If it is thought requifite,' fays Dr. D. to bath the whole body, a piece of oil-cloth is to be laid upon the inferior bed-clothes, and over that a blanket, on which the patient muft lie. A cradle, after the fashion of that in common ufe, to prevent the disturbance of a fractured limb by the bed-clothes, is neceffary to allow the free access of the vapor to every part of the body. The cradle ought to be covered with another piece of oil-cloth, and over that what bed-clothes we choofe, which must be tucked in clofe, efpecially about the neck, to prevent the efcape of the vapor; and thin flannel may be thrown loofely over the body, to avoid any inconvenience from the immediate heat. A fmall opening must be left at the feet for the admiffion of the tin tube. No other regulation of the heat is neceffary than what will occur to the operator, from the fenfations of the patient and his own judg ment. One or more lamps may be lighted according to the quantity of vapor we desire to raile. In bathing particular parts of the body, the fame method must be ufed, and even in this cafe it is better that the patient fhould be in bed, as an univerfal fweat is commonly brought on. It feems better not to continue the ufe of the vapour too long, the first time it is applied. The ufual time has been about fifteen minutes, but the moift vapour has been continued occafionally, with moderation, to particular parts, for three or four hours, after which he fpontaneous fweat which follows may be kept up at pleasure.'D. Art. 27. Tavo Papers ou the Ufe of Ol. Afphalti in Ulcers of the Intef tines, Lungs, and other Vifcera: taken from the Verhandelingen van de Maatschappye te Haarlem, by Thomas Healde, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Svo. Is. Hingefton. Mr. Hofkens de Courcelles, the Author of the two papers here tranflated, obferves, that the Ol. Asphalti will remove the Hectic excited by the abforption of matter, and at the fame time heal up the ulcerated part. If the ulcer, however, is formed in confequence of any fault in the constitution, or any predifpofition in the habit, fuch predifpofing caufes must be removed, before the medicine here recommended can effect the cure.-Suppofe an ulcer of the lungs, for instance, to be produced by acrimony, or a general fault in the habit; that acrimony must first be removed, and the whole habit brought into a proper ftate, and then the ulcer may be healed by the Ol. Alphalibut when the cure is fo far advanced by correcting every thing wrong in the conflitution, we would ask Mr. Hofkens, Whether the ulcer would not heal without the affilance of the Ol Asphalti ? The manner of preparing and adminiftering the oil, is as folic Salis decrepetati Arena para bjfs s Put thefe into a retort, and difill with a strong fire. There comes over first a little water, which you may throw away, taking off the recipient, or let it remain with the oil, to be feparated afterwards with a funnel. There comes next a black oil, which is precifely what what I make use of. Continue to draw it off whilft it continues of a black, or deep brown colour. The manner of ufing it, is, to give from ten to fourteen drops in a morning fafting, and the fame quantity going to bed. I have given fourteen drops four times a day at the medical hours, without any oppreffion or confiderable diforder. Perhaps twice as much may be given. The dofe may be varied according to the age, and strength, the nature, and duration of the disease. It is moft conveniently taken dropp'd upon fugar.' For the cafes and obfervations, we must refer our Readers to the Papers themselves. D. Art. 28. Practical Thoughts on the Prevention and Cure of the Scurvy. Efpecially in the British Navy. By William Jervey, M. D. 8vo. 2 S. Nourfe, &c. The following hints for preventing the fcurvy in the navy are pointed out, as deferving the attention of government.-To purchafe a piece of ground in a proper fituation to fupply a fufficient growth of vegetables for the ufe of the navy; to bake the fhip-biscuit in fuch a manner as to render it more light and porous; to ufe oil inftead of falted butter, and rice instead of peafe and oatmeal. The contrivance for making tainted water sweet by ventilation, was never put in practice in the manner defcribed by our Author, and never exifted but in his own imagination. The late ingenious Dr. Stephen Hales, fays he, has propofed, with his fmall box-ventilators, ventilating the furface of the water, to fweeten it. But as this takes up a confiderable time, it is more fpeedily and effectually done, by causing the air pafs entirely through the body of the water. Hhall endeavour to fhew how I think this may, with leaft trouble, be put in execution. There should be a copper pipe of five feet and a half long, in diameter about an inch and a