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he permitted fo return to his room.— 
Wrapped i in a warmed blanket, he was 
‘onveyed back to his bed. Ina few mi- 
nutes afterwards his pulf was examined- 
and tound.to best :co firekes in a mi- 
“mate 5 his heat {wnich an accident pre- 
vented me from eccurately meafuring) 
was molt ferfibly diminifhed ; his mind 
became calm and clear; ; he expreficd a 
fec!' ng of regret for the trouble heloeca> 
foned to thofe'a about him ; drank 2 glafs 
of sarar wine and ees and im about 
half an hour he furk into a deep Heep, in 
which he continusd nearly eight hours.” 
The patient, with a few flight checks and 
interruptions, eventually reeovercd his 
ardinary fate of health... 
_ This is altogether avery curious and im- 
portant cafe; and, as Dr. Currie obferves, 
if, on repeated trials, the praétice of Mr. 
Balrympie i ts eftablifhed, the rules for the 
ule of cold affuGian will be rendered more 
fiewple and preeile. 
~ Enthe fecond volume, Dr. Currie has 
related a preat variety of cafes in which 
the cold and tepid affafion have been fac. 
cefsfaliy employed in the /carlatina angi- 
nxofa,* this difeafe broke out at Liverpool 
wiih great virulence in the fammer of 
wee! and gave Dr. Currie abundant op- 
portunities to decide on the efficacy of af- 
fofien as 2 remedy. Two ef his_own 
children were feized with it, both boys, 
ene five, and the other three years old-— 
The heat refe wm the eldeft boy to rog? 
in the youngeit to 108°, and the pulfe in 
each was upwardsofrso! Ft muft have 
been with a degree of anxiety which no 
ene but a parent can feel, that Dr. Currie 
Shot himfelf up with thefe objets cf his 
affection ; as foon asthe fenfation of heat 
was fready in each, the child was ftripped : 
“in thirty-two hours, the firlt had the af- 
fufion fcurteen times ; eight times cold, 
twice cool, and four times tepid. Twelve 
affufions fudiiced in the cafe of the youngeft, 
of which feven were cold.” The fever in 
both was completely fubdued 5 on the 
mornins of the third day they were evi- 
dently -fafe ; and on the morning of the 
ath day they were both convalefcent. The 
term a is here applied tc water from 
87° to 97° of the feale of Fahrenheit, and 
that of cocl from 87° to 75°53 and the 
temperature of the water ufed in affufon 
3s increafed inverfely as that of the heat of 
the body deereafes. 
* Dr. Cursie is decidedly’ of opinion that 
this difeafe, like the fmall-pox and meatles, 
i net communicable a fecond time. to the 
fame iadividnal. 
~ 
A. confiderable portion of this fecond | 
volume is allotted to communications from 
various practitioners in different parts of 
the world, the Weft and Ea Indiés, 
Egypt, and Amerita, fi fiewing the efficacy 
of affofton in the raging fevers of hot ., 
countries. We ap indulze fome hope, 
perhaps, that even the plague and the yel- 
low fever, if judicioufly combated in their 
incipient ftages, may be made to yield to 
this fimple but all-powerful remedy. 
The appendix to.the fcond volume 
contains four letters from the pen of Dr. 
Currie on the {phere of febrile contagion 5 
two on the efiablifhment of a lunatic afy- 
tum in Liverpocl, in which the good fenfe 
and humanity of the author ate alike dif- 
played ; and one omthe effeéts of nitrous 
acid in hes UENEV CE. 
Mr. GOLpson, 2 refpectable praétis 
tiomer at Portf{mouth, has publifhed a 
pamphict which, for, fome little time, 
created no fimall anxiety in the public 
mind. This pamphlet is entitled « Ca/es 
of Small Pox fubfequent to Vaccination, 
&e.” it ts addreiled, with great propriety, 
to'the Dire&tors of the Vaccine Inftitu- 
tion, Mir. Goldfon ftates three cafes as 
having come under his own infpeétion, 
where fmall-pox fucceeded the cow-pox: 
the inference which, very naturally, he 
draws from this conviction, in his own 
mind, is, that granting the cow-pox does, 
for a time, ewarantee the confitution 
againfXthe {mall- — yet the unfafcep- 
tibility of variolous affection gradually 
abates, and, after the lapfe of two or 
three years, becoms extinct. 
Very numerous are the replies to Mr. 
Goldfon’s pamphlet, which is written 
with becoming modefty and candour, 
Mr. Rinc, who has frequently come be- 
fore the public as a friend to vaccination, 
has publifhed an ‘* Aafuer to Mr. 
Goldfon. _ Satisfied of the efficacy of vac- 
cinaticn himfelf, he confiders the courfe 
ofexpefiments which Mr. G. recommends 
to be inftitated- on perfons who have re- 
ceived this difeafe fome two or three years 
fince, as unneceffary. 
Dr. Ronto, Mr. Hiri, Mr. Dun- 
NiNG, and many other profeffional gentle- 
men, have endeavoured to counteract the 
impreffion produced by Mr. Goldfon’s 
cates. Thefe were three in number: re- 
fpecting two of them, it is fulpeéted by 
thofe who have inveftigated alt the cicum- 
fiances brlanging to ica that there was 
fome inaccuracy of obfervation. The 
third is acknowledged to be a genuine 
cafe, and the only acknowledged one Up- 
on record of {mall-pox fucceeding cow 
pox. 
