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vapor exhalat, cæterum nil invenitur, fi nempe ante mortem fana fues rint. Our Tranflator, by a wonderful flight of hand, has, from this one period, conjured up three diftinct periods in his tranflation; and, at the fame time, making very free with the fenfe of the original, has perplexed the paffage, and rendered it almost unintelligible.-Here it is: It is indeed not true, as phyficians formerly believed, that a quantity of fluid was contained in the cavity of the pericardium, to moiften the heart, and temperate its heat. But this difpute is now fettled, as this fluid is only found in the body, when it is grown cold after death. In live animals, cut open fuddenly, a vapour only breaks forth; and nothing else is found, if the animals are healthy.' -Old veterans occur more than once in this tranflation.-We wonder whether our Translator ever heard of young veterans.— We know that in the Latin, two negatives make an affirmative; and if, in the Englifh, two affirmatives did but make a negative, our Tranflator would have difcovered the furprizing knack of making old people young again. The following paffage, quia allium v. g. fuo odore inficit urinam is tranflated thus, becaufe garlick, for inftance, Smells the urine, but then it is with its own particular flavour.' This is the first time we remember to have feen the fenfe of fmelling attributed to garlick; but, poflibly, this perfonification of garlick may be particularly bold and happy: garlick it feems Smells the urine, and in return for this compliment of fenfibility, Mafter Garlick is prefented by Mafter Urine with his own particular flavour:-very picturefque truly! and perfectly confiftent with the politeness of two fuch distinguished perfonages!

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But if our Tranflator excels in the profe parts of his work, he is no lefs excellent in the poetical.This appears from the translation of thofe paffages which are quoted from Lucian's Tragopod:

Mendacia tibi dicta, quæque dicta funt;

A heap of lies he has told, and more will tell,
For no one thing he faid to him befell.'
A tranflation, concife, expreffive, and poetical!
Again,-Cognofcat unufquifque, me folam deum
Non deliniri pharmacis, non obfequi.
That every one may know

That I the only goddefs am, who dumb

To tears and fupplications, fighs and fhrugs,

And quite inexorable then become

When once affail'd by 'pothecaries drugs.'

The tranflation of the following line is fingularly happy:
Sed vos manuum digitos agite, conftringite.

and you

as foon

Their finger-knuckles and their wrists invade.'

Wrifts and finger-knuckles are, to be fure, an admirable tranflation of manuum digiti.

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Cur non adeft gravis inflammatio

Ipfo in loco, nec humidum fomentum habes.

Why was there not a grievous inflammation,

Or, to the parts applied, a fomentation ?'

Better and better ftill! We need not furely lament the lofs of Sternbold and Hopkins, fo long as the Tranflator of Baron Van Swieten's Commentaries, fhall be pleafed to exert his poetic abilities.

Art. 16.

Art. 16 Oratio anniversaria, in theatro collegii regalis medicorum Landinenfium ex Harvai inflituto habita, die 18v0 Octobris, 1764, 4to. Is. 6d. Whiston.

One fingle phyfiological or practical truth, when put into the medital balance, is of more real weight, than all the eafy, elegant, claffic declamations which have ever iffued from the ROYAL COLLEGE OF Phyficians.--Declamation often leads to extravagance; and, in the mighty pother, truth too frequently efcapes the fight of the Orator.

This oration is a panegyric on our English medical worthies, from Caius down to the prefent time; in which Dr. Cadogan, the Author, does ample justice to the refpective characters: once or twice, however, he even out-Herods Herod!From the labours of these great men, whofe eulogy he has just given, he says, tandem ea nata eft et ftabilita, qua nunc fruimur phyfiologia; cujus ad perfectionem PAUCIS IMA certe defiderari videntur. We apprehend our phyfiology is far from being brought to fo GREAT a degree of perfection; and had Dr. Cadogan confulted Hailer, Hunter, or any other of our beft phyfiologifts, they would have informed him, that, non PAUCISSIMA, fed PERMULTA certe defiderantur.-Speaking of Dr. Jurin, who was one of our English patrons of inoculation, our Orator takes the opportunity to deliver his own fentiments on this fubject:

What, fays Dr. Cadogan, if one in a thoufand dies ?'—A very round number truly, and far, very far, exceeding the authentic accounts relative to this practice. But our Author goes on:- What if one in a thousand dies, of those who would have died in the natural way?-One out of feven, we believe, dies in the natural way: our Author's declamatory arithmetic therefore stands thus :- What if one out of feven thoufand dies?'-Very well Dr. Cadogan! and what then? Why then that one which dies under inoculation, dies through the ignorance and mifmanagement of the inoculator.- -Here follows the paffage itself: - Quid fi hinc inde unus e mille perit eorum qui Spontaneo morbo perituri effent? id maxime imperitorum ægros tractantium infcitia imputandum. To recommend any practice in

this manner, is, we think, most effectually to difcommend it.

