Antimonialia.

Tartarum emeticum cum merc. corrof. fub. to the fixteenth part of a grain, diffolved.

Turp. mineral. cum Kerm. mineral.

The modes, in which fuch remedies have been applied are, to prescribe very small dofes, and drink after each fome folution of camphor and nitre, &c.'

Art. 29. Cautions to the Heads of Families, in Three Effays: 1. On Cyder Wine, prepared in Copper Veffels; with Hints for the Improvement of Cyder, Perry, and other Fruit Liquors. 2. On the Poifon of Lead-Method of detecting it in various Liquors, Foods, Medicines, Cofmetics, &c. With general Indications of Cure. 3. On the Poison of Copper-how it may be difcovered, though in very minute Quantity-Method of Cure. By A. Fothergill, M. D. F. R. S Member of the Royal College of Phyficians, London, and of the Medical Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Paris. 8vo. PP. 95. 1s. 6d. Cruttwell, Bath; Dilly, London.

These useful effays have already appeared in the 5th volume of Papers by the Bath Society. We recommend the perufal of them to the heads of families, to whom they are properly addreffed, as enabling them to guard against pernicious impregnations of lead, copper, &c. in the common articles of diet.

Art. 30. The New Family Herbal; or, Domeftic Phyfician; enumerating with accurate Defcriptions all the known Vegetables which are any way remarkable for Medical Efficacy; with an Account of their Virtues in the feveral Difeafes incident to the Human Frame. Illustrated with Figures of the most remarkable Plants, accurately delineated and engraved. By William Meyrick, Surgeon. 8vo. pp. 498. 14 Plates. 7s. Boards. Coloured Copies at double Price. Pearton, Birmingham; Baldwin, London, 1790.

We can recommend this Herbal as an ufeful book; as it appears to be fuficiently accurate and comprehenfive for the purpofes for which it is intended. Mr. Meyrick very wifely rejects thofe numerous and incredible accounts, given by moft writers, of the virtues of different vegetables; accounts fo contradictory and abfurd, that they never fail to remind us of one of honeft old Dr. Baynard's ftories, which he whimically introduces in his letter to Sir John Floyer, on cold baths. I remember, (lays the worthy Doctor,) when I was at Leyden in Holland, not much fhort of forty years fince, walking in the phyfic garden, a Scotch gentleman, a ftudent there, asked the profeffor, Francifcus De la Boe Sylvius, What Abfinthium marinum was good for? The profeffor fmilingly asked him, What countryman he was? He answered, Scoto Britannus. He asked him, if, in their metropolis, Edinburgh, they had not fuch a punishment as the boot, to extort confeffion from the ftubborn criminals? He answered, Yes. Why then, quoth Sylvius, take this plant in his luxuriant feafon, root and branch, and clap him into the boot, and fqueeze it hard, for without it confeffes, I doubt neither thee nor I fhall ever know what his virtues are."

To prevent mistakes from the inaccuracy which prevails amon the common English names of plants, the author has added the Latin generic and trivial names of Linné. He has been sparing the ufe of fcientific terms, and has explained fuch as he has been obliged to adopt. In an appendix, he has given ufeful direction for gathering and preferving all kinds of roots, herbs, flowers, and feeds; with the methods of preparing diftilled waters, conferves, fyrups, pills, tinctures, ointments, and other neceffary forms & medicine. A table of difeafes is added, with references to tho remedies commonly employed in their cure.

Art. 31. The Ufe and Abufe of Sea Water, impartially confidere: and exemplified in feveral Cafes and Remarks: with many necefary Hints and Cautions to those who bathe in and drink it. lacluding the most approved Means for preventing the dreadful Effects of the Bite of mad Animals. Third Edition, with Adci. tions. By Robert White, M. D. 8vo. pp. 76. 15. 6d. Richardfon. 1791.

The perufal of this pamphlet may perhaps be of fome ufe to isvalids, who indifcriminately ufe fea water in all complaints. The work will, however, attain its greateft pitch of utility, if it fhould induce the reader, in cafes of importance, to fubmit to the decis of fome skilful phyfician.-For our account of the first edition, fet Review, vol. iii. p. 247.

Art. 32. The Anatomical Inftru∨ or an Illuftration of the mo dern and most approved Methods of preparing and preferving the different parts of the Human Body, and of Quadrupeds, by lajection, Corrosion, Maceration, Diftention, Articulation, Modelling, &c. With a Variety of Copper-plates. By Thomas Pole, Member of the Corporation of Surgeons in London. Sr3. pp. 304. 10s. 6d. Boards. Darton and Co. 1790.

