Practical Observations on Dropsy of the Chest (Breslau, 1706), trans. and ed. by Saul Jarcho, (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, vol. 61, part 3), Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1971, pp. 46, $2.00.

Practical Observations on Dropsy of the Chest (Breslau, 1706)

Dr. Saul Jarcho's several papers on the history of hydrothorax, culminating in the present translation of an authoritative eighteenth-entury 'review article', effectively dispel the idea obtainable from some modem reference works that the history of hydrothorax begins with the introduction of auscultation and percussion. Practical Observations on Dropsy of the Chest was published in Breslau in ...

James Hutton's medical dissertation. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 70, pt. 6)

alarmed. He was so alarmed that he sought the advice of the Secretary of State of the Home Department to see whether the Public Health Act of 1858 could be invoked to prevent the pollution and danger to public health he feared would inevitably follow. His earlier approaches to Vivian had been rebuffed with the riposte that no one else had complained. Jowett replied that no one dependent on him ...

The Autobiographical Ana of Robley Dunglison, M.D., ed. by S. X. Radbill, (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series Vol. 53, pt. 8)

Gaub's two essays have a fascination in their own right. The first of them is practically unobtainable in English, and the second is for the first time translated. This however, does not complete the debt we owe to Dr. Rather for he has embedded in the text of these essays copious notes, some of which are themselves short essays full of information and cogent comment. The result is therefore, a...

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Vol. LXXII. For the Year 1782. Part II

Astronomy during the Early Years of the American Philosophical Society.

Astronomy During the Early Years of the American Reports: Philosophical Society: DR. S. A. MITCHELL .................. 489 First Report of the War Policy Committee of the American Institute of Physics .......... .............. 508 Obituary: Special Articles: Arthur Newell Talbot: PROFESSOR F. E. RICHART. The Biochemical Specificity of Sulfanilamide and Recent Deaths ......... 495 of Other Antib...