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is an advocate for the forfeiture of property, but not for the corruption of the blood of attainted perfons. This pamphlet evinces a great deal of knowledge and found fenfe. MEDICINE.

In our laft Retrofpect we noticed with fome particularity Dr. JENNER's ingenious Enquiry into the Caufes and Effects of the Varicle Vaccine; we are happy to find that fince that time, the difeafe has undergone the examination of various practitioners. Dr. PEAR SON, from an opinion that the obfervations of Dr. Jenner were not fufficiently numerous for the eftablishment of all that it was intended they fhould prove, has taken great and moft laudable pains to make himfelf mafter of the fubject, by collecting information from various parts of the kingdom: the information here collected is ftrikingly corroborative of the efficacious influence of the cow-pox. It has been obferved, however, that whether this disease be spontaneously generated in the cow, or accidentally communicated to it, in either cafe it should be univerfal, where-ever there are cows, and confequently that it fhould be known not merely in England, but in France, Germany, &c. This certainly is not the cafe; the difeafe is totally unknown even in many parts of our own country; it is computed that in the vicinity of London are kept about fix-thoufand cows; and yet, from the inquiries of Dr. Pearfon, it feems that the cow-pox was very little known among them.

The Medical and Physical Journal, an incipient work of much merit, under the general fuperintendance of Drs. BRADLEY and WILLICH, commences with an account of the cow-pox extracted from the publications of Drs. JENNER and PEARSON. Dr. BRADLEY informs us, that the disease broke out about the latter end of December among the herds of feveral milk-farms in the environs of London: very few of the milkers-on a fingle farm, one only out of two hundred -received the infection. A fufficiency of matter, however, was collected for inoculation and this experiment was tried on a number of perfons, of the age of two weeks and upwards, all of whom took the difeafe, and paffed through it without being confined by it a fingle day. A letter from Dr. SIMS is inferted in the first number of this work, stating that gentleman of Brifto!, now eminent in the law, caught the infection twice when he was a lad, and ufed to milk fome of his

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father's cows. This Briftol gentleman afferts, that he was afterwards inoculated for the small-pox, and had it in fo great an abundance that his life was for fome time defpaired of. If this statement be accurate and true, the cow-pox muft immediately fall into difrepute: but at prefent it is very far from being fufficiently authenticated to deter practitioners from making experiments on the influence of the difeafe. The Medical Journal contains the earliest information on fubjects of Medicine, Surgery, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Botany, and Natural Hiftory, and promifes to be an useful and interefting work.

Dr. HOOPER, of Pembroke College, has collected from the most approved authors, and publifhed, A compendious Medicine Dictionary, which will be found very ferviceable to ftudents and practitioners; it contains an explanation of the terms in Anatomy, Phyfiology, Surgery, Materia Medica, Chemistry, and Practice of Phyfic, arranged in alphabetical order.

Mr. BROWN'S Treatife on Scrophulous Difeafes bears evident marks of juvenility. Mr. B. treats with a very unbecoming and impertinent contempt many men whofe learning and abilities are beyond all comparison fuperior to his As he grows older he will probably feel afhamed of this hafty and conceited work.

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In a very useful pamphlet entitled Medical Dicipline, Mr. ALEXANDER STEWART has published fome rules and regulations for the more effectual prefervation of health on board the honourable Eaft India Company's fhips: the regulations propofed are given under the following heads: attention to cleanliness, air, diet, reft, exercise, clothing, and general remarks. Mr. Stewart warmly enforces the ftri&t obfervance of religious and moral duties among the feamen, as having a falubrious tendency; a proper idea of religion, he obferves with great juftnefs, tends to introduce cleanlinefs, fobriety, and good order. "It teaches obedience, and a faithful and regular discharge of their respective duties: it produces a ferenity of mind; banishes melancholy, difcontent, and all the train of depreffing affections; and thence contributes to the improvement and prefervation of health." The perufal of this little work will amply reward the read

