Retrofpett of Domeftic Literature....Poetiy 
Giimate, or fuppofing any material change 
in the laws of the female conftitution. Mr. 
Simmons, in his pamphlet, had affembled 
a variety of quotations from Parey, 
~ Mauriceau, and Dionis, in reprobation 
of the ce#farean operation: Dr. Hull 
deteéts his antagonift in fuppreffing paf- 
faves lefs favourable to his opinion. We 
are forry that the circumftances which at-- 
tend this controverfy fhould have excited 
perfonal animofity in the polemics: it is 
to the intereft of fcience that every que- 
ftion, more particularly aqueftion of {uch 
paramount importance as the prefent, 
fhould be difcuffed with the utmoft calm- 
nefs, impartiality, and decorum: it is of 
confequence alfo, that thofe who are en- 
gaged in the difcuffion, far from endea- 
vouring to weaken the arguments of their 
opponent for the purpofe of difplaying 
their own fuperior dexterity of defence, 
fhould expofe whatever imbeciility on 
their own fide may have efcaped him. In 
fhort, thofe who difcufs a {cientific que- 
fiion with fincere ardour to fearch for the 
difcovery of truth, will co-operate toge- 
ther: the one will not glory in the defeat 
of the other, that both will confider them- 
felves as fighting under the fame banners, 
and will triumph in the fkill and fuccefs 
of each other. ‘Thefe remarks are ex- 
torred by the ftate of the prefent contro. 
verfy, a controverfy from which, if con- 
duéted with candour and acumen, may 
refult the moft important confequences. 
Dr. Hull accufes Mr. Simmons of having 
been led to the publication of his Reflec- 
tions, &c. by the moft unworthy and un- 
generous motives: a fellow-praétitioner 
in the fame town with him (Manchefter), 
Dr. Hull, had performed an unfuccefsful 
operation, and now afferts, that it was 
the objeét of Mr. Simmons “to deftroy 
the chara€ter of a man, whofe fhort refi- 
dence in the town had not afforded him a 
fufficient opportunity of making his pro- 
feffional attainments generally known, and 
to injure his coadjutors in the eftimation - 
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of his townfmen.” We fincerely hope 
that Dr. H. is miftaken in attributing 
fuch mean motives to a profeffional gen- 
tleman, and that Mr. Simmons will be 
able to vindicate his charaéter; and, af- 
ter fuch vindication, we fincerely hope 
that all recrimination will immediately 
ceafe, and both parties unite their labours 
in illuftration of the fubjeét. 
/ Mr. Turwnsutt has publifhed 4 few 
general Rules and Infiru€tions, very necefary 
to be attended to by thofe of both Sexes who 
are affified with Ruptures. 
535 
We are happy to announce the third 
edition of Mr. Buizarn’s /.éture on the 
Situation of the large Blovd-Veffils of the 
Extremities, and the Methods of making ef- 
fectual Preffure on the Arteries in Cafe of 
dangerous Effufions of Bleod from Wounds. 
To the prefent edition of this very inge- 
nious and ufeful work is now added a 
brief explanation of the nature of wounds, | 
more particularly thofe received from fire- 
arms. 
POETRY. 
Since our laft Retrofpeét, the author 
of Foan of Arc has publifhed a fecond vo- 
lume of Poems: It will be remembered, 
that, in the fecond edition of his epic, 
Mr. SOUTHEY omitted the Vifion of’ the 
Maid of Orleans, advertifing, at the fame 
time, that he intended to republifh it in 
accommodation to that improved edition. 
A large portion of the prefent volume is 
occupied. with this vifion, which is now 
divided into three books: itis very much 
enlarged, and, after a careful compari- 
fon of it with the original, as it ftood in 
the ninth book of the quarto edition, 
we have no hefitation in pronouncing 
it to be very materially improved. The 
reft of the voleme is filled with mifcella- 
neous poetry: Mr. S. has given us a few 
{pecimens of Engli/b cclogues, after the 
manner of the German idylls, where the 
characters introduced are not the fheps 
herds and fhepherdeffes, with their crooks, 
and their pipes, and their liftening lamb- 
kins, but fuch characters as one may meet 
with, in his country rambles, almoft every 
day. This ftrikes us as being a confi- 
derabie improvement in bucolic poetry 3 
and we hope it will be properly attended 
to. 
The author of the Purfuits of Literature 
has again been obtruding his poetic trath 
on the public: his laft, like his former, is 
a fatirical poem; it is called, The Sade 
of Alexander Pope on the Banks of the 
Thames. The occafion of it is the refi- 
dence of that Irifh patriot, Mr. Grat- 
“TAN, at Twickenham, whole prefence is 
very fatirically fuppofed to excite the indig- 
natign of Mr. Pope’s ghoft: the ghoft 
enters, therefore, and very {fatirically, 
again, afks Mr. Grattan what bufinefs he 
can pofliby have at Twickenham? Like 
many other people who afk impertinent 
queftions, the ghoit waits not foran an{wer, 
but abufes Mr. Grattan for interrupting 
the repofe and peacefulne({s of his fhades. 
After having exhaufted his Billingfgare, 
however, and feeling himfelf a little out of 
breath, he exits in a rage, and leaves Mr. 
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