Nollces respecting New Books. 171 



contmued and perfect even to the day of her death, ex- 

 *eptin- the short periods of pain, rigor, and convulsive fits. 



I 

 Creville-strfct, Hatton garden, 

 November '20, IbO". 



John Taunton, 



Surgeon to the City and Finsbv-ry 

 pispensarie^, Lecturer on Ana- 

 tomy, Surgery, Physiology, &c. 



XXVII. Notices respecting Ncu' Books. 

 Chemical Philosophy, or the established !>'«... [Basis] of 

 Modern Chemistry, intevded to serve as an Elementary 

 Work for the Study of that Science, by A. F. FouucROV. 

 Professor of Chemistry, Mend>er of the National Insti- 

 tute &c. Third Edition,considerably enlarged and amended. 

 Translated Jrom the French by W. Desmond, Esq. 

 304 P.iges, 8vo. 7s. Symonds, 1807- 



The celebrity of M. Fourcroy, and the general merit of 

 his Treatise on Chcnncal Philosophy, are nK>re than sufficient 

 to sanction a translation of it uito Kngl;sh. Any work in- 

 deed, by the man not aho^ether undeservedly called I Ora- 

 teurde Science, must merit attention. But as philosophy 

 acknowledges no master, no authority but what exists in the 

 nature of things, we may safely venture to examine and 

 compare the contents of a small volume, which assumes 

 the sounding title of "Chemical Philosophy." Respect 

 for the science renders us eager to avail ourselves of every 

 opportunity of presenting ail or any of its branches m a 

 pew, more advantaoeous, or clearer point of view : the same 

 motive constitutes it a duty to detect and expose any works 

 which, under plausible titles, tend more to embarrass, per- 

 plex, and retard the progress of chemical science, than to fa- 

 cilitate the ac(,uirement, extension, or elucidation of its 

 principles. Without objecting to M. Fourcroy's implied 

 opinion, that a " classilicaiion of the phienomena of nature 

 and art constitutes chemical philosophy," however vague 

 and indefinite it may be, we cannot perceive either the just- 



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