Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-05-13

HEDICdL y CHIRCfGICdL OCIENCE
A weekly new spaper for the circulation of Medcs
and Surgica! information, to be published IN Wash
ingon Chy. Edited by
GRANVILLE SHARP PATTISON, Nj. d.
Professor Of Anatomy IN jefferson College.
it is the intention of the publisher to circulate,
in few weeks, specimen number OF the " c, ciope
dis IT Medical ard Chirurgica Science" and Op.
porunity will then be afforded TO the Editor TO give
full exposition of the plan which the Journal will
be conducted. he considers it unnecessary in the pre-
sent advertisement to do more than announce its pub
icaton, and to slate briefly its object
The march of Improvement in Medical ard Chirur.
gica Science hts, within few years, advanced with
rapidly unparalleled in the stoy Of the other scien
ces The presses of Great Britain, France, Germany
Italy, and the Untcd States OF America, are sending
forth every week va'usblG o: AL works, aud tie Bu
u,crous Nc;.al Periodicals which issue are replete
with discoveries, facts and cases, which it. is OF the
highest Importance to the OF humanity and the
interests of Medical Science that they should be made
known 10 the mbeIs of the profession in the United
states Immediately on their publication. IL is intend
ed that the Cyc!oraiia Of Medical and Chirurgicai
Science shalt accomplish this most important OBJECT
it will be devoted To the republication OF the stand
ard works Of the profession, to the circulation Of ned
cal news. and to circumspecuve review OF the pro-
gress Of Medical and Surgical Science. The subsori
bers to the &C; ciors ia" will, therefore, not only
ubtan TO their hr.rles, at small expense reprints
of all the medical works. but they will be made &C.
quaned, weekly, with every thing Of interest which
is taking place in Their profession
gentleman is now IN Europe FOR tie purpose Of
making Arrange marts TO have all the new works on
Medicine and Surgery, aud all the Medical Journals
and Reviews transmitted To the Editor imne dstely
their publications and an experienced Engraver has
been engaged to reside in the establishment at Wash.
inStnn tor The purpose of executing the engraving
which may be required 10 illustrate tn subjects treat,
ed Of Gentlemen acquainted with the French, Ger
man, and Italian Languages will make TRANSACTIONS Of
the est medical and surgical works which may appear
in 'h'e lnGuagcs TOR republication in the Cyc!oPe ia
ihc C, cio, liza will be printed on sheet 43 inches
long b. 3S inches wi.ie, giving six,y.fo large royal
octave pages folded into pamphlet form, stitched and
covered Although folded into pamphlet form, IT Will
b. newspaper aud should be subject to newspaper
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pes containing three thousand -hrce hundred
and tsey egh; pages, five volumes of six hundred
and III p.Ges each. at a subscription often dollars per
anHu;n.
specimen number will be issued in few weeks,
and tc three thousand subscribers are
ob;sRti. Those who desire to pstronise the work,
requested 20 address the PUBLISHER at Washing
II iiy, t"whom the first lesr' subscription should
be forwarded the receipt of the second number
AL communications intended for the Editor should
m addressed to him at Philadelphia Al! letters adj
dressed 20 either should have pus'a"e paid
DUFF GREEN.
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