Art. 17. Centaury, the great Stomachic: in Preference to all other Bitters; in that it gives Appetite and Digeftion, and neither heats nor binds the Body. With an Account of the Plant, and the Method of gathering and preparing it; and a few Rules for fuch as have weak Stomachs. By J. Hill, M. D. Member of the Imperial Academy. 8vo. 6d. Baldwin.

J. Hill, M. D. and Member of the Imperial Academy, is certainly, in his way, a moft accomplished and managing Practitioner; he fells his elixir, and at the fame time has the extraordinary addrefs to make the public pay for the advertisement; and this, he generally exhibits under the form of a fixpenny pamphlet.In the prefent fixpenny advertisement we are informed, that Centaury is infinitely preferable to every known bitter; that its virtues chiefly refide in that part which is between the talk and the root, called the crown of the root: that on chewing it, there is perceived a molt agreeable bitter, and a comfortable warmth, joined with a light aufterity; hence a moft excellent frengthener

ftrengthener and ftomachic: and that all thefe furprifing and powerful qualities are most compleatly communicated to perfectly rectified spirit: in which form this moft noble elixir is prefented to the public.-Whether this elixir will really effect wonders, we pretend not to determine. One effect, however, we apprehend it will work, it will put money into the Imperial Academician's pocket; and, as the Doctor himself obferves, in recommending his Balfam of Honey," there is more in this than GOOD MEN would think of:”

Art. 18. An Efay on the most effectual Means of preferving the Health of Seamen in the Royal Navy, &c. By James Lind, M. D. Second Edit. improved and enlarged. 8vo. 2s. 6d. few'd, Wilfon.

For an account of the first edition of this work, we refer our Readers to the Review for July 1757, p. 89. As to the additions and Improvements in this impreffion, we cannot give a better general idea of them than in the Author's own words, which we shall tranfcribe from the advertisement prefixed to the work. I have, fays the Doctor, now revised these sheets, and made fome additions, endeavouring to render this performance more extenfively useful, not only to all feamen and paffengers in fhips, but alfo to others, more especially to many of our colonies, and factories abroad. In the fecond part, I have more fully enlarged on the precepts for fecuring fuch as attend fick perfons against infection, which are not confined to feamen or to thips, but intended as general directions, and as a supplement to my Two Papers, now published, on Fevers and Infection. See our account of thefe Papers, p. 301 of this month's Review. The precepts, for the security of thofe who attend the fick, with which the Doctor hath particularly enlarged this edition, are briefly thefe; Drink a glafs of a flight infufion of the Bark once or twice a-day. Vifit not the fick with an empty ftomach, Wash your mouth with camphorated vinegar, and ftop your noftrils with lint dipped in the fame before you enter the room. Wear a fuit of waxed linen. Fumigate the chamber with the fteam of tar. Chew fomewhat which may cause you to fpit often. Dip your fingers in vinegar before you feel the pulfe. Drink a glafs of wine, with the juice of half a lemon and fugar before bleeding the patient. Thefe are undoubtedly very efficacious precautions, and are therefore proper additions to this excellent treatife: they are however not altogether

new.

POETICA L.

Art, 19. The Addrefs. A Fable. 4to. 6d. Nicoll, Foolishly abufes the city addrefs, and the citizens themfelves, in fuch wretched rhymes as the following:

Ye tools of art and mysteries!

Where each to cheat the other tries:
Ye flaves of law, attornies, brokers!
Of oilmen, ginmen, chandlers, grocers"!
Of vintners, mercers, haberdashers,
Smiths, toymen, Lombard-credit thrashers.-

Grokers, it should have been, for the rhyme's fake.

We

We have, ourselves +, cenfured the citizens on account of the addrefs here alluded to; but this Fable-monger feems to be chiefly angry with them for being tradefmen. Our would-be wits are often thus exercifing their little talents, in order to ridicule those who are much more useful and more valuable members of fociety than themfelves. And yet to thefe very fcribblers may the following couplet, from Dr. Young, be often juftly applied:

His hammer this, and that his trowel quits,

And wanting sense for tradesmen, pass for wits.

