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time in a ftate of convalefcence, but 
were {ubject to a relaple. } 
At length, the difeafe attained fuch 
.a dreadful degree of violence, the vic- 
tims carried off by it proved fo nu- 
merous, aad the ufual medicines ap- 
peared to be of fo little avail, that or- 
ders were given for ajl the phyficians 
appertaining to the army, as well as 
thofe who praétifed in the neighbour- 
ing towns, to affemble at the Cape. 
Tt was in this conference, that Dr. 
Gilbert propounded the following quef- 
tions: 
1. What is the hiftory and progrefs 
of the yellow fever? 
2. The generai, particular, and lo-« 
cal.caufes? * = om 
3. The nature and nofological claf 
ification ? 
4 The diagnoftics ? 
5. The prognottics ? 
6. Mode of prefervation, and cura- 
tive means to be adopted during the 
different ftages? 
7. The treatment recurred to by the 
natives of the country? 
8. The propriety cf employing bleed- 
ing, emetics, purgatives, bark, cam- 
phor, and biifters? 
9. The contzgious and peftilential 
character of the yellow fever? 
to. The analogy between this and 
the maladies of the fame nature, which 
have always predominated at the Cape, 
and in the colony, or ravaged cther 
countries ? 
4x. What are the beft means for ar- 
refting the courfe, and preventing the 
return of the malady ? 
We have reafon to fuppofe, that this 
medical parliament, after all their dif- 
euilions, contributed but little to the 
annihilation of this cruel difeafe; it 
appears certain, however, that on the 
approach of the rainy feafon it imme- 
diately difappears, and is never vifible 
again until the heat renders the air in- 
tolerable, and the difeafe at once in- 
fectious and mortal. 
«« Le petit Magafin des Dames, &c” 
=—The little Cabinet for the Ladies. 
This fmall volume contains a col- 
IeGtzon of verfes, maxims, and witty 
fayings, by diftinguithed females; it 
alfa includes a parallel] between Ma- 
dame de Genlis and Madame de Staél, 
by M. Laya; fome reflections on ftyle, 
by M. Segur, jun.; an cloge of Ma- 
dame du Boccage, together with a bio- 
eraphical notice relative to Madame de 
Bourdie. 
Retrofpec? of French Literature. =Mifcellanezusi Pi 
4 Lettre a: M***. furilaSBhilofo~ 
phie; &c.”"—Letter to M. tee ative 
to Philofophy, fo far as it is ESntiekted 
with the FrencliGovernment. -By PE- 
TER GRANIE,. 8vo. . 
For fome time paft, it has been: 
equally fafhionable in France as in 
England, to declaim againft philofo- 
phy, and to attribute to its influence 
the greater portion of thofe evils with 
which France has been afflifted. Be- 
caule the foldiers of Robefpierre ful- 
pended the ‘* Rights of Man” to their 
blood-ftained ftandards, it has been’ 
falfely concluded, that the philofophy 
of Roufleau was the fame as-that which 
actuated Marat, and influenced the’ 
Cordeliers, Mountaineers, &c. 
The author enquires, whether, in 
all ages and nations, and under every. 
poffible form of government, the fagelt: 
inftitutions and the moft facred prin- 
ciples have not been abufed? He af-~ 
firms that if all the crimes committed 
in the name of the Gofpef, and all the 
outrages perpetrated by the pretended 
apofties of reafon were to be weighed 
againit each other, it would be dificult 
to decide which fcale would kick the 
beam. In fhort, it is the intention of. 
the author-to avenge the cauie of 
modern  philofophy, and refcue the 
names of d’Agucfleau, Monteiquieu, 
Jean Jacques, d’ Alembert, and Voltaire, 
from the afperfions which have been 
caft upon their principles. 
‘< Hiftoire Naturellede Femme, &c.” 
—The Natural Hiftory of Woman, in- 
cluding the Plan of a new Phyfical and 
Moral Regimen, in conformity to the 
different Epochs of ‘Life. By J. L. 
Moreau (de la Sarthe) Profeffor of 
Medicine, with Copper-plates, 3 vols. 
8vo. 
The author here endeavours to com- 
bine a defcription of the perfon, with 
a contemplation of the moral charac- 
ter of the fair fex. ‘I have ftrove 
(fays he) to prefent the natural hiftory 
of woman, and at the fame time to 
apply the phyfiological and medical 
{ciences to the prefervation and happi- 
nefs of a fex, the exiftence of which is 
one continual feries of revolutions and 
crifes, chat prove but too often fatal. 
On this eccafion a great variety of mas 
terials has been employed; and in con- 
fequence of an affociation, which phi- 
lofophical aufterity will perhaps con- 
demn, extraéts have been given from 
the moft eloquent profe writers, as well 
as the moft agreeable poets, all of which 
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