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ELLIOT, Surgeon in the African and Weft-India Merchants' fervice, entitled, The Seaman's Medical Advocate, or an attempt to fhow that 500 feamen are annually, during war, loft to the British Navy in the Weft-India Merchants' fervice and on board fhips of war on the Weft-India ftation, through the yellow fever and other difeafes and means, from causes which, he conceives, are both unconnected with the misfortunes of war and the dangers of the fea, and which are most of them capable of being obviated. The yellow fever, he fays, is frequently introduced into the royal navy by impreffing men who have been wandering on fhore, and who by intemperance and expofure to the night-air have contracted the difeafe before they are taken. The obvious remedy for this evil would be the abolition of that tyrannous and moft cruel practice. As this abolition, however, is not likely to take place, Mr. Elliot recommends that the impreffed, and those who are employed on the imprefs fervice, fhould be lodged in houfes in the most dry and healthy part of the iflands, and there be detained under the care of a furgeon until it can be afcertained that they have not caught the infection. Mr. Elliot ftates a variety of other causes of the mortality among the feamen in the Weft-India fervice, and proposes fuch plans as he conceives may effectually refift them.

A tranflation has appeared from the French of Dr. CHARLES DE MERTEN's Account of the Plague which raged at Mofcow in 1771. The reafon which feems to have induced the translator to publish this work in the English language, is the danger to which he conceives we are expofed, of importing the peftilential contagion from America; for he believes that almost all phyficians are now agreed that the yellow fever is the plague, with fuch modifications as are easily referable to difference of climate and different modes of living. He is of opinion, moreover, that, in executing the hoftile operations now carrying on in the Mediterranean, it is fcarcely poffible for our fleet and armies to keep clear of contagion. In the prefent volume is given a narrative of the rife' and progrefs of the diforder, together with a detail of the methods employed in Moscow for extinguishing the contagion, and more particularly of the means by which the Foundling Hofpital, fituated in the centre of the city, and containing 1400 perfons was preferved from the peftilence during the whole of the time it MONTHLY MAG. XLVII.

raged there. It ought to be mentioned that the tranflator has taken the unjuftifiable liberty of making many alterat ons and omiflions from the original work.

To Dr. JACKSON's Outline of the Hif tory and Cure of Fever, endemic and contagious, &c. is added An Explanation of the Principles of Military Difcipline and Economy, with a Scheme of Medical Arrangement for the Army. This work is in a great measure to be confidered as a fequel to the treatfe which Dr. Jackfon publifhed fome years ago on the fevers of Jamaica and the intermittent fever of North America. The prefent ingenious work has a more particular relation to the contagious fever of jails, ships, and hofpitals, and the yellow fever of the West Indies.

DOCTOR CLARKE's Medical Stri&ures contain A concife and effectual Method of curing-all forts of difeafes; for each of which the doctor vends an infallible, and doubtlefs a very profitable noftrum.

In our arrangement of Domeftic Literature, had we made a compartment for incomprehenfibles and extravagancies, we fhould have been almoft inclined to have placed in it The Lectures of Doctor de Mainaduc. This moft ftrange volume -a quarto volume containing only 230 pages-is charged five Guineas in boards, by MISS PRESCOTT, the executrix, who without doubt confiders, very jußtly, that, how extravagant foever might the doctor be, thofe who buy this book must be infinitely more extravagant than himfelf, and therefore can prefer the charge with a very ill grace. It is impoffible for us to give our readers any idea of this work without entering into it more largely than our limits allow; unless any idea is conveyed when we fay, that the prefent is almoft fuch a work as might have been expected from the pen of MARTIN VAN BUTCHELL.

To medical men who practife in a warm climate, may be particularly recommended a very ingenious and ufeful work, by Mr. JAMES ANDERSON: it is entitled A few Facts and Obfervations on the Yellow Fever of the Weft Indies, by which it is heron that there bave exified two Species of Fever in the Weft-India Islands for feveral Years paft indifcriminately called Yellow Fever, but which have proceeded from very different Cafes, with the Succefs attending the Method of Cure.

THOMAS BROWNE Efq. has invited Dr. DARWIN to breake a lance with him, by the publication of fome ingeni

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ous Obfervations on the Zoonomia of that eccentric writer, endeavouring to fubvert the fundamental principles of his work. We are difpofed to flatter ourselves that D. Darwin will not refufe to accept the challenge of a combatant who is by no means unworthy of attention.

Mr. WHITE, apothecary to the Bath City Infirmary and Difpenfary has publifhed his Obfervations and Experiments on the broad-leafed Willow-bark, illuftrat ed with Cafes. This bark has been introduced as a fubftitute for the Peruvian; and Mr. W. tells us, that, fince the introduction of it into the Bath City Infirmary and Difpenfary, that inftitution has faved by it not lefs than £. 20. a year: the common dofe is two table-fpoons full of the decoction three or four times a day in intermittents it is neceffary to give one or two ounces every three hours: the form of decoction confifts of two ounces of the bark boiled in two pints of water to one pint, with the addition of a dram of pimento. It is to be expected that thefe obfervations and experiments will excite the attention of medical gentleman to the virtues of other barks as well as that of the broad-leafed willow.

Dr. ONTYD has tranflated from the Latin of his own original A Treatise on mortal Difeafes the doctor has arranged the caufes of death under the following feven heads: 1. Death from old age. II. From paffion of the mind. III. Death either from the abundance or want of caloric. IV. From the electric shock. V. From different kinds of gas, noxious to the animal economy. VI. From poifons. VII. and lafily, death From univerful difeafes. A fingle octavo volume does not allow fufficient room for fo comprehenfive a plan as the prefent: Dr. Onryd has exerted a great deal of induftry in reducing to their feveral heads a variety of facts, and his work though by no means perfect, may be read with pleafure and inftruction.

Mr. Debrett has imported from Philadelphia A View of the Science of Life on the Principles eftablished in the Elements of Medicine of the late celebrated John Brown, &c. by W. YATES and CHARLES MACLEAN: the defperate and deadly practice of these merciless phyficians excites the mingled emotions of pity and indignation; of indignation against the practitioners, and of pity towards the victims who are fo unfortunate as to fall into their hands.

Dr. PEARSON's Arguments in Favour of inflammatory Diathefis in Hydrophobia confidered, is a pamphlet which does credit to its author: the object is to prove that

hydrophobia is not an inflammatory dif cafe, and that bleeding has never been fuccefsfully employed in it.

The laft work which we fhall mention, under the head of Medicine, is a poem, mifcellaneoufly defcriptive and didactical, in four parts, entitled, Phthifiologia. The author evinces himself to be a man of obfervation, and he difplays a confiderable portion of profeffional knowledge; but, as a poet, the fhare of merit due to him is very finall indeed.

SURGERY.

Mr. SIMMONS, fenior furgeon to the Manchester infirmary, has published fome Reflections on the Propriety of performing the cæfarean Operation: he is fo determined an enemy to it, that he fays "it never can be justifiable during the parent's life, and ftands recorded only to disgrace the art ;" this expreffion furcly is fomewhat too positive and intolerant. To these Reflections Mr. S. has added a few short obfervations on cancer, in which he rejects the external application of arfenic, but relates a fingle inftance, in which, taken internally in very fmall quantities, it was productive of material benefit. In this pamphlet Mr. Simmons has related some experiments on the fuppofed origin of the cow-pox; the refult of which feems to prove, in the fi. ft place, that the cow-pox poifon does not originate in the horse's heel, as Dr. JENNER fuppofes; and, in the fecond place, that cows will not take the fmall-pox.

Dr. HULL has published A Defence of the cæfarean Operation, with Obfervations on Embryulcia and the Section of the Symphyfis Pubis, addreffed to Mr. W. Smmons. Mr. S. had afferted, that, although the cæfarean operation is faid to have been performed with fuccefs in other nations on the continent of Europe, it has proved fatal in England in every inftance.

This fingular difference," he continues, "in the event of an operation, is unparalleled in any other cafe, and, unless climate be admitted to have great influence, no fufficient caufe has been yet affigned." Dr. HULL accounts in this manner for the difference of fuccefs: the operation on the continent is performed in a more early ftage, before the ftrength of the mother has been exhausted by the continuance and repetition of tormenting and unprofitable pains, and before her life is endangered by the acceffion of inflammation of the abdominal cavity. This difference, therefore, Dr. Hull argues, is applicable on the ground of pre-exifting difeafe, with out having recourse to the influence of

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limate, or fuppofing any material change in the laws of the female conftitution. Mr. Simmons, in his pamphlet, had affembled a variety of quotations from Parey, Mauriceau, and Dionis, in reprobation of the cæfarean operation: Dr. Hull detects his antagonist in fuppreffing paffages lefs favourable to his opinion. We are forry that the circumstances which attend this controverfy fhould have excited perfonal animofity in the polemics: it is to the interest of fcience that every queftion, more particularly a question of fuch paramount importance as the prefent, thould be difcuffed with the utmost calmnefs, impartiality, and decorum: it is of confequence alfo, that those who are engaged in the difcuffion, far from endeavouring to weaken the arguments of their opponent for the purpose of difplaying their own fuperior dexterity of defence, fhould expofe whatever imbecillity on their own fide may have efcaped him. In fhort, thofe who difcufs a fcientific que ftion with fincere ardour to fearch for the difcovery of truth, will co-operate together: the one will not glory in the defeat of the other, that both will confider them felves as fighting under the fame banners, and will triumph in the skill and success of each other. These remarks are extorted by the ftate of the prefent controverfy, a controversy from which, if conducted with candour and acumen, may refult the most important confequences. Dr. Hull accufes Mr. Simmons of having been led to the publication of his Reflec tions, &c. by the most unworthy and ungenerous motives: a fellow-practitioner in the fame town with him (Manchefter), Dr. Hull, had performed an unfuccefsful operation, and now afferts, that it was the object of Mr. Simmons "to deftroy the character of a man, whofe short refidence in the town had not afforded him a fufficient opportunity of making his profeffional attainments generally known, and to injure his coadjutors in the estimation of his townfmen." We fincerely hope that Dr. H. is mistaken in attributing fuch mean motives to a profeffional gentleman, and that Mr. Simmons will be able to vindicate his character; and, after fuch vindication, we fincerely hope that all recrimination will immediately ceafe, and both parties unite their labours in illustration of the subject.

Mr. TURNBULL has published A few general Rules and Inftructions, very neceffary to be attended to by thofe of both Sexes who are affli&ted with Ruptures.

We are happy to announce the third edition of Mr. BLIZARD's Lecture on the Situation of the large Blood-Veffels of the Extremities, and the Methods of making effectual Pressure on the Arteries in Cafe of dangerous Effufions of Blood from Wounds. To the prefent edition of this very ingenious and ufeful work is now added a brief explanation of the nature of wounds, more particularly thofe received from firearms.

POETRY.

Since our laft Retrofpect, the author of Joan of Arc has published a second volume of Poems: It will be remembered, that, in the fecond edition of his epic, Mr. SOUTHEY omitted the Vision of the Maid of Orleans, advertifing, at the fame time, that he intended to republish it in accommodation to that improved edition. A large portion of the prefent volume is, occupied with this vifion, which is now divided into three books: it is very much enlarged, and, after a careful comparifon of it with the original, as it stood in the ninth book of the quarto edition, we have no hesitation in pronouncing it to be very materially improved. reft of the volume is filled with mifcellaneous poetry: Mr. S. has given us a few fpecimens of English eclogues, after the manner of the German idylls, where the characters introduced are not the fhepherds and fhepherdeffes, with their crooks, and their pipes, and their liftening lambkins, but fuch characters as one may meet with, in his country rambles, almost every day. This ftrikes us as being a confi derable improvement in bucolic poetry; and we hope it will be properly attended

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The author of the Purfuits of Literature has again been obtruding his poetic trash on the public: his laft, like his former, is a fatirical poem; it is called, The Shade of Alexander Pope on the Banks of the Thames. The occafion of it is the refidence of that Irish patriot, Mr. GRATTAN, at Twickenham, whote presence is very fatirically fuppofed to excite the indignation of Mr. Pope's ghoft: the ghoft enters, therefore, and very fatirically, again, asks Mr. Grattan what business he can poffiby have at Twickenham ? Like many other people who afk impertinent queftions, the ghoft waits not for an answer, but abufes Mr. Grattan for interrupting the repofe and peacefulness of his fhades. After having exhausted his Billingsgate, however, and feeling himself a little out of breath, he exits in a rage, and leaves Mr. 3 Z 2

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Grattan where he found him. This is very fevere indeed.

