intermittents and remittents, without any bad consequences resulting from the medicine. Some valuable observations relative to the comparison of its effects with those of the bark are subjoined; with an historical narrative of the exhibition of arsenic in intermittents, in different countries. Account of the good Effects of a Solution of Sal Ammoniac in Vinegar, as a topical Application in lacerated Wounds, by Mr. Henry Yates Carter, Wellington, Salop. This is a continuation of the same writer's remarks on the subject, in the 2d vol. of this publication. The cases related are all successful: but the treatment in several of them being compound, it is not so clear how much of the success is to be arributed to the topical application. Indeed, we are inclined to think that the powers of Nature were the chief agent, and that applications of still greater simplicity would sometimes have answered quite as well, Case of a diseased Kidney, by the same. A fatal suppuration of the kidney in this case seems chiefly to have been occasioned by blows on the loins. Case of a Gunshot Wound, by the same. The remarkable circumstance in this case was that a ball entered the skull above the external canthus of the right eye, and came out below the left ear, having caused little injury. Account of some extraordinary Symptoms apparently connected with certain morbid Alterations about the Veins and Nerves, by Mr. Pearson, Surgeon of the Lock Hospital. The case on which this paper is founded was that of an induration, about half an inch in diameter, on the inside of the leg, beginning in pregnancy, and continuing for many years, with exquisite sensibility when touched, and fits of pain consequent on various constitutional changes. It was at last extirpated by caustic, and the disease was entirely cured. The tumour appeared to include a part of the vena saphæna major, and a branch of the crural nerve; and to this combination Mr. P. attributes the symptoms. Other cases somewhat similar are adduced, and the whole suggests several ingenious observations to the writer. Account of the Extraction of an extraneous Substance from the Rectum, by Mr. W. Blair, Surgeon of the Lock Hospital. This substance was a piece of bread burnt in toasting, which the patient had swallowed in soup two days before. Case of Aneurism of the Crural Artery, by Mr. Thompson Forster. In this case, the artery was tied above the tumour, in the manner described in Mr. F.'s two former cases (vol. v.), except that the position of the aneurismal tumour, in the thigh, obliged him to tie the artery as high as just below the branching off of the profunda. The success was complete, and the the tumour was entirely absorbed in the course of seven weeks. Account of a new Species of Swietenia (Mahogany); and of Experiments and Observations on its Bark, made with a View to ascertain its Powers, and to compare them with those of Peruvian Bark, by William Roxburgh, M. D. This is the abstract of a paper sent by Dr. R. to the East India Company. The vegetable in question is a large tree growing in the mountainous part of the Rajamundry Circar, and called by the Hindoos Somida, Dr. Andrew Duncan jun. has made it the subject of an inaugural dissertation. We must refer to the paper itself for the description of the tree, and the detail of experiments on its bark. The result is, that it appears to have more bitterness and astringency than Peruvian bark, to be more soluble in watery menstrua, and to possess more antiseptic virtue. Dr. R. used it successfully in intermittents. An enumeration of five different species of Cinchona is subjoined. Of the Effects of Mahogany Wood in Cases of Diarrhea, by Mr. Fr. Hughes, Surgeon of the Stafford Infirmary. These effects appear, from the cases recited, to be those of a common astringent. Some Discoveries made by Mr. Galvani. This article is a translation of the French letters on the same subject, inserted in the Philosophical Transactions for 1793, Part I. VOLUME VII. Practical Observations on the Treatment of acute Diseases, particularly those of the West Indies, by Wm. Wright, M. D. These are little more than detached hints derived from the author's own practice, most of them on points respecting which others have given more copious information. They may, however, be perused with advantage as the result of a large and attentive observation. They relate to the practice of washing the body with cold water and vinegar, in typhus; the exhibition of calomel in fevers of various kinds, and in hepatitis; and the treatment of the pleurisy, peripneumony, and dysentery in tropical climates. The liberal employment of calomel in acute diseases is the most striking topic in this paper. Facts relative to the Origin of Intermittent Fevers, by Thomas Beddoes, M. D. These facts are adduced merely to prove that Dr. Cullen was deceived when he referred the origin of intermittents merely to marsh effluvia. Observations on the Nature of Corns, and the Means of curing them, by Mr. Anthony Carlisle. After an anatomical and phi siological account of the articular covering of the body, this writer proceeds to shew in what manner a long continued and partial partial pressure occasions a thickening of the cuticle below, and an absorption of the subjacent cutis; whence the diseased cuticle sinks among the sensible parts in form of an inverted cone, and becomes what is called a corn. He then briefly mentions the modes of curing them, by cutting out, dissolving by a caustic liquor, raising by means of perforated sticking plaster, and blistering. Some Observations relative to the Angustura Bark, by T. M. Winterbottom, M. D. of Sierra Leone. From some detailed cases, and the general result of extensive experience, Dr. W. assigns to the Angustura its place among the more powerful tonics, and points out its particular advantages. Account of a remarkable Affection of the Testes, by Mr. Widdows Golding, Wallingford. A swelling of the testicle, as a symptom of the disease called the Mumps, has been remarked by several writers: but, in the cases here related, an inflammatory swelling of this part, accompanied with general fever, but without any affection of the face or jaws, took place as a sort of epidemic in the summer and autumn of 1793. The inflammation, though considerable, subsided in all the instances without suppuration, or