88 Notices respecting New Books. 



scored by this tumour, which contained about three gallons 

 of a gelly-like substance, enclosed and supported by innu- 

 merable membranous bands continued across the ovarium 

 in ev.ry possible direction, so that it could not be pressed 

 out but with great force : the uterus was enlarged, and the 

 viscera were covered with lymph. 



A preparation of the above case is in my museum. 



John Taunton, 



Greville street, Hatton Garden, Surgeon to the City and Finsbury Dispen- 

 Oct. 24, 1803. saries, and City Truss Society, Lecturer 



on Anatomy, Surgery, Physiology, &c. 



XIV. Notices respecting New Books. 



JVIr. Carmichael, of Dublin, has in the press a new- 

 edition of his " Essay on the Effects of Carbonate and other 

 Preparations of Iron upon Cancer; with an Inquiry into the 

 Nature of that Disease." The work will appear in January 

 next, and has been so much enlarged and improved that it 

 may be almost considered an entire new work. — Among the 

 additions are a great number of highly interesting cases : A 

 disquisition on the uses of the oxide of iron in the blood, 

 and remarks on such diseases as depend on its excess or de- 

 ficiency, or in any way bear a relation to cancer ; with an 

 attempt to answer the queries of the Medical Society esta- 

 blished in London for investigating the nature and cure of 

 that complaint. 



Mr. Taunton, of Greville-Street, Hatton-Garden, is 

 making arrangements for publishing a small work on Patho- 

 logy, which will be illustrated with copper-plates. 



XV. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 

 DECOMPOSITION of the alkalis. 



Un this interesting subject, in addition to what we have 

 given in this and our preceding Numbers, we have now to 

 state that the French chemists have not only repeated Mr. 



Daw's 



