Retrofpec? of French Literaturt=Medicine and Surgery. 
and famous, which appeared in fucceffion 
from the remotelt confines of the Bofpho- 
rus, to the /Zgean Sea, the remains of 
swhich lie buried and conceaied. 
The Defcription of Conftantinople, 
which was the principal object of the prefent 
voyage, affords one of the moft exaét re- 
prefentations perhaps ever given of that 
capital, asthe learned traveller hath omit- 
ted nothing that could be wifhed for on 
this fubje&. He has alfo entered into a 
variety of details relative to all the monu- 
ments, both ancient and modern, the 
mofques, the feraglio, the Baths, &c. &c. 
as well as the manners, the laws, the re- 
ligion, and the cuftoms of a people fo dif- 
ferent from the other nations of Europe, 
and even from thofe of the Eaft. 
The engravings are very fine, and in no 
particular detra&t from the merits of one 
of the moft interefting books that hath 
appeared in our times. 
Nouveaux Voyages dans V Archipel, le 
Continent de la Grece, &c.—New Voyages 
and Travels in the Archipelago, the Con- 
tinent of Greece, Thrace, Conftantinople, 
the Strait of the Dardanelles, the Sea of 
Marmora, the Helle!pont, the Southern 
Coaft of the Black Sea, Natolia, &c. con- 
taining an account of whatever is moft re- 
markable, the manners of the inhabitants, 
their religion, cuftoms, &c. 
As the fate of Greece ftill remains 
undecided, new and interefting travels 
through regions the moft favoured by 
Heaven, and the worft treated by men, of 
any on the face of the globe, cannot fail 
to afford fatisfaétion. The country of 
Epaminondas and Pericles, which once 
made Perfia tremble, is now peopled with 
flaves, who fly before the rod of a Janiffa- 
ry, and are terrified at the approach of the 
fowett officer belonging to the Pacha! 
The author fets out from Toulon, and, 
after vifiting a number of {mall iflands in 
the Archipelago, at length arrived at 
Naxia, the Naxos of the ancients. While 
examining the Grotto of Antiparos, and 
wandering over the beautiful ifland of 
Candia, he is cheerfully accompanied by 
the reader, who dwells: upon, and enjoys, 
his animated defcriptions. 
This work abounds with fage reflec- 
tions relative to the Turks, and exhibits 
an able fketch of the general principles of 
commerce, 
"MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
La Naturifme 3 ou la Nature confiderée, 
&e.—Naturalifm; or, Nature confidered 
in the Cure of Difeafes ; to which is added 
an Account of their Treatment conform- 
619 
ably to the Doétrine and Praétice of Hip- 
pocrates and his Dilciples, by M. PLan- 
CHON, Licentiate in Medicine of the Uni- 
verfity of Louvain, &c. fecond edition, 
revifed and correéted, 8vo. Paris. 
This work obtained the prize from the 
Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Belles- 
lettres of Dijon, one of the moft celebrated 
infitutions in France. The work and 
the title, which is fomewhat quaint, ex- 
actly correfpond together, and the execu- 
tion is at once luminous and refpeét- 
able. 
Memoires fur la Nature et le Traitement, 
&c,—Memoirs relative to the Nature and 
Treatment of feveral Maladies, by An- 
THONY Porra., Profeffor of Medicine 
in the College of France, of Anatomy and 
Surgery at the Mufeum of Natural Hif. 
tory, Member of the National Inftitute of 
France and Bologna, &c. &c. 2 vols. 8vo. 
Thefe Memoirs were firft publithed 
feveral years fince, but at that period 
they were {cattered in different journals, 
and academical -colleétions, which detra&- 
ed greatly from their value as a whole. 
The¥ are now formed into two volumes, 
and confit, - 
1. Of a Letter to Mr. Roux, anthor of 
the Journal of Medicine, relative to the 
Danger and Inutility of employing Ma- 
chines for reducing luxated Bones. 
z. Obfervations on two monftrous Kid- 
nies. 
3- A Memoir in which the A@ion of 
the Lungs on the Aorta, during the Time 
of Refpiration, is demonttrated. 
4. Obfervations on a Spina Bifida. 
5. Remarks on the Situation of the 
Vifcera, 8c. in Children, 
6. A Memoir, in which it is attempted 
to prove that Defects of the Spine ought 
to be remedied by Art in Adults, but not 
in Children. 
7. A Defcription of a New Method of 
performing Amputation on the Extremi- 
ties. 
8. Remarks on Apoplexy. 
9. Obfervations on Sadden Death, occa- 
fioned by the Rupture of the left Ventricle 
of the heart. 
' ro. Obfervations on the Treatment of 
thofe who may happen to be bit by a mad 
dog. ‘The author thinks cauterifationalone 
infuficient ; he therefore recommends the 
adminiftration of mercurial and antifpaf. 
modic frictions, 
zr. An Attempt to prove that Pleuri/y 
is not a Malady effentiaily different from 
Peripneumony. 
12. A Differtation on the Fevers that 
haye pioved {9 fatal in La Vendée. 
i2_ Obe 
