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them round, but very slowly and at the risk of frequent 

 relapses and stoppages of the bowels, sequelae of long- 

 standing fevers very much more certain to occur if 

 bark is not given in time. Dr. Rush learned of a quack 

 doctor the use of blistering plaisters for obstinate cold 

 fevers, or agues, and his experience convinced him of 

 the value of the treatment. The blisters are applied to 

 both wrists and seldom fail of effect. (Several bands 

 about the hand have long been used by our German 

 country-people.) Dr. Rush in this way cured a Vir- 

 ginia doctor of a tertian which he had been dragging 

 about for three months, and he in turn used the treat- 

 ment again in Virginia with good results. 



Dr. Morgan is Professor of the Practice of Medi- 

 cine, a man no less agreeable than well-informed. He 

 is a Fellow of the Royal Society at London and of 

 several other learned societies, and has travelled in 

 France and Italy. Chiefly through his efforts the medi- 

 cal school at Philadelphia was established. At the be- 

 ginning of the war he was Inspector General of the 

 American hospitals, but as a consequence of intrigues 

 resigned this place ; however, not before bringing upon 

 himself rude treatment on the part of the Congress. He 

 was one of the first men who at that time ventured to 

 expose the assumed infallibility of the Congress, his 

 action springing from the stedfastness of his character 

 and the consciousness of his own rectitude. At his 

 house I saw a collection of great bones brought from 

 the Ohio, which Mr. Peale was just then painting, 

 natural size, for Counsellor Michaelis. 



Dr. Kuhn, of German origin, is the Professor of 

 Botany + and Materia Medica. He is a disciple of the 

 lamented Linnaeus, who named an order of plants in 



