BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.

The British and Foreign Chirurgical Review or Quarterly Journal
of Medicine and Surgery, No. 1, January 1848, New York-re-
published by Richard & George S. Wood, No. 261 Pearl street,
The Nineteenth Annual Report of the Inspectors of the Eastern
State Penitentiary of the State of Pennsylvania, transmitted to
the Senate and House of Representatives, March 1848,
Report of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, for the year
1847. By Thomas S. Kirkbride, M. D. Physician to the Insti-
tution,
Principles and Practice of Surgery, by the late George M'Clellan, M.
D. Edited by his son John H. B. M'Clellan, M. D. pp. 432-
Philadelphia: Grigg, Elliott & Co. No. 14 North Fourth street,
Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians of Phila-
delphia from December 1847 to March 1848 inclusive,

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OBITUARY NOTICES-Death of Thomas T. Hewson, M. D.
Death of Jacob Randolph, M. D.
Death of John S. Condict, M. D.

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Treatment of Typhus or Ship Fever, by John H. Griscom, M. D.

of New York,

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Observations on Etherization in Tetanus-with a case, read before
the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, March 7, 1848. By
Isaac Parrish, M. D.
New and successful method of treating Prolapsus Ani. By Dr. Hake,
A case of Eclampsia Parturientium, or Puerperal Convulsions. By
Thomas M'Gown, M. D. of Hillsborough, Mi.

The nature of General Shields' wound,

Obituary Record-Death of Dr. Joseph Bell,

Amputation during spreading Gangrene, &c. By U. S. Thomas, M.
D. of Longview, Tenn.

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MEETINGS.

New Jersey Medical Society, at New Brunswick, May 9th (Second Tuesday) at 10 o'clock A. M.

District Medical Society of Burlington, at Mount Holly, May 2, at 10 o'clock A. M.

N. B. The Board of Censors will be in session at Mount Holly on the day of meeting.

THE

NEW JERSEY MEDICAL REPORTER.

VOL. I. FOURTH MONTH, (APRIL,) 1848.

No. S.

There having been no meeting of the New Jersey Medical Society since our last issue, we shall devote the space usually allotted to its transactions, to the following Biographical Notices.

SOME ACCOUNT OF JONATHAN JOHNSTONE, M.D., LEWIS JOHNSTONE, M.D., AND ROBERT Mc KEAN, M.D.

By E. J. MARSH, M. D.

Mr. Editor-The design of publishing in the Reporter, notices of the History of our profession in this State, and Biographical sketches of the eminent men who have adorned and elevated it by their virtue and intelligence, will, I hope, be carried out. Your professional brethren in the different sections of the State, I trust, will assist you by collecting the scattered fragments of Medical History floating around them; seizing upon the fading traditions of professional skill and eminence in their vicinity; noting down such personal recollections and professional anecdotes, as may come to their knowledge, and when leisure and materials serve, furnishing you with Memoirs adapted to your pages and purpose. Let us regard it as a sacred duty, due alike to the memories of our departed brethren, and to the honor and dignity of our profession. In this spirit, I send you brief notices of several of the earliest Physicians of East Jersey; they are necessarily brief, from the very scanty materials in my possession, and for nearly all of which, I am indebted to the MS. notes of Mr. William A. Whitehead, Recording Secretary of the New Jersey Historical

Society, to whose researches Jerseymen are indebted for much curious and valuable information relating to the early settlers and settlement of the State.

John Johnstone, of Edinburgh, was among the first emigrants from Scotland to New Jersey, arriving in 1685. He appears to have resided at different times, both in New York and New Jersey; but in 1721 took up his permanent residence in this state, and established himself in the new city of Perth Amboy, which the fond imaginations of its founders promised would be the future metropolis of this Western world. "His profession," I quote from Mr. Whitehead," in which he was considered skilful, gave Dr. Johnstone those opportunities which are best calculated to exhibit goodness of heart, where it is possessed, and his charity and estimable character earned for him a special notice by Smith* in his History, and on his death, the following obituary appeared in the Philadelphia Weekly Mercury.

"Perth Amboy, September 19, 1732. On the 7th inst., died here in the 71st year of his age, Dr. John Johnstone, very much lamented by all who knew him, and to the inexpressible loss of the poor, who were always his particular care." James Alexander, writing to Governor Hunter, a warm friend and admirer of the Doctor, says "Dr. Johnstone died on the 7th inst., spent with age and fatigue in going about to serve those who needed his assistance."

Dr. Johnstone was not only known to his contemporaries as an estimable man, and a skilful Physician, but also was esteemed for his civil services. He served as a member of the Provincial Assembly for thirteen years, during ten of which he was Speaker of the House. He was also one of the Commissioners for settling the boundary between New York and New Jersey, and held at different times, other offices of trust and honor.

Dr. Lewis Johnstone was the third son of the preceding; he adopted the profession of his father, and as at that period there

* Smith's History at p. 424, says "He was an early settler in East Jersey: 13 years member of Assembly, and ten of the time, Speaker: he went through several other important offices with reputation. In his practice as a Physician, he was knowing and useful, and did many charitable acts; for the poor were generally the objects of his particular care."-Ed.