Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-05-21

and Surgical infOrmatOn, 10 Dc puoUsnSu III .
ington City. Edited by
GRANVILLE SHARP PATTISON. M. D..
Professor Of anatomy 10 Jefferson College.
Y S it is the intention Of the publisher to circulate,
in a few weeks, a specimen number of the "Cyclops
da Of Medica, and Chirurgical Science" and as an op
portunity will then be sfforded to the Editor to give .
full exposition of the plan on which the Journal will
be conducted, he considers 1t unnecessary, in the pre-.
sent advertisement, TO do more than announce its pub.
~Iication, ard to slate brief its object.
The march of Improvement in Medical and Chirur.
gical Science has, within a few years, advanced with Q
rapidity unparalleled in the history OF the other scien'
ces. The presses of Great Britain, France, Germany,
Italy, and the United States of America, are sending
forth every week valuable original works, and the nu-
mefous Medical Periodicals which issue are repiefe
with discoveries, facts, and cases, which 1T Is OF the
highest importance TO the cause OF humanity and the
interests Of Medical Science that they should be made
known to the m. mbers Of the profession in the United
States Immediately on their publication. 1t is intend.
ed that the Cyclopsdia Of Medical and Chirurgical
Science shall accomplish this most important OBJECT,
1t will he devoted 10 the republication OF the stand
ard works of the profession, to the circulation OF medi
cal news. and tn a circumspe Give review OF the pro.
gress Of Medical and Surgical Science. The subscfi.
bers TO the " C; clop slia" will, therefore, not only
obtain to their libraries, at a small expense, reprints
of all the medical works, but they will be made ac-
quaintcd, weekly, with every thing of interest which
is taking place in their profession.
a 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 Revie WIS, transmitted to the Editor Immediately on
their publications and an experienced Engravrr has
been engaged to reside in the establishment ut Wash
ington, for the purpose of executing the engraving
which may be required to illustrate the subjects treat
ed Of. Gentlemen acquainted with the French, Ger.
man, and Italian languages. will make TRANSACTIONS OF
the best medical and surgical works which may appear
in these languages, for republication in the {, clops liza.
The Cycior xdia will be printed on q sheet 48 inches
long by SO inches wide, giving ~sixty.four large royal
octave pages, folded into pamphlet form, stitched and
covered. Although folded into pamphlet form, it will
be a newspaper. and should be subject to newspaper
postage only. ltis proposed to give fifty two numbers
per annum. containing three thousand three hundred
and twenty eight pages, or five volumes of SIX hundred
aud fifty pages each, at a subscription often dollars per
annum.
A specimen number will be issued in o few weeks,
and the next as soon as three Thousand subscribers are
obtained. Those who desire to patronise the work,
are requested TO address the PUBLISHER at Washing.
ton City. to whom the first years subscription should
be forwarded on the receipt Of the second number.
Al communications intended for the Editor should
be addressed to him at Philadelphia All letters ad'
dressed to either should have postage paid
DUFF GREEN.
Washington CITY, MAY 8, 1851