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poled at firft to treat them with ridicule 
and contempt, from a perfuafion that the 
operatiens were all a fallacy.”” Dr. P. 
has met with a warm admirer in Mr. 
~ Lanewortuy of Bath, who has pub- 
lithed ** A View of the Perkinean EleGri- 
city,” &c. containing a variety of fue- 
ceisful experiments on the efficacy of me- 
tallic tra€tors. Doctors DuNCAN fen. and 
jun. have publifhed their ‘* Azsals of Me- 
dicine for the Year 1797~° ‘It is conti- 
nued on the old plan of the * Medical 
Commentaries,’ and contains matter of 
very unequal merit : refpecting the no- 
tices of foreign publications, Dr. Dun- 
CAN premifes that they fhall be numerous 
and interefting qwhez the tree uninterrupt- 
ed communication with the Continent 
thall have been reftored. Dr. MILLER 
has publifhed tome ‘* Obferwations on the 
Condudt of the War,’ &c. and on the ftate 
of medicine in England, and of military 
medical arrangements in the army and 
navy. Dr. MILLER, it feems, commu- 
nicated fome years ago to his tnajeity’s 
minifters, fome plans forarrangements in 
the medical departments of the army and 
the navy: they were rejeéted, and he 
fubmitted them tothe minifters of France, 
at they time we were at peace with that 
country. ‘The Doctor has the modefty to 
attribute the advantages which the French 
armies have had over all the reft of the 
foldiers in Europe to the regulations con- 
tained in his plan! Mr. Buarir’s, 
*§ Soldir's Friend,’ is an ufeful little work, 
addrefled to the officers of the Britith 
army on the means of preferving the 
health of military men. Mr, Wuse’s 
<¢ One Hours Advice RefpeGiing their 
Health to Perfons going out to the Iland of 
Jamaica,’ 1s well worth acceptance.- 
Dr. JACKSON’s ‘* Cautions to Women 
xefpecting the State of Pregnancy,” &c. &c. 
merit attention ; this little work inftructs 
women in what manner to manage them- 
felves during andafter the proeels of par- 
turition, and gives very ufeful and falu- 
tary maxims for the management and 
nurture of infants. The ‘* Experiments,” 
which Mr. CRUIKSHANK originally pub- 
iifhed in the year 1779, ‘‘ ox the Infenfible 
Perfprration of the Human Body, shewing 
sts Afinity to Kefpiration,” are now repub- 
fifhed with additiens and corrections. A 
new and improved edition is alfo pub- 
lifhed, of Dr. UNDERWOOD’S very va- 
luable ‘* Treats/e on the Dijorders of Child- 
hood.” 
Phyfology. Dr. Cricuton’s ‘ En- 
quiry inte the Nature and Origin of Mental 
Derangement,’ is a ¥aluable and very in- 
Retrofpec? of Domeftic Literature....Phyfialogy, Oe. 
[Sur, 
genious work: it comprehends a concife 
tyftem of the phyfiology and pathology of 
the human mind, and a hiftory of the pal- 
fions and their effects: Dr. Cricu- 
TON clafles the causes of infanity under 
four heads: -1i. phyfical or corporeal 
cauies : 2dly, over-exertion of the men- 
tal faculties: 3dly, a difproportionate 
activity of fome*of the faid faculties : 
and 4thly, the paffions, or their influence, 
We are forry to be prohibited by the 
limits of our retrofpeét from entering 
fomewhat fully on the merits of this per- 
formance. ‘“ Obfervations on Infanity” 
have been publifhed by a gentleman whofe 
fituation has unqueftionably afforded am- 
ple jcope for making them, Mr. Has- 
LAM, apothecary to Bethlem Hofpital ; 
Mr. Hasiam fuppofes the found mind to. 
coniift in a harmonized affociation of its 
different powers, and to be conftituted in 
fuch a way, that a defect in any one pro- 
duces irregularity, and moft commonly 
derangement, of the whole; he thinks, 
therefore, that the different forms under 
which the difeafe is obferved might be 
arranged according to the powers which 
are principally affected. “ As fome very 
erroneous notions have been entertained, 
© jays Mr. HasLam, concerning the 
{tate of the brain, and more efpecially 
relpecting its confiftence in maniacal dif- 
orders, 1 have been induced to examine 
that vifcus in thofe who have died infane, 
and have endeavoured with accuracy to 
report the appearances.””. A hiftory is 
given of thefe appearances in feventy nine 
cafes, and this terms avery valuable part 
of the work ; as in almoit every one of 
them the brain prefented {ome morbid phe- 
nomenon: but, fays Mr. Hasiam, it 
may yet be a matter affording much diver- 
fity of opinion, whether thefe merbid ap- 
pearances of the brain be the caufe or 
the effect of madnefs; they have been 
found in all ftates of the difeafe. He be- 
lieves mania and melancholy to be pro- 
duced by the fame dileate: they frequently 
alternate in the fame patient, and diflec- 
tion can detect no difference in appear- 
ance. Many judicious obifervations are 
introduced relative to the plan of manag- 
ing maniacal patients, fo as to produce 
bericficial changes ; and Mr. Hastam’s 
work, will unqueftionably be confidered 
as a valuable acquifition. Dr. Wit- 
8ON’s ** Experimental Effay on the man- 
ner in which Opium operates on the Living 
Animal Body,” is ingenious ; we are not 
difpofed to fay’ fo much concerning the 
“€ Effays Phyfiological and Philofophical, om 
the Difartion of the Spine, ‘the Motive 
Power 
