American Literary and Philofephical Intelligence. 
derftood to have been long engaged in 
the compofition of a very important work, 
on the Syrouima of the Latin Tongue;.. 
of which an admirable fpecimen appeared 
in a late volume of the ‘ Philofophical 
VYranfaions of Edinburgh.” 
Dr. ADAM Smi1TH’s work upon the 
** Wealth of Nations, with the Life of the 
Author,” by Mr. Dugald Stuart, have 
been recently tranflated into the Spanifh 
lanzuage, and in this form publifhed at 
Madrid. . 
An excellent Spanifh tranflation of the 
JeS&tures of Dr. HuGH Briarr, on Rheto- 
ric and Belles Lettres, has been executed 
at Madrid, and is now in the prefs. 
The Agricultural Survey of Perth- 
fhire, by Dr. Ropertson, of Callan- 
der, is in the prefs, and will fpeedily be 
publithed. 
A very valuable work, to be conducted 
by Doégtors MITCHELL, MILLER and 
Sm1ThH, has lately made its appearance 
at New-York, wnder the title of the 
“© Medical Repojitory.”” Judging from the 
contents of the three firft Numbers, we 
conceive it will prove no lefs ufeful in the 
United States, than valuable to the world 
at large. A publication more judicioufly 
planned, and more ably executed, has 
feldom been prefented to the public; and 
the good withes of every friend of {cience 
will attend its enlightened editors.. The 
work is clafled under the following gene- 
ral heads : 
x. Accurate and fuccinét accounts of the 
general difeafes which have formerly prevailed 
in any part of the United States. 
2. Ufeful hiftories of particular cafes. 
3. Hiftories of fuch complaints of pro-. 
feffional men, mechanics, manufacturers, &c. 
as appear to originate from their peculiar em- 
ployments, or the materials with, or about 
which they are employed. 
4. New methods of curing difeafes. 
5. Accounts of new difcovered or applied 
remedies, in rare, or hitherto incurable dif- 
eafes. 
- 6. Extra&ts from rare, printed or manu- 
fcript’ works, illuftrative of the nature and 
cure of fuch difeafes as now prevail in the 
United States. 
7. Interefting information, relative to the 
minerals, plants, and animals of America. 
8. American medical biography. 
g. Accounts of former American medical 
publications. 
to. Reyiews of new American medical pub- 
lications. 
11, Medical news. 
Tt will perhaps ‘be unneceflary to re- 
mark, that fo valuable a fource of origi- 
nal information will be conftantly reforted 
ae by the Editors of the Monthly Maga- 
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zine; and that every new faét of confe- 
quence will, through its medium, be re- 
gularly prefented to the European world, 
A new medical affociation has lately 
been formed in Philadelphia, whofe mora 
particular objeét is to inquire into and 
elucidate the hiftory and nature of pefti- 
lential difeafes ; without excluding atten- 
tion to ether fubordinate objects. This 
affociation, which takes the name of The 
Medical Accdemy of Philadelphia, defign ta 
publifh the refult of their labours periodi- 
cally. ‘Their publications, it is expected, 
will confit of a femi-annual octavo vo- 
lume. a 
Dr. Rusu is preparing for publication, 
a fifth volume of his ‘‘ Inguiries and Ob- 
jervaitons.” ‘This. volume is to contain 
two differtations on the gout, and on dif- 
eafes of the mind, alfo a hiftory of the 
yellow fever for 1797. 
Dr. BaRTON deligns to publifha Me-~ 
moir on the Bronchocele, or on Goitres, ag 
obferved in the State of New-York. He 
has alfo in the prefs, a ‘ Fournal of @ 
Tour through part of the States of News. 
York and Pcuaufylvania.” 
Dr. JoHN BRICKELL, of Savannah, 
in a letter addreffed to the felect-men of 
Bofton, has announced the following fuc- 
cefsful method of preventing the bad ef. 
fects of the biteof a mad dog. His me- 
thod is to wafh the bitten part with 20 or 
30 kettles full of water, poured from the’ 
{pout of the kettles, or a mug; and after. 
wards to burn the. wound as deep as the 
bite has penetrated, with the end of a 
cafe knife, or any other iron made nearly 
red-hot. ‘he wafhing is intended to 
carry away, from in and about the 
wound, the faliva; and the burning is in- 
tended to extirpate any infeSted part. 
This remedy, he obferves, has often been 
applied in Georgia, without once failings 
The following well attefted faét, req 
lative to the faculty called inftiné&t of 
animals, is recorded in the third number 
of the American ‘* Medical Repofitory.” 
A wren had built her neft ina box, fo 
fituated that a family had an opportunity 
to obferve the mother-bird inftruét the 
young ones in the art of finging, peculiar 
to their fpecies.. ** She fixed herfelf on 
one fide of the opening in the box, direGtly 
efore her young, and began by finging 
over her whole fong, very dittinétly. One. 
of the young then attempted to imitate 
er. After proceeding through a few 
notes, his voice broke, and he loft, the 
tune. The mother immediately recom- 
menced where he had failed, and went 
very diftingtly through with the remain- 
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