SroO On Ornamental Aviaries. 



** In all such cases, purgative or aperient medicines become 

 especially requisite ; and in the latter capacity, sea-water, which, 

 from the earliest ages, has been esteemed an important remedy in 

 these complaints, may be administered with very great advantage ; 

 the intention, generally, being not so much to produce a powerful 

 operation on the alimentary canal, as one which is gentle, and con- 

 tinued, by which the action of the biliary and other secreting organs, 

 may be regularly and mildly assisted. 



*' There are no purgative medicines, even of the most simple 

 kind, whose use can be better regulated than sea-water ; and there 

 are none, whose frequent employment is less likely to be followed, 

 either by languid action, or by that state of constitutional excitement, 

 or, I may add, inflammation, which, not unfrequently, succeeds the 

 too frequent use of more powerful purgatives. 



** Calomel, notwithstanding its advantages, is, nevertheless, a 

 medicine of this kind; for although, in these, as in so many other 

 complaints, it is one of the most useful and eligible that can be em- 

 ployed, not more from its purgative, than from its other properties, 

 it is yet one whose use cannot, with propriety, be very frequently 

 repeated, or long persevered in. It is therefore an important con- 

 sideration, that the peculiar properties of sea-water are such, as to 

 allow of its more constant exhibition, either alone, or in alternation 

 with calomel, or with other medicines, whose peculiar properties 

 may indicate the utility of their employment." 



We cannot, indeed, conclude the analysis of the work be- 

 fore us, without expressing our approbation of the clear, sen- 

 sible, and temperate manner, in which it has been executed, 

 and our high sense of the many valuable observations it con- 

 tains. 



On Ornamental Aviaries, 



It is not a little surprising, that while every villa, and almost 

 every cottage, has its greenhouse, or conservatory, compara- 

 tively few, even of our most splendid mansions, can boast of a 

 well kept aviary ; and yet, to the lover of natural history, or 

 even to the mere admirer of animated nature, the latter is sure 

 to afford constant amusement and gratification ; and, in point 

 of expense, its first cost is not so great as a conservatory, nor 

 is the keeping it up more expensive; for while the one requires 

 the constant attention of an experienced gardener, the wants 

 of the other can be supplied by an old woman, or a boy 3 and 



