The Philadelphia Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery. Vol. I, No. 1, June 1827 - No. VI, November 1827 & Vol. II, No. 1, December 1827 - No. III, February 1828

iv, 296; 144 pp. 4to. Full calf, red morocco spine label, gilt titles & rules. Includes engraved plate of Cimicifuga Racemosa (Black Snake Root) preceding the fourth number of volume 1, plate depicting a splint for use on a fracture femur precedes second number of volume 2. A collection of early 19th century medical essays, edited by the Professor of Surgery at Yale College, treating various subjects. A very scarce volume - only 1 copy located in the holdings of the University of Michigan, with no records of sale at auction, and none available in the trade. Contents include: Vol. I, No. I: Remarks on the Injuries Resulting from Confinement of the Chest by Dress by N.R. Smith; Observations on the Pathology and Treatment of Necrosis by Nathan Smith; Case of Incontinence of Urine during Sleep by J. Carpenter Frazer; Description of an Instrument for Extirpating Enlarged Tonsils (includes illustration); Analytical Reviews: A Treatise on Physiology Applied to Pathology by J.V. Broussais, translated from the French by John Bell & R. La Roche; Journal des Progres des Sciences et Institutions Medicales en Europe, en Amerique, etc. Par une Association de Medecins (English text on the subject of homeopathy); Notices of Domestic Medical Literature; Abstract of Foreign Medicine: Pathology and Therapeutics, Materia Medica, Surgery, Chemistry; Jefferson Medical College (with list of graduates for 1826 & 1827); No. II: Remarks on the Influence Exerted by the Exercise of the Intellectual Faculties on the Organization of the Brain by N.R. Smith; Report of Experiments, Recently Performed at the Jefferson Medical Hall, Relative to Venous Absorption from the Cavity of the Stomach; On the Uses and Abuses of the Tartrate of Antimony; with Remarks on the Employment of a Compound of Ipecac and Calomel as a Substitute for That Article by N.R. Smith; A Singular Case of Simultaneous Extra-Uterine and Uterine-Foetation by Dr. H. Detwiller; Analytical Reviews: Chemical Apparatus; Abstract of Foreign Medicine: Anatomy and Physiology, Pathology and Therapeutics, Materia Medica, Surgery, Medical Jurisprudence, Nugae; No. III: Pathology and Treatment of Epistaxis; Reduction of a Shoulder Which Had Been Dislocated Seven Months; Reduction of a Femur Which Had Been Dislocated for Three Months; A Convenient Mode of Reducing Certain Dislocations of the Humerus; Analysis of Domestic Medicine: Pathology and Therapeutics, Midwifery, Intelligence, Third Report of the Connecticut Retreat for the Insane; No. IV: An Inaugural Essay on the Properties and Effects of the Cimicifuga Racemosa (Black Snake Root) by G.W. Mears; Remarks on the Influence of Change of Climate upon Pulmonary Affections by N.R. Smith; A Case of Chorea Sancti Viti Cured by Iodine by Philip Peltz, Jr.; Extirpation of Tonsils; Remarks on the Treatment of Gleet by George B. M'Knight; Cases of Indolent Buboes Cured by the Use of the Tobacco Ointment by John Graham; Analytical Reviews: Commentaries on Some of the More Important of the Diseases of Females by Marshall Hall; Pathological Anatomy: The Last Course of Xavier Bichat; from an Autographic Manuscript of P.A. Beclard; with an Account of the Life and Labours of Bichat by F.G. Boisseau, translated from the French by Joseph Togno; Abstract of Foreign Medicine: Pathology and Therapeutics, Anatomy and Physiology, Surgery, Nugae, Intelligence; No. V: Remarks on the Spontaneous Suppression of Hemorrhage in Cases of Divided and Wounded Arteries, with Comments on the Physiology and Pathology of the Circulating System by Nathan Smith; Principles of the Pathology of the Digestive Organs by N.R. Smith; A Case of Dislocated Humerus Reduced Ten and a Half Months After the Displacement by Nathan Smith; Case of Death from Swallowing Leaden Bullets by N.R. Smith; Abstract of Foreign Medicine: Pathology and Therapeutics, Surgery; Analysis of Domestic Medicine: Intelligence; No. VI: Laryngotomy; Ossification of the Septum of the Corpora Cavernosa of the Penis; Ligature