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Volume VI, No. 4 DECEMBER, 1924 Serial No. 24

EDITOR FRANCIS R. PACKARD, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS HORACE MANCHESTER BROWN, M.D. . . . Milwaukee HARVEY CUSHING, M.D...... Boston CHARLES L. DANA, M.D...... New York GEORGE DOCK, M.D...... Pasadena FIELDING H. GARRISON, M.D...... Washington HENRY BARTON JACOBS, M.D...... Baltimore HOWARD A. KELLY, M.D...... Baltimore THOMAS McCRAE, M.D...... Philadelphia LEWIS STEPHEN PILCHER, M.D...... Brooklyn SIR D’ARCY POWER, K.B.E., F.R.C.S.(ENG.) F.S.A. London DAVID RIESMAN, M.D...... Philadelphia JOHN RUHRAH, M.D...... Baltimore CHARLES SINGER, M.D...... Oxford EDWARD C. STREETER, M.D...... Boston CASEY A. WOOD, M.D...... Chicago

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bbonus, De Venenis of Petrus, Horace M. Brown, Browne, An Unpublished Letter of Sir Thomas, Eli A 25 Moschcowitz, 287. Alchemy, Neglected Evidence in the History of The First Editions of Sir Thomas, Eli Moschcow Phlogiston, Together with Observations on the itz, 363. Doctrine of Forms and the History of, Tenney L. Burget, G. E.: Lazzaro Spallanzani, 177. Davis, 280. Burr, C. W.: Review of “Montaigne and Medicine,” Ancient Medicine, Gleanings front Herodotus on, by James Spottiswoode Taylor, 141. Warren R. Dawson, correspondence, 357. Buttes, Sir William, of Norfolk, the Physician of Antiquity, Massage in, editorial, 137. Henry vm Mentioned by Shakespeare, Thomas Atkinson, James, and His Medical Bibliography, Noxon Toomey, 185. John Ruhrah, 200. panada, Outlines of the History of Medicine in Dallard, James F.: A Descriptive Outline of the Lower, Part 111, iv, M. Charlton, 222, 312. History of Medicine from Its Earliest Days to Cane, The Symbolism of the Gold-Headed, Isador H. 600 B.C., 53. Coriat, 126. Bast, Theodore H.: The Life and Work of Samuel Century Lay Medical Tract, A Rare Seventeenth, Thomas von Sommerring, 369. C. G. Cumston, correspondence, 360. Bibliography, James Atkinson and His Medical, Risks Attending the Practice of Surgery in the John Ruhrah, 200. England of the Thirteenth, W. Romaine New- Bibliophile, Philanthropist, Gabriel Naude, M. d., bold, correspondence, 140. Preeminent Savant, J. W. Courtney, 303. Ceraunia or Thunder-Axe and Its Use in Folkmedb Biographic History of Physical Diagnosis, A., W. S. cine, The, M. A. Van Andel, 452. Middleton, 426. Chance, Burton: Sir William Bowman, 143. Black Death in England and Wales, as Exhibited in Charles University, Prague, Bohemia, One Hundred Manorial Documents, The, editorial, 236. Years Ago, Note on the Surgical Clinic of, Henry Boorde, “The Breviarie of Health,” by Andrew, J. John, 159. W. G. Aitchison Robertson, 470. Charlton, M.: Outlines of the History of Medicine in Lower Canada, Part 111, iv, 222, 312. Chavarria, A. P., and P. G. Shipley: The Siamese Book Reviews: Twins of Espanola, 297. Burr, C. W.: Montaigne and Medicine, by Clinic of Charles University, Prague, Bohemia, James Spottiswoode Taylor, 141. One Hundred Years Ago, Notes on the Surgical, Krumbhaar, E. B.: Drogen und Drogenhandel Henry J. John, 159. im Altertum, by Alfred Schmidt, 490. Colleague, A Renaissance Physician’s Tribute to a Essays on the Evolution of Man, by G. Elliot Deceased, William Renwick Riddell, correspond Smith, 489. ence, 139. Paul Ehrlich als Mensch und Arbeiter, by Collins, Joseph: Taking the Literary Pulse, review Martha Marquardt, 489. of, by T. McCrae, 487. Uber den Ursprung der Syphilis, by Gaston Conflict of Medicine with Quackery, The, Walter Vorberg, 487. R. Steiner, 60. McCrae, T.: Taking the Literary Pulse, by Coriat, Isador H.: Rabelais, The Physician, 457. Joseph Collins, 487. . The Symbolism of the Gold-Headed Cane, 126. Packard, Francis R.: Incunabula Medica, by Sir William Osler, 240. Correspondence: Mind and Medicine, by T. Salmon, 489. Gleanings from Herodotus on Ancient Medicine, Selections from the Works of Ambroise Pare, Warren R. Dawson, 357. by Dorothea Waley Singer, 243. Note on Jean Senebier, A., Charles G. Cumston, The History of Dr. Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin, 238. 