A letter of fixteen pages on this fubject, might be fuppofed fomewhat prolix, yet whatever may feem digreffive, appears pertinent at the fame time. We can recollect, that within a year or two fince, a refolution was taken in Sweden, to change their copper boilers for iron pots, in order to preserve the health of the men; but we do not remember, whether the former were supposed to conduce to the fcurvy or not.

The fecond, is the hiftory of an Emphysema, or windy Tumour, of an enormous fize, by Dr. Hunter. The cafe, which terminated happily, is very circumftantially and accurately defcribed, together with the treatment of it, in fix or feven pages. The remarks annexed to it, on the cellular membrane, are truly curious, and must be fatisfactory to his anatomical and phyfiological readers. They employ about forty-four pages, and we are not inclined to with them fewer.

The third, contains fome farther obfervations upon the Ufe of Corrofive Sublimate. This implies a reference to what had been affirmed of this antivenereal remedy in the first volume. It contains four letters from three reputable Surgeons, attefting the great fuccefs of it in many cafes. The fourth, is a letter from Dr. Alexander Ruffel on the fame fubject. It contains eight cafes of patients recovered by the fame medicine; whofe cures had stood at the time of the Doctor's writing it, from four months to upwards of three years.

The fifth, is a happy Reduction of that extraordinary and unufual Diflocation, viz. of the Thigh-bone, by Mr. Travis, the writer of the firft.

The fixth, contains two medical cafes, which terminated in death, from Dr. Johnstone of Kidderminfter. The first was a diforder of the Stomach and Vifcera, in a perfon of fixty. The fecond was the cafe of an Epileptic, of ten years old, dying in the paroxyfm. The diffection of both the bodies is annexed; and by a reflection on the extraordinary fulnefs of the arteries (thofe in the fubftance of the brain being visibly diftended with blood) and the large finuffes of the brain, which may be confidered as veins, being entirely empty, Dr. Johnstone starts this very rational queryWhether in fuch epileptic infults, as bleeding is recommended for, arteriotomy fhould not be preferred to venefection?

The feventh is a curious cafe, communicated by Dr. Pye, of the effect of an accidental vomiting, confequent upon a Para

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Paracentefis, or tapping. The most fingular appearance in this cafe was the ftrange confitence of the fluid discharged, which, the Doctor fays, congealed on the floor to fuch a degree, that the fervant took up, by fhovel-fulls, what was difcharged by the wound of the trocar. The fupervening vomiting, however, had given fome hopes of the patient's recovery (the cafe being dated March 1, 1758) but the Doctor fays, that after taking fundry quack medicines, and being tapped twice more, fhe died in Hampfhire the 1ft of November following.

The eighth, is the cure of a Locked Jaw, communicated by Dr. Macaulay. The cafe is circumftantially related in a kind of medical diary; and the cure is afcribed to opium, affifted by the warm bath. This convulfive difeafe did not arife, as ufual, from any wound of a tendinous or ligamentous part.

The ninth article, is a letter from Mr. Ramfay, furgeon, on the Ufe of Copper Veffels at Sea. It contains fome cafes related at length, and feveral in a fummary way, of nervous and convulfive fymptoms occurring in fhips of war, which the writer afcribes to the verdigreafe contracted by the foul coppers. It may be confidered as an inforcement of the first article, except with regard to the fea fcurvy, which Mr. Ramfay does not attribute to the ufe of copper veffels, but to other caufes happening at fea.

The tenth, gives the Amputation of a Leg without any attending Hemorrhage, by Mr. Antrobus, Surgeon at Liverpool. This amputation was in confequence of a mortification of the left foot: but as a feparation of the gangrened part, and a good fuppuration was effected by topical applications and the Bark, in a few days, we think it were to be wifhed, the amputation had been deferred, if the bones of the foot had not been found carious; to fee whether Nature, properly affifted, might not have faved the limb. The want of a hemorrhage, however, was an extraordinary circumftance, and fhewed an extreme languor of the circulation. Nevertheless, the patient recovered, having a digestion on. the ftump the fourth day from the operation.

In the eleventh, Mr. Baine, Apothecary, gives his own: cafe in near feventeen pages: but as it commences in 1730, when he was thirteen years old, is continued to 1757, and may be called the annals of his fick nefs, it might plead for tome extent. The cafe was an obftinate pain in the kidneys,

which was cured, after several remiffions and intervals of it, by the Bath-water, boiling hot, and cooled to its natural heat at the pump, by the addition of Pyrmont water: but he foon found that common water boiling hot, with the like addition of Pyrmont, had an equally falutary effect. The cafe, upon the whole, is pretty well detailed, and there is no small honefty and candour in an Apothecary's acknow leging the general inefficacy of his gallypots: Two other cafes are annexed to this article, confirming the fuccefs of the fame remedy in two of Mr. Baine's patients.

The twelfth, contains the process of making ther. (a kind of dulcified fpirit of vitriol) by Dr. Morris, with fame remarks, fhewing the preference of his method to that.of fome French chemifts. A few very fummary cafes are annexed. fhewing its efficacy, by external application, in one rheumatic, and one gouty inftance. It has been used internally, he fays, with fuccefs, in the hooping cough, by Dr. Conyers, at the Foundling Hofpital; and he does not recollect one cafe out of twenty, in which it failed of curing the tooth ach, by applying a tea-fpoonful to the affected jaw, and repeating it till the pain ceafes, which generally happens on the fecond application. This is the medicine and method by which the late Dr. Ward frequently removed the head-ach.

