On the 1st day of February, 1799, will be published, price two shillings, ... to be continued monthly, number I. of ... The British medical journal, containing the earliest information on subjects of medicine, surgery, chemistry, pharmacy, botany, and natural history. ... Prospectus.

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[1798]
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Credit: On the 1st day of February, 1799, will be published, price two shillings, ... to be continued monthly, number I. of ... The British medical journal, containing the earliest information on subjects of medicine, surgery, chemistry, pharmacy, botany, and natural history. ... Prospectus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On the ijl Day of February, l ygg, will be publijhecl, PRICE TWO SHILLINGS, Elegantly printed on fine Demy Paper, edlavo fize, containing at leaft Six Sheets of Letter-prefs, and embellilhed with One or Two Plates, TO BE CONTINUED MONTHLY, NUMBER I. Of a New, Ufeful, and Interefting Periodical Work, intitled, THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, CONTAINING THE EARLIEST INFORMATION ON SUBJECTS OF Medicine, surgery, chemistry, pharmacy, botany, AND NATURAL HISTORY. --Ex Medicina nihil oportet putare proficifci, nifi quod ad Ktilitatem corporis fpedtat, quoniam ejus causa eft inllituta. Cicero, de Inventions, Lib, /• PROSPECTUS. Magazines and other Periodical Works have lately been generally adopted, as vehicles of ufeful knowledge, more extenfive in their effedt than any other fpecies of publications. That others are however hill wanted to fupply the Medical Department of literature in this Country, is a fad! which has long been obvious to every inquifitive obferver. There is at prefent no Monthly Journal in the Englifh language, the profefled and fingledefign of which is to communicate accounts of every new Obfervation and valuable Difcovery made from time to time in the different branches of Medicine, and hill it muh be confehed, that an early circulation of intelligence fo ehential to the pradlitioner, as well as to fociety in general, has not been attended to, in this country, with the care which the importance of the objedl required. The prefent undertaking, therefore, is intended to exhibit a compendiou* i /