the Health and Functions of the Human Frame; embracing Observations on the Nature, Treatment, and Prevention, of the principal Diseases resulting from sudden Atmospherical Transitions; and unfolding Original Views and Fundamental Principles for the Prolongation of Life and Conservation of Health. To which are added, Practical Researches on the Pathology, Treatment, and Prevention of Gout and of Rheumatism, in all their Proteian Forms. Extract of a Letter from a Correspondent in the North. I wish to draw the public attention to a grievance I know not well how to remedy. I have at present under my care three cases of infectious fever, viz. typhus, all imported here (for the benefit of their relations) in the public coaches!!-the worst of the three, under night, in the mail, in company with three unsuspecting travellers. Mr. SALISBURY's Botanical Excursions for August and September. August 18th. Hyde-park and Bayswater. Myriophyllum spicatum Peucedanum Silaus Chenopodium Bonus Henricus Leonurus Cardiaca Pimpinella saxifraga Poa aquatica Phleum paniculatum Sempervivum Tectorum Crepis biennis Heracleum Sphondylium Lycopsis arvensis Phalaris arundinacea ` August 25th. Battersea-fields and Wandsworth-common. Chenopodium olidum Caucalis daucoides Lysimachia thyrsiflora Lepidium latifolium urbicum Betonica officinalis Atropa Belladonna ficifolium Lolium temulentum Gnaphalium margarati ceum Anethum Fæniculum secalinus Clematis Vitalba Ononis spinosa Lysimachia Nummularia Anthemis arvensis AT length the epidemic fever has been sufficient to attract the public notice, and several physicians, Drs. Brine, Bateman, Adams, Curry, and probably others, have offered their opinious in the daily prints. If typhus, typhoid symptoms, contagion, and other words so often used without a precise meaning, should now acquire each its appropriate distinction, we may truly say, with our Flemish correspondent, arabn depus non polo From our own knowledge, we can assert that the fever, though most common, and generally mild, in the recesses of poverty, is by *no means confined to them. And, though it rarely, if ever, spreads in well-ventilated apartments, yet, when it attacks those who are better fed, the symptoms are much more severe, and not to be relieved without venæsection or topical bleeding. If these, or other evacuations, are disregarded in the beginning, the physician has ample cause of repentance, and the patient of complaint, in the protracted progress of the disease. Some of the dysenteries, treated improperly in the beginning, have become fatal; others are in that chronic, yet painful, state, as to leave little doubt of ulcerations in the inner coat of the intestines, and, consequently, to threaten a fatal issue. The woman under phthiriasis has been much relieved by an infusion of helebore, with which she sponges herself twice a-day; but neither this nor all her attention to cleanliness is sufficient to keep her free from these disgusting vermin. Dr. CHARLES PARRY will speedily publish an Appendix to Dr. Parry's Experimental Inquiry into the Nature of the Arterial Pulse, &c. &c.; containing the result of certain experiments announced in that work. 439 A METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, By Messrs. WILLIAM HARRIS and Co. 50, Holborn, London. From the 20th September to the 19th October, inclusive. The quantity of rain fallen in the month of September is LECTURES 440 LECTURES. Mr. GAULTER will deliver, in the ensuing season, two Courses of Lectures on the Physiology of the Human Body, at No. 10, Frith-street, Soho-square. The Lectures will be given on Monday and Thursdays, at a quarter-past eight o'clock, after the surgical lectures are concluded. The introductory lecture of the first course began on Thursday the 9th of October. Mr. CURTIS will commence his next Course of Lectures on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the Ear, on Thursday, November the 13th, at seven o'clock in the evening. CATALOGUE OF MEDICAL BOOKS. Suggestions for the relief of the Sick Poor, and the improvement of the Medical Profession, in Great Britain. By John Dunn, M. R. C. S., Surgeon, Pickering, Yorkshire. Svo. 1s. A Practical Enquiry into the Causes of the frequent Failure of the Operations of Depression, and