Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1804. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... District o/Mw-York, ss. Be it remembered, That on the twenty-fifth day of May, in the twentyeighth year of the Independence of the (L. S.) 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 proprietors, in the words following, to wit: " The Medical Repository, and Review of American Publication en Medicine, Surgery, and the Auxiliary Branches of Science. Conducted by Samuel Latham Mitchill, M. D. and Edward Mil' ler, M.D. " But apt the mind or fancy is to rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn That not to know at large, of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom; what is more, is fume Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. Milton. Second ffexade. Vol. I." in conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the'Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned." " edward dunscomb, Clerk of the District of Mew-York. preface. X he annual completion of our volume, and the preparation of materials for that which is to follow, afford a proper occasion to retrace such occurrences of the past year as may concern the work, and to look forward to whatever may interest its future progress. The present volume, which forms the first of the second Hexade, or the seventh from the beginning of the work, has been conducted under all the circumstances of public favour and patronage which distinguished the publication of the preceding six. The number of subscribers is enlarged, the mass of com...
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