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Printed by T. & J. SWORDS, Printers to the Faculty of Physic
of Columbia College, No. 160 Pearl-street.

1805.

COPY-RIGHT SECURED.

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OF THE

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

CONTAINED IN THE

THIRD VOLUME OF THE FIRST HEXADE.

No. I.

ESCRIPTION of the City of Lisbon; showing

the Utility of constructing the Houses, and pav-

ing the Streets of Cities with Marble, Lime-stone, or

other Calcareous Stones, in Preference to Silicious

Materials, and Bricks of Clay. By Hippolyto I. Da

Costa, Esq. of Lisbon

II. Dissertation on the Malignant Fever which pre-

vailed in the Country adjacent to Dartmouth College,

in New-Hampshire, in 1793. By Lyman Spalding,

M. D. Lecturer on Chemistry and Materia Medica

in the said College

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III. Observations on Pot-ash; being an Inquiry how

far the mischievous Effects of Septic Acid are restrain-

ed by that and other Alkalies, particularly in Respect

to the Effects of Septite of Pot-ash (Salt-Petre), upon

Animal Flesh intended to be eaten, and upon the Hu-

man Stomach. By Samuel L. Mitchill, Professor of
Chemistry, Natural History, and Agriculture in Co-
lumbia College, &c.

IV. Case of Tetanus cured by Wine. By David Ho-

sack, M. D. Professor of Botany and Materia Me-

dica in Columbia College"

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V. Remarks on the Constitution of Nitrous Air. By

Mr. George Lee, late of Philadelphia,

VI. A Case attended with uncommon nervous Symptoms.

By Mr. Berington, through the Hands of Joseph

Priestley, LL. D.

VII. Thoughts on the Expansion of Water, by freezing.

By Stephen Dickson, M. D. late of Dublin

VIII. Meteorological and Medical Observations made at
Londonderry, in Ireland, in 1797. By William Pat-
terson, M. D.

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