sphacelus. Case of a Man who castrated himself, by the same. In this instance, the hemorrhage that ensued from the division of the spermatic arteries was very considerable: but the man reco vered. Cases and Remarks on the external Application of Charcoal, by Mr. W. Simmons, Surgeon at Manchester. These cases limit the good effects of charcoal, externally applied, to the correcting of fætor, which purpose it seems to answer very effectually. Case of Pins extracted from the Breast of a Woman, after re maining there 60 Years, by Mr. H. Fryer, Stamford. This is a striking proof of the length of time during which a foreign substance may lie in the body without injury. Some Account of the Effects of Vitriolic Ether in Cases of Phthisis Pulmonalis, by Richard Pearson, M. D. of Birmingham. This paper is little more than an announcement of cases to be hereafter published, stating the good effects of the application in question. Two Instances of uncommon Formation in the Viscera of the Human Body, by Mr. Abernethy, from Philosophical Transac tions for 1793. On the Conversion of Animal Muscle into a Substance much re sembling Spermaceti, by Mr. Gibbes-from Philosophical Transac tions for 1794, Part II. Experiments Experiments on the Nerves, particularly on their Re-production, and on the Spinal Marrow of living Animals, by Mr. Cruikshank, from Philosoph. Trans. for 1795, Part I. Experimental Inquiry concerning the Re-production of Nerves, by Dr. Haighton--from Philosoph. Trans. for 1795, Part I. Description of an Instrument for trepanning, by Mr. J. Croker King-from Irish Transactions, Vol. IV. Cases of an enlarged Spleen, by Dr. G. Burrowes-from Irish Transactions, Vol. IV. Estimate of the Excess of the Heat and Cold of the American Atmosphere beyond the European, &c. by Ed. Aug. Holyoke, M.D. -from Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. II. Part I. Account of an uncommon Case of Emphysema; and of an external Abscess, the Contents of which were discharged by coughing, by the same from the same. Account of a Case in which a Stone, formed in one of the Kidneys, was extracted through an Abscess in the Back, by Herman Schützercrants, M. D.-from Stockholm Memoirs. Account of the poisonous Quality of the Juice of the Root of Jatropha Manibot, or bitter Cassada; and of the Use of Cayenne Pepper in counteracting the Effects of this and some other poisonous Substances; with Remarks on the Efficacy of the Spigelia Anthelia in WormCases, by James Clark, M.D. of Dominica. The subject of this paper is chiefly some experiments made on frogs, with the Manihot and other narcotic poisons in different states, and with Cayenne pepper as an antidote. This last seems to act by its stimulant quality on the nerves of the stomach, counteracting the sedative power of the poisons. The Spigelia Anthelmia is found to act mest safely as a vermifuge in the form of a syrup made from the infusion of the whole plant, with the addition of orange or lemon peel and juice. Account of some Experiments made with a View to ascertain the comparative Quantity of amylaceous Matter, yielded by the different Vegetables most commonly in Use in the West India Islands, by the same. The object of these experiments seems rather economical than medical, and the value of their results is local. It may, probably, be a piece of information to most of our readers, that Tapioca is made of the starch of Jatropha Manihot, or bitter Cassada, turned by a flat piece of wood on a plate of iron well heated. A fatal Instance of the poisonous Effects of the Oenanthe Crocata, Linn. or Hemlock Dropwort, by Robert Graves, M. D. of Dorchester. In this case, about two table-spoons full of the juice of the roots of this plant, taken by mistake for that of waterparsnip, speedily destroyed a young woman, with all the symptoms of a narcotic poison. ARTE ART. VIII. Dissertations and Miscellaneous Pieces relating to the 7s. 6el. WE always contemplate with renewed satisfaction the ingenious labours of our countrymen in the East. We con sider them, in the aggregate, as constituting the monument more durable than brass, which will survive the existence and illustrate the memory of our Eastern dominion. After the contingent circumstances to which we owe our present preponderance in that country shall have ceased to operate, and the channels of Indian knowlege and Indian wealth shall have again become impervious to the western world, the Asiatic Researches will furnish a proof to our posterity, that the acquisition of the latter did not absorb the attention of their countrymen to the exclusion of the former; and that the English laws and English government, in those distant regions, have sometimes been administered by men of extensive capacity, erudition, and application. When we call to our recollection how far the boundaries of knowlege have been extended, in Europe, by the establishment of the various academies which instruct and adorn this enlightened quarter of the globe; we know not whether any thing could have happened, more favourable to the general interests of literature, than the establishment of a similar institution in the centre of Asia:-a learned society placed in the midst of a people preserving, at the close of the eighteenth century, the pristine dogmata of the primeval ages: from whom Pythagoras derived the tenets which he transmitted to the philosophers of the Italic school; and by whom the same tenets are still taught, that were taught to Pythagoras. The votary of history, who has remarked that our knowlege of antiquity extends little beyond the shores of the Mediterranean, must be curious to pierce the veil which has hitherto enveloped the antiquities of the Eaft, and the origin of nations. He will lament that a love of poetical allegory, or of exclusive learning, should have induced the Brahmins to disguise the history of remote events, in the same fabulous dress which adorns while it obscures those of Greece and Rome:-but he will execrate the intolerant bigotry, which actuated the brave but barbarous Khaliph who devoted to destruction the antient records of the Persian empire. Still, he will perceive that the genius, the application, and the erudition of the late President of the Asiatic Society have thrown considerable light on a very obscure *For Vols. I. and II. see M. Rev. vol. xii. p. 330. and |