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fftem, however, Rofchlaub and other 
Brownifts will have much tq object... 
' Many other medical works by 
GuTFaLip, Murirer, HocHHEIMER, 
SCHMID, JAHN, WEISS, OBERREICH, 
&c. but which we have not room par- 
ticularly to notide, bear upon their 
very titles the ffamp of Brunoniani™ ; 
and their authors defend the theory of 
Brown with greater or lefs modifica- 
tions. : 
Agreeably to the long eftablifhed 
propenfity to deny to all new inven- 
tions the merit of originality, aad to 
fearch tor traces and hints thereof in 
ancient works, SCHERER, of Vienna, 
In a work, entitled ‘ Beweis~ dafs 
Mayo,” &c. endeavours to prove 
that Mayow and Pechlin (Profeflors at 
the Univerfity of Kiel. in 
half of the feventeenth century) had 
laid the foundation of the new theory 
of living organiim. Another ScBERER 
(now Profeifor at the Ruffian Univer- 
fity of Dorpat) had before pointed out 
jn Mayow’s Works, traces of the anti- 
phlogittic theory of chemiftry. 
After this enumeration of the works 
relative to the new theories of me- 
dicine in general, we have fill to -no- 
tice feveral on feparate parts of medi- 
cal fcience, on which thefe théories 
have had little or no influence. 
Some years have elapfed fince the 
attention of the curious was excited 
by the fingular craniofcopical fyftem of 
Dr. GALL, of Vienna, who confiders 
the fkull as an organ mdicating the 
powers, capabilities and properties 
of the mind, and accordingly pre- 
tends to point out from the coniorma- 
tion of its various part, the character 
of the individual to which it belongs. 
Dr. Gall has not not yet publifsed any 
thine himéfelf on this fubje€i: one of 
his auditors, however, Profeffor Fro- 
RIEP, of Jena, as we mentioned ina 
former Retrofpect, had given an ac- 
count of his Craniofcopical Leétures 
in a fmall work, which pafied 
through feveral editions ; and laft year, 
fimilar accounts were publifhed by 
HacGeporn, Leung, MastTeins, and 
WattTHEerR. Even the moft incredu- 
lous of Gall’s opponents; will at leaf 
allow this to be an imtercfting digref- 
fion in phyfiology and anatomy. 
- To the ftudents of this latter branch 
of medical fcience, the completion of 
Loper’s Anatomical Figures will bea 
moit agreeable piece of mtelligence. 
OF the practical medical works, the 
ia¢ter 
the 
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Retrofpedi of German Literature.—Medicines 
moft numerous clafs, again, were thofé 
which treated of Vaccine Inoculation, 
and of the application of Galvanifm 
to the cure of difeafes. Of the for- 
mer, however, we do not meet with 
any worthy of particular notice, and 
of the latter we fhall have ogcafion to 
ipeak under an ther head~ ae 
Of the other publications en parti- 
cular parts of the ‘healing art, ‘the 
“ Rhapfodien tber: die Anwendung 
der Phyfifchen Rur-Methoie aur Ge- 
iflesverUtiungen”— On 5 Applica- 
tion of ihe Phyfical Method ‘to the 
Cure of Mental Derangement, by the 
celebrated phyficiosit, P iy REIL, 
of Halle, delerves erally fu- 
died by every perion who tag the 
large 02 15 
Ofthe works ¢ cy we have only 
to notice WEIS: + ievangen uber 
Chirurgie nach wiow chen “-“ind- 
satzen”—Lectures on Suigt 3. «-cord- 
ing to the Priliciples of brown; 
the continuations ARNEMANN and 
EBerMaieR’s Le®ure Books, and of 
the former's Magazine, : 
More abuadant was the fupply of 
works on midwifery. — ELIAS VON 
§ produced, befides a fmall 
Treatife, ** Ucber Praktifchen Unter- 
richt in der Entbindungskunft”— On 
Pragtical Initrnétion jn Midwifery, 4 
© Wheodretifch-Prakiijghe Entbindungse 
kunde zum Gebrauche {einer Vorle- 
fungen” — Theoretico-praétical Freas 
tife on Midwifery, which contajns, be- 
fides many other obfervations, a de- 
feription of a new Parturition Stool in- 
vented by him, and which feems to b¢ 
preferable to. thofe hitherto in ufe. He 
likewife began a periodical work, en- 
tided “© Lucina,” for the improvement 
of the obftetric art. HeERRER, of Wei- 
mar, gave us “ Beytrage zur Erweite< 
rung derGeburtsh ulfe’’—Contributions 
towards the Improvement of Mid- 
wifery, which contains many intereft- 
ing obfervations.~-STEIN,; lately of Caf- 
fel, but now fucceffor to his celebrated, 
uncle at Marpurg, bas begun to pub- 
lith “ Gebartshilfiche Abhandlun- 
gen;”’ the firft number of which con- 
tains a Freatife on the Cafarean Ope- 
ration, in which, initead ot the hiherto 
ufual mode, he recommends an Imci- 
fon from the fhort ribs of the one fide, 
through the linea alba tothe os pubis 
on the other. —Wi1EDEMANN, of Brunf- 
wick, author of a book of Inftruction 
for Midwives, gave us fome not very. 
fayourable accounts of the lyimg-in 
heat " hofpitals, 
SILBOLD 
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