648 
dyed recover. Sudden deaths, thofe from 
apoplexy and palfy, have been upon the 
increafe fince the beginning of the eigh- 
teenth century, and are about double 
what ti¢y were an hundred years ag0.— 
From’ a ‘ftatement of the proportional 
deaths at the beginning, middle, and end 
of the eighteenth century, it appears that 
rickets and fcrofula have been graduallyup- 
on the decline, butthat confumption, gout, 
lunacy, and palify, have greatly increafed. 
The records of the Brownlow-fireet hoi- 
pitel sfiords a favourable ftatement of the 
diminution of mortality among child-bed 
women and children. ©For the firft ten 
years aiter its eftablifhment, in 1749, the 
average number of deaths annually, among 
child-bed women, was, as one to forty- 
two, and among the infants, as twa to 
fifteen; bat from the year 1789 to 1799, 
the proportion among the woman has 
been only as one to 288, ard among the 
children, as one to 775 and in the years 
3799 and 1800, it has been fill further 
reduced. This regifter exhibits, how- 
ever, a fen tble increafe in the number of 
fisll- born chidren.” 
“ Hygeia, a Series of Effays on Health, 
on a pian ertirely popular. By Taomas 
Beppots, M.D.” Of. this work, five 
eflays only have yet come before us; but 
they take fo comprchenfive a view of the 
fubject, evince fo much accurate obfer- 
ation and found judgement, that we an- 
ticipate in the completion of the work a 
valuable acceffion to the medical and the 
moral departments of our libraries. Dr. 
Beddoes, in encountering many defpotic 
prejudices in the management and edu- 
cation of children, has undertaken a moft 
honourable and a moft arduous tafk. 
The following areithe fubjefts of the frit 
five leGtures. The firft is on perfonal 
prudence, and on prejudices refpecting 
health, addrefled to heads of families, in- 
habitants of the Britifh ifles. ‘The fe- 
cond treats of perfonal imprudence, ac- 
tive and paffive, on the incentive to it, 
on its effects and ufual origin. Aimoft 
the whole of the third effay is occupied 
with confiderations on the {fchools for 
girls. The fourth is taken up with 
confiderations on the education of boys. 
The fubje& of the fifth eflay is tem- 
perature, with remarks on hardinefs and 
diet. , 
*¢ Hiftorical Surgery ; or, the Progrefs 
of the Seience of .Medicine on Infiam- 
mation,’ Mortification, and Gun-Shet 
Wounds. By: joun Hunt.” - There is 
a rafhneis of cenfure obfervable in this 
beok, which gives us no yery favourable 
3 
Retrofpedt of Domeftic Literature. —Med'cine, Se. 
idea of the author’s temper, and to fay tke 
truth, 1s net very flattering to. his profefli- 
onal attainments. 
“¢ Medicine Praxeos Compendiumy 
Symptomata, Caufas, Diagnofin, Prog- 
nofin. et Medendi Rationem, exhibens, 
Auttore E. G. Clarke; M. D. Coilegii 
Regatis Medicorum Londinenfis, Difpen- 
farii Oecidental's, nec non Exercitus, Me- 
dico. Editio fecunda, plurimum anda et 
emendata.” ‘The arrangement of difeafes: 
here adopted, is that of Dr. Cullen, whefe 
language, in the deferiptions, is as much 
as poffibleadhered to. The author dces nor 
om. noticing fuch articles as have lately 
beea introduced into the medical praét.ce. 
* An Enguiry into: fome of the effects: 
of the Venereal Poifon on the:Human 
Body ;. with an occafional Application of 
Phytiology, Obfervations on fome of the 
Opinions of Mr. John Hunter, and Mr. 
Benjamin Bell, and Praétical Remarks, 
by S. Sawrey, furgeon.” ‘This is an. 
ingenious woik, and evinces a very clofe 
ard accurate obfervation: the author has 
fometimes found it~ neceflary to diflent’ 
from the opinions of Mr. Hunter and Mr. 
Bell, but he does it with very becoming 
and laudable modetty. 
‘© Obfervations on. the Marhh Remit- 
tent Fever, more partieularly in regard to 
its appearance and return- every autumn,- 
after the inundation from the fea, on the 
uftof January, 1795, and the five fuc- 
ceeding years, at Lynn, and jts environs, 
Alfo, on the Water-Canker, or Cancer 
Aquaticus of Van Swieten; with fome Re- 
marks on the Leprefy. By the late Ro- 
BERT HamiLTON, M.D. of King’s Lynn,. 
Fellow of the Royal College, and F. R.S.. 
Edinbureh ; Henorary F. R. Phys: S. 
EK iimburgh, and C. M.S. London; Au- 
thor of a Treatife on Scrophula, and other 
Medical Traés: with Memoirs of the 
Author's Life.” Dr. Hamilton confider- 
ed the Marin Remittent Fever to be cn- 
demial to all the marfhy and fenny fitua- 
tions around Lynn, a large town in Nor- 
folk, where the Doctor praétifed for fe- 
veral years.) From along feries of ob- 
fervations, the diftemper appeared to our 
author to be the fame with the bilious re- 
mitting fever of the Nether'ands, the ter- 
tiana of Minorca, the remitting fever’ of 
Bengal, the yellow fever «(as it ts called) 
of the Welt Indies, and the bilious re- 
mittent of Senegal. He regards it as ori- 
inating in every country, from the fub-, 
tile miafmata, or putrid efluvia, emitted 
from the highly putrid ftagnant water 5 
bat more e!pecially from the corrupted 
animal and vegetable matters with which 
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