Retrofpedt of Domeftic Literature.——Medicine and Surgery. 
former being confined chiefly to the latter 
end of fummer or autumn, while that of 
the latter aéts nearly equal at all times. 
Its contagious nature, the appearances on 
difle€tion, and fome fymptoms which he 
enumerates occurring in the generality of 
cafes which prove mortal, feem to prove 
that it differs from bilious-fevers not only 
in degree but in kind. After having 
{tated bis reafons for objeéting to the mode 
of practice propofed by Doétors Warren, 
Wright, Jackfon, Maclean, and Chil- 
holm, he enlarges on that which he 
adopted himfelf; this very judicious 
treatment varied according to the malig- 
nity of the attack: the free ufe of cathar- 
tics and two, three, or four moderate 
bleedings, according to circumitances, 
were of fenfible fervice in moft inflamma- 
tory cafes. In other cafes, where the 
fever began with great and fudden prof- 
tration of ftrength, and the fymptoms con- 
tinued with great oppreffion and weight 
about the heart, accompanied with pale 
or livid countenance, low pulfe, and mo- 
derate heat, bleeding did manifeft irre- 
parable injury. The liberal u‘e of ful- 
phuric acid, fufficiently diluted with wa- 
ter, was occafionally ufeful. | Wine, 
bark, and opium, fo frequently benefi- 
cial in bilious and typhus-fevers, were 
decidedly injurious in every cafe of yellow- 
fever. Some additional obfervations on 
the treatment of yellow-fever, are added 
ina letter to the author from Dr. 
Hofack, who, confidering the difeafe as a 
peculiar poifon introduced into the fyf- 
tem, endeavours, as much as poffible, to 
moderate its aétion, and remove every 
other fource of irritation. 
Dr. Beppors has publifhed ‘* Com- 
munications on the External and Internai 
Ule of Nitrous-Acid; demonftrating its 
Efficacy in every Form of Venereal Dif- 
eafe, and extending its Ufe to ather 
Complaints: with original Facts, and a 
Prelimimary Difcoufe by the Editor.” Dr. 
Beddoes, we are forry to oblerve, has 
in this publication defcended to illiberal 
jafinuations, and. even perfonal abufe 
againtt thofe who differ from him in opi- 
nion or in practice.. “This certainly is not 
the mode by which he can fupport his re- 
pstation, and we hope he will not’ again 
appear before the public, till he has ac- 
quired more commaiid of his temper. 
Dr. WiLuan has collected into one 
volume his much admired ‘* Reports on 
the Difeafes in London during the Years 
1796, 1797, 31798, 1799, and 1800.” 
A part of thefe reports was inferted in the 
Monthly Magazine for 1796 and 1797, 
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and in the Medical and Phyfical Journal 
‘for 1799. They are now republifhed, 
with fome additional obfervations, and _ 
with a continuation of the reports to the © 
end of the year 1800. ‘Two-thirds of the 
cafes occurred among the lower claffes of 
people, mofily patients in the Public Dit 
penlary near Temple Bar, whole Diitrick 
extends from Smithfield and St. Paul’s to 
St. Martin’s-lane and Tottenham-court- 
road: the remaining third occurred in 
private practice. 
Dr. T. A. Murray, one of the Phy- 
ficians to the Public Difpenfary, has pub- 
lifhed, at the defire and at the expence of 
the ‘* Society for Bettering the Condition 
of the Poor,’’ fome fenfible and humane 
‘* Remarks on the Situation ef the Poor 
in the Metropolis, as contributing to the 
Progrefs of Contagious Difeafes, &c.°” 
Their fituation is, indeed, melancholy, 
and if the opinion of Dr. Ruth requires 
any corroboration, it might be fought for 
and found here, where an account, dread- 
ful, and doubilefs true, is given of the 
filthy and peftiferous dwellings of the 
crowded paupers of the metropolis, to 
which is juftly attributed the annual fa- 
crifice of many thoufands unpitied and 
unthovght-of vidims. ‘The objeét of this 
little pamphlet is to oppofe the triumphant 
and defoiating march of Math: the plan 
propofed is fimilar to that which has been 
adopted with fuch fingular fuccefs at Man- 
chefter, under the auipices of Dr. Ferriar: 
it confilts in taking or ereéting houles at 
each of the extremities of London and 
Weliminiter, for the reception of perfons 
deftirute of accommodations, immediately 
on ‘their being feized with fever—in clean{= 
ing and white-wafhing the apartments 
from which the difeafed are taken—in 
being: empowered to burn and deftroy the 
bedding, curtains, &c. where found to be 
neceflary, and replacing them with fuch 
as are clean, and lefs likely to retain in- 
fe&ticn. It is fincerely to be hoped, that 
-fome plan of this fort will {pcedily be 
adopted. 
Dr. PoweEuwu’s “ Obfervations on the 
Bile and its Difeafes, and on the Econo- 
my of the Liver,”’ are chiefly valuable for. 
the variety of chemical experiments which 
they relate. The Doctor has advanced a 
curious opinion, namely, that the bile is 
fecreted, not from the venz porte, but 
from the hepatic artery, in fupport of 
which he adduces an anatomical fact, 
which is certainly very corroborative. 
Mr. ABERNETHY has reported a cafe in 
the Philofophical Tranfa&tions for 1799, 
where, on diffection, the venw porte were 
bee UF. entirely 
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