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BY ROBLEY DUNGLISON, M. D.,

Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence in Jefferson Medical College,
Member of the American Philosophical Society, Honorary Member of the Medical Society
of the State of Massachusetts and of that of New York, of the Philadelphia
Medical Society, and College of Pharmacy, &c. &c.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY A. WALDIE, NO. 46, CARPENTER STREET.

PREFACE.

In the prospectus to the "American Medical Library and Intelligencer," the editor promised, that his utmost zeal and assuidity should be devoted to place before his subscribers the medical facts and observations of importance which might transpire at home and abroad; that the work should be cosmopolite, as regarded the sources whence its information was derived, and the reflections to which such information might give rise; and that it should be truly "American" in its character-its pages being open to appropriate communications from every intelligent individual, and respecting every honourable association of individuals, who might be labouring to promote the great interests of the republic of science.

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That his attempts have not been futile has been sufficiently shown by the favour with which the work has been received both at home and abroad. Whilst many of the articles of the "Intelligencer" have been transferred to other journals of this country, it has been gratifying to the editor to observe that its pages have furnished, and will doubtless continue to furnish, valuable extracts for one of the best-if not itself the very best-of medical periodicals, the British and Foreign Medical Review, edited by Drs. Forbes and Conolly. The correspondents of the "Intelligencer" may consequently expect that their various communications will meet with that attention abroad which they may merit; at home, alas! in all countries it frequently happens that they are either totally and undeservedly neglected, or experience ungenerous and uncandid treatment, too often suggested by unworthy and illiberal motives, by which those at a distance can scarcely be swayed.

It is with no little satisfaction that the editor is enabled to say, on the authority of his respectable publisher, that the success of the "Library and Intelligencer" has been so signal that not more than a dozen complete sets of the original edition remain unsold.

The editor begs of those gentlemen who have obliged him with their original communications, to accept his acknowledgments for a-int

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