gined. Dr. Williams's idea concerning this kind of impregnation was given in his former treatife, in which he maintained that the fuppofed fulphureous waters of Aix-la-Chapelle contained only thofe principles of which fulphur is formed, and not fulphur already produced. The Sauveniere water has the fame ingredients as the Pouhun, but in different proportions; and has a much inferior degree of medicinal virtue. The Tonnelet is likewife impregnated with the fame general ingredients, but poffeffes a larger portion of the fpirituous volatile parts than any other waters in the place. The Graf beek water contains a greater quantity of acid, and much lefs terrene parts than the Pouhun, but is alfo compofed upon the fame principles. The Wartroz nearly refembles the Sauveniere, and though generally regarded as a purgative water, has no ingredients which give it a claim to that property. Having thus experimentally determined the qualities of the feveral Spa waters, our Author proceeds to a confideration of the mesical ufes and abuses of each refpectively, which he establishes by a number of well-defcribed fatisfactory cafes. He is particularly fevere in his cenfures of the manner of exhibiting the waters ufually practised by the physicians who attend the place; which is, to drench their patients with large quantities, all drank in the space of two or three hours in the morning, thereby overloading the ftomach, and violently heating the conflitution, fo as frequently to bring on very alarming confequences. A famous profeflor of Lausanne comes in for a large thare of this cenfure, and indeed, as appears from the cafes related, not without ample caufe. This part of the work will not admit of abridgment or extracts, but feems highly deferving the attention of all concerned in the exhibition of the Spa waters. Teward the conclufion of the work there is fome philofophical reasoning concerning the fpirituous impregnation of the waters, which is lefs clear and fatisfactory than might be wifhed; owing to a want of fufficient acquaintance with the properties of fixed air. This the Doctor feems to confider as no more than common or elementary air reduced to a particular flate, in which it enters into the compofition of bodies; whereas it is certain from late experiments, that the fubitance diflinguished (improperly indeed) by that appellation, poffeffes properties effentially different from common air; being in fact an acid of a particular nature, and capable of forming the medium by which a metallic body is united to a mineral water, without the aid of any other acid or fpirituous substance. A. Art. 15. Phyfical Differtations; in which the various Caufes, Qualities, and Symptoms incident to the Scurvy and Gout are comprehenfively treated on, &c. &c. By Francis Spilsbury. 8vo. 2 s. 6 d. Wilkie. 1778. Our former acquaintance, Mr. Spilbury, has here, by the help of his Medical Dictionary, or fome other comprehenfive work, difhed out a farrago of literature, as various and heterogeneous in its contents as his Antifcorbutic Drops. The manner and matter of it fo much refemble thofe of his former productions, that we find nothing to remark in it, except a stroke of effrontery a little fuperior to any we have before observed in him; which is, a dedication of his quackbill to the College of Physicians. A. Art. Art. 16. Methods of Cure in fome particular Cafes of Infanity; the Epilepfy, Hypochondriacal Affection, Hyfteric Paffion, and Nervous Disorders. Prefixed with fome Account of each of these Complaints. By W. Perfect, Surgeon. 8vo. 2 s. 6 d. Rochefter printed for DodЛley, &c. 1778. We find nothing in thefe methods of cure' fingular and important enough to felect for our medical Readers. Indeed, the publication feems intended rather to inform patients of the skill and fuccefs of the Writer, than to afford instruction to the practitioner. That Mr. Perfect's plan of treatment may be in general rational and proper, we do not at all queftion; but fomewhat more than the flight narration of a few partially felected cafes, is neceffary to the real improvement of medical practice; though it may fufficiently anfwer other purposes. A. Art. 17. A Treatise on the Nature and Quality of thofe Difeafes of the Liver and biliary Dutts, which arife from a Want of Attention and Regularity in the Manner of living, &c. &c. By R. Bath, Surgeon. 8vo. 2 s. Newbery. 1777. We do not remember to have read a more tirefome quack bill. We had rather take the Author's Hepatic Effence and Prophylactic Powder both together, than another dofe of his writings. A. Art. 18. A Treatise on Hyflerical and Nervous Disorders. By Daniel Smith, M. D. 8vo. I s. 6d. Carnan and Newbery. Some folks have abfolutely no confcience at all! Here does Dr. Daniel Smith, instead of distributing his bills, printed on foft paper, at the corners of freets, gratis, according to ancient and laudable cuftom; charge eighteen pence for them, in form of a Treatise, of which o pages out of 77 are a quotation from Sydenham. O tempara, O mares! A. Art. 19. An Account of the epidemical fore Throat, with the Method of Treatment; illuftrated by Cafes and Obfervations. By G. Leviton, M.D. Phyfician to the General Medical Afylum. Svo. 1 s. 6 d. White. 