This classification is simple and comprehensive. It affords an easy and, for the most part, a natural position to all the diseases of the animal frame: it requires no appendix or supplement, as is the case with most of the nosologies we have met with, and may be followed without an index. The genera and species have a due proportion of space allotted to them, their boundaries are perspicuously defined, and they never run into each other. A wider compass is allowed to the genera than has been concedéd by most writers; in consequence of which, several genera of former nosologists, or which have been so called, are, in the present system, often consolidated into one, greatly to the simplification of pathology, and to the ease of the student. The same remark applies to the author's species; and it has hence been necessary to give, in every instance, a new definition. This has demanded great labour, but the labour has answered: the definitions are brief, clear, and comprehensive: and we seldom perceive the Linnéan dictum upon this subject transgressed in the length which it allows.

There are also two additional features, and of considerable importance, which are peculiar to the present work; and have not been obtained without extensive research. In order to assimilate it more closely to works of the same kind in the collateral branches of natural knowledge, to the systematic name of every disease is subjoined its chief vernacular, as well as technical synonyms: the former extending to the French, German, and English tongues, the latter to the Arabic as well as the Greek and Latin: the Arabic synonyms being given in Arabic as well as in Roman characters, for the purpose of enabling the reader, who is capable of comparing the two characters, to see the peculiar power which, in the present rendering, is assigned to the latter. Of the introduction of the Arabic characters upon such an occasion we cannot but approve; they seem indeed to be imperatively called for from the very different manner in which the Arabic terms have been spelt in Roman characters by different writers, and especially writers of different countries, none of whom have hitherto given more than the Roman characters alone, as derived from the Latin versions.

We have noticed the first of the two peculiarities we refer to as characterizing the present work. The next is, perhaps, of greater value: and consists of a well-digested, and running commentary, which gives first the etymology and authority of every classic, ordinal, generic, and specific term made use of; and afterwards, with a view of affording relief to the dryness of technical definitions, and verbal criticism, illustrates the disease by a series of interesting cases, valuable remarks, and singular physiological facts, gleaned from an extensive perusal of approved authorities,

ancient and modern; occasionally interspersed with familiar incidents as they have occurred to the writer in his own walk and intercourse of life. Many of these are peculiarly interesting; and will be found not less entertaining to the general reader than instructive to the medical student.

From this mass of scientific matter it is difficult to make a selection: the following genus seems neatly sub-divided, and will be understood by the unprofessional as well as by the initiated. It occurs under Class II. Order I. PNEUMATICA, PHONICA.

"GENUS VI.
PSELLISMUS.

The articulation imperfect or depraved.
Psellismus. Sauv. Linn. Sag. Cull.

1. BAMBALIA. The flow of the articulation disturbed by irregular intermissions or snatches.

Timtamet (). An onomatopy produced by an iteration of the letters T and м, which are most difficult for the stammerer to articulate.

Stammlen.

G.

Bégayement. F.

Stammering.

a Hæsitans. Involuntary and tremulous retardation in articulating

particular syllables.

Psellismus Ischnophonia. Sauv.

Ischnophonia. Vog.

Anstossen. G.

Hesitation. F.

Hesitation.

Títubans. Involuntary and tremulous reduplication of some syllables, alternating with a tremulous hurry in uttering those that follow.

These two varieties of stammering are thus well described by Shakspeare: I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once or none at all.'

2. BLÆSITAS. The enunciation vitious.

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Blæsitas. Auct. Lat.

Traulotes (pavλórns.) Auct. Græc.

. (الكن) Alken

Ringens. With a vibration or redoubling of the letter R.
Psellismus ringens. Cull,

Lallans. The letter L unduly liquid, or substituted for R. As when delusive is pronounced delusive, as though the possessed the power of the Spanish W, or the Italian gl; or as when parable is pronounced palable. Alcibiades is supposed to have laboured under this defect. It is also said to be common to the Jews of China, who have dwelt among the Chinese so long as to have lost the sound of R, in consequence of its not existing in the Chinese tongue; and who consequently pronounce in

.בראשית ברא for בלאשית בלא, .Gen. i

Lallatio. Auct. Lat.

Psellismus lallans. Cull.

Psellismus Lambdacismus.

Sauv.

✓ Emolliens. The harsh letters exchanged for soft, as in the substitution of anzel for angel; capidol for capitol; dat for that. Psellismus traulotes. Sauv.

♪ Balbútiens. Labials, as B. M. P, too frequently introduced, or used instead of other letters. So Veda is pronounced Beda, Venares, Benares, in Bengal, the Bengalee having no V. So impringe is often used for infringe; ibory for ivory; though b and not v is here the radical letter, the Latin term being ebur. Psellismus balbutiens. Cull.

Mogilália. Labials omitted or exchanged for other letters.

Most commonly P for F and F for V, as filfer for pilfer; vish for fish, antle for mantle. So the Latin sibilo is transformed by the French into siffler.

Psellismus mogilalia. Sauv.

Psellismus acheilos. Cull.

Faifait (). An onomatopy or imitation of the sound produced by a vitious reduplication of the letter f.

