BALTIMORE MONTHLY JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. EDITED BY N. R. SMITH, M. D. PROFESSOR OF SURGERY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, Association of Physicians and Surgeons. For many fortunate discoveries in Medieine; and for the detection of numerous errors, It has been often a subject of censorious remark that, while most of the important cities of our country are each provided with some periodical record of medical facts, the Profession of Baltimore should be destitute of such an important auxiliary.— Every populous community, and especially one which possesses its dispensaries, its infirmaries, and a medical school, presents a wide field for the observation of those facts from which principles and precepts are deduced. Almost every day, events transpire which are worthy of a place in the archives of sciencedata which may indeed materially conduce to the advancement and perfection of our art. Unless such facts be recorded, they perish with the memory of those who may have witnessed them. They fall to the earth, like the rich fruits of a tropical forest, where there is no hand to pluck them.* It may indeed be said that already there are in our country many channels through which such information may be conveyed to the profession, and journals amply sufficient to record all important facts. Yet such information, we very well know, will not spontaneously flow into these channels. It must be accumu When this prospectus was first penned the writer had no knowledge of any other similar work being contemplated in this city. |