1720-1920, by T. Percy C. Kirkpatrick, The Early History of Syphilis, A., Harry 243- Friedenwald, 238. Riesman David: Klassiker der Medizin: Louis Rare Seventeenth Century Lay Medical Tract, A, Pasteur die Hiihnercholera, ihr Erreger, C. G. Comston, 360. ihr Schutzimpfstoff, by Karl Sudhoff, 142. Renaissance Physician’s Tribute to a Deceased Theophrast von Hohenheim gen. Paracelsus Colleague, A, William Renwick Riddell, 139. samtliche Werke, by Karl Sudhoff and Risks Attending the Practice of Surgery in Wilhelm Matthiesen, 141. the England of the Thirteenth Century, W. Ruhrah, John: Monumenta Medica; Fascicu Romaine Newbold, 140. lus Medicinae, by Johannes de Ketham William Hickey on Scurvy, J. Ruhrah, 484. Alemannus, 241. County of Kings, A Descriptive List of Incunabula Bowman, Sir William, Burton Chance, 143. in the Library of the Medical Society of the, “Breviarie of Health, The,” by Andrew Boorde, Charles Frankenberger, 131. W. G. Aitchison Robertson, 470. Courtney, J. W.: Gabriel Naude, m.d., Preeminent Brown, Horace M.: De Venenis of Petrus Abbonus, Savant, Bibliophile, Philanthropist, 303. 25. The Multiple Personality of Dr. Guy Patin, 1. Cumston, Charles G.: A Note on Jean Senebier, Espanola, the Siamese Twins of, A. P. Chavarria and correspondence, 238. P. G. Shipley, 297. A Rare Seventeenth Century Lay Medical Tract, Essays on the Evolution of Man, by G. Elliot Smith, correspondence, 360. review of, by E. B. Krumbhaar, 488. Historical Notes on Smallpox and Inoculation, 465. Etiquette, Greek Medical, editorial, 138. Evidence in the History of Phlogiston, Together r\ana, Charles L.: The Seguins of New York, 475. with Observations on the Doctrine of Forms and ^'Davies, Thomas, Introducer of the Exploring the History of Alchemy, Neglected, Tenney L. Needle, editorial, 237. Davis, 280. Davis, Tenney L.: Neglected Evidence in the His Exploring Needle, Thomas Davies, Introducer of tory of Phlogiston, Together with Observations on the, editorial, 237. the Doctrine of Forms and the History of Alchemy, 280. fasciculus Medicinae (Monumenta medica), by Dawson, Percy M.: Semmelweis, an Interpretation, A Johannes de Ketham Alemannus, review of, John 256. Ruhrah, 241. Dawson, Warren R.: Gleanings from Herodotus on Fever, A New View of Elisha North and his Treatise Ancient Medicine, correspondence, 357. on Spotted, F. L. Pleadwell, 245. Death in England and Wales, as Exhibited in Fields of Endeavor, Medical Men in Other, editorial, Manorial Documents, The Black, editorial, 236. 436. Deceased Colleague, A Renaissance Physician’s First Editions of Sir Thomas Browne, The, Eli Tribute to a, William Renwick Riddell, corre Moschcowitz, 363. spondence, 139. Folkmedecine, The Ceraunia or Thunder-Axe and Descriptive List of Incunabula in the Library of the Its Use in, M. A. Van Andel, 452. Medical Society of the County of Kings, A, Forms and the History of Alchemy, Neglected Charles Frankenberger, 131. Evidence in the History of Phlogiston, Together Pennsylvania Hospital, A, Florence M. Street, with Observations on the Doctrine of, Tenney L. B4- Davis, 280. School of Medicine of Washington University, Frankenberger, Charles: A Descriptive List of A T33- Incunabula in the Library of the Medical Society Outline of the History of Medicine from its of the County of Kings, 131. Earliest Days to 600 b.c., A, James F. Ballard, 53. Friedenwald, Harry: A Note on the Early History of De Venenis of Petrus Abbonus, Horace M. Brown, 25. Syphilis, correspondence, 238. Diagnosis, A Biographical History of Physical, W. S. F*abriel Naude, m.d., Preeminent Savant, Biblio- Middleton, 426. phile, Philanthropist, J. W. Courtney, 303. Doctrine of Forms and the History of Alchemy, Galen’s “Techne,” Francis R. Packard, historical Neglected Evidence in the History of Phlogiston, notes, 362. Together with Observations on the, Tenney L. Gleanings from Herodotus on Ancient Medicine, Davis, 280. Warren R. Dawson, correspondence, 357. Documents, The Black Death in England and Wales, Gold-Headed Cane, The Symbolism of the, Isador as Exhibited in Manorial, editorial, 236. H. Coriat, 126. Drogen und Drogenhandel im Altertum, by Alfred Greek Medical Etiquette, editorial, 138. Schmidt, review of, by E. B. Krumbhaar, 490. <

