644  Retrofpeé? of German Literature— Medicine—Chemifiry, ee, 
the foes of religious and political tolerance ; 
and to reprefent, as ftill fubfifting, that 
private combination of an interior fe of 
Freemafons, under leaders, called Illumi- 
nees, which began about twenty years ago 
in Bavaria, and which is thought to have 
had for its object to Socinianize Chriftia- 
nity, and to confolidate Germany. Illu- 
minifm is now become the name, not of 
any fecret doftrine, but of thofe eclectic 
opinions common tothe friends of innova- 
tion, 
MEDICINE. 
<¢ Supplementa ad Hiftoriam Embryonis 
Humani, Audctore J. H. J. Avuren- 
RIETH. "—-The author having difleGted 
and meafured a great number of embrios, 
has contributed much to afcertain the exaét 
period requifite for the fueceflive forma; 
tion in the womb of the feveral parts of 
the infant. 
«© T. SaMMERING de Corporis Humani 
Fabrica,4vols. Editioaucta et emendata.”’ 
—This Latin verfion of a juftly admired 
Treatife of Anatomy was made by the 
Jate M. CLossius. ‘The author feems to 
have abandoned his theory of a Piyche 
Anadyomene. 
«;P, Campers Differtationes Decem, 
2 vols.”’—Thefe Medical Difquilitions 
mc@!y obtained prizes from the feveral 
academies, in confequence of whofe quefs 
tions they were undertaken. 
<s Verfuch einer Gefchichte der Artze- 
neykunde, von K.SPRENGEL; 4 vols.”— 
No other Hiftory of Medicine conduéts 
the progreis of. the art or {cience fo near- 
Jy to our own times—no other gives fo 
perfpicuous and fo laboured an account of 
that Cabaliftic School of Medicine, of 
which Campanella, Paracelfus, and Van 
Helmont, were in turn the oracles. A 
fifth volume is promifed, which will in- 
clude the difcoveries fince Haller. 
“¢ Gefundheits-catechifmus, von B. C. 
Faust, 8 Edit.”"—Phyfical education isa 
favourite topic with the Germans; Ca- 
techifms of Health, and Grammars of 
Anatomy, are difiributed in their {chools, 
which undertake explaining to children of 
both fexes the name and diftribution, and 
ufe and abufe of the different orgaiis, and 
warning them againit unwholelome im- 
prudence, and intemperate gratification. 
This Catechifm of Health, having been 
tranflated into Latin, and reprinted eight 
times, is probably a favourable {pecimen 
of fuch compofitions; yet it contains 
much that is -fuperfuous, much that is 
‘fuperftitions, and not all that is neceflary. 
Lectures on the Strufture of the Human 
Frame, and the Attainment, by Moral 
~ 
Exertion, of a Sound Body and a Sound 
Mind, were drawn up for the pulpit, fome 
years ago, by F. A. May (Vorlefungen 
oer Korper und Seelen Diatetik); they 
are accompanied, like Derham’s Phyfico- 
theology, with impreffive illuftrations of 
the wifdom of Providence, and include 
fome of the moft eloquent paffages of 
Buffon. : | 
‘«‘ Ideen und Beobachtungen den Thie- 
rifchen Magnetifmus Betreffend, von J. 
HeINEKEN.’’——The author of thefe 230 
pages practifes medicine at Bremen, and 
here nayrates various fats relative ta ani- 
mal magnetifm, which have come under 
his perfonal obfervation, Epileptic and 
nervous diforders, and bowel-complaints 
have been peculiarly influenced: by mag- 
netization, Tractors of zink and magnets 
of fteel have been employed with diftinét 
effects. The different poles of the fame 
magnet produced diftingt efiefis.. This 
did not refult from any ation of the ima+ 
gination, as the magnets were con- 
cealed inthe coat-fleeve of the opera= 
tor, and were fhifted without the know- 
ledge of the patient. The phenomena 
are fuppofed to have refulted from the 
perturbation of an atmolphere of galvanic 
fluid, which environs the nervous retina, | 
and extends beyond the apparent furface of 
the body. 
‘¢ Beytrag zu Beurtheilung des Brownf- 
chen Syftems der Medecin, von L. C. Wy 
CapPEL.’——This improved edition of a 
well-known critique of the Brunonian Syf- 
tem indicates its weaker and lefs tenable 
parts, fuch as the denial of {pecific aftion 
in remedies, &c. rT 
CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS; ECONOMICS, 
AND NATURAL HISTORY. 
«¢ Sommlung Praktifch chemifcher Ab- 
handlungen, von W. A. LamPapivs.” 
—€ffays,or Affays, which difplay the in- 
dutrious and ékilful practical chemift, not 
the attempter of philofophical difcovery : 
they refpeCk chiefly the analyfis of mi- 
-nerals. 
‘¢ Bemerkungen uber das Klima, &c. 
der Colonie Rio Effequebo, von E. C. 
RopscHieD.”’ — Thefe’ remarks- throw — 
light on the natural hiftery of the country 
about Surinam, and may fuggeft ufeful. 
hints to Weft Indian practitioners, 
«© Abbilduagen Naturhiftorifcher Ge- 
genflande, von J. F, BLuMENBACH.”—~ 
This {plendid work comprifes engravings 
ef curious fubjects depofited chiefly in the 
Univerfity-mufeum ‘of Gottingen, which 
are excellently iliuftrated by the na lefs cu- 
rious comments of a juftly celebrated Pro- 
fviior of Medicine. Surely it would an. 
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