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Les Avantures de Gil Blas, liv. iv. Chap. I. liv. v. Chap. I. Le Siecle de Lervis XIV. Chap. XVIII. and XIX; George Dandin; Le Cid; Maximes & penfées diverfes; Directions pour le com

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The fables are in number twenty two. Every child knows Telemachus. The Collector has not fhewn much tafte in the part he has felected from Gil Blas. Leavis XIV. fhould be Louis. The two chapters from Voltaire, comprehend the battles of Blenheim, Ramillies, and the lofs of Turin. George Dandin, is one of Moliere's pooreft compofitions. The Cid is one of Corneille's finest tragedies. This fchool-book, for the use of our English-French Academies, appears to be tollerably correct, confidering it was printed on this fide the water..

B-t Art. 51. A Letter to David Garrick, Efq; on opening the Theatre. In which, with great Freedom, he is told how to behave. Svo. Is. Pottinger.

Abuses Mr. Murphy, Mr. Moffop, and others. To fay more of this fcurrilous, indecent, and ill-written invective, would be honouring it with more notice than it deferves: and we are forry that our plan obliges us to record the titles of fuch contemptible perform

ances.

N. B. Since the publication of the above, one Ed. Purdon has acknowleged himself the writer of it, by an advertisement, in which he begs pardon of Mr. Mollop, and of the public; and promiles never to offend again, in the like manner.

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52. Reafons why David Garrick, Efq; fhould not appear on the Stage, &c. 8vo. 6d. Cooke.

Foolish adulation of Mr. Garrick.

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SINGLE SERMONS.

N the death of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Bradbury*, preached at Newcourt, Septtember 16, 1759. By Thomas Hall. 64, Buckland.

* Vide our laft, art. Single Sermons,

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2. Before the Society correfponding with the Society in Dublin, for promoting English Proteflant Working fchools in Ireland,St. Mary le Bow, May 2, 1759. By the Rev. Philip Fletcher, Dean of Kildare. 6d. Dod.

3. The Ministry of Reconciliation: reprefenting the benign tendency of the Gofpel, &c. &c.—at All Saints in Northampton. By the late James Hervey+, A. M. Rector of Wefton Favel.. 6 d. ton and Fletcher.

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This was not publifhed in Mr. Hervey's life-time. 4. The quick and eaty Paffage of Chrift's purchased People through Death to Glory, at Carter lane, St. Olive's, Southwark; Sept. 2, 1759. By John Gill, D. D. 6d. Keith.

5. at the anniversary meeting of the Governors, &c. of the Devon and Exeter Hofpital, at St. Peter's, Exon, August 28, 1759By Francis Webber, D.D Dean of Hereford, and Rector of Exeter College. 6 d. Davy and Law,

THE

MONTHLY REVIEW,

For NOVEMBER, 1759.

Obfervations on the Changes of the Air, and the concomitant Epidemical Difeafes in the Island of Barbadoes. To which is added, a Treatife on the putrid Bilious Fever, commonly called the Yellow Fever; and fuch other Difcafes as are indigenous or endemial in the Weft India Iflands, or in the Torrid Zone. By William Hillary, M. D. 8vo. 5s. Hitch.

N all ages, the best Writers on the Healing Art, have been those who, laying afide every vain hypothefis, have closely attended to Nature; who, from an exact detail of circumstances, both with regard to the temperature of the Air, and the conftitution of the Patient, and from accurate Obfervations on the Nature, Rife, Progrefs, and Decline of every Difeafe, have been able to form the most certain Prognoftics, and to fuggeft the propereft methods of Cure. From this fource, Hippocrates, now ftyled the Father of Phyfic, derived his fame. Amongst the moderns, the ablest Phyficians have formed themfelves upon the fame plan; for which, perhaps, we are not a little indebted to the example of our countryman, the great Sydenham. On this occafion it would be injuftice not to mention the learned and ingenious Dr. Huxham, whofe Obfervationes de Aire et morbis Epidemicis, feem to have been the model which Dr. Hillary has followed, in the Obfervations before us.

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The book is divided into two parts. In the Introduction, the Author gives a description of the Climate, the Situation, and Soil of Barbadoes; with fome general remarks on the Cuftoms, &c. of the Inhabitants, especially thofe which prove beneficial or hurtful, in regard to health. Here the good Doctor takes occafion to animadvert on the prevailing force of Fashions, which enflave the greatest part of mankind, though often both contrary to reafon and conveniency, and particularly in our drefs: for, no doubt, but the loose cool eafy drefs of the Eaftern nations, a thin loose gown or banjan, is much eafier, and better fitted for us in the hot climate, than the English drefs; and all who have tried both find it fo: but fuch is the influence of fashion and custom, that I have feen many men loaded, and almost half melting, under a thick rich coat and waistcoat, daubed and loaded with gold, on a hot day, scarce able to bear them, little confidering how much they injured their conftitutions thereby, as well as their being troublesome.'

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On the article of Exercife, he finds great fault with Dancing, as too violent for the climate; but most of the Ladies, adds he, are fo exceffively fond of it, that fay what I will, they will dance on.'