of the Extraction of the Cataract, as usually performed, with the Description of a Series of new and improved Operations, by the Practice of which most of those Causes of Failure may be avoided; illustrated by Tables of the comparative success of the new and old modes of practice. by Sir Wm. Adams, &c. &c. &c. 8vo. 16s. A Letter to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Directors of Greenwich Hospital, containing an Exposure of the Measures resorted to by the Medical Officers of the London Eye Infirmary for the Purpose of retarding the Adoption and Execution of Plans for the Extermination of the Egyptian Ophthalmia from the Army, and from the Kingdom; submitted for the approval of Government, by Sir William Adams. 8vo. 3s. 6d. A System of Chemistry, in four volumes. by Thomas Thomson, M.D. &c. &c. &c. 31. Aphorisms, illustrating Natural and Difficult Cases of Accouche ment, Uterine Hemorrhage, and Puerperal Peritonitis. By Andrew Blake, M.D. 8vo. 5s. 6d. A Sequel to an Essay on the Yellow Fever, principally intended to prove, by incontestable Facts and important Documents, that the Fever called Bulam, or Pestilential, has no Existence as a Distinct or Contagious Disease, By E. N. Bancroft, M.D. &c. &c. &c. 8vo. 14s. Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis. 8vo. 10s. 6d. A Letter to Professor Stewart, on the Objects of General Terms, and on the Axiomatical Laws of Vision. By J. Fearn, Esq. 4to. 5s. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have to acknowledge favours from Dr. ROBERTSON, Mr. CRAwford, Mr. EDGELL, and several others, which will appear in our next. The great length and number of our biographical articles must plead our apology for deferring critiques on several works, with the receipt of which we have been honoured, and for which we shall assign a larger portion of the succeeding Number. Medical and Physical Journal. 6 OF VOL. XXXVIII.] DECEMBER, 1817. [No.226. "For many fortunate discoveries in medicine, and for the detection of nume. "rous errors, the world is indebted to the rapid circulation of Monthly "Journals; and there never existed any work to which the Faculty in "EUROPE and AMERICA were under deeper obligations than to the "Medical and Physical Journal of London, now forming a long, but an “invaluable, series."-RUSH. For the London Medical and Physical Journal. Hints to the Junior Army and Navy Practitioners; by W. ROBERTSON, M.D. "Differe quoque pro natura locorum, genera medicinæ ; et aliud opus esse Rome, aliud in Ægypto, aliud in Gallia."-Celsus, de Med. "L'avantage extrême ou même la necessitè indispensable des descriptions topographique, a etè toujours vivement senti pour servir de base a l'histoire des maladies regnantes dans un lieu determinè.” "Il est sujet (l'homme) à tous les symptomes qui tiennent du charactere particulier de sa maladie, et il est modifie par la position des lienx, la nature du climat, les saisons, la maniere de vivre, les affections morales, dont il s'est formè longue habitude.”—Pinel, Medicine Clinique. I HAVE often lamented, Messrs. Editors, that, notwithstanding our numerous positions and settlements in the Mediterranean, no large and well-digested volume of Medical Facts and Observations has appeared relative to these countries, and more particularly their Medical Topography, -an interesting science, little cultivated by British physicians. Except the admirable work of Cleghorn, now of an old date, and the more recent spare one of the intelligent and lamented Irvine, we have no scientific work, that I am acquainted with, which embraces the double (but intimately connected) object of elucidating, by a correct history, the diseases of the climates of the Mediterranean, and (by a topographical development) an exposition of the causes, moral as well as physical, which are constantly operating in the production of all that diversity of phenomena which occur in the diseases of those latitudes, compared with similar affections of our own island. This must prove a subject of doubt, difficulty, and danger, to the physician, on first entering on his duties in these countries. Does this deficiency of information arise from diffidence on the part of our army and navy practitioners? Afraid, NO. 226. perhaps 3 L |