Retrofpedt of Domeftic Literature—Medicine, Surgery, Fe 589. 
temns have ranked him in the highelft clafs 
of phyfiologiits and anatomifts in Europe. 
The prefent work (which is very carefully 
and correctly tranflated) is not, howeyer, 
given to the public by the Profeffor him- 
felf, but is drawn up by M. Dumeril, 
from the wiva-voce leStures of Profeffor 
Cuvier, who has fanctioned the publica- 
tion, by ftating, that he has revifed the 
manu(cript of his pupil with the greatett 
care; that he has famplied details. which 
could not conveniently be introduced in 
public leCtures ; that he has reétified fuch 
ftatements as he had too haftily advanced, 
and has added every information connect 
ed with his le&tures, which he had obtain- 
ed, fince their delivery, by his diffections 
and hisreading. ‘¢I therefore do not hefi- 
tate to acknowledge this work (fays he) 
as my own, and to avow all the affertions 
it contains.” The IntroduCtory Lecture, 
which is written in very elegant French, 
and has, for its uncommon excellence, 
been feparately tranflated by Mr. Allen 
of Edinburgh, contains, perhaps without 
exception, the molt comprehenfive, difting, 
and correct fummary of the laws of ani- 
mal economy, that has ever been deliver- 
ed. Notwithftanding this work is not of 
Britith growth, and on that account, per- 
“haps, ought not, in {tri propriety, to have 
been noticed in an account.of the progrefs 
of Dometic Literature, we meant to have 
profited by the appearance of the tranfla- 
tion before us, and have given an outline 
of the plan purfued by M. Cuvier, but 
we muft decline it 5 fuchan outline, we per- 
ceive, would occupy a great deal more 
voom than it is cenfiftent with this article 
to afford. 
<¢ Obfervations on Pulmonary Con- 
fumption: or, an Effay on the Lichen 
Zflandicus, confidered as an Aliment and 
a Medicine in that Diforder, illuftrated by 
a coloured Engraving, by J. B. Rec- 
WAULT, late Phyfician tothe Military 
Hofpitals and Forces of France, &c.” 
The chief objeét of this pamphlet is to re- 
commend a new and improved manner of 
employing this lichen. The general 
practice of Dr. Regnault is to prepare an 
extract orjelly, by boiling Z vj of the li- 
chen, which has been wafhed clean ia 
boiling water, in ibvj of {pring-water for 
an hour or more, and then evaporating the 
ftrained decoétion, with the addition of 
= vjof refined fugar, to the confiftence 
of a fyrup or jelly. This he gives either 
alone, or mixed with milk, fyrups, &c. to 
the quantity of three or four ounces or 
wore daily, which conftitutes the medici- 
fal exhibition, A few uleful rules are 
introduced, refpecting the diet and regi- 
men of confumptive patients, and the effi« 
cacy of the lichen iflandicus is infitted on 
by the hiftory of various cafes. 
Dr. JamEs Russev has publithed «A 
Treatife on the Morbid Affeé&tions of the 
Knee-Joint,’? in which he has thrown 
great light on the nature and cure of thofe 
very painfal and daagerous diforders. 
‘¢ An Enguiry into fome of the Effects 
of Venereal Poifon on the Human Body ; 
with an occafional Application of Phyto- 
logy ; Oblfervations on fome of the Opi- 
nions of Mr. John Hunter and Mr, B. 
Bell ; and.Pra¢tical Remarks, by S. Saw- 
REY, Surgeon.” The latter part only 
of this work is of any importance, name- 
ly, that which contains the practical ob- 
fervations of Mr. Gawrey. “hefe are in- 
genicus, and worthy of attention. 
‘© Faéts and fome Arguments tending 
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to fhew, that the Pablic Decifion may 
~ with Prudence be fufnended refpecting the 
Inoculation of the Cow-pox, by THOMas 
Lee, a Member of the Univerfity of Edin- 
burgh.” Mr. Lee is a refolute oppugner 
of the Vaccina: he laughs at the decifion 
of Parliament: that- affembly, wiich 
could reward an old woman (Mrs. Ste- 
phens) for the fecret of phe lee: foap in 
veal broth, as a never-failing folvent of 
the ftone in the bladder ; and. which could 
throw away its'money to Mrs. Noufflers, 
fer a nonfenfical noftrum to deftroy the 
tape-worm, does not appear to him very 
competent to eftimate the importance of 
vaccination, Bust the cafes furely are wide- 
ly ds nal The noftrums of thefe daugh- 
ter's of Hygeia were kept fecret ; the veil, 
which their mother is faid to have worn, 
was thrown over her offspring, and they 
could only be tempted to lift it up by the 
munificence of Parliament. Here, on the 
contrary, there is no fecret. The vaccine- 
inoculation has been fubjected to the fe- 
vereft experiments of perfons © ftrongly 
prejudiced againft it: it has been tried 
with fucce/s on various conftitutions, and 
in various climates. Mr. Lee fays, that 
Parliament, like a jury, can, only decide 
upon evidence; and, if the evidence be 
all one way, of one tenor, can a Parlia- - 
ment be blamed, or a jury arraigned, for 
giving a judgment contrary to the real 
fast? If Mr. Lee means to infinuate,-that 
there was partiality in the inveftigation 
which took place on Dr. Jenner’s petition, 
he fhould have ttated the reafons of his 
fufpicion: that the evidence was ali one 
way, and of one tenor, was precifely the 
very ground, and indeed the only ground, 
on which the petition, could be admitted 
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