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entirely wanting, yet goodjand perfect bile 
was found in ui gall-bladder. 
Mr. THomas "ane van) pe Sia 
has communicated tothe public ** An In- 
‘troduction to a Courfe of Leétures on the 
Operations of Surgery,’” which does high 
honour to his feelings as a man, and 
affords the mott favourable opinion of his 
profeffional skill. We fcarcely ever pe- 
rufed a pamphlet with more pleafure than 
we have done this: as it is incapable 
of analyfis, we muft content ourfelves 
with fimply ftating, that it contains a 
variety of advice to chirurgical ftudents, 
which is delivered in a very pleafing 
and clegant manner. No young man 
ought to enter on the profeffion of a- 
furgeon without having read and profited 
by the inftruction here laid down: 
Dr. Hue has. publifhed “ An Effay 
on Phlegmatia.Doiens :? this painful 
difeafe, which till lately has attracted but 
little netice from medical writers, is here 
treated of in an extenfive, and perhaps it 
may be thought in too diffufe, a manner, 
by our author, who, after having ftated 
the fymptoms of the diforder, the mode 
of its attack, aud in what fituation women 
are mott liable to be affected by it, pro- 
ceeds to the caufes of the difeafe, which 
re confidered under the three difting& 
heads of predifpofing, exciting, and prox- 
imate caules: the jj? confifts in an in- 
crealed irritability and difpefition to in- 
flammation, peculiarly incident to preg- 
nancy, increafed by an over-diftended and 
relaxed itate of the veffels of the lower ex- 
tremities. Dr. Hull ftates the exciting 
caufes to be contufions or injuries Gf ‘the 
abdominal and other mufcles inierted in 
the pelvis or thigh, or of the cellular tex- 
ture connected with thefe mufcles, oc- 
fioned by the long-continued preffure of 
the head of the child in its paflage through 
the pelvis; the appiication of cold and 
moifture ; fupprefiion or diminution of the 
lochia, or of the fecretion of milk ; food 
taken in too great a quantity, or of too 
rich and ftimulating a quality; flanding 
or walking too early after delivery, before 
the veflels of the lower extremities have 
recovered their tone. The proximate 
caufes, he fays, confift in an inflamma. 
tory afeaies, producing, fuddenly, a con- 
fiderable effufion of ferum and coagulating 
lymph from the exhalants into the cellular 
membrane of the limb. Having dwelt 
a confiderable time on ‘the nature and 
caufes of the phlegmatia dolens, Dr. Hull 
proceeds to treat of its cure;: this portion 
of the volume is confiderably expanded : 
the author fays, that there are three pe- 
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Retrofpce of Dameftic Literature — Medicine and Surgery. 
hale 3 in the complaint cbinel require dif- 
ferent modes of treatment, and which are 
more or lefs diftin&tly marked, both with 
refpect to the fyftematic and topical af- 
fections in different cafes. Thefe feveral 
indications are there explained, and the 
method of treatmenc laid down, adapted 
to different conftitutions and different cir- 
cumftances The author concludes with 
giving the character and fynonyms of 
phlegmatia and its f{pecies, with their moft 
proper place in the nofological fyftem of. 
Cullen. 
<< Views of the Bones, Mufcles,Vifcera, 
and Organs, of the Senfes, copied from the . 
moft celebrated Authors; together with 
feveral Additions from Nature: the Whole 
confifting of twenty-threé Folio Tables, 
with Explanations, by ANDREW FYFE.” ., 
The whole of this accurate and ufeful work 
is comprehended in the following, which 
was publifhed by Mr. Fyfe at the fame 
time, and is, perhaps, one of the moft 
complete colle&tions extant; it is entitled, | 
‘¢ A Compendium of the Anatomy of the 
Human Body ; illuftrated by upwards of 
one hundred and fixty Tables, containing 
near feven hundred Figures, copied from 
the moft celebrated Authors and from Na- 
ture.’” The price of this work, which 
occupies three quarte volumes, is five 
guineas: the engravings are, generally 
{peaking, well executed and neatly co- 
loured: it may be proper to mention, that 
the letter-prefs, witheut any references, 
contained in this lait-noticed work, is 
feparately publifhed in two duodecimo 
volumes (price tos. 6d.) intitled, © A 
Compendium of the Anatomy of the Hu- 
man Bedy, intended principally for the 
Ule of Students.’ 
Dr. Denman has publifhed «¢ Engrav- 
ings of Two Uterine Polypi,” from prepa- 
rations in the Mufeum of the late Dr. Hun- 
ter. The piates are of a folio fize, and ad- 
mirably well executed: the defcripticns 
are in Englith and French, with refer- 
ences to the third chapter of the Dogtor’s - 
Introdu€tion to the Pra&tice of Midwife- 
ry, in which the fubjeé& of uterine polypt 
is treated: and a fecond and reviled edi- 
tion of which latter work has lately made 
its appearance. 
Mr. Burns has -publithed, in two 
octavo volumes, a part of a ‘Conkie of 
Lectures which he read upon Surgery 
three years ago, at the Royal Infirmary 
of Glaigow: the preliminary differtation 
on fome of the laws of the animal econo- 
my is curious, but the author has thrown 
_ but little light oe the fubjeét from - 
Mr. 
Burns 
which his volbines take their title. 
