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left little confidence in its application. 
As Dr. Chifholm’s fituation of Infpeétor 
General of the Ordnance Medical De- 
pee in the Weit Indies, required 
is perfonal appearance in the feveral 
~ Tflands, he took the opportunity of ob- 
taining a knowledge of the natural and 
political hiftory: this knowledge he has 
communicated to his readers in a very in- 
genious, amufing, and, doubtlels, in avery 
faithful manner, . 
A tranflation has appeared from th 
German of a work by Docror Curis- 
Tian Gustavus STRUVE, entitled 
<< Afthenology; or, the Art of Preferving 
Feeble Life, and of fupporting the Con- 
ftitution under the Influence of innumer- 
able Difeafes.’ This work is divided 
into two parts: the firft gives the author’s 
Theory, the fecond his Praétice. The 
firft is whimfical and not always intebli- 
gible; the latter is a fort of. dictetic 
Syftem, which, in many refpeéts, may be 
followed with advantage. 
The fame fanciful Phyfician is the au- 
thor of *‘A Familiar Treatife on the 
Phyfical Education of Children during the 
early -Period of their Lives: being a 
Compendium addrefied to. all Mothers - 
who are ferioufly concerned for the Wel- 
fare of their Offspring.” This ftrange 
performance has been tranflated by Dr. 
Willich, who has gravely prefixed to it, - 
three Introdudtory Lectures on the fame 
fubjeé. 
“©The Harveian Oration” has been 
this year pronounced by Dr. Vaucuan, 
in a ftyle of very claffical latinity: the 
orator jufily laments that it fhould ever 
have been attempted to infulate, as it” 
were, the fcience of Medicine, by feparat- 
ing it from that of Philofophy, and en- 
Jarges on the connection which fhould 
ever be confidered as infeparable between 
the phyfician, the claffical {cholar, and 
the man of general literature. He pro- 
ceeds, as is ufual. on this occafion, to 
fketch the charaéiers, and commemorate 
the ‘munificence cf thofe members who 
have adorned the College by their ta- 
Tents, or added to its riches by their do- 
nations. Miers 
Dr. Rusu, whofe former Treatife on 
the Yellow Fever we noticed on a former 
occafion, has Jately publifhed fome ‘* Ob- 
fervations upon the Origin of the Malig- 
nant, Bilious, or Yellow Fever, in 
Philadelphia, and upon the Means of pre- 
venting it; addreffed to the Citizens of 
Philadelphia.”” The author continues his 
opinion, notwithftanding the violent op- 
pofition which it has encountered, that 
Retrofpedt of Domeftic Literaiure—Medicine and Surgery. 
the fever was originally occafioned by an 
accumulation of filth on thé beach in the 
neighbourhood of the city: this opinion 
is rendered probable by the faét, that the 
moft deftruétive fevers take their rife in 
very populous cities, and in thofe parts, 
ufually, where the poor are moft clofely 
crowded together in lanes and alleys, 
and dirty houfes. He then proceeds to 
give fome very judicious advice to the 
Philadelphians relative to ventilation, 
cleanlinefs, and the fpeedy removal of all 
filth and offal from their ftreets and 
fhores. . 
Mr., Isaac CaTHRAL, of Philadel- 
phia, has publifhed a -fhort, but very in- 
genious and fatisfactory ‘* Memoir on the 
Analyfis of the Black-vomit eje&ted in the 
laft Stage of the Yellow Fever."? The 
author began his obfervations on this 
frightful fymptom,whilft the ficknefs raged 
fo fatally at Philadelphia in 1793. His 
Memoir was offered to the Philofophical 
Society of that city in June, 1800, and 
contains the deliberate refult of feven years 
inveftigation. 
Dr. Currre, Fellow of the College of 
Phyficians, and Member of the American 
Philofophical Society,has given, in a fall 
Pamphlet, **A Sketch of the Rife and Pre- 
grefs of the Yellow Fever, and of the Pro- 
ceedings of the Board of Health, in Phila- 
delphia,in the year 1799: to whichis added, 
a Collection of Facts and Obfervations re- 
fpecting the Origin of the Yellow Fever 
in this Country ; anda Revitw of the dif- 
ferent Modes of treating it..” The object _ 
of this publication feems tobe threefold: in | 
the firft place, to. prove that the Yellow 
Fever was derived from a foreign fource ; 
that itis not, as Dr. Currie formerly ima- 
_gined, the fame difeafe as the Typhus 
Gravior ; and iaftly, to fhew the infuffi- 
ciency of former modes of treatment, and 
point out that in. which he had been moft 
fuccefsful. The Sketch commences with 
an account of the approach and progrefs 
of the difeafe in 19799: the Doctor 1s~ of 
opinion that the introduétion of it was 
owing, principally, to two infeéted thips 
from the Havannah and St. Domingo, 
twhere the fever at that time raged) which 
were fuffered to lie at wharfs; and partly, to 
goods brought from the fame fickly ports 
being landed in the lighters. The qua- 
rantine too, was repeatedly violated by 
perfons coming up from veffels ‘under 
quarantine in the night, and returning ~ 
on board before morning. Dr. Currie is 
of opinion, that the fever may be fuffici- 
ently diftinguifhed from Typhus Gravior 
by the operation of the contagion of the 
press hg former 
