OF NO'S. II, III, IV, AND V. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. ESSAYS. ART. I.-An Essay on the Summer and Autumnal Remittent Fevers of Mississippi. By JOHN W. MONETTE, M. D. ART. II.-Surgical and Pathological Observations on the Eye. By ART. III.—An Inquiry into Dysenteric Bilious Fever. By W. K. ART. IV.-Facts relative to Milk-Sickness. By WM. J. BARBEE, 178 ART. XVI.—The Medical Examiner, and American Medical Library; · 233 BIBLOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. ART. XIX.-A Catalogue of Plants in the vicinity of Columbus, ART. XX - The Philadelphia Practice of Midwifery. By CHARLES Case of Ozona and Neuralgia, cured by the extraction of a Tooth. - 337 Case of Stone in a Girl relieved by Lithontritie. Mortality in New York in 1839. 339 339 The Pellicle of an Egg, an adhesive application to wounds. - 352 Saratoga Springs. 353 Dialogue or Mechanism versus Vitalism. 354 On Lightning Rods and their improvement. By DR. HARE. -355 THE WESTERN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. FEBRUARY, 1840. ART. 1.-An Essay on the Summer and Autumnal Remittent Fevers of Mississippi. By JOHN W. MONETTE, M. D., of Washington, Mississippi. THE following remarks are applicable especially to the endemical fevers of the old Natchez district, embracing the country within forty or fifty miles of Natchez, on the east side of the Mississippi. We apply the term "Remittent " merely as a general characteristic appellation, without any other signification, as nearly every case of our summer and autumnal fevers have exacerbations more or less regular, whatever other type they may assume. After a few pathological remarks, I shall proceed to speak generally of the nature, symptoms, pathology and treatment of the different varieties of the two great classes of fevers in the south, viz. Fevers of open excitement, and congestive fevers, |