of the Church, to charge them with the foulest of crimes-that of treason, while, in solemn truth, it is nothing but the complaint of suffering nature, overstrain ed and tortured by the racks of taxation, oppression,-not to say absolute starvation. We think it well, that such abuse of the people as Mr. B.'s should meet with the contempt it deserves, and that a loving prince of his people should disregard the "false witness" which he hath borne against the integrity and character of the British nation. M. SANTAGNELLO, the author of some useful elementary works on the Italian Janguage, has published a Dictionary of the Peculiarities of that Tongue. This work will be found very useful to the student of Italian literature, as the authorities which the compiler introduces, are selected from the most approved Italian authors. An accurate knowledge of the idioms of a language is absolutely necessary, to enable the reader to perceive the full beauties of the author he is studying; and we think M. Santagnello's work is well calculated to afford such knowledge. In writing Italian exercises also, the student will find much assistance in this volume, which, in fact, contains the syntax of the language, distribated alphabetically. Mr. HONE, who has struck out an entirely new line of political satire, between the caricatures of Hogarth and the rhymes of Butler, has published a match. book to his House that Jack Built, in the Man in the Moon. It is impossible to describe either; and there is little occasion, where the sale is by tens of thou sands. Under the title of a Sketch of the Economy of Man, (which we think about as singular, as if an artist were to give us a sketch of the world,) an anonymous author has presented us with a clever though somewhat incomplete analysis of the powers of the human frame. The very attemp, in physics, to comprise much in formation and numerous facts in a limite ed scope, has always the effect of involv ing the subject in a greater degree of obscurity and want of connexion, than what are indeed but too inherent in the nature of the study itself. sketches are arranged under different heads, proceeding from an explanation of the general powers of the body, to the sensations, the intellectual and muscular motions, and the further expression of these, through the organs of sound and sight, and by the means of external signs. This is followed by a physical description of the phenomena The of sleep, and the causes which produce the various stages of it, from somnolescence to the soundest slumber, which is ingeniously accounted for, from the state of the nervous system, which, in a certain state of irritability, is known to banish it altogether. In the concluding remarks, the system of mutual pathology is strongly maintained, as affecting the general powers of man, in opposition to the idea of any local disease not interfering with the animal economy. Although the work possesses nothing new, it is curious, and deserving notice, from the manner in which it is arranged. An Account of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, with a view to the infor mation of Emigrants, and an appendix, containing the offers of government to persons disposed to settle there, appears to contain a more fair and impartial representation of the advantages and disadvantages to be met with by settlers, than any publication we have yet seen on the subject. Without pretending to recommend emigration, upon the ground of a certain superiority of condition to be acquired by the measure, this judicious little work is confined to an historical survey of the country, the people, climate, and productions, of the Cape, including much information from the works of the celebrated travellers Barrow and Vaillant. As the responsibility of giving counsel would be great, after a fair estimate, it very properly leaves the question to be decided according to the feelings of individuals. JOHN DOBLE BURRIDGE, esq. attorneyat-law, has lately published an Essay on the British Constitution, connected with the Laws relating to Landed Property and the personal Liberty of the Subject, &c. from the time of the Romans to the present period; a small work, which, we are happy to say, contains much liberality of sentiment, united to sound learning and extensive legal knowledge. 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Williams. 2 vols. 8vo. 21. 2s. MEDICAL REPORT. REPORT of DISEASES and CASUALTIES occurring in the public and private Practice of the Physician who has the care of the Western District of the CITY DISPENSARY, -the limits of which, commencing at the Fleet-street end of Chancery-lane, pass through Gray's Inn-lane, Portpool-lane, Hatton Wall, Great Saffron-hill, West street, Smithfield bars, Charterhouse-lane and Square; along Goswell street to Oldstreet; down Old-street, as far as Bunhill row; thence crossing the Old Jewry and extending along Queen-street, terminate at the water-side. N the whole range of either theoretical second; and many instances of a like na It will reliefie, we meet with ture, but of different characters, in respect no question of more momentous import, than that which applies itself to the pre. cise state of the brain, in respect of its remedial demands. There are at least three distinct conditions of that organ which are apt most mischievously to be confounded, or considered as one and the same. The first, in which hlood is in so inordinate a quantity or so irregularly distributed, that to let blood, or let die, are the only alternatives before us. In the second instance, the abstract circumstances of the circulation may be nearly the same as in the first; but this derange ment in the vascular impetus has such dependence upon a prior condition of the sensorial or nervous power, that the lancet must be unsheathed with much more hesi tation, or at least used with far greater re.serve. The last supposed case, is that in which the derangement of animal and intellectual functions, so far from being dependant upon vascular repletion, arises from, or, at the very least, is connected with a precisely opposite state; and this last condition is not only often mistaken for the first, but it may be, and actually has been, induced by measures applicable to a certain extent in the first; but which are thus worse than inapplicable, when carried beyond the proper point. The Writer was sometime since called to an individual, whom he found lying in a condition of apoplectic stupor: blood was drawn from the arm, cupping-glasses applied to the neck, and consciousness was restored with more than anticipated speed. As blood-letting had been so decidedly useful, it was judged expedient to carry it to a still greater length; that was done, and high delirium was as demonstra bly induced by this last operation, as