made in fimilar circumstances, and milk, like bile, may be eafily changed by paffing through other glands. M. Marabelli's examination of the fluid, obtained by tapping, adds nothing to what has been frequently obferved in it. M. Fourcroy's papers refpecting the action of concentrated fulphuric acids on vegetable and animal fubftances, and on alcohol, we thall have occation to notice in our account of the Annales de Chymic, from which they are extracted.

M. Joffe propotes, in a foreign collection, to purify opium by diffolving it in water, filtering after a partial evapora tion, and then fuffering the whole to evaporate with a gentle heat, to the confiftence of an extract. In this way, he uppofes that he separates the refin; but the editors, who feem to have followed his directions, think that no feparation of refin takes place, and that the drug is only purer, but not in any great degree decompounded.

M. Alyon, in his effay on the medical properties of oxygen, and its application to fyphilis, &c. aims at the deftruction of every former opinion or prejudice. He is an advocate for the ufe of nitrous acid in fyphilis, and of the oxygenated ointment externally. This is made by adding to fixteen parts of melted lard two parts of pure nitric acid. The velfel is removed from the fire when the mixture begins to boil. Azotic gas rifes, and the oxygen is apparently retained.

The tecond fection of this work contains, as ufual, Medical Obfervations. The communications from Dr. Rofs of different cafes of ruptured uteri, are important. The facts stated by him, confirm the opinion we gave many years fince, that ruptures, in the lower membranous parts of the uterus, are not always fatal. Perhaps, indeed, thele were rather ruptures of the vagina, but the child each time efcaped into the cavity of the abdomen, and was drawn thence. No alarming fymptom followed.

Mr. Dallas has communicated feveral inftances of tetanus, in which the most powerful remedies were used without fuccefs, in the Weft Indies.

In the next cafe, from Mr. Cathral, where delivery was accomplished by an incifion of the vagina, there feems to have been a retroverfion of the uterus, for the direction of the child was against the pofterior parietes of the vagina. This and the uterus were divided with fucceis, and as the internal cavity of the abdomen was not expofed to the air, the patient recover: 1. The caufe is very loofely and inaccurately detailed, but the divifion feems to have been made neat the os tinere.

The account of a contagious typhus among the foldiers of the 89th regiment, in the ifland of Jerfey, affords no circumstance of importance. When the ftomach and bowels had been cleared, bark was liberally given.

Mr. Burt, in the following paper, ufed a feton with fuccefs, in the cure of a fiftulous ulcer in the perinæum, and recommends this practice in fimilar cafes.

Dr. Clarke's hiftory of a fatal termination, from the ftones of fruit fwallowed, adds one more inftance to the many on record of the dangerous tendency of this thoughtless practice. The poisonous effects of certain plants, defcribed, in the next article, by Dr. Longmore, were probably produced by a fpecies of the andromeda, used as tea by fome of the foldiers in Canada. The effects were those of a violent narcotic. Dr. Foreftier records a cafe of a foetus in the right ovarium, and Dr. Hall describes two cafes of pemphigus. The difeafe was not apparently infectious, but the fever was peculiar, and of the low kind.

Of the Medical News we fhall notice only the most important articles. Dr. Guthrie's letter, from Petersburgh, contains fome curious remarks, refpecting the bites of infects, and their remedies, and fome obfervations on the ufe of different vegetables communicated by the Indians of America. Mr. Fraser, by his Indian phyficians, was cured of a violent dyfentery, by a decoction of the root of vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry), two glaffes of burnt gin being added to each pint; and he informs us, that the Indians ufe a fpecies of fmall fun-flower, both externally and internally for cancers, and the eupatorium perfoliatum for intermittents, with great fuccefs. Commodore Billing informed Dr. Guthrie, that he had found the natural cold to fink his fpirit thermometer 40° below the freezing ftate of water, on Reaumur's fcale, viz 8° below the freezing point of mercury. The Tchutzi, among whom he travelled, are strong and hardy, and pay no refpect but to fuperior strength, or stature. They threw away the falt, with every mark of abhorrence, and are not themselves fubject to fcurvy. In defcending the river Kuluma, he found only a small part of the ice thawed by the warmer waters of the river. The reft was a vast mass of ice, and he is convinced, that the paffage between Afia and America is never free. The ice is in immenfe banks, and the reindeer migrate in different feafons to and from America and Afia.

Mr. Paterson gives a favourable account of the fuccefs of nitrous vapour, and Dr. Garnet of the effects of oxygenated muriat of pot-afh, in typhus, in the dofe of four or five grains, two or three times a-day; Mr. Anderson of large dofes of calomel in cynanche trachealis; and Dr. Cappe and Dr. Sims of nitrate of filver, in angina pectoris, epilepfy and hyfteria. The dofe of the oxygenated muriat of pot-afh has been greatly increased by Dr. Currie.

The highest point of the barometer, in Edinburgh, during the year 1797, was 30.5 in February; the loweft 28.65 in

December, and the mean 29. 62. The thermometer was at 74° in May and July, and at 26° in December. The mean was 52°, and the mean heat of April 50°. The rain was 28.960 inches, and in London, during the fame year, 22.697 only. With a copious catalogue of new publications the volume concludes.

Gebir; a Poem, in feven Books. 8vo. 1s. fewed. Rivingtons. 1798.