It is evident from the title of this work, that Mr. Pole afpires to no higher honour than that of inftructing medical students in the art of making anatomical preparations. We have examined his directions on this fubject, and, on the whole, can recommend them as being useful and plain.-In a long introductory differtation, confifting of 80 pages, Mr. Pole treats of the utility of anatomical knowlege, and points out what he thinks the belt methods of attaining it.

Art. 33. The Inftruments of Medicine; or, the Philofophical Diget and Practice of Phyfic. By George Hoggart Toulmin, M.D. Svo. pp. 255. 55. Boards. Johnton.

In an introduction to this work, Dr. Toulmin laments that the practice of phyfic thould be involved in obfcurity, from the devia. tion from fimplicity, and from the fondness for whatever is complex and unintelligible, fo obfervable in the profeffors of the medical art. He profefles, however, not to enter into a confideration of the theoretical part of the Icience, referring his readers, for all that is requifite to be known on that subject, to the Elementa Medicina of the late Dr. Brown; whofe character our author holds in great veneration.

Dr.

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Dr. T. has given a flight hiftory of the principal difeafes, and fubjoined prefcriptions adapted to their feveral natures. tories are generally exact, and the remedies are judicious.

EDUCATION and SCHOOL-BOOKS.

t. 34. The New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Languages. In two Parts, I. French and English;-II. English and French. By Thomas Nugent, LL. D. The Sixth Edition, carefully revised and corrected, by J. S. Charrier, French Mafter to the Royal Academy, Portsmouth. Small Quarto. 45. bound. Dilly. 1791.

Our account of the fecond edition of this very ufeful portable lictionary, may be feen in the fiftieth vol. of the M. Rev. p. 68. ; o which we now refer for particulars that we may, on this occaion, fpare ourselves the trouble of repeating. The uncommon uccefs which this abridgment of the greater dictionaries has experienced, is evident from the number of impreffions that have been already demanded. To the prefent edition is annexed the following poftfcript to the editor's preliminary advertisement:

Few books have been more affiduously improved in fucceeding editions, than this dictionary. So numerous are the additions, that there is danger left it should no longer continue to be a focket dictionary. Its fmall fize was, however, a great recommendation; and to preferve it in that fize, it is now fo contrived, that the fupplement may be fubjoined or omitted, at the option of the purchafer. As the fupplement chiefly concerns thofe who are in the navy and army, it may be entirely omitted by others who are not in that line, and who wish to avoid whatever fwells the volume with extraneous matter, not effentially neceffary to bind up with the dictionary, though useful to officers, &c. The Supplement may be had in a separate state.

The reader will, of courfe, advert to one great improvement in this edition,--the introduction of many phrafes which are very ufeful, but which never appeared in any preceding edition.'

Art. 35. Sententive Hiftoriæ, hinc inde excerptæ. Quibus fubjiciuntur thefes quædam 3 verfus, in ufum tironum. 12mo. pp. 42. 1s. Bound. Dilly. 1792.

This little work appears very well adapted for the use of boys who are beginning to apply the rules of Latin grammar.

Art. 36. Excerpta Hiftorica ex C. Julio Cæfare, T. Livio Patavino, C. Cornelio Tacito. In ufum fcholarum. 12mo. pp. 428. 35. fewed. Dilly. 1790.

Thefe extracts appear to be judiciously felected, and the readings carefully regulated.

Art. 37. A Summary of Geography; and Clafical Geography being the Second Part of a Summary of Geography, ancient and mo dern. For the Ufe of the lower Claffes of a School near Town. Small 8vo. 2 Vols. 4s. bound. Dilly. 1791.

These two volumes form a judicious abridgment of ancient and modern geography, properly adapted for the ufe of the lower claffes

in fchools, as the title page fairly fets forth, without oftentation e parade.

POETRY and DRAMATIC.

Art. 38. Monody to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, late Predent of the Royal Academy, &c. &c. &c. By Mrs. Mary Ro binfon. 4to. 1s. 6d. Bell. 1792.