quarter, whofe lower end is joined to a circular flat box of the fame metal, about two inches and a half deep, whofe upper furface is made full of holes, and with a ledge opens and fhuts upon the lower part, for the convenience of cleaning it. The upper end of the pipe fhould be made to bend floping, to receive the nofle of a fmall box-ventilator, or of a large pair of bellows, fuch as are used for forges. When this metal pipe and box are plunged into a butt, into which the water has been ftarted, the diameter of the box being made nigh equal to the diameter of the end of the butt; or it may be made fquare to enter the skuttle of a skuttle cafk. The bellows or ventilator then being applied to the upper end of the pipe and worked, the air, paffing thro' it, finds no reliftance till it comes to the lower part of the box; where being stopped, it paffes up the holes on its upper part, through the whole calk of water up to its furface; and by thus working the bellows or ventilator, for about a quarter of an hour, though the water ftunk never fo offenfively, it becomes entirely fweet.' Is it not evident that part of the water to be ventilated must pass through the holes of the box, fill the box, and rife in the pipe to the height of the water in the butt-How can it be faid then, that the air, paffing through the pipe, finds no refiftance till it comes to the Q3 lower lower part of the box? or does Dr. Jervey fuppofe, that his fancy is to overturn the well-known laws in hydrostatics? D. Art. 29. A plain Account of the Difeafes incident to Children; with an eafy Method of curing them. Defigned for the Use of Families. By John Cooke, M. D. 12mo. Is. Dilly. The best recommendation of this crude and unfavoury mess is contained in the following words :- To render the work ftill more useful, the price is but fmall, for the fake of the poor.-And if the circumftances of fome are fo very narrow, as unables them yet to purchafe, upon application, I will present them therewith for nothing.' Preface, p. 6. MISCELLANEOUS. D. Art. 30. A Critical Differtation on the Character and Writings of Pindar and Horace. In a Letter to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of B-. By Ralph Schomberg, M. D. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. 8vo. 2 S. Becket. 1769. A remarkable piece of plagiarifm. We have now before us a little duodecimo, printed at Paris, in 1673, and entitled, Comparaifon de Pindare et d'Horace. Dediée à Monf. le Premier Prefident. Par Monf. Blondell, Maiftre des Mathematiques de Monfigneur le Dauphin. From this work has Dr. Ralph Schomberg, of Bath, pilfered and tranflated what he has given to the public as HIS OWN Critical Differtation on the Character and Writings of Pindar and Horace: a procedure which requires no farther explanation !-But it is hoped we shall hear no more of this honourable gentleman, in the republic of literature. Art. 31. Additional Articles to the Specimen of an Etimological Vocabulary; or, Effay, by means of the Analytic Method, to retrieve the ancient Celtic. By the Author of a Pamphlet, entitled, The Way to Things by Words, and to Words by Things Evo. 1 s. L. Davis. We have already mentioned The Way to Things by Words*, &c. and the Specimen of an Etimological Vocabulary +-In this additional tract on the fubject, the Auther farther explains the nature of his learned enquiries, gives us a more extenfive view of their importance, and modeftly reminds the public of the neceffity of their patronizing his labours, by promoting the fubfcription to his grand work, in two vols, 4to. entitled, The Celtic Retrieved, &c. which, he affures us, now waits for nothing towards its being carried into execution for publication, but a competent encouragement.'-Nothing, certainly, is more reasonable than his plea, that whoever confiders the vaft comprehenfiveness of this plan, and the aids, of all kinds, which it muft, to have juftice done to it, indifpenfibly and implicitly require, will eafily allow the undertaking to be not only impoffible to a fmall private fortune, but even where there might be a large one, the work itfelf to imply fo much of propofed utility to the public, as not to be without fome right to folicit the affiftance of the public.' * See Rev. vol xxxv. p. 363. fcription-price, 21. + Vol xl. p. 80. + Sub Art, 32, Art. 32. Real Characters, and genuine Anecdotes. Interspersed with fome fugitive mifcellaneous Pieces of the best modern Authors and Poets. 