Notices respecting New Books. 4.)7 



CoiUinent in Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy, conducted Ly 

 E. von Embden, assisted Ijy otiier gentlemen of the Faculty. 



The third volume of the Zoological Miscellany will be pub- 

 lished in September, illustrated with fifty-nine coloured plates. 



The long-expected work of Dr. Spurzheim on Insanity has at 

 length issued from the press. It contains some excellent and 

 perfectly new observations on this hitherto obscure disease. But 

 perhaps the most important part of the work is that which re- 

 lates to the confinement of persons suspected of insanity^ on the 

 part of their relations, &'c. hy the mere declaration of an ig- 

 voraiit practitioner of medicine that the patient is mad. The 

 author also takes particular notice of the neglected state of 

 madhouses, and of the hardships suffered by the insane in lunatic 

 asylums, and proposes many useful plans for their improvement. 

 The principal doctrine maintained by the author is, that the dis- 

 eases of the mind are always diseases of the brain, which is the 

 organ of the manifestations of the mind in this its worldly state ; 

 and that they should be treated on the same pathological prin- 

 ciples as other disorders of material parts. In the preliminary 

 observations, are some very useful remarks on the distinction 

 alwa\* to be made between the suppression, the fatigue, and the 

 exhaustion of the vital power; and a reference is made to a cu- 

 rious work of Dr. Gall's, on dise;ise«, v.'hich would be a very use- 

 ful work if more known, and translated into our language. 



In the press. The Principles of Diagnosis, by Marshall Half, 

 M.D. &c. This work is founded entirely on the external ap- 

 pearances of morbid affections. It embraces, 1 . A view of the 

 countenance and attitude of patients, inasmuch as they are 

 plainly characteristic of diseases. 2. The symptoms of diseases, 

 considered in their modifications^ and in relation to particular 

 affections. 3. A diagnostic arrangement of diseases ; and, lastly, 

 their diagnosis. 



A Part of this work will l)e published in Julv. 



The Third Volume of Mr. John Farey's Mineralogical and 

 Agricultural Survey of Derbyshire will be published early in July. 



This volume completes the Survey of that interesting County, 

 which was made by Order of the Board of Agriculture, and con-r 

 tains a full Account of the Surface^, Hills, Valleys, Rivers, Kocks, 

 Caverns, Strata, Soils, Minerals, Mines, Collieries, Mining Pro- 

 cesses, &c. &c. Together with some Account of the recei'.t 

 Discoveries respecting the Stratification of England ; and a Theorv 

 of Faults and Denudatcd Strata, aj)plicable to Mineral Survcyiujj 

 atld Mining. 



