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ferving health, written by Dr. B. was 
read by Mr. Bowtss to a large and po- 
lite audience, onthe 17th of laft month. 
We underftand it is fhortly to appear- in 
print, in an extended form. 
Mifs Warts, of Leicefter, alady pof- 
feffed of much poetical genius, announces 
for early publication, the tranflation of 
Taffo’s Jerufalem Delivered, upon which 
fhe has been engaged feveral years. 
A gentleman refiding in Gun-ftreet, 
Spital-fields, of the name of Dysrer, 
has been engaged for a confiderable time 
_ in bringing to perfeétion an zroftatic ma- 
chine, conftruéted upon principles that 
are entirely mechanical. The principle 
of his invention confifts of an application 
of the accumulation of power evinced in 
fies, and in other machinery producing 
a centrifugal force: Mr. D. conceives 
that a ftrong centrifugal force may fo far 
avercome the action of gravity as to. pro- 
duce a degree of comparative levity fuffi. 
cient to render the fubjeéts of that force 
buoyant in the atmofphere. 
Mr. RipGway, of York-ftreet, pro- 
pofes to publifh, in the courfe of the 
enfuing month, a complete edition of the 
works of the late Mifs Ry ves, of whom, 
it will doubtlefs be recolleéted, a very in- 
terefting biographical account appeared in 
this Magazine for September. 
The Treatife on Spherical Geometry, 
announced fome time fince by Mr. Joun 
Howarp, of Newcaitle-upon-T yne, is 
now in the prefs, and will {peedily be pub- 
lithed. ; 
Mr. O'KEEFE, whofe dramatic talents 
have fo often entertained the public, pro- 
poles to print a complete. edition of his 
works, in four volumes oétavo. The 
fubfeription is one guinea and a half; one- 
third of which is to be paid at the time of 
{ubfcribing, and the other two-thirds on 
the delivery of the books in June next. 
The following direétions for the cure 
and .prevention of THE PLAGUE, are 
compiled from a fmall pamphlet in the 
Lralian language, lately publithed by count 
BeERCHTOLD at Vienna, 1797 ; one copy 
of which is in poffeffion of the Royal 
Academy of Sciences of Lifbon, to whom 
dt was prefented by his excellency Mr. 
Pinto, her majefty’s fecretary of fate, 
&c. ‘The academy ordered tranflations to 
be made. of them into Arabic, French, 
Portuguefe, and Englith. Count Bercu- 
TOLD fays, that the method was firft pro- 
poled by Mr. BaLpwrn, the Britith 
agent and con{ul at Alexandria, in Egypt; 
who, during a long refidence in that 
country, was induced to believe, that the 
-ufe of {weet olive oil, applied to the skin, 
might prove beneficial in the treatment of 
this dreadful malady. Mr. Baldwin com- 
_ municated his ideas to the reverend Louis 
de Pavia, twenty-feven years the chap- 
lain and agent to St. Anthony’s Hofpital, 
at Smyrna; who, after five year’s expc- 
rience, pronounced it to be the moft 
efficacious remedy hitherto made ufe of. 
He acquainted count Berchtold with the 
fuccefs, and the mode of application ; 
and from his communications, the pam- 
phlet was principally compofed. Count 
Berchtold farther ftates, tnat it is Mr. 
Baldwin’s intention to publifh a more full 
and philofophical relation of bis obferva- 
tions and experiments: that he has fa- 
voured the count with the perufal of the 
manufcript, and permitted him to. tran- 
foribe any part of it; and he apologizes ta 
to the world and Mr. Baldwin for the an- 
ticipation of the work, at the {ame time 
obferving, that he fecis it afacred duty to 
lofe no time in making known a difcovery 
of fuch importance: particularly to thofe 
countries that have frequent commerce 
with the Barbary States, and the ports of 
the Turkith empire. The dircétions are 
fimply thefe: 
‘¢ Immediately that a perfon is perceived te 
be infected with the plague, he mut be taken 
into a clofe room, and over a brazier of hot 
coals with a clean fponge, dipped in warm olive 
oil, his body muft be very britkly rabbed all 
over for the purpofe of producing a profufe 
{weat: during the fri€tion, fugar and juniper 
berries must be burned inthe fire, which rsaiie a 
denfe and hot fmoke, ‘that contributes to the 
effect, : 
‘‘ The friftion ought not to continue more 
than four minutes, and a pint of oi! is enough 
to be ufed at each time. ; 
“In general, the firft rubbing is followed by 
a very Copious perfpiration, but dhould it fail of 
this effect, the operation may be repeated; fir(t 
wiping the body with a warmodry cloth : anx 
in order ftill farther to promete perfpiration, the 
patient may take any warm fudorific drink, 
fuch as elder flower tea, &c. 
“ Tt is not neseflary to touch the eyes; and 
other tender parts of the body may be rubbed 
more gently. 
‘© Every poffible precaution muft be made 
ufe of, to prevent the patient taking cold; fuch 
as keeping covered thofe parts of the boty not 
direSly under the operation; nor muit the linea 
be changed till the ’perfpiration has entirely 
fubfided. 
“The operation fhould be repeated once a 
day, until evident fymptoms of recovery begin 
to appear. ; 
“(If there are alraady tumours. upon the 
body, they thould be gently and more frequently 
rubbed, till they appear to be ina “ate of fup- 
puration, when they may be drefled wich the 
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