ao 
this building, which a. few hundred 
unds would finifh, and make an orna- 
ment to the city. of Dublin, has ftood for 
near twenty years in a_ three-quarter- 
erected ftate, as if fhivered to pieces, and 
rent afunder by athunder form. . “ 
(To be continued.) 
‘ a x sete 2 : f - - } 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
estes 
FE was not till yefterday, that I hap- 
wi pened to {ee a work intituled, * The 
ina 
Anaiony of the Human Body,” by Mr. 
es 
‘Fhis work contains excellent engravings, 
and much ufetul anatormical information; 
_ butis debated by a ftile of the moft dog- . 
rhatical ailertion, by a puerile affectation 
of pleafantry, by frequent mifconception 
and mifreprefentation of the opinions of 
others, and by the mof fcurrilous. abufe 
of all living authors. I have had the 
misfortune to be plentifully {plafhed by 
this writer, in his headlong plunge into 
the foul ink of obloquy. He attacks, 
with much acrimony, certain opinions 
contained in. a. paper on the medical ef- 
feéts of arterial comprefiion, which I tent, 
nearly ten years ago, to the Medical So- 
ciety of London, and which is inferted in 
the third volume of their Memoirs. This 
attack I might, perhaps, have wholly. 
difregarded, or at leaft, might have omit- . 
ted to repel it, till I could have done fo. 
at ereater lenoth, in a larger work, which 
Tam preparmy onthe fame fubject. But 
as the period of my intended publication 
muft depend on my health, my leifure 
from profeffional avocations, and many 
other circumftances, connected with the 
times, and totally uncontroulable by me, 
and as, inthe mean while, Mr. BELL’s 
work will probably have a wide range, 
and occafion a mifchievous prepeffeflion 
againit the purport of my paper, I feel.. 
myfelf called upon for a detence, which 
Tcannot offer to the public through a 
better channel, than that of your impar- 
tial Magazine. 
Mr. BeLu begins with telling us, 
that the antients called certain arteries 
earotids, or foporiferz, believing that, 
if they were tied, the perfon would fall 
aileep; and then proceeds to deny that 
tying them would produce fleep, becaufe , 
he cannot comprehend how this fhould 
happer As, therefore, that gentleman 
cannot himtfelf comprehend how. this 
fnould happen, it follows of courfe, that 
‘© many of the beft anatomifts, in the beft 
age of anatomy, have abuled their time 
Tour, &c...Dr. Parry on Mr. Bell's Anatomy, 
foHN Bev, furgeon, of Edinburgh. 
with my hands; but though I could fupprefs 
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Ramee 
5: oR 
repeating thefe experiments.’ _Coftseusy 
and Valverdi, and Hoffmann, are quoted 
as mentioning certain-facts relative to a 
fhe-goat, a young man at Pifa,. and cer- 
tain Afflyrians ; .and Valfalva (whom, I 
obferve, Mr. BELL always calls Vafalya), 
Van. Swieten, Pechlin, Lower, Drelin- 
curtius (whofe name is printed Drelin- 
cartius), and even Morgagni himfelf, are’ 
all alike cenfured for. propagating, or 
deigning to inquire into thetfe idle tales. 
Having given this advantageous {peci- 
en of his modefty, his literature, and 
his logic, Mr. Bet next does me the 
honour to.advert tome. I beg leave, in, 
order to avoid mifreprefentation, to quote, 
his remarks at full length: | fuel 
‘< There is nothing new under the fund 
We are continually tantalifed with old «tales 
in new forms. Who would expeét to find at 
this very day, a. practical application of the 
fhe-goat and the Aflyrian young men? one 
author has publifhed to the world, that a 
young lady, of a’ nervous ané delicate con- 
ftitution, fubje@t to nervous “diftrefiés in a 
wonderful variety of forms, but more efpeci- 
ally in. the head, fometimes afli@ted with 
head-achs, fometimes with convulions, was 
relieved by. compreffing the carotid artéties. 
Often by compreffing the carotid arteries, this- 
gentleman prevented the delirium 5 for all) 
thefe complaints proceeded from a-yiolent pal- 
pitation of the heart, with the ftream of blood 
rufhing violently towards the head. He has 
feen this compreffion bring on a ftupor; he. 
has feen it bring ona proround fleep. Js it 
notapity that he had not attendéd more to 
the hiftory of this bufinefs, and joined ta. 
thefe fats, the tory of the fhe-goat and the™ 
young men of Affyria? 
'¢¢ Tf what Dr. Parry fays, be true, that 
in lean people, in. women at leaft, we cany 
by reclining the head backwards, comprefs ¢ 
the carotids entirely againft the forepart of the 
neck with the finger and thumb; why, thea, 
we need have no fear of hemorrhages oi the 
nofe, wounds about the jaw, cutting the pa~ 
rotid gland, or operations about-the toils, or_ 
tongue! But there is a dangerous miftake 
here; for there is, as I know by much ex, 
perience, a wide “difference betwixt prevent. - 
ing the pulfe of an artery, and fuppreffing * 
the flow of blood through it, In the cafe’of | 
aman fainting during any great opération,: if. 
you are holding in the blood with the point 
of your finger upon fome great artery, you - 
feel the pulfe there, while the faceis deadly » 
pale, the extremities cold, and the pulfe of)’ 
the. wrift, and of all but the largeft axteries , 
gone, In fainting, even the heart itfelf is | 
not felt to move 5 and yet it moves, and the - 
blood circulates: how elfé could a perfon lie _ 
in a hyfterical faint for hours, I had almoft” 
® faid days? | Ihave tried} in grect operations * 
near the trunk of the body, to-ftep the blood § 
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