E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Josephine Paolucci, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 29307-h.htm or 29307-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29307/pg29307-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29307/29307-h.zip) THE NORTH AMERICAN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL. CONDUCTED BY HUGH L. HODGE, M.D. | CHAS. D. MEIGS, M.D. FRANKLIN BACHE, M.D. | B. H. COATES, M.D. AND R. LA ROCHE, M.D. NON DOCTIOR, SED MELIORE IMBUTUS DOCTRINA. VOL. II. PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY J. DOBSON, AGENT. JESPER HARDING, PRINTER. 1826. _Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit_ BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the 31st day of March, in the 50th year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1826, Hugh L. Hodge, Franklin Bache, Charles D. Meigs, Benjamin H. Coates, and Rene La Roche, of the said District, have deposited in this office the Title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "_The North American Medical and Surgical Journal. Conducted by Hugh L. Hodge, M. D., Franklin Bache, M. D., Chas. D. Meigs, M. D., B. H. Coates, M. D., and R. La Roche, M. D. Non doctior, sed meliore imbutus doctrina. Vol. II._" In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, intituled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;"--and also to the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. No. III. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. ART. PAGE. I. Description of the Gangrenous Ulcer of the mouths of children. By B. H. Coates, M. D., one of the Physicians to the Philadelphia Children's Asylum, &c. 1 II. Case of Purpura in an Infant, attended with extraordinary symptoms. By R. M. Huston, M. D. 24 III. History of the Natural and Modified Small Pox, or of the Variolous and Varioloid Diseases, as they prevailed in Philadelphia, in the years 1823 and 1824. By John K. Mitchell, M. D., and John Bell, M. D., attending physicians at the then Small Pox Hospital. With a plate. 27