then will be an end of all government, for there will be no need of it. We would hot have beftowed fo much room upon fuch a vifionary production, but the glaring title having promifed little lefs than the falvation of the nation, from an immense load of debt and taxes, and an eafy mode of raifing the neceffary fupplies for all future contingencies, we thought proper to lay the merits before our readers. *** A Treatife on the Teeth: wherein an accurate Idea of their Structure is given, the Caufe of their Decay pointed out, and their various Difeafes enumerated: to which is added, the most effectual Method of treating the Disorders of the Teeth and Gums, eftablifhed by a long and fuccessful Practice. By Barth. Rufpini, Surgeon-Dentift. A new Edition; with an Appendix of new Cafes. Small 8vo. No price. Fielding and Walker. A concife and judicious account of the nature and ftructure of the teeth, but calculated rather to recommend Mr. Rufpini as a dentist than for the instruction of individuals. There is, however, a cafe in the appendix, which we beg leave to recommend to the ferious perufal of all ladies whofe heads are too lofty to admit of frequent combing. "A lady of distinction, about twenty-two years of age, in the month of July 1777, fent for me in confequence of a very alarming complaint in her mouth. Her gums appeared greatly fwelled, looked very florid, and were exceedingly painful; the complained of a braffey taste, and had fome difficulty of fwallowing any kind of folid food. "An apothecary in the neighbourhood had been applied to the day before I faw her, and pronounced the difeafe an inflammatory fore throat, from cold. Though at that time I had fome fufpicion that her distress arose from another fource, I had no objections to her continuing the ufe of an emollient gargle with nitre, which had been ordered for her. The next day all her symptoms were aggravated, when being still farther confirmed in the conjecture I had at first formed, I requested an experienced furgeon might be confulted; and accordingly Mr. Giover, furgeon-major of the Effex regiment, the following morning was called in. On infpecting the feat of the disorder, we found three of the lower incisores loof, the breath very fetid, and a great quantity of faliva fecreted from the glands. The laft-mentioned gentleman, on our retiring, declared the lady had been taking fome preparation of Mercury, which was the caule of the above fymptoms. 4 Aa "As the matter was of fo delicate a nature, and the other practi tioner did not fall in with this opinion, though it entirely corref ponded with that I had at first adopted, the utmoft taution was obferved in afking the neceffary questions of the lady and her domefticks. One of them, after a long enquiry, faid the hair-dreffer had occafionally used a fmall quantity of fome mercurial pomatum. The man, who lived in the neighbourhood, was directly fent for; and after fome hesitation produced a box, which was found to contain about an ounce of the unguentum Neapolitanum, not above half a drachm of which, it appeared, he had used in the dreffing, in order to prevent a certain kind of animalcula breeding in the hair. By proper medical treatment the lady recovered her health, in about ten days after; but her gums continued in a spongy, flaccid state for fome time, till they were brought to their natural beauty and firmness by the repeated use of the tincture, which I have found by experience, the best application yet discovered for strengthening the gums, and making them adhere to the teeth, after they have been injured by the exhibition of mercurial medicines. "I have been the more particular in the recital of the above cafe, as I think a ptyalifin more frequently happens from the fame caufe, than is generally imagined; and as it in a striking manner fhews how foon some conftitutions are affected by the smallest quantities of mercury, even externally applied.. Two cafes which lately came under my infpection, though not attended with fuch fevere fymptoms, have corroborated this opinion." N. Parnafian Sprigs; or Poetical Mifcellanies. By William Mavor. 4to. 2s. 6d. Bew. Thefe fprigs never grew on Parnaffus, nor will the author ever be able to gather bays from them, unless he lets them grow to the fize of ftocks, on which he may graft a better fpecies of laurel. They fay the fcyon of a nonpareil produces 'better fruit, when grafted on a crab, than doth a native feedling. *** Who's the Dupe? a Farce; as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Mrs. Cowley, Author of the Runaway, a Comedy. 8vo. 19. Dodfley. A very laughable and entertaining production, which, it feems, by good luck, met with that fuccefs on the stage that it merited. ** The Poems on various Subjects. By Ann Murry, Author of Mentoria. 4to. 5s. Dilly. (Concluded from p. 337.) As a farther fpecimen of the talents of this lady, we offer two very agreeable pieces, on different fubjects, both which are ingenioufly treated by the fair author. An Ode. "Beneath a willow's mournful fhade, A chearless, folitary maid, Though once content and gay, In tender accents thus I fpoke, To ease her lab'ring breast: Can I thy wounded heart relieve, "Ah no," she said, "hard is my fate, Thy confolation comes too late, His abfence thus I mourn. The beams I fhun of chearing day, Remembrance fad, of former joys, The cruel phantom which deftroys Thus am I plung'd in fell defpair, In me her lamentations wrought To kindle in her ruffled thoughts, VOL. IX. Iii Ceafe Love, the invader of thy peace, Serenity fhall grace thy brows, With friendship's facred band; Be thou the messenger of peace, Rely on hopes which ne'er can cease. Depend on him, whofe pow'r alone, Afpire to reach his heav'nly throne, On returning a Knife to a Young Lady. "The Knife return'd, remain in perfect ease, I Though Though sharpest weapons were like troops combin'd Danebury, or The Power of Friendship, a Tale. With two Odes. By a Young Lady. 4to. Is. 6d. Johnson. Thefe poem's our fair author dedicates to her father in a manner very pleasing. The heroines of the tale are Emma and Elfrida, the first an orphan brought up by Egbert the father of Elfrida. The Danes invading this country, their army was opposed and overthrown at Danebury; but not till Elfrida, anxious after her father's fafety, rushed into the heat of the battle, and received a poison'd arrow in her breaft, aimed at her father. Her friend Emma fucked the poifon from the wound, and was herself cured by a hermit. The chief circumftance of this tale feems drawn from the ftory of Queen Eleanor and King Edward; only the one is actuated by love, the other by friendship. The following fhort fpecimen will enable the reader to judge of the poetical merit of the fair author. If Emma's bofom heav'd a penfive figh, The tear stood trembling in Elfrida's eyes In focial converse round their evening fire; 39 And learn'd the lore of wisdom from his tongue." The odes on Spring and Liberty have a ferious turn, more fo than is ufual in the writings of ladies. We fear fome misfortune fits too heavy on her breaft-time, we hope will remove it. 1 N. Sketches |