Possunt quia posse videntur. Not to apprehend mischief, is a great step towards not being infected. And as preventives are at the same time more important, and more within our province to descant upon, we shall make no apology for introducing the following extract from one of the works before us. It will be seen by our readers, that great stress is laid on attention to the healthful state of the stomach; and we may take occasion to add, that fruits of all kinds, more especially the stone fruits, ought to be refrained from, by persons especially whose digesting powers are under par, and whose constitutional tendencies at all verge upon what are named bilious complaints.

Exposure to cold, to chills, to the night dew, and to wet and moisture, ought carefully to be avoided; and if at any time these exposures are inevitable, the system should be fortified against their effects. But the mode of fortifying the system requires consideration. This should not be attempted by wines or spirits. Permanent tonics, however, and those more especially which determine to the surface of the body, may be resorted to on such occasions. For this purpose, infusion or decoction of bark or of columba may be taken with the spiritus mindereri, or any warm stomachic; or the powdered bark may be exhibited, combined with the spicy aromatics. Sleeping in low and ill-ventilated apartments ought to be avoided; and individuals should be equally distrustful of sleeping near, or even of passing through, in the night time, marshy or swampy districts.

Warm stomachic laxatives, and these combined with tonics, may be adopted with advantage, as occasion may require. The diet should be regular, moderate, and easy of digestion. Whilst low living ought to be shunned, its opposite should never be indulged in. The stomach ought to have no more to do than what it can accomplish without fatigue to itself, and to the promotion of its own energies. It must never be roused to a state of false energy by means of palatable excitants, or weakened by distending it with too copious draughts of weak diluents.

The imagination should not be allowed for a moment to dwell upon the painful considerations which the disease is calculated to bring before the mind; and least of all ought the dread of it to be encou raged.'-(Annesley, in Searle.)

Let the reader take these precautions for his guide, through our summer sickness and autumnal diarrhoeas, and we may confidently hope that, beyond those common visitations, we shall have nothing to contend with.

We by no means intend, on the present occasion, to go into the theory and management of the disorder; but we cannot refrain from suggesting, that writers seem to have been influenced in some measure by erroneous principles, when they have represented Cholera as something absolutely different from the bilious derangements to which even the inhabitants of this country are obnoxious. That the Indian malady differs in de

gree, we readily, and, we were going to say, gratefully admit; but it would seem to our judgement, that the variation of intensity constitutes the only positive variation of character:-just as the plague of the Levant differs from the typhus of London, and the common bilious fevers of our temperate clime, from the yellow fever on the western side of the Atlantic. And not according to any diversity in nature, but by means proportioned to severity in character, must the malady be met by the physician. We hear of life succumbing in a few hours under the grasp of Indian Cholera. We have occasionally witnessed the same thing even in Great Britain, at the time that the milder attacks were common. And in no instance of aberration from healthy action, has the efficacy of medicine been more triumphantly proved, than in its endeavours to arrest the frightful course of Cholera, when it assumes its most malignant aspect, and is about to pervade the frame with almost electric rapidity. In the dreadful Cholera of 1817, it is stated, that almost every individual died, who did not receive the aid of medicine; while the proportion of deaths, when early recourse was had to medical aid, came to be not more than one in a hundred.'

We must close our brief disquisition with merely a remark or two on the merits of the writers whose treatises we have above indicated. We have intended for some time, (and may shortly put our design into execution, only that we do not wish to sicken our readers with too much medicine,) to treat more at large on the general topic of Mr. Corbyn's work, and we then should have more warrant in expressing our sentiments on his performance. Mr. Searle's book is, in point of composition, one of the most bungling productions we have for a long time met with. A phrenologist would say, that he has a fair causality, but a small language; for his theories, though full of false analogies and hasty inferences, are here and there marked by something like mental power; while the manner in which his sentiments are put, and his sentences arranged, is indicative of a total want of perception respecting the common requisites of authorship. The first page of his preface, had we time and space to advert to it, would justify the utmost severity of critical condemnation, that a reviewer could inflict. His electric theories of Cholera, although they display some acumen, labour under this slight disadvantage;--that, if applicable at all, they are at least equally so towards the explication of fever, and of many other maladies in which the distribution of the blood and of the vital principle becomes alarmingly irregular, the powers of life being drawn as it were forcibly and rapidly from one part of the body, and made to rush with fearful quantum and intensity upon another. Mr. Searle's notions of the management of Cholera appear, however, in the main, correct; for the

Possunt quia posse videntur. Not to apprehend mischief, is a great step towards not being infected. And as preventives are at the same time more important, and more within our province to descant upon, we shall make no apology for introducing the following extract from one of the works before us. It will be seen by our readers, that great stress is laid on attention to the healthful state of the stomach; and we may take occasion to add, that fruits of all kinds, more especially the stone fruits, ought to be refrained from, by persons especially whose digesting powers are under par, and whose constitutional tendencies at all verge upon what are named bilious complaints.

Exposure to cold, to chills, to the night dew, and to wet and moisture, ought carefully to be avoided; and if at any time these exposures are inevitable, the system should be fortified against their effects. But the mode of fortifying the system requires consideration. This should not be attempted by wines or spirits. Permanent tonics, however, and those more especially which determine to the surface of the body, may be resorted to on such occasions. For this purpose, infusion or decoction of bark or of columba may be taken with the spiritus mindereri, or any warm stomachic; or the powdered bark may be exhibited, combined with the spicy aromatics. Sleeping in low and ill-ventilated apartments ought to be avoided; and individuals should be equally distrustful of sleeping near, or even of passing through, in the night time, marshy or swampy districts.

Warm stomachic laxatives, and these combined with tonics, may be adopted with advantage, as occasion may require. The diet should be regular, moderate, and easy of digestion. Whilst low living ought to be shunned, its opposite should never be indulged in. The stomach ought to have no more to do than what it can accomplish without fatigue to itself, and to the promotion of its own energies. It must never be roused to a state of false energy by means of palatable excitants, or weakened by distending it with too copious draughts of weak diluents.

The imagination should not be allowed for a moment to dwell upon the painful considerations which the disease is calculated to bring before the mind; and least of all ought the dread of it to be encouraged.'-(Annesley, in Searle.)

Let the reader take these precautions for his guide, through our summer sickness and autumnal diarrhoeas, and we may confidently hope that, beyond those common visitations, we shall have nothing to contend with.

We by no means intend, on the present occasion, to go into the theory and management of the disorder; but we cannot refrain from suggesting, that writers seem to have been influence d in some measure by erroneous principles, when they have represented Cholera as something absolutely different from the bilious derangements to which even the inhabitants of this country are obnoxious. That the Indian malady differs in de

gree, we readily, and, we were going to say, gratefully admit; but it would seem to our judgement, that the variation of intensity constitutes the only positive variation of character:-just as the plague of the Levant differs from the typhus of London, and the common bilious fevers of our temperate clime, from the yellow fever on the western side of the Atlantic. And not according to any diversity in nature, but by means proportioned to severity in character, must the malady be met by the physician. We hear of life succumbing in a few hours under the grasp of Indian Cholera. We have occasionally witnessed the same thing even in Great Britain, at the time that the milder attacks were common. And in no instance of aberration from healthy action, has the efficacy of medicine been more triumphantly proved, than in its endeavours to arrest the frightful course of Cholera, when it assumes its most malignant aspect, and is about to pervade the frame with almost electric rapidity. In the dreadful Cholera of 1817, it is stated, that almost every individual died, who did not receive the aid of medicine; while the proportion of deaths, when early recourse was had to medical aid, came to be not more than one in a hundred.'

We must close our brief disquisition with merely a remark or two on the merits of the writers whose treatises we have above indicated. We have intended for some time, (and may shortly put our design into execution, only that we do not wish to sicken our readers with too much medicine,) to treat more at large on the general topic of Mr. Corbyn's work, and we then should have more warrant in expressing our sentiments on his performance. Mr. Searle's book is, in point of composition, one of the most bungling productions we have for a long time met with. A phrenologist would say, that he has a fair causality, but a small language; for his theories, though full of false analogies and hasty inferences, are here and there marked by something like mental power; while the manner in which his sentiments are put, and his sentences arranged, is indicative of a total want of perception respecting the common requisites of authorship. The first page of his preface, had we time and space to advert to it, would justify the utmost severity of critical condemnation, that a reviewer could inflict. His electric theories of Cholera, although they display some acumen, labour under this slight disadvantage;--that, if applicable at all, they are at least equally so towards the explication of fever, and of many other maladies in which the distribution of the blood and of the vital principle becomes alarmingly irregular, the powers of life being drawn as it were forcibly and rapidly from one part of the body, and made to rush with fearful quantum and intensity upon another. Mr. Searle's notions of the management of Cholera appear, however, in the main, correct; for the

curative indications plainly are, the unlocking of the capillary vessels, and restoring the lost balance of vital and circulating movements. The antibilious part of the treatment, when the malady is of the spasmodic, or, as we should say, of the intense kind, is often a secondary and subordinate matter. Life must first be preserved from sudden extinction, and then the disorder must be treated upon the most obvious principles, according to the incidental character it shall assume, or the particular course it shall pursue.

Art. VII. The Canon of the Old and New Testament Scriptures ascertained; or, the Bible complete without the Apocrypha and unwritten Tradition. By Archibald Alexander, D.D., Professor of Theology in Prince Town College, New Jersey. With Introductory Remarks, by John Morison, D.D., Author of an Exposition of the Book of Psalms, &c. 12mo. pp. xxii, 418. Price 6s. 6d. London, 1831.

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HE name of the Author of this very acceptable work, is honourably known to our readers, in connexion with his Brief Outline of the Evidences of the Christian Religion, to which this compilation was originally designed to form a supplement. A compendious work on this subject was certainly a desideratum in English theological literature. Those which we possess, are either too learned or too voluminous for general readers: besides which, the subject has generally been treated only partially, one writer confining his attention to the Canon of the Old Testament, and another to that of the New. Dr. Alexander's object has been, to exhibit a compendious view of the whole subject, and in such a form as will be level to the capa' cities of all descriptions of readers.'

'He has aimed at bringing forward the result of the researches of learned men who have treated this subject, in such a manner, that the substance of their works might be easily accessible to that numerous class of readers who are unskilled in the learned languages. It was, moreover, his opinion, that such a volume as this would not be unacceptable to theological students and to clergymen who have it not in their power to procure more costly works.

In the First Part, which relates to the Canon of the Old Testament, assistance has been derived from the Panstratia of Chamier, the Isagoge of Buddeus, the Thesaurus Philologicus of Hottinger, Prideaux's Connection, Wilson on the Apocrypha, and, above all, from Bishop Cosin's Scholastic History of the Canon of the Old Testament. In the Second Part, on the Canon of the New Testament, the testimonies have been principally selected from Lardner; but, in all that relates to the Apocryphal books of the New Testament, little else has been done, than to abridge and arrange the information contained in