CONTENTS OF PART I. 



SECTION FIRST. 



I. AN Essay on the Influence of Air upon Animal Bodies. 

 By a Physician of Massachusetts. Communicated to the Editor, 

 by George Shattuck, M. D., of Boston 3 



II. On the Opening of Buboes by Caustic. In a letter to the 

 Editor, from Dr. Cutbush 1 7 



III. On the Prevention and Cure of certain Diseases of the Silk- 

 Worm 20 



IV. On the Use of the Veronica Peregrina in Scrophulous Cases. 

 In a letter to the Editor, from James Glen, M. D., of Holmesburg, 

 Pennsylvania 24 



V. Some Account of an Excursion to the White-Hills of New- 

 Hampshire, in the year 1 807. In a letter to the Editor, from George 

 Shattuck, M. D., of Boston 26 



VI. Memoranda respecting the Influenza, which prevailed in dif- 

 ferent parts of the United-States, in the year 1807. Collected by 

 Dr. William Currie, of Philadelphia 35 



VII. Account of a Remarkable Fall of Meteoric Stones, in Con- 

 necticut. Republished from a public paper, entitled the « Connec- 

 ticut Herald" 39 



