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and after sudorifics; also, to discover what part of the body perspires

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PHYSICIANS, use of. "Who had Mr to attend his daugh ter?" "Doctor Such-an-one. " Public censure is satisfied. Thus, as an unmarried female cannot go into public but in company with a married one, so it is with death. He cannot make a decent entry into a family without a doctor for his chaperon.

PHYSICIANS, posting. Like some of Astley's jockies, who from a horse on full gallop pick up things in their way, some physicians post from sick-chamber to sick-chamber, just stopping to pick up their fee. The physician in many cases, as in croup, should no more leave his patient, than an accoucheur a woman in labour, till she is delivered. PHYSICIANS, puzzling multiplicity of phenomena. A traveller may course the high roads of a country for twenty years, and yet know nothing of it. Our fashionable Doctors drive full gallop along the beaten paths of medicine; but very wisely, lest they should become dizzy, by the rapidly-succeeding objects on either hand, they either. keep their eyes fixed on the road before them, or shut them close.

PHYSICIANS, fashionable. In many places of fashionable resort, the practice of medicine seems but a pompous or specious kind of mummery. It seems as if sickness were an affair of complaisance towards physicians and apothecaries. Thus the language is not, so many invalids have been cured, but such a Doctor makes so much money. Such men may make, no doubt, a conspicuous figure in the books of their banker, but not a line will be devoted to them in the annals of medical improvement. If they were not aware of the desiderata of medicine, I know of no terms strong enough to express the detestation in which they ought to be held. If they were, it is certain that they took no step towards supplying them; and on this supposition, I leave them to the mercy of the reader's abhorrence.

PHOSPHORUS. To eat a little; bleed; smell and try the air in the dark, if luminous.

PHYSIOLOGY. What would chemistry have been in comparison of what it now is, if apothecaries only had cultivated it? So will physioloy b unless it be taken up separately.

PREMATURE CULTURE favours every species of constitutional disease, engenders scrofulous and nervous complaints where they are not hereditary, and produces new forms of human misery. In this respect, the children of the poor enjoy a much greater chance of health. In the evidence respecting the slave-trade, there is nothing more abominable than the servitude to accomplishments. As to labour and the lash-is the case less miserable when it is the mind that suffers ?

QUACKERY. The extension of it remains to be proved. There may be an increase of advertised medicines; but when I consider the immense number of herbs mentioned in our hold herbals, and recollect how busy were our old women, I see that they very much exceed the quack medicines; and I venture to believe that medicine, in proportion to the population of the country, is less frequently administered by unprofessional hands than at any former period.

RABIES CANINA. To try hot-bath 104° and affusion of cold water, and that six times a day; boiling water on the neck; also removing a part of the cranium, and keeping the brain compressed. REFORM, medical. The quantities of medicine ordered drive people to quack medicines. People can drop the latter when they please, but verecundia erga medicum makes them keep on longer with the former, than either the stomach or the purse can well endure. To rescue the public from the stomach part of this evil, it will be proper to enact that the apothecary shall charge for more draughts than he supplies, as used to be the case with post-horses in France.

RHEUMATISM. There is a degree of rheumatism, semi-acute, no redness of joints, but some fever and much pain (increased by warmth) in which there is prodigious dyspnea, though the intercostal muscles be not painful. Here seems to be some weakness of the muscles of respiration, which, I think, the heart partakes of; and under these circumstances, I suspect the heart readily enlarges; having known instances of such rheumatics labouring under enlargement of the heart. ROOMS, temperated. Better than any climate in winter. The question is, whether you choose a commodious prison with health, or to be at large and diseased. It is not to be expected that you should enjoy the advantages of health under disease.

SENSATIONS. Of great importance to avoid disagreeable ones in fevers-vivid colours, or associatively offensive objects. Accurately observing attendants have assured me, that nauseous medicines in fever did much injury, especially to children.

SLEEP. A subject requiring much study, or rather, much accumulation of facts. There is the utmost poverty of facts in all that has been written on it; probably gross errors; as appearances in the sleep of the sick, may be supposed to arise from disease, and yet have existed in health when the sleep was not watched. Observation can be made much better by unprofessional people. In sleep the passing ideas are lost, so the connected muscular movements must be lost too. As in sleeping over a book, and it drops down, or be fore it drops; and as it is dropping, the purpose is recalled, and I save it. In sleep, if the ideas return, the connected movements return too so people might be practised to do any thing iu sleep; may be made to talk or walk.

In inflammatory disorders, if due evacuations be not premised, aggravation. Query, from congestion? if they be premised, amendment; and both amendment and aggravation take place more rapidJy than in waking state.

SYMPATHY. A term that ought to be soon expunged from the language of philosophical medicine, having been a term of ignorance. Sympathetic movements tend to become independent, as in hepatic epilepsy. The fits will continue after the liver is cured.

WALKS. Too long, in summer, injurious to children. They should be suffered to recruit frequently. Soon exhausted, and soon recruited. In many cases, children of two years old, or so, have fallen off

directly upon an uninterrupted walk of a mile and a half. The same will happen to adults of great delicacy.

WASHING. Among the hardships incident to poor married women with a family, one is particularly severe. This is frequent dabbling in water to wash. Nothing can support the constitution of many against the trial. I have kept an account of the health of se veral for months; I could do them service in the short interval: but so sure as came the wash, so sure came all the complaints back a gain. In consequence of this employment, and this only, a slight cold shall undermine the constitution, keep them sickly for years, and as last destroy them. Can no good genius invent a machine, by which opulent neighbours, attentive to their hard-fated fellow creatures, may be able to relieve some of them from this destructive drudgery.