'Taking the Literary Pulse, by Joseph Collins, review yWales, as Exhibited in Manorial Documents, The 1 of, by T. McCrae, 487. ’’ Black Death in England and, editorial, 236. Taylor, James Spottiswoode: Montaigne and Medi Washington University, A Descriptive List of cine, review of, C. W. Burr, 141. Incunabula in the Library of the School of Medi “Techne,” Galen’s, Francis R. Packard, historical cine of, 133. notes, 362. Weigert, Carl, Hyman Morrison, 163. Theophrast von Hohenheim gen. Paracelsus samt- Wood, William Maxwell, W. M. Kerr, 387. Iiche Werke, by Karl Sudhoff and Wilhelm Work of Samuel Thomas von Sommerring, The Life Matthiesen, review of, David Riesman, 141. and, Theodore H. Bast, 369. ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY Editor: FRANCIS R. PACKARD, M.D., Philadelphia

CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE

Singer, The Scientific Position of Girolamo Fracastoro (1478?- of the Military Hospital During the Revolution; Brown, The Begin 1553) with Especial Reference to the Source, Character and Influence nings of Intravenous Medication; Owen, The Legislative and Admin of His Theory of Infection; Garrison, The Greek Cult of the Dead istrative History of the Medical Department of the United States and the Chthonian Deities in Ancient Medicine; Cordus, The Three Army During the Revolutionary Period (1776-1786) Sections I, II, Characters of a Physician; Bailey, Voltaire’s Relation to Medicine; III; De Voynich and Garrison, Figurations of Skeletal and Visceral Streeter, An Unpublished Bronze Ecorch^; Burr, Burke and Hare Anatomy in the Book of Hours; Jastrow, Babylonian—Assyrian and the Psychology of Murder; Spivak, Hebrew Prayers for the Sick; Medicine; Singer, On a Greek Charm Usedin England in the Twelfth Friedberg, Laryngology and Otology in Colonial Times; Jacobi, Century; Heizmann, Military Sanitation in the Sixteenth, Seven Eulogy of Dr. John Shaw Billings; Sudhoff, The Hygienic Idea and teenth and Eighteenth Centuries; A Check List of Medical Incuna Its Manifestations in World History; Viets, A Patronal Festival for bula in the Surgeon-General’s Library; Osler, The First Printed Thomas Willis (1621-1675) with Remarks by Sir William Osler, Bart., Documents Relating to Modern Surgical Anaesthesia; Singer, F.R.S.; Smith, Medicine and Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century; Byzantine Medical Fragments; Jacobi, The New York Medical Col Roy, Historical Development of our Knowledge of the Circulation lege (1782-1906); Moodie, Studies in Paleopathology. I. General and its Disorders; Allemann, The Jetons of the Old Paris Academy Consideration of the Evidences of Pathological Conditions Found of Medicine in the Numismatic Collection in the Army Medical Among Fossil Animals; Singer and Levy, Plague Tractates; Roy Museum at Washington, D. C.; Klebs, The History of Infection; ster, The Medical Phrases of Victor Hugo. Text of William Shippen’s First Draft of a Plan for the Organization CONTENTS OF VOLUME TWO

