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VA ah C0 Oia ON EM Se os 
LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAES 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domefize and Foreign. 
ex *.* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
A BOUT the clofe of the prefent 
year Dr. BEDDOEFs propofes to 
publifh the firft volume of * Contributicns 
to Phyfical and Medical Knozwledge 5’ prin- 
cipally from the weft of England and 
Wales.—A with to fave for the public, 
obfervations calculated to enrich medi- 
cine, fuggefted the undertaking, here an- 
nounced. In furtherance of this wifh, it 
occurred that occafional corre{pondence, 
perfonal intercourfe, and facility of tranf- 
miffion, might create in favour of a /e/?- 
country Pubkcation an interett which the 
Edinburgh and London collections do 
not, every where excite. it is not pro- 
poled to confine the work ftri&ly to me- 
dical papers. With the philofophy of 
inanimate matter, which bears in fo many 
points upon his art, -no practitioner of 
medicine fhould be unacquainted. Nor 
does any thing feem more demonftrable 
than that every liberally educated indivi- 
dual fhould be initiated in the plilofophy 
of animated nature. An extenfive feries 
of éxperiments in the firft volume wiil 
furnifh a ftriking example of connection 
between thefe branches of knowledge. 
And the utility of keeping them together 
ought perhaps, on all occafions, to be 
held up to cor.templation. It is the wifh 
of Dr. Beppoes, that the profits (if 
any accrue) fhould go to a public pur- 
pote. As the Inflitution for invefligating 
ibe medicinal powers of factitious airs will 
very {peedily be fet on foot, and as the 
tubfcriptions fcarcely form a fund ade- 
quate to that great and difficult object, 
it is propofed that the profts of the two 
firft volumes fhould be deftined to its 
enlargement ; and that, afterwards, they 
be given to fome infirmary within the dif- 
trigt—the particular infirmary to be de- 
termined, each year, by lot. 
The work entitled ** Public hving Cha- 
xréters of 1798,” is unavoidably delayed 
till the middle of November. 
The interefting nature of Vaw Bram’s 
account of the journey of the Dutch Em- 
baffy to the court of the Emperor of 
China, has occafioned two tranflations to 
be addreffed to the patronage of the Bri- 
tifh nation. One of them illuftrated by 
a correé chart of the route, was publifhed 
a few days fince by Mr. Phillips pro- 
prietor of this Magazine; the other is 
aasounced fer publication in the courle 
of November. The publifhed edition js 
a faithful tranflation of the original ae 
wth the important addition of A CHART, 
without which the journey would be un- 
intelligible. _ 
We are glad to fee that a tranflation 
of the excellent “¢ Travels of M. Faujas 
de Sr. Fonp through England and Scot- 
land to the Hebrides’ is advertifed. An 
account of this work was given from the 
original French in the laft fupplement to 
the Monthly Magazine. It contains 
much information, and will form a very 
valuable addition to the beft Britith tours. 
Major CanTwricHT, whole intended 
publication we fome time fince announced, 
will fhortly print his “© Appeal to the 
Englifp Nation? We imperfe&tly an- 
nounced this work a few months ago: It 
will confit of two parts :—The firft part 
was printed fome time fincey and will be 
reprinted in this work; the latter con- 
tains very extenfive oblervations on the 
jmportance of adopting the old conftitu- 
tional mode of arming the country, ac- 
cording to the plan of Alfred. It will 
allo be accompanied with a map of mili- 
tary GRAND and sUB-DIVISIONS for 
Great Britain, with proper explanations. 
Dr. WILLICH, phytician to the Saxon 
Embafly, and author of the Elements of 
proféffor Kant’s Syftem of Critical Phi- 
lofophy, &c. has publifhed propofals for 
printing ‘¢ A Courfe of Lectures on general 
Diet and Regimen,” as delivered at Bath 
and Briftol laft winter and {pring.—The 
want of methodical works on a fubject of 
the firft importance te every individual in 
fociety, has induced the author to publith 
thefe lectures, as a fyftematic inquiry 
into the moft rational means of preferving 
health and prolonging life. This publi- 
cation is intended as_an antidote againit 
the deftructive rage for modern quackery, 
or rather as a counterpart to the different 
treatifes on DOMESTIC MEDICINE, none 
of which have paid a due regard to pro- 
phylagtics, while they all abound in re- 
cipes and promifcuous methods of cure. 
The principal contents of thefe leétures 
will be :—Prafical Obfervations on Air, 
Weather, Cleanlinefs, Bathing, Drefs, Food, 
Drink, Exercife, Sleep, Evacuations, the 
Sexual Intercourfe, the Pafficus and refiec- 
tions of the Mind, and the Organs of Senfe. 
The work will appear in November. 
A Cler- 
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