one man; makes another expose himself; gets into the fecrets of an intimate acquaintance, and publishes a story to the world; belies a friend; puts an anecdote, a letter, an epigram into the news-paper; and that is the whole amount of modern wit. DASH. A ftrain of morofe invective is more diverting, to be sure. BYG. (looking about for Mrs. Bromley.) Well, Sir, we'll adjourn the debate. You may go on; misrepresent every thing; if there is nothing ridiculous, invent a story: and when you have done it, it is but a cheap and frivolous talent. Has a lady a good natural bloom? Her paint must be an expenfive article. Does the look grave? She will fin the deeper. Is the gay and affable? Her true character will come out at the Commons. That is the whole of your art, and I leave you to the practice of it. (going.) DASH. Satyrical Bygrove! now the widow has him in tow.. BYG. (turning back.) Could not you stay till my back was fairly turned? DASH. What a look there was! [Exit. Lady BELL. At what a rate you run on! you keep the field against them all. DASH. Sir Harry, ftep up, and watch him with the widow. DASH. I'll follow you: and hark, make your party good with Sir HAR. You fee, Lady Bell, a fling at every body. [Exit. DASH. The Baronet does not want parts; that is to fay, he has very good materials to play the fool with. I fhall get him to marry Mifs Neville. Lady BELL. Bring that about, and you will for once do a serious action, for which every body will honour you. DASH. In the mean time, do you watch your aunt Bromley: he is your rival. Lady BELL. Rival? That would be charming! DASH. It is even fo. Now Millamour's understanding is good, but his paffions quick: if you play your cards right Lady BELL. Are you going to teach me how to manage a man? DASH. Coquetry will never fucceed with him. A quickfand does not shift so often as his temper. You must take him at his word, and never give him time to change, and veer about. Lady BELL. Totally out of nature. DASH. Oh! very well. I give up the point. [Exit.' The fentimental flander of Malvil is judicioufly oppofed to the unguarded pleafantry of Dafhwould. The Prologue contains fome pathetic lines on the late Meffrs. Barry and Woodward, and the Epilogue is penned, con amore, by Mr. Garrick. 3 C. ART. 1 ART. VII. A Practical Treatise on the Difeafes of the Teeth; intended IN N the preceding part of this publication, for our account of which the reader may confult our 46th volume, page 603, the Author confined himself to the anatomy and phyfiology of the teeth in the prefent he treats wholly of their diseases, or irregularities, and of the confequences of them; difcuffing the fubject in ten chapters, in the first of which he treats of their decay from rottennefs, or denudation, of the fwelling of their fangs, of gum boils, excrefcences from the gum, and abfceffes in the jaws. In the fecond chapter, the difeafes of the alveolar proceffes are difcuffed; and in the third, thofe of the gums. Nervous pains in the jaw form the fubject of the fourth chapter; and in the four following the Author treats of the extraneous matter upon the teeth; of their irregularity; of irregularities between them and the jaw; and of projections of the under jaw. In the ninth chapter he treats pretty largely of the operations of drawing and tranfplanting teeth: and in the tenth and laft, defcribes the symptoms attending dentition, and the proper methods of relief and cure. * In treating of the decay of a tooth, fuppofing the disease to be not fo far advanced as to render the tooth useless; he advises that it should be extracted, and then immediately boiled, with a view not only to make it perfectly clean, but likewise to deftroy any life that may beinit. It is then to be replaced in the focket, where it can now fuffer only from chemical or mechanical causes; as it is now dead, and incapable of being affected by any difcafe. This practice however is here faid to be only fometimes followed with fuccefs; when it anfwers the fame end as burning the nerve, but with much greater certainty. Nervous pains in the jaws conftitute an excruciating and obftinate disease, which, in the Author's opinion, feems in reality to have no connection with the teeth, though they are generally fufpected to be the caufe, or the feat of it. In a cafe of this kind the Author has known all the teeth of the affected fide drawn in fucceffion without any advantage: on the contrary, the pain has fometimes become more diffufed, and has at laft attacked the correfponding fide of the tongue. The disease is frequently periodical; but the bark often fails. The Author has feen cafes of fome years ftanding, where hemlock has fucceeded but fometimes all attempts prove unsuccessful. • See Monthly Review, June 1772, p. 604. afterward He He adds however that fea-bathing has been of fingular service.in fome particular cafes. The transplanting of teeth is confidered by the Author as the niceft of all operations relating to the teeth, and as requiring more chirurgical and phyfiological knowledge than any that comes under the care of the dentist. Though we cannot enter into the minutiae of this difficult art, it may be of ufe to our readers in general to be acquainted with the following cir cumftances relating to the replacing of found teeth, when they have been knocked out by accident; or, ftill more vexatiously, drawn by mistake. The Author informs us that if a tooth be replaced at any time before its life is deftroyed, it will re-unite with the cavity of the focket, and become as faft as ever; and that even the grinders may be thus treated with fuccefs, as their fangs will go as readily into their refpective fockets as one fang would. Though no time fhould be loft in the performing of this operation, the trial is faid to be advifeable even twenty-four hours after the accident, or as long as the focket will receive the tooth, which may be the cafe fome days after the accident. The Author relates one inftance where a gentleman had the fecond Bicufpis loofened, and the first knocked out. He picked the latter up from the ground, and put it into his pocket, Some hours afterwards the Author wafhed it as clean as poffible in warm water, where he kept it fome time, in order to foften it. I then,' fays he, replaced it, first having introduced a probe into the focket, to break down the coagulated blood which filled it. I then tied these two teeth to the first grinder, and the cuspidatus, with filk, which was kept on fome days, and then removed. After a month they were as faft as any teeth in