Corner, Anatomists in Search of the Soul; Jayne, The Medical Poems on Infant Hygiene; Ruhrah, Walter Harris, A Seventeenth- Gods of Ancient Iran; Warren, The “Pulmotor” of the Eighteenth Century Pediatrist; Moodie, New Observations in Paleopathology; Century; McCulloch, Compiegne; Garrison, The Birthplace of the Burr, Jean Paul Marat, Physician, Revolutionist, Paranoiac; Stokes, Hunters; Walsh, Two Chapters in the History of Laryngology and Graves at Sea; Rosenbloom, An Appreciation of Henry Bence Jones, Rhinology; McCulloch, The Chasseurs D’Alpin; Wright, Modern M.D., F.R.S. (1814-1873); Cumston, The Finances of Felix Platter, Commentaries on Hippocrates, Parts I, II; McCulloch, L’Ambulan- Professor of Medicine at Bale; Pleadwell, William Paul Crillon teuse; Fisher, A Descriptive List of the Incunabula in the Library Barton, Surgeon United States Navy, A Pioneer in American Naval of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Thomson, A House- Medicine (1786-1856); Johnson, On the Death of Robert Levet; Surgeon’s Memories of Joseph Lister; Power, The Oxford Physic Garrison and Streeter, Sculpture and Painting as Modes of Anatom Garden; Riesman, The Rise and Early History of Clinical Teaching; ical Illustration; Montgomery, The Quintessence in Rabelais; Ruh Fitz, Napoleon’s Camp at Boulogne; Cushing, William Osler, The rah, Thomas Phaer; Rosenbloom, Statements of Medical Interest Man; Kelly,Sir William Osler, A Tribute; Ruh rah, Osier’s Influence from the Life of Benvenuto Cellini; Lane, Daniel Turner and the on Medical Libraries in the United States; Yonge, Ariphron’s Hymn First Degree of Doctor of Medicine Conferred in the English Colonies to Health; Garrison, Sir William Osier’s Contributions to Medical of North America by Yale College in 1723; Abbatt, A Neglected Literature; Presentation to Sir William Osler, Bart., F.R.S., on the Name: Dr. Isaac Senter; Harris, On a Latin Translation of the Com Occasion of the Seventieth Anniversary of His Birthday at Oxford, plete Works of Galen by Andrea Laguna, M.D., The Spaniard, July 11, 1919; Fisher, Additions to the List of Incunabula in the Strasburg, 1604, with Notes, Dedications, a Life of Galen, and Index. Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Foote, Ancient

CONTENTS OF VOLUME THREE

Warren, The Collection of the Boston Phrenological Society—A Cure in the Sixteenth Century Introducing the Reader into Very Retrospect; Coriat, An Ancient Egyptian Medical Prescription for High Society; Cumston, A Brief Historical Summary of the Treat Hysteria; Jacobs, Elizabeth Fry, Pastor Fliedner and Florence Night ment of Trachoma, With Special Reference to the Arabian School ingale; Hemmeter, Leonardo Da Vinci As a Scientist; Webb, Sir and the Writings of Ali Ibn-El-Aissa (Jesu Hali); Ruhrah, John William Osler; Griffiths, Shakespere and the Practice of Medicine; Shaw—A Medical Poet of Maryland; Charlton, William Rawlins Podolsky, An Assyro- Babylonian Treatise on Diseases of the Male Beaumont, F.R.C.S. (Eng.) (1803-1875); Cowdry, Taoist Ideas of Urinary and Genital Organs; Friedenwald, On the Giving of Medi Human Anatomy; SAYLE,The Library of Thomas Lorkyn; Gunther, cal Degrees During the Middle Ages by Other than Academic Au The Row of Books of Nicholas Gibbard of Oxford; Ruhrah, John thority; Skavlem, The Scientific Life of Thomas Bartholin; Taylor, Ferriar (1761-1815); Gruner, The Interpretation of Avicenna; Montaigne and Medicine, Parts I, II, III; Dana, The Story of a Harris, Emerods, Mice and the Plague of I Samuel, Chapter VI; Great Consultation, Jerome Cardan Goes to Edinburgh; Lines to a Turrell, Three Electrotherapists of the Eighteenth Century: John Skeleton; Singer, An Unrecognized Anglo-Saxon Medical Text; Wesley, Jean Paul Marat and James Graham; Cumston, The History Wood, The First Scientific Work on Spectacles; Middleton, Charles of the Treatment of the Surgical Affections of the Lachrymal Appa Caldwell, A Biographic Sketch; Kelly, Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, ratus; Wright, The Forerunners of Empedocles and the Nature M.D., Discoverer of the Yosemite; Colwell, Gideon Harvey. Side Philosophers; Rosenbloom, An Interesting Friendship—Thomas lights on Medical Life from the Restoration to the End of the XVII Hodgkin, M.D. and Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart.; Abbatt, Dr. Century; Donley, A Note on the Last Illness and the Post-Mortem Erasmus Darwin, The Author of “Zoonomia”; Middleton, The Examination of Marcellus Malpighi; Brown, A Christian Science John Kearsleys; Coriat, The Psychology of Medical Satire.

