168 CRITICAL NOTICES OP NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



A Hisfory of the Rarer Species of British Birds, by T. C. Eyton, 

 Esq. Parts I. and II. London : Longman and Co. U>36. 



The object of this work is to figure the rarer birds which have 

 been discovered in the British isles since the publication of the last 

 edition of Bewick, to whose " History' it will form an appropriate 

 and valuable supplement. As we propose giving a critical notice 

 on receiving the third part, which will complete the work, 

 we shall now merely observe that the birds are accurately drawn 

 and beautifully engraved; the vignettes are also exquisite specimens 

 of the art, and worth)'^ to be placed in juxta-position with the produc- 

 tions of the immortal Bewick. 



The descriptions are written with great perspicuity, and bear 

 ample evidence that Mr. Eyton possesses every requisite for execut- 

 ing the task he has undertaken, in a manner calculated to elicit 

 the unqualified approbation of the ornithologist. 



Observations on the principal Medical Institutions and Practice of 

 France, Italy, and Germany, with Notices of the Universities and 

 Cases from Hospital Practice, with an Appendix on Animal Mag- 

 netism and HomcBopathy. By Edwin Lee. London : Churchill. 



This sketch of the state of medical and surgical practice, in 

 France, Italy, and Germany, is the result of the personal observa- 

 tion of the author, during a temporary residence at different periods 

 in those countries. The succinct account of some of the principal 

 medical Institutions, and the pertinent remarks on continental prac- 

 tice, bear the stamp of accui'acy and impartiality, and convey much 

 useful information to the profession. The practice of M. Dupuy- 

 tren, Chomel, Roux, Bouillaud, and other eminent men, in the Pa- 

 risian Hospitals is adverted to, and several interesting cases sub- 

 joined. 



" The medical institutions of Italy,'* the author observes, ''are regulated 

 much in the same manner as in France, being under the superintendence of 

 their respective governments, and deriving their revenues fi-om property 

 with which they nave been endowed, and from the bequests and donations of 

 rich individuals. • • • The profession is divided, as in France, into 

 physicians, surgeons, and obstetric practitioners. The division between me- 

 dicine and sur^ry is, in some parts, very arbitrary; the duties of the sur- 

 geon being confined to the application of local remedies and operations, while 

 the physician is called in to prescribe for the constitutional disorder accom- 

 panying surgical disease. The principles by which the practice is guided, 

 necessarily vary in the different states. At Florence and Home they are 

 based upon the Broussaian d(x;trine much more generally than at Naples or 

 Milan ; but, with the exception of the last city, the treatment of disease is 

 inferior to the French." 



A variety of cases, illustrative of the method of treating diseases 

 in the Hospitals of the several States, are adduced, wiiich fully jus- 

 tify this remark. 



The Hospitals of Germany are under eimalar superintendence to 



