of a Species of Ophrys, Well Known in Pennsylvania and Virginia, by the Name of "Adam and Eve," Has Been Found, by the Ladies of the Latter State, to Be One of the Best Articles, Hitherto Discovered, for Mending Broken China-Ware, The Macpalxochitl, Figured by Clavigero, after Hernandez, Is One of the Most Singular Trees Hitherto Discovered, Supplement to the Preceding Paper, Hints Relative to the External Employment of the Leaves of the Liriodendron Tulipifera, or Tuliptree, in Cases of Gout and Rheumatism. By the Editor, Note, The Editor Will Thankfully Receive Any Additional Facts and Observations, from Any of His Correspondents, Concerning the Use of Gypsum, as a Manure, in the United-States, The Preceding Notice Was Communicated to the Editor by Mr. John Heckewelder, Formerly of Bethlehem, but Who, at Present, Resides on the River Muskingum, Notes on the Preceding Paper, by the Editor. Obituary. Review: Review Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. ….