Medical and physiological commentaries.
Publisher: Collins
Published: 1840
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Medicine
Table of contents: title: 1. Vital powers; Philosophy of the operation of loss of blood; Humoral pathology.-  2. Philosophy of animal heat; Philosophy of digestion; Theories of inflammation; Philosophy of venous congestion; Comparative merits of the Hippocratic and anatomical schools; On the principal writings of P. Ch. A. Louis, M.D.-  3. Examination of reviews contained in the British and Foreign Medical Review, and in the Medico-Chirurgical Review; Notice of the foregoing Reviews; Answer to circular letters by Drs. Carpenter and Forbes; Reply to H.I.B.; Essays on the philosophy of vitality, and on the modus operandi of remedial agents; A discourse, introductory to a course of lectures, on the institutes of medicine and materia medica; Lecture on the improvement of medical education in the United States; Defence of lecture on medical education [etc.]; Supplement second to the Humoral pathology; Letters on the Cholera Asphyxia of New York.