1778. That the hiftory of particular epidemics is an important and ufeful part of medical writing, will be univerfally acknowledged; but there is nothing in phyfic, perhaps, that requires greater fagacity, and a more comprehenfive and accurate view of the fubject, to be difcuffed in a matterly manner. The Writer before us candidly acknowledges his dehciency in point of the means of information derived from extenfive practice; and we are forry to be obliged alfo to affure him that his abilities as a writer appear equally inadequate to the task he has arteinpted. It is, indeed a crude and trifling performance, and contains many inaccuracies of compofition which can not be excused in a member of a liberal and learned profeffion. POETICA L. Art. 20 America Loft A Poem of Condolence. Addreffed to Bitann.a. 400. s. 6 d. Lewis, near Burlington Houfe. Some patriotic footman, or cobler fcientific, "arm'd for virtue," here leps forth, to point the pen, "brand the bold front of fhameless guilty men-' A. Nɔ, No, not a cobler. He must be a footman, by his jealoufy of the foreign fervants: Are we so partial to these foreign knaves? Muft Britons (even here) be Frenchmen's flaves ? If not, themselves muft their own conduct blame ; This is a fellow of infinite honesty, no doubt; and his poem ought to fell, that he may be encouraged to go on, till he has totally demolished all the French Valets, mademoiselles, and hair-dreffers." For, as he fagely infers, French paint, French foppery, and French perfume, United feems to threat'n England's doom.' This honeft man's hearty and zealous expreffion of loyalty, in these days of difcontent, ought not to pafs unnoticed, or unapplauded: • Our King (the 'nointed guardian of th' nation) Shews true magnanimity, on this occafion.' In fhort, we feldom fee fuch admirable verses-except about Chrif mas time. Art. 21. An Adieu to the Turf; a poetical Epiftle from the Earl n to his Grace the Ap of Y-k. 4to. 25. of A Smith. 1778. Some court wit, a knowing one too, has given, in arch numbers, the laft words and dying fpeech of a Newmarket peer.-Very fevere on the Earl of Abingdon,-for turning patriót. Art. 22. Tyranny the worst Taxation; a poetical Epiftle to the It is curious to read one of these four productions immediately after a birth-day ode; which happens to be our prefent cafe: to a mouthful of honey, fucceeds a mouthful of vinegar.—For Royal Pirfeverance, fee our laft, p. 395. Art. 23. The Journey of Dr. Robert Bongout, and his Lady, to Bath. Performed in the Year 177-. 8vo. 2 s. 6d. Dodley. 1778. A poor attempt at humour, in wretched doggrel. Some particular perfon, a dealer in pi&ures, feems to have been the object of the fatire, Art. 24. An Invocation to the Genius of Britain. 4to. Is. Dodfley. 1778. Not fufficiently powerful, we apprehend, to awake the drowsea BRITANNIA,-for Art. 25 An Elegy on the much-lamented Death of George Lord Dedicated to the brother of the late Lord Pigot; and fitter for the friendly than the critical eye. Art. 26. Love Elegies. 4to. 2s. 6d. Kearfly. As there are many good lines, and fome genius and fancy in thefe poems, we will not be offended with their faults. We shall recommend it, nevertheless, to the Author to be offended with them, as much as he pleases. 4. Art. 27. Fashion; a Poem: Addreffed to the Ladies of GreatBritain. In Two Books. 4to. 2 S. Williams. This poem, too, contains feveral good verfes, and we shall, therefore, connive at fome which do not come under that defcription. Ubi plura nitent, &c. is a proper rule in candid criticifm. The fa tire, however, we conceive, will be loft, as it is chiefly pointed at the levities, the follies, and the feathers of the fair. Art. 28. The Woman of Fashion; a Poem: In a Letter from It is in the flyle of the Bath Guide poetry, and by no means with out humour. L. L. Art. 29. Verfes on the prefent State of Ireland. By a Lady. 4to. 1 s. 6d. imfly. We cay fay little for the poetry, but much for the humanity of this good Lady, who pleads ftrongly for the diftreffes of the Irish poor. Is 6d. Art. 30. An Elegy; written in Canterbury Cathedral, by John Thither what crowds from every clime repair, Peers, Prelates, Kings and all their weight of care, By weightier gold affifted, leave behind.' The low expreffion, fick in body, and the not lefs low conceit of The poem is chiefly historical, and contains fome stanzas which do the Author no discredit. Art. L. L. : Art. 31. Appendix; containing fome Obfervations upon the Language of the Poems attributed to Rowley; tending to prove that they were written not by any ancient Author, but entirely by Thomas Chatterton. 8vo. 6 d. Payne. How equal this Writer is to the task he has taken upon him will appear from a fingle paffage. Rowley fays, And for a Bodekyn a Swarthe obfeyne.' The critic fays, 'Bodekin [a word different from Rowley's] is used by Chaucer more than once to fignify a bodkin, or dagger. I know not that it had any other fignification in his time. Swarthe, ufed as a noun, has no fenfe that I am acquainted with.' The fenfe is, and of a body become a ghot.' Bodykin for body, and Swarthe for a ghost have still a provincial existence; and as the word fwartbe in that fenfe, is peculiar only to the North of Eng land, a region which Chatterton never faw, it confirms us ftill more in our final decifion, that many of the poems afcribed to Rowley are certainly original. To fwear by God's body was anciently a common oath, and the qualified expreffion of Odds Bodykins is ftill in being. น. Art. 32. A poetical, fupplicating, modeft, and affecting Epistle to thofe literary Coloffufes the Reviewers. 4to. I S. Baldwin. As we know not of any Reviewers, except our own corps, we ap prehend this droll epistle must be addreffed to us. We forgive the Author his fatire for the fake of his humour, and beg he would contribute to relieve the neceffities he defcribes: for it must be owned that we have appetites, though born on this fide the Tweed. Art. 33. Poetical Effays on religious Subjects. By a Clergyman. 4to. 2s. Hogg. 1778. Very orthodox, pious, and good; we ufe the laft epithet in its devout fenfe, without any reference to the poetry. The Author has added fome little pieces, which are not termed religious: of these take the following specimen : THE KING. Three royal GEORGES let my muse recite; But in the third, the GREAT and GOOD UNITE. The Author is equally loyal and liberal to the Queen, and the Royal Family.' Art. 34. The Spirit of Frazer to General Burgoyne. An Ode. To which is added, The Death of Hilda; an American Tale. Iafcribed to Mrs. Macaulay. 4to. I S. Bath printed, and fold by Goldfmith in London. 1778. Of all the fpirits we ever converfed with, this is the most fpiritlefs. It perfuades General Burgoyne (who, it feems, took its advice) to yield the day to Gates: Reafon's voice commands thee, yield: 1. |