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and carried on with a mild and un- been discussed and adopted, and are

deviating perseverance.

There is a pleasurable sensation arising from the drinking of spirit, for which it is essential to provide some substitutes for distilled liquor. These may be smallbeer, coffee, tea, chocolate; various decoctions of our own aromatic and exhilarating plants; our own wines, for those who occasionally need wine, and whatever else can be brought into use, gratefully to raise the animal spirits, with out leaving behind them any of the depressing and injurious consequences of rum, brandy, gin, whiskey, and the whole catalogue of inebriating, debasing, and demoralizing potations. There is a great-fallacy in the idea that spirit is requisite to give men sufficient strength and animation to enable them to work hard

with impunity. The contrary is the truth. Who have lived the longest, performed the greatest amount of labor, muscular and mental? Water drinkers. Men of temperate, regular and sober habits. Ardent spirit does, indeed, in certain quantities, give an unnatural strength and activity; but as this is unnatural and excessive, it must of course be of short duration, and must end in a corres ponding state of depression, sadness, exhaustion and derangement, tending to disease and premature death. This is demonstrated by every day's observation.

Let us go on; let us continue to meet and confer till we can form a system of operations, and then separate, and go forth, every one in his way, and according to his ability, to execute the measures which have

now ready, by precept and example, to be carried into effect.

VACCINATION.

stranger that people care very little The smallpox has been so long a about it. The neglect may one of these days be seriously repented of, for the disease is by no means exterminated, and in a few years there may be hundreds in this fown exposed to it. There is now at the pest house a decided case of the smallpox. The medical gentlemen in this town are all of them, we believe, provided with vaccine matter. The expense of vaccination is very little, the sickness produced by it a trifle, and the evil to be prevented of very great consequence. The old saying that

an

ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, never had a better application, or a more perfect exemplification than in this very matter. Every head of a family should consider it a duty to see that all unway against the smallpox, not mereder his authority are guarded in this ly on their own account, but for the general safety. It is a kindness which Providence seems to offer, and which like many other favors is but too little regarded.-Hartford Mirror of November 6.

This admonition is greatly needed in Boston where there is much apathy and a sense of false security on the subject of smallpox. By and by, if this negligence continues, we shall be all in consternation and confusion. In the hurry in which vaccination will then be pushed forward, -every one wishing to be vaccinated at the same time, many mistakes and failures will arise which the physicians will not have time to correct and supply. What will add to the disasters of this scene, whenever it occurs, will be the fact, that many per

sons in this city have been vaccinated who have not taken the cowpock.

EXCHANGE OF PAPERS.

We should be happy to comply with the wish of every editor and proprietor of a respectable newspaper who is disposed to honor us with an exchange, if we could do it without considerable loss and inconvenience. If we were sufficiently chemical to extract an elixir of health, whether prophylactic or remedial, from shipnews, theatrical notices, advertisements,―-local, temporary and worthless politics,-turning on anything rather than the principles and motives which should govern the people and their rulers; we say, if we were chemical enough to do all this, we would exchange at once. Papers may be very clever in their way, and wellsuited to answer the purpose for which they are intended, but quite useless to us. But it is said to be uncivil, impolitic and disobliging to refuse an offer for exchange. For this argument we have very little respect. This matter of exchange should be explained, and fairly understood to be a mere business arrangement, carried on between the parties concerned like other negociations, accepted or declined according to the free will and good pleasure of those who make and receive, accept or decline the proposition submitted. The proprietor of a periodical publication should be just as much at liberty to accept or decline a proposal for exchange, as to buy or not to buy a

NEW METHOD OF ROASTING COFFEE.

Mr Clarke, of Apothecaries' Hall, has given us the following account of the process of roasting coffee by Evans & Co. the new patent apparatus of Messrs "The roasting still

by which the process is effected is new in chemical science; and by it we have the power of subjecting any dry substance to the action of fire, wish to preserve, and expelling othwithout injuring those qualities we A considerable quantity of acetic acer properties we wish to get rid of. id, which is injurious to the stomach, is formed during the process of roasting; this acid dissolves a large proportion of the iron vessel used for roasting the coffee, and destroys its most valuable qualities. By the new method the acid and other impurities are separated, and by a very ingepious contrivance the aroma and fine flavor of the coffee are preserved and the deleterious qualities are destroy

ed.

The patent roasted coffee is not only rendered wholesome by the superior process, but will be found an agreeable and nutritious beverage. The patentee is entitled to universal important to the public in general." patronage, as the discovery is most

Boston Atheneum.

DICTIONARY.

