Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-06-14
Notices of Books.

Notices of Books.
The Practice Of Medicine on 1hompsomian Prinei-
PIES adapted as sceH to the use Of Fd1l1es as to that
of the Practitioner &c. &c. By. ". Comfort NJ
Dr. A. COMFORT, publisher Philadelphia.
There is no fact in animal economy better estab-
lished than the perennial GOODNESS of dogs nose
Even in that season conseerated to the currish null
titude, under the denomination of the 'dog days."
the canine snout is in constant state of refrigera-
ton. 1t is cool cucumber-as a summers
morning-or as Secretary CRAWFORD pocketing the
money for the GALPHIN claim. Perhaps these deep
researches into natural history may little out
of place in a notice Of book on Thompsonian Medi-
cine but they naturally arise from "reminiscences
of DR.. COMFORT; and his name at the head of this
notice. has summoned up before our minds eye Vi
sion of nose $50 faint, pale, so woe-begone,"
that it makes shudder with cold to think of it. It
is always cold. 1t looks 