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Nuga Chirurgica; or, a Biographical Miscellany, illustra- 

 tive of a Collection of Professional Portraits. By W 

 Wadd, Esq., F.L.S. &c. 8vo. pp. 276. London, 1824 

 Longman and Co., and Callow and Wilson. 



Nuga Canorce ; or Epitapkian Mementos fin Stone-cutter's 

 Verse) of the Medici Family of Modern Times, ' By Unus 

 Quorum. London, 1827. Callow and Wilson. 



Mems. , Maxims, and Memoirs. By W. Wadd, Esq. , F.L.S. , 

 Surgeon-Extraordinary to the King, &c. 8vo. pp. 303. 

 London, 1827. Callow and Wilson. 



We have placed these three Works together, because they 

 are so closely allied as to form a whole, and also because 

 NugcB Canorce and Nugcc Chirurgiccc bear internal evidence 

 of being written by the same pen ; and when we say further, 

 that they are characterized by good feeling and good humour, 

 we are sure we are not far off in our guess about who is ' Unus 

 QooRUM.* These volumes come within the scope of our 

 Journal, as comprising an outline of the history of medical 

 science, sketched in a vein of pleasantry that makes it no 

 less agreeable to the general than to the professional reader, 

 and we have derived both amusement and information from 

 its perusal. Like the ' Gold Headed Cane,' it helps us to 

 much curious modern biographical anecdote, with the addi- 

 tion of varied entertainment for the medical antiquary. 

 While, however, we recommend these * Mems.,' and com- 

 mend the literary loungings of contemporary practitioners, 

 we cannot but regret the neglected volumes of Aikin and 

 Walker, and lament that the lack of feeling for the annals 

 and literature of their profession, should be less active in 

 the medical public of this country, than with our professional 

 brethren on the Continent. 



' Nugce Chirurgicce' is a Catalogue Raisonnee of a scarce 

 collection of Medical Portraits. We believe only 250 copies 

 were printed ; from which circumstance, and its recording 

 the congregation of the greatest assemblage of medical men 

 ever met together, it is probable that it may some day 

 become a medical rarity. The author's original intention 

 appears merely to have been to describe the portrait, with 

 some characteristic trait ; but an after-thought seems to have 

 occurred, and in the " Memorabilia," the ** Medici Family'"' 

 are, as it were, retouched and varnished, so as to become 



