Retrofpect of Domeftic Literature.— Mearcine, &e. 
’ within the laft few years, fearcely any 
branch of medical practice has been cul- 
tivated with more fuccefs. A period of 
neatly ten’years, in which the author oc- 
cupied the ftation of {urgeon in the fervice 
of the Eait-India Company, hes certainly 
afforded him favourable oppor:unities of 
roaking himfelf acquainted with the caufes 
which, in voyages to hot climates, gene- 
rally operate fo unfavourably to the hu- 
man conititution. If fome of,thefe are 
inevitable, there are others, whole evil 
influence, if not to be entirely counter- 
acted, may, in a great mea‘ure, be miti- 
gated, by the care and watchtulnels of 
thofe to whom the important charge jof 
fuperintendance is entrufted. Mr. Stew- 
art has arranged his obfervations under 
the following heads: cleanlinefs, air, 
diet, reft, exercile, ‘clothing, and general 
remarks. Under each of thele, much 
ufeful information is imparted, and the 
work is altogether fuch a one as every 
captain of a fhip fhouid make himielf ac- 
guainted with. 
A new edition is publifhed (the fifth) 
of Dr. MorHersBy’s “ Medical D:éti- 
ovary,” revifed and corrected, with con- 
fiderable additions, by Dr. Wallis, the 
editor of Sydenham’s Works. This is a 
ufeful publication, but it does not include 
all thofe recent difcoveries in phyfiology, 
chemiftry, and medicine’in ail its branch- 
es, which are neceflary to the perfe&tion 
of it. A fourth edition, reviled and en- 
larged, has alfo appeared of Dr. Harper’s 
** Anatomift’s Vade-Mecum.” 
Mr. Wuarety has publifhed fome 
ingenious ** Obfervations on Mr. HoME’s 
Treatment of Stri€tures in the Urethra ; 
with an improved Method of treating cer- 
tain Cates of thofe Difeafes.”> Too much 
care and circumfpection cannot poffibly 
be exercifed in the. application of the 
cauttic bougie to ftrictures in the urethra, 
and it is the object of this pamphlet to 
give fuch directions to ag rs in the 
ufe of this armed inftrument, as fhall ren- 
der it perfectly fafe. 
“¢’Tne Modern Practice of Phyfic, which 
points out the Chara&ters, Caufes, Symp- 
toms, Proznoftics, morbid Appearaices, 
and improved Method of treating the Dif- 
eafes of ail Climates: By Roperr To. 
Mas, M.D.” Dr. Thomas has had op- 
portunities of actually obferving the dif- 
eafes and practice of diffrent countries, 
and efpecially thofe of hot climates; 
thefe opportunities have added much to 
his competency for the prefent undertak- 
ing, which he has executed in @ manner 
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which does great credit to his medical at- 
tainments. . 
Mr. Rypina’s ‘* Veterinary Pathology, 
&c. &c.’ is by no means fuch a work as 
we had aright to expect, in the prefent 
improved ftate of that fcience. But it is 
time that we proceed to the next divifion 
of our article. 
VOYAGES, TRAVELS, AND TOURS. 
We ought to have taken an earlier op- 
portunity of noticing Mr. HInCKLEyY’s 
Tranflation of Profeffor Linx’s ** Travels 
in Portugal, and through France and 
Spain, &c.”” Thefe travels were under- 
taken merely with a {cientific view, and 
more particularly for the purpofe of ex- 
tending our acquaintance with the botany 
and mineralogy of the former kingdom. 
Materials are already collegted for a 
Fauna et Flora Lufitanice, which, we 
are informed in the preface, are in a ftate 
of forwardneis tor publication. We fhall 
be chiefly indebted for thefe materials to 
the indefatigable affiduity of Count Hoff: 
manniegs, who feleéted Profeflor Link as 
the companion in his travels. The Count 
and the Profeflor purfued their refearches 
together from the end of the fummer 
1797, till 1799, when the latter was 
obliged to return to Hamburg, leaving 
the Count in Poriugal, very induftrioufly 
employed, in the invettigation of its natu- 
ral hiftory. Theft travels are peculiarly 
interelting, as the kingdom of Portugal 
has ever been paffed over with a fort of 
contempt by the generality of travellers— 
the country has been reprefented as con- 
taining little or nothing to intcrett the 
philofopher and the man of fcience, and 
the people, degraded at once by fuperiti- 
tion and flavery, as deftitute of the virtues 
and talents which are neceflary to raife 
them to the level of civilized fociety. It 
does not appear, that during their refi- 
dence in Portugal the travellers had any 
iiea of prefeniing the public with th 
refolt of their obfervations and refearches. 
*« But (fays the Profeflor, in examining 
the accounts) I found that no one had 
feen fo much of that country as ourfelves. 
I alfo perceived, that moft of the authors 
of thefe works were grofsly ignorant of 
the language, and gave many falfe ac- 
counts, or fuch as were only applicable 
to the inhabitants of the metropolis, but 
which they erroneoufly extended to the 
whole kingdom. In fhort, I :ead of no- 
thing but c.mplaints againit the lazy, 
bigotted, and thievifh Portugueie, and 
faw, with grief, that no one h d defcribed 
the vales through which the Minho flows, 
the 
