718 
discernment, and public spirit of parents who 
have satisfied themselves with procuring 
for their own offspring the advantages 
of a practice, which interests the sordid 
equally with the benevolent feelings. 
That parental affection must be ardent 
which will not shrink. at the harassing 
duty of tending a child through a pain- 
ful ard loathsome pestilence; and» cool 
economy will calculate the cost of pre- 
sent sickness, the wear and tear of con- 
PAR Tsp eo We 
of Inoculation with the Cow-Pox. 
A PERSUASIVE to cow-pox ino- 
culation, principally taken from Mr. Ad- 
dington’s neat comparative view of the 
Aegt.XXV. A Fifth Dissertation on Fever, containing the History of, and Remedies t 
be employed in, irregular coniinued Fevers ; together with a general Conclusion of et 
preceding and present Dissertations. By:the late Georce Forpyce, M.D. FR. 
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Senior Physician to St. Thomas’s Hospit. 
and Reader on the Practice of Physic in London. Edited by Cuartes Wetts 
M.D. F.R.S. and Physician to St. Thomas’s Hespital. 
THE present dissertation, which com- 
pletes the view of fever originally pro- 
pesed, is very nearly in the state in 
which it was leit by its learned and ve- 
nerable author, who, a short time before 
his death, desired that Dr. Wells might 
he requested to superintend its publica- 
tion. Its design is to point out the dis- 
eases which may be complicated with, 
and the irreeularities and accidents which 
fay occur in continued fevers. | General 
inflammation is the first disease which 
the author treats of, as sometimes form- 
ing a part of such combination, and its 
particular mature he has described at 
some length in a former dissertation. 
The unica of this complaint with. conti- 
nued fever, he tells us, often takes place 
in the beginning’ of the latter disease, in 
men of strong constitutions, but very sel- 
dom shews itself in great towns, where 
the habits of life are unfavourable to 
general vigour. Cold climates and sea- 
sons are much more favourable to the 
occurrence cf general inflammation than 
the reverse, and this the -author endea- 
wours principally to account fer by rea- 
sons dependent upon the nature of mus- 
cular ‘contraction.—Blood vessels are | 
tubes, which, however they may change 
heir capacity from the different quanti- 
ties of biood contained in them, are al- 
ways cylindrical. .This circumstance a- 
rises from a constant contraction of their 
parietes round the blood, which, in pro- 
portion to its diminution in quanuty, re- 
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By Joseru Simmons. 
stitution, and the damage to future 
pects in life, when the smooth harm 
cf the female features is ploughed up b 
the seams of a merciless distemper. 
A coloured plate is added to the 
cond volume, which gives a most fai 
ful and perfect resemblance of the va 
cine pustule in its several stages, and 
executed in a manner very creditable 
the artist. 
8vo. pp. 42. 
two diseases, and from the circumstances 
attending the establishment of the Roya 
Jennerian society. 
pp. 70. 
quires a greater exertion of the power 
of the vessel to accommodate it to th 
change, and to keep up the same form. 
This the author conceives, requires’ an 
exertion of the vital power, which, as the 
contraction is permanent, and not casual 
as in: muscular contraction, must be a 
continued source of expenditure to the 
vital power. When the diminution of 
blood proceeds to a certain degree, the 
vital power thus necessary for’ contract- 
ing the vessels may be withdrawn in such 
quantity as to produce death, " 
In order to apply this reasoning to the: 
production of a disposition to general: 
inflammation, the author:states, that as— 
the external vessels ave much more dis- 
tended .with blood in warm than cold 
climates, the internal, in such’ circum- 
stances, must have a smaller than usual 
quantity contained inthem. Hence they 
nust be more contracted ; and as this 
contraction supposes the abstraction of a- 
greater quantity of vital power, than 
happens when they are of a larger size, | 
the general strength of the body must be 
more diminished, and therefore a smaller | 
tendency exist to general inflammation, 
The same reasoning is applied by the_ 
author to different circumstances cf the 
body in cold and warm weather. F 
On this theory we would only remark, 
that itis by no means proved tivat a con- 
stant exertion of such a. contraction as. 
requires vital power to suppert it, is ne- 
cessary in proportion to the diminuticn_ 
