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poifon formed on fores, have been omitted in the!ptefent, to 
reduce the fize, and confequently the price. They are ftill, . 
however, as the Preface informs us, to be ‘confidered as 
equally interefting, and will continue to be profectited. 
The experiments of Mr. Cruickfhank, an accurate and 
mgenious chemift, on the difference between the’ fagar of 
milk and that of diabetic urine, and on urine and fugar, are 
highly interefting. While they in fome meafure unfold the 
peculiar nature of each, they alfo aftitt i in the general expla- 
nation of diabétes, as well as what relates to the urine on 
patients labouring under other difeafes. 
The refults of the trials with the new remedies i in the ues 
venerea (which have been fubftituted for mercury, and are 
believed to operate by introducing oxygen into the fyftem) 
completely eftablith their efficacy in the fecondary as well 
as in the” primary ftates of the difeafe. The oxygenated . 
remedies have alfo been found efficacious ‘im hepatic 
affections, (one of them attended with dropfy,) and in fome 
_ cafes of remittent fever, the character of which was fuch as 
would otherwife have demanded the exhibition of calomel. 
* It will not be eafy for the oppofers of the new medicines 
to get over the mafs of evidence brought forward im this 
work in their favour. To us there does not appear any 
way of trying the power of thefe medicines fo fairly as in 
a military hofpital, where the patients cannot deceive thofe 
who preferibe for them, but are forced, if neceffary, to 
comply with the directions given them. To pick owt a pa- 
tient here and there from among a number of out-door 
patients, who, let the faculty prefcribe what they pleafe, wilt 
only dowhat they themfelves like;. and to bring forward 
cafes that have failed, under fuch circumftances, in being 
cured by: the oxygenated medicines, is of all modes of pro- 
ceeding the moft uncandid, and muft tend even to imprefs 
the public with an idea that a failure 1s w ci for; revi 
to defend a fyitem. 
We cannot better clofe the prefent siigle than by quoting 
the concluding words of Mr. Cruickfhank at the end of his 
remarks 
