THE NEW-ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY, AND Collateral Branches of Science. CONDUCTED BY A NUMBER OF PHYSICIANS. Vol. VII. Homo naturæ minister et interpres tantum facit et intelligit, quantum de naturæ NEW SERIES, VOL. II. BOSTON : PUBLISHED BY WELLS AND LILLY. ....... 1818. FRANCIS BACON, Med. い CONTENTS. Dr. Brown's Account of a Fever which prevailed in the Boston Almshouse Reciprocal changes in the blood and in the air, in Respiration Answer to Dr. Spalding's letter on Ergot Fatal effects of a poisonous Root Memoirs of the Life and Doctrines of the late John Hunter, Esq. Observations D'Accouchemens, Recueillies a la Salle des accouchées de l'Hôpital- Civil de Strasbourg; par Jean Frédéric Lobstein, Docteur en Medicine, &c. Some Remarks upon the Efficacy of General Remedies, and especially Purgatives, in insuring a healthy state of the urinary Secretion, and thus in preventing |