evil, than if he were to write fifty pamphlets on the fubject, and diftribute them gratis at all places of polling throughout Great Britain. Art. 17. An Addrefs to Proteftant Diffenters of all Denominations, on the approaching Election of Members of Parliament, with refped to the State of tublic Liberty in general, and of American Affairs in particular. 8vo. 2 d. or 50 Copies for 5 s. Johnfon. 1774.. There is more fubftance in this little tract, than in many of ten times s bulk.-As the price is fo fmall-the Reader who has a curiofity to know the contents of this new crifis, may be easily gratified; and therefore we shall only, in this general way, recommend it to the perufal of all friends to the liberties of this country. EAST-INDIES. Art. 18. A General View of the Eaft India Company's Situation, fubmitted to the impartial Confideration of the Public. By an Old Proprietor. 4to. I S. Wilkie. 1774. The fituation of the East India Company is difcuffed by a feries of questions which are refolved by exhibiting averages of annual accounts for forty years backward; the refult of which is contained in the following fummary: I. The Company's exparts of British VI. For the defence of its trade and fet L. 346,259 per annum. 295,852 ditto. 1,198,089 ditto. 359,881 ditto. 4,200,000 2,743,669 VII. and laftly,-That its comparative fituation fince the year 1708 (exclufive of the above fum of 2,743,669.) is better by 8,890,120 fterling.' As a review of the Company's fituation, this is weighed in the mercantile balance of profit and lofs; the conduct of the Directors, and of their fervants, is no otherwife noticed, than by way of favourable inference from thefe flourishing premifes. One particular accufation only, is touched on the immenfe fums unneceffarily lavished in fortifications and buildings'-and this is artfully waved: fhould it be asked, fays he, why the authors of fuch abuses have not been caled to a proper account? their conduct having undergone a parliamentary inquiry, the answer must come from thence.' N. MEDICAL. MEDICA L. Art. 19. All the Preferiptions contained in the New Practice of Phy- Through a chriftian difpofition, it feems, to provide for the relief of the diftreffed,' this good man, Mr. J. S. Dodd, has readily vamped up or manufactured a book, by collecting and tranflating Dr. Marryat's prefcriptions, which are arranged under the difeafes to which they respectively belong. To each of thefe lifts of prefcriptions is prefixed, as he fays, an accurate defeription of the symptoms of the feveral diseases; by which,' we are affured, they may be known from each other.' Each of thefe luminous defcriptions he has had the art to draw up and condenfe generally within the compass of three or four lines, or at the utmoft, in about half a fcore. To each of these claffes of preferiptions he has likewife fubjoined, by way of tail-piece, about as many lines, under the title of remarks; in which the reader is to be inftructed when, and how, to difpenfe them. After haging taken all these pains for the good of mankind,' this difinterefted philanthropist here prefents them with the fruits of his great labours; and, with fingular modefty, recommends his work to the public, as the beft family phyfician and furgeon, yet extant, in ang language! We need not difcufs the utility or merits of an undertaking thus planned and executed; nor inquire into the propriety, or ftrict honefty, of taking a liberty of this kind with the work, as we fuppofe, of a living Author, by thus appropriating and mangling it. We shall leave the reader likewife to form his judgment of the knowledge, or at least of the care and accuracy of this tranflator and abridger, from an inftance that ftrikes us at the very threshold, or in the first chapter: where, in the remarks' at the end of the lift of medicines recommended for fevers in general, our commentator tells us that broths made as ftrong of the meat as poffible,-fhould be the only -food taken.' Nat Dr. Marryat, or any other doctor-even from Ballyshannon its own felf-could poffibly give fuch abominable advice as this, in a fever, we cannot readily believe; even on the authority of Mr. Dodd's tranflation. Dr. Marryat's work, as we remember, was publifhed in Ireland about nine or ten years ago, and is not at prefent in our poffeffion; but we have been told that in the place to which this remark' refers, the doctor only recommends the giving of ftrong broths, in fuch quantities as will fit eafy on the patient's ftomach, in order to recruit his ftrength on his recovery, from a fever. And fo much for Mr. Dodd's best family phyfician, Sc. B--y. Art. 20. A Lecture Introductory to the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, &c. By John Leake, M D. Member of the . College of Phyficians, London; and Physician to the Westminster Lying in Hofpital. 4to. 2s. 6d Baldwin. 