THE

PHILADELPHIA

MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL

JOURNAL.

COLLECTED AND ARRANGED

BY BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON, M. D.,

PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA, NATURAL HISTORY, AND BOTANY,
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

PART I. VOL. III.

1808.

PUBLISHED BY

c. & A. CONRAD & CO., PHILADELPHIA; CONRAD, LUCAS, & Co.,
BALTIMORE; SOMERVELL & CONRAD, PETERSBURG;

BONSAL, CONRAD, & Co., NORFOLK.

PRINTED BY T. & G. PALMER, HIGH STREET.

1808.

AND

CONTENTS OF PART I.

SECTION FIRST.

I. AN Essay on the Influence of Air upon Animal Bodies.

By a Physician of Massachusetts. Communicated to the Editor,

by George Shattuck, M. D., of Boston

3

II. On the Opening of Buboes by Caustic. In a letter to the

Editor, from Dr. Cutbush

17

III. On the Prevention and Cure of certain Diseases of the Silk-

Worm

20

IV. On the Use of the Veronica Peregrina in Scrophulous Cases.

In a letter to the Editor, from James Glen, M. D., of Holmesburg,

Pennsylvania

24

V. Some Account of an Excursion to the White-Hills of New-

Hampshire, in the year 1807. In a letter to the Editor, from George

Shattuck, M. D., of Boston

26

VI. Memoranda respecting the Influenza, which prevailed in dif-

ferent parts of the United-States, in the year 1807. Collected by

Dr. William Currie, of Philadelphia

35

VII. Account of a Remarkable Fall of Meteoric Stones, in Con-

necticut. Republished from a public paper, entitled the "Connec-

ticut Herald"

39

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