I write not to the modifh herd my days,
Spent in the tranquil fhades of lettered ease,
Afk no admiring stare from those I meet,

No loud "that's he!" to make their passage sweet.
Pleased to steal foftly by, unmarked, unknown,

I leave the world to Holcroft, Pratt, and Vaughan." P. 52% But the best powers and most amiable qualities of the writer are most effectually difplayed in the following fpirited character, of a man of true genius and daily increasing emi

nence.

"Thou too, my Hoppner! if my with availed,
Shouldft praise the strain that but for thee had failed:
Thou knoweft, when indolence poffeffed me all,
How oft I rouzed at thy infpiring call;
Burft from the Syren's fafcinating power,
And gave the Muse thou loveft one ftudious hour.
"Proud of thy friendship, while the voice of fame
Purfues thy merits with a loud acclaim,

I fhare the triumph-not unpleafed to fee
Our kindred deftinies; for thou, like me,

Waft thrown too foon on the world's dangerous tide,
To fink or fwim, as chance might best decide.

Me, all too weak to gain the distant land,

The waves had whelmed, but that an outstretched hand
Kindly upheld, when now with fear unnerved,-
And ftill protects the life it then preserved.
Thee, powers untried, perhaps unfelt before,
Enabled, tho' with pain, to reach the fhore,
While *** stood by, the doubtful strife to view,
Nor lent a friendly arm to help thee through.
Nor ceafed the labour there: Hate, ill-fuppreft,
Advantage took of thy ingenuous breast,
Where faving wifdom yet had placed no fcreen,
But every word, and every thought was seen,
To darken all thy life :-'tis paft; more bright
Thro' the difparting gloom thou strikest the fight;
While baffled malice haftes thy powers to own,
And wonders at the worth fo long unknown.
I too, whofe voice no claims but truth's e'er moved,
Who long have feen thy merits, long have loved,
Yet loved in filence, left the rout fhould fay
Too partial friendship tuned th' applausive lay ;
Now, now that all confpire thy name to raise,
May join the fhout of unfufpected praise.

Go then, fince the long ftruggle now is o'er,
And envy can obftruct thy fame no more
With ardent hand thy magic toil purfue,
And pour fresh wonders on our raptured view.
One fun is fet, one glorious fun; whose rays
Long gladdened Britain with no common blaze:

O, mayeft

O, mayeft thou foon (for clouds begin to rife)
Affert, his station in the eastern skies,

Glow with his fires, and give the world to fee

Another Reynolds, rifen, my friend, in thee." P. 59. The addrefs to Lord Belgrave is no lefs honourable to the writer's feelings; and they who well examine the Mæviad will not accufe us of prejudice or partiality, when we again affirm that there are not many things in our language againit which this may not be weighed, and few undertakings of the poetical kind to which this author's abilities are not adequate.

ART. XI. An Effay on the Malignant Peftilential Fever, introduced into the Weft India Islands from Boulam, on the Coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794. By C. Chisholm, M. D. and Surgeon to his Majefty's Ordnance in Grenada, 8vo. 279 PP. 5s. Dilly, 1795.

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N the introduction to this tract the author has given an interesting account of the Ifland of Grenada, as to climate, temperature, and productions, of which we shall here introduce fome fpecimens,

"Grenada is one of the most fouthern of the Caribbean Islands: a fituation which exempts it from the dreadful hurricanes which frequently lay wafte thofe further northward. It is compofed of two immenfe mountains, which terminate in peaks; but being united a little below their fummits by a gradual flope, the divifion is not at firft very perceptible. Its atmosphere differs widely from that of the low iflands, Barbadoes, Antigua, &c. The innumerable points and ridges of the two mountains, arreft or attract the paffing clouds. These either falling in rain, or giving rife to fprings, whilft they fertilize the foil, fill the atmosphere with watery particles. The atmosphere of the low iflands, on the contrary, is generally remarkably dry; nor are they bleffed with the ftreams and rivers which beautify and benefit Grenada."

After giving a bold and animated defcription of the face of the country, the author adds:

"Every human want, except thofe introduced by European luxury, is here amply provided for, almoft without exertion. The most wholesome food is the fpontaneous production of the country. The various fpecies of the banana, of the potatoe, of the pea, of the bean, of the caffada, ftand unrivalled in falubrity, and native elegance of tafte. To these may be added a variety of pot-herbs and greens, unknown in Europe; and at least fixty kinds of fruit, chiefly natives of the country, of the moft delicious flavour and tafte."

Nature

Nature has not only provided thus bountifully for the fuftenance of the inhabitants, but amidst the vegetables with which the has furnished the island, fpecifics are to be found against the moft formidable of their difeafes, fever, dyfentery, worms, the yaws, lues venerea, and leprofy, which are well known, and conftantly úfed by the inhabitants. They have alfo plenty of horned cattle, fheep, goats, hogs, rabbits, agootees or Indian conies, and guanas, dunghill fowls, turkies, geefe, ducks, &c. befides an inexhaustible supply of fish of uncommon variety and goodness.

All the rivers, bays, and fea, he fays, teem with them; and being eafy procured, they conftitute almoft the only animal food, of the lower claffes of people." "It is not therefore furprifing," he adds, "that foreign luxuries, too liberally used, fhould fhorten the lives of one defcription of inhabitants, whilft another, confining themfelves to the wholefome indigenous aliment of the country, with occafionally the addition of the leaft injurious of the European delicacies, live to an age uncommon even in the temperate regions of the old continent. To prove this, no more is neceffary than to attend to the uninterrupted health and great age of many of the French and Creole inhabitants of both fexes, particularly of the females. Eighty, ninety, and an hundred years, is by no means an uncommon age among these. And one gentleman, Mr. Forthun, of the parish of St. George, lived to the age of one hundred and twenty-feven years. The French and Creole inhabitants are never afflicted with the fatal topical inflammations, often epidemic among the English and Negroes: nor do fevers of a bad kind ever appear among them."

