vi V CONTENTS. 



y. Account of the Last Illness of the Ingenious Doctor Wil- 

 liam Stark (of London) ; with a Statement of the Appearances oA 

 the Dissection of his Body. From an original MS., by the late 

 Mr. William Hewson, Surgeon and Anatomist, in London. Com- 

 municated to the Editor, by Dr. Thomas Hewson, of Philadelphia 



37 



VI. Case of a Child who swallowed an Iron Nail, which made 

 its Way through the Intestines and Parietes of the Abdomen. 

 Communicated to the Editor, by Dr. James Lyons 41 



VII. Observations relative to the Geography, Natural History, 

 &c., of the Country along the Red-River, in Louisiana. In a Let- 

 ter to the Editor, from Mr. Peter Custis, of Accomac-County, in 

 Virginia 43 



VIII. Notices of the Weather and Diseases, at Londonderry, / 

 in Ireland. In a Letter from W^illiam Patterson, M. D., Physi- 

 cian at Londonderry, to the Editor 50 



IX. Notice of the Progress of Vaccination in Ireland. In a 

 Letter from Dr. Patterson to the Editor 53 



X. Remarks on a Passage in the Chemical Writings of the ce- 

 lebrated Scheele. In a Letter from Adam Seybert, M. D., of Phi- 

 ladelphia, to the Editor 54r 



XI. History of a Case of Scurvy, which occurred during the 

 Use of Vegetable Food. By Caspar Wistar, M. D., Adjunct 

 Professor of Anatomy and Midwifery in the Utiivqrsity of Penn- 

 sylvania: and by him communicated to the Editor 56 



XII. Account of a Remarkable Tumour of the Face. Commu- 

 nicated, in a Letter to the Editor, from Dr. John A. Casey, of 

 Georgia 59 



XIII. Some Account of a large Species of Ascaris, found in the 

 Abdominal Cavity of a Dog. In a Letter to the Editor, from the 

 late Samuel Cooper, M. D., of Philadelphia 63 



