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Ibid. vol. 7, p. 543, tuburculated skin. of singing, to the admiration of all about vol. 10, p. 562.

CASSINI saw a Russian at Florence who during two different years in his life had in his body an electrical virtue similar to that of the torpedo.-Monthly Review, vol. 66, p. 500.

SIR JOHN FLOYER in his Pharmacobasanos, or Touchstone of Medicines, attempted to account for their virtues by their taste and smell.-Phil. Trans. Abr. vol. 4, p. 458.

M. DE CHERAC, who was first physician to Louis XV. maintained that it is as much the duty of a physician to enforce discipline to the sick, as of a general to enforce it in an army.—Ibid. p. 497.

LINIMENTS for the itch "may be made agreeable enough, and of a good smell, as particularly is that compounded of the ointment of orange flowers, or roses, and a small quantity of red precipitate."-DB. MEAD. Ibid. vol. 5, p. 4.

WHEN the small pox is epidemical in the main land over against Skie Isle as in the isle itself, the natives bathe their children in the infusion of juniper wood, and they generally escape; when this is neglected they often die.-Ibid. p. 379.

PEARLS prescribed, to all those that are able to pay for them.-Ibid. p. 366. Gold and silver also.—p. 368.

MANY Swallowed the stones of sloes and cherries, thinking they would prevent any danger of surfeit, or indigestion from the fruit.-Ibid. vol. 6, p. 253.

DODDRIDGE relates that a clergyman's lady, whose husband was of some eminence in the literary world, in a frenzy after a lying in (which was quickly removed) found during the time of it such an alteration in the state and tone of her nerves, that though she never had before nor since any ear for music, nor any voice, she was then capable

her, several fine tunes, which her sister had learnt in her presence some time before, but of which she had not then seemed to take any particular notice.-Ibid. vol. 9, p. 370.

A MAN who had lost the use of his speech for about four years, recovered it, by being extremely frightened in a dream. The dream was that he had fallen into a furnace of boiling wort, and he called for help.— Ibid. p. 465.

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THERE were two kinds of Usnea Humana, -the crustacea et villosa; the former was most esteemed, and any of the crustacean lichens, but more properly the common grey-blue pitted lichenoides of Dillenius. The villosa was a species of the genus hypnum; any moss that happened to grow on a human skull was thought efficacious.— Ibid. vol. 40, p. 252.

THE cup moss was long accounted a specific for hooping-cough. Willis had great faith in it.—Ibid. p. 255.

STRICT laws, vigilantly enforced, preserved New England from the small pox generally, Boston excepted, where it struck root, 1649, and was often epidemical.—Ibid. vol. 12, p. 229.

FAMILY at Maryport (the Harrises) who could not distinguish colours.-Ibid. vol. 14, p. 143.

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.

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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. pills.-Ibid.

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.

WHEN the German physicians (in the fifteenth century) wished to bring on a febrile action, they placed the patient between two fires. Ibid. vol. 2, p. 478.

AVICENNA held that a certain fifth quality formed the temperament.-Ibid. vol. 3, p. 43.

LUIS MERCADO, physician to Philip II. doubted whether the temperament ought to be so regarded, or whether it were not rather the harmony and reunion of the four primary qualities.-Ibid. p. 21.

SPRENGEL calls him the Thomas Aquinas of medicine, the first of all scholastic physicians; and says it is impossible to imagine "jusqu'à quel point cet écrivain pousse les réveries méthodiques."

BARBAROSSA communicated to Francis I. a receipt for mercurial pills.-Ibid. vol. 3, p. 73.

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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 tout l'or du monde, il ne voudroit pas avoir gúeri une personne avec d'autres remèdes que ceux que la Faculté permet."-M. DE POURCEAUGNAC, vol. 5, p. 387.

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

ε πρὸς ἰατρό σοφί θροεῖν ἐπῳδὰς πρὸς τομῶντι πήματι.” SOPH. 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.

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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.

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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.

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

A FEVER cured by music. The cure is quitted by an experience of later days.— JOHN GREGORY, p. 63. curious.-M. Review, vol. 9, p. 367-8.

It 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.

Venn himself remarked some fatal appearances, exclaiming, 'Surely these are good symptoms!' Mr. Pearson replied, Sir, in this state of joyous excitement, you cannot live.'"-Memoir of MR. VENN, p. 59.

Ar Butterley Lees, near New Mills, on the 5th instant, as the wife of E. Fearnley was sealing up the cows, a favourite, which always appeared very quiet, turned her head, and dreadfully lacerated the left eye of the unfortunate woman. The sight of this eye Mrs. Fearnley had lost by the small pox in her childhood; but the obstruction being partly removed by the cow, and the other part by Mr. Burkinshaw, of York, she has actually recovered the sight of her eye which has so long been closed. She is in her forty-second year.-Tyne Mercury.

SHEBBEARE published, A.D. 1755, a "Practice of physic founded on principles in physiology and pathology hitherto unapplied in physical enquiries." The principle was fire, of which he held the real elementary and material existence, and the presence of which he considered to be the cause of animal heat; and its excess or defect the principal cause of all diseases, His directions are to heighten or abate the fire, which amounts to nothing more than the hot or cold regimen.-M. Review, 12, p. 401, which speaks ill of the author.

M. REVIEW, Vol. 13, p. 242. Case of consumption cured by cucumbers.

Dr. Gregory's case by lemons. Mr. Fletcher's own case by cherries. The two latter were indicated by a craving for these remedies. The former, the Dr. happened to think of.

"As spirits (spiritus ardentes)," says Dr. Douglass's Circular, A. D. 1750,"not above a century ago, were used only as officinal cordials, but now are become an endemical plague every where, being a pernicious ingredient, in most of our beverages; so formerly sugar was only used in syrups, con

serves, and such like Arabian medicinal compositions. It is at present become of universal and most noxious use. It fouls our animal juices, and produces scrophulas, scurvies, and other putrid disorders, by relaxing the solids: it occasions watery swellings, and catarrhal ails: it induces hysterics and other nervous disorders; therefore should be sparingly used, especially by the weaker sex; they are naturally of a fibra laxa."-M. Review, vol. 13, p. 272.

MAISTRE DOUBLET, surgeon to the Duc de Nemours :-he cured wounds with nothing but clean rags and clean water, with the help of charms.-See BRANTOME, vol. 9, p. 22-3.

"THE Machaon of those times (A.D. 1754), Dr. Richard Rock, dispensed from his onehorse chaise his cathartic anti-venereal electuary, his itch powder, and his quintessence of vipers. Being superior to regularity, and despising the formality of academical degrees, he styled himself M. L. He is," says the Connoisseur (No. 17)," a London physician, or as Molière would express it, 'C'est un medicin de Londres.'"

"WHEN we see a snuff-coloured suit of ditto, with bolus buttons, a metal-headed cane, and an enormous bushy grizzle, we as readily know the bearer to be a dispenser of life and death, as if we had seen him pounding a mortar, or brandishing a clyster pipe."-Connoisseur, vol. 2, p. 161. a. D. 1755.

HOPE that a physician affords :

Δόξαν γὰρ τόδ' ὑγιείας ἔχει. Κρεῖσσον δὲ τὸ δοκεῖν, κἄν ἀληθείας ἀπῇ. EURIP. Orestes, 238.

"THE subtil medium proved: or that wonderful power of nature, so long ago conjectured by the most ancient and remarkable philosophers, which they called sometimes æther, but oftener elementary fire, verified. Shewing that all the distinguish

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