The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
judicious practice of Sydenham, Mead, and Huxham, with whose works he seems quite familiar.
In passing, I would refer to a practice much resorted to a few years since in this neighbourhood, in scarlet fever, and perhaps still popular with some practitioners, viz., that a slice of bacon for the throat "is mentioned by him as a favourite treatment with nurses and the lower people" in smallpox at that period.
Dr. Macleane, it may be here mentioned, had been a pupil of Doctor Rutherford, of Edinburgh, in 1753, and in the course of his little work takes occasion to pay a grateful tribute to him. As this gentleman had been the instructor of most of the ancient physicians of this city, who resorted to Europe for their medical education, and is often mentioned by them, I have thought it might prove of interest to those of the present day to extract it, as showing something of the mode of teaching at that time in Scotland. "A tribute due to his worth from his pupils, who can never sufficiently acknowledge the advantages they have reaped from his labours; above all, from his excellent institution of clinical lectures, where they daily saw him put in practice on numberless patients the salutary precepts which he had before
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