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possesses tlie necessary properties for the nourishment of 
their infants. This malady is commonly known by the 
name of Tambave.” Later the old medicine practitioners 
say that Tambave is the translation of Carreau that is the 
enlargement of the mesanteric glands to which children are 
subject. 
Confusion has been the I’esult and several different maladies 
are now mentioned by the creole empirics under the name of 
Tambave. 
Science does not recognise this name, of course. Dr. Sene- 
que very justly observes and all these considerations shew the 
impossibility of the name being accepted by science as ap- 
plying to a special disease, presenting peculiar characters. 
And yet observes Dr. Regnaud, there is a word, which 
every mother pronounces with terror at the cradle of her in- 
fant, that prejudice, that fatal word, that bugbear of which 
every one speaks but no one can describe is the Tambave.” 
At all events the maladies which arise and to which quacks 
attach that name of Tambave, are we must admit, of the gra- 
vest nature, since the very names by which they are vulgarly 
known is sufficient to cause a mother to tremble for her chil- 
dren. 
Dr. Seneque has been able to establish the existence of six 
different diseases in a great many children supposed to be af- 
flicted with Tambave, the greater part of them of the most 
serious nature, such as hydrocephalids, softening of the sto- 
mach, enlargement of the glands of the mesanter etc. 
Therefore the only criticism of Dr. Regnaud refers to the 
title of the Memoir which would have stood better thus “ On 
the maladies commonly known by the name of Tambave and 
the prophylatic treatment of the particular state they indi- 
cate. 
“ But adds Dr. Regnaud the imperfection of the title is a 
mere trifle assuredly and it is the work itself that we are cal- 
led upon to judge. We may briefly say that the author has 
happily accomplished his self imposed task ; physicians and 
patients alike will derive benefit from the perusal of Dr. Se- 
neque^s Memoirs, and the modesty as well as the noble ob- 
ject of utility which predominate throughout, are in the eyes 
