THE

MEDICAL NEWS,

MDCCCXLIII.

VOL. I.

PHILADELPHIA:

LEA AND BLANCHARD.

. 1843.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by

LEA & BLANCHARD,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

T. K. & P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS

THE numerous applications for the Medical Intelligencer, from Physi-

cians in every part of the country, and the general approbation it has received,

have induced the publishers to believe that its more frequent publication, with

an enlargement of its plan, would render it still more acceptable to the pro-

fession. They have therefore determined to issue it in future MONTHLY, under

the title of MEDICAL NEWS AND LIBRARY, and that it shall contain, in addition

to Miscellaneous Medical Intelligence, reports of Clinical Lectures, accounts

of the different Medical Schools and Hospitals, with notices of cases and

operations in those Institutions, and various other matters of interest to

practitioners. The numerous medical delusions of the day, and the devices

resorted to by charlatans to delude the public, will receive due attention and

be fully exposed. Quackery never assumed a more audacious front, or

appeared in more guises than at present; and with the aid of the powerful

auxiliaries it has enlisted, seems likely to overshadow the whole country,

unless proper efforts are made to arrest it, and medical men are furnished

with the means of refuting the numerous falsehoods and absurdities daily

Published Monthly by LEA & BLANCHARD, Philadelphia, at One Dollar a year,

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