'IT may poffibly fave fome trouble (fays the author), and obviate fome errors, if I take a curfory review of my own performance. Not that I would prevent others from criticifing it, but that I may explain at large, and ftate diftinctly, it's origin and defign. This poem, the fruit of idleness and ignorance-for had I been a botanift or mineralogift it never had been written-was principally written in Wales. The fubject was taken, or rather the shadow of the fubject, from a wild and incoherent, but fanciful, Arabian romance. On the shelf of a circulating library, I met with a critique on the various novels of our country. Though the work itself had nothing remarkable in it, except indeed we reckon remarkable the pertnefs and petulance of female criticifm, yet it prefented to me, at the conclufion, the story of Gebirus and Charoba. A poem, like mine, descriptive of men and manners, should never be founded totally on fiction. But that which is originally fiction may cease in effect to be fo-the tears of Andromache are as precious as thofe of Sapphira. I have availed myself merely of the names, and taken but few bare circumstances.' P. i.

Such was the origin of this poem: of the defign we do not find the promised explanation. We will analyse the story, ftrange indeed and told in language fometimes uncouth, but abounding with fuch beauties as it is rarely our good fortune to discover.

I fing the fates of Gebir! how he dwelt
Among those mountain-caverns, which retain
His labours yet, vaft halls, and flowing wells,
Nor have forgotten their old master's name
Though fever'd from his people: how, incens'd
By meditating on primeval wrongs,

He blew his battle-horn, at which uprofe
Whole nations: how, ten thousand of most might
He called aloud; and foon Charoba faw

His dark helm hover o'er the land of Nile.

"What fhould the damfe! do? fhould royal knees
Bend fuppliant? or defencelefs hands engage
Men of gigantic force, gigantic arms?
For, 'twas reported, that nor fword fufficed,

Nor fhield immenfe, nor coat of massive mail;
But, that upon their tow'ring heads they bore
Each a huge ftone, refulgent as the stars.
This told the Dalica then earnest cried
"If, on your bofom laying down my head,
I fobb'd away the forrows of a child;
If I have always, and Heav'n knows I have,
Next to a mother's held a nurse's name,

Succour this one diftrefs! recal thofe days;

Love me; though 'twere because you lov'd me then." P. 1.

Dalica, having confidence in magic, promifes that Gebir fhall fall. She perfuades Charoba to repair to his tents. Near them a city once ftood, built by his ancestors, now ruined. She advifes Charoba to defire him, in honour of his ancestors, to rebuild it. The queen, though fearful, confents, and goes to the tents of Gebir.

But Gebir, when he heard of her approach,
Laid by his orbed fhield, his vizor-helm,
His buckler and his corflet he laid by,

And bade that none attend him: at his fide
Two faithful dogs that urge the filent course,
Shaggy, deep-chefted, crouched: the crocodile
Crying oft made them raife their flaccid ears,
And push their heads within their master's hand.
There was a bright'ning palenefs in his face,
Such as Diana rifing o'er the rocks

Shower'd on the lonely Latmian; on his brow
Sorrow there was, yet nought was there fevere.
But when the royal damfel first he faw,
Faint, hanging on her handmaids, and her knees
Tott'ring, as from the motion of the car,
His eyes looked earneft on her; and those
Show'd, if they had not, that they might have, lov'd,
For there was pity in them at that hour.

eyes

With gentle fpeech, but more with gentle looks,
He footh'd her; but, left pity go beyond,

Bending, he kiss'd her garment, and retir'd.' P. 3.

Enamoured of Charoba, Gebir feeks his brother, who fed the royal flocks. He finds Tamar gloomy and fad. Among the beautiful lines of this poem we muft notice the inquiry of Gebir into his brother's fate of mind."

"Does the morning light Scatter this wan fuffufion o'er thy brow,

This faint blue luftre under both thine eyes?" P. 5.

Tamar replies, and recounts his adventures. He was play

ing on his pipe when a beautiful nymph rofe above the

waves.

Her eyes too! O immortal Gods! her eyes
Refembled what could they refemble-what
Ever refemble thofe !'

P. 7.

She challenges him to wrestle for a wager: he stakes a Sheep.

"I cannot," fhe replied, "make that return:
Our hided veffels, in their pitchy round,
Seldom, unlefs from rapine, hold a fheep.
But I have finuous fhells, of pearly hue
Within, and they that luftre have imbibed
In the fun's palace porch; where, when unyoked,
His chariot wheel ftands midway in the wave.
Shake one, and it awakens; then apply
Its polished lips to your attentive ear,
And it remembers its auguft abodes,

And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there."

F. 7.

Of this paffage it is unneceffary to point out the beauty. He who does not inftantly behold it must have a foul blind to the world of poetry.

He falls beneath her fkill; and fhe bears away the prize : he fees her depart.

Reflefs then ran I to the higheft ground

To watch her; fhe was gone; gone down to the tide;
And the long moon-beam on the hard wet fand
Lay like a jafper column half uprcar'd.'

. 9.

Gebir liftens with intereft to the love of his brother.

"By all the Gods! I pity thee! go on→→→
Fear not my anger, look not on my shame;
For, when a lover only hears of love,
He finds his folly out, and is afhamed.
Away with watchful nights, and lonely days,
Contempt of earth, and afpect up to heaven,
With contemplation, with humility,-

A tatter'd cloak that pride wears when deform'd→
Away with all that hides me from myself,
Parts me from others, whispers I am wife--
From our own wifdom lefs is to be reaped
Than from the bareft folly of our friend.
Tamar! thy paftures large and rich, afford
Flowers to thy bees, and herbage to thy theep,

- But, battened on too much, the poorest croft

Of thy poor neighbour yields what thine denies." P. 10.