1848.

H. LUDWIG, PRINTER, 70 VESEY-ST., N. Y.

CONTENTS.-NO. XXVIII.

PART I-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I.-A Catalogue of the principal known Medicinal Plants,

native and exotic, growing in the State of New-York, with

brief Notes on their Composition, Properties, etc. By the

EDITOR. (Concluded.)

ART. II. Experiments to prove that the Capillaries of the Lungs

do not Anastomose. By G. P. CAMMANN, M. D. .

ART. III.-Some Physiological Evidences of the Curability of

Tubercular Consumption. By WM. A. MCDOWELL, M. D.

ART. IV.-Epidemic Dysentery. By JAMES BRYAN, M. D., Lec-

turer on Surgery, late Professor of Surgery and Medical Ju-

risprudence in the Academy of Medicine, Vermont. Also

formerly Physician and Surgeon to the Philadelphia Dispen-

sary, etc.

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ART. V.-Puncture of the Femoral Artery, treated by Compres-

sion, with some Remarks upon that Method.. BY DEWITT

C. ENOS, M. D., New-York.

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ART. VI.-Hernia cured by a Blow. By ALBAN Smith Payne,

M. D. (Communicated in a Letter to the Editor.)

ART. VII.-Description of the Bloomingdale Asylum for the In-...

sane, and the System of Moral Regimen pursued in the

Treatment of its Patients. By PLINY EARLE, M. D., Phy-

sician to the Asylum.

ART. VIII.-Remarks on the prevalent Diseases of the Counties

of Chenango and Broome, New-York, since the year 1807.

By AUGUSTUS WILLARD, M. D., of Greene, N. Y.

ART. IX.-On the Use of Nitrate of Silver in Acute Laryngitis.

By T. R. VARICK, M. D., New-York.

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