12mo. 2 s. Bingley. A jeft-book for both the great vulgar and the fmall. Art. 33. Remarks on a Paffage from the River Balife, in the Bay of Honduras, to Merida, the Capital of the Province of Jucatan, in the Spanish Weft-Indies. By Lieut. Cook, ordered by Sir William Burnaby, Rear-admiral of the Red, in Jamaica, with Difpatches to the Governor of the Province, relative to the Logwood Cutters in the Pay. Svo. Is. C. Parker. Mr. Cook was fent on this errand in the year 1765. In his paffage, and journey through the country, the attentive Lieutenant made fuch obfervations as may be useful to mariners and travellers; and fome of them, though not written with elegance, will be entertaining to readers in general. Art. 34. We fuppofe this to be the fame tranflation that was printed fome years ago, in one duodecimo. Art. 35. Memoirs of Ofney-Abbey, near Oxford. Collected from the moft authentic Authors; together with various Obfervations and Remarks. By John Swaine, Efq; 8vo. I S. Harris. Ofney-Abbey was formerly one of the principal monafteries in the kingdom; but now there is not, it feems, fo much as a stone of it remaining. Mr. Swaine, however, unwilling that the memory of it should perish with the building, has here collected, from Dugdale, Hutton, Willis, &c. fuch particulars of its foundation, endowments, and diffolution, as are to be found in the writings of thofe eminent antiquaries. These particulars he has digefted, with a due regard to method; and has interfperfed among them fuch reflections of his own as naturally arose from the subject. Art. 36. The Philofophy of Words, in two Dialogues between the Author and Crito; containing an Explanation, with various Specimens, of the first Language, and thence of all Diale&ts, and the Principles of Knowledge; a Lexicon of difficult Names and Paffages in the Bible, and ancient Authors; and a Plan for an Univerjal Philofophical Language. By Rowland Jones. 8vo. 2 s. Dodiley, &c. We never meet with the wonderful compofitions of this zealous Labourer in the mines of myfticifm and verbal antiquities, without recollecting the noted epigram, Pox on't, quoth TIME to THOMAS HEARNE, NOVELS. Art. 37. The Hiftory of Emily Montague. By the Author of Lady Julia nada; but the remoteness of the scene of action does not affect the 'characters, which are thofe of English officers and English ladies: it however affords the Writer an opportunity of introducing feveral curious and just descriptions of the country, the Indian natives, and the French fettlers; and thus, agreeably to decorate a short story which has nothing extraordinary in it; it being ufual, in novels, to find difinterested affection moft unexpectedly, and molt amply rewarded. N. Art. 38. Female Comftancy: or the Hifiory of Mifs Arabella Waldegrave. Izmo. 2 Vols. 5 s. fewed. Davies. The fidelity of thefe lovers is almoft miraculous; efpecially that of the hero; whofe conftancy feems to have as good a right to be celebrated in the title-page, as that of the lady:-but, it was just as the Author pleafed.-For the reft, we need only add, that the ftory of Mifs W. may be confidered as an affecting reprefentation of the difficulties and dangers to which a young woman may be expofed, who, through misfortune, or imprudence, is deprived of the protection of her friends. N. Art. 39. Two Novels, in Letters. By the Authors of Henry and Frances. In Four Volumes. The first and fecond, entitled, The Delicate.Diftrefs, by Frances; the third and fourth, entitled, The Gordian Knot, or Dignus Vindice Nodus, by Henry. 12mo. 10 S. fewed. Becket. This loving pair of Authors feem extremely fond of repeating the experiments made by Sternhold and Hopkins, and Beaumont and Fletcher, to prove that Pegafus, however mettlefome and prancing a tit he is thought to be, will fometimes foop to the fober drudgery of carrying double. So, whenever Henry has a mind for an airing on the double-top'd hill of Phocis, Frances, forfooth, must get upon the pillion, and away they trot, as Social, fond, and billing, As William and Mary on a thilling. In this jaunt, however, for the frolic's fake, Madam Frances mounts before, and Matter Henry, we fee, is got behind: reminding us, by their appearance, of the two riders at a Skimmington.-But let 'em e'en fettle it as they like: turn and turn about, perhaps, is the fcheme and next time Henry may take the reins. * To drop thefe allufions-this joint publication, as the Reader has feen above, is divided into two diftin&t Novels. In The Delicate Diftrefs, Mrs. Griffith, whofe productions we have occafionally recommended to the public, has told us an interefting tale, embellished with an agreeable variety of characters; the Reader's attention is kept awake by fome very affecting incidents; and the letters, in general, are written in natural, eafy language. In The Gordian Knot, Mr. G. under the affumed name of Henry, gives us, as his title-page may feem to import, a more complicated and more elaborate, but lefs fprightly and lefs pleafing hiftory.. See, befides the Letters of Henry and Frances, The Platonic Wife, School for Rakes, Tranflation of the Letters of Ninion de L'Enclos, &c. &c. |