suxious to fee it; or rather, if it is to be like this, we are anxious not to fee it.

MEDICINE.

ART. 22. Cafes of two extraordinary Polypi removed from the Nafe. the one by Excifion with a new Inftrument, the other by improved Forceps; with an Appendix, defcribing an improved Inftrument for the Fiftula in Ano, with Obfervations on that Difeafe. Illuftrated with a Copper-Plate. By Thomas Whately, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. 8vo. 42 pp. 25. Johnson. 1805.

The author of this pamphlet evinces by his numerous publications and inventions, a very laudable ambition of diftinguishing himself in furgery; and as it is to be prefumed that he exerts himself to the utmoft, he ought not be blamed, though his fuccefs fhould not be anfwerable to his efforts.

In this little work he inftructs the profeffion in a new treatment of the polypus of the nose.

A patient afflicted with this complaint put himself under the author's care. The polypus arofe far back in the pofterior nostrils, and hung down behind the uvula. Mr. Whately attempted repeatedly to extract it with the common forceps; but could not fucceed. He next got a piece of cat-gut round the root of the polypus: and tried first to faw it through, and then to jerk it off; but failed in both attempts.

He then ordered an excellent ftrong pair of forceps to be made, with an appropriate curve. The polypus was, however, fo firmly attached, and fo long in its texture, that although he used both his hands, and pulled with all his force, yet the forceps always flipped off ineffectually. Stone forceps befet with teeth were allo tried in vain. He then attacked this all-powerful polypus by a ligature: but in twifting the cat-gut of which it was made, it broke; like the withs with which the Philiftines attempted to bind Samfon.

Being baffled in all the fe attempts, the author at length invented a knife with a moveable fheath, a kind of biftouri caché. He paffed this inftrument up the nofe, guided by a ligature, and molt fortunately cut through the root of the polypus, while the patient nearly fainted with lofs of blood.

It is clear that complete fuccefs might likewise have been obtained by a ligature properly applied, only taking care that the cat-gut fhould not be rotten; or using a fkein of strong filk; which would unqueftionably have been a much fafer plan, than cutting in the dark. Befides, we confider that the danger of hemorrage is a very ferious matter; for veffels divided by a cutting inftrument bleed much more violently, than when lacerated by a pair of forceps.

The next cafe was easily managed: the polypus was extracted at once by the ftrong forceps. We feel inclined to congratulate the ope rator on this fuccefs; but as reviewers we are afraid of doing so ; lett by encouraging the publication of fuch cafes, books fhould multiply upon our hands, fafter than polypi.

By a natural affociation of ideas, the author defcends from the nofe

to the anus; and defcribes a new inftrument for cutting fistule. It refembles the probe-pointed biftoury of Pott, with the addition of a fheath; which it is imagined will leffen the pain of paffing a naked blade into the finus. We have never feen this inftrument employed, and probably never fhall, unless perchance we should fee the inventor operate. But as even the examination of a fiftula with a smooth probe is ufually very difagreeable, to thruft up this biftoury incased in a fheath must be ftill more fo; and withdrawing the fheath will neceffasily prolong the operation, and augment its feverity.

In fine we must acknowledge, that Mr. Whately has not diplayed by this invention any great fuperiority over Mr. Pått.

ART. 23. The Domestic Pharmacopoeia, or Complete Medical Guide for Families; containing an Alphabetical Arrangement in the Form of a Dictionary, of all the Difcafes to which the human Frame is liable, with the Symptoms attendant on each; and the most simple and rational Modes and Treatment, drawn from high and approved Authorities. Preceded by Directions for preferving Health, and attaining lang Life. Together with Rules for murfing fick Perfons, and terminated by an Ap pendix, aljo alphabetically arranged, of favourite and domeftic Remedies, &c. 12mo. 244 pp. 45. Highley. 1805.

This may be confidered as an epitome of the works of Tiffot, Buchan, and other writers on domeftic medicine; and as it is lefs bulky and expenfive, and confequently more eafily attainable, may be more extensively ufeful, than tho'e popular books. The defcriptions of the difeafes are in general fufficiently correct, and the modes of treating them, as clear as in the fmall compafs to which they are neceffarily confined, they could well be made. The obfervations on air, exercife, cleanlinefs, and diet, though not new, are pertinent and jutt, and fuch as cannot perhaps be too frequently and generally diffeminated. In old age (the compiler fays) there is feldom fufficient ftrength to ufe bodily exercife, though fo very requifite for health; therefore frictions with the flesh brush are neceffary at this time of life, to promote perfpiration, which thould be done by the perfon himfelt it poffible. As the climate of this country is variable, our winter cloathing fhould be put on early, and left off late; care fhould be taken not to pafs too fuddenly from a hot to a cold atmosphere, or the reverse, and we fhould carefully avoid drinking any thing cold, when the body has been violently heated."

The difeafes are ranged alphabetically, which affords a facility in turning to them; and to each of them is fubjoined the names of the writers from whom the defcriptions, and methods of cure, are taken, Sydenham, Mead, Arbuthnot, Heilter, Buchan, &c. With the following fpecimen of the manner in which this part is executed, we shall conclude our account of this finall volume.

"Flux bloody. Symptoms. Generally begins with coldnefs and fhivering, fucceeded by a quick pulle, and intenfe thirt. The tools are greafy, and fometies trothy, mixed with blood and filaments, and are attended with intolerable gripings, and a painful defeent as if it were of the bowels,

Medicine.

"Medicine. Bleed first, then give the following vomit; half a dram of the powder of ipecacuanha; work it off with chamomile tea; repeat this vomit every other day for three or four times. On the intermediate days, between each vomit, let the fick perfon take a large fpoonful of a mucilage of gum arabic, and tragacanth, every hour. Clyfters made of fat mutton broth are of great fervice in this complaint. The patient should abftain, through the whole of the cure, from malt and fpirituous liquors. Mead."

ART. 24. An Efay on Quackery, and the dreadful Confequences arifing from taking advertifed Medicines, illuftrated with Remarks on their fatal Effects, with an Account of a recent Death occafioned by a Quack Medicine; and Obfervations on the Caroner's Inqueft taken on the Body, interfperfed with Anecdotes of the most celebrated Quacks of the prefent Day, with a Plan for the Annibilation of Quackery, and propofed Means for fupplying the Deficiency in the Revenue, which would be occafioned by fuch a Measure. To which are added, Remarks on Provincial Bankers. 8vo. Hull. 1805.

This farrago is addreffed to the Lord Chief Juftice, as Chief Coroner of England, who is called upon " to extirpate a fet of mifcreants, who have been too long thriving by the deftruction of their credulous fellow-creatures, men (the writer fays, if he may fo degrade the term) who are in the continual habit of fending myriads to an untimely grave; acting as a blight on the faireft part of the creation; deftroying the nobleft work of Omnipotence, and confequently more deferving of condign punishment, than the vileft affaffin that ever fuffered for his villainy at the gallows, or on the wheel;" with abundance more declamation of a fimilar kind, levelled, towards the end of the book, at the provincial bankers, particularly thofe of Hull, who fhare with the quacks, in almoft equal portions, the indignation of the writer.

ART. 25. Culina Famulatrix Medicine, or Receipts in Cookery worthy the Notice of thofe Medical Practitioners who ride in their Charins with Footmen behind, and who receive two Guinea Fees from their rich and luxurious Patients. By Ignotus. 12110. 235 PP. 4. York. Mawman, London. 1804.

We have travelled through this volume, not without fometime longing to partake of the favoury difhes described in it. To many of them, the author has fubjoined obfervations, whimfical, if not witty. As he inculcates in them the neceffity of temperance, and writes as a phyfician, of which profeffion, he appears, and fays he is, as well as a cook, it does not clearly appear to us, why he should admit so many high-feafoned provocatives. Perhaps he introduces them only to fhow their unfitnefs, as the Lacedemonians made their flaves drunk, that their youth feeing them in that degrading and beaitly ftate, might be deterred from drinking. The following will explain our meaning. After defcribing the method of making a mock turtle, he fays, "This dish is extracted from the archives of a wealthy corporation, in the North of England, remarkable for their diftributive justice towards

the

the good things of a well furnished table. It is a dangerous difk, and will foon bring a man to his crutches". After a hare foup, "no grayy can be extracted from the flesh of any animal equal in richnefs to what the hare affords; on which account the lovers of good cating fhould confider every fpoonful of hare foup as fraught with fome danger in gouty and fcorbutic habits. Among the Romans the hare was held in great eftimation. Inter quadrupedes gloria primą lepus. Alexander Severus had a hare daily ferved up at his table, Cæfar fays the Britons did not eat the flesh of hare. Britanni leporem non guftant."

We will conclude with giving the method of preparing Fryers chickens, with the author's recommendation of them.

"Take two or three chickens, and cut them into four quarters, put them into as much water as will cover them; when boiled enough, throw into the boiling broth the following:-The whites and yolks of two or three eggs, and a handful of parfley fhred fmall-beat them up, and add fome falt and black pepper. When thrown into the broth, fir it gently to prevent the eggs curdling into large pieces; ferve up in a tureen. Obf.

"This difh contains neither gout, fcurvy, nor rheumatism: an admirer of high-feafoned difhes will find this very conducive to his health, if ferved up to him once in a week. It will give time to Archæus (the rector of the ftomach) to put his house into order, after the manner of a house-maid on a Saturday night."

We had nearly omitted noticing that as a frontifpiece to the book, a famous fat hog is depicted, with the word tranfmigration over it, intimating doubtless that thofe who feed too freely on the rich dainties he is teaching them to prepare, will be transformed into that

animal.

DIVINITY.

ART. 26. A Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of Leeds, on June the 13th, 1804, at the Vifitation of the Right Worshipful Robert Mark, bam, A. M. Archdeacon of York. By John Sheepfbanks, A. M. Curate of Trinity Church, in Leeds, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Sve. 24 PP. 1S. Faulder. 1804.

In a plain and found, yet not trite method, this preacher points out the duties of ministers of the gofpel, laying that ftrels which is fo peculiarly proper at this time to be laid, on the devout reading of our excellent liturgy in the church; which, as the author very juftly infifts, is truly preaching the gofpel.

"Let but the minifter" he fays, "perform his talk, his arduous tak, of first justly comprehending, and then devoutly uttering the words here appointed for him; and he may reft affured he hath preached, the gospel, yea the whole gofpel of Chrift, in the language most profitable to his hearers. Let him but fhew he feels, as well as understands the tranfitions here made from one ffice of devotion to another, from confef fion to prayer, from prayer to thanksgiving, from thanksgiving to reading

of the word; and unto every one that hath ears to hear, I repeat, the gofpel will have been preached. But, if through any impatience to quit this fubordinate fervice, as he may falfely deem it; if anxious to affume the Juperior office of teaching, reproving, exhorting, in his own name; if he coldly, or negligently perform in hafte, the previous fervices of our liturgy, woe is and must be to him, for he preacheth himfelf, not the gospel. He must be confcious moreover of having directly betrayed the cause of the established church; against her his offence is of the deepest dye; he hath given caufe of triumph and traduction to her enemies; her fons he hath taught to defpife her effential and difcriminating rites. Be he affured then, that no orthodoxy displayed in the pulpit can atone for herefy like this, no arguments however laboured, no declamation, however animated, can adequately fupply the place of that eloquence with which the liturgy of our church pleads the purity of her own faith, and the piety of her own worship." P. 11.

This is most true, and well pointed against thofe fectaries who would make preaching every thing, and prayer nothing, in their of tentatious fervices. With equal force and propriety, and with a fimilar reference, does he caution againft partial preaching, or a confiant repetition of fome doctrines to the exclufion of others. The whole difcourfe is edifying, and well fuited to the occafion on which it was delivered.

ART. 27. Pro Aris et Focis; or the Duties of Volunteers: A Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of Godfbill, in the Lile of Wight, before the South-Eaft Battalion of the Isle of Wight Volunteers, on the Prefentation of their Colours, March 12, 1804. By the Rev. John Barwis, A. M. Rector of Niton. 4to. 16 pp. 15. Rivingtons. 1804.

We have seen many fermons addreffed to volunteers, but not one which in our opinion equalled this, for profound and matterly coniideration of the fubject. Clear ideas, accurately expreffed, and enforced with animation, diftinguish it completely from the ordinary claffes of compofition. After mentioning the indifpenfable nature of implicit obedience in military fervice, Mr. B. thus proceeds:

"If the enforcement of this principle has, under all regular governments, and in the mott civilized nations, juftitied means the most fevere; if its violation has been adjudged to deferve difgrace, corporal pain, and in certain cafes, death itfelf; the adoption of fuch frong meatures in its fupport proves that it cannot be difpenfed with in any kind of military arrangement whatever. Though not in a conftant and regular ftate of difcipline, nor on all occafions amenable to its decifions, yet this is a theory that ought to be for ever prefent to your minds: your fervices are proffered, and for that very reafon you are fubject to the ftrongest of ties, a tie upon your honour, upon your confciences; a fubitantial, prompt, and willing obedience ought to be the volunteer's pride; his fubordination ought to be founded in conviction of mind, in reafon, in opinion." P. 7.

"Paley's Moral and Political Phylofophy."

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