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SUPPLEMENTARY REVIEW OF LITERATU 
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A Century of Surgeons on Gonorrhea, 
and on Strictures of the Urethra. 12mo.— 
The editor (for he assumes no other title) 
of this compact but elaborate digest, in his 
sensible and well-written introduction, in- 
forms the reader, that as he 
** does not publish this work for the purpose of 
persuading the reader that he is ‘‘ the marvellous 
proper man” to apply to for a cure for the complaints 
herein treated of, he has not prefixed his name to his 
treatise: the elaborate illustrations of the subject, 
from the works of others, will sufficiently prove 
that he has not been seeking to seem scientific 
himself, but merely to make the reader so.” 
At the same time he takes care to render 
it equally clear, that it is not, on the other 
hand, his object to render every man his own 
‘surgeon, for, repeating the old adage, that 
“the man who is his own doctor, must 
have afool for a patient,’”’ he “ earnestly 
advises even the student never to undertake 
to be his own surgeon.”’ 
If he suppresses his own name, however, 
he affixes to every opinion and extract the 
mames of the authors from whom it is de- 
yived; and his authorities are a host. Dr. 
Astruc, physician to Louis XIV., when he 
published, in 1755, an elaborate history of 
the origin, nature, cause and cure of this 
disease, gave a chronological catalogue, and 
an analysis of the works of 175 authors 
who had written on the subject ; and we 
are informed, that “‘ to compose this little 
book, the editor has been obliged to digest 
‘as many volumesas Dr. Astrucdid.”’ Such 
digests, bringing together in a small compass 
the whole mass of authorities upon any 
given topic, professional or scientific, and 
pointing out, at the same time, where the 
details by which they are supported may be 
further consulted, and thereby shortening 
at once and assuring the road to knowledge, 
cas they are extremely valuable when faith- 
fully exercised, cannot be too much com- 
mended. We subjoin one brief extract from 
the introduction, because, though here ap- 
plied to the treatment of a particular disease, 
we believe it to be of very general application. 
Speaking of the folly of trusting to medical 
applications alone, without paying proper 
attention to regimen, 
“« If these fail,” says the writer, ‘‘ under any cir- 
cumstances, they set it down to the impotence of 
his prescriptions, instead of the effects of their own 
imprudence in diet and regimen.—‘ One glass of 
wine’—one cup of what lickerislMmurses call ‘nice nou- 
rishing broth’ —has often caused a relapse for several 
days:—f In every part of life, there are seeming 
trifles, which, if neglected, take the most.severe 
revenge; .and no seeming trifles are so vindictive as 
those relating to, health,’—Dr. Beddoes.” 
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1. On the Importance of Edueating: the 
Infant Children of the Poor ;' showing ‘how 
Three Hundred Children, from + Eighteen 
Months to Seven Years of Age, may ‘be. 
managed by one Master and Mistress ; ¢on- 
taining also an Account of the Spital-fields 
Infant School. By Samuri WiLpERspin. 
12mo. 
2. A Manual of the System of Instruction 
pursued at the Infant School, Meadow-street, 
Bristol. Illustrated by appropriate En- 
gravings. By D. G.-Goyprr. 12mo.— 
Though the former of these little volumes 
was published so Jong ago as the year 1828, 
and the latter is a fourth edition, we bring 
them together, though out of our regular 
course, on account of the importance of the 
subject: not that we have space to enter 
into the discussion, but because we wish 
to contribute, in some degree, to the ex- 
citement of a general attention to the con- 
tents of both. Ifthe object of these infant 
schools were to enforce, at so early an age 
as the minimum that is stated, an attention 
to book education, we should be far from 
giving them our approval; for we are of 
opinion that children, of any class of so- 
ciety, till they are five or six years old, 
ought to be principally, if not exclusively, 
resigned to that mere bodily education 
which, in rustic scenes, is to be got by 
sports and gambols on the green; or, in 
other words, that.it is the development of 
the corporal faculties upon which their fu- 
ture strength, agility and health are to 
depend, that should be principally in con- 
templation. But the means of this impor-_ 
tant part of early education are not in the 
reach of the humbler classes, in great 
towns and manufacturing districts; the 
vices of the street, or the imprisonment, of, 
the gatret, without security from personal 
injury and danger in either, are the only 
alternatives for the children of the indus-. 
trious poor, or even of the comparatively- 
thriving workmen, or those of the ‘class: 
just above them. Nursery schools, if pro-» 
perly-conducted, are, therefore, equally im- 
portant, in a physical and a moral point ‘of 
view ; and if, in providing for the safety andi 
exercise of children, even of two years old, 
amusements can be devised that may here-) 
after turn to account in the progress: of, 
instruction, it is an additional reeommen-, 
dation. These objects seem, in some de-., 
gree, to be obtained by the plans of both, 
the superintendants here before, us5,and), 
the school-room in both seems, in, aygreat., 
measure, to be, supplementary- only,to.the:; 
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