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cal Letters should be G, F, instead of E, D; the Lunar Cycle * 
should be 12 instead of 8; the Epact should be | instead of 175 
the Solar Cycle should be 5 instead of 1 ; and the Roman Indic- 
tion should be 4 instead of 15. 
How far the other parts of the work may be correct or not, I 
haye not time at present to ascertain : but as even these errors 
ought to be corrected as soon as possible, and as 1 do not know 
of any more ready method than by means of your widely extended 
miscellany, I hope I need not apologize for troubling you with 
this letter. - 
I am, sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
Criticus. 
To Messrs. Nicholson and Tilloch. 
bili. pitied. y Qs et et el 
LXXXII. Notices respecting New Books. 
An Accaunt of Baths, and of a Madeira House at Bristol: with 
a Drawiug and Description of a Pulmometer ; and Cases 
showing its Utility in ascertaining the State of the Lungs ™m 
Diseases of the Chest. By Epwarp Kentiso, M.D. Phy- 
sician to the Bristol Dispensary and to St. Peter’s Hospital. 
London, Longman and Co. 
Tue author of the above treatise has had the merit of being 
the first in this country to commence an establishment, which has 
long been recommended by medical writers, for the relief of vale- 
_ tndinarians*. His Madeira House at Bristol presents most of 
the comforts which have been repeatedly suggested as attainable 
in our climate, without subjecting persons of delicate or infirm 
habits to the expense and risk of a distant voyage. 
The first care of Dr. Kentish was to provide a suite of apart- 
ments for baths, which promise to be of great service under the 
superintendence of a judicious medical attendant. We shall give 
the description of this part of the establishment in his own words: 
 € The entrance into the baths is by folding doors, by a plait 
unornamented portico, which opens opposite to the east end of 
the cathedral,—a large open area, very commodious for the ac- 
cess to the baths either by carriages, chairs, or on foot. The 
situation is extremely convenient, easily accessible to the inha- 
bitants of Bristol, and to the visitors of the Hotwells and Clifton, 
who may have occasion to use the baths. 
* Dr. Adams, the celebrated author of the work on Morbid Poisons, 
first suggested the idea of an establishment of this kind in a letter written 
while at Madeira, and inserted in the Medical Journal. Dr. Pearsou (to 
whom Dr. Kentish pays a well-merited compliment) subsequently exerted 
himself to introduce similar improvements in our domestic eeconomy. 
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