PREFACE. AVING now brought to a conclufion the firft Volume of the PHILADELPHIA MEDICAL MUSEUM, it is incumbent on the Editor to return his warmest acknowledgments to those Gentlemen who have fo kindly patronized the undertaking. The value of a work of the present description, must evidently depend on the importance of the communications committed to the charge of the Editor; and he may justly boast of the excellence of those specimens which the present Volume presents to the public. The addition of the Engravings, unpromised in the prospectus of the work, (whilft they add fo greatly to its value, and are fo creditable to the improvement of the arts amongst us;) must be confidered as a strong proof of the defire to render it of as much utility, at the most moderate expense, as lies in our power. The Editor may be permitted to congratulate his Medical Brethren, on the flattering profpects which two additional periodical publications must neceffarily produce in the science of medicine throughout the extensive regions of America. When it is confidered that but a few years have elapfed fince the firft work of this kind was carried into effect, we cannot but regard it as highly characteristic of the increasing energy of our scientific researches. The approbation which this work has already received, cannot but prove highly grateful to the Editor; and, whilst he folicits a continuance of that aid he has already fo largely fhared; he can only fay, that no exertions on his part will be wanting, to render the Medical Museum as extenfively useful as poffible. This, he trusts, he shall be able to effect, by the meafures adopted to receive as soon as poffible the earliest European publications connected with medicine, as well as by the experience he has now acquired, which he hopes will render this Work each year, more and more worthy the acceptance of the medical world. PHILADELPHIA, CONTENTS. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Page "M' ITCHELL's account of the Yellow Fever in Virginia in 1741-2 2. Kearfley's obfervations on the difference between the Yellow Fever of Pennsylvania and Virginia I 20 3. Dryfdale's history of the Yellow Fever at Baltimore in 1794 (No. I.) 4. Stuart's account of the falutary effects of ligatures in the last stage of a violent cafe of Yellow Fever 22 43 5. Otto, on the effects of arfenic in three cafes of Eruption 47 6. Coxe's history of a cafe of Tetanus, in which large quantities of the tincture of cantharides were ineffectually employed 52 8. Rufh's Dr. John) account of Resuscitation in a case of supposed death from Yellow Fever 7. Rufh's (Dr. Benjamin) account of the efficacy of fugar of lead in curing Epilepfy 60 62 9. Phyfick's history of a cafe of Aneurism (with a plate) 65 Io. Baldwin's account of the Yellow Fever at Lisburn in 1803 67 11. James's account of Vaccination at the Alms house of Philadelphia, &c. 69 12. Coxe's obfervations on accidents arising from burns, scalds, &c. 72 13. Horsefield's account of a voyage to Batavia 75 14. Rodman's Table of the comparative temperature of the air and of the water of the ocean in a voyage to Batavia 83 15. Dryfdale's history of the Yellow Fever at Baltimore in 1794, (No. II.) 121 16. Williamson's obfervations on Chorea Sancti Viti 149 17. Coxe's account of an Albino 151 18. Watkin's account of the efficacy of yeast in typhus fever 156 19. Pascalis's account of an abscess of the liver, terminating favourably by |