620 Retro/peé of Domefiic Literature— Medicine and Surzery. 
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Power ranks opium, taken internally, a 
quarter of a grain every four or fix hours. 
*¢ Itis a fact. no Jefs furprifing than true, 
(fays he)that in the {pace of a month from 
the adopiion of this remedy we were en- 
‘abled to reftore to. the army almoft every 
cpthalmic patient in a ftate of convalei- 
cence, cr of perfect health.”” 
A new edition, expanded from one to 
five 8vo. volumes, with -twenty quarto 
plates, is jutt publifhed, of ** The. Eaiz- 
burgh Practice of Phyjic.” The frft and 
fecond relate to Medicines, the third and 
fourth to Surgery, and the fitth to Mid- 
wifery, a tubject which was not compre- 
hended in the former edition. To each 
feparate branch of practice-is-preaixed an 
dntreduétion, giving.a conci’e view of its 
hiftory and progrefs, from the earlieit pe- 
riods to the prefent day. The compiler 
has coilefted his materials, generally 
fpeaking, from the be fources, and has 
arranged them with judgment and per{p1- 
cuity. The plates are very well engraved. 
Dr. Hooper has publithed his «* O6- 
servations on theEpicdemicel Difeajes nor 
prevailing (1803) ia Loudon, with therr 
Divifions, Method of Treatueni, Preven- 
tion, Fc.” 
The Do&or confiders four epidemic dif- 
eales as having vilited the metropolis at 
the fame time, namely the peripreumonia 
ULI As peripneumona notha, catarroa, and 
‘theumaiifmus actus. Dr. Weoper’s 
mode of treatment appears to have been 
very judicious and his cbfervaticns are 
worthy of attention. ; 
Dr. WINTERBOTTOM’s §* Medical 
Direfions for ihe Ufe of Navigators and 
Settlers in bot Climates,> have come to 
a fecond editicn. 
Thefe dirsGions are extremely fenfible ; 
they are conveyed in plain unprofcfiional 
language; and, if firily attended to, may 
fave the health of many a fettler in Africa 
and the Welt Irdies. 
<< An Account of the Difcovery. and 
Operation of a News Medicine for the 
Gout.” 
A puff or not a pug, that is the guef- 
tion the anonymous author of this tract 
bumouroufly defcribes himiclf as having 
been a victim to the demon of gout: a 
dzimen ‘¢ whofe very dalliance 1s torture, 
and whofe frequent embraces are more 
odious than death.” By drinking the ex- 
traded juice of a ripe fruit he found the 
effect to be a gradual diminution of the 
extreme fenfibility of the infiamed parts, 
and this perceptibly in a tew hours. For 
certain recfons, fuch as the tnadcquate 
tock in hand, this anonymeus author 
has not toid us the remedy, but aflures us 
that zz a fhort time it will be under the 
ftriét guarcianthip ard control ofa few me-= 
‘dical pra&titioners in different quarters of 
the kingdom. Although from the mode in 
which this pamphlet is publifhed, and from 
its extravagant price we have fome réeafce 
to fufpeét quackery, it is but common juf- 
tice to fay that the names of Drs. Bradley 
and Becdoes are brought forward in tel- 
timony of the orthodoxy of the medicine. 
<* An Entire New and Original Work, 
bemg a conplete Treaiife upon Spine Pe- 
dum; containing feveral important Difco- 
weries. Illufirated withCopper-plates, ex- 
bibiting the different Species of Spina, By 
Hryman Lion, Chiropedift.” 11 
Mercy on us, under what infinite obli- 
gations ts the healing art to thefe German 
do&crs! There is a ftory in circulation 
of a countryman of this fkilful chiropedift, 
and a brother of the knife, that, emulous 
of the honour conferred by the Emperor 
upon a Pruffian, for hts fkill in the cure of 
wounds, he advertifed that by dint of in- 
deiatigable refearches he had difcovered a 
nethod of cure fo efficacious and fpeedy, 
that for a certain fecurity and indubitable 
proof of his own fuperior fkill, he was 
ready to receive any wound with a fabre 
upon the cranium, the fielhy part of the 
arm, or any other part of the body, which 
he piedged himfelf to heal within four-and- 
twenty hours. In the clofe of his pro- 
pofais he infinuates that if any great per- 
fonage fhould patronife the undertaking, 
for the good of fociety, he fhould have no 
objection to fhooting himfelt: it would 
certainly be for the gcod of fociety if fome 
of his fellow- quacks followed this patriotic 
example. Gentle reader, the pamphiet 
before us is a learned half-vuinea treatife 
upon corn-cutting ! Afterall, the methodas 
medendi of that celebrated practitioner, 
Dr. Laft, is the moft efficient. On his ex- 
amination, when afktd how he cured 
corns ?—<* I plucks ’em up by the root,” 
quoth the Dottor.—It muft be acknow- 
ledged that this is a radical cure. ; 
“* Fadis and Obfervations refpecting the 
Air Pump, Vapour Bath, in Gout, Rheu- 
matifn,Palfy,and other Difeafes, by RALPH 
BLeGeorouGH, M.D.” 
The machine here recommended is ex- 
tremely ingenious, and Dr. Blegborough 
has explained its nature and operation 
with much perfpicuity. . 
Da. Trorrer has publithed a third 
volume of his ** Medicina’ Nautica,” a 
book ia every refpect extremely valuable. 
-Dr. Trotter has paid infinite attention to 
the difeafes of our brave feamen, and no- 
thing efcapes his animadverfion which is 
in any degree injurious to their health, 
: and, 
