Accounts of Boois. 287 



The cures In geiieral feemed to have been performed in Icfs time than would have been 

 recefl-ary under the mercurial plan ; and without any confinement or particular regimen. 

 The eftedt .s fuppofed to have been produced by the difengagement of oxygcne from the 

 d.tTerent fublhinces employed, inducing a new difeafe in the fyftem. Of tlie dilFerenf re- 

 medies, the preference is given to the nitrous acid and tJie oxygenated muriate of pot-a{h :- 

 ot the firrt, from one to three drachms were given daily, diluted with about a quart of 

 water, and of the oxygenated muriate of pot-alh from fix to fixteen grains four times a-day. 

 No external applications were employed, but milk and" water, or a very dilute folutlon of 

 the cerufla acetata, merely to keep the parts clean. At the time this publication went to 

 prefs, no relapfes had taken place, although forae of them had been cured upwards of three 

 months. 



Annals of Medicine for the Year 1796. Exhibiting a concife View of the lateft and mod 

 important Difcoveries in Medicine and Medical Philofophy. By Andrew Duncan, Sen. 

 M. D. and Andrew Duncan, Jun. M. D. Fellows of the Royal College of Phyficians 

 Edinburgh, Vol. I. oftavo, 469 pages. Edinburgh, printed for Mudie and Son, and for 

 Robinfons, London, 1796. 



The Medical Commentaries of the elder Dr. Duncan, in twenty volumes, publiflied at 

 Edinburgh, are well known to the public. The Annals of Medicine are offered as a con- 

 tinuation of that work, from which the plan will not materially diifer. The editors from 

 u-hofe preface I give this account, expeft that, when peace fliall be again eftabliihed,' their 

 accounts of foreign medical literature will be fuperior to what the Englifh reader has been 

 hitherto accuftomed to receive. 



Refleaing praftitioners are invited to ufe this work occafionally as a channel of public 

 communication of fuch pradical obfervations and fafts as they may think worthy of 

 being fo diffufed. Thefe may be tranfmitted either to Dr. Duncan of Edinbur<.h or 

 .Dr. Pearfon of Leiccfter Square, London. '' ' 



The volume confifts of four fedions. The firft contains analyfes of books, twenty In 

 number; the fecond, medical obfervations or cafes; the third, medical news; and the fourth 

 a lilt of new books. * 



Profeffional men will not require to be informed of the utility of publications of this 

 nature ; and there is no queftion refpefting the ability of the editors. If it were praSica 

 ble, with confiftent brevity, to give any analyfis of the contents of fuch a work, it would on 

 thcfe accounts be the lefs neceffary to make the attempt. I fliail therefore only remark, that 

 the number of new and interefting articles in this volume is confiderable. 

 A Narrative of the fuccefsful Manner of cultivating the Clove-Tree, in the Ifland of Do 

 min.ca, one of the Windward Charibbee Iflands. By William Urban Buee Efg 

 London, printed 1:97. Quarto, 3, Pages, with an Engraving of the Clove-Tree, and fome 

 Implements for planting it. No bookfeller's name, nor price known. 

 This pamphlet was printed by order of the Privy Council, in confequence of a Report 

 from the Right Hon. Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart, to whom it was referred, as appears in a letter 

 from that gentleman to tlic Earl of Liverpool, which forms part of the Appendix. From 

 that commumcafon it appears, that Mr. Buce is the firft perfon who has obferved that 



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