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Faber, Nosography in Modern Internal Medicine; Middleton, Was Kappa Lambda?; Dock, Robert Talbor, Madame de S£vign6, Caspar Wistar, Junior; Da Costa, The French School of Surgery in and the Introduction of Cinchona; Inole, Regulating Physicians in the Reign of Louis Philippe; Gibbon, London Surgery in the Early Colonial Virginia; Chance, Some English Worthies of Science of Part of the Nineteenth Century; Riesman, The Dublin Medical Interest to Ophthalmologists; Krumbhaar, The Early History of School and Its Influence Upon Medicine in America; Rosenbloom, Anatomy in the United States; Dock, Some Early Observers of The History of Pulse Timing with Some Remarks on Sir John Floyer Albuminuria; Coriat, Medical Magic; Wilson, The Caduceus and and His Physician’s Pulse Watch; Viets, De Staticis Experimentis its Symbolism; Riddell, Dr. George Cheyne and the “English of Nicolaus Cusanus; Packard, Guy Patin and the Medical Profes Malady”; Wickersheimer, A Note on the “Liber de Medicinis sion in Paris in the Seventeenth Century, Parts I, II, III; Wood, Expertis” Attributed to Galen; Dana, Medicine and the Humanities; Louis Daniel Beauperthuy; Benjamin Franklin, the Inventor of Bi Davidson, William Heberden, M.D., F.R.S.; Charlton, Christopher focal Spectacles; McCrae, William and John Hunter; Toomey, Sir Widmer (1780-1858); Cumston, A Sixteenth Century Latin Poem Richard Blackmore, M.D.; Shipley, The Treatment of Convulsions on the Diseases of Nurslings, “Paedotrophia,” by Scdvole de Sainte- (Tetany) with Calcium in the Seventeenth Century; Leake, What Marthe.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIVE

Brown, The Anatomical Habitat of the Soul; Viets, A Note on Fugitive Sheets; Bailey, The Life and Work of William Hewson, the Eponymic History of the Ganglion Semilunare (Gasseri); Donley, F.R.S.; Packard, The Earlier Methods Employed in the Treatment Riolan and Harvey; Middleton, William Edmonds Horner (1793- of Syphilis: Villegas, Primitive Medicine in the Philippines; Rid 1853); Fisher, Descriptive List of the Incunabula in the Library of dell, Hydrophobia: Four Centuries Ago; Mendelson, Maimonides, the College of Physicians; Sands, A Review of an Early Paper on A Twelfth Century Physician; Riesman, A Physician in the Papal Malaria; Maxwell, “Ta Sheng P’ien,” A Chinese Household Chair; Rochester, Richard Bright of Guy’s Hospital; Gwyn, Osler, Manual of Obstetrics; Middleton, Joseph Leidy, Scientist; Kerr Student of the Toronto School of Medicine; Courtney, Moli^re and and Pleadwell, Lewis Heermann (1779-1883) Surgeon in the U.S. the Faculty; Pleadwell, Edward Cutbush, M.D.; Elkin, The Navy; Lloyd, Dr. John Memis and His Title; Cumston, A Note on Transylvania School and Oliver Perry Hill; Kobro, Three Medical an Overlooked Painting of Saint Roch; Charlton, History of Medi Pioneers in Norwav. cine in Lower Canada, Parts I, II; Crummer, Early Anatomical