fity of fuccefs, provided the fluid has not lain long enough to contaminate and deftroy the furrounding parts.'

The fourth section contains two cafes, in each of which the knee was wounded by an edged tool; inflammation and that kind of imperfect fuppuration, which is peculiar to the ligamentous and compact membraneous parts, infued: thefe collections on opening, were found to copfift of a thick, gelatinous humour, fimilar to thofe mentioned in the third fection, and which Mr. Chefton there confidered as the dropfy of the joint. In the fame manner, the fays, we may obferve the white-fwelling to terminate, when it arrives to a ftate of fuppuration.'- And in another place we have this general obfervation; whether an

abfcefs fucceeds immediately from a wound inflicted on the furrounding parts of the joint, or is produced by length of time, from lefs active caufes, as contufions, over extenfions, &c. we always find the fuppuration producing the fame confequences with the fame appearances. Of the latter we have already taken fome notice, (viz. in the third fection, where our Author calls thefe abfceffes the dropfy of the joint) and of the former we will here mention fome particulars, fo far as they may afford us proper notions of difeafed joints in general.' The particulars here refered to, are the two cafes already mentioned, where the inflammation, fuppuration, &c. were the confequences of wounds of the knee: and two other cafes likewise, the one a dislocation of the articulation of the fhoulder, the other a violent ftrain of the ligaments of the fame joint; in each cafe, the fame kind of collections were formed, confifting of a thick glairy matter.Thus we apprehend, the white-fwelling, dropfy of the joint, and thofe collections or abfcefies which are the effect of imperfec fuppuration, are rather confounded than properly diftinguished; and the fubject not treated with that accuracy which it requires.

In the last fection, we have two hiftories of the white-fwelling. The difeafed limbs were amputated; both patients recovered; and Mr. Chefton has added four plates with engravings, the better to explain the appearances of the affected parts.

We have thus given a pretty full account of this part of our Author's work. Thofe of our Readers who have perufed a Thefis, written by Dr. Reimarus on the fame fubject, will probably conclude, that he is too flightly paffed over, when mentioned by Mr. Chefton only in the following general terms: And lately Reimarus published the effects he had obferved from this terrible difeafe, during his attendance at St. George's Hofpital.' Dr. Reimarus had with great affiduity laid in materials for his Thefis: he had perufed a variety of authors; confulted fome of the most eminent of the faculty; examined the patients themfelves; and diffected the amputated limbs. In his defcription

of the disease, he enumerates and enlarges upon the following particulars: the feat, nature, and appearances of the tumour; the weakness, ftiffnefs, curvature, and impeded motion of the joint; the different degrees of pain, and the circumftances which heighten or diminish it; the fover; the different degrees of hardnefs; the varicous appearance of the veins; the fate of the adjoining adeps, and of the glands of the joint; the fate of the lymphatic glands in the inguen er axilla; the Melicerides or imperfect fuppurations, and the fymptoms which accompany thefe, He gives the appearances on diffèction; the ratio fymptom: the morb. differentes; and here he confiders how the white-fwelling, (which is a difeafe originally feated without the joint,) may be diftinguished from the feveral difcafes, which are, 1. External to the cavity of the joint. 2. From thofe which are within the capfa; and 3. From thofe difeafes which are primarily feated in the bones themfelves. The caufes are then enumerated; and the different circumftances which are to determine the prognofts. Little is faid with refpect to the method of cure, except what occafionally occurred in the cafes which Dr. Reimarus had an opportunity of fecing; this part is left to fome after publication, Upon the whole, the Reader will find this inaugural differtation, to be the refult of great application, and a more accurate performance, than what Mr. Chefton has produced upon the fame fubject.

The appendix confifts of twenty four pages, and contains thefe twelve cafes. 1. An Hydropthalmia. 2. Polypofe concretions in the heart. 3. Adhefions of the lungs to the pleura, 4. and 5. Lumbar abfcefles. 6. Stones in the bladder with calculous concretions in the kidney. 7. and 8. Mortal dyfuries during pregnancy. 9. A difeafed tefticle. 10. An induration of the cellular membrane in the fcrotum. 11. An ulceration of the tibia from an internal caufe. 12. A fuppuration of the liver fucceding a wound in the fealp. We fhall not enter upon the particulars of any of thete cafes, as they are a leffer part of the work, and as we have already been fufficiently full in our account of this publication, to enable our Readers to form a judgement of it, in every point of view. With regard to ourfelves, we confider Mr. Chefton as poffeffed of spirit, abilities, and a turn for obfervation: Fut, (not to mention his leffer faults,) he is apt to draw his conclufions from too fcanty a fource of facts; and would fometimes pafs for an original, when in reality he is only an imperfect copyer.

MONTHLY

MONTHLY CATALOGUE, For DECEMBER, 1766.

