Review, 188 



formidable, and which, on some occasions, has been 

 found so obstinate a complaint. 



** The caprice of children will often thwart us, and 

 oblige us to employ purgatives, not because the)' are 

 such as we would prefer, but because they are such as 

 will be taken. I have, in general, used the purgative 

 medicines in Chorea which I had found useful in Ma- 

 rasmus." Pages 77 — 87. 



III. An Address to the Medical Practitioners of Ireland^ 

 on the subject of Cow Pock. By Samuel B. La- 

 BATT, M. Z)., Licentiate of the College of Physicians, 

 and Secretary to the Coxv-Pock Institution, North 

 Cope-street^ Dublin. — Dublin: 1805. 



•' Qui(.l tuta times? Accingere; & omnem 



Pelle moi'um." 



Ovid. 



WE have derived much pleasure from the per- 

 usal of this little volume, M'hich we should be glad to 

 see in the hands of physicians, especially those at a dis- 

 tance from large libraries, where more various informa- 

 tion on the subject of the disease to which it relates may 

 be procured. Ii)de( d, we are of opinion, that, in a 

 practical point of view. Dr. Labatt's little volume of about 

 140 pages, might supersede .the use of many of the much 

 larger volumes v\ ith which the shelves of the booksellers 

 arc filled : for we do not think that either the study of 

 the " Cow-Pock," or the real benefits aiising from this 



