Identifier: americanmedicalp11810newy (find matches)
Title: American medical and philosophical register, or, Annals of medicine, natural history, agriculture and the arts
Year: 1810 (1810s)
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Subjects: Medicine History, 19th Century Medicine
Publisher: New York : Published for the proprietors by C.S. Van Winkle
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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egister forJuly. p. Sr—95. 244 3lassachusetts Medical Papers, to be much better known. Errors in diet, exposure tosudden changes of temperature or to damp air, fatigue,watching, anxiety of mind, &c. are among the numbermentioned. To the report is subjoined the histoiy of sixteen casesof the spotted fever, with a detail of the morbid appear-ances of six cases ascertained by dissection. These areextremely interesting and greatly enhance the value ofthe publication. The second and concluding article of the present num-ber is a dissertation on the progress of medical science,in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, by Joseph Bart-letU The circumstantial account which is here given ofthe increase of medical knowledge in the state of Massa-chusetts will be perused with much pleasure by every onewho feels an interest in the prosperity of our literary andscientific institutions. We sincerely hope that this ex-ample set by Dr. Bartlett may be followed in this andother states of the union. /
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( 245 ) DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Description of the Fezzan Ram, lately imported intoNew-Tork,—In a letter from Dr, Mitchill to Ro-bert R. Livingston, LL. D. dated New-Tork^ Au-gust 27^1810, (Se^ the annexed engraving, by Anderson.*) Dear Sir,George Davis, Esq. one of our consuls for Barbaiy,has just returned from Tripoli. He has brought withhim a singular sheep, who is safely landed, and the only-survivor of several which that enterprising and patrioticgentleman attempted to introduce among us. This creature has been the subject of so much con-versation, that I have thought it worth while to view * This ingenious artist was formerly a practitioner of medicine oftliis city. Having qualified himself by a regular course of studiesat the medical school of Columbia College, he received the degreeof Doctor of Medicine, in 1796, on which occasion he defended aninteresting inaugural dissertation on Chronic Mania.^^ He theaentered upon the duties of a profession of which he promised to be-come

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