650 Retrafped of Domeftic Literature.—Mbédicine, Surgery, See. 
and its Ragnation in the veins, is fup- 
poled at length to change the nature of 
the blood, and to produce vitiated acri- 
monious fluids in the brain: the prefence 
of thefe fluids caufes infanity. Such ts 
the theory of Dr. Rowley, ‘* Public lec- 
turer in the theory ahd praétice of medt- 
cine, excluding falfe fyftems,” Sec. &e. 
again which we fear fome invincible ob- 
jections might be ufed,. . 
“* Morborum Puerilium Epitome. Axc- 
gore GULIELMO HEBERDEN.’’ . There is 
fo much excellent advice on this fubject, 
that it is much to be regre'ted a tranfla- 
tion, does not accompany the Latin origi- 
nal, which is written with great neatnefs 
and precifion. 
A fourth volume is publifhed of Dr. 
Wison’s ‘ Treatife on Febrile Difeafes.” 
The preceding volumes afforded a judici- 
eus and comprehenfive view of the Py- 
rexie of Dr. Cullen, arranged according 
to his fyfem. The remaining dileafes of 
that clafs, with the exception of catarrh, 
which the author deemed it unneceflary to 
treat of, are comprifed in the prefent ; 
vz. cynanche tractealis, the inflamma- 
tions of the the racic and abdominal vifce- 
ra, rheumatifin, gout, the Ksemorrhagies, 
phihiGs pulmonalis, and cdyfentery. Dr. 
Wilfon has compiled the mot valuable 
oofervations of the older writers, difeard- 
ing, with much judgement, their apfurdi- 
tres: his information 3s extenhve, and 
he communicates it in a plain unafkiming 
Hanner. 
é¢ iF, 
Lea 
edical Sketches of the Expedition, 
fo Eeyti, from India.” By James 
MéGaecor, A.M. &c. &c. 
Mr. M‘Gvezor was fuperintending fur- 
geon tothe Indian army in Egypt: thele 
fketches were drawit up in confequence of 
orders from thé Court of Dire&tors to the 
Goverament to India. The choice could 
not have fallen-en any perion better qua- 
Nfed. From his fituation the aurkor had 
the be& opportunities for coleting infor- 
mation, and his previous knowledge, the 
rejult of very extenfive experience in all 
yuarters of the world, rendered him per- 
1s a plein and pey{picvous narra-, 
the diteates of that part of ovr 
rmy which he aceompanied in 1301. 
vir. Si‘Gregor has divided iis Sketches 
iste tree parts: the arft gives the medi- 
» er yather the journal, of the 
: the fecoad, fome account. of 
; prevaleat diicetes, and 
modes of prevention; end, in the 
urd, fome account’ is* given of the dii- 
nem So judicious: ¥ere the 
gal hitor 
ne Anes 
S$ Or tHe 
2 
ales tnemfeives. 
al 
regulations adopted by the medical tafe 
(aflifted as they were by the military offiy 
cers), that, during a remarkably long 
voyage, ina march over extenfive defertsy 
in. aclimate defcribed as remarkably ini- 
mical to the human race, the army fuflered 
but an inconfiderable mortality; and ne 
army ever embarked on any fervice in @ 
more healthy ftate than did the Indian ar- 
my when it re-imbarked on its return from 
Egypt. ; . 
Mr. M‘Gregor is of opinion, that we 
are to look for the principal caufes ef the 
moft prevalent difeafes in the peculiar foil 
and climate of Egypt; feveral difeafes 
alfo are propagated by contagion, The 
cultivated part of Egypt is the moft luxe 
uriant of foils: ‘the art of hufbandry is 
there but imperfectly known, and at thet 
harvefis there is a great deftruétion of ve- 
getable matter, from which hydrogene gas» 
or hydro-carbenate is extricated in’ large 
quantities. Under fimilar cireumftances,”” 
fays Mr. M‘Gregor, ‘* in America’ as 
well as in India, [have feen a bad fever 
of the intermittent or remittent type ap- 
pear. But in Egypt, after the fubliding 
of the Nile, which in many places had co-+ 
vered a great extentof country, there is & 
great exhalation from the mud, and from 
the putrid animal and vegetable matters 
left behind, The effiuvia of thefe fub-= 
ftances ating on the human body wilk 
readily aceount for much difeale. If we 
add to thefe the extreme filth of the inha- 
bitants of Egypt, their poor diet,) their 
narrow, chole, and ill ventilated apart. 
ments, generally much crowded, with the 
extreme narrownefs of their ftreets, and 
the bad police of their towns, we thall not 
be afonifhed if a fever, at firit intermit- 
tent or remittent, fhould have fymptoms: 
denominated malignant fuperadded to the 
more ordinary fymptoms of the difeate, Uf 
an imported contagion fhould make its ap~ 
pearance at the fame time, and under the 
above circumfances, we expect a mot ter~ 
rible dileafe. Thedry parching wind which 
comes over the defert, and which, at certain 
fealons, blows in Egypt and Axabia, is well 
known, and was often feverely felt by the . 
* 
army on their march both acrofsthe de~ 
fert and the idbmus of Suez. The whirl- 
winds of {and roll with great impetuofity, 
are very troublefome, and infinuate fine 
fand and duft every where. Et is hardly 
poflible to keep the minute particks out | 
of the eyes.”” a ae 
The natives attribute many of their, 
Cifeafes to the heavy dews which fall in 
i 
Egypt: Mr. M*‘Gregor does not de- ti 
cide with what juftice, but from fome 
wi 
experbnents which he madein India,,om- 
the 