WHIRLING a firebrand. To use this as a test for the eye in persons nervous and not nervous, i. e. to see if to some, at a certain velocity, it will not appear a circle, and to others not.

For the following complete List of Dr Beddoes's Publications, we also acknowledge our obligations to Dr Stock.

1784 Translation of Spallanzani's Dissertations on Natural History A second Edition in 1790.

1784 Notes to a translation of Bergman's Physical and Chemical Essays.

1785 Translation of Bergman's Essay on Elective Attractions. 1786 Translation of Scheele's Chemical Essays. Edited and corrected by Dr Beddoes.

1790 Chemical Experiments and Opinions, extracted from a Work published in the last century.

1791 Observations on the Affinity between Basaltes and Granite. 1791 An account of some appearances attending the conversion of cast into malleable iron.

1792 Second Part of ditto.

Uncertain. Memorial addressed to the Curators of the Bodleian Library.

1792 A Letter to a Lady on the subject of early Instruction, particularly that of the Poor. Printed, but not published. 1792 Alexander's Expedition to the Indian Ocean. Printed, but not published.

1792 Observations on the Nature of Demonstrative Evidence, with Reflections on Language.

1792 Observations on the Nature and Cure of Calculus, Sea-Scurvy, Catarrh, and Fever.

1793 History of Isaac Jenkins.

1793 A Letter to Dr Darwin, on a new mode of treating Pulmo

nary Consumption.

1794 Letters from Dr Withering, Dr Ewart, Dr Thornton, &c. 1794 A Guide for Self-preservation and Parental Affection.

1794 A Proposal for the Improvement of Medicine.

1794 Considerations on the Medicinal Use, and on the Production of Factitious Airs. Parts I. and II.

1795 Brown's Elements of Medicine, with a Preface and Notes. 1795 Translation, from the Spanish, of Gimbernat's new Method of operating in Femoral Hernia.

1795 Considerations, &c. Part III.

1795 Outline of a Plan, for determining the Medicinal Powers of Factitious Airs.

1795 A Word in Defence of the Bill of Rights against Gagging-bills. Where would be the harm of a Speedy Peace?

1796 An Essay on the Public Merits of Mr Pitt.

1796 A Letter to Mr Pitt on the Scarcity.

1796 Considerations, &c. Parts IV. and V.

1797 Alternatives compared; or, what shall the Rich do to be Safe? 1797 Suggestions towards setting on foot the projected Establishment for Pneumatic Medicine.

1797 Reports relating to Nitrous Acid.'

1797 A Lecture introductory to a popular Course of Anatomy. 1798 A suggestion towards an essential improvement in the Bristol Infirmary.

1799 Contributions to Medical and Physical Knowledge, from the West of England.

1799 Popular Essay on Consumption.

1799 Notice of some Observations made at the Pneumatic Institution. 1799 A second Collection of Reports on Nitrous Acid.

1800 A Third ditto..

1801 Essay on the Medical and Domestic Management of the Consumptive, on Digitalis, and on Scrofula.

1801-2 Hygeia; or Essays, Moral and Medical, on the Causes affecting the personal state of the middling and affluent

classes.

1803 Rules of the Institution for the sick and drooping poor. An edition on large paper was entitled Instruction for People of all Capacities respecting their own Health, and of their Children.

1806 The Manual of Health, or the Invalid conducted safely through the Seasons.

1807 On Fever, as connected with Inflammation, an Exercise. 1808 A Letter to Sir Joseph Banks on the prevailing Discontents,

Abuses, and Imperfections in Medicine.

1808 Good Advice for the Husbandman in Harvest, and for all those who labour hard in hot births; as also for others who will take it in warm weather.

In this List, are not included a variety of communications to the Medical Facts and Observations, the Monthly Magazine, the Medical and Physical Journal, Nicholson's Journal, &c. The paper on ba. saltes, and the two on the conversion of cast into malleable iron, were published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1791 and 1792

VOL. VII. NO. 26,

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PART II.

CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

I.

Facts and Opinions concerning Diabetes. By JOHN LATHAM, M. D. F. R. S. Fellow of the College of Physicians, and Phy-" sician-Extraordinary to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. 8vo. pp. 244. Murray.

Ir rarely happens, that we are called upon to exercise our critical functions towards an author, who comes forward with so many extrinsic and adventitious claims upon our attention, as Dr Latham possesses. A zeal in favour of the science of medicine, often bears an inverse ratio to the quantum of occupation in the art; the leisure and opportunity of research necessarily diminish as employment is increased; and one great motive to publication, the desire of gaining public fame, is also, from the same cause, in a great measure done away. Hence few authors come before us, who, in addition to dignities, such as are enumerated in the title-page of this work, can boast of having been engaged for a considerable period in the superintendence of a large hospital in the metropolis; and of having spent a life, which "is verging towards the vale of years; in a practice so extensive, that they have long since been raised into a state of affluence and independence." (Dedication, p. vi)

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Had not observation long ago taught us, that the experience obtained is by no means proportionate to the time and opportunities, which have been enjoyed in the pursuit of it, we should hail the appearance of every veteran practitioner before our tribunal, as the benefactor of the medical art. But barba non facit philosophum :" age has its vanities as well as youth; and the vanity of worldly advancement is not more dignified or rational, than the vanity of early mental accomplishments. Whencesoever it may come, therefore, the internal evidence of any work is the only legitimate ground for the decisions of criticism.

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