DR. WHITE (of York, 1778) says "diseases which usually in private practice of an easy cure, are often very tedious in hospitals, and apt to assume anomalous symptoms. Healthy persons, admitted for the cure of recent wounds and other accidents, soon become pale, lose their appetite, and are generally discharged weak and emaciated, but soon recover by the benefit of fresh air. In some hospitals the cure of a compound fracture is rarely seen; in private practice and a pure air, such cases seldom fail."-Ibid. p. 326.

"THE Philosopher says that the phancy is seated in the middle region of the brain above the eyes, which upon great and sudden wrath calls up the spirits hastily into itself, and with that swift motion they are heated, and seem to flame in the eyes."ВР. НАСКЕТ, Р. 423.

"WOMEN, in certain circumstances to us unknown, are every now and then capable of very far exceeding the usual number of children at a birth."-Phil. Trans. Abr. vol. 16, p. 301.

HORNS on women.-Ibid. vol. 17, p. 28.

JULIAN calls Jupiter to witness that he had often been cured by remedies which Esculapius directed him to use. "But this," says Dr. Jenkins, "supposing the truth of the fact, doth not prove that false God to have had more skill than a physician might have had, but only shows that devils may have such knowledge of the nature of things, as to give prescriptions in physic."Reasonableness of the Christian Religion, vol. 1, p. 349.

"IL faut que nous fassions comme ces bons Medecins, qui ayans bien préparé les humeurs par quelques legers remèdes, les chassent après tout-à-fait par de plus fortes medecines."-ASTRÉE, pt. 2, tom. 3, p. 394.

MR. NEWTON's wife took tincture of soot. 1776.

SUIDAS and Cedrenus report that Solomon wrote of the remedies of all diseases, and graved the same on the sides of the porch of the temple, which they say Hezekiah pulled down, because the people neglecting help from God by prayer, repaired thither for their recovery.-Raleigh, b. 2, p. 429.

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ON ne doit pas craindre d'avancer que la medecine est de toutes les sciences physiques celle qui a donné lieu au plus grand nombre de speculations."-Trans. Preface to Sprengel.

A GOOD severe jest of Henri IV. to the Parisians. If they instead of accepting his gracious offers should be by famine constrained" de se rendre la corde au col, au lieu," said he, "de la miséricorde que je leur offre, j'en ôterai la misère, et ils auront la corde.". Coll. des Mem. vol. 51, p. 340.

RHAZES cured stomach complaints with cold water and butter milk, and recommended chess for melancholy persons.— SPRENGEL, vol. 2, p. 292.

AVICENNA prescribes gold, silver, and precious stones to purify the blood. And bugs (les punaises, aljesajes) for the quartain fever and for hysterics. — Ibid. vol. 2, p. 319.

WITH him the practice began of gilding pills. Ibid. p. 320.

GILBERTUS ANGLICUS. His treatment of lethargy was to fasten a sow in the patient's bed. And in cases of apoplexy he administered ant's eggs, scorpion's oil, and lion's flesh, in order to induce fever; but Sprengel asks how lion's flesh was to be got in England ?-SPRENGEL, vol. 2, p. 406.

FICINUS advises old men to drink the blood of healthy young persons, as a means of prolonging life.—Ibid. vol. 2, p. 464.

THE old system, that the animal spirits were secreted by the brain.-Ibid. vol. 4, p. 64. All our knowledge comes to the same thing under different terms, pretty much.

TEA brought into use by the Dutch merchants and physicians aiding each other.— Ibid. vol. 5, p. 106-8-11.

NICHOLAS ROBINSON insisted that no other science had such incontestible pretensions to certitude as that of medicine.—Ibid. vol. 5, p. 171.

THE apothecary's praise of a physician in Molière," C'est un homme qui sait la medicine à fond, et qui, quand on devroit créver, ne démordroit pas, d'un iota, des régles des anciens. Oui, il suit toujours le grand chemin, le grand chemin; et pour gúeri une personne avec d'autres remèdes tout l'or du monde, il ne voudroit pas avoir que ceux que la Faculté permet."-M. DE POURCEAUGNAC, vol. 5, p. 387.

"ON est bien aise au moins d'être mort méthodiquement :

ἢ πρὸς ἰατρῶ σοφί θροεῖν ἐπῳδὰς πρὸς τομῶντι πήματι." SOPн. Ajax, v. 582.

IN the atheistic work called, Man a Machine, by St. M. d'Argens (or Mr. de la Mettrie!), the author says that philosophical physicians are the only persons who have explored and unravelled the labyrinth of man; the only ones who, in a philosophical contemplation of the soul, have surprised it in its misery and grandeur, without despising or idolizing it; and the only ones who have a right to speak on it.Monthly Review, vol. 1, p. 125.

Descartes, he says, said that physic could change the mind and manners together with the body.—Ibid. p. 126.

WILLIAM CLARKE, the ossified man, in the county of Cork.-Ibid. vol. 5, p. 280.

WOOD-LICE, how to be taken.-Ibid. p.

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"The best way is the swallowing them alive, which is very easily and conveniently done, for they naturally roll themselves up on being touched, and thus form a sort of smooth pill, which slips down the throat without being tasted. This is the securest way of having all their virtues. The next to this is the bruising them with wine, and taking the expression. If the patient cannot be prevailed with to take them any other way than in powder, the best method ever invented for preparing them in that form, is that ordered in the new London Dispensatory, which is the tying them up in a thin canvass cloth, and suspending them within a covered vessel, over the steam of hot spirit of wine; they are soon killed by it, and rendered friable."

"Often of service in asthmas, and great good has been sometimes done by a long course of them, in disorders of the eyes." This is from Sir John Hill.

THEODORE ZUINGER of Basil, never took

a fee except from the rich, who forced it He used to say, "when a pa

upon him. tient cried ah! ah! for a physician to say da! da! was worthy only of a hangman or other executioner."-ZUINGER, p. 2452.

WHITE leprosy or elephantiasis; “A peculiar malady is this, and natural to the Egyptians; but look, when any of their kings fell into it, woe worth the subjects and poor people! for there were the tubs and bathing vessels, wherein they sate in the baine, filled with men's blood for their cure."--PLINY, lib. 26, c. 1. Ph. Holland, vol. 2, p. 242.

THE Galenists use to cure contraria contrariis with medicaments of a contrary temper; but the Paracelsists, similia similibus, making one dolour to expel another.-PUTTENHAM, p. 39.

"YOUR highness

Shall from this practice but make hard your heart."-Cymbeline, act i. sc. vi.

KAEMPFER, vol. 1, p. 235. Taking the prescription itself in pills.

ARISTOTLE is cited by Olympiodorus to have known a man who never slept in all his life. And the strangeness hath been

Ir is said of Archbishop Sheldon, that he offered £1000 to any person who would "help him to the gout, looking upon it as the only remedy for the distemper in his head, which he feared might in time prove an apoplexy; as in fine it did, and killed him."-DR. POPE's Life of SETH WARD, Restit. vol. 1, p. 52.

DR. LISTER thought that the Small and great Pox were both first occasioned either by the bite, or by eating of some venomous creature.-M. Review, January 1754, p. 38.

THE principal ingredient of the weaponsalve is the moss of a dead man's skull, as the recipe delivered by Paracelsus to Maximilian the Emperor.—Ibid. p. 63.

MR. VENN the elder, in the last six months of his life "was often upon the brink of the grave, and then unexpectedly restored. A medical friend, the late John Pearson, who frequently visited him at this time, observed that the near prospect of dissolution so elated his mind with joy, that it proved a stimulus to life. Upon one occasion, Mr.

PARACELSUS and Von Helmont: "These desperadoes freed medicine from the yoke of Galenism and the Arabians; and yet they did not point out the true path. All the vital and animal motions were explained by the furnace or alembic; and all diseases were supposed to arise either from acids or alkalies."-Ibid. vol. 16, p. 99.

Bacon exprest himself strongly in favour of the Hippocratic method of case writing; but medicine was so divided by the schoolphysician and the chemist, that it made small advances.-Ibid.

The next step was, that "acids alkal. ferments, precipitations," all fled before globules of such and such figure and magnitude. The circulation of the blood was made subservient to the laws of hydraulics; man became a mere mechanical structure, and diseases were proved to own the power of diagrams.—Ibid.

Sydenham, indeed, and some few others, kept to the old Hippocratic method of observation. At last Boerhaave, "that ornament of his profession and of his species," availing himself wisely of the ancient observations, of the chemical, anatomical, and mechanical discoveries; following none implicitly, and using each in its place; he set physiology and the observation of diseases on their proper basis.--Ibid. p. 100.

WOODWARD made not only the passions, but cogitation itself, depend upon bile in the stomach.-Ibid. vol. 16, p. 101.

The reviewer notes this for admiration! But it is true in certain cases of insanity, me teste.

A. D. 1757. LEAKE's Lisbon diet-drink. This man was "well apprized that the

for such doctors as himself, than the posts and bye corners occupied by his redoubted rivals, Messrs. West, and Franks, and Rock, and all the rest of them."—Ibid. vol. 16, p. 466.

IN Birch's History of the Royal Society, it is said that the Finlanders recover persons who have been drowned two or three days; but the persons thus recovered almost always lose their vivacity, and their memory is much impaired.-Ibid. vol. 17, p. 209.

Indeed,

A. D. 1758. DR. MACKENZIE'S History of Health.-Monthly Review, vol. 19, p. 476. "This author supposes that the Paradisiacal food was entirely vegetable. the drudgery of providing culinary utensils, and of cookery, he thinks inconsistent with the state in Paradise. But, he observes, fruits are cold and little nutritive; seeds without preparation, hard of digestion, and flatulent; and undressed herbs, still more harsh and crude. He therefore ingeniously, and not unphysically (says the Reviewer) imagines that the tree of life (which was not interdicted to Adam and Eve, which it seems therefore rather absurd to think they never used, and which was pregnant with immortality itself,) must have been intended to prevent, or remove, the inconvenience resulting from the insalubrity of their common diet.

"For Dr. Clarke (vol. 8, sermon 4,) says, Adam was not (as some have, without any ground from Scripture, imagined) created actually immortal; but by the use of the tree of life (whatever is implied under that expression), he was to have been preserved from dying. This tree, Dr. Mackenzie chuses to understand in a material physical sense, to the possibility of which, we conceive a capacious (?) physician may easily subscribe.

"And the original efficacy of this divine and sole panacea our learned author thinks alluded to by St. John in the Apocalypse, chap. 22, v. 2.