North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826Various
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North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826
Various
Medicine -- Periodicals
An Analysis of Fever. By Charles Caldwell, M. D., Professor of the
Institutes of Medicine, and Clinical Practice in Transylvania
University. 8vo. pp. 97.--Lexington, K. 1825.
Medical and Physical Memoirs. By Charles Caldwell, M. D., Professor, &c.
Containing, 1. An Introductory Address, intended as a Defence of the
Medical Profession against the charge of Irreligion and Infidelity; with
Thoughts on the Truth and Importance of Natural Religion. 2. A
Dissertation in answer to certain Prize Questions, proposed by his
Grace, the Duke of Holstein Oldenburg, respecting the "Origin, Contagion
and general Philosophy of Yellow Fever, and the Practicability of that
Disease prevailing in high Northern Latitudes;" with Thoughts on its
Prevention and Treatment. 3. Thoughts on the Analogies of Disease. 8vo.
pp. 224.--Lexington, K. 1826.
Florula Cestrica: an Essay towards a Catalogue of the Phoenogamous
Plants, native and naturalized, growing in the vicinity of the borough
of West-Chester, in Chester County, Pennsylvania; with brief notices of
their Properties and Uses, in Medicine, rural Economy and the Arts. To
which is subjoined an Appendix of the useful cultivated Plants of the
same District. By William Darlington, M. D. 8vo.--West-Chester, 1826.
We are much gratified with the appearance of this little flora.
It is really an uncommonly neat, useful, and convenient
performance; and, we have no doubt, is by far the most elegant
and creditable botanical work, if not the only one, published
in any small town in America. To a country town, we would not
think of looking for such a production; but in fact, the county
of Chester has, of late years, made very considerable advances
in science and literature. It has produced a public library,
and perhaps others with the existence of which we are not
acquainted, several botanical and mineralogical collections, a
very respectable series of essays on its history, similar to
Mr. Jefferson's notes on Virginia, schools, teaching the higher
branches of the English mathematics, and one of those partly
literary newspapers which have recently sprung up among us.
The above title considerably explains the nature and extent of
the work. Of its scientific accuracy, sufficient time has not
yet elapsed to form an adequate judgment; but we observe that
the author has had the frequent assistance of Baldwin, Collins,
Steinhauer, Torrey, and Schweinitz: so that, if the maxim
"noscitur a socio" be at all applicable in the present case, it
is evident that he has been in the very best botanical company
which our land affords.
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