This exemption from the prevailing difeafes, the author attributes to their temperate and fimple mode of living. A fimilar inftance of the exemption of the French from epidemic diseases, we remarked in our account of Cary's History of the late Plague (as it is there called, at Philadelphia) of which we gave an account in our Review for the month of December laft *. It is there alfo affigned to a like caufe. We notice this circumftance the more particularly, in the hope of exciting our countrymen refiding in warmer climates, to adopt a fimilar mode of living, which would not fail to produce the moft beneficial confequences. Dr. Chisholm then gives a more particular account of the prevailing difeafes of Grenada, and concludes the introduction with a journal of the weather for the last four years.

The difeafe, which is the immediate subject of this publication, was introduced into the island by the crew of the

Brit. Crit. Part IV. p. 509.

Hankey,

Hankey, a trading veffel, which had carried a great number of adventurers from England, to the Inland of Boula Of this the author, who appears to have investigated the matter with great diligence, gives the moft convincing proofs. Out of fix men, from the Defiance, a fhip lying in the ryer, who went on board the Hankey, almoft immediately on its arrival, five who flept on board, took the fever, and died on the third day. The mate, who remained on the deck, or in the cabin, received the infection alfo, but in a flighter degree, and recovered. From the beginning of March to the end of May, of about five hundred failors, who manned the hips in the regular trade, two hundred died of the fever. It was not until the middle of April, that the disease made its appearance on fhore: sand, although it was by no means fo fatal there, as being further removed from the focus of the infection, and affected perfons who enjoyed a freer air, and paid more attention to cleanlinefs; yet the manner in which it fpread the town, clearly evinced, fays the author, its infectious na ture, For all, who from friendship, bufinefs, or duty, communicated, with the difcafed, were themselves infected; and no one inftance occurred, wherein the contagion could not be traced to its particular fource. A few, who feduloufly avoided the houfes where the infected actually were, efcaped." We shall not follow the author in the minute ac count he gives of the progrefs of the difeafe; or the various arguments he ufes, to prove that it derived its fource from the vellel we have mentioned. They are fuch as certainly evince the great attention he paid to the fubject, and muft, we think, carry conviction fo any unprejudiced reader. The author proceeds to give a defcription of the disease, which, from the violence of its attack, and the rapidity of its progrefs (fometimes proving fatal on the third, and frequently on the fifth day) is juffly, we think, called by him, a true peftilential fever. But as it appears to have been the fame which about that period defolated Philadelphia, of which we gave an ample account in our Review of Dr. Rufh's book on the fubject, we shall continue. our obfervations to the author's mode of treating it, and to the arguments he ufes in defence of the innovation he introduced in that country. Finding the total inefficacy of the method ufually recommended in treating malignant fevers, Cand that, notwithstanding the evident figns of inflammation. which were prefent, in the commencement of the disease, the antiphlogistic plan, particularly bleeding, never failed to haften the fatal catastrophe; and, observing in the bodies of those who had died of the fever, the liver conftantly, and in a remarkable manner diseased, he determined to have recourse to mer cury, which is known to be specific in complaints of that vis

cus;

and the fuccefs, equalled," he fays, "his moft fanguine expectations, as he did not lofe a fingle patient, in whofe cafe it was pushed to its full extent."

The method the author adopted in giving the fpecific, when from repeated trials he had found its power of completely fubduing the fever, we fhall give from the Appendix, in his own words,

"As it formerly not unfrequently happened, from the neceffary timidity a practitioner feels, who adopts a new remedy in one of the moft dangerous and destructive maladies the human frame is fubject to, that the remedy was not always pufhed to the length that fecures its efficacy; fo, on the reappearance of the difeafe, I was determined to give the calomel earlier, and in much greater quantity than the preceding year. Accordingly, instead of preceding the administra tion of this excellent remedy with the ufual evacuating medicines, I began with it, and continued it without the interpofition of any other, ill falivation took place. I give ten grains to an adult patient, as foon as poffible after I fee him. This generally acts as an aperient in the degree required, about an hour or two after it is given. At the end of three hours I repeat the fame dofe, without opium, if the firft had not purged more than twice. At the end of three hours more the fame quantity is given, adding opium or not, as the preceding dofes have acted. In this manner ten grains are given every three hours, till the falivary glands are affected; which generally happens in lefs than twenty-four hours from the commencement of the treatment. The effect of the medicine may be perceived after the third dofe, in general; the patient becoming calmer, less restless, lefs anxious, his fkin being fofter, and poffefled of an agreeable heat; the ftomach being perfectly retentive, however irritable it might have been before; and the eyes recovering their former luftre and fenfibility."

When falivation takes place, the cure is completed, and the patients recover their ftrength, the author fays, much fooner than when treated in any other method, and are never under the neceffity of having recourfe to the bark or any other medicine.

Dr. C. farther juftifies the ufe of calomel in this complaint, by analogical arguments founded on the opinion of feveral eminent phyficians, who have recommended mercury as a fafe and powerful refolvent in certain fpecies of inflammation; and on the practice of Dr. Clarke, Dr. Wade, and Dr. Rufh, particularly of the latter, whofe method of treating the late fever at Philadelphia, he fays, was nearly fimilar to his.

"Whether the disease described by Dr. Rufh, was produced in the manner the malignant peftilential fever was in Grenada, is a matter of no great importance; it is fufficient to know, that the diseases were exactly the fame; and that a fimilar treatment proved successful in both."

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