New England Journal of Medicine
Remarks on Angina Pectoris
Some Remarks on the Morbid Effects of Dentition
Account of Bichat
Cases of Apoplexy with Dissections
A Concise View of the Results of Dr. Davy’s Late Electro-Chemical Researche
Observations and Experiments on the Treatment of Injuries Occasioned by Fire and Heated Substances
Remarks on Diseases Resembling Syphilis
Case and Dissection of a Blue Female Child
Spurred Rye.
Bichat was Marie F.X. Bichat, a French anatomist, physician, and biologist (1771-1802) after whom Bichat’s canal, Bichat’s fat-pad, Bichat’s fissure, Bichat’s foramen, Bichat’s fossa, Bichat’s ligament, Bichat’s membrane, Bichat’s protuberance, and Bichat’s tunic were named.
That was, indeed, the way they spelled “research” in 1812 (at least in The New England Journal) — “researche.”
And the paper about “Spurred Rye” had to do with ergot and its powers “ad partum accelerandum.” Ergot is a product of a parasitic fungus of rye grass that induces uterine contractions. The Journal quite rightly observed that “it has hastened the termination of the labour.”
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