[Reviews of books on inoculation and vaccination.

Date:
1806]
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Credit: [Reviews of books on inoculation and vaccination. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ANTI-JACOBIN Review and Magazine, #C. §C. cj-C. <&#, For JUNE, 1806. *&? Vitam regit Fortuna, non sapientia. CICERO. ORIGINAL CRITICISM. A Treatise on the Origin, Progress, Prevention, and Treatment of Con- sumption. By John Reid, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London; Senior Physician to the Finsbury Dis- pensary, and Lecturer on the Theory and Practice of Medicine. 8vo. Pi>. 317. Phillips. London. THIS work will not fail to excite a peculiar interest, as it treats of a most formidable and frequent disease—a disease which seldom, or never, fails to destroy the object of its attack, and which may be said to be the very scourge ot these islands. How often does it break in upon the happiness of the domestic circle, laying its brightest hopes —the promising son or amiable daughter—in au untimely grave ? What numbers does it yearly, nay, daily, add to the bdls ot mortality f The subject of the woik before us, therefore, comes home to the bo- som of every one—to the individual for himself, the parent for his family, the politician for the welfare of the state. If, as the author has well observed in his preface, if, amidst the various modifications of disease incident to man, there be one which claims a pre-eminent attention, both from the medical profession, mid the public at large, his that, the elucidation of whose nature, origin, progress, and treat- ment, constitutes the principal object of the following pages. The importance of the subject, therefore, demands that we cbould not pass it over in a cursory manner: we shall follow our author throughout the greatest part of his work, and then offer a few gene- ral observations. no. xcvi. vol. xxiv, I Ha