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THE

NORTH AMERICAN

JOURNAL.

CONDUCTED BY

NON DOCTIOR, SED MELIORE IMBUTUS DOCTRINA.

VOL. II.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY J. DOBSON, AGENT.

JESPER HARDING, PRINTER.

Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit

CONTENTS

OF VOL. II.

No. III.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ANALYTICAL REVIEWS.

MEDICAL LITERATURE.—RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.

QUARTERLY SUMMARY OF MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INTELLIGENCE.

No. IV.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ANALYTICAL REVIEWS.

MEDICAL LITERATURE—RETROSPECTIVE REVIEWS.

QUARTERLY SUMMARY OF IMPROVEMENTS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY

CONTENTS

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ANALYTICAL REVIEWS.

MEDICAL LITERATURE.

QUARTERLY SUMMARY OF MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE

NORTH AMERICAN

Medical and Surgical Journal.

JULY, 1826.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

Article I.—Description of the Gangrenous Ulcer of the Mouths of Children. By B. H. Coates, M. D. one of the Physicians to the Philadelphia Children's Asylum, &c.

FOOTNOTES:

Article II.—Case of Purpura in an Infant, attended with Extraordinary Symptoms. By R. M. Huston, M. D., &c.

Article III.—History of the Natural and Modified Small-Pox, or of the Variolous and Varioloid Diseases, as they prevailed in Philadelphia in the years 1823 and 1824. By John K. Mitchell, M. D., and John Bell, M. D. attending physicians at the then Small-Pox Hospital. With a Plate.

METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.[13]

EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE.

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

FOOTNOTES:

Article IV.—Remarks on the Pathology and Treatment of Yellow Fever. Arranged from the Notes of Dr. J. A. Monges, of Philadelphia.

Article V.—Remarks on the Prophylactic Treatment of Cholera Infantum. By Joseph Parrish, M. D., one of the Surgeons to the Pennsylvania Hospital.

Article VI.—Case of Neuralgia cured by Acupuncturation. Communicated by J. Hunter Ewing, M. D.

ANALYTICAL REVIEWS.

Article VII.—Researches into the Nature and Treatment of Dropsy in the Brain, Chest, Abdomen, Ovarium, and Skin, in which a more correct and consistent Pathology of these Diseases is attempted to be established, and a new and more successful method of treating them, recommended and explained. By Joseph Ayre, M. D. &. London, 1825.

Article VIII.—An Essay on Venereal Diseases, and the Uses and Abuses of Mercury in their Treatment. By Richard Carmichael, M.R.I.A. With Practical Notes, &c. by G. Emerson, M. D. Philadelphia, J. Harding, 1825; pp. 360.

Article IX.—Remarks on some Means employed to destroy Tænia, and expel them from the Human Body.—By Louis Frank. M. D. Privy Counsellor of her Majesty, Maria Louisa, Duchess of Parma. [Lond. Med. Rep. April 1825.]

FOOTNOTES:

Article X.—Researches Physiological and Pathological, instituted principally with a View to the Improvement of Medical and Surgical Practice. By James Blundell, M. D., Lecturer on Physiology and Midwifery at the United Hospitals of St. Thomas and Guy. London, 1824, pp. 146, 8vo.

Article XI.—An Inquiry into the Nature and Treatment of Diabetes, Calculus, and other Affections of the Urinary Organs. By William Prout, M. D., F. R. S. From the second London Edition, published in 1825; with Notes and Additions, by S. Colhoun, M.D. Philadelphia, Towar & Hogan, 1826; pp. 308.

FOOTNOTES:

MEDICAL LITERATURE.

Article XII.—Retrospective Review.—Tractatus de Ventriculo et Intestinis, cui prœmittitur alius, de Partibus continentibus in Genere, et in Specie de iis Abdominis. Authore Francisco Glissonio, &c. &c. Lond. 1677, 4to.

FOOTNOTES:

QUARTERLY SUMMARY OF MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INTELLIGENCE.

I. ANATOMY.

II. PHYSIOLOGY.

III. PATHOLOGY.

IV. THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA, AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

V. SURGERY.

VI. MIDWIFERY.

VII. CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY.

FOOTNOTES:

QUARTERLY LIST OF AMERICAN MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS

AMERICAN EDITIONS OF FOREIGN MEDICAL BOOKS.