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CONTENTS OF KO. IIT. 

 ORiaiXA L COMMUMCA TlOyS, 



A*T. I. A Valedictory A(l(lrt*5s delivered in tlie Cha|)el of 

 Transylvania I'niversity, to tlie Mrdical CJnuiuatesat 

 the Coinint luemiMit on the I'illi of March, 11>28. 

 By CiiAKi IS WiLKiNs Short, M. D. Dean of tlie 

 Meilical Farulty. . - - . Page 30S 



11. An Essay on Milk-sickness. By Linskokd Pitts 



Y ANDELL, M. 1). of Murfreesi)on>n^di, Tennessee. 309 



III. Sin;zular Cases. By Charles Caliuvkll, M. D. Pro- 



ft's.'«or of the Institutes of Medicine and Clinical 

 Practice, in Transylvania I'niversity. - - 321 



IV. On tlie Chenncal chan«j(^s that take j)lace in the Blood, 



during Respiration, and thecau.s<'s of Animal Heat. 

 By James Blvtiie, D. D. Professor of Clu niistry in 

 Transylvania I'niversity. . . . . 329 



V. An pjssay on Autumnal Diseases. By John Esten' 

 Cooke, M. I). Professor of tlie Theory and Practice 

 of Medicine in 'I'ransylvania Iniversity. - - 339 



VJ. Flonda Le.xinfrtcMiiensis, secundum tlorendi {ctatem di- 

 getita; or a descriptive Catalogue of the Ph.Tno<^am- 

 ous plants indiijenous to this portion of Kentucky; 

 arraujL'ed in the order of their tlowerinj;. By Charles 

 AViLKiNs Short, M. D. Professor of Materia Medi- 

 ca and Medical Botany in Transylvania University. 

 Fasciculus II. For April. . . . . 407 



Vn. On the Diseases which appeared inHenr)- County, Ten- 

 nessee, in the suniFuer and fall of 1827 and a brief 

 account of their treatment, with remarks on the wea- 

 ther during the same. By John Travis, M. D, of 

 Henry County, Tennessee. . . . - 423 

 VIII. Case of Hysteria attended with some peculiarities. By 



James Conquest Cross, M. D. of Courtland, Ala. 425 



rX. Case of Retroversion of the Uterus relieved by extract 

 of Belladonna and Laudanum. By Dr. John Mills, 

 of Winciiester, Kentucky. . . . . 428 



X. Cases of Lithotomy; with observations. By Lunsford 



Pirrs Yandell, M. D. of Murfreesborough, Ten. 431 



XI. Review of "Medical and Physical Memoirs, (.Yeir Sc- 



ries.) By Charles Caldwell, M. D. Prof. &,c. 

 Printetl at the recjuest of the Class: Lexington, 

 1827.*" CommunicaUiL - - - - . ' 434 



XIT. Biographical notice of Dr. Frederick Ridgely, late 



of Lexington, Kentucky. . . , . 44a 



XIII. Meteorological Journal from February to May 1828. 

 By Thomas J. Matthews, A. M. Morrison Profes- 

 sor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Tran- 

 sylvaiud University. . . - ^ - 449 



