A review of the present systems of medicine and chirurgery of Europe and America; : respectfully designed to diffuse medical knowledge, and to essay the permanent esetablishment of the experimental and rational practice of the art, on fixed and solid bases, among practitioners, by exhibiting all the new discoveries, inventions, improvements and additions, made by the experienced and learned professors of medicine and chirurgery, herein collected, illustrated and digested, in a new method of arrangement, into a lucid system of medical and chirurgical doctrines and principles of the science and art, viewed in connexion with the most refined principles and demonstrations of anatomy, physiology, pathology, nosology, pharmacy, chymistry, materia medica, midical jurisprudence and philosophy, which may, in any way or degree, contribute to advance the glory and perfection of the healing art.