1774 ་ In this fenfible introduction to a courfe of lectures on the fubject of midwifery, the Author difcuffes, in a general and popular manner, feveral phyfiological questions relating to conception and parturition; and and afterwards gives an hiftorical sketch of the opinions and prac tices of the antients with refpect to the art, and of the fucceffive improvements that have been made in it from their times to the prefent: terminating his oration by fome judicious reflections on the qualifications and deportment of an accoucheur. In his appendix the Author gives an account of an improvement which he has made in the forceps; confifting in the addition of a third blade to that inftrument, his defcription of which is illuftrated by a plate annexed to this performance. B-Y. Art. 21. An Abridgment of Baron Van Swieten's Commentaries apon the Aphorifms of the celebrated Dr. Herman Boerhaave, &c. By Colin Hoffack, M. D. of Colchester. Vols. I. and II. 8vo. 10 s. 6d. fewed. Horsfield. 1773. This abridgment, which is intended to be comprised in five volumes, appears to be executed with fufficient care and judgment, and may be of ufe to those who do not choose to purchase the commentaries at large. In the fecond volume the work is brought down to the 874th Aphorifm, or to the end of the section on the bastard peripneumony. B-Y. Art. 22. A Defcription of the four Situations of a Gouty Perfon: evincing the Danger of trufting the Gouty Matter to the Care of Nature. By P. de Vivignis, M. D. 8vo. I S. Wilkie. 1774Were Jedediah Buxton, of retentive memory, now alive, he would eftimate, with a fingle glance of his eye, over the meagre form and unconscionable type and margin of this fhilling pamphlet, that it might contain about as much matter as a fingle page of a London Chronicle; and his estimate would not be very diftant from the truth. After perufing it throughout, and in the interval between two dishes of tea, we found that it contained 36 pages, 16 lines in a page, and about five words, on an average, in a line.-These are furely Aurea Verba ;-and yet all that we can collect from them is, that the gout fhould not be left to the care of nature, but that the phyfician fhould have the handling and management of it:—but in what manner this unruly distemper is to be managed by him, this. deponent fayeth not. By Art. 23. An eafy Way to prolong Life, by a little Attention to our Manner of Living, &c. &c. The Second Part. By a Medical Gentleman, Author of the first Part. 8vo. I s. 6d. Bell. 1774. We are scarce at leisure, at prefent, to divert ourselves with this ridiculous and fenfeless production, the Author of which congratulates himself on the rapid fale of the first part of it, and affures us that this fecond contains obfervations not lefs important. The courteous reader, for example, is here inftructed whether he ought to fleep with his mouth shut or open, and on what fide he should lie ; and is directed, after a few preliminary operations at his uprising, to ftretch himself out,' and then to proceed to cleanse his nose, by blowing it;'-not forgetting, laftly, that the head be combed, that the pores may be opened to expel fuch vapours as were not confumed by fleep, &c.' Converfant as we are with the prefs, we cannot conceive who the perfons are that ultimately defray the charges of paper and print for fuck fuch miferable ware as this.-Giving eighteen-pence for fuch trafh is furely-faving the reader's prefence,-buying bumfodder at a very unconscionable rate. To the Reviewer indeed, who is obliged to buy, pro bono publico, it is one of his higheft luxuries to employ it in that capacity. B--y.. Art. 24. An Account of the Tefticles, their common Coverings and Coats; and the Difeafes to which they are liable, &c. By Jofeph Warner, F. R. S. and Senior Surgeon to Guy's Hofpital. 8vo. 2 s. Davis. 1774. After premifing a fhort anatomical defcription of the Scrotum, the teftes, and their coats, the Author treats of the difeafes to which thefe parts are fubject; fuch as inflammation, abfcefs, dropfy, fchirrus, &c. He principally dwells however on the Hydrocele of the Tumica Vaginalis, and on the palliative, and radical, methods of relieving, or curing, that difeafe. With refpect to the firft or palliative method, in defcribing the beft manner of performing the very fimple operation of evacuating the extravafated lymph, the Author, from a predilection, we fuppofe, for that mode of operating to which he has been accuftomed, directs the uling the impofthume lancet, in preference to the trocar. He judges it to be the most eafy and expeditious; and apprehends, though furely without fufficient grounds to countenance the apprehenfion, that the tunica vaginalis muft fuffer from the canula of the trocar being left in the wound, during the fhort time that it remains there while the lymph is flowing through it. Of the four more important methods of proceeding, or operating, in