Retrofpedt of Domeftic Literature—Medicine and Surgery. 
dum Linneanam Difpofita. Auctore Thoma 
Marfham, Soc. Linn. Lond. Thefaurario, 
Mt, DOs Jk ie, 
This.is an incipient work: rather than 
wait for the completion of his defign, Mr. 
Marfhim determined to difcufs one order 
before he en‘ered on another, and he 
has now prefented us with a {vifematic ca- 
talogue of celcopterous infe&s. Inan ele- 
gant preface he has tated his rean for 
rejeting the Fabrician mode of arrange- 
ment, ard adds fixteen genera to thofe hid 
down by Linneus. 
** The Mineralogy of Derk oires with 
a Defcription of the moft inte: “efting Vfines 
in the North of England, in Séotlant, po 
in Wales ; and an Anal; his of Mr. Williams’ s 
Work, eatitled ** The Mineral Kingdom.” 
Subjoined is a Giofary of the Terms and 
Phrafes ufed by Miners in Derbyfbire. By 
Joun Mawe.” 
This is an ufefil work: Mr. Mawe 
has treated his fubjeG@ in a very pleafing 
and perfpicuous manner. 
Preparatory to a courfe of le€tures on the 
philofo-hy of chemiftry, and the ecnnection 
of that fcience with the arts and the other 
fciences, Mr. ANT. Topp THOMPSON pub- 
hthedan ‘* Effay onthe general Study of Ex- 
perimental Philofophy,’* in which he points 
out the great ufefulnefs of fuch knowledge 
in all departments of life, and particularly 
the application of the knowledge of ex- 
perimental philofophy and chemiftry to 
the arts, as well as tothe gereral wants 
of the human Species. Mr. Turner, one 
of the Secretaries to the Literary and Phi- 
lofophical Society ef Newcaftle, and Lec- 
turer in the New Inftiturion, has alfo pub- 
lifhed the ‘* General Introdudiory Dif- 
courfe,’’ which he delivered, explaining the 
objects, advantages, and intended pian of 
the inftitation which has recently been efta- 
blifhed in Newcattle-upon-Tyne, for Pab-~ 
lic Legtures on Natural Philofophy. 
The fecond part is publitied of the ** Péz- 
lofophical Tranfaétions of the Royal So- 
ciety af London, for the year 1802.” 
The limits cf our brigf compendium 
will not ailow us to enlarge on the con- 
“tents of thefe volumes, as they make their 
prac appearance: it is unneceflary to 
fay, that with pepers of infign:ficant value 
they contain others which highly promote 
the interefls of {cience. 
Volume VIII. is alfo publithed of ** The 
~ Tranfactions of the Rayal Irifh Academy.’ 
Velume V. part IT. is alfo publithed of 
“© Memoirs of the Philofophical Society of 
Manchefter.” 
MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
“ Pradical Obferwations in Surgery il- 
“head with Cajes, by W. HEY, Ese. 
619 
F.R.S. Sexior Surgeon to the ‘General 
Infirmary, Leed.”* 
Mr. Hey is a very old and refpeétable 
practitioner, and the habit which ke pur- 
fued of committing to paper any thing 
which occurred in the courle of the day, 
that was new and curious, has enabled 
him to cojle&t materials for a very inter- 
efting volume. Among the fubje€ts treat- 
ed of, which give rife ro the mot original 
sitar: ene and exhibit the moft curious 
fasts, are thofe on catara&s, fractures of 
the ikull, and franeniated hernia. 
“Attempt to invefiizate the Caunfe of 
the Egyptian Opthalini a; with Obferva- 
tions ow its Nature and different Modes of 
Cure; by GEORGE POWER, Afi/tant Sur- 
gcontotheT wenty-third Regiment of Foot.” 
After noticing the d! petty hy pothefes 
which have been fugerfted to account for 
this extraordinary ditea! e, Mr. Power pro- 
pofes one which does not appear to us more 
fatis‘'aG@ory than thofe which have pre- 
ceded it. He fuppofes that the immenfe 
quantities of animal ard vegetable fub- 
{tances which abound in Ecypt,when aded 
on by great heat and moriture cannot fail to 
pafs into putrefaGive fermentation, and 
that putrid efluvia mutt then affume the 
highett degree of malignity. But this pu- 
trefactive precefs mult 90 on to as great a 
degree of malignity in twenty other places, 
where Sights ie is unknown, as in Egypt. 
Mr. Power continues: ** The ammonta- 
cal and fixed alkaline falts, either in a na- 
{cent fiate,or combined with different acids, 
whilft floating in the wind or depofited 
with the dews, may tend to occafion an 
ulceration of the fauces, together witha 
peeling of the {kin from the face and hands; 
and from their pungency muft be peculiarly 
defiructive to the cyes.”” Among the pre- 
difpofing caufes which fubjeét Egyptians 
to this malady, Mr. Power enumerates 
corporeal and mental debility, induced by 
the heat of the climate, partly by the abufe 
of the tepid and cold bath, exceffive ve- 
nery, opium, tobacco, and poor diet. To 
which mut be added ‘* the extenfive fteril 
plain that is conftantly prefented to the 
eye, bounded only by the horizon: its 
glowing furface ftrongly reflecting the rays 
of the Sun, which torture the eye by im- 
prefling too great a qnantity of light on the 
retina; at the fame time, that ae acting 
organ finding nothing to relieve the view, 
or to afford an idea of di iftance, becomes un- 
avoidably excited beycnd its proper fphere 
ef action.*” Another local caufe is fated 
to be the cuftom of fleeping at night in the 
open air, imbibing with every intpiration, 
and abforbing at every pore, the putrid 
virns contai edin the defcending dews. 
Among the moft eficsent remedies Mr. 
Power 
