BRADLEY'S NEW MEDICAL DICTIONARY.—FOGO’S OBSERVATIONS, &c, 
wooks of various authority, and adver- 
tisine notes. 
Mr. Feltham shews himself, however, 
competently skilled in that part of ana- 
tomy which is taught by books; his de- 
scriptions are mostly accurate, and ina 
very few instances he exhibits some 
marks of that clearness of expression, 
and aptness of illustration, which are so 
much to be desired in an instructor of 
youth. We shall not detain our readers 
with any specimen of the patch-work 
sentiment from Lavater, St. Pierre, and 
Hervey’s Meditations, which perpetually 
occur in these pages: the following will 
serve as an example of the anatomical 
description : 
« Cartilages are solid, smooth, elastic, 
white substances, between the hardness of 
bones and ligaments, ‘and covered with a 
membrane named perichondrium. Cartilages 
are the hardest parts of the body except bones, 
and seem to be kept from ossifying either by 
their motions of flexion aid extension, or 
by being constantly moistened. ‘Chose of 
the ribs and larynx are often ossified, The 
gartilages are also part of the living system 
of the bones: and ‘we see in tre bones them- 
selves how unphilosophical it must be, “to 
deny organization and feeling to any part of 
the living body, however dead or insulated 
725 
it may appear; for every part has its degree 
of life; the eye, the skin, ile flesh, the ten- 
dons, and the bones have successive degrees 
of feeling and circulation. ». Where even the 
lowest of these, the bone, is deprived ofits 
small portion of life, it becomes a foreign 
body, and is thrown off from the healthy 
parts, ‘as a-gangrened limb is separated from 
the sound bedy ; and we speak as familiarly 
of the death of a bone, as of the gangrene 
of soft parts. Organization of life is given 
to the eartilages, though surely in respect of 
feeling, they must stand in the very last 
degree. ' 
“« "heir uses, as fur as they regard bones, 
are to allow them to slide easily, while by 
flexibility they accommodate themselves to 
the different, motions, and by elasticity re- 
cover their natural figure and position as soon 
as the pressure is removed, This. springy 
force may also assist the motion of the joint 
to be more expeditious, and may soften the 
shocks in running, jumping, &c. ‘To these 
we owe the security of the inoyeable articu- 
lations, for without them the fibres of the 
bone would shoot oat, and immediately co- 
alesce with the additional bone.’ 
We may add, that the author has en- 
tirely avoided all possible imputation of 
indecorum, by totally omitting those 
parts of anatomy to which these ideas 
could be attached, 
Art. X. A New Medical Dictionary, containing a concise Explanation of all the Terms used 
in Medicines Surgery, Pharmacy, Botany, Natural History, and Chymistry. 
Compiled 
by Joseru Fox, AL. D. late Physician to the London Hospital; revised and augmented 
by Eromas-Braviey, M.D. Physician to the Westminster Hospital. 12mo. 
-. BY help of a very small type, and ex- 
tremely. brief definitions, the conapilers 
oft this little work have. contrived to in- 
clude, as they profess to do, nearly all 
the terms that ever oecur in the sciences 
mentioned in the title-page, and-the vo- 
jume is, in one sense, “ an universal in- 
dex on the subjects of medicine, surgery, 
and natural history, as iar as it-relates to 
medicine.” | It is, however, an mdex 
without references. , Though the reader 
is promised, ‘ that he may consult this 
dictionary with an assurance that he will 
not be disappointed in finding the term 
he may want,” we think that tbe au- 
thors might have spared a very :great 
number of antiquated terms, the dreams 
of Van Helmont, and the mystic jatgon 
of Paracelsus, without incurring the risk 
of failing in their engagement to any 
who are likely to employ such a help to 
knowledge as the present volume. In 
other respects it is fairly executed, and 
pains have been taken to render it-co- 
piousin those-parts which are likely to 
be most frequently consulted. RAC 
: 
Axr. XI. Observations on the Opinions of ancient and modern Physicians, including Prose 
of the late Br. Cullen, respecting’ the Nature and Cause of the Uterine Discharges Also, 
Observations on the Opinions of Dr. Callen on Amennorrbia, or Greenesickness, of Dr. Sdin- 
ders on Disedses of the Liver, of Dr. Thomas on Caheria Africaua, and of Dre Bedilocs 
on Scrofila. And Remarks onthe Method of Cure of what has been called Chloro-is, Amens 
THE object of this performance is to 
prove, that the medical world has long 
oe mistakey in their ideas on the na-. 
norrhea, or Greea-sickuess, as delivered to us by our late Preceptor, and other eminent Phy- 
‘sicians. Dy A. Foco, Surgeon. .8vo. pp. 103, * 
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ture of female obstructions; and that the 
symptoms which have hitherto been re- 
ferred to this cause, 0 iginate, for the 
8 he S.' Pe: 
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