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honoured with republication. Cullen's ever memorable First Lines 

 were edited by Dr. Caldwell; Gregory by Drs. Potter and Colhoun, 

 who made considerable additions; Armstrong, Good, Mackintosh, 

 Hall, Elliotson, Watson, Alison, Williams, Billing, Latham, Quinn's 

 translation of Martinet, and the three great compilations, the Lon- 

 don Cyclopaedia, Tweedie's Library, and Copland's Dictionary, the 

 last with many valuable additions by Dr. Lee, to which may be 

 added Dr. Spillan's Translation of Andral's Clinique Medicale, 

 have poured their copious floods of foreign science into the American 

 medical mind. Of the text books recently republished, Watson is 

 very justly the principal favourite. His wide range of medical 

 reading, inwrought with sufficient practical experience, the easy 

 colloquial graces of his style, the sharp and picturesque turn of his 

 descriptions, the sensible and simple rules of practice which he lays 

 down, and a certain peculiar tact which teaches him what the stu- 

 dent wishes to know, and how it will best be conveyed, render this 

 book a model in its kind. Elliotson is a more original practitioner, 

 and a still more discursive scholar ; his book is a great favourite in 

 England, and may be read with profit, and often pleasure, any- 

 where. Of Dr. Mackintosh's work, it must be confessed that though 

 a bold and manly practitioner, he has admitted many expressions 

 and feelings into its pages which are to be regretted by every dis- 

 passionate reader. Dr.- Alison's Outlines of Pathology are impressed 

 with the philosophical character of his high intellect, but less appli- 

 cable to the student's immediate wants than the Principles of Medi- 

 cine, by Dr. Williams. Dr. Holland's Medical Notes and Reflections 

 treat of a variety of subjects with ingenuity and good sense, and in 

 an easy unaffected style. 



In passing to the works of a more special character, the whole 

 field of American Medical Literature, from its earliest times, is 

 thrown open. Boylston, the hero and almost the martyr of inocu- 

 lation, and Douglas, his keen opponent, Cadwallader, Tennant, 

 Bond, Gale, Lining, Chalmers, Garden, Colden, Ogden and Bayley, 

 are among those who began the task, which at a later period was 

 continued by the ardent enthusiasm of Rush, the descriptive energy 

 of Currie, the bold invention of Miller, and the acute practical sense 

 of Nathan Smith. 



Besides the innumerable essays in the periodical publications on 

 the fevers of this country, and the notices of them contained in the 

 general works already cited, various separate essays have appeared 

 at different periods. At the head of the list must be placed, by 



