ni.' Morton. Method. exhibend. Cortic. in Curatione Feb. contimentis, p. 131, 132. We shall only produce one other paffage from Dr. Morton, in the conclufion of which he exprefly declares himself to the Tame purpose. Verum, fi fingulas hiftorias recenferem Zuvexwv non tantum legitimarum, verum etiam fpuriarum, quas nuperrimè fpatio fcil. unius menfis, hoc pacto feliciffime fanavi, in fenili vel infantili ætate, atque in ipfo puerperio, nimius effem. Fa teor equidem uti spirituum elasticitas a veneno ita opprimitur, ut vires antidoti regi et in actum deduci inde non poffint, & Eurexas, in Euroèv, malignam degeneret, me haud rarò fortem cæterorum medicorum participaffe, & reftitutionem elafticitatis fpirituum enecatorum fere & fphacelatorum, methodo quacunque, fæpe incertò, fæpe incafsùm fereaffe. Palam autem affirmo me multo folures hujufmodi ægrotantes, deliriis, fube fultibus tendinum, cæterifque id genus fymptomatis malignis obfeffos, ab orci faucibus arte liberaffe, ubi antidoti ufus curationem aufpicabatur; quam cum ab initio, alia quacunque methodo uteret; modo cùm accerfitus primò effem, umbra aliqua remiffionum & exacerbationum fupereffet.' Morton de Protei formi Febris continentis genio, p. 152, 153. The quotations which we have here adduced, from Sydenham and Morton, are fufficient to fhew how much their prac tice is mifrepresented by this author, who has not only egregiously mistaken their fenfe, but also falfly applied the general encomiums on the efficacy of the bark, to be found in these authors, to its particular utility in continual fevers; than which nothing is more contrary to their own express declaration, and the experience of all other phyficians. The only genuine authority produced by this author, for the fuccefsful exhibition of the bark in the exacerbation of remitting fevers, is taken from the inaugural Differtation of Dr. James Lind, of Edinburgh, on whofe evidence, adopted without any limitation in regard to the nature of the fever, and the heat of the climate, as is ufual with Dr. Millar, we have the strongest reason to think he has entirely founded his practice. But whoever examines the hiftory of the fever defcribed by the above-named gentleman, will find, that it was of an highly putrid kind, as, indeed, it is denominated by Dr. Lind himself; and that, confidering such a state of the difeafe, and the extraordinary heat of the climate of Bengal, it is reafonable to fuppofe that a more early exhibition of the bark would be abfolutely neceffary, than would be expedient, or even jus tifiable, in other circumftances. No general rule of practice, how however, in fevers, can juftly be eftablifhed upon instances. taken from particular climates: for it is well known, that in the Weft-Indies, though the degrees of heat are pretty nearly the fame as in Bengal, there is fometimes an abfolute neceffity of bleeding in the beginning of remitting fevers; which practice might prove deleterious in the place laft mentioned, on account of the additional causes of malignity, from the putrid exhalations of the marshes. Hence, therefore, in Britain, and other temperate climates, where the causes of putrefcency exist in a leffer degree, the ufe of the lancet will frequently be found neceffary, though that operation ought always to be cautiously adopted in remitting fevers, and never without a due regard to the ftrength of the patient, and the violence of the fymptoms. From thefe confiderations it might have been expected that Dr. Millar would not have entirely omitted occafionally to recommend an evacuation, the neglect of which is fometimes as pernicious as the improper ufe of it. But this, indeed, is the lefs furprifing, as, through the whole of this work, from a mistaken idea of the identity rather than fimilarity of fevers, he has confounded different fevers together, and confequently the method of practice. For mistakes of judgment, however, he might be entitled to fome degree of lenity; but want of candor we cannot fo easily overlook; and therefore we leave it to Dr. Millar's option, to which of the two we shall impute his adducing the evidence of other authors, in fupport of a doctrine which they never meant: as, for inftance, with fir John Pringle's account of the remitting fever, he joins Dr. Donald Monro's account of the petechial: from whence it would appear, if, according to this author, these fevers are exactly the fame, that the other two learned gentlemen must have known nothing of the matter, as they endea vour to defcribe them of a different fpecies. But shall we, against Dr. Millar, difpute the perfect fimilarity of these fevers; or admit, in his favour, the double miftake, namely, that fir John Pringle, in attempting to defcribe the remitting fever, has ftumbled upon the petechial; and that Dr. Monro, on the other hand, instead of the petechial, which he intended to delineate, has favoured us with a moft accurate hiftory of the remitting fever? Having faid thus much of the authorities on which the practice of giving the bark in continual fevers, and the exacerbations of the remitting, is unjustly endeavoured to be established, let us next examine how far it can be fupported by this author's own experience. For this purpofe, we fhall, in our next Review, take a fhort view of the cafes which he has Z 2 has related of the remitting fever, and of his observations upon them. [To be continued. ] III. Mifcellanies; by John Armstrong, M. D. In Two Vols. 8v6. Pr. 6. Cadell. THIS HIS collection is made by the doctor himself, and printed under his own inspection. This task, he tells us, he has long avoided, and would hardly have fubmitted to it now, but for the fake of preventing his works from being fome time hereafter exposed in a ragged mangled condition, and loaded with more faults than they originally had while it might be impoffible for him, by the change, perhaps, of one letter, to recover a whole period from the moft contemptible nonfenfe.' The publication contains most of the doctor's pieces formerly offered to the public, and several others which he informs us have lain by him for many years. He has loft and destroyed, he tells us, what would probably enough, have been better received by the great majority of readers than any thing he has published. If he could have prevailed upon himself to have destroyed many things printed in these volumes, the best judges (for whom only the doctor publishes) would, we are perfuaded, have honoured him with ftronger marks of their approbation. Their commendation, however, he highly deferves, for not inferting into this collection a poem, which, though extremely cenfurable, contributed to his fame as a writer. The doctor feems very unreasonably apprehenfive of his receiving difguft from the unmeaning praifes of the public. His apprehenfions upon this head, are, we imagine, out of all proportion to the grounds upon wh ch he builds them. We dare venture to affure him, that though he had taken less pains to prevent them, the praises of the public upon this occafion, would have furnished a very moderate exercise for his philo. fophy. 6 The Contents of the First Volume. The Art of preferving Health. In Four Books. Of Benevolence: An Epiftle. Of Tafte: An Epiftle to a young Critic. The Univerfal Almanac.' The doctor's Winter- Piece, in imitation of Shakespear, was, he tells us, one of his first attempts in poetry, made when he was very young. It was just finished when Mr. Thomson's ce lebrated lebrated poem upon Winter appeared. Mr. Thomson procured a copy, which he showed to his poetical friends, Mr. Mallet, Mr. Aaron Hill, and Dr. Young, who, it seems, did great honour to it. Mr. Mallet defired, and obtained the author's leave to print it, but altered his mind, fo that this little piece has continued until now unpublished. After this account of it our readers will no doubt be curious to see it. • Now Summer with her wanton court is gone Now blows the furly north, and chills throughout Each brook that wont to prattle to its banks Seen thro' the shameful breaches, idly creeps Even in the foam of all their madness ftruck To monumental ice, ftand all aftride And laid her ferpents rowling on the duft; When wandering thro' the woods the frown'd to ftone But fix'd in that fierce attitude he stands Like rage in marble.-Now portly Argofies Meantime the evening fkies, crufted with ice, The fhivering clown digs his obftructed way And |