Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-06-29
DR.. pArrIsoN,s cYCLoP EDIA

OF
MEDIC.AL &. CEIRURGIC.aL SCIENCE.
A weekly newspaper for the circulation OF Medical
and Surgical information to be published IN wash
ington CITY Edited by
GRANVILLE SHARP PATTISON, M. ID.
Professor Of .4nafomy ni Jefferson Coaege
n il is the intention of the publisher to circulate
in few weeks a specimen number OF the "Cyciofs
da Of Medical ard Chirurgical Science, and as an op
portunty will then be afforded to the Editor to give
full exposition of the plan on which the journal WIN
he conducted he considers It unnecessary, in the pre-.
sent advertisement to do than announce ITS pub
Iication and to state briefly its object
The march of Improvement in Medical and Chirur'
ricsl Science has, within few years, advanced with
rapdity unparalleled in the history OF the otaer sclen
ces The presses Of Great Britain, France, Germany,
Italy and the United States OF America, are sending
forth eyerv week valuable original works. and the nu
porous Medical Periodicals which issue are repete
,th discoveries, facts and cases. which II Is OF tne
highes, importance to the cause OF humanity ana 'ne
interests Of Medical Science that they should De made
known to the members Of the profession in the United
States Immediately their publication. 1t IS intend.
ed that the Cyclopedia Of Medical and Ch'rurgicai
Science shall accomplish this most important OBJECT
Il will be devoted to the republication OF the s'ahe
ard works of the profession to the circulation OF meol
cal news and to circumspectye review OF the pro
rress Of Medical and Surgical Science Inc suosCr',
hers 10 the CYciopsdia" will, therefore, not only
obtain to their libraries, at small expense, rePs
of all the medical works. but they will be made &c
uusinted weekly, with every thing OF interes' winch
IS taking place in their profession.
gentleman is now in Europe for the purpose OF
making arrangements to have all the new WORKS on
Medicine and Surgery, and all the Medical Journals
and Keye VS. transmitted to the Editor on
their publication; and an experienced Engravrr mas
been engaged to reside in the establishment al Was-
iprton, Tor the purpose Of executing the engraving
WHICH nav be required TO illustrate tn, subjects treat
ed Of Gentlemen acquainted with the French, Ter.
man. and Italian languages will make TRANSACTIONS Oh
the best medical and surgical works which may appear
in these languages for republication IN the ma
The Cyciopx liza will be printed on sheet 40 inches
long BY SO inches wide, giving sxtyfour iarge roya,
octave pages folded into pamphlet form stitched ana
covered Although folded into pamphlet form, VIII
be newspaper. and should be subject to newspaper
posag only 1t proposed to give htty two numbers
per annum, containing three thousand hree hundred
and twenty eight pages. FIVE volumes OF SIX hundred
sud fifty pages EACH at subscription often dollars per
annum.
specimen number viii be issued in few weess'
and the nextas soon three thousand subscribers are
obtained. Those who desire to patron'se the work,
are requested to address the PUBLISHER at Wssoisg
ton City, TO who the first years SUBSCRIPTION should
he forwarded on the receipt of the second number
All communications intended for the Editor shoulo
be addressed 10 him at Philadelphia All letters al
dressed 10 either should have postage paid
DUFF GREEN.
Washington CITY, Nav 8, 1S5S-u