ever, it is certain that an improved education has induced an improved mode of life, more consistent with steady health, It is not a little remarkable, that the Reporter has seen three instances of epilepsy terminating fatally within the month, in constitutions exhausted by a complication of diseases. Two of these subjects were habitually intemperate; the third had, for nearly twelve months, shown symptoms of approaching dissolution. One of the former, a female, had been dropsical, and seemed to die from a sudden trausfusion of water to the brain. The other, a male, passed bloody urine for more than a week before his death. Permission could not be obtained to examine either. Most of the other complaints have been about the head, in the form of inteuse head-ach, or symptoms approaching apoplexy. All have been relieved by the lancet, or evacuation from the bowels. Mr. SALISBURY'S Botanical Excursions for June, Wednesday, June 4th.-Battersea Fields. Poa nemoralis pratensis trivialis Bromus sterilis Anthemis arvensis Sinapis arvensis alba nigra Myriophyllum verticillatum. Cochlearia officinalis Anagallis arvensis Urtica urens dioica Trifolium procumbens Cerastium viscosum Trifolium pratense repens Carex depauperata Galium palustre. Wednesday, June 18th.-Combe-hurst, near Croydon. Wednesday, June 25th.-Regent's Park and the neighbourhood The days of the Excursions in July will be made known by ap plication at the Botanic Garden at Sloane-street, as usual. The crop of grass, which is now cutting, is abundant, and some hay is already made and carried. The spring-sown corn, owing to the late dry weather, is very backward, and appears to be come up rather rather unevenly, which is unfavourable for such crops. Barley in particular, when it appears above ground at different times will often preserve a difference in growth till harvest, and is then the cause of the grain being of different degrees of maturity when reaped. There appears to be only a very moderate crop of apples, and but little prospect of an abundant crop of other kinds of standard fruit near London, June, 1817. A METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, By Messrs. WILLIAM HARRIS and Co. 50, Holborn, London. From the 20th May to the 19th June, inclusive. The quantity of rain fallen in the month of May is Dr. MERRIMAN and Dr. LEY will re-commence their Lectures on Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women and Children, at the Middlesex Hospital, on Monday, July 7th, at half-past ten o'clock. Dr. SCUDAMORE has in the press, and nearly ready for publication, (the second edition, corrected and enlarged,) a Treatise on the Nature and Cure of Gout and Rheumatism; including general considerations on Morbid States of the Digestive Organs, some remarks on Regimen, and practical observations on Gravel. In the press, the Principles of Diagnosis, by MARSHALL HALL, M.D. &c. This work is founded entirely on the External Appearances of Morbid Affections. It embraces-1. A view of the Coun tenance and Attitude of Patients, inasmuch as they are plainly characteristic of diseases. 2. The Symptoms of Diseases, considered in their modifications, and in relation to particular affections. 3. A Diagnostic Arrangement of Diseases. And, lastly, their Diagnosis. -A part of this work will be published in July. Speedily will be published, Vol. I. of the Dublin Hospital Reports and Communications in Medicine and Surgery. The work will consist of two parts;-1st. Annual Reports from Medical and Surgical Hospitals; 2d. Miscellaneous Communications on Medical and Surgical Diseases, tending to the improvement of påthology and practice. The work will be edited by four physicians or surgeons to extensive hospitals, who will publish one volume every year. Mr. BAYFIELD, Surgeon-Cupper to Guy's Hospital, intends shortly to publish a concise Treatise on the Art of Cupping, The work will be illustrated by Cases. Shortly will be published, in two volumes, octavo, à Translation of Professor Orfila's Elementary Treatise on the Science of Cheinistry: it is expected that this work will include all the modern chemical discoveries which have been made here and in France; and, as such, will be peculiarly interesting to the student. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. The length of our Retrospect has obliged us to defer the insertion of Communications from Dr. KINGLAKE, Mr. KER, Mr. BISH, ANIMICUS, &c. besides many foreign correspondents, which shall appear in our next. We are obliged to AMICUS for the trouble he has taken in explanation. ERRATA. In page 1, the learned reader will detect the want of prosody, and recollect the word that should be substituted for ament. Page 10, for septiunt read sentiunt. |