514 ~Retrofpect of Domeftic Literature.—-Nedicine.... Theology. -[SU® 
long fince known, and that his fuccefs 
does not appear to have Been more than 
ufua!, in combating-the malignity of the 
diforder. Mr. Home’s * Praétical CGb- 
fervations on the Treatment of U!cers on 
the Legs, confidered as a branch of Blils 
tary Surgery,” well merit attention : this 
ingenious practitioner Juftly deprecates the 
prevailing mode of treating all forts of 
ulcers on one general plan. He has 
thrown them into ciafesyand endeavoured 
to adapt a rational mode of treatment to- 
each. After the perufal of Mr.Home’s pub- 
lication, we were ftruck with Mr.Baynton’s 
cifregard of the different nature of diferent 
ulcers in his “* Defcriptive Account of a 
new Method of treating old Ulcers on 
the Legs.” This is a valuable and inge- 
nious work : and the practirioner appears 
to have been very fuccefsful in his new 
method,’which is fimply that of gradually 
crawing-the found fkin over the fore by 
the application of flips of adhefive plafer. 
Dr. Rollo’s * Account of two Cafes of the 
Diabetes Meilirus,” will not efcape the 
perufal of many medical practitioners ; his 
obfervations are feund and ingenious, his 
mode of treatment new and phiicfophical, 
and his apphieation of the modern chemiftry 
to medicine, fatisfactory and fucecfsful. 
"The fecond volime of this work ftates the 
refult of the application of various acids 
and other fubftances in the cure of lues 
venerea: Dr. Rollo confiders the antiy- 
philitic properties of nitrous and other 
apa de a3 4 , Fash te 
acids to depend on the oxygene which they _ 
contain: that is, the fyphilitic action 1s 
fufpended for fo long a time by a new and 
fuperior one, “ that the whole virus, fram 
the change which the fluids naturaily un- 
dergo, is at laft completely expelled from 
the body.” Reports, principally eomcern- 
ing the effeéts of the nitrous acid in the 
venereal difeafe, by the furgeons of the 
Royal Hofpital, at Plymouth, have been 
publithed by Dr. Beddoes, in which many 
ftrong cafes are ftated, which corroborate 
the truth of its pofletfing antivenereal vir- 
tue: it fhould be obferved, how-ver, that 
none of the patieats have been cured later 
than April in the year 1797, confe- 
quently, apprehenfions of relapfe cannot 
perfectly have fubfided. Dr. Beddoes 
moreover, with his ufual candour, has 
given fome refuits which were unfucceff- 
ful.. <¢ Mercury Stark-naked, &c. by 
Ifaac Swainfon,” is publifhed for the fale 
of anoftrum. A third part has appeared 
of Mr. Abernethy’s “* Surgical and Phy- 
fiological Effays.” The fubdjeét of the 
firftis, Injuries of the Head,” in which 
Mr. A. objedissto the frequent ufe which 
the French furgeons make of the trephine ¢ 
in an “ Hffay on Irritability,” this inge- 
nious phvfivolsgift brings feveral objeétions 
againit the theory, that oxygene is the 
caufe of irrirabilitv. Mr. Clarke’s * Dif 
fertation on the Ufe and Absfe of Toe 
bacco,”* is a whimfical performance of 
fome merit: he attacks this narcotic, 
_fometimes with ferioufnefs and fometimes, 
with fatire. Were it fo noxious, however, 
as he reprefents, we fhould half of “us 
have been poifoned before this time, Drv 
Duncin’s ‘¢ Annals af Medicine, for the 
year 1796,” is a continuation of the “ Me- 
dical Commentaries:” in the fecond p2rt 
are fome curious cafes and obfervations ; 
and the work, as * exhibiting a concife 
view of the lateft and moft important 
fophy,” is valuable. “Moft readers wii 
probably be difappointed in the perufel of 
Alexander Monro's “ Phrce’ Trea- 
tifes on the Brain, the Eve, and the Ear :* 
in faét, the greater pare of this expenfive 
and meagre publieation is taken up in 
efiabliihing claims te medica! difcoveries, 
made in former devs? and the treatifes 
themfelves contain bur littte which ts nor 
generally knows. The fecond volume of 
Mr. Bell's ** Anatomy of the Human 
Body,” like the former, contains much 
ufeful matter; his language, however, is 
not always the moft polifhed or even deeo- 
rous. Mr. Kelfon’s * Few Remarks on 
the Nature aad Cure of Colds,” if they 
avé not very convincing, are at leaft nge- 
nious. Dr. Turton’s “ Medical Gleffary,™ 
may be: a work of ufeful reference: his 
exnlanations are clear and econcife. 
James Hamilton, jun.’s “ Seleét Cafes in 
Midwifery, extraéted from the Records of 
the Edinburgh Lying-in-Hofpital, wih 
Remarks,” ike almoft all publications cf 
the fort, contain a number of curious and 
extraordinary faéts, which every medical 
‘practitioner wil g-adly refe- to in cafes of 
fimilar emergency. A feventh volume has 
been pubdlithed of “ Medical Faéts and 
Oofervations:” the character of this work 
has long been eftablifhed, nor does. the 
prefeat volume impeach it. Dr. Crof- 
field, who was laft year tried for an at- 
tempt to affaffinate the king, has written 
fome ** Remarks on the Scurvy,” &e. 
wherein he recommends the ufe of opium. 
Mr. Kentifh’s ** Effay on Burns,” though 
the fiyle is diffufe and affected, contains 
fome curious cafes and good obfervations 
on them. 
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