Retrofpedt of Domeftic Literature, Medicine and Surgery. §9% 
nve hundred pounds, for the fupport of 
the Infirmary. The bribe, as Dr. Gre- 
gory calls it, was received, and the fyftem 
was accordingly adopted, which Dr. 
Gregory animadverts on ag injurious to 
the credit of the Inflitution, becaufe dif- 
advantageous to the patients. The pre- 
fent plan is, for every Member of the 
College of Surgeons, to attend in retation 
for two months. The number of Surgeons 
at Edinburgh, the attendance however, en- 
creafes fo rapidly, that in confequence of 
this arrangement, is almoft exclufively con- 
fined to the junior Members. It is not 
for us to enlarge on the arguments, pro 
and cox, which have been advanced on 
this occafion, we muft, however, be al- 
lowed to expreis our regret at the bitter- 
nefs with which the controverfy has been 
carried on by both parties, and the per- 
fonalities which it has provoked. For 
the honour of the Inftitution, and the be- 
weft of the Patients, we fincerely hope that 
fome amicable and falutary adjuttment 
will very’ fpeedily take place. 
The {cience of Medicine with its col- 
Jateral branches was never, perhaps, cul- 
tivated with more affiduity, not to fay- 
fuccefs, than it is at’prefent; numerous 
are the works which daily iffue from the 
_prefs, and many of them valuable ones, 
on this fubjeé&t. We fhall notice thofe, 
which from the fkill and knowledge they 
evince, or the practical utility of which 
they are likely to be, moft merit atten- 
tion. 
_ Dr. Nisper has publithed the fecond, 
third, and fourth parts of his ‘¢ Clinical. 
Guide; intended as a Memorandum- 
book for Praétitioners,’? and which are 
to be confidered as a Continuation of the 
*€ Clinical Guide to Medicine,”? which he 
publifhed fome time ago. The fecond 
of thefe volumes, which relates to Sur- 
gery, affords a concife view of the lead- 
ing faéts on the hiftory, nature, and 
treatment of fuch local difeafes as form 
the obje& of Surgery; the third and 
fourth exhibit a concife view, &c. of the, 
various difeafes that form the fubje&t of 
Midwifery, or that occur during Lofancy 
and Childhood ; to each is added a Phar- 
macopoeia, divided into thrce parts, viz. 
Materia Medica, Claffification, and Ex- 
temporaneous Pre{cription ; to which lat 
is added “* An Introduction to Nofolo- 
gy.” This work, though it can lay claim 
to but little merit on the f{ccre of origi- 
nakty, is executed with fuch concifene(s 
and perfpicuity, as to render it an ufeful 
book of reference to young ftudents. 
A fecond edition, with an Appendix, 
has made its appearance of Dr. BREE's 
‘¢ Praétical Enquiry inte’ Difordered Re- 
{piration ;°” a valuable work, founded on 
his own extenfive practice, in the manu- 
facluring town of Birmingham. é 
Mr. Kentisu has publifhed ** A Se- 
cond Effay on Burns; in which an At- 
tcmpt is made to refute the Opinions of 
Mr. Earl and Sir Walter Farquhar, 
lately advanced on the fuppofed Benefit 
of the Application of Ice, in fuch Acci- 
dents.” It will be recolle&ted that Mr. 
Kentifh, who has had much experience in | 
fome very dreadful cafes of Burns, and 
who had repeatedly witneffed their fatal 
termination according to the old efta- 
blifhed treatment, adopted, as an injprove- 
ment, the ufe of {pirits of wine, oil of 
turpentine, or fome other ftimulant, in- 
ftead of linfeed-oil, which had been gene- 
rally ufed: the ancient practice more- 
over of bleeding, purging, and adding te 
the debility of the fyftem, he exchanged, 
with much advantage, for the ufe.of a 
generous diet, and he adminiftered ra- 
ther freely, for the firft two or three days 
after the accident, opium, and then wine, 
&c. Inthe prefent volume Mr. Kentifh 
has introduced a number of new cafes, 
ftill further illuftrative of the fuperior 
efficacy of his praétice; which, however, 
he has improved by occafionally admi- 
niftering fome aétive aperient for the pur- 
pole of checking profufe difcharge from 
the wounds, and by covering the wounds 
in that flate with powdered chalk. A 
‘communication is inferted from Myr. Fre- 
derick Horn to the author, giving an ac- 
count of avery defperate and dangerous 
cafe which was cured by the adoption of 
Mr. Kentifh’s practice, and which ene 
titles it to more confidence than any 
@ priovt reafoning, however ingenious and 
{cientific. . 
Dr. CaisHoum has publifked a fecond 
edition, much enlarged, of **An Eilay”? 
which originally made its appearance 
feveral years fince, ‘¢on the Malignant 
Peltilent Fever of the Weft India Hlands.”” 
Dr. Chifholm adheres to his former opi- 
nion, (notwithftanding it has been ftrong- 
ly coniefted) that it was introduced into 
the Welt India Hlands from Boulam, 
on the coa% of Guinea, by one of the thips 
belonging to the Bulama Affcciation, and 
thence into America, in confequence of 
the commercial intercourfé between the 
Iflands and that Continent. Nor has the 
Doétor’s idea of the almoft infallibility 
of Mercury in the cure of the dileafe been 
more fortunate: the Mercuria] treatment 
having failed fo frequently, as to have 
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