GENERAL PLAN 



OF THE 



PHILADELPHIA 



MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL JOURNAL. 



THE general plan of this work will be that of " The 

 Medical and Physical Journal," « The Medical Annals," 

 " The Annals of Botany," and other similar works, that are 

 published in Europe, and in the United-States. It is impossible, 

 at present, to lay down a plan which will be uniformly pursued : 

 or rather, it is not doubted, that considerable changes will occa- 

 sionally be made in the aspect of the work. The following is the 

 idea of the plan, which is now conceived by the Editor, and upon 

 which he has already proceeded to some length : 



I. The work will contain 1. Original Communications rela- 

 tive to all the branches of Medicine, Natural History, and Physical 

 Geograjihy. 2. Biographical Sketches of the lives of eminent 

 physicians and naturalists, especially those of the last half of the 

 eighteenth century, and of the present time. 3. Reviews of, and 

 Extracts from, new publications in Medicine, Natural History, 

 and Geography, especially those which have been published in the 

 United-States, or which have a particular reference to this tract 

 of country, Sec. 4. Miscellaneous Facts, of various kinds, all, 

 however, relating to the expressed objects of the work. 



