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The publication of this journal was followed, in a few years, by 

 that of the Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, (1804,) and 

 by several other periodicals in that city, and in New York and 

 Baltimore. Among these was the American Medical and Philoso- 

 pMcal Register, (New York, 1810,) in the fourth volume of which is 

 the famous letter of Dr. Mitchell, of Virginia, to Dr. Franklin, on 

 yellow fever, from which Rush took the hint that led to his practice 

 in that complaint ; with other interesting papers on the same subject. 

 The Eclectic Repository, (Philadelphia, 1811,) was highly esteemed 

 for the judgment and talent with which it was conducted. Anion** 

 its original papers are those of Dr. Griffitts, on the method of pre- 

 serving and using the vaccine crust, on blistering as a remedy for 

 mortification, on the subject of re-infection in yellow fever, the non- 

 occurrence of which he maintains, and on a case of supposed aneu- 

 rism of the right carotid artery. 



The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery was com- 

 menced at Boston in the year 1812, and continued until 1826. It 

 was supported with a good deal of spirit, by some of the best prac- 

 titioners and writers of the region where it was published. Dr. 

 Warren, the elder, contributed an Essay on Angina Pectoris. Dr. 

 James Jackson, a most valuable paper on the Morbid Effects of 

 Dentition, containing an account of Cholera Infantum, which seems 

 to have furnished a model for some later writers ; an article on Croup ; 

 another on the occurrence of Fever in certain families; and one upon 

 a painful affection, to which he gave the name of Arthrodynia a 

 Potu. Dr. J. C. Warren related some cases of Disease of the Heart 

 and of Sciatica; Dr. Parsons gave a surgical account of the Battle 

 of Lake Erie; Dr. Bigelow published his Prize Essay on Burns; Dr. 

 John Hay related the history of a family affected with the hemor- 

 rhagic diathesis; Dr. Haskell reported a case of Ichthyosis cornea, 

 illustrated by a good figure; Dr. Hay ward wrote a paper on "Deli- 

 rium Vigilans;" Drs. Channing, Woodward, Peirson and many others 

 reported important cases. The story of the ship "Ten Brothers," 

 which came to Boston with yellow fever in its hold, is here related. 

 Dr. Russell, of Lincoln, reported a singular case of hydrophobia 

 from the bite of a raccoon; an instance, if correctly reported and 

 interpreted, of a disease said by some never to have occurred in 

 Boston or its vicinity. 



In 1820, the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical 



