1802.] 
logy, propofes, on Monday, the 1ft of 
March, to begin a courfe on Experimental 
_Philofophy. This courfe will confift of 
fifteen. le€&tures, and will be illuftrated 
by experiments with a very complete ap- 
paratus.. The le€tures will be delivered 
every Monday and Friday; and, to ac- 
commodate the fubfcribers as much as 
pollible, each lecture will be delivered 
twice in the day, viz. at oneo’clock P.M. 
and at eicht o’clock in the evening. 
Down ‘o Chriftmas, 1801, Dr. Woop- 
VILLE had, fuccefsfully inoculated 5400 
fubjeSts for the cow-pox, chiefly at the 
Small-pox Hofpital.. The univerfal adop- 
tion of this fafe and mild_ {pecies of inocu- 
lation, is now only prevented by prejudice 
or intereft. 
It has lately been afcertained, and is 
confirmed by the perfonal experience of 
Sir JosteH Banks, that the powder of 
ginger is an effectual palliative of ‘the. 
gout. Sir Jofeph takes two tea-{fpoons 
heaped up with ginger-powder, in a pint 
of milk, boiled with bread and (weetened 
with fugar, regularly for his breakfaft, 
and, in confequence, the fits of gout, 
which ufed to attack his head, loins, and 
ftomach, are now confined entirely to his 
extremities, and are of much fhorter du- 
ration. The ginger fhould be taken at 
firft in {mailer quantities, according to 
the ftrength of the ftomach. 
A difcovery of very general impor- 
tance has been lately made in refpect.to 
the culture of potatoes: it has been the 
common practice heretofore to raife this 
nourifhing article of food from cutting 
and planting what is termed the eyes of 
potatoes ; but, from feveral recent trials, 
clufters of potatoes, each weighing from- 
twenty to twenty-two ounces, have been 
produced from planting only the fhoots or 
{prouts. 
Lord NortruHwick, in his late tour, 
is faid to have made-one of the fineft col- 
_ Ieétions of medais in Europe, numbers of 
which, for antiquity and high preferva- 
tion, are not to be equalled. The collec- 
tion confilts,of at leaft 60,000 medals. 
The Bodleian Library has lately re- 
ceived two copies of the Cammua, or 
Book’ of the Ceremonies of the Pricifts of 
Ava, of Pegu, and of Siam, in India, ex- 
aitly fimilar to the copy brought to Lon- 
don by Major Symes, who, in 1795, 
made a voyage to Ava, in quality of Eng- 
1ifh ambaffador.: . 
Lord Etcin having fent from Conftan- 
tinople feveral artifts toAthens; they caufed 
diligent fearch to be made in the Temple of 
‘}Releus, and were fo fortunate as to find 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
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there almoft all the bas-reliefs which for- 
merly ornamented the Temple of Minerva. 
‘Thefe monuments, a great many in{crip- 
tions, and all the urns capable of being 
tranfported, have been fent, by his Lord- 
fhip’s order, to England. 
Korzesur’s interefting book, con- 
taining an account of his late exile into 
Siberia, has been tranflated into the Ruf. 
fian language, and reprinted at Peterf> 
burgh, under the aufpices of the Emperor 
Alexander. It will of courfe be read 
with no lefs intereft in that country, than 
in every country of Europe. 
Mr. Hitt, an ingenious Orientalitt, of 
Halle, in Germany, has undertaken the 
publication of Hafiz, a celebrated Perfian 
poet, and propoics to give the original 
text in a new Taifk type, with a literal 
tranflation. Should this work be favour- 
ably received, Mr. Hdl will extend: his 
plan to the publication of feveral other 
Perfian claffics. His Profpectus {in Lae 
tin) has been fent to prefs? : Ws 
Mr. Kuapraoru, likewife. of Halle, 
who has devoted many years to the ftudy 
of Chinefe literature, will shortly publith 
the firft number of an Oriental Journal, 
under,the title of ** Museum fur die Orien- 
tali{che Litteratur;” in this work he is 
afialted ty feveral ingenious friends. Mr, 
Klaproth has been for fome. time employ- 
ed on a new Chinefe Grammar and Vocae. 
bulary, of which a Profpeétus (in Latin) 
may be foon expected. 
The Letters from Italy by the late 
Abbé BarRTHELEMY, were written, we 
find, fo long fince as 1755, and, not hav- 
ing been intended for publication, confit 
chiefly of complimentary matter, and of 
light anecdotes relative to the Frenchmen 
then refiding at Rome. Of courfe, all 
the information feattered throvgh fuch a 
work has long been fuperfeded by the pub- 
lications of later obfzrvers. The Abbé, 
like Dr. Johnfon, has found a good-natured 
friend officious enough to damn his fame, 
by publifhing thefe epiitles, which were 
as little intended, as they are fit, for the 
public eye. 
It appears, from the apalyfis of an Ita- 
lian. work by Dr. Sracco, in the laff Me- 
dical and Phyfical Fournal, that the difeale 
of the udders of cows, called the cozv-pox, 
is indigenous in Italy ; and human {ub-. 
jets inoculated with this matter have been 
fully prote&ted from the finall. pox. The 
opinion of Dr. JENNER and others, that 
the difeafe of the udder arifes originally 
from the greafe in the heels of horfes, is 
refuted by Dr. Stacco, who ftates, that all 
the cowsin Lombardy are univerlfaily milk- 
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