PRICE TWO SHILLINGS, gantly printed on fine Demy Paper, octavo fize, containing at least Six Sheets of Letter-Prefs, and embellished with One or Two Plates, a New, Ufeful, and Interesting Periodical Work, intitled THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL; CONTAINING THE EARLIEST INFORMATION ON SUBJECTS OF MEDICINE, SURGERY, CHEMISTRY, PHARMACY, BOTANY, AND NATURAL HISTORY. Ex Medicina nihil oportet putare proficifci, nifi quod ad utilitatem corporis fpectat, quoniam ejus causâ est instituta. CICERO, de Inventione, Lib. I. PROSPECTUS. MAGAZINES and other Periodical Works have lately been generally dopted, as vehicles of ufeful knowledge, more extenfive in their effe than ny other fpecies of publications. That others are however ftill wanted to fupply he Medical Department of literature in this Country, is a fact which has long een obvious to every inquifitive obferver. There is at prefent no Monthly Journal in the English language, the professed nd single design of which is to communicate accounts very new Observation nd valuable Discovery made from time to time in the different branches of Medicine; and still it must be confeffed, that an early circulation of intelligence > effential to the practitioner, as well as to fociety in general, has not been ttended to, in this country, with the care which the importance of the object equired. The prefent undertaking, therefore, is intended to exhibit a compendious view of all fuch matters of fact as lie and remain fcattered, z prefent, through a vast number of expenfive and voluminous publications, a well foreign as domestic, and which deserve to be more generally known to the Medical Practitioner. Confidering the important and rapid progress daily made in Chemih, Natural Philofophy, and other sciences connected with Medicine, it becoms matter of just surprise, that no effectual plan has hitherto been adopted, furnish the British Public with an accurate Analysis of all the Novelties a Improvements which continually appear in various countries and languages. To accomplish this desirable purpose, and more fully to illustrate the princips of a science, on the due cultivation of which our enjoyments and even exifter: fo materially depend, is the primary and efpecial object of the BRITIS MEDICAL JOURNAL; a work which, though intended chiefly for the uf✅ the Faculty, will convey fuch a variety of practical and interesting informatio, as cannot fail to prove acceptable and useful to every class of readers. The following outline of the Plan comprehends the different objects to which the attention of the Editors will be principally directed I. Effays on the most important fubjects of Medicine, confidered with respect to th Origin, Prevention, and Cure of Diseases in general. II. Every recent Improvement and Discovery in Botany, Chemistry, Pharmacy, an other medical sciences; accurate accounts of new Remedies, whether they are fuch as have acquired reputation fuperior to their merit, or fuch as deferve to le more generally known and employed. III. An abridged view of the prevailing Epidemics of the season; a narrative of the ufual progrefs; directions for the proper diet and regimen to be obferved by the patient; together with the most fuccefsful method of treating the diforder, agreeably to the state, habit, and constitution of the individual. IV. Impartial hiftories of the most celebrated Patent and other Quack Medicines, with critical investigations of their various pretensions. V. 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In conformity with the objects which form the bafis of the prefent undertaking, the Editors respectfully folicit the support of the Public, and principally of the Medical Faculty, to a work which, while it more particularly claims their attention, cannot fail to be of very confiderable use to Society in general.-As practical knowledge, however, can be derived and promoted only by reasoning upon facts, and drawing juft conclufions, this Journal can admit neither fanciful hypotheses, nor abftrufe fpeculations; conjectures however which poffefs the merit of ingenuity and novelty will not be excluded, as they frequently have a tendency to fuggeft hints in other refpects valuable, and which may be applicable to useful purposes. Several Medical Gentlemen of acknowledged abilities and extenfive practice have engaged to communicate the original observations which may occur in the exercise of their profession in the different Hospitals of the Metropolis, and in various parts of the country. The Conductors, relying on their present and future resources, and anxious to render this publication in every respect worthy of the public patronage, have already, at a very great expence, established a Literary Correfpondence in the principal cities on the Continents of Europe and America; and they entertain no doubt but Medical Practitioners, wherever the English language is read, will liberally contribute their affiftance to a work, in which the whole of the Faculty are essentially interested. 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They had all retired from the fcene of their former vocation, either on a well-earned competence, or in confequence of preferment; but the engagements of their past life were endeared to them by the reflection of utility and the force of habit: they reviewed their labours in the fervice of mankind with the complacency of defert; and the collifion of ideas brought many pleafing recollections to mind which they wished to perpetuate, and fuggefted. fome future plans of laudable exertion which they wished to realize. In the course of conversation it was ob |