leg and life of my patient, fent him home found and well, and left him eight years after, a very ftout ftrong man, without any degree of lameness." An account of a difeafed Tibia, by Dr. Hunter, is annexed to the preceding article; and good engravings of the bones in both cafes, and of the Callus in the laft, are added at the end of the volume. In this last the middle part of the native original Tibia, being deprived of all circulation, loft its connection with the Periofteum, and was gradually loofened from both its living extremities, which produced a Callus, extending from one to the other, giving firmnefs and inflexibility to the part, and fhooting in form of a tube, fo inclofed the exfoliated, or loofened, part, that though quite loose, it could not be feparated. Dr. Hunter fubfcribing here, in general, to the precept which Dr. Mackenzie drew from the former inftance, thinks the prefent one feems also to prove, that Art may fometimes cure a difeafe which would get the hetter of Nature; whence, in Surgery, as in Phyfic, there will always be a field for the exercise of Judgment, The twenty-fixth article is a letter from Mr. Matthew Turner, Surgeon, to Dr. Fothergill, on the cure of Afcarides by tobacco fumes in form of glyfter. This laft expreffion is rather improper, as glyfter implies the injection of a manifeft liquid but the application or immiffion of any vapour, is terined a fumigation, this being fo immitted thro' the anus by means of a tube directed by Heifter. The Afcarides were difcharged in great numbers; and there is no doubt but it may often prove a remedy in fuch cases, in strong subjects, such as the present seems to have been. Thefe fumes have often been received in America, in obftinate conftipations from the Dry Belly-ach, and not without effect; though fome tender fubjects have fuffered a temporary convulfion from them. The twenty-feventh is an account of the great benefit of Blifters, applied to the region of the Os Sacrum, in incontinence of Urine, and Palfics of the lower extremities: by Dr. Dickfon. The Doctor was confiderably induced to this application from reflecting, that most of the nerves that go to the bladder, pafs through the Foramina or perforations of the as facrum. He gives the Society three inftances of its fuccefs in his own patients, and a fourth in a letter to himself, from Mr. Wolley, Surgeon and Man-midwife. The twenty-eighth exhibits an uncommon cafe of the feparation of the Ola pubis: by a Phyfician in the country, commu nicated nicated by Dr. Hunter. All the complaints of this Patient, who died about the eleventh day after delivery, are exactly detailed in about twelve pages: to which fome curious anatomical remarks on the Symphyfis, or clofe union of thefe bones, commonly confidered as one, are fubjoined by Dr. Hunter. The twenty-ninth is employed in feveral obfervations on a diflocated Shoulder, which could not be reduced; fhewing the obftacles to its reduction, together with fome general remarks on the diflocations of this part: by Mr. Henry Thompfon, Surgeon to the London Hofpital. The appearances in this cafe, on diffection, and on a fubfequent one included in this article, are accurately defcribed; and it appears, that in both of them there was fome fracture of the bone and its capfula, the capfular ligament being compleatly torn off in the firft. The whole concludes with fome practical remarks, to which we refer our chirurgical Readers. The thirtieth, inculcates a new method of treating an Aneurifm, in an extract of a letter from Mr. Lambert, Surgeon at Newcastle upon Tyne, to Dr. Hunter. This well conceived and ingenioufly applied method was happily executed, by paffing a steel pin, one 4th of an inch long, through the lips of the wounded artery, and then fecuring it, as in the operation for a hare-lip, by twifting a thread round it. The operation was performed June 15, and the Patient difinified perfectly well July 19 following; the pulfe of that arm remaining nearly as strong as in the former. The method is related with perfpicuity and concifenefs; and the article is concluded by a proper query on the further extending of this operation, fo as to prevent fome, otherwife inevitable, amputations. The next article, is from Mr. Triquet, Surgeon of the Guards, and may be confidered as if it had been annexed to many preceding ones, on the great efficacy of the Sublimate Solution, and of the Sarfaparilla. The phagedenic ulcer cured by them, is attributed to a fcorbutic habit of body. In the thirty-fecond, Mr. Bard a Surgeon at New-York, informs us of an extraordinary extra-uterine Foetus; in a letter to Dr. Fothergill. It was extracted in the mother's life time, who has fuckled a healthy child fince the opening of the tumour, and the healing of the wound through which it was N 2 extracted. extracted. Extra-uterine Foetufes are much oftener extracted from dead than living bodies; a fimilar cafe occured to Mr. Marshal of Louth in Lincolnshire, about twenty years ago. The thirty-third gives an account of a new method of reducing [diflocated] Shoulders: communicated to Dr. Hunter, by Mr. Charles White, Surgeon to the Manchefter Infirmary. It may deserve the perufal of Surgeons, as it contains three fuccessful inftances of this manner of reducing this dislocation; which was chiefly effected by drawing the Patient up by the dislocated arm, and letting the extenfion be made, in a great meafure, by the weight of his depending body. The moft recent diflocation was of a fortnight's standing, the oldeft, of three months. The thirty-fourth relates the fuccessful treatment of a Locked Jaw, fuppofed to have been occafioned by a wound in the finger. It comes from the Surgeon juft named. After an amputation of the first