Retrofpeet of German Literatire:—Phy/ics, Chemiftry, &5¢ 
bofpitals in Paris, and defcribes fome 
uncommon cafes which. there came 
under his obfervation.—JosePH, of 
Roftock, wrote ‘* Ueber die Schwanger- 
{chaft aufferhalb der Gebahrmutter,” 
é&c.—On Impregnations out of the 
Matrix, and a very remarkable Cafe of 
an impregnated Bladder. | 
Befides feveral loeal defcriptions of 
the baths and mineral fprings in Ger- 
many, there appeared a ‘“ Balneotech- 
nik,” by SCHREGER, of Erlangen, giv- 
ing excellent direétions, founded on 
the new chemiftry, for the preparation 
ef artificial baths. 
TrRomMsporrF, of Erfurt, publifhed 
a Table of Pharmaceutical Nomencla- 
ture. This eminent chemift and phar- 
macift likewife gave, befides a conti- 
Duation of his Journal, a fecond edition 
ef his ‘ Lehrbuch der Pharmaceuti- 
{chen Chemie’—-Manual of Pharma- 
ceutical Chemiftry; and an ** Apothe- 
kerfchule”*—or, Tables containing In- 
ftructions for Apothecaries. 
Several phyficians likewife wrote 
upon mediéal polices atid of the evi- 
dence required in many cafes to be 
given by furgeons and phyficiatis in 
courts of juftice. The work on. this 
fubject by Metzcer, of Konigiberg, 
contains much excellent advice and in- 
itruction, but mixed with fome._ para- 
doxes ; as, for inftance, where he {peaks 
againft the ufefulnefs of hofpitals, fever- 
Houfes, and finiilat inftitutions for the 
cure of the fick.. 
Lover, now Proféffor at the Univer- 
fity of Halle, continued ‘his Journal 
for Juriftical Medicine, Surgery, and 
Midwifery, to which many interefting 
€ontributions continue to be fent, efpe- 
cially by the phyficians and furgeons of 
the Pruffian army, who there give an 
account of fuch remarkable cafes as 
occur in the eourfe of their practice. 
In Bavaria and Suabia feveral furgeons 
and phyficians have formed themi{elves 
into a fociety for the fame purpofe. 
The journals publifhed by Hure. 
LAND and others, as, for inftance, the 
*¢ Journal der Erfindungen,” &c.— 
Journal of Invention, Theories, &c, 
were continued.——AUGUSTIN, of Ber- 
lin, began another upon the fame plan, 
entitled “ /Efculap’’—or Aefculapius, 
a Journal for the Hiftory of Criticifm 
and Theory in the Science of Medi- 
tine, &c.; and STERNBERG, of Goftar, 
anew ‘ Literaturzeitung fir die Me- 
dicia und Chirurgie,” in which, as 
hikewue in HaRTENKEIL’s © Salzburg. 
Med. Chir, Zeitung,” a review is given 
of medical works and literature. 7 
Nor was the general and more 
ancient hiftory and literature of me- 
dicine neglected. Beides the learned 
SPRENGEL, of Halle, who publifhed 
the fifth volume of his ‘* Pragmatr- 
cal Hiftory of Medicine,” we have here 
to notice two phyficians of Vienna : 
—DeEweEztranflated ** Areteus on the 
Cure of Acute and Chronic Difeates ; 
and UEBBERLACHER, who gave us a 
very learned treatifé, in which he en- 
deavours to fhew, that there is no 
foundation for the opinion of thofe 
who affert that the firtt defcriptions of 
the fmall-pox and meafles are to be 
found in the writings of the Arabian 
phyficians. 
PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, AND NATURAL 
HISTORY. 
We have already obferved in the laft 
fection ofjour Retrofpett, that Galvanifm 
continued to occupy the attention of fe- 
veral phyficians and natural philofophers. 
The ‘‘Journals of Phyfical Science,” edited 
by GiLBerT, VoicT, and othets, ftill 
furnifhed contributions towards its im- 
provement.” Wexer, of Landfhut, con- 
tinued his Galvanic Journal; and feveral 
other feparate treatifes appeared on that 
fubje&t, and on electricity. Heip- 
Mann, of Vienna, gave a * Vollftandige 
atif Verfiche und Vernunftfchlifle ge- 
gritndete Theorie der Elektricitét,”— 
A Theory of Elefricity, founded upon 
Experiment and Reafoning ; SaxTORPH, 
of Copenhagen, an ** Electricitatslehre,”* 
—Theory of Electricity; SCHMIDT, a 
Silefian naturalift, thought that his trea- 
tife on “das Zitterftoff und feine Wir- 
kungen in der Natur,’’-—On the Galvanic 
Fluid and its Effeéts, would entitle kins 
to the prize propofed by Bonaparte ; and 
his countryman, GRUNDMANN,  illuf 
trated the ‘* Kigenfchaften und Wirkun- 
gen der Animalifchen Elektricitat,’— 
The Propertics and Effeéts of Animal 
Electricity--in fuch a manner as thereby 
to account for the {ymptoms ef canine 
madnefs, and to point out what he thinks 
would be the moft effetual cure for it. 
The above-mentioned TROMMsDORF has 
written a ** Gefchichie des Galvanifmus 
und der Galvanifchen Elektricitat, be- 
fonders in chemifcher Hinficht,’—Hif- 
tory of Galvanifm and Galvanic Eleétri- 
city, efpecially in a Chemical Point of 
View.—W. Prarr publifhed a “ Dar- 
ftellung des Galvani{mus,’*=—View of 
Galvanifm; Neurrer, an * Anleitung 
zum Aufbau der Galyanifchen Saule, 
866. Tits Qe 