In the first part, our Author has given an account of the Weather, and all its material changes, as he obferved them by Farenheit's Mercurial Thermometer, and a common portable Barometer. He has taken notice of the quantities of Rain which fell in each month and year, and the other visible changes in it. He has given a fuccinct account of all the concomitant endemial and epidemical Difeafes, and what material variations happened in them; together with their indications of cure, and fuch methods or medicines as were found to be the most effectual. I have remarked (fays he) where• in those diseases differed from the fame difeafes in England, when any fuch happened to appear, that were any thing material or remarkable, cither arifing from the heat, or ⚫other variations of the climate; as alfo fuch variations as I found it neceffary to make, either in the method of treating thofe difeafes, or in the medicines, when it was different from the method of treating them in England; and I have mentioned fuch as I found to be the most fuccesful, in as plain, clear, and full a manner as I could.'

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In mentioning the feveral Difeafes of the different feafons, and conftitutions of the air, the ingenious Doctor generally endeavours to account, by way of Note or Query, for their

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appearance, or any remarkable variation in their fymptors, The following quotation will ferve as a fpecimen of this part

of the work.

-During this warm dry feafon, inflammatory diseases ❝ were very frequent, chiefly Ophthalmies, Quincies, Peripneumonies, and Pleurifies; in all which the pulfe was moftly full quick and hard, and their blood generally in• flamed; and in most it was covered with a starch or bufflike inflammatory pellicle: but I must observe, that their blood in these inflammatory diseases, is very seldom so much fizy or buff-like in this warm climate, as it ufually is in England, when the pain and height of the inflammation, and the other symptoms are nearly the fame.

< Query. Does not this difference most probably arise from 'their folids here being more relaxed by the heat of the climate, than they are in England? Whence their fluids are more lax, and more readily attenuated, or diffolved, by the ⚫ alkaline acrimony of the femivolatilized animal falts.

Thefe generally required larger bleeding than in most • other years, unless equally hot and dry; but by bleeding pretty freely, and a liberal use of antiphlogistic medicines, with Sal. Nitre, and crude Sal. Amoniac, as hereafter mentioned, and diluting plentifully, they were generally re lieved; and I found emollient fomentations, with crude • Sal. Ammoniac, were of great service.—

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The quantity of Rain which fell in the month of Auguft, was equal to 8.72 inches deep. The lowest the Thermometer was in the mornings, was at 79, and the higheft that ever it was in the mornings was at 82. The ⚫ lowest it was at noon was 83, and the higheft at noon was 86; and the lowest that the Mercury fell in the Barome⚫ter in these three months was to 29.8, and the highest that • it ever did arife to was 29.9.

Upon the falling of thus much Rain, the face of the earth, which was much parched and burned brown before, foon became green and pleasant; as vegetation is very 'ftrong and quick here, whenever much rain falls.

Upon this change of the weather from very dry to very wet, Dyfenteries became very frequent and epidemical; as they do ufually every year upon much rain falling at this time of the year, and feized many, both white and black 'people, but especially the latter, who are often but little cloathed, and more exposed to the inclemency of the weather, and fome of them but poorly fed. We had ftill fome Cc 2 • few

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few Pleurifies and Peripneumonies, but these became less frequent; and the Quincies and Ophthalmies ceased to appear upon the falling of the rain.

A Cholera Morbus alfo feized feveral, but I think its fymptoms are lefs violent here than they ufually are in England: and fome were feized with Apoplexies and Palfies, and fome of the first died before any proper affiftance could ⚫ be called in.

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Many children were feized with an Aphthous Fever, in which the Aphth were moft commonly of the white or yellowifh kind, and rarely black, or of a bad kind, unless they were wrong treated; it ufually came on with a moderate Fever, a quick but not very high Pulfe, and was attended with a Diarrhoea, but not much pain in the bowels; and as Dyfenteries were then frequent, fome ignorant Practitioners treated it as fuch, and gave them frong reftringents (tho' not good in practice that cafe) which increafed the fever and inflammation of the bowels, and brought on a mortification, which proved fatal. But when this fever was treated with fmall dofes of Rhubarb with gentle anodynes, to carry off the acrid humours, and abate the irritation and pain, and gentle antiphlogistics with anodynes, to take off the fever, and restrain or prevent the too violent purging; and then giving foft, fmooth, healing balfamics, as Sperm. Cet. Cremor. Lactis, or the Wax Emulfion, with a little Syr. Meconio, to heal the Prime Viæ, they generally recovered. As the morbid humours being rendered acrid by the preceding drinefs and heat, and now being turned upon the bowels, by the cooler rain ftopping or diminishing the free perfpiration and sweating; it was neceffary to afft Nature to discharge those acrid humours, by fuch ways as the indicated, and not to hinder her; tho' it might be neceflary to prevent the evacuation from being too violent, or too fudden and great.'

The fecond part treats of fuch diseases as are more frequent in, or are peculiar to, the Weft-Indian islands, or the Torrid Zone, viz. The putrid bilious or Yellow Fever, the Dry Gripes, the Dyfentery, the Opifihotonos and Tetany, the Rabies Canina, the Apthoides Chronica, the Nyctalopia, or Night Blindness and Hemeralopia, the Elephantiafis, Vena Medinenfis or Guinea-Worm, the Arabian Leprofy, the Yaws, and the Impetigo or Ring-worm. In defcribing thefe feveral difcafes our Author's exactnefs cannot be too much commended: the indications of cure are perfpicuous and fenfible; and the medicines he propofes feem every where agreeable to the nature

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