Another poetic tear bedewing the hearfe of Sir Joshua *.- Mrs. Robinson has already obtained from us a wreath of laurel; and we feel a pleasure in being now able to enrich the garland by an added tribute of commendation. The Monody before us deferves and meets with our fincereft praife. The poetry is good, the nembers are pleasingly harmonious, and the apparent heart-felt affec tion, which animates the diction, impreffes the reader's mind with the most agreeable fenfations. We were alfo gratified with reflecting, that the praife here beflowed by the Mufe on her fifter art is not merely poetical. Mrs. R. very happily and very juftly defcribes the Painter's excellence, in the following lines:

Tafte, feeling, character, his pencil knew,

And Truth acknowledg'd e'en what Fancy drew."

In p. 11. addreffing herfelf to her Mufe, the illuftrates, in very beautiful imagery, the infufficiency of her poetic efforts to add to the luftre of fo diftinguished and fplendid a genius, and difcriminates between the value of the poet's and the public's praise :

⚫ Can thou with brighter tints adorn the rofe,
Where Nature's vivid blufh divinely glows?

Say, can't thou add one ray to Heav'n's own light;
Or give to Alpine fnows a purer white?
Can't thou increase the diamond's burning glow,
Or to the flower a richer fcent bestow?
Say, canst thou fnatch by fympathy fublime,
One kindred bofom from the grafp of TIME?
AH, NO! then bind with cyprefs boughs thy lyre,
Mute be its chords, and quench'd its facred fire;
For dimly gleam the POET's votive lays,

Midst the vast fplendours of a NATION'S PRAISE!' The graces of pathetic verfe' feem, in this Monody, to be affembled round the tomb of BRITAIN'S RAFFAELLE; and the invocation to Sir Joshua's pupils to protect his fame, founded on an enemeration of thofe feveral virtues which are urged as obligations to this protection, forms a pathetic and beautiful conclufion to the poem:

By the mild precept of his focial hours;
By the ftrong magic of his mental powers;
By his meek diffidence, his modest mien;
His folid judgment, and his foul ferene!
OH YE! who owe to each the meed of praise,
Who fhar'd the converfe of his blameless days,

See Rev. for June, p. 226.

Who

Who living own'd the virtues of his heart,
Who mark'd the rifing glories of his art,

STILL GUARD HIS FAME! and when, as foon pe muft,
Like him ye mourn, fade to your native duft,

May the fond MUSE, to WORTH and GENIUs true, WITH EQUAL JUSTICE FORM A WREATH FOR YOU!' We have fo often met with as foon ye must rhiming to duft, on tomb-ftones, that the phrafe ftrikes us as too common and vulgar for an elegant poem. Confidering the attention which Mrs. R. has paid to her rhimes, we were furprized to obferve, in p. 8, charm ofed as a rhime to form. The too frequent repetition of the word glow, in fo short a poem, likewife difpleafed as:

• Canvas glows'

Bofoms proudly glow."
Beauties glow.'

Nature's bluth glows.'
• Diamonds glow.'

It has been remarked, that critical commendation generally has a fting in its tail. The defects here pointed out are of to trivial a nature, that the conclufion of this article cannot be felt by the fair author as a fting. On Mrs. R. we are perfuaded, the hint of friendly criticism will produce no unpleasant fenfation, nor will it be thrown away.

Art. 39. L'Avocat du Diable: The Devil's Advocate; or SATAN verfus PICTOR. 4to. pp. 19. Is. Johnfon.

A humourous parody on fome proceedings in the caufe, Lord Lagainft P. Pindar; who had, in the exuberance of his imagination, liken'd his L- p to Lucifer. Here the Prince of Darkness takes offence at the comparifon; the caufe is brought into the court of Uncommon Pleas; and thus the counfel for his internal highnefs fets forth his client's complaint against the brotherartists, the painter and the poet:

But limners, 'bove all the calumnious race,

Are ever diftorting his figure and face.

With ev'ry thing ugly his likeness they load;

He's fometimes a cormorant, fometimes a toad.

Here, a fire-fpouting dragon, he rides on the air!

A forky-tongu'd fnake, on the ground, he crawls, there !
Ev'n then when, to answer fome fanciful plan,

They let him appear in the form of a man;

So droll, or fo dreadful a figure they make him,

That none of his friends for the DEVIL can take him.

He's now a Mulatto, in colour and shape;

And now has the hair, and the faout of an ape.

This day, he appears with the horns of an ox;

The next, with the tail of a monkey or fox:

His limbs are mishapen; his feet are but paws;

And his hands, 'ftead of fingers, are furnish'd with claws!
Yet all this, I fay, he has patiently borne,

And treated his fland'rers with infinite fcorn: