"Watch no more the evening star; Watch no more the billowy sea; Thy lover hastes to comfort thee: Now she hastens to the bay: Now the rising storm she hears: Lady, Lady, check your fear: Now the little bark she view'd The tranquil breezes seem'd to sleep. Seem'd on the silent deep to play.'— The Felon,' by Mr. Lewis, labours under the disadvantage of a long straddling measure of fourteen syllables. This circumstance alone produces an effect bordering on the ludicrous, where feelings of a very different description were intended to be excited: Where shall I turn? the wretch exclaims; where hide my shameful head? How fly from scorn? Oh! how contrive to earn my The Anacreontics are original, and pretty, though not altogether in the style and spirit of Anacreon. This volume is elegantly printed, and deserves to be distinguished from the promiscuous herd of ordinary compilations. Art. 23. The Powers of Genius, a Poem, in Three Parts. By John a bat. city of manner: Muir. Thou murmuring breeze! O bear upon thy wing To lone Vaucluse let all the loves repair! Hear Cowper raise his bold and moral song, When Fiction lifts her mirror to the eye, And reigns the mistress of th' impassion'd heart. And held the sceptre of the fairy throne.' It can hardly be said, perhaps, of lustre, that it floats on a stream: a luminous body may float, but the quality of the body cannot go alone. Separate, however, from these minutiae of criticism, the author has sterling merit in many respects. Art. 24. Martial Effusions of Antient Times; addressed to the Spartan Hosts, to excite them to Valour and Discipline in their Con flicts with the Messenians; and prescribed as permanent Recita tions by the Republic of Lacedæmon to inspire their Youth with warlike Man warlike sentiments. From the Fragments of Tyrtæus. 8vo. Is. 6d. Hatchard In a season of public danger, it is a praiseworthy undertaking to attempt to stimulate the courage and fortitude of our fellow-countrymen, by every appeal that can be made to their feelings; whether it be by the persuasions of reason, by the charms of eloquence, or by the enthusiasm which fired the bosoms of the bards of old. The strains of Tyrtæus are well adapted to this purpose: they have been repeatedly rendered to us in English; and this imitation of their martial spirit will doubtless contribute to serve "the good old cause." MEDICA L. Art. 25. A Statement of Evidence from Trials by Inoculation of Variolous and Vaccine Matter; to judge of the Question, whether or not a Person can undergo the Small-Pox after being affected by the Cow-Pock. By the Physicians of the Original Vaccine Pock Institution, established Dec. 1799. 8vo. pp. 87. 28. Cuthell. 1804. The evidence here brought forwards was collected in consequence of the late publication of Mr. Goldson of Portsmouth *. The opinion entertained by the authors of it, respecting the preventive powers of cow-pox, was not altered by the numerous instances of failure which have at different times, but particularly of late, been laid before the public: because it was generally found, when they had an opportunity of personally examining such cases, either that some other eruption was mistaken for small-pox, or that the cowpock had not in reality been previously excited.' They conceived it, however, to be necessary, in order to satisfy the public mind, which had been alarmed by the contravening evidence on this subject, to reconsider the questioned point; and for this purpose to institute a set of experiments, on patients who had passed through the cowpox at an early period of the vaccine institution. These trials, shew, that above fifty persons who had been vaccinated three to five years ago, and ten who had been vaccinated at a later period, were incapable of taking the small-pox by inoculation in eircumstances chosen as most favourable for infection. For many of the subjects were exposed to the effluvia from small-pox patients; they were all inoculated in three times the usual number of places; they were all inoculated with efficacious and recent matter: and with many of them unusual pains were bestowed to introduce the matter quite fluid immediately from the variolous patient. In these it seems fair to calculate that not more than one, or at most two, of these sixty persons would have escaped the small-pox, if they had not already gone through that disease, or its vicarious affection, the cow pock.' In some of the experiments, which are in general detailed at length, the local affection from the small-pox matter resembled many cases of the pock of the vaccine;' and in none of them were appear * This article should have immediately followed the account of REV. Nov. 1804. ances ances remarked from the variolous insertions, which did not occasion. ally occur from the vaccine ones; except that the effects were in gee neral less evident from the latter, than the former.' The inference deducible from these experiments must be admitted to be in completopposition to Mr. Goldson's hypothesis, that the security of cowpox ceases after a period of two or three years; and we have no doubt (though we are of opinion that such experiments cannot be too much multiplied) that the result of them must have a consider. able tendency to remove from the public mind, any impression which may have been made by that gentleman's pamphlet, unfavourable to vaccination. We consider it as a duty which Mr. Goldson owes to the public, and to the profession, to take the earliest opportunity, after what he may regard as a sufficient number of experiments of this kind, with similar results, to state his conviction that his hypothesis has been successfully combated; and we are the more inclined to indulge this idea, from the appearance of candour with which his remarks are accompanied. The authors of the present publication represent themselves as entertaining no reasonable doubt,' that the 3d case mentioned by Mr. Goldson was, according to the statement, a case of small pox after the cow-pock;' yet they feel themselves justified in believ ing that he has deceived himself as to this case; and they cannot therefore admit this, or any others of a similar kind, as evidence of the small-pox at any period whatever, subsequent to the cow-pock. As they are anxious, however, to keep terms with the gentlemen to whom they are opposed, they very civilly declare (what we feel it impossible to grant) that those gentlemen may have been thus deceived without the imputation of inaccuracy, inattention, or blameable ignorance.' They inform'us, nevertheless, that in one out of more than half a dozen instances, where such was said to be the case, the small-pox actually occurred, subsequent to cow-pox inoculation, at the original vaccine pock institution; and for this occurrence they attempt to account, by stating that in that case, there was much reason to believe only a local affection had been produced from the vaccine inoculation." A suspicion of this kind, however, if confirmed, would raise a much more serious objection to cow-pox, than the admission of an occasional failure in its preventive effect; because it would imply the want of any unequivocal test, by which the existence of the complaint can be discovered. What the evidence was, which induced the authors to believe that some of the phænomena, which take place in ordinary circumstances, were wanting in the case in question, they do not inform us. If the progress of the vesicle and areola had not been marked by the usual appearances, they would not have been justified in asserting that small-pox had occurred after cowpox: but, if those appearances were present, the supposition of a perceptible degree of constitutional affection being necessary, in or. der to insure the preventive effects of cow-pox, appears to us gratu tous. In many of the cases which were made the subjects of inocu lation with variolous matter, by the physicians to the original vaccine pock institution, no constitutional affection was manifest at the time of going through the cow-pox; and yet they were secured from the susceptibility susceptibility of small-pox. If we therefore require the existence of any other test of that affection having taken place, than the regular progress of the vesicle and areola, we not only adopt an idea which is in itself hypothetical, and, if admitted, would be injurious to the practice, but encourage a degree of scepticism that is perfectly inconsist ent with attention to the real nature of evidence. Such may be an effectual, but is certainly not a philosophical way of silencing any reports unfavourable to the permanent security of persons who have passed through cow-pox. We do not therefore consider the ingeni ious authors of this statement as having shewn a striking proof of judgment, in the mode in which they attempt to account for the occurrence of small-pox after cow-pox: but we feel ourselves much indebted to them for the alacrity with which they have performed a very important duty to the public, in examining and shewing the futility of that hypothesis to which their attention has been lately called. Art. 26. Minutes of some Experiments to ascertain the permanent Sea curity of Vaccination against exposure to the Small-Pox. To which are prefixed some Remarks on Mr. Goldson's Pamphlet, with an Appendix containing Testimonials and other Communications from many of the most respectable medical Men in this Neighbourhood. By Richard Dunning, Surgeon and Secretary to the Plymouth Dock Jennerian Society. 8vo. pp. 120. 38. Murray. A very small number of cases only is here mentioned as having been subjected to the test of variolous inoculation, after having passed through the cow-pox; and of these, there seem to be but two which were vaccinated a sufficient time previously to the insertion of variolous matter, to be admitted by those on whom Mr. Goldson's pamphlet has made any impreffion, as fair experiments of the truth of his hypothesis. In none of the cases was small-pox produced. Mr. Dunning's experience, and that of his correspondents, afford numerous instances of patients, who had gone through the cow-pox, being repeatedly exposed, at various periods, to small-pox contagion, with impunity; and hence any farther test of unsusceptibility might be conceived, with much appearance of truth, to be unnecessary: but if, in compliance with Mr. Goldson's suggestion, the author thinks it right to adopt the means recommended by that gentleman, in order to remove any doubts which may exist in the public mind, with regard to the permanent security of cow-pox, we naturally look for a greater number of trials than are here related. A postscript contains the results of four experiments made by Dr. Stewart of Plymouth, in order to examine the validity of Mr. Goldson's hypothesis.-One of the children whom he inoculated with small-pox matter had been affected with cow-pox more than two, and three of them more than three years before. In all those cases, several pimples appeared on the 6th day: but on the 9th one of them was seized with symptoms of the eruptive fever of small-pox, and at the same time had some erruptions more resembling approaching variola,' says Dr. Stewart, 'than any we had yet seen.'-Much fever, some delirium, and great general indisposition were present. The report of these cases is in some degree imperfect and indistinct: but Yell. & |