LUNSFORD P. YANDELL, M. D.

PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY, IN THE

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PRICE, $3 A YEAR-INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.--POSTAGE, 2 CENTS A NUMBER.a

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ART. 1.-LECTURES ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN. By AUSTIN FLINT,
M. D........

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ART. II-HISTORY OF AN EPIDEMIC TYPHOID FEVER AT SOMER-

VILLE, OHIO, ILLUSTRATING THE DIFFUSION OF THE

DISEASE BY CONTAGION. BY ALLEN A. BARNETT, M. D.......26

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ART. III-LOUISVILLE MEDICAL CLUB....

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES:

ART. IV-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES CALDWELL, M. D. By

HARRIET W WARNER..

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT:

Discovery of the Cause, Nature, Cure and Prevention of Epidemic

Cholera.....

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Observations on Wounds of the Heart, and their Relations to Forensic

Medicine.

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Hæmoptysis as a Sign of Tubercle; Curability of Consumption; Effect

of Cod-Liver Oil, etc.......

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Note on the Induction of Sleep and Anaesthesia by Compression of

the Carotids......

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Injections of Chloroform-Vapor into the Uterine Cavity to relieve

Pain....

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On the Absence of Typhus in the Tropics, and in the Southern Half

of the Earth.....

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Private Office Instruction.

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of Medicine. Ilis pupils will be examined daily throughout the year, (with the exception of the usual

summer vacation,) on the different branches of Medicine.

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Dec. 9.1837

ART. I.-LECTURES ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN.

BY AUSTIN FLINT, M. D., PROFESSOR OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE, KY.

Gentlemen:

LECTURE II.

In the diagnosis of cutaneous affections, the first question which arises whenever a case comes under notice, is, to which of the eight orders does it properly belong. Having the distinctive character of each order before the mind, we are to determine whether on the one hand, those distinctive of any one of the orders are present, and, on the other hand, those distinctive of the other orders are absent. Here, as in the diagnosis of other affections, we are to take into view positive and negative facts; in other words, to reason from what is actually observed, and, by way of exclusion, also from what we do not observe. One source of difficulty in the diagnosis lies in the fact that the disease generally has existed for a greater or less period, and it is not always easy to determine what were the characters presented at its development, or early stage. In the progress of cutaneous affections not only do they come to resemble each other in their external characters, but, in some instances, they actually verge one into another, or become complicated by union with each other. Thus

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