This fatirical poem has called forth a very excellent one, entitled, An Interview between the Shade of Pope and the Shade that affumed bis Name. The author has here reprefented the "Purfuer's" Shade of Pote as a fiend in difguife, and has made the real one arise to rebuke him for his prefumption.

Mr. DUTTON, the tranflator of Sebaldus Nothanker, has published a fatirical poem, called The Literary Cenfus, wherein he has commenced a war of aggreffion against a variety of public characters, and particularly against the unknown author of the Purfuits of Literature, whofe name, it feems, there is a train in preparation for discovering. It really is extraordinary that a man, of whom almost every one fpeaks with indignation and contempt, should excite the lightest curiofity.

A new edition is published of Glover's Leonidas, adorned with plates: the typography is elegantly executed by BENS

LEY.

Mr. LEWIS's Love of Gain is a poem imitated from the thirteenth fatire of Juvenal: Mr. L. is writing himself down in the estimation of the public very fast. Many of the lines in the prefent poem are very dull and inharmonious, and feveral pages appear together without one parallel verfe from his original.

The Epiphany is a Seatonian prize poem, by Mr. BOLLAND, who had obtained it on a former occafion: although there is not much novelty of thought and imagination in this compofition, yet it is rendered extremely pleafing by the folemnity of the fentiment, and the harmony of the verfification.

We are happy to fee published the first part of The Sacred Oratorios, as fet to Mufic by George F. Handell, with a promife of the editor, that a fecond part fhall foon make its appearance, with the life of Handell, and a general index. The part at prefent published contains the Meffiah, Athalia, Belshazzar, Deborah, Esther, Jephtha, Jofeph, Ifrael in Egypt, Joshua, Occafional Oratorio, Samfon, Saul, Solomon, Judas Maccabeus, and Sufannah. Such a collection as the prefent will be extremely acceptable to thofe who frequent the oratorios of Handell: it is published cheaply, elegantly, and in a very commo dious form.

Mr. MURPHY has published The Bees, a poem, from the fourteenth book of Vaniere's Prædium Rufticum, Mr.

M. has fet about fweeping his study, and feems determined that nothing fhall be loft, or he would never have published fuch a dull profaic lecture as this is.

Mr. MORGAN's Knyghte of the Golden Locks is intended to be paffed upon us for "an ancyent poem :" but fomething more is requifite for fuch a deception, than fhreds and fcraps from Percy's collection.

Mifs SEWARD, whofe poetic genius is admired wherever it is known, has publifhed a volume of Original Sonnets, and odes paraphrafed from Horace it is im poffible to fpeak of thefe fonnets but in terms almoft of enthusiasm; the imagery is at once fo vivid, glowing, and correct the fentiments, according with the fubject, are so sweet, fo melancholy, or sublime; the paufes fo admirably varied, and the verfe fo harmonious and impreffive, that we may truly fay, Mifs Seward has excelled herself, and has given to this fpecies of compofition a dignity of which it was fcarcely believed fufceptible by those who have accustomed themselves to read the fniveling forrows, the ftupid monotonous melancholy, of our love-fick Par naffians, who look upon fourteen lines as the only effential of a fonnet.

Mr. CHARLES LLOYD, whose Blank Verfe we noticed on a former occafion, has written a few Lines fuggefted by the Faft, on Feb. 27, 1799. We obferve the fame whining, metaphyfical rant in these lines, which has difgufted us before. Mr. L. feems to be one of the many fentimentalifts, who, feeling themfelves animated by the rich poetry of Mr. SOUTHEY, fancy themfelves endued with his genius, his tafte, and his talents: this is a miferable delufion, and ought to be done away.

We are forry that any one should undertake to celebrate The Patriot, to fketch his character and his virtues, without competent ability; fuch, however, is the cafe with "A Citizen of the World," who has very unfortunately chofen this theme for the fubject of his unequal fong.

A great number of verfifiers have attempted to do honour to Lord NELSON; among them are two poets: Mr. SOTHEBY, whofe polifhed and fpirited tranflation of Oberon we have read again and again with increased delight, and the Rev. Mr. BowLES, with whofe various effufions we have charmed many a vacant hour. The latter of thefe gentlemen has publifhed, for the benefit of the widows and

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