Dentíloquens. Dentals, as C, S, T, Z, too frequently employed; producing the effect of what is called, in common language, speaking through the teeth.

Asthenia vocis, Thetismus. Young.

Lispeln. G.

Grasseyement. F.

Lisping.

"Gutturális. Imperfect utterance of the guttural letters: as G. J. H. X.

Psellismus lagostomatum. Cull." (P.98–101.)

We will conclude our very cursory view of this new contribution to medical science, with thanking the author for having brought the study of medicine within a more practicable compass, and correct boundary, without sacrificing what is necessarily complicate to a popular affectation of simplicity, or multiplying its difficulties by a learned display of needless subdivisions.

ART. VII. Modern Greece: a Poem. 8vo. pp. 67. Murray. London, 1817.

THE magic name of Greece is always accompanied with emotions of admiration and regret. Long have we contemplated that country through the medium of her poets and historians, her philosophers and orators, and have thence learned, from our infancy, to glow at a name consecrated by every elegant and classic allusion. We have walked and reasoned with the sages of her academic groves; we have followed her animated crowds to the scenes of forensic or theatrical eloquence; we have paced her marble temples, and felt all the powers of fancy, of thought, and of feeling, entranced by the splendid forms of architecture and sculpture, which have burst every moment upon the imagination. Every great idea, every elevated sensation, even every imperfect reminiscence, has seemed to assume a local habitation, and a name. There Pericles harangued the people; there Phidias exhibited his forms of ideal grandeur and celestial sublimity; there the agonistic champion encircled his brows with imperishable garlands; there the undaunted matron animated her sons to deeds of heroic glory; there the embryo statesman drank deep at the fountains of Attic wisdom, or learned to embody the exalted conceptions of his free-born-mind in the pure and majestic strains of Athenian eloquence. Not a state, or city, or mountain, or river, can occur to the memory, without bringing with it the recollection of deeds and personages of heroic fame. It is a world of enchantments; we forget ourselves and all around us, and seem inspired with new souls and new bodies, the moment we touch in idea this Elysian ground, this land of ever-pleasing delights and fascinating associations. A sedate majesty, a pensive tenderness, a breathless veneration, steal over the mind, when it muses, in silence, upon scenes connected with all the pleasures and pains of our youthful studies, and all the fairy visions of our more matured contemplations. At the name of Greece are awakened the loveliest ideas of beauty, the proudest conceptions of sublimity, the loftiest aspirations of liberty; in a word, all that fires, or exalts, or expands the soul; all that adds elasticity and ardour to mortal energies, and gives to the ordinary passions and pursuits of men an aspect of poetical dignity and mental elevation.

It is true, that when we behold ancient Greece by the light of a holier lamp, much, if not all, of this delusive splendour fades away, and a scene of lust, and ambition, and blood is presented in its place: cruelty and rapine. fill every palace, and violate

every temple. Man did not-could not attain the true majesty of his being, because he was ignorant of the real ends of his creation. Love and fame, earthly science, and transitory enjoyments, were the sole objects of his pursuit, and the rewards of his highest ambition. His moral powers were debased; his boasted wisdom was ignorance, and the very sources of his pride were the strongest marks of his degradation. He was at best but the venerable ruin of a once celestial fabric. Unacquainted with himself, or his Omnipotent Maker, he worshipped the impious, though elegant idols of a luxuriant imagination, and decorated his temples with sculptures, which proved at once the powers of human art, and the imbecility of unassisted reason. Man, thus abandoned to proud self-sufficiency, "even when he knew God, worshipped him not as God;" and all the objects which engrossed his life, and elicited the loftiest efforts of his taste and genius, became worse than insignificant when contrasted with the exalted purposes to which human existence ought primarily to be devoted. Poetry and painting, sculpture and architecture, eloquence and philosophy, were but poor and unworthy objects to fill and bound the capacities of an immortal soul, created in the image of the Deity, and intended for the spiritual enjoyments of an unseen world.

In these more exalted, and indeed more rational points of observation, Greece naturally loses much of that charm with which our early associations, unchastized by Christian feelings, are wont to invest it. We shall, it is true, still continue to view it with interest, with wonder, and in many aspects with admiration; but amidst all, there will be a suppressed dissatisfaction, a wholesome disappointment, which will prove that where Christianity has raised the mind to its due tone, nothing that has not in some measure partaken of the same hallowed influence, can be unreservedly admired by the understanding, or be wholly congenial to the heart. This, however, is not the unhappiness, but the privilege of the contemplative Christian, that, what to the mere man of taste appears simply attractive, assumes to him a more compound aspect; and while it expands his mind, elevates his genius, and enriches his fancy, it conveys to him also lessons and reflections of a somewhat modified and even pensive character. Great as has at all times been the interest felt by the classical and artistical reader on the subject of Greece, at no period has it been so intense in Great Britain as at the present moment. The various poems and books of travels which have lately taken Grecian art, or Grecian scenery, for their subject, are some among various proofs of this position; but the most important and obvious cause is, doubtless, the recent importation into the English me