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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    \ *' l coitipenciioiis view of all fuch matters of facf as lie and remain fcattered, at prefent, through a vaft number of expenfive and voluminous publications, as well foreign as domeftic, and which deferve to be more generally known to the Medical Pra&itioner. Confidering the important and rapid progrefs daily made in Chemiflry, Natural Philofophy, and other fciences connected with Medicine, it becomes matter of juft furprife, that no efFedlual plan has hitherto been adopted, to tnrnifti the Britifh Public with an accurate Analyfis of all the Novelties and Improve¬ ments which continually appear in various countries and languages. To accomplilli this defirable purpofe, and more fully to illuftrate the principles of a fcience, on the due cultivation of which our enjoyments and even exiftence fo materially depend, is the primary and efpecial objedt of the British Medical Journal ; a work which, though intended chiefly for the^fe of the Faculty, will convey fuch a variety of pradtical and interefting information, ns cannot fail to prove acceptable and ufeful to every clafs of readers. The following outline of the Plan comprehends the different objedts to which the attention of the Editors will be principally diredted: I. Eflays on the mod; important fubjedls of Medicine, confidered with refpedt to the Origin, Prevention, and Cure of Difeafes in general. II. Every recent Improvement and Difcovery in Botany, Chemiflry, Pharmacy, and other medical fciences; accurate accounts of new Remedies, whether they are fuch as have acquired reputation fuperior to their merit, or fuch as deferve to be more generally known and employed. III. An abridged view of the prevailing Epidemics of the feafon ; a narrative of their ufual progrefs; directions for the proper diet and regimen to be obferved by the patient; together with the molt diccefsful method of treating the diforder, agreeably to the date, habit, and conditution of the individual. IV. Impartial hiftories of the mod; celebrated Patent and other Quack Medicines^ and critical inveftigations of their various petenfions. V. Remarkable and authentic Medical Cafes, communicated by correfponding Prac¬ titioners in all parts of the world, and occafionally extracted from foreign Medical Journals. VI. Geographical Defcriptions of Countries and Places, written chiefly with a view to appreciate their relative falubrity in point of climate, air, and fituation ; their local difeafes and remedies; their population, mortality, &c.—Speculations upon the defeats fubfifting in the Medical Police of this and other countries. VII. A Review of all new Publications in the various Departments of Medical Science, and a comprehenfive Catalogue Raijhmk, with occafional extracts of characleriiHc and linking paffages.—Under this head will be comprefled the fuhftance of every valuable publication, as far as the Practice of Medicine is concerned. Till. All the new appointments of Phyficians and Surgeons in the Navy, Army, and Public Hofpitals. Accounts of Leflures given in the different branches of the profeffion, as well in London as in Edinburgh and Dublin.—Lids of Deaths occurring in the medical world.—Biographical Sketches of eminent Medical Characters living and deceafed, native and foreign. IX, Monthly