Retro[pec? of Domeftic 
FrirotT, Surgeon in the African and 
Weft-India Merchants’ fervice, entitled, 
The Seaman’s Medical Advocate, or an &t- 
tempt to fhow that 500 feamen are an- 
nually, during war, loft to the Britith 
Navy in the Weft-India Merchants’ fer- 
vice and on board fhips of war on the 
Weft-India. fiation, through the yellow 
fever and other difeafes and means, from 
caufes which, he conceives, are both un- 
conneéted with the misfortunes of war 
and the dangers of the fea, and which 
are moft of them capable of being ob- 
viated. The yellow fever, he fays, is 
frequently introduced into the royal navy 
by imprefling men who have been wan- 
dering on fhore, and who by intempe- 
rance and expofure to the night-air have 
contratied the difeafe before they are 
taken. The obvious remedy for this evil 
would be the abolition of that tyrannous 
and moft cruel practice. As this aboli- 
tion, however, is not likely to take place, 
Mr. Elliot recommends that the impreff- 
ed, and thofe who are employed on the 
imprefs fervice, fhould be lodged in houses 
in the mof dry and healthy part of the 
lands, and there be detained under the 
care of a furgeon until it can be afcer- 
tained that they have not caught the in- 
fection. Mir. Elliot ftates a variety of 
other caufes of the mortality among the 
feamen in the Weft-India fervice, and 
propofes fuch plans as he conceives may 
effeétually refift them. 
A tranflation has appeared from the 
Frenchof Dr. CHARLES DE MERTEN'S 
Account of the Plague which raged at Mojcow 
#71771. Lhe reafon which feems to have 
induced the tranflator to publish this work 
in the Englifh language, is the danger 
to which he conceives we are expofed, of 
importing the peftilential contagion from 
America; for he believes that almoft all 
phyficians are now agreed *‘ thar the yel- 
low fever is the plague, with fuch modi- 
fications as are ealily referable to differ- 
ence of climate and different modes of 
living. He is of opinion, moreover, that, 
in executing the hoftile operations now 
carrying on in the Mediterranean, it is 
f{carcely poffible for our fleet and armies 
to keep clear of contagion. In the prefent 
volume is given a narrative of the rife 
and progrefs of the diforder, together 
with a detail of the methods employed in 
Mofcow for extinguifhing the contagion, 
and more particularly of the means by 
which the Foundling Hofpital, fituared 
in the centre of the city, and containing 
1400 perfons was preferved from the pef- 
tilence during the whole of the time it 
Monruriy Maa. XLVI, 
Literature... Medicines ise 
raged there. It ought to be mentioned 
that the tranflater has taken the unjufti- 
fiacle liberty of making many alterat ons 
and omiffions from the original work. 
To Dr. JaCKsoN’s Outline of the Hif- 
tory and Cure of Fever, endemic and con- 
tagious, Sc. is added An Explanation of ibe 
Principies of Military Difetpline and Ecs- 
nomy, with a Scheme of Medical Arrange- 
ment for the Army. This work is in a 
great meafure to be confidcred as a fe- 
quel to the treanfe which Dr. fackfon 
publifhed {ome years ago on the fevers of 
Jamaica and the intermittent fever of 
Nerth America. The prefent ingeni- 
ous work has a more particular relation 
to the contagious fever of jails, thips, 
and hofpitals, and the yellow fever af 
the Weit Indies. 
DocTor CLARKE’s Medical StriGures 
contain ‘A concife and effediual Method of 
wuring—all forts of difeafes ; for each of 
which the doctor vends an infallible, and 
doubtlefs a very profitable noftrum. 
In our arrangement of Domeftic Li- | 
terature, had we made a compartment 
for imcomprebenfibles and extravagancces, 
we fhould have been almoft inclined to 
have placed in it The Leéiures of Doctor 
de Mainaduc. This moft ftrange volume 
—a quarto volume containing only 230 
pages—is charged five Guineas in boards, 
by Miss PrescoTrT, the executrix, 
who without doubt: confiders, very juftly, 
that, how extravagant foever might the 
doétor be, thofe who buy this book mutt 
be infinitely more eatravagant than him- 
felf, and therefore can prefer the charge 
with a very ill grace. It is impoffible for 
us to give our readers any idea of this 
work without entering into it more large- 
ly than our limits allow ; unlefs any idea 
is conveyed when we fay, that the prefens 
is almoft fuch a work as might have been 
expected from the pen of Margin 
VAN BUTCHELL. 
To medical men who praétife in a 
warm climate, may be particularly re- 
commended a very ingenious and ufe- 
ful work, by Mr. James ANDER- 
SON: it is entitled A few Facts and 
Obfervations on the Yellow Fiver of the 
Weft Indies, by which rt is foewun that there 
have exificd tivo Species of Fever in the 
Weft-India Iflands for fevcral Years paft 
indifcriminately called Yellow Fever, but 
whiih have proceeded from very different 
Canfes, with the Succcfs attending the Me- 
thod of Cure. 
Tuomas Browne EFfq. has invited 
Dr. Darwin to breake a lance with 
him, by the publication of fome ingeni- 
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