order to produce a radical cure, the Author feems to confider that which effects this purpose by means of a fimple incifion, as the best; obferving that he does not remember ever to have feen any fatal effects arifing from it. For the method of procuring a lafting cure by the application of the cauftic, he wholly refers the reader to Mr. Elfe's pamphlet. He next defcribes the manner in which a permanent cure may be obtained, by a fimple puncture of the Tunica Vaginalis, and the fubfequent and repeated introduction of a fpunge tent: terminating his obfervations on this fubject by a fhort and fuperficial account of the radical method of operating, by the feton; at the end of which, the reader, who has hitherto met with nothing either new or ftriking, is in our opinion, very properly referred to Mr. Pott's ingenious work on the fubject. The pamphlet concludes with fome trite obfervations on the fchirrus and cancer of the teftis. B Art. 25. An Effay on the most effectual Means of preferving the Health of Seamen in the Royal Navy. And a Differtation on Fevers and Infection. Together with Obfervations on the Jail Diftemper, &c. By James Lind, M. D. Physician to his Majefty's Royal Hospital at Haflar, &c. A new Edition much enlarged and improved. 8vo. 5 s. Wilfon. 1774. The excellent effay and the differtation mentioned in the above title have both been formerly published, and are here reprinted together, with the addition of fome new matter; fome alteration be See M. Review, vol. xliii. Auguft, 1770, page 138. ing ing made in the arrangement of the materials, and the whole, for the convenience of the reader, divided into chapters and feclions. The first of them appeared in the year 1757, and was republished in 1762, by the authority of the lords of the admiralty. Its merit is too well known to require our adding any thing further concerning this third edition of it, than that, befide the alterations which the Author has now thought neceffary to make in it, he has added a new chapter, on the means of obtaining fresh and potable water at fea, by a fimple and eafy procefs. On this occafion, he afferts his claim to priority in the difcovery of sweetening fea-water by diftillation, without the addition of any ingredients; and undertakes to fhew that the alterations made by Mr. Irving, in a procefs delivered in by him to the lords of the admiralty, for that purpofe, and for which he received in 1772 a reward from parliament of 5000l. was no real improvement ;-that the principles on which it is founded, though plaufible, are fallacious; and that the produce, in following his method, is evidently lefs than may be obtained by the method of diftillation formerly propofed by the Author. The Differtation on Fevers and Infection originally appeared under" the title of Two Papers on Fever and Infection,' which were read before the philofophical and medical fociety at Edinburgh in 1761. It is here reprinted with large and valuable additions; relating particularly to the jail diftemper, and the means of preventing or stopping that terrible contagion. The new lights thrown on this interefling fubject by fo excellent an obferver, who has had fuch extenfive opportunities of remarking the various fources and the progrefs of this particular kind of infection, render these observations peculiarly valuable. Art. 26. The Seaman's Medical Inftructor, in a Courfe of Lectures Palures on Accidents and Diseases incident to Seamen, in the varicus Climates of the World, calculated for Ships that carry no Surgeon. The whole delivered in a plain Language, and founded on a long and fuccessful Experience. By N. D. Falck, M. D. 8vo. 4 s. 6d. Dilly. 1774. We fufficiently announce the intention of the Author in compiling this treatife, by giving the reader the foregoing copious titlepage at large. In the firft of the fix lectures into which he has divided the work, he undertakes to inftruct the feaman in the anatomy and phyfiology of the human body. He then treats of the medicines, or other means, requifite to the reftoring health; and of the external injuries and difeafes to which the body is liable. In the two laft lectures the Author proceeds to the treatment of fevers and other internal difeafes. The zeal which the Author profeffes for the inftruction and wellbeing of his marine pupils flames out in many parts of this compilation; in the execution of which however we cannot honeftly, or with any regard to our own character, give him credit for any thing more than a good intention. A formal critique cannot be expected from us but why-we shall juft afk-would the Author occupy any part of the fcanty space to which he was confined, in the fhort lecture devoted to anatomy and phyfiology, with an unneceffary and prurient defcription of the action or functions of the male organs, in what he is pleafed abfurdly to term, ' the facred ac of generation ?? -Or |