CONTENTS. 



MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT, INCLUDING EXTRACTS 

 FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE, 



t'agi. 



SELECTION OF PAPERS BY DR WRIGHT ON 

 MEDICAL AND BOTANICAL SUBJECTS. 



1. An account of the Medicinal Plants growing in 



Jamaica, _____ 183 



2. Extracts from Dr Wright's Herbaria, - - 246 



3. A Botanical and Medical Account of the Quassia 



Simaruba, or Tree which produces the Cortex 

 Simaruba, _-_-- 308 



4. On the Potato, - - - - - 316 



5. On the Antiseptic Virtues of Vegetable Acid and 



Marine Salt combined, in various disorders ac- 

 companied with putridity, - 322 



6. History of an Obstruction of the Rectum at birth, 



successfully cured by operation, - - 328 



7- On the Use of Cold Bathing in the Locked Jaw, - 330 



8. Account of a Child who had the Small-Pox in the 



Womb, 340 



9. On the External Use of Cold Water in the cure of 



Fever, 342 



