Volume 1

Further observations on the lateral or serpentine curvature of the spine, and on the treatment of contracted limbs. With an enquiry into the effects of various exercises, and other means which are used to prevent or cure these deformities. Being a supplement to the work on distortions of the spine and bones of the chest / [John Shaw].

  • Shaw, John, 1792-1827
Date:
1825
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Credit: Further observations on the lateral or serpentine curvature of the spine, and on the treatment of contracted limbs. With an enquiry into the effects of various exercises, and other means which are used to prevent or cure these deformities. Being a supplement to the work on distortions of the spine and bones of the chest / [John Shaw]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ina small garden; the continuation of our Tour in France (portions of which appeared also in the Fifth and Sixth Volumes), and the commencement of a Tour in the North of England, and Scotland. ‘This Volume also contains a great accumulation of valuable matter on the subject of Heating by Hot Water. In Volume VIII., for 1832, price 21s. bds., the supplementary lists of plants will be found to have assumed a still more perfect form than before, in conse- quence of improvements which suggested themselves, when completing the First Additional Supplement to our Hortus Britannicus. In this form we mean to continue these lists in future. Our Gardening Tour on the Continent is con- tinued in this Volume, as is also our Tour in the North of England and the West of Scotland. Volume IX., for 1833, (just completed), price 21s. bds., contains accounts of some of the finest gardens of France, Bavaria, and Baden; some valuable papers on Arboriculture and Landscape-Gardening; part of our Tour in the West and South of England; Mallet’s Tour in France; and a variety of papers on Heating by Hot Water, and other fluids, by Mallet, Ure, Holmes, Perkins, Weeks, Kewley, and others. In the above rapid glance, we have only noticed one or two subjects in each volume, as features by which to characterise it; but, viewing the series of volumes as a whole, they will be found to contain all the accessions that have been made to the science and practice of Gardening throughout the temperate regions of both hemispheres, and more especially in Britain, since the com- mencement of the Magazine, in January 1826. The facts and reasonings contained in these volumes are the more valuable, from having stood the test of retrospective criticism from various readers and contributors. The liability to this test renders statements communicated to the public through a scientific periodical, of much greater value than such as are published in a work, which, from its plan, admits of no discussion. The Gardener’s Magazine has been from its commencement, and will continue to be, open to the most rigid criticism of whatever appears in it, whether by contributors, or the Con- ductor; the only conditions being, that such criticism shall be concise, and in language free from personal abuse. With the Tenth Volume, for 1834, will commence a reduction of the price of the Gardener’s Magazine to 2s. 6d. a Number, or 15s. for the annual Volume ;—a reduction which has been made in compliance with the suggestions of various Gardeners, and in conformity with the spirit of the times. In this New Series, as it may be considered, so bulky an annual Volume will not be produced ; but the size of the page will be increased, so as to enable us to insert a nearly equal quantity of matter; and, what will be of great advantage to young gardeners, to enlarge the size of the engravings, more especially when these contain plans of gardens or pleasure-grounds. We are happy to state, that, notwithstanding the publication of no fewer than six Gardener’s Magazines in England, besides one in Ireland, since this (the first Gardener’s Magazine which ever appeared in the English language) was commenced, the contributors to our work, so far from falling off, either in their numbers, or in the interest of their communications, have steadily increased in both. These circumstances afford a gratifying proof of the widely spreading taste for our art, and confirm us in the sen- timents we have expressed in reviewing the first numbers of the different Gardening periodicals alluded to. In returning our Contributors and our Readers our sincere thanks, we can assure them that no exertion whatever on our part, or on that of the publishers, shall be wanting to ensure the continuing of this Magazine of the same superior style in which it has hitherto been produced; and to render it, in all respects, what it originally professed to be, and has hitherto been,—a perpetual supplement to our Encyclopedias of Gardening, in Agriculture, and of Plants, and to our Hortus Britannicus. Ji Mats Bayswater, Noy. 20, 1833.