The present state of medical learning in the city of New-York.

  • Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831.
Date:
July, 1797
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Credit: The present state of medical learning in the city of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    petKer with thofe generally denominated inflammatory, are chiefly the fubject of inquiry. In the arrangement of thefe an attempt is made to clafs them according to their evident exciting caufes, as they arife fingly or conjointly from bad air, improper aliment, or perfpi- rable matter retained or abforbed into the fyftem. From this view of the fubject he is led to believe, that the caufes of thefe difeafes, thus varioufly applied, may not only explain their variety of effects, but that there exifts a fimilar principle in each of them. ^ He pur- pofely waves the confederation of difeafes incident to pregnancy and child birth, as they more particularly belong to the department of midwifery. 4. Obftetrics, of which John R. B. Rodgers, M. D. is ProfefTor, comprehends the Phyfiology and Pathology of Parturition. The ProfefTor gives an ac- curate anatomical defcription of fuch parts as are necef- fary to the confederation of his courfe, and explains the difeafes to which thefe parts are fubject, as well as the general difeafes of the female fyftem—The varie- ties of parturition are detailed and exemplified by ma- chinery as well as in practice—The difeafes of the child- bed ftate are accurately treated of, together with the management of women at that time. The laft part of the courfe comprehends not only the difeafes to which children are fubject in the months but alfo thofe which moft generally affect them in the firft years of their lives. The obftetric courfe, in fhort, gives a confi- derable view of phyfiology, and takes in a very large range of the practice of phyfic. The utility of fuch a courfe is obvious to all, and efpecialiy ferviceable to medical ftudents from the coun- try, who rauft necelTarilv be often called on to practife midwifery, and ought to be well acquainted with this neceffary branch of education. 5. The lectures on Botanv and Materia Medica form B