These contradictions cannot be reconciled but by considering them as two totally distinct forms of disease.

The most prevalent complaints of the months of January, February and March, have been of an inflammatory sort, the effects of cold. Of these the most conspicuous have been catarrh, croup, pneumonia, and rheumatism. The approach of spring also brought with it those complaints which arise from, or are connected with, a plethoric state of the system, viz. apoplexy, palsy, hæmorrhoids and erysipelas. The influenza, whooping-cough, and a few cases of scarlatina have also been occasionally met with. Owing, too, to the neglect of the poor, in not availing themselves of the benefits of vaccination, the natural small pox has also become prevalent in our city; but happily, in no case has it appeared where the patient had been vaccinated. Croup we observe very rarely to be fatal where the physician is called early, and active means are employed to restore the suppressed excretions. The early exhibition of emetics in this disease cannot be too earnestly enjoined both upon the parent and practitioner. We have also had occasion to treat two cases of apoplexy in the manner pointed out in the last number of this work, viz. by moderate bloodletting, instead of the profuse evacuations usually prescribed in cases of this nature. Both cases terminated happily. Upon this subject, too, the editors take occasion to remark, that although they are opposed to the practice of copious bloodletting when the disease has actually taken place, they earnestly reprobate the neglect of this remedy in those premonitory symptoms of apoplexy which proceed from a plethoric state of the blood vessels. Where such plethora manifests itself in females after the natural cessa

tion of the menses, by producing erisipelatous eruptions, vertigo, numbness of the extremities, or an oppressed state of the lungs indicating asthma, bloodletting in a moderate degree, has been found of great service. To the neglect of this remedy doubtless many cases of apoplexy and palsy are to be ascribed, as well as hydrothorax, the effect of effusion from an over-loaded state of the blood vessels.

In the treatment of dropsy, the editors have also had occasion to remark the bad consequences of the present fashionable treatment of that disease by fox-glove and mercury. In the forming state of dropsy, before great debility has been induced, and in those cases where the disease has been the effect of a full habit of body and inflammatory action, those remedies are indicated, and frequently prescribed with benefit. But in the second stage, in which the practitioner is apt to continue the use of those medicines that had been found serviceable in the commencement of the disease, they are manifestly injurious, by the debility they occasion. In those cases, iron, and the vegetable tonics, have been directed with the most salutary effects. The use of mercury in hydrocephalus has also, in the opinion of the editors, been too indiscriminately employed, to the neglect of the lancet, blisters, and other remedies calculated to divert from the brain the excessive action of the blood-vessels, which, for the most part, constitutes that formidable disease. Some recent cases of the salutary effects of the last mentioned remedies in hydrocephalus, and frequent observation of the abuse of mercury in the same disease, have led to these remarks.

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Statutes of Columbia College, as adopted by the board of trustees, November 6th, 1810. 8vo. New-York. T. & J. Swords.

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Botanical Lectures.

Dr. D. HosACK will commence his annual summer course of LECTURES ON BOTANY on the second Monday in May next.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

An Analytical Review of the valuable productions of Monsieur Dufief, of Philadelphia, the 3d edition of Nature Displayed, and the New French and English Dictionary, just published, are necessarily postponed.

Some Observations on Croup, and an interesting communication on the same subject, by Professor Mitchill, are also unavoidably deferred to our next number.

Future Communications for the American Medical and Philosophi cal Register, are requested to be addressed, post paid, to DR. DAVID HOSACK, New-York.