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Kentucky; Dr. J. K. Mitchell on Curvature of the Spine; Dr. 

 Wood on the Use of the Oil of Turpentine in certain stages of con- 

 tinued fever; Dr. Wiltbank on the Action of the Heart; Dr. Shoe- 

 maker's cases of poisoning from eating pheasants. Vol. II. Dr. B. 

 H. Coates on Gangrenous Ulceration of the Mouth in Children; Dr. 

 Parrish on the Prophylactic Treatment of Cholera Infantum; Dr. 

 Physick's account of an Operation for Artificial Anus. Vol. III. 

 Dr. Stevens on Staphyloraphe; Dr. J. Rhea Barton's celebrated case 

 of Anchylosis remedied by a new operation. Vol. IV. Dr. B. H. 

 Coates on Delirium Tremens; Dr. Becton's case of Epilepsy treated 

 by ligature of the left carotid; Dr. James on Extra-uterine Preg- 

 nancy. Vol. VI. Dr. Bond on removal of Foreign Bodies from the 

 (Esophagus ; Dr. Parrish on Cancer of the Breast. Vol. VIII. Dr. 

 Parrish on Pulmonary Consumption. The two last mentioned articles 

 are of the most useful practical character. Various papers in this 

 journal begin to show the influence of the physiological doctrine of 

 Broussais, which was more fully developed, at a later period, in the 

 pages of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 



The New York Medical and Physical Journal was published from 

 1822 to 1829. It contains articles by Drs. Francis, Bayley, Ho- 

 sack, Torrey, Stevens, Beck, Mott (excision of lower jaw), Coventry, 

 Delafield (on facial paralysis), Manley, Stevens, J. Kearney Rodgers, 

 Willoughby, Matthew Smith, Bayard (case of ovarian tumour suc- 

 cessfully extirpated). 



The " Philadelphia Journal" which has been already mentioned, 

 was succeeded by the " American Journal of the Medical Sciences" 

 established in 1827, and still continued, having reached its forty- 

 first volume. The long standing of this publication, the support 

 which it has received from many of the best writers in different parts 

 of the country, and the elevated literary character and spirit which 

 have distinguished it, have rendered it a favourite organ of the pro- 

 fession. So much of what is valuable in our periodical literature, 

 during the long protracted period of its existence, has found a place 

 in its pages, that it would be going beyond the limits of this report 

 to attempt an analysis of its contents. Here have been recorded 

 many of those daring operations which are dwelt upon with so much 

 pride by the American surgeon. Numberless cases of unusual 

 interest have been here related by their observers, often accompanied 

 by illustrations, for the most part creditable to the art which has 



