tutions. Scientific medicine now partakes largely of that spirit of inquiry 

 and restless activity which characterizes the age. In every department 

 ardent and impulsive adventurers, with all the aids of modern invention, 

 are enlarging the bounds of knowledge, and daily unfolding truths and 

 principles of the greatest practical utility. The rapid development of 

 every branch of medicine has created a desire on the part of the profes- 

 sion at large, for the earlier and more frequent dissemination of scientific 

 intelligence by the medical press. 



It was to meet these requirements that the Publishers proposed to 

 issue a weekly periodical of large size, and adapted to fully represent 

 the progress of medical science, not only in our city and country, but 

 throughout the world. They were at this time proprietors of the New 

 York Journal of Medicine, a bi-monthly which had for seventeen years 

 shared largely the confidence of the profession, and circulated widely 

 throughout the Union. But it could not in that form meet the 

 demands of its readers, nor faithfully represent New York, with her 

 population increased three-fold since its first issue, her numerous and 

 well appointed hospitals, her flourishing schools of medicine, and her 

 gradual centralization of medical interests. Accordingly they combined 

 the interests of that Journal with those of the Medical Press, a weekly 

 medical sheet of limited size, and established the AMERICAN MEDICAL 

 TIMES, which contains in the aggregate THREE TIMES the reading 

 matter of either of these periodicals, though they were of dimensions 

 equal to any now published in this country. That the AMERICAN 

 MEDICAL TIMES may come within the reach of the practitioner of the 

 most limited means, the subscription price is continued at $3.00 per 

 annum. 



The general Editorial management of the MEDICAL TIMES is 

 confided to STEPHEN SMITH, M.D., who for many years successfully 

 conducted the New York Journal of Medicine, with whom is associated 

 a corps of experienced collaborators in its several departments. 



Specimen Numbers and Detailed Prospectus can be had by 

 addressing 



BAILLIERE BROTHERS, 440 Broadway, N. Y. 

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