American Medical Biography

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tory, which was approbated by a committee chosen by the society. This work has now gone through the fourtli edition, and being an attempt to introduce many indigenous vegetables as articles of our materia medica, it is hoped may still be found useful among the practitioners of our country. The New England...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tory, which was approbated by a committee chosen by the society. This work has now gone through the fourtli edition, and being an attempt to introduce many indigenous vegetables as articles of our materia medica, it is hoped may still be found useful among the practitioners of our country. The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery has been established in Boston since the year 1812. It is now entitled, The New England Medical Review and Journal; and is a work of superior merit and utility, which reflects great honor on the learned and indefatigable editors, and on the medical character of the metropolis of Massachusetts. The Medical Intelligencer is published in Boston, in the form of a weekly paper. The able editor is entitled to great praise for the judicious manner in which this useful publication is conducted. A. See page 22. Dr. Dalhonde's Deposition. First. About twenty-five years ago, I was at Cremona, in Italy, in the French army, where there were thirteen soldiers upon whom this operation was performed, of which operation four died; six recovered with abundance of trouble and care, being seized with parotidal tumors and a large inflammation of the throat. One of them was opened; his diaphragm was found livid, the glands of the pancreas tumefied, and the caul gangrened. On the other three the operation had no effect. Secondly. In the year 1701, being in Flanders, there was committed to my care one Captain Hussart, taken ill of the smallpox, who told me in these very words: Ten years ago I was inoculated five or six times without that cursed invention taking effect upon me; must I then perish ? He was so violently seized that he had several ulcers upon his body, especially one upon bis arm, which occasioned a lameness there of through life. Thirdly. At ...