714 MEDICINE, SURGERY, ANATOMY, &e. 
books of standing reputation, to compile a decent work of the kind; and there 
will never be any want of superficial students to become his readers. ne 
In the class of Pharmacy and: medical Chemistry the authorized reform of the. — 
Edinburgh Pharmacopeia, and the proposed improvement of the Paris codex by’ 
La'Grange are’ both entitled to notice. They shew (especially the latter work). 
avery marked and almost exclusive attention to the chemical part of pharmacy.’ 
Dr. Lambe has thrown a very wide suspicion on the management of an essential ; 
part of domestic economy in his remarks on Spring Water; and Dr. Gibbes dwells! 
on the mystic virtues of Bath-waters with the zeal of a devotee. 
We have added Galvanism to the present chapter, as a subject of great and in. 
creasing importance to the study of Physiology... The origin 1 experiments of, 
Professor Aldini of Bologna are marked with Italian ingenuity and acuteness. 
Among the miscellaneous, publications, Dr. Percival’s Medical Ethics will please ; 
by the amiable spirit which it exhibits, and the liberal conduct which it inculgates.._ , 
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fer. Td) Ansials of Medicine for the Year 1802; exhibiting a concise View of the latest 
and most important Discoveries in Medicine and Medical Philosophy. 4 ANDREW, 
WDonecany sens Me Do and-Axnrew Duncan, jun. M.D. Fellows of the Royal» 
College of Physicians, Edinburgh. 
mig? analysis’ of books occupies, as 
usual, the first part of this work, which 
we pass over, in order to give an ac- 
count of the original communications 
contained in the second. | 
}. ** Observations on bilious disorders, ex- 
tracted from a letter dated from the river 
Ganges, in 1770, to a friend. By John Sher- 
wen, .M. 1), formerly surgeon in the service 
of the Honourable East India Company, now 
aon at Enfield, Continued from ‘oqur 
dst volunje.” 
The proximate cause of bilious dis- 
orders, the, author considers to be an 
excited state of the liver, produced by 
am effort of nature to throw off bile from 
the system. Bilious remittent fevers are 
trusted, by the natives of India, to na- 
ture and. cold water, taken ad libitum. 
The author’s experience led him to aim 
at the evacuation of bilious matter from 
the stomach and bowels, by emetics and 
purgatives, and at the removal of the 
fever by means of small doses of emetic 
tartar, large draughts of the saline mix- 
ture, anodynes, and the peruvian bark. 
At the same time, it was necessary to 
attend, during the disorder, to the more 
urgent symptoms. The propensity to 
the use.of, cold water, now so success- 
fully employed, in, this country, in the 
early,.periods, of fever, was oiten re- 
marked by the author. ipa ae 
Me Diiting the febrile delitinin, thé patient 
had often’ ¥ ‘strong™inelination to’ leap into 
the river.) [t was with mueh difficulty that [. 
IO 
prevented two of my patients from taking this» 
fatal step; and I have a confused remem- ; 
brance of a longing inclination, which I my-.- 
self had when in this situation, to get into 
the river. Very fortunate for me, | was tao 
weak to get out of my cot ; but I can remem- 
ber, I thought I should be perfectly easy if I 
could but leap from the cabin windows into - 
the water.” 
The other remarks in this paper are. 
on the subject of dysentery, enlarged 
liver, and prickly heat; but they cons 
tain nothing partiewlarly worthy of nor. 
tice. 
2. «© Observations on the duration and~ 
course of fever in Britain, and on the efficacy” 
of medicine in interrupting its course, and in ~ 
shortening its duration By William Brown, | 
M. 1). one of the surgeons to the Royal Ine. 
firmary of Edinburgh,” ; 
To the interesting subjects of inquiry 
which the author has prosecuted in the, 
present paper, he had an opportunity of 
attending, several vears ago, by obtain-. 
ing access to the records of a well-regu- 
lated hospital. The doctrine of critical, 
days appeared to him an object worthy 
attention; and he therefore took some. 
pains to enquire into the periods of the. 
termination. of, fever. From a_state-. 
ment whats given, it appears, that out 
of 280 cases, 172 terminated on critical’ 
» days; which is a proportion falling 
short of what is recorded by Hippoerates, 
But in some other respects, also, there ts 
a difference between the two statements, 
