A WEEKLY MEDICAL PERIODICAL. 



The AMERICAN MEDICAL TIMES is published every Saturday 

 Morning in quarto form, twenty-four pages, double columns, with clear 

 type and on fine paper. It will make two annual volumes, each consist- 

 ing of over 600 pages. Each number contains Original Lectures and 

 Papers, Reports of Hospitals and Societies, Editorials, Reviews, Reports 

 on the Progress of Medical Sciences, General, Foreign and Domestic 

 Correspondence, Medical News, &c., &c. 



*%* The volumes commence regularly on the first of January and 

 July, but Subscriptions may begin at any date. Subscribers who desire 

 to have the Series complete may, for the present, be supplied with the 

 back Numbers. 



TERMS $3.00 a Year in Advance. 

 BAILLIERE BROTHERS, 440 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 

 OCTOBER 1, 1860. 



In establishing the AMERICAN MEDICAL TIMES, the Publish- 

 ers have sought to meet a manifest and often expressed want, on the 

 part of the medical profession of the city and the country. This want 

 is but the natural result of those changes which have been wrought in 

 society within the last few years, and which are seen in the now universal 

 activity and enthusiasm in the study and investigation of every branch 

 of science, the increased facilities for the immediate and wide diffusion 

 of intelligence, and the rapid growth and expansion of our medical insti- 



