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PUBLISHED BY ROBERT DESILVER, NO. 110, WALNUT STREET.

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ARS LONGA,

VITA BREVIS.

EDITED BY SEVERAL PHYSICIANS.

VOL. I.

PUBLISHED BY R. DESILVER.

PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1824.

PROSPECTUS.

HAD this paper been intended solely for the inspection of the Physician, another form of publication might have properly been selected. We hope, however, to obtain for it an interest in a wider sphere-its objects being partly of a popular character, although devoted expressly to the concerns of health. Should the plan on which we propose to conduct it be approved, we cannot doubt an encouragement proportioned to its utility, and to the merit with which it may be sustained. Anticipating the occasional assistance of those who are friendly to the undertaking, and desirous of making it a medium of real advantage to the public, we present a cursory outline of what may be looked for in its pages.

It is intended to give a series of Meteorological Observations, and of the Bills of Mortality, as far as they are connect ed with some of the principal cities of the Union; to co-operate with our Board of Health in suppressing nuisances of every kind that may prove injurious to the public, and in noticing delinquences

No. 1.

that may be observed on the part of those who are in any way connected with the health of its inhabitants.

It cannot but be known to many, that some persons, forgetful of what is due to the community, and intent only on personal interest, have of late adulterated a most important remedy, the Sulphat of Quinine, by mixing with it articles which, if not absolutely injurious, do at least greatly diminish its value. We learn, with great satisfaction, that the College of Pharmacy is at this time earnestly en deavouring to trace to its source so scandalous a transaction. In this and every similar circumstance, that respectable Institution may command our hearty cooperation. To oppose all attempts to debase the articles of the Materia Medica, is one of the principal objects of its members; and standing as a barrier for the public welfare, they cannot fail to maintain the high estimation to which they are unquestionably entitled.

A portion of our paper will be occasionally devoted to a notice of the different articles of medicine; we shall advert to the means by which their sophistica

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