632 
“any, and publithed, befides, ‘¢ Beytrage 
zur furiftiichen Praxis; or, Contribu- 
tions towards the PraGice of the Law. 
There appeared, likewile, feveral ge- 
-neral works on jurifprudence. While 
ScumMauz, ef Halle, and Huco, of Got- 
tincen, were re-modelling their Encycto- 
pedias, Hu MMEL, a young lawyer of the 
Jatter univeriity, gaveusa ‘ Vollilandige 
Evcyklopedie der Rechtswiflen{chait,” 1n 
feveral volumes, in which it is his aim to 
examine and re-madel 
jor fp rudence, According to the principtes 
of the new philofophy 
MEDICINE. 
Ft itil appears, from the titles-of the 
la'elt medical publ cations, that they are 
chiefly vntended for the attack of the old, 
and the defence of the new, theory of 
excitability which has been ¢ratted upon 
the Brunonian fyfem. C. BERNOUILLI 
attempted a ‘* Phyfitche Anthropologie,” a 
in two. parts; in which he gives a {ketch 
o; the nature of iron, according to the 
theory of excitability: and OBER REICH, 
« jena, a new *¢ Darftellung der Erre- 
mestheorie ;”? or, Difplay of the Theory 
ef Boeatalility PraFs, of the univeriity 
of Kiel, one of the firtt of the German | 
commentators of Brown, gaveus a ‘* Re- 
vifion der Grund{atze des Brownlchen 
Syteris 3’? or, Revifion of the Brunonian 
Syttem; in which he particularly treats 
aE the theory of excitability. 
Taox Ler, a Swifs phyfician, who 
had fiudied at Jena, and there been ini- 
tiated into the miyftéries of the Schellin- 
gian philofo phy , of nature, pubiithed 
“€¢ Verfuche in der Organifchen Poyfik 5” 
or, Effays on Organic Piylics§ —GAUER 
and Becker furnifhed two prize-d:flerta- 
tions, “‘Ueber den Einfiuis der Warme 
und Kalte,’ On the Influence of Heat 
and Cold on the living Human Body. 
The doStrine and the principle of life 
was again difcufled by BagTEL and by 
pias zR, whom we have already had 
cafion to mention above, pats {peaking 
of the Idealiits, 
Among the general and ms: ixed works 
on pra ‘tical medicine, the meft diftin- 
guifned are the “ Lehrbuch der allgemeinen 
i “Therapie 5” Manual of Therapy, which 
hes b: en begun by Proteflor RosCHLAUB, 
of Landfhet, the criginal founder of the 
thecry of excitability; and the “* Auf- 
faze und Beobachtungen;” or, Effays 
and Obpdiervatiens relative to the fame 
‘Fheery, by. Ficke, who, there chiefly 
treats. of chirurgical difeates 5 as does 
bkewijle, upon the fame Bae, es, the ci- 
ligest Pro‘effor HORN, of Erlangen, 
Retrofped? of German Literature.— Medicine. 
_ writers. 
the -old felence of 
“Lehrbuch der Entbindungfkenf ; . 
of various Parts of “Anatomy. 
‘tomifche Varietaten,”’ 
of — remarkable 
-of Gortingen, a 
“Ger’s,. of Konighberg, 
Of the fpecial objeéis of the chirur- 
gical” ‘art, the difeafes of the eye, m par- 
ticular, engaged the attention of medical 
Befides ‘the continuation cf 
Himbiy’s and ScHmipr’s ‘* Ophthal- 
mifche Biblicthek.j’’ Ophthalmic Library, ,., 
‘TirTMaNn, of Drefden, wrore © Von 
den topifchen Arzneymitteln bey Augen- 
krankheien,”? On Topical Acbpiications 
in Difeales of the Eyes; and Wirrrcu, 
“ Uter dic am baufiglten vorkommenden 
Krankbriven der ‘Augen,’ ‘—On the me 
commen Difeafes of the Eyes. | 
As for midwifery, the Obtetsical Jour > 
nals of STarK, ot Jena, OsiaNDER, of 
Gottingen, and SIEBOLD, of _Wirzourg, | 
are continued. The af prepped author 
likewife gave us a-fecond volume of his 
or, 
Inftructor in the Art of Midwifery ;—~and 
a Deicription of his new-invented Obfte- 
trical ory Profeffor Scumipr, of Vi- 
enna, added to his former, numerous. and 
eftimable contributions. by the publica. 
tion of his <* Geburtshii fliche Fragmente. 
The fame ative cultivator of medical 
{cience, furnifhed fingle Synoptical Tables 
In Halle, at which univerfity anatomy 
is now taught by men cf \eminence, 
MECKEL publithes a «Journal fiir Ana. 
Anatomical Varieties. —Aid at the fame 
place, there likewiie lately appeared, 
Voicren’s **Hanibuch dér_ Patholo- 
giichen Anatomie ;”’ Manual of Patholo- 
gical Anatomy, with Additions by the late 
- Profeflor 
AECKEL.—1THELeEW, of Er- 
furt, gave us the firé Number of * Be- 
fehreibungen merkwirdiger Pathologifch-. 
anatomifcher Gegenttande ;” 
Patitoldgic o- anatomical 
Sudjeéts.—The celebrated SéMMERING 
publithed « Icones Ocuii Humani;”—and . 
the well-known natura! ft, BLUUMENBACH, 
gleichenden Anatomic; or, Manual of 
Comparative Anatomy, —vvich had long 
been a defideratum. 
We now comie to the medical jurifpra- § 
Gence and police. Here we {hall only ne- 
tice the fecond volume of Profeflor METZ- 
Bs Gerictlich- 
medicinifche Abhardiungen;""—snd a 
Differtation.on the Danger ‘of the Yellow 
Fever of America ‘preading in Europe, 
and the moft effeCiual Means of prevent-. — 
ing it. 
‘On the means a reftoring perfons ap- 
parently dead, feveral treatiles appt 
again from the pens of HEiIDMANN and — 
VEZ, of Vienna, and WiEDEMANN, of — 
\ Er uniwick. 
or, Journal for 
a §* Handbuch der ver-. 
' Defcriptions EP 
