LIST OF AUTHORIZED AGENTS. S. WOODALL, No. 49 Camp st., N. O., Publisher. W. H. WELD, JOHN B. WELD, THOS. WATERMAN, H. N. LEWIS. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The above constitute at present the only authorized Agents for this Journal. All monies or remittances may be paid or sent to either of the above as may be preferred-and to them only. We mention this fact for the benefit of our Subscribers many of whom have sent monies to other persons not authorized to receive the same and in many cases the amounts have failed to reach their destination. We therefore repeat that we will consider no payment as valid, should it fail to reach us, if addressed to any other persons than those mentioned above. New Orleans, May 1, 1847. TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. Communications have been received from Drs. Love, C. S. Fenner, Wm. A. Booth and Lewis Shanks. NOTE. These articles have been left out of our last number, because received too late. We request our Correspondents to send in their articles before the beginning of the months in which the Journal appears.)-EDs. Our usual exchanges have been received. We have received from the publishers the following: "SOLLY, on the Brain." "WHITEHEAD, on Abortion and Sterility." "STILLE'S Pathology." "MATTEUCI'S Lectures on Living Beings." BOWERS' Memoranda of Surgery and Anatomy;-The Young Stethocopist, or the Students aid to Auscultation. By HENRY BOWDITCH, M. D.; LATHAM, on Auscultation and Semiology. A Lecture by Professor HARD, on Atresia Vagina; DUNGLISON, on the Practice of Medicine, 2 vol.; MULLER'S Physics and Meteorology. TO SUBSCRIBERS. This number completes the Fourth volume of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. For four years we have labored to establish the work, and although many have been the difficulties and obstacles that opposed our progress, yet, thanks to the kind friends and patrons of the enterprize, we think we have finally succeeded. We again request the friends of and subscribers to, the Journal, to send in their communications and subscriptions. We shall enter upon the new year with fresh zeal and a firm deter mination to do all we can to advance the interest of the profession. EDRs. LIST OF RECEIPTS ON ACCOUNT OF SUBSCRIPTIONS, SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF THE LAST NUMBER, Dr. Arnett, G. W., to July 1849 $5 Atkinson, W. H., Jan'y 1848 Dr. Krouse, T. J. vol. 4 $5 "Leslie, N. K. to 1849 5 "Larche, N. E. "Lipscomb & Love, "Liddell, J. R. "Lewis, J. E., Jan'y 1848 to "Bates, F. A., 1849 5 "Beck, J. F. to 1849 5 1849 5 1849 5 "Booth, Matthews, Alex., Nov. 1848 to 1849 5 "Calderwood, Jno. 1849 5 to 1849 66 Childers, E. R., Jan'y 1848 to Mitchell, Wm. Esq, Jan. 1848 Dr. McKee & Smith, March 1848 "Moore, Thos. E., Sept. 1847 to 5 5 1848 5 Murph, Jas. M. vol. 4 5 "Malory, "45 66 Massey, E. J. "Oliver, T. P., Jan'y 1848 to 5 1849 5 5 35 5 5 "Fenner, C. S. 1848 to 1849 5 Rainey, W. W., to July 1849 5 1848 "French, Wm. Sept. 1846 to "Green, A. L. George, W. W. Jan'y 1847 to 66 10 vol. 5 5 Rowland, J. A., March 1848 to 1849 "Stone, C. H. "Sutton, David 66 Shanks & Frasier, 1849 66 Terrell, Joel., 1848 Thomas, N. L. 1848 to 5 5 Washington, W. B. CONTENTS OF THE NEW ORLEANS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL. VOL. IV. No. VI. FOR MAY, 1848. PART FIRST. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. PAGE 689 694 ART. I.-A History of the Epidemic which prevailed in Vicksburg dur- 695 PART SECOND. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW WORKS. ART. I.-A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine. By GEORGE B. &c. ART. III.-Adulterations of various substances used in Medicine and the Arts, with the means of detecting them; intended as a Manual for the Physician, the Apothecary and the Artisan. By LEWIS C. BECK, M. D., Professor of Chemistry in Rutger's College, New Jersey, and in the Albany Medical College, &c., &c., New York. Samuel S. and W. Wood. 1846. pp. 332. 698 753 757 ART. IV.-The History, Diagnosis and Treatment of the Fevers of the United States. By ELISHA BARTLETT, M. D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic in the Medical Department of Transylvania University, &c. Lea & Blanchard. Philadelphia. 1847. pp. 534. 759 ART. V.-Tracts on Generation, No. 1. Proofs that the Periodic Maturation and Discharge of Ova, are in the Mammalia and the Human Female Independent of Coition, as a first condition of their propagation. By T. L. G. BISCHOFF, M. D., Professor of Physiology, &c., Giessen. Translated from the German, by Professor Gilman and Tellkampf, of New York. |