The thirteenth, is a very accurate and judicious account of an epidemical diftemper at Edinburgh, and other parts in the fouth of Scotland, in the autumn of 1758, by Dr. Whytt. It seemed to have fome resemblance to our late epidemic Colds, as they were called. The learned author mentions, by the way, a bad fpecies of the fmall-pox, which deftroyed eight out of twenty-eight in Fife; while three or four died in fome parts of Teviotdale, for one that recovered. To this article is annexed a letter to Dr. Whytt, on this epidemic, by Dr. Alves of Invernefs: another from Dr. Millar at Kelfo to Dr. Pringle: another to the fame gentleman from Dr. Simfon, Chandos Profeffor at St. Andrews, who calls it an epidemic Cold, and cured it chiefly by confinement to a warm room, and encouraging a plentiful perfpiration. He fays, he loft none, but knew feveral old people who died, as he thinks, for want of care. He avoided bleeding, thinking it hurtful in this disease, tho' neceffary in fome fubfequent flight inflammatory disorders in 1759. The account of this epidemic is concluded by a letter to Dr. Pringle, from Dr. Stedman of Dumferline. This gentleman bled in it (prudently enough) only where particular conftitutions and fymptoms appeared to

indicate it, obferving, was not mortal near him; but adding, that many died at fome miles distance; and he imagines, in fome measure, through plentiful and repeated bleedings, from a conclufion, that it was highly inflammatory. He gives a very remarkable inftance of this mistake, in the cafe of a young gentleman of the age of eighteen; to whom he was called on the eighth day, when he had been bled fix times. He looked wild, with a propenfity to rave, a ftarting of the tendons, and a wavering pulfe, with a fomewhat stiff, but unfizy, ftate of the Craffamentum. More bleeding, however, was infifted on, which Dr. Stedman (as the event plainly fhews) prudently oppofed; and calling in another Phyfician, gave the patient fome wine as a cordial, which, agreeing well, was gradually increased, until he drank two bottles of Madeira in three days; after which he perfpired freely, and recovered. This feems, indeed, to have been the natural outlet of this epidemic, and this cordial was a judicious expedient for unbleeding the patient, as far as it was poffible.

The fourteenth, gives extracts of feveral letters from Dr. Whytt, (including others to himself) addreffed to Dr. Pringle, and containing the cures of feveral inveterate cafes by the Sublimate Solution, It extends to nineteen pages, including further extracts from Dr. Whytt's letters, printed in the manner of notes.

The fifteenth, is a Latin Letter from Baron Van Swieten to Dr. Sylvefter, on the efficacy of the fame remedy in curing an Opacity of the Eyes. It relates, in fubftance, that having known a venercal patient cured of an Opacity of the Cornea, joined to other pocky symptoms, by the folution, he ordered it to a noble youth who was blind, from an entire opacity of the Cornea in both eyes; not from the leaft venereal taint, but in confequence of an Ophthalmia improperly treated. As the Corneas became pellucid from the ule of this remedy, the Baron could difcern, that both the cryftalline lenses, or humours, were ftill more opake: but this obftacle alfo was removed at the end of eighteen months. He was obliged, however, fometimes, to fufpend the ufe of it for a week or two, to oppose the Ophthalmy, (into which his patient began now and then to relapse) by bleeding, bathing, and purging. His eyes were continually wafhed with a mixture of fpirit of fal ammoniac and diftilled vinegar, united to a perfect faturation, and diluted with rofe or elder-flower water. Dr. Van Swieten adds, his noble patient now enjoys perfect health.

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The fixteenth, contains an account of the Oleum Ricini, or Caftor Oil, and its effects in bilious diforders, by Dr. Frazer of Antigua. This oil is expreffed from the large feed of an annual plant growing in the Weft Indies, and the warmer parts of North-America. One of its technical names is Palma Chrifti, its very large leaf being divided into five deep fegments, exhibiting a rude likeness of a hand, with the fingers at their greatest distance from each other. It has been corruptly called the Agnus Caftus (whence Caftor Oil perhaps) but is commonly called the Oil-leaf, applied fometimes for the head-ach, and often used in dreffing blifters: Dr. Frazer particularly recommends it in the dry belly-ach, and fays, infants may take a tea-fpoonful fafely, or an effectual expulfion of the Meconium.

The feventeenth, contains a violent fcorbutic cafe, by Mr. Pugh furgeon at Chelmsford. It was attended with a great fwelling, and Negroe blackness (as he terms it) of the legs, thighs, and infide of the arms. He fays, the edges of the tongue and gums were alfo black, all which appearances were greatly alleviated by fomentation, with the affiftance of the Bark and elixir of vitriol; but the lameness continued with an increafing hardness, &c. which were finally cured with a pint of milk turned into whey, by four ounces of the juice. of Water-creffes, half taken daily night and morning, and eating daily two Seville, and three or four fweet oranges.

The eighteenth, by Dr. Pye, exhibits fome fuccessful inftances of the external ufe of the grofsly powdered Bark, quilted into a waistcoat. This waistcoat is to be without fleeves, to be lined with a thin open-fort of callico, and to be applied immediately to the naked body. The cafes in which it fucceeded were eleven out of twelve. The 1ft, an Intermittent attended with a cough; the 2d, periodical convulfions; the 3d, a remitting fever; the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th, Intermittents. In the 10th, which we fuppose to have been an Intermittent, tho' it is not fpecified, it failed. The 11th was a Quartan fucceeding a Tertian. February the 22d, the fit was very violent. A waistcoat was applied the 23d, A flight paroxyfm of but two hours, inftead of eight or nine, came on the 25th. On the 28th the Patient was perfectly well. March 1ft, the waistcoat was renewed: he continued perfectly well the 10th: but upon enquiry, June 13, he had had three or four flight returns, but now is very well. The 12th inftance was in a remitting fever after the measles, with peripneumonic fymptoms; in which the waiftcoat fucceeded;

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