+ See Review for laft Month, p. 238, art. 15.

Art. 20. The Elbow-Chair: A Rhapsody.

By the Rev. E. Cooper, of Droitwyche, Worcestershire, Author of a Collection of Elegiac Poefy; Bewdley, a defcriptive Poem; Elegy on the Death of Mr. Shenftone, &c. &c. 1 s. 6d. F. Newbery.

4to.

We never met with a more rhapsodical rhapsody than this of an honeft Welch parfon, in praise of his own country. Seated in his elbow-chair, fmoking his pipe, and ruminating on love, and liberty, and rural profpects; on the marriage-act, on angling, on churchyards, on hunting, on patriotism, and on the Scotch favourite.Though the good man feems to have no great notion of elegance or correctness of compofition, he has fome harmonious lines; and among the reft, the following hunting-fcene is not unworthy the Reader's notice.

At the found
Of deep-mouth'd beagles all the foul's on fire;
Up from the bed of floth, thou lazy Cit,
And meet the morning's fresheft looks, and hear
The hills and dales refound with joyful cries.
Here bring thy courfer to the fylvan train,
And join the mutual cry: for buxom health
Repays our toil, and o'er the nut-brown jug
At night the mirthful tale infpires the foul.
Here will I fit upon the verdant fide

Of this known hill: obferve the merry crew
With fenfe fagacious (as they queft along)

Now catch th' informing gale: what fweet-ton'd thunder

Rolls tremulous along the winding vale!

For Trimbush now confirms the doubtful strife,
And all the pack his well-known voice obey.
Quick fee the hare fkim o'er the lefs'ning plain,
In view the general chorus loud resounds.
Such charming mufick never did I hear;
For, Somerville! a cry more tuneable,

"Was never hallow'd to, nor chear'd with horn,"
E'en woods and dales rejoic'd, and join'd the cry.
Swift as the bounding roe yon courfers fly,
Outftrip the wind, and skim along the mead.
Now to yon grove, where playful oft and young
The lev'ret peaceful ftray'd, a refuge there

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She feeks in vain: for ah! her ecchoing yell
With double fury burfts upon her ear.
In doubling mazes now the feeks to foil
Th' approaching foe: but mind yon fteddy hound
(Whofe age, experience in the pleafing chace
Oft times has taught) now with a glorious thirt
Of generous ardor eager speed his way;
A certain fign, that now the finks-and dies.
The ftrepent horn confirms the joyful news,
And all around fhrill propagates the found.
These are the sports of Welchmen: did ye know
The luxury of fleep, ye fons of eafe,
Oft got by rural paflime, ye would fcorn
The blandishments of down, and all the arts
Emollient, which difgrace the race of men.

this poem; but as the good-humoured Author appears to be quite Some very faulty lines, and ufelefs epithets, we have obferved i fnug and happy in his elbow-chair, we are unwilling to difturb him by defcending to particular animadverfions: and more especially a the random, incoherent nature of the piece may feem to claim an e emption from a too rigid trial by the laws of criticifm.

THEATRICAL.

Art. 21. Daphne and Amintor: A Comic Opera, in One All, it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. 8vo. 15. Newbery, Becket, &c.

and

This is the third time that The Oracle of M. St. Foix has been cooked up for the palates of English readers and English audiences. It was first translated, literally, about twenty years ago, by an anony mous hand. Next, it was tranflated by Mrs. Cibber, in 175239 acted for her benefit, at Covent-Garden-houfe*: and now Mr. Ifaac Bickerstaff, Author of Love in a Village, and The Maid of the Mill, hath taken up this pretty trifle, made fome alteration in the plan, and felf, by whom they were written, unworthy of Mr. Garrick, by added to it feveral poor and prepofterous fongs, unworthy of himwhom this mess was fuffered to be ferved up for the public entertainment, and unworthy of the toleration the piece met with from a good his mulli, we have not heard it; take, therefore, his own account of it: With regard to the mufic, fays Mr. B. I apprehend it muft please, as it has been selected with the greatest attention, both to the beauty of the airs, and its effect upon the theatre. There are, i deed, fome people who may poffibly be of opinion, that I ought to But in fact fuch fort of compofitions fcarce deferve the ftage; where every thing ought to be fupported by a degree of action name of mufic at all; at least they can have little or no merit on the It is really in the book, and we have faithfully tranfcribed the paffage, Yes, gentle Reader, thou mayeft well ftare! but, diftruft not us

have chofen old English or Scotch ballads; or the fame taste.

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