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 xlii INTRODUCTION

which began as "The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences," in 1820, under Dr. Nathaniel Chapman. In 1827 Isaac Hays edited and re-named it.

Before this came the first American journal, "The Medical Reposi- tory," edited by S. L. Mitchell, and others, published in New York, 1797, and the second in 1804, "The Philadelphia Medical Museum," edited by Redman Cox. Baltimore produced the third, "The Baltimore Medical and Physical Recorder," edited by Tobias Watkins, 1809.

The first west of the Alleghenies was the " Western Quarterly Reporter of Medical, Surgical and Natural Science," 1822, with John Godman, editor.

"The Illinois Medical and Surgical Journal" began at Chicago in 1844; in the South the first was the "Journal de la Soci£te Medicale de la Nouvelle Orleans," 1831.

"The Journal of the American Medical Association" began its valu- able publications in 1848. "The Annals of Surgery" took its birth in 1885.

Journals Devoted to Gynecology and Obstetrics.

First and foremost in the record of splendid service rendered gynecol- ogy and obstetrics stands, "The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children," which issued its first volume in New York in 1869, under the editorship of E. Noeggerath and B. F. Dawson.

Paul F. Mund6, its best known editor, did his finest work in connec- tion with this journal which he edited from 1S74 to 1892.

The "Annals of Gynecology" (1887) and "Pediatrics" (1889), edited by E. W. Cushing, of Boston, has issued many articles of the first importance in these special lines, and "The New York Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics " appeared in 1889, under the editorship of J. Duncan Emmet. This ran a brief course for four years and then became "The American Gynecological and Obstetrical Journal," while "American Gynecology," with Charles Jewett as editor, ran through 1902-3. One of the most iufiuential journals in the country at present is " Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics," edited by F. H. Martin.

Chairs of Diseases of Women.

Theodore Woodward (1778-1840) appears to have been the first professor of " Diseases of Women and Children " in this country, in the year 1822. This was at the Vermont Academy of Medicine and combined with obstetrics. John W. Francis (1789-1861) occupied a similar chair from 1819-1820 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

Some early professors and lecturers on diseases of women and children (with other subjects) at the various medical colleges appear to have been: