THE

MEDICAL REPOSITORY,

AND

REVIEW OF AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS

ON

MEDICINE, SURGERY,

AND THE

AUXILIARY BRANCHES OF SCIENCE.

CONDUCTED BY

SAMUEL LATHAM MITCHILL, M. D.

AND

EDWARD MILLER, M. D.

All true and fruitful natural philosophy hath a double scale or ladder,
ascendant and descendant; ascending from experiments to the in-
vention of causes, and descending from causes to the invention of
new experiments.
BACON.

STOR LIBRARY

K.

SECOND HEXADE.

VOL. II.

NEW-YORK:

Printed and sold by T. & F. SWORDS, Printers to the Faculty of Physic
of Columbia College, No. 160 Pearl-street; sold also by T. Dobson,
Philadelphia, and Thomas & Andrews, Boston,

1805.

BEM AOBK

District of New-York, ss.

(L. S.)

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eighth day of May, in the twenty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Samuel Latham Mitchill and Edward Miller, of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as Authors, in the words and figures following, to wit: "The Medical Repository, and Review of American Publications on Medicine, Surgery, and the Auxiliary Branches of Science. Conducted by Samuel Latham Mitchill, M. D. and Edward Miller, M. D. All true and fruitful natural philosophy hath a double scale or ladder, ascendant and descendant; ascending from experiments to the invention of causes, and descending from causes to the invention of new experiments. Bacon.' Second Hexade. Vol. II."

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