THE

NEW-YORK

JOURNAL OF MEDICINE.

AND THE

COLLATERAL SCIENCES.

EDITED BY

SAMUEL S. PURPLE, M.D.,

AND

STEPHEN SMITH, M.D.

Verumque est, ad ipsam curandi rationem nihil plus conferre,
quam experientiam.-CELSUS.

PURPLE & SMITH,

OFFICE OF PUBLICATION, 183 HUDSON STREET.

1854.

HOLMAN, GRAY & CO., PRINTERS, NEW-YORK.

CONTENTS.-No. I.

NEW SERIES.

PART I-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I.-Review of the Climate and Diseases of Certain Por-

tions of the State of California. By F. W. HATCH, M.D.,

Sacramento City, California..

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ART. II.—A Case of Amputation at the Shoulder-Joint.

JOHN COCHRAN, M.D., one of the Surgeons to Brooklyn City

Hospital.

By

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ART. III.-Observations on Exhaustion from the Effects of

Heat. (Coup de Soleil.) By H. S. SWIFT, M.D., Resident

Physician of the New York Hospital.

ART. IV. On the Use of Hydrochlorate of Ammonia in Coup de

Soleil. By J. R. LEAMING, M.D., Physician to the Northern

Dispensary, N. Y.

ART. V.-A Review of Epidemic Small-pox as it has prevailed

in New York City at Different Periods during the last Fifty

Years. (Read before the Society of Statistical Medicine,

New York.) By J. LEWIS SMITH, M.D., Physician to the

North-Western Dispensary, New York.

ART. VI.-On the Topical Application of the Nitrate of Silver

to the Larynx and Trachea in Croup. By EDWIN N. CHAP-

MAN, M.D., Brooklyn, N. Y.

ART. VII.-A Case in which a Cystoid Tumor of the Ovary was

Successfully Punctured through the Vagina. With Statis-

tics. By J. MENNINGER, M.D., of New York.

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