it is designed, as it is written with great perspicuity, and contains the collective experience of Hoffmann, Boerhave, and other eminent physicians of earlier times. Medicinish-practisches Handbuch der Frauenzimmer krankheiten, &c. &c.---Medico-practical Manual of the diseases incident to the female sex. For the use of physicians and the fair sex. By Dr. J. V. MULLER, practical physician at Frankfort on the Main. Two volumes. Frankfort and Leipzig, Jager, 1788. (Printed on very bad paper.) The author points out with great practical erudition, with regularity, conciseness, and elegance of diction, the noxious practices commonly observed from earliest infancy to the age of maturity in the medical treatment of the female sex; and recommends a more rational method, calculated to prevent the injuries which their constitution thereby suffers, and to remedy the already occasioned. The copious mass of well-digested and highly important advice with which this volume abounds, precludes the possibility of detailing here its interesting contents; we therefore only add, that the clearness of the author's conceptions, the logical order observed in this work, and the simple, though dignified, language in which they are expressed, renders it as intelligible to female readers as it will be found by scientific practitioners. Marcus Herz, über die frühe Beerdigung der Juden, &c.--On the premature Interment of Jews. Addressed to the Editors of the Hebräischen Samlers. By MARCUS HERZ, practical physician at Berlin; second edition, considerably enlarged. Berlin. Voss and Son, 1788. pp. 60. 8vo. The learned author, one of the greatest ornaments of the Jewish nation, inquires, in this short but important treatise, as honourable to his philosophical manner of thinking, as it is to his humane and benevolent heart, into the pernicious consequences frequently occasioned by the Jewish custom of burying their dead too soon; and after having proved by facts as well as a priori, that the signs of death frequently are very deceitful, and shewn the futility of the arguments adduced by the Jews in defence of that banefu Icustom, he advises them in very strong and convincing terms to keep their dead above ground till the most indubitable signs of corruption appear. Anatomisches Anatomisches Handbuch, &c.---Anatomical Manual. By Dr. I. O. Loder, Prof. at Gena. Vol. I. Gena, 1788. crown 8vo. pp. 709. This volume contains a very useful compendium of osteology, syndesmology, and myology. The descriptions of the different parts are solid and correct, and prove that he not only has diligently studied the works of the most eminent anatomists, but also carefully consulted nature. Uber die Schädlichkeit der Schnürbrüste, &c.---Of the hurtful consequences of Stays. Two treatises, occasioned by a prize question proposed by the Pedagogic Institute at Schnepfenthal. Leipzig, Cruzius, 1788. pp. 192. 8vo. The first of these treatises is by the celebrated Prof. Sommering, who proves in the most convincing manner, that the wearing of stays naturally must be productive of the most fatal consequences to all those that make use of this unnatural piece of dress.--The second treatise is less convincing, although founded upon incontrovertible principles. Uber den thierischen Magnetismus, &c. &c.---On Animal Magnetism. By O. Meiners, Prof. of Philosophy at Göttingen. Lemgo, by Meyer, 1788. pp. 340. 8vo. The sound judgment, logical order, and the erudition that characterize this excellent work, contributed a great deal to counteract the magnetical fanaticism with which Germany was infected at the time when it was published. It is divided into three parts, the first of which contains a minute account of the symptoms and cure of four magnetised persons, the second, a comparison of the state of magnetised people with other appearances of a similar nature; and the third, an explanation of the most striking phenomena observed in magnetised patients. Der Somnambulismus unserer Zeit, mit der Incubation, &c. &c.---The Somnambulism of our age, compared with the Incubation of the ancient Pagans. By M. J. F. A. KINDERLING. Dresden and Leipzig, by G. E.. Breitkopf, 1788. pp. 108. 8vo. The more the effects of magnetism are compared with earlier observations of similar phenomena, the more strongly are we induced to conclude, that powers long known also have produced these modern pretended miracles. If there he any difference between somnambulism and the ancient incubations, it consists in the knowledge which the priests had of the means whereby they agitated the imagination of their patients, and in their having done this designedly, whilst the magnetists, blinded by their theory, do not perceive how they by their manipulations act upon the imagination of their patients, and even deny that it has any share in the singular symptoms observed in magnetised persons. Mr. Kinderling shews this in a most convincing manner in the tract before us, and proves by his sober manner of reasoning, that he possesses as much sound reason as erudition. MAXIMILIANI STOLL, medicine clinice p. p. v. in universi tate l'indobonensi, Prælectiones in diversos morbos chronicos. ---Post ejus obitum edidit et prefatus est Josephus Eyerel. Vindobona, typiz C. F. Wappler, 1788. pp. 460. Svo. Every practical physician who is properly acquainted with the eminent medical merits of the late Stoll, will thank Mr. Eyerel, a favourite pupil of this truly great man, for the publication of these instructive tracts. The diseases which the author in this volume describes with great precision, and the cures of which he states in a masterly manner, are the following: 1. Scurvy. 