joint of the finger, the cure was effected chiefly by Opium and the warm Bath; the Patient having taken in about five weeks, three hundred and feventeen grains of Opium, befides feveral draughts with liquid Laudanum, and Syrup of Poppies. Mr. White candidly acknowleges, it was the recital of two cafes in the first volume of this work, which directed him to pursue this efficacious method: feveral cafes of locked jaws have occurred in that town and its vicinage, within twenty years paft; all which proved fatal. This fingle circumftance evinces the great utility of the prefent Medical Society. The thirty-fifth, is another fhort cafe, communicated by Dr. Dicklón, and confirming the efficacy of a Blifter to the region of the Os Sacrum. This happened to a man of twenty-fix, after a ftrain; and in all thefe fuccefsful cafes the Blifter did not only cover all the region of the bone, but was extended from fide to fide. The thirty-fixth and laft article, contains farther Obfervations on a particular fpecies of Aneurifm, by Dr. Hunter. This refers to what he had published in the firft volume, on the fame fpecies of it, which he does not recollect to have been mentioned by any Author, viz. that fpecies of it, in which there is a direct and immediate communication between the wounded vein and artery; and which, he judiciously infers, should not be fubjected to chirurgical operation. Two very remarkable cafes are given in fupport of this judgment, the subject of the laft being a Servant now belonging to the Middlesex Hofpital. Hofpital. The article is very curious and critical on the occafion; and concludes with three pertinent queries, on the causes of the various appearances in thefe Aneurisms, and the Doctor's very probable rationale of them. Thus have we given the most comprehenfive fynopfis of the fubjects of this valuable work, the continuation of which the preface encourages us to hope for. We had premifed, that Gentlemen of the medical profeffions could fcarcely acquiefce in the largest abftract, which our attention to many other performances would allow us to make. But we imagine our Readers in general would be diffatisfied with a lefs circumftantial information of the fubftance of the different articles than this we have presented them. We must not omit, that three good plates, containing feveral figures, are annexed to this volume; and that the preface informs us, the authors do not chufe to condemn the cicuta, fo highly recommended by Dr. Storck, until it has been tried here under every poffible advantage. The Shipwreck. A Poem. In three Cantos. By a Sailor. 4to. 5s. Millar. I T has been frequently obferved, that true genius will furmount every obftacle which opposes its exertion. The very poetical and interefting performance before us, is a ftriking proof of this obfervation. How unfavourable foever the fituation of a Seaman may be thought to the Poet, certain it is the two characters are not incompatible: for none but an able Sailor could give fo didactic an account, and fo accurate a description of the voyage and catastrophe here related; and none but a particular favourite of the Mufes could have embellished both with equal harmony of numbers and strength of imagery. Unless we are to attribute also a variety of affecting circumstances to the power of imagination, our nautical Poet appears to have been poffeffed of no inconfiderable share of fortitude, to poffefs, under fuch circumstances, fo tenacious a memory, if, as we conclude from fome parts of the poem, and particularly from his motto*, he was perfonally aboard, and thipwrecked by the ftorm he fo poetically defcribes. quæque ipfe miferrima vidi Et quorum pars magna fui. N 3 The The main fubject of the poem is the lofs of the fhip Britannia, a merchant-man, bound from Alexandria to Venice, which touched at the island of Candia, whence proceeding on her voyage, fhe met with a violent form, that drove her on the coils of Grecce, where the fuffered fhipwreck near Cape Colonne; three only of the crew being left alive. After a proper, and not unpoetical, introduction, the Author begins his relation with a general intimation of his fubject, and a comparative defcription of the island of Candia, wherein he expatiates on the difference between its prefent ftate and that of ancient Crete. Thefe eyes have feen, while famifh'd babes complain, No lovely Helens grace the wretched shore, No fair Penelopes attract the eye, For whom contending Kings were proud to die: Dim would thofe charms, fo fam'd in Grecian lore, The fhip, putting to fea from the port of Candia, the Poet takes an opportunity of making feveral beautiful marine defcriptions, fuch as the profpect of the fhore, a fhoal of dolphins, a water-fpout, the method of taking an azimuth, working the fhip, &c. In the fecond canto, the fhip having cleared the land, the ftorm begins, and with it the confultations of the pilots, and operations of the feamen; all which the Poet has defcribed with an amazing minutenefs, and has found means to reduce the feveral technical terms of the marine into fmooth and harmonious numbers. Homer has been admired, by fome, for reducing a catalogue of fhips into tolerably flowing verfe; but who, except a poetical Sailor, the nurfling of Apollo, educated by Neptune, would eve. have thought of verfifying his own fea-language? what other Poet would ever have dreamt of reef-tackles, hall-yards, clue-garnets, bunt-lines, lafhings, lannyards, and fifty other terms equally obnoxious to the foft fing-fong of modern Poetafters ? The following lines, taken from among many others of the fame kind, may ferve to fhew how fuccefsfully our Poet has ventured out of the common road, to excel in his own: The main fail, by the fquall fo lately rent, |