Identifier: philadelphiamont21828phil (find matches)
Title: The Philadelphia monthly journal of medicine and surgery
Year: 1827 (1820s)
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Subjects: Medicine Surgery Medicine General Surgery
Publisher: Philadelphia : R.H. Small
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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orthat suavity of manner which aids so much in winning back to intellectuallife the victims of cruelty and unkindness. American Surgery.—The National Gazette of the 20th contains a state-ment from an authentic source, that Dr. Dudley, Professor of Surgery in theTransylvania University, at Lexington, has performed lithotomy in seventytwo successive instances, without the occurrence of a single fatal case.—We question whether there is another operator now living who has had equalsuccess. Let not the Alleghany hide the fact. His mode of operating isthe lateral, and he employs the gorget. It is certainly desirable that Dr. D.should publish the result of his experience. We should be extremely hap-py to receive a communication from him on this subject. TO SUBSCRIBERS. We defer our Abstract of Foreign Medicine for the next number. Wehad not received our foreign journals until this was in press. An occasionalAnalysis of Domestic Medicine will, no doubt, be agreeable to our subscri-bers, #
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CIMICIFUGrA MAC1EM(DS.Black Snake Root.) • THEPHILADELPHIA MONTHLY Vol. I. September 1827. No. IV. Art. I.—An Inaugural Essay on the Properties and Effects of theCimicifuga Racemosa (black snake root). Submitted to the Facultyof Jefferson Medical College. By G. W. Mears, M.D. Cimicifuga is the name of a North American family of plants.It is derived from the Latin (cimex a bug and fugo to drive away,from its offensiveness to bugs) and is characterized bmthe followingbotanical description. Cimicifuga, gen. pi. 193 (ranunculacea). Calix 4 or 5 leaved.Petals 4 to 8, deformed, thickish, sometimes wanting. Capsules1 to 5, oblong, many seeded. Seeds squamose.—Nutt. There are four species, viz. 1, racemosa, 2, fetida, 3, americana,4, palmata, belonging to this genus, all of which have been errone-ously arranged under the genus Actea*. Racemosa, the species under consideration, belongs to class poly-andria, order monogynia, and is designated thus: leaves decom-pound, folioles ovate oblon

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