MEDICA L.

Art. 8. Hypochondriafis. A Practical Treatise on the Nature and Cure of that Dijorder commonly called the Hyp and Hypo. By J. Hill, M. D. 8vo. Is. Baldwin.

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HIS Hypochondriafis, this practical treatife, is artfully drawn up, to alarm the timid, credulous, hypochondriac patient; and that once done, what remains for him, but to fly to Dr. Hill for relief? A fine,

rich field, truly, for our naturalift to range through; and we wonder he never tept into it before!

The infallible remedy, which the Doctor now offers to the public, is prepared from the Spleen-wort.-The virtues, we are informed, chiefly refide in the feeds and feed-covers, which form a yellow powder on the back of the leaves: and thefe virtues are freely given out in tincture.

With regard to fpleen-wort indeed, no method of ufing it is more effectual than fimply taking it in powder; the only advantage of a tincture, is that a proper dofe may be given, and yet the ftomach not be loaded with fo large a quantity; it is an eafier and pleasanter method, and nothing more.'-We apprehend there is fomething more; the Doctor makes and fells the tincture. If any perfon, however, choose to take it in the other way, I fhould fill with him, once at kaft, to apply to me ;— (we believe you good Doctor, and fhould the patient apply twice, would you be offended) that he may be affured what he is about to take is the right plant.'-And then there are fo many doubts cunningly conjured up, about dillinguishing the right plant, that the Doctor may be fure no fearful patient of this clafs will ever venture to begin, till he has confulted Dr. Hill whether he has got the right plent: and after al', the Doctor will obligingly inform him; that, if he pleases, he may have the medicine as prepared by himself.'

Art. 9. A new practical Effay on Cancers: To which is added, A new, more fafe, and efficacious Method of a miniftring Hemlock. By J. Burrows, M. D. 8vo. 2s. 'Owen.

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Which being tranflated into plain English, runs thus: "I the famous "Dr. Burrows, just arrived from France, Italy, Turkey, and the "Levant, being most profoundly learned in all languages, do thus prefent myself to the public, and declare, that all phyficians, from Hyppocrates, to the prefent time, were down-right blockheads, compared to me the great Dr. Burrows; and that my antifchirrous "and anticancerous medicines are the only medicines in nature capable "of performing miracles. I live in Piccadilly, end am a molt fur"prifing Doctor."

Art. 10. The Tonnelett vindicated; or fome Animadverfions upon the Principles and Practice, fet forth in two Tracts, intitled, I. Traitè des Eaux Minerales de Spa; and, II. Recueil d'Obfervations fur les Effects des Eaux Minerales de Spa, de l'An. 1764. Avec des Remarques fur le Syfteme de M. C. Lucas, &c. Par Jean Phillipes de Limbourg, Docteur de Medi

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Art. 12. Select Papers on the different Branches of Medicine. By a Society, instituted for the Improvement of Phyfical Knowledge. To be continued occafionally. 8vo.

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From the title of this pamphlet, one would naturally conclude, that the select papers, of which it is compofed, were written by the members of the fociety. How far this is the cafe will appear from the following brief review of its contents:

Art. 1. A fort Account of the Origin and Progrefs of the different Branches of Medicine, from the earliest Ages of Antiquity to the prefent time. How very fhort and imperfect this account muit be, will easily be conceived, when we confider it as the whole hiftory of phyfic condensed into the limits of nine 8vo pages.

Art. 2. Cafes. Thefe cafes, which fill half the pamphlet, are extracted, as we are told by this Society, from a work of Mr. Le Dran's, which has never yet been tranflated into the English language. The truth of this affertion will perhaps be queftioned by our Readers, when they recollect that in our Review for laft month, we gave them an account of Le Dran's Cafes, tranflated by Mr. Reid.

Art. 3. On Confumptive Disorders. Contains not one fyllable which may not be found in books that are in everybody's hands.

Art. 4. A Pathological Obfervation, by Dr. Haller. Confequently not by a Member.

Art. 5. Remarks on Injections, &c. Not worth remarking.

Art. 6. Experiments made on the Liquor Amnii. Not worth making. Art. 7. A remarkable Inftance of the Efficacy of the Extract of Hemlock, in a confirmed Cancer, by L. Roupee, M. D. The cafe is that of a Knight of Malta, who, having devoured all the hemlock on the island, died for want of a fresh fupply.

How far the improvement of physical knowledge is to be expected from the labours of this fociety, may be eafily gathered from this confpectus of the first number of their works; which are to be continued occasionally, but for which probably there will be no farther occafion. Art. 13. An Efay on the Practice of Midwifery. Part I. 8vo. Is. 6d. Sherborne printed, and fold by Kearfly in London. An abortion of which any old gentlewoman might have been delivered, without violent pains or labour.

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