Contents: Introduction by the editor, or thoughts on the acquisition of of physiological facts, and on the means of rendering medical charities subservient to the general advancement of medical science -- Experimental essays on heat, light, and on the combinations of light, with a new theory of respiration, and observations on the chemistry of life / by H. Davy -- Experimental essay on the generation of phosoxygen (oxygen gas), and on the causes of the colors of organic beings / by the same -- Specimen of an arrangement of bodies / by the editor -- Treatment of gonorrhoea by muriate of quicksilver / by Mr. Addington ; with a note by the editor -- Case of mortification / by Mr. Kentish -- Case of carbuncle / by Mr. Yonge ; with addition by the editor -- On the respiration of airs and vapours / by the editor -- Mr. Hammick's account of Dr. Geach's practice in low fever -- Note by the editor -- Mr. Cook[e] on cow-pox -- Mr. Thornton on cow-pox -- Dr. Paterson on sivens -- Case of dropsy / by Mr. Vise -- On nitrous acid in sickness / by the editor -- On nitrous acid in dropsy / by Dr. Luke -- On nitrous acid in dropsy / by Mr. Scott -- On sulphate of strontites / by Mr. Clayfield -- Addition by the editor -- On whitening bones / by Mr. Smith -- On gonorrhoea -- On gonorrhoea / by Mr. Addington -- Dr. Jenner's note on cow-pox -- Editor's questions, with Mr. Jacob's answers, on cow-pox -- On digitalis in pulmonary consumption / by Dr. Drake -- On digitalis in pulmonary consumption / by Dr. Fowler -- Addition by the editor