the head; and if it were not for the remembrance of the circumflances above related, the gentleman would not be fenfible that his teeth had met with any accident. Four years have now paffed fince it happened.' Mr. Hunter always fuppofes, in this treatise, that whenever the tranfplantation of a tooth has been attended with fuccefs, there has been a living union formed between the foreign tooth and the focket. The tranfplanted tooth is faid to preferve a degree of transparency peculiar to a living tooth, and very different from the opaque chalky white of a dead tooth. He thinks too that the tranfplanted tooth is capable of becoming difeafed; and even affirms that pain is fometimes felt in it. Be this as it may, the following curious experiment (which however only once fucceeded with the Author) fhews that when a living tooth has been tranfplanted into fome part of a living animal, an actual communication of veffels is formed between the the tooth and the animal; or to use the Author's expreffion, that the tooth retains its life. C I took,' fays the Author, a found tooth from a person's head; then made a pretty deep wound with a lancet into the thick part of a cock's comb; and preffed the fang of the tooth into this wound, and faftened it with threads paffed thro' other parts of the comb. The cock was killed some months after; and I injected the head with a very minute injection: the comb was then taken off, and put into a weak acid, and the tooth be. ing foftened by this means, I flit the comb and tooth into two halves, in the long direction of the tooth. I found the veffels of the tooth well injected, and also observed that the external furface of the tooth adhered every where to the comb by veffels, fimilar to the union of a tooth with the gum and fockets.'[Similar, though lefs fingular, inftances of an union formed between diffimilar parts of animal bodies, may be feen in our Review of the first part of this treatise above referred to, p. 604.] In cafes of difficult dentition the Author recommends the cutting the gums down to the tooth, as the only effectual method of cure; and relates fome inftances of very fingular symptomsfuch as contractions of the fingers and toes, flux of matter from the urethra, &c.-inftantly removed either by that operation, or by the spontaneous cutting of a tooth. ART. VIII. A fafe and eafy Remedy propofed for the Stone and Gravel, the Scurvy, c. illuftrated by Cafes; together with an extempora neous Method of impregnating Water, and other Liquids, with fixed Air, Sr. By Nathaniel Hulme, M. D. &c. 4to. 2 S. Robinson, 1778. N giving an account of a former publication of the Author's [in our Review for July laft, page 83.] we abridged a very fingular cafe there related; in which an immenfe number of calculous fragments, and a large quantity of a whitish mucous chalky fubftance, were difcharged from the bladder of a patient, who had regularly for fome time taken, by the Author's direction, an aqueous folution of 15 grains of fixed alcaline falt, and immediately afterwards (wallowed a draught of water containing as much vitriolic acid as was known, a priori, to be fufficient to neutralize the alcali, and to expel from it all its fixed air. In the first section of the prefent performance, the Author recapitulates the particulars of this cafe, and then proceeds to relate fome other inftances of the efficacy of this mode of adminiftering fixed air, in nephritic complaints, as obferved by himself and others. In the fecond section he briefly treats of the efficacy of this medicine in the fcurvy; and particularly relates the cafe of a perfon evidently labouring under the fymp toms of the true fea fcurvy, who was fenfibly relieved after folREV. July, 1778. lowing Gg lowing this courfe five or fix days, and cured of the complaint in a fortnight. The advantages which have been derived, and which may be expected from the exhibition of fixed air, in this convenient and not very unpalatable mode of difpenfing it, in cafes of the gout, hectic fevers with confumption, putrid fevers, dyfentery, and worms, form the fubjects of the third, fourth, and fifth fections. Recommending the perufal of what the Author advances on these heads, to the medical reader, who may thence derive hints that may be of ufe in practice, we fhall attend more particularly to the Author's laft fection; in which he defcribes an extemporaneous and fimple method of impregnating water and other liquors with fixed air, without the ufe of any particular apparatus, and by the mere mixture of two liquors. Thefe liquors are the folution of fixed alcali, and the water acidulated with vitriolic acid, defcribed at the beginning of this article; but which, inftead of being taken feparately, are to be gradually and cautioufly mixed with each other, fo as to prevent the effervefcence, or the diffipation of the fixed air, as much as poffible. The water, fays the Author, taftes very brisk and acidulous, and fparkles when poured out of one glafs into another. -The more flowly and carefully the mixture of the alcaline and acid liquors is made, in this experiment, the more strongly will the water be charged with fixed air: for this reafon it is beft to let the fecond liquor run gradually down the fide of the veffel which is to contain them.'-They will thus act filently on each other;-and the fixed air of the alcali will be gently extricated from its bafis, and immediately diffufe and incorporate itself into every adjacent particle of the water, till the whole fluid be fully faturated.'-The Author's usual mixture confifts of 15 or 30 grains of falt of tartar diffolved in three ounces of water, to which are added three ounces of water properly acidulated by means of the vitriolic acid. The Author produces an experiment from which he infers that this mixture contains, or has imbibed, a greater quan tity of fixed air than is contained in an equal quantity of the water impregnated with that fluid by means of the common glass apparatus. He forms this conclufion on his having found, in feveral comparative trials, that a greater quantity of fixed air is expelled, by means of heat, from a vial filled with the mixed alcaline and acid liquors, than from another vial of the fame fize filled with the water impregnated by means of the common apparatus. But this is not a fair way of estimating the quantity of fixed air which water really imbibes in these two proceffes. In water impregnated in the common manner, the fixed air is actually combined with the water; whereas in the Author's ex temporaneous |