American medical and philosophical register, or, Annals of medicine, natural history, agriculture and the arts (1810) (14741568856)

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Title: American medical and philosophical register, or, Annals of medicine, natural history, agriculture and the arts

Year: 1810 (1810s)

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Subjects: Medicine History, 19th Century Medicine

Publisher: New York : Published for the proprietors by C.S. Van Winkle

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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; of which kind I suppose thisto be, and the pain in the side and breast only accidentalsymptoms. I cannot dismiss this subject without communica-ting a remarkable instance of two essential intercur-rent fevers being blended together, so as to form acompound of both. This I formerly communicated toDr. Kearsleyand Mr. Franklin of Philadelphia, and wasin my opinion the only reason why the practice of inocu-lation proved so unsuccessful when the small-pox last ap-peared in this city. This distemper was brought into thiscity when an eruptive fever was epidemical, and very ge-neral ; and immediately the small-pox was propagated byinoculation in a great many different parts of the town,while the constitution of the air which favoured the erup- York. Dr. Warren, who has written a very exact history of its ap-pearance in Barbadoes, has very eleg-antly described its symptoms,and with great judgment directed a proper method of cure. Dr.Mitchell has done the same from its appearance in Virginia.

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Sharpies on Steam Carriages, 421 great advantages to society ; yet, these arts, in the handsof the rash and unskilful, too often occasion the mostfatal mischiefs j as errors of this kind are errors of themost dangerous consequence. II. An Investigation of the Principles of Steam Car-riages. Communicated to the Editors by the late JamesSharples, Esq, of this city. There is no mechanical project, except the perpetualmotion, that has been so often and so unsuccessfully at-tempted, as the self-moving carriage, or carriage to goby means of some internal power borne along with it; andI believe there is no engine of this kind in use, exceptthe Bath chair, by which gouty persons can move them-selves about from place to place, upon level ground, witha slow motion. Some attempts have been made to givemotion to carriages by means of steam ; but none everpromised more than the one made by Mr. Trivithick,who invented an engine to act with steam of so high atemperature, as to preclude the necessity

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