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at all understood: vet we find professional men, of no \n- 

 considerable eminence, recommending the mode of treat- 

 ment by depletion; from which I must confess, that so 

 far from iis doing e'^od, (if the disease be well defined,) 

 it can never fail, in niy opinion, to increase the unfa- 

 vourable symptoms, and consequently to hurry on the fatal 

 event. 



In this disease we have an extraneous substance, that is, 

 a substance dissimilar from every part of a heahhy animal 

 bodv. ; s it possible for this to arise from obstruction in the 

 lymphatic sysiem ? or is it not more probable that it is pro- 

 duced by a peculiar action in tlie minute branches of the 

 arterial system ? There are certainly many facts tending to 

 corroborate this opinion, which [ have delivered in my Lec- 

 tures for some years past, and mean to illustrate in a sub- 

 sequent report. 



John Taunton, 



Greville street, Hatton Garden, Surj:;;eon to the City and Finsbury 



July 20, IHOS^ Dlipensaries, Lecturer or» Ana- 



tomy, Surgery, Physiology', &C. 



^^ In the last Report, p. 72, seven lines from the bottom, for aut diet. 

 read arel. (list. 



XXIX. Notices respecting New Books. 



The Edinburgh Encyclopedia conducted hy David Brew— 

 sTEn, LL.D. F.R.S. of Edinburgh, and of the Society 

 of Antiqiiaries of Scotland. 4lo. 



J. HOSE who can properly estimate the political and moral 

 advantages which result, not only to individuals, but to 

 communities, from a general diffusion of knowledge, cannot 

 observe, but with pleasure, the various departments of sci- 

 ence and of literature, rendered daily more familiar to every 

 class of readers, by publications in the form of Dictionaries 

 and Cyclopedias. Of this description the one before us 

 seems entitled '.o particular attention as a valuable ac- 

 cession 