2. Rickets. 3. Scrofula. 4. Dropsy. ---The practical observations which are added to this tract are particularly deserving of the perusal of practical physicians. We beg leave to prove this assertion by giving a few specimens of these aphorisms. Hydropem saccatum annosum, non auctum, qui facile fertur non attingito, etomnium minime per purgantia.---Omnis hydropis curatis longa est per se: cave, ad heroica fortioraque auxilia accedas; si intra paucas septimanas nil proficeris. In hydrope enim non deficere est proficere.---Solventia, subtonica, aperientia, vel sola, vel mixta ita ut aperientibus tonica jungantur, immedicabiles visos hydropes saepe sanant.---Cave hydropem confundas cum graviditate, et vice versa. Error frequens et ignominiosus. Contingit in clandestine gravidis, ubi tandem vivus hydrops in lucem prodit.---5. Venereal disease. 6. Convulsions. 7. Diseases of children. 3. Hooping-cough. 9. Of the duties of a physician. 10. The most common diseases of the head. Joseph JOSEPHI EYEREL, commentaria in M. STOLLI1 aphorismos de cognoscendis et curandis febribus. Tomus primus. Vindobonæ, 1788. pp. 352. 8vo. If we consider the salutary influence which Stoll kad on the medical spirit of the times in which he lived, a work like the present, tending to illustrate the principles of this great man; and dublished by his most favoured pupil, cannot but prove acceptable to every medical practitioner. This volume of illustrations concludes with the Angina inflammatoria. Collectio Opusculorum Selectorum ad medicinam forensem spectantium, curante, Dr I. C. T. SCHLEGEL, Med. apud Longosaliss. Tom. I. II. III. Lipsia, impens. Schnei der. 1788. The critical judgement with which the editor has selected the different articles of which this collection is composed, render it deserving of a place in the library of every physician. MAXIMILIANI STOLL, S. C. R. A. M. Cons. Nosocomii S. S. Trinit. Physical, &c. &c. Dissertatio de materia medica practica. Opus posthumum. Vindobonae, 1788. pp. 104. 8vo. Logical order and precision, two essential requisites of good composition, also distinguish this small treatise. But the imperfect state in which it appears, authorises us to conclude that Stoll had not intended it for publication, at least not in its present state. Every sketch of a work, designed by the hand of a master, cannot however but interest the literary world. Journal für Geburtshelfer, &c.-Magazine for Man-midwives. No. I. II. Frankfort and Leipzig. With four plates. 1788. pp. 564. This Magazine contains small tracts, observations and notices relative to the obstetric art, and cannot but prove very acceptable to every practioner, as the anonymous editor never loses sight of the utile dulci. Diss. inaug. med. sistens quaedam de glandulosi oculorum Systematis inflammatione, Prals. Dr. Phil. Fr. Meckel. etc. Auctore, I. E. PULVERMACHER. Halæ apud Franke Bispink, 1788. pp. 117. Mr. P. ably illustrates in this dissertation a disease com- K monly monly defined too vaguely to be correctly understood by beginners. It commences with observations on the inflammation of the ocular glands in general, chiefly after Macbride. Then follow a short description of the glands that belong to this. system; doubts against the glands of the conjunctiva, adopted by Janin; a summary synoptical nosology of the membraneous and glandular inflammation of the eyes; the aetiology of the latter; the different stadia of the disease are: stadium 1. oscillationis, 2. relaxationis s. exsudationis, 3. indurationis et exulcerationis. Then follows a statement of the indications of the cure of this disease. A concise enumeration of the safest and most efficacious remedies concludes this well-written dissertation. Gründliche Vnterweisung alle venerischen Krankheiten practischzu behandlen, &c. &c.---Solid instruction in the art of practically treating all kinds of venereal diseases, &c. &c. By D. G. ZIEGENHAGEN, Strasburg, printed for the author 1788. The reader will find in this work a very satisfactory statement of the collective experience of ancient as well as modern authors concerning this disease, as well as a variety of important original observations occasionally introduced by the author. Etwas über die Kentniss und Heilung der Wasserscheu, &c. &c.---Some remarks concerning the diagnosis and cure of hydrophobia, the consequence of the bite of a mad dog; By I.B. KEUP, practical physician at Solingen, Düsseldorf, Danzer, 1788. pp. 64. 8vo. Although the title page of this treatise modestly promises only some remarks concerning hydrophobia: yet it contains within the small compass of four sheets, 1. a complete and faithful picture of this disease, as it manifests itself from the first to the last stage; 2. the different opinions of the real cause of that dreadful aversom from drink, and, finally, the best means of prevention as well as of effecting a cure, delivered in a manner perfectly adapted to the capacities of surgeons of the common class. S. T. Sömmering, com Hirn und Rückenmark, &c.---S. T. SOMMERING, Mainz, Wintropp, 1788, pp. 115. 8vo. The learned author declares in the preface that he had directed his particular attention, for more than 12 years, to the most minute examination of the brain; that he has dis sected |