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Griscom, Dr. Stewart, Dr. Foltz, Dr. Davis, and the present editor, 

 Dr. Lee. 



The number for July, 1847, contains an excellent practical article, 

 by Dr. John B. Beck, on the Effects of Blisters on the Young Sub- 

 ject, one of a series of papers on infantile therapeutics, which de- 

 serves a more permanent and convenient form than that of a contri- 

 bution to a periodical publication. This number contains also a long 

 article on the use of Galvanism, a case of successful amputation at 

 the hip-joint, and some useful directions by Dr. Bliss as to the treat- 

 ment of lying-in women. 



The September number gives a portion of Dr. Lee's Catalogue of 

 the Medicinal plants of New York, a valuable contribution to the 

 Medical Botany of our country ; a history of several cases of puerpe- 

 ral fever, apparently originating from erysipelas, and several other 

 papers, more comprehensive in their titles, and less obvious in their 



utility. 



Dr. Lee's Catalogue is continued in the November number; Dr. 

 Griscom furnishes a good report of cases in the New York Hospital, 

 Drs. Trevor and Parmley do battle upon the merits of the "Amal- 

 gam" for filling teeth, ending, as it seems to the committee, in the 

 total discomfiture of the baser metals which have been prepared as 

 a substitute for gold. The reader will be apt to pass willingly over 

 certain argumentative pages for the sake of arriving sooner at the 

 notice of the American Microscope, which the ingenious Mr. Spencer 

 is just beginning to put into the hands of his scientific countrymen. 



The January number brings to a conclusion the long Catalogue 

 which the editor has taken so much pains to render complete. Dr. 

 Cammann, known by his researches on auscultatory percussion, gives 

 the results of some experiments on the ultimate distribution of the 

 capillaries of the lungs. Dr. M'Dowell attempts to show that scurvy 

 is an antagonistical affection to phthisis, and to educe some hopeful 

 practice therefrom. Dr. Payne has an article on Hernia, and Dr. 

 Earle, always a welcome contributor, furnishes a description of the 

 Bloomingdale Asylum. 



The number for March contains two papers of some interest, that 

 of Dr. J. B. Beck on Acute Laryngitis, the substance of which was 

 published as long ago as 1824, and Dr. Stone's Remarks on Typhus 

 or Ship Fever, the main conclusions of which agree with those of the 

 Committee on Practical Medicine for this year, so far as the latter 

 have been made public. 



