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common consent, the masterly and elegant treatise, by Dr. Bartlett, 

 the second edition of which has been recently published, and -which, 

 as a systematic resume of the existing knowledge on the subject of 

 these diseases is invaluable to the American student and practi- 

 tioner. Another recent treatise is that by Dr. Clymer, entitled, 

 Fevers, General and Special. 



The Spotted Fever of New England called out several works in 

 addition to the Report of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and 

 many articles in journals and in other publications. The essays of 

 North, Strong, Wilson and Hale, are familiar to all who have studied 

 the history of this disease. 



Several American authors have written express treatises on Yel- 

 low Fever ; Dr. Bartlett mentions the names of Carey, Currie, and 

 of a more recent date, Daniell, of Savannah, briefly characterizing 

 the peculiar features of their works ; a portion of the writings of 

 Rush and Hosack is devoted to this disease, and there are numerous 

 scattered articles, some of which have already been referred to. 



Only a single American work, directed entirely to the subject of 

 Typhoid Fever, is cited by Dr. Bartlett, but that one is the "Prac- 

 tical Essay" of Nathan Smith, of which he says, very justly, that 

 "to an American practitioner it is worth more than all the modern 

 English treatises on fever put together." The Essays of Drs. Miner 

 and Tully, written in a very different spirit, must also be men- 

 tioned. 



The translations which have appeared on the subject of Fevers, 

 are that of Senac, by Dr. Caldwell, of Hildenbrand, by Dr. Gross, 

 of Louis on Typhoid Fever, by Dr. Bowditch, and on Yellow Fever, 

 by Dr. Shattuck. The British works which have been reprinted 

 are those of Fordyce, of Bancroft, edited by Dr. Davidge, Wilson 

 Philip, edited with additions by Nathan Smith, Macculloch on Re- 

 mittent and Intermittent Diseases, Southwood Smith's Treatise, and 

 Tweedie's Clinical Illustrations. 



The Eruptive Fevers .have found but few formal historians in this 

 country. William Douglas published some little essays on Small- 

 pox, on a "New Epidemical Eruptive Miliary Fever in Boston," 

 and on another epidemic fever attended with angina, probably 

 scarlet fever, — all of which might in more modern times have ap- 

 peared as articles in Medical Journals. A century afterwards, Dr. 

 Fisher, of the same place, published his Description of Small-pox, 

 Varioloid Diseases, Cow-pox and Chicken-pox, with a number of 



