7« Koikes respecting New Books. 



subject extends, we are ready to cive every credit to the 

 ingenious author. Our Hrtiits will not permit us to follow 

 him through the whole, but we cannot help remarking, 

 that every part shows equal industry and genius. — After 

 remarking the various unsuccessful attempts hitherto made, 

 he engages in an inquiry concerning the uses of iron in the 

 system — The diseases arising from an excess of the oxide 

 of iron — Those arising from a deficiency of the same From 

 all these, many valuable inductions follow on cancer and 

 some other equally deplorable diseases. 



The work concludes with an attempt at answering the 

 queries of the medical committee of the society for investi- 

 gating the nature and cure of cancer, and the plan of 

 a hospital in Dublin for the reception of cancerous pa- 

 tients. Of the first, we cannot help lamenting that we hear 

 so little of a society which seemed at one time to promise 

 50 much. The author's answers of course respect princi- 

 pally passages referred tp in his work. Ot" the second, we 

 cannot help regretting that the inconvenience reniarked by 

 Dr. Adams, in his 'iVeatiseon the Cancerous Breast, should 

 be so soon forgotten. Can there be a more dreary prospect 

 for cancerous subjects, than to be constant witnesses of 

 its frequent fatality, and the agonies of their fellow-suffer- 

 ers ? Would not the funds of such an institution be better 

 employed in supporting the patients aniong their friends, 

 and administering renitdies, than in erecting expensive 

 buildings? We cannot, by these few remarks, be sus- 

 pected of a wish to detract from the merit ctf a work whiclv 

 does equal honour to the head and heart of the author* 



practical and descriptive Essays on the Ecovowy of Fuel 

 and Management of Heat. Essay First. By Robertson 

 BucHA^^NAN, Civil Engineer. 8vo. IVitk 2 Engravings. 



The public having given a very favourable reception to a 

 feliort Essay on the PI arming of Mills and other Buildings 

 by Steam, published by Mr. liuchannan in 1607? and of 

 wh'ch we took notice in our xxixth vol. p. 272, instead of 

 merely reprinting that Essay, he has been induced to ex- 

 tend his plan to a series of Essays under the above title, of 

 which, the first, consisting of 280 pages, has just made its 

 appearance. It is divided into three parts. Part I. — h fleets 

 of Heat — Means Of Measuring it— F\iel, Scc-r-Section 1, 

 Heat, Thermometers, Tables ; 2, Expansion of Solids and 

 Liquids, Tables) 3; Specific I^eat of Gases, Liquids and 



Solidsj 



