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appropriate references, and an anatamical 
deseription, by Mr. Laurence. This work, 
which when coloured, ts offered at the 
price of 21. 12s. 6d. dues honour to the 
artist and anatomist. It comprehends 
almost the whole of the surface covered 
by the sneiderian membrane, and is in 
all respects finished in such a style, that 
we are not afraid to recommend it to our 
Feaders. j 
Mr. Wisw art, has given us an “ Eng- 
Fish Translation of Professor Scarpi’s 
Treatise on the Anatomy, Pathology, and 
Surgical Treatment of Aneurisms.” It is. 
not. a little remarkable, that this im- 
portant subject has never before been 
thought worthy of oecupying the labour 
of a separate treatise. It is hardly ne- 
eessary to remark, how competent both 
the writer and translator are to the task 
they have undertaken. But happily the 
Improvements i operative surgery do 
mot rest, and in none have bolder under- 
takings appeared than im the cure of 
aneurism. What Mr. Abernethey at- 
tempted in the lower extremities, and 
what Mr. Cowper has accomplished in 
the carotid artery, would have been 
deemed incredible by nu very remote 
antiquity. 
The number of Diseases of the Heart, 
whieb have been. related in the various 
journals, made us examine with some 
eagerness, Mr. Burn’s Observations on 
some of the mest samportant diseases of 
that organ. It is indeed difficult to say, 
what diseases of the heart are not most 
enportant. - The work appears to us by 
far too systematic; at least we are ready 
to confess, that we have not beenable to 
make distinctions during hfe which have 
turned to much account. We trust, how- 
ever, the examination of this part of the 
human frame, will never be omitted in 
any future dissections. i 
- Strielures being among the calamities 
ef declining life, and by no means un- 
common in the early period, have al- 
ways been a prolific source of emolument 
to practitioners of all descriptions. So 
Much has at different times been pro- 
wised by empirics, and so carefully did 
some of the French surgeons conceal 
their practice, that that there was some 
‘danger, lest this irksome complaint should 
be altogether consigned to irrregulars. 
Mr. Hunter first gave us rational notions 
on this subject, which have been greatly 
! improved by his successor, Mr. Hume, 
Whether that gentleman has really shown 
tou great a paruality to the-child. of his 
Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Natural History, Se. 
own adoption, we .pretend not. to de, 
termine; nor whether that child has 
proved as disobedient, mischievous, and 
perverse, as some pretend. The opinion 
has, however, become pretty general, that 
the caustic has been resorted to more 
frequently than was necessary. Mr, W, . 
W app has produced a performance equal- 
ly candid and respectable on this con- 
troversy. 
Dr. Parr, of Exeter, has edited. a 
complete (if any thing of the kind can be 
complete} Medical Dictionary, which 
he has called ‘‘ The London Medical Dic. 
tionary.” When we consider the immense 
labour of such an undertaking, we can 
only express our surprise, that aman sa 
competent to the task could be found, who 
could have patience to execute it so well, 
Dr. Hooprr’s “ Physician’s Vade Me- 
cum,” is another attempt, at simplifying 
an art which must always be complex. 
However, a manual of this kind may be 
useful in teaching the young practitioner 
what symptoms he is to look for, and in 
reminding him of the appropriate reme~ 
dies for each. 
We have perused with no small satisfac- . 
tion, “ Mr. Wata’s Treatise on Diabetes.” 
The boldness and novelty of the practice 
here recommended, and countenanced 
by able and experienced practitioners, 
may give us courage in the use of evacu< 
ations under all stages of disease, and 
without doubt, they will prove successful 
in many, in which at present they are 
rarely thought of. . 
Dr. Lams has produced a work, in 
some measure explanatory of his. last, in 
which he advised the constant use of 
pure or distilled water. Inthe present, 
he saves the rich the trouble of distilling, 
and the poor the mortification cf drink- 
ing, water dangerously impregnated. In 
short, he assures us, that man has no busi- 
ness to drink at al} ; and as to eating, that 
he should’ confine himself to vegetables; 
that his canine teeth are of no more use 
to hun than to the ape, whose confor- 
mation in this, and in most ether re- 
spects, are more exactly similar than in 
most other animais, . Yet the ape is gra- 
minivorous. It 1s indeed admitted, that 
to man animal food 1s often, not only the 
most grateful, bat even the only digesti- 
ble, food. But such is the foree of habit, 
it seems to destroy all our natural pro- 
pensities. One should think that the same 
habit nught alse alter the functions, so as 
to accommodate them to these new hae 
bits. Andso is seems admitted it does; 
for 
