212 CRITICAL NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



Doctor tells us, with an excusable' pride, that a bold convex terrace at 

 Malvern is now called '* Booker's Mount,*' from the partiality displayed 

 by himself for this particular spot in his poem. In adverting to his 

 friend Jenner, Dr. Booker manifests a disposition to take up the cudgels 

 against Malthus, and qiiotes Proverbs xiv. 28, against him and the 

 political economists, who think ''mankind have multiplied too much 

 upon the face of the earth." A variety of other miscellanea appear on 

 the origin of Sunday schools — size of trees — a new ** Man of Ross" — 

 height of St. Andrew's spire, Worcester (which the Doctor says is the 

 ** loftiest in Europe for the base on which it stands ;") — Fair Rosamond — 

 Ostorius Scapula — the Goodwin Sands, &c. &c. for which we refer our 

 readers to the book, consisting of 63 pages of octosyllabic rhymes, and 

 91 pages of notes. 



Having once got into the water, Dr. Booker appears very unwilling to 

 quit the element, but invokes the aid of Taliesin, the Welsh bard, in a 

 concluding page, to keep him and his poem " afloat." Whether, as he 

 infers, his present work will be " kept from perishing," as the infant 

 Taliesin was when exposed to *'the uncertain fate of public opinion," 

 is more than we dare venture to predict ; for we greatly fear that, in 

 spite of his invocation, some of the sheets will ultimately be used to 

 line those very useful articles called trunks. 



A Dictionary of Terms employed by the French in Anatomy y ^c. Sfc. 

 Part I. By Shirley Palmer, M. D. : Birmingham. 



This work, the author states, ** was undertaken with a view of faci- 

 litating the perusal of French and German Literature to the Medical 

 Student or Practitioner ;" a design which every one must admit to be 

 most laudable, and, if executed with ability, will prove a very useful 

 companion in our medical libraries, as it will supply a deficiency which 

 must have been too much felt by all who are studious of the literature 

 of the ** healing art." 



Judging from the specimen we have before us, we are inclined to 

 think the work will fully answer the object its author has in view ; it is 

 executed with much talent, and bears marks of great industry and re- 

 search. We will lay before our readers two examples taken at hazard. 



** AsPHYXiE, s. f., — napv^ia, (« pviv., <T^«?»r, pulse), — asphyxia, f. L., — pulslo- 

 sigkeit, f., scheintod^ m. G. The term, Asphyxia, was long employed by patholo- 

 gists, as its etymology indicates, to designate suppression of the pulse — suspension 

 of the circulation. But it is now commonly understood to signify suspension of all 

 the vital phenomena by causes which operate exclusively, or at least specially, upon 

 the respiratory organs. Asphyxia may be referred to three principal sources: 

 exclusion of air from the lungs, as in strangulation ; introduction of air into them, 

 unfit for respiration ; and of air possessing deleterious qualities. Each of these 

 species present several varieties, with phenomena modified by the pecuhar causes 

 from which they have resulted. Asphyxie, adj., — a7(pvx^T0t, — asphycticus, — 

 asphyktisch, scheintodt, ohne pulsschlag, — asphyxiated, in a state of apparent 

 death, without pulsation. Asphyxier, v. a., to produce a state of Asphyxia." 



" CcEUR, s. m., — x«fS««,— cor, n. L, — herz, n. G., — heart: in Comparative 

 Anatomy, amuscular organ consisting, in Man, the inferior Mammifera, and Birds, 

 of four distinct cavities: two Auricles^ — see Oreillete ; the right, receiving 

 the blood from all parts of the system, by the venae cavae ; the left, from the lungs, 

 by the pulmonary veins : and two Ventricles, — see Ventricule ; the n^A^, pro- 

 pelling the blood to the lungs, by the pulmonary artery ; the left, to the general 

 system, by the aorta. Thus, the heart, constituted, in all these animals, of a 

 pulmonary and aortic portion, — each comprizing an auricle and ventricle, is said to 

 be double ; and performs a double pulmonary and a systemic — circulation. In 