We have so few hard words this week, that we shall defer an expla

nation of them till the next.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

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vacant Professorships in this Institution,
and that the College will be opened on
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JOHN AUGUSTINE SMITH, M. D. on An-
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ALEXANDER H. STEVENS, M. D. on

the Principles and Practice of Surgery.
JAMES F. DANA, M. D. on Chemistry.
JOSEPH M. SMITH, M. D. on the Theo-
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EDWARD DELAFIELD, M. D. on Obstel-
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JOHN B. BECK, M. D. on Materia Medica and Botany.

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The American Journal of Foreign Med-ed icine, to consist of such selections from the periodical works on Medicine, published in Europe as are of practical utility. The American Journal will be edited by an Association of Physicians in this city, and rejecting speculative discussions, will contain the spirit of such improve ments made abroad in the Medical Sciences as are likely to be useful in actual practice. It is designed therefore exclusively for professional men.

A number, of not less than forty pages, on fine paper and in fair type will be is sted every month. Price to subscribers four dollars per annum.

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The candidate must also have studied three years with some respectable practitioner of Medicine, and have arrived at the age of 21 years.

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MEDICAL INTELLIGENCER.

JOHN G. COFFIN, M. D., EDITOR.

THE BEST PART OF THE MEDICAL art, is THE ART OF AVOIDING PAIN.

VOL. IV.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1826.

NO. 27.

Dr. Clutterbuck's Lecture on formed chiefly from the state Inflammation of the Substance of the Lungs.

When the substance of the lungs is attacked by inflamma tion, exclusive of the pleura, there is but little pain experienced, and not at all in proportion to the degree of the disease. There is commonly, however, more or less of pain felt, and which may be variously seated in the chest, ac cording to the seat of the inflammation. Sometimes the pain shoots through from the front to the back, and is often felt under the shoulder blade; sometimes about the top of the shoulder or clavicle; and not unfrequently about the middle of the arm. These pains in the back, shoulder, and arm, are often mistaken for rheumatism, especially by the patient himself, so that you must be on your guard against this. Instead of pain, there is at times only a sense of weight or oppression complained of.

When you' have not pain to guide you to the seat of discase, your judgment must be

of the functions, that is, from the state of respiration principally, though other functions will be often disturbed also, as I shall presently mention.

Theory Now to understand this, you have only to recollect that inflammation, in so loose a texture, as that of the lungs, must of necessity be attended with a swelling of the part inflamed. This will produce pressure on both the bloodvessels and airvessels of the part, and so doubly interfere with the process of respiration; for neither can air enter into the lungs at this part, nor can the blood pass with sufficient freedom through the minute branches of the pulmonary artery and vein in the inflamed part. If the inflammation be of small extent, no serious inconvenience may be experienced; because there is no material impediment to the function of respiration altogether; and the system may not suffer in consequence. But in proportion as the disease is extensive, so must be its importance in regard to the gen eral health of the body, and

even to life itself. When the lungs become generally or extensively inflamed, as is some times the case, the symptoms are of the most alarming and dangerous kind; for in addition to the common signs and effects of inflammation, namely, pain or uneasiness in the part, with a general febrile state of the system, there is an impeimpediment or interruption of a function that is immediately essential to life, and which cannot be even partially interfered with, at least in any considerable degree, without great distress to the patient, and much injury to a variety of other functions. These, I shall now proceed to point out to you.

It is the bronchial arterythat vessel which is destined to nourish the lungs-and not the pulmonary artery, that is essentially the seat of the inflammation, the pulmonary artery being passive on the occasion. No doubt, the coats of this vessel, as of any other, may participate in the disease; but this does not appear to be essential.

acters. The symptoms, then, of violent and dangerous inflammation in the lungs, are various, and follow in a certain order, one arising out of, and depending on, another. Now it is of importance that you should mark the series and dependence; as, in practice, our chief attention should be directed to the primary symptoms, rather than the secondary, or still more remote ores; because the removal of the latter has no necessary tendency to relieve the essential part of the disease, the inflammation, but rather the contrary. Thus if, as is often done, you were to give stimulants in order to relieve the general prostration of strength that takes place in the advanced stage of the disease, you would be likely to aggravate the inflammation, and that without a possibility of accomplishing the object you had in view.

1. Pain in the Chest.-The natural insensibility of the lungs renders pain an equivocal symptom, as I have already told you. When present, it bears in fact no necessary proportion to the degree of the disease present, the worst cases of pneumonia being those in which there is the least pain.

Symptoms.-The history I am now to give you must be considered as applying only to the more severe and extensive cases of inflammation of the lungs. The slighter affections Your attention, therefore, of this sort, not interfering ma- should be chiefly directed to terially with the respiratory the state of functions, in order function, are, of course, mark- to form your judgment of the ed by fewer and trivial char- case.

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