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deathif employed by practitioners in gene- 
ral; all of whom would not proceed with 
the caution and accuracy of Dr. Beddoes. 
Upon the whole, we muft prefer the ex- 
hibition of air with an under proporticn 
of oxygen. 
Various interefting publications have 
made their appearance during the laft half 
,yéar on the fubje€t of the Variole Vac- 
cing, or Cow-pox, the happy fuccefs of 
which difeafe, as a fubftiute for the 
fmall-pox, we have frequently had occa- 
fion to notice. Notwithftanding the ftub- 
bornnefs of three thcufand well-attefied 
‘faéts, we fear it will be a confiderable 
time before the pra€tice of incculating for 
this difeafe will become general. It 1s 
certainly neither fo painful nor fo loath- 
fome as the fimall-pox, and the rifque at- 
tending it is fo trifling, that no truly af- 
feétionate parent will hefizate which to 
prefer; nor, from the fatisfactory evi- 
dence which is before the public, can 
there be any doubt but it is:a fure de- 
ferce again{ft the {mall-pox. Among the 
noit refpeétable of the faculty, little doubt 
of its utilitv-appears toexift; its general 
and early adoption will, however, in great 
meafure, depend on the courage of pa- 
rents, as practitioners in confined di- 
_ftridts will hefitate to commit themfelves, 
by réconmending a difeafe which, in one 
cafe in four cr five hundyed, has proved 
as virulent as bad cafes of the difeafe 
which it is intended to prevent. It can- 
not, however, be too often repeated, that 
of three thoufand known cafes of vaccine 
inoculation, not one of them has proved 
mortal, and that in the inoculated fmall- 
pox the fatal cafes are ene in five hun- 
dred. ‘Tse increafing opinion of the fa- 
culty appears to be, that the waccine-pock 
isa milder fpecies of the varole. 
In confequence of Dr. JACKSON’s 
thinking that the illnefs which termi- 
nated the life of the late much to be:la- 
mented Mrs. Godwin, orfginated in the 
negle& of fome of the attentions necefia- 
ry during the puerperal ftate, he has 
publithed ‘* Cautions to Women ref{peat- 
ing the Srate of Pregnancy, the Progrefs 
of Labour and Delivery *’ but it is an 
aftenifhing circumflance, that he has not 
in the courfe of his work fated, what 
thofe fatal omiflions were. The pam- 
phler, however, is a very ufeful one. 
We have at length fome official infor- 
mation with refpeét to that dreadful 
fcourge of America, the yellow fever ; 
the College of Phyficians of Philadelphia 
having publifhed “ Faéts and Obferva- 
tions relative to the Nature and Origin 
of the Peftilential Fever which prevailed 
in the City of Philadelphia in 1793, 1797, 
and 1798.’ From this account it ap- 
_ pears that this difeafe has been in every 
inftance imported from the Weft Indies ; 
the College therefore recommends fuch 
meafures as feem well calculated to pre- 
vent the poifon from being again fuffered 
to enter the country. Wes 
Dr. SHERWEN has colleéted and pub- 
lithed, in one pamphlet, “ The Valuable 
Papers on the Difeafes of the Bledder, 
on the Ufe of the Cauftic Bougie, and on 
the Schirro-contreéted Reétum,” which 
he had inferted in the Memoirs of the 
Medical Scciety of London. _ 
Dr. Rotto has publifhed a fecond edi- 
tion of his ‘* Effay on the Diabetes Mel- 
litus,’’ which ts enriched by feveral new 
cafes, and contains the continuation of 
thofe which were unfinifhed at the pericd 
of the former publication; he likewife 
prefents us with the refults of the trials 
of fome of the acids in the cure of /wes 
venerea; and by thefe, the propriety of 
their-exhibition is much ftrengtbened. 
“A Cafe of Diabetes with an Hifteri- 
cal Sketch of that Difeafe, by Tuomas 
GIRDLESTONE, M.D.’ is the work of 
a Phyfician of much provincial celebrity. 
In the preface, the author acknowledges 
the obligations he owes to Dr. Rollo 
and Mr. Cruickfhanks, but thinks that 
the fermer overlooked fome parts of his — 
letter to him: -his hiftorical fketch of 
diabetes 1s interfperfed with much clafi- 
cal and appofite quotation. The made 
of cure which Dr. Girdleftone recem- 
sends, is a ftriét adherénce to anima! 
dict. The pofticript contains a cafe, com-' 
municated to the author by Dr. Lubbock; 
but as it was not a very Important one, 
and as its termination was nct known, um 
confequence of the patient having defert- 
ed from the Norwich hofpital during the 
late ele€tion for that city. we do. net fee 
the propriety of its infertion. 
“The Cafe cf Elizabeth Woodcock, 
who, during laft winter, remained buried 
under the fhow, with no other fi-ffenance 
than what fhe obtained by fucking the 
walls of ber prifon,”’ has been prefented 
to the public by THomas VERNEY 
Oxes, the furgeon who attended her.’ 
He gives a minute account of ail the cir- 
cumftances of this extraordinary cafe in 
rather a pompous manner. His medical 
treatment, which he fupofed to have ter- 
minated in the recovery of his patient, ap- 
pears to have been judicious: but we un- 
derftand that fhe is fince dead. 
Dr. WILLIAM BuTTER, of Edin- 
burgh, 
