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MEDICINE, SURGERY, ANATOMY, &c- 
vf. 
Agr. ViU. The Leadon Practice o egal or a Manual for Students, being e 
ic 
complete Course of practical Midunfery, in w 
Women and the Diseases of Children. 8y0. pp. 300. 
CHE London Prastice is a specious title 
—it would imply tothe uninformed that 
the greater part of the practitioners of 
this metropolis had adopted an uniform 
plan of treatmé@ht itv those cases (in 
midwifery comparatively few) where the 
assistairce of art was demanded, of which 
the book with the above, title was an ab- 
styact. ; {u Msy 
Were this error, however, the only ac+ 
cusation against the anonymous editor of 
this volume, ‘we showld pass it over as 
one of the more venial artifices of book- 
making, considering the high and me- 
rited reputation of the real author: but 
common (report, strengthened by, the 
evidence of many. who recollect, in an- 
other form, the observations | contained 
in this volume, throws an imputation of 
fraud on the part of the editor as dis- 
ast ieiutl sieiclssy 
Arr 1X4 
are included the Treatment of Lying-in 
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graceful to himself, as injurious to the 
person at whose expence it has been com- 
mitted. Pirating for the. press the lec- 
tures of a public teacher, is a fraud 
which, in morality, stands precisely in 
the same light as bribing a printer’s 
journeyman for the unpublished ‘sheets 
of a valuable ‘work, with a view of un- 
derselling in the market: and in the 
former case, with the additional injury 
to the lecturer, of giving to the public 
his observations in an imperfect unfi- 
nished state, abounding with the errors 
of a piratical and often ignorant editor. 
Whether the accusation of fraud be 
in this instance well founded, we do not 
pretend to judge; but the book would 
be more respectable if not anonymous, 
and infinitely more useful if it bore the 
marks of correct attention. 
A Popular Vi ted of the Structure and Economy of the Human Body. Inter- 
spersed evith! Reflections, moral, practical, and miscellaneous 3 including modern Discoveries, 
and desivned for general Information and Improvement. To which is annexed, an Expla- 
nation of dificult Terma By 'Jown Fevtuam. 
THE compilers ofthe numerous ele- 
mentary systems,, familiar. views, and 
other... popular, outlines, of , different 
branches, of human, knowledge, do not 
always seem to be aware how difficult a 
task itis to render science exsy and ‘al- 
luring to’ beginners, | whilst ‘cutting it 
down to the level! of the lowest capa- 
cities., (Men of real science sometimes 
disdain. the ‘task, sometimes are ‘unable 
to enter into the limited views of the 
learner, andhence it falls into the hands 
of persons of information too narrow for 
‘selection, too meagre for condensation. 
« Physiology and anatomy, for they are 
inseparably connected, though infinitely 
interesting, can never’ be made ‘fashion- 
able (for this appears to be the author's 
design) till the disgust naturally felt, and 
prejudices long entertained, against dis-., 
section are overcome ; jtill.all the appre- 
hensions of timorous delicacy. are sub- 
sided, and till a, mixed. audience of gen- 
teeland respectable persons,can look at 
therexhibition of Aumea dissection, with 
é . . . 
the same unrepressed curiosity with which, 
they admire the brilliance of the electrical 
flash, or the dazzle’ of ‘ox¥gen ‘com- 
bustion. VL PV RLIERO) ae 2eTT S34 
* Mr! Veltham= seems to! expéct “with 
some eonfidence the period when’ **’the 
8vo. pp. 440. 
higher ranks of society may suffer the 
influence of reason to surmount minor, 
considerations, and the legislature au- 
thorise more frequent dissections among 
the privileged orders as the most likely 
means of propagating the practice among 
the lower classes of the community.” 
Mr. Acer‘bi does indeed tell us, that the 
public pensioners and placemen in Swe- 
dén hold their situations on the tenure 
of bequeathing their bodies for public 
dissection; but in’ England no act of 
parliament ‘has ‘yet’ passed for autho» 
rising surgeons to anatomize the privi- 
leged orders? for ‘the benefit of ‘their in- 
feriors, and it is only two or three years 
since’ an “Attempt ‘was made to increase 
the difficulty which now so much opposes 
the progress of anatomical knowledge. 
Nevertheless, we agree with the au- — 
thor,. and with Dr. Beddoes, that much 
might be, dene (keeping within >the 
strictest bounds.of modern decorum) to 
make physiology.a part of general edu- 
cation,.and that ‘even mere reading on, 
this curious subject might attract the no- 
tice of youth, if put together by a master’s 
hand but it is not falalling this intention 
to give’a dry, ill’arranged detail of mit- 
ter of fact, interspersed’ with~séraps 6£ 
poctry, gleanings from magazines and 