benefit had been occasioned by the first and of degree, are constantly falling under the Reporter's observation. It is not many days ago, that he was summoned to attend a man, who had been treated by very large depletions for inflammation of the brain; such depletions had been most probably called for by the urgency of the prior symptoms: but, although the patient was still delirious, it was now evidently delirium, not of the first, but of the third, species above recognized. In place of further venesections, the Reporter ven tured (he believes contrary to the feelings of his fellow-prescriber), to suggest cordials and stimulants, under the use of which the patient soon recovered. The friends of a poor man in Saffronhill applied for advice about a week since. The description given of his state was in the highest degree alarming: he was so ungovernably delirious, that it required the force of strong men to restrain him from running into the street. The Reporter found him to be an old Dispensary patient, who had, some months before, been under treatment for a violent attack of Painter's colic; and the altogether of the case presented an example of the second order of encephalic affection. Brisk cathartics (composed principally of elaterium) were immediately had recourse to, together with a blister to the neck; and the amendment on the subsequent day was so decided, that the Writer was much rejoiced he had ventured upon the treatment of the case without the abstraction of blood. In like manner, more than one or two instances have, within the past mouth, occurred of hydrocephalic irritation, which have satisfactorily yielded to the same plan,-a plan which might often, in this last disorder, supeisede with advantage copious venesection. L2 That That the Reporter is not an enemy to blood-letting, moderately conceived and discriminately used, even with determined energy, is sufficiently evident, from admissions in the first part of the present paper; but he hesitates not to say, that he is an avowed enemy to that creed, which cannot conceive disordered function to proceed from any other source than vascular fulness or excitement; or which contents itself with recognizing the condition of the blood-vessels as that only about which the practitioner need trouble himself in instiiuting remedial processes. A It is especially in this inclement season that the sensorial energy, in aged persons more particularly, is subject to those impediments and interruptions, which often simulate apoplexy, without being really that disorder; and in which, even when the true apoplectie state has been induced, the treatment requires to be conducted under the recollection, that there are such things in the human frame as nerves, as well as blood-vessels. Thavies' Inn; D. UWINS, M.D. Jan. 20, 1820. REPORT OF CHEMISTRY, NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, &c. PLAN is in agitation in Paris to erect a machine acting by hydraulic vapour, that shall raise water, fifteen pints a minute, from any pit or reservoir, to the height of sixty feet; individuals to be enabled to do this on their own premises. The charge of fuel hardly a peuny an hour, if pit-coal is used; this, for a machine of four inches, and one of twenty, will not consume more than two sons an honr, so that the fuel, in point of quantity, will bear no proportion to that of the water raised. When once established, the machine may be kept in action twelve or twenty-four hours every day, with no other risque of being impaired than the wear and tear of the brass or copper pipes. It may last, therefore, upwards of a century. Fifteen pints of water are assumed as a basis, but the same process will raise unlimited quantities of water in the same space of time. On certain specified conditions, water may be drawn at any depth, and raised to any height: expense of construction 600 francs. The water may be raised to the different stories of a house, for the use either of kitchens or of bathing-rooms, or for reservoirs in cases of fire. As the machine is very light, and of a very small compass, a single man may carry it about, and fix it to a dormant or stationary pipe, to be placed in the pit, and set it in motion. Dr. OIBERS denies that any connexion between the changes of the moon and of the weather is ever observable in the north of Germany; and he asserts that, in the course of an extensive medical practice, continued for a number of years, with his attention constantly directed to the lunar periods, he has never been able to discover the slightest connexion between those periods and the increase or decrease of diseases, or their symptoms. The moon's government of the mind and weather, by sympathy is like its supposed government of the tides by the hocus pocus of attraction. M. THENARD, in his further researches on oxygenated water and its properties, has ascertained that the remarkable effects produced, when it is placed in contact with platinum, gold, silver, &c. are occa sioned also by the contact of several animal substances, and that all the oxygen is disengaged without any immediate action on the substance, at least, when the oxyge nated water is diluted. Pure oxygenated water was diluted until it contained only eight times its volume of oxygen, and twenty-two measures of it introduced into a tube filled up with mercury. A small quantity of perfectly clear and white fibrine, recently obtained from blood, was introduced, and immediately the oxygen began to separate. In six minutes the water was perfectly de-oxygenated, and gave no effervescence with oxide of silver. The gas then measured 176 parts; it contained neither carbonic acid nor nitrogen, but was pure oxygen. The same fibrine, placed many times in contact with fresh oxygenated water, still acted in the same way. Urea, albumen, fluid or solid, and gelatine, did not separate oxygen from water much oxygenated; but a portion of the lungs cut in thin pieces and well wasi ed, or of the kidney, or the spleen, dison gaged the oxygen as readily as the fibrine. The skin and the substance of veins also possess this property, but in an inferior degree. Mr. Fox, of Falmouth, has found, that a very extraordinary degree of heat is de veloped by fusing together platinum and tin in the following manner. If a small piece of tin-foil is wrapped in a piece of platinum-foil of the same size, and exposed upon charcoal to the action of the blowpipe, the union of the two metals is indicated by a rapid whirling, and by an extreme brilliancy in the light which is emitted. If the globule thus melted is allow ed to drop into a basin of water, it remains for some time red-hot at the bottom; and, such is the intensity of the heat, that it melts and carries off the glaze of the basin from the part on which it happens to fall. MONTHLY |