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resembles somewhat the strawberry seed ele- 
vated upon, the strawberry, with this diffe- 
rence ouly, that the seeds of the strawberry 
are yellow, and not red. The sizawberry 
tongne is sometimes observed in other dis- 
eases besides the prevalent epidemics, but in 
these it has been very common. 
** The remoyal of the diseased states of the 
MEDICINE, SURGERY, ANATOMY, &e. 
tongue depends on the removal of the other 
phenomena of the disease.” 
The treatment adopted by the author, 
did not differ from that usually employed 
in the cure of the complaints to which 
he referred the different forms of the 
epidemic. : 
Art. XXL. Hygtia: or, Essays Maral and Medical, on the Causes affecting the Per- 
sqnal Siate of the middling and affluent Classes. 
Three vols. 
AMONG the multitude of writers on 
the ¢ art of preserving health,’ there ar few 
who merit any particular attention. 
They have in general copied from each 
other, and detailed the common notions 
and prejudices of the age in which they 
lived, apparently with no object in view 
but to announce themselves to the world, 
as the proper guardians and dispensers 
of the blessings of health and longevity. 
Catalogues serve to record the books 
which they have written, but posterity 
is not in possession of any proofs of the 
good which they have done, or the bene- 
ts which they designed. When an au- 
thor appears endowed with superior abi- 
lities to lay before the public a body of 
popular information on health, his writ- 
ings have many claims to be studied with 
Es the careand consideration required for 
so difficult and delicate a subject. Such 
is the author of the work now before us. 
The name of Dr. Beddoes must be fami- 
liav to all readers. ‘The number and va- 
riety of his publications, the novelty and 
boldness of his views, and the peculiar 
originality of many of his speculations, 
have contributed to raise and to sink his 
fame in the scientific and literary world. 
For ‘conveying instruction from. the 
shrine of Hygéia, he, has shewn himself 
possessed of talents of no common and 
ordinary cast. One of his most striking 
characteristics.as a writer,is the power of 
drawing fine pictures of diseases ; he de- 
lineates the most trivial complaints in 
the strongest colours, which fix the atten- 
tion and captivate the imagination.’ He 
has proved himself a great enthusiast in 
whatever he undertakes, though in the 
present instance his ardour and zeal may 
by some persons be considered as mis- 
placed. 
This work is divided into eleven essays, 
which were published separately. ‘These 
essays are written in a bold energetic 
style, yet there is too much frothy decla- 
mation, and. frequently a careless or 
wanton forgetfulness of the subject. Tt 
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is to be regretted, that they did not re- 
ceive the form as.they contain the sub- 
stance of a general treatise. Much ob- 
scutity and useless prolixity would have 
been avoided, if the trifling and tempo- 
rary topics had been placed in a subor- 
dinate digression or wholly*omitted, in- 
stead of being interweaved with more 
interesting and general inquiries. This 
work, however, is only a prelude toa 
more comprehensive one; it is selected 
from a general treatise of physiology, 
which the author promises soon to bring 
forward, for the use of all to whom their own 
nature is interesting. We shall attempt to 
give an abstract view of the principal 
contents of these volumes. : 
The first essay, on personal prudence, 
and on prejudices respecting health, con. 
tains the greater part of the author’s 
opinions on the means of avoiding habi- 
tual sickness and premature mortality. 
He tells us his intention, with regard to 
preventive medicine, in the following 
passage: 
«* What I could wish then, and what every 
one, who has taken serious pains to follow up 
the most irreparable and most regretted of hu- 
man sufferings to their origin, will agree 
with me in wishing, is, that reasonable care 
should be taken to provide each individual 
with a set of ideas, exhibiting the precise re- 
lation in which his system, and the several 
organs of which it is rompceniee, stand to 
external agents, particularly to those with 
which he is likely to.come most in contact ; 
that these sets of. ideas be so placed in his 
head, that he may refer to them with 4s little 
difficulty as to the watch he wears in his 
pocket; and that as by the one he adjusts 
his business to his time, so by the other he 
may be always able to accommodate his ac- 
tions to his powers. 
«« The distance at which we at present 
stand from such a consummation is no Tea- 
son why future generations should, like the 
past, be abandoned to their fate. ‘The rela« 
tion of the animated machine to the powers 
by which it is put in motion, is unhappily 
not enough understood for the purposes of 
minute medical philoscphy ; but so far as it 
