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uterus, simulating ovarian disease ; of cancer of the stomach, and of 

 melanosis, are reported in this number — certainly a very remarkable 

 collection of important medical and surgical histories, and implying 

 an ample supply of materials to allow of such selections. Add to 

 this Dr. Parsons' "Statistics of Large Surgical Operations," the 

 Midwifery Statistics from private practice, by Dr. Pleasants, and the 

 continuation of Dr. Trask's paper on Rupture of the Uterus, proba- 

 bly the most complete account of that accident to be found in print, 

 and it must be owned that the Patriarchal Quarterly has not fallen 

 below its own high standard of merit, at the point where the com- 

 mittee takes leave of it for the present. 



The New York Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences 

 was commenced in the year 1843, under the editorial care of the late 

 Dr. Forry, and has been continued in other hands to the present 

 time. The name of the young physician just mentioned ought not 

 to be passed over without some brief words of respectful commemo- 

 ration. Removed by death at an age when many are just beginning 

 to emerge from obscurity, struggling evidently with a frail and feeble 

 constitution during the few years of action allotted to him upon earth, 

 he has yet left behind him the record of labours which a strong man 

 in his maturity might have shown as the proof of his faithful indus- 

 try. Learned without any fondness for display, a lover of exact 

 detail, but always searching for principles in the facts he accumu- 

 lated so largely, a statistician, and yet a fluent and pleasing writer, 

 he carried the same zeal for science into the various positions he suc- 

 cessively occupied. How entirely this devotion to his pursuits pre- 

 vailed over the common weaknesses and interests by which most men 

 are influenced, was shown by the fearless readiness with which he 

 threw himself into the focus of a pestilential disease for the sake of 

 studying its nature and causes, as a mere episode in a pleasure-trip 

 which he had undertaken to recruit his exhausted forces. So long 

 as he lived the New York Journal was constantly enriched by his 

 ample communications. His works on Climate and Meteorology, the 

 former of which received the praises of Humboldt, will remain as his 

 most lasting monument. But such papers as the History of the 

 Fever at Rondout, and the Boylston Prize Essay on Revaccination, 

 will always be referred to with interest, and give value to the pages 

 of the Journal to which they were entrusted. Many other efficient 

 collaborators have contributed to the success of this Journal, among 

 whom may be mentioned Dr. Stevens, Dr. Watson, Dr. Swett, Dr. 



