Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Review of the New York Journal of Medicine, Evening Mirror (New York), November 22, 1844, vol. 1, no. 41, p. 2, col. 2

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The present number of this Journal, in the sickness of its usual editor — since dead — was edited by another eminent medical gentleman of this city.

The number contains three original articles of great worth. Dr. Le Conti's memoir upon lighting, and its effects on the animal economy, is written in the masterly manner usual with this erudite scholar.

There is also a most excellent article on the effects of alcohol, being the results of examinations of seventy dead bodies, by those indefatigable pathologists, Drs. Peters, Goldsmith and Moses. This article, written by one of them, (Dr. Peters), is, perhaps, the fullest of all the records extant upon this important subject, and is, beyond question, exceedingly creditable to the persons concerned.

The third memoir is by Dr. James Stewart, on the diet of infants. This, emanating as it does from one who has written so largely and so well on the diseases of children, is read by every medical man with great care and attention — for there is, perhaps, no writer in our language whose opinion in such matters carries with it so much authority. It would hardly be acceptable to our readers to have an abstract of this article transferred to our columns, or else we would be tempted to give it — it is so well and ably written.

We must notice for the benefit of a class of our readers a direction given for the food of infants, which is original with Dr. Stewart; it is this: when infants are given any other food than breast milk, let it be some animal food, such as solutions of isinglass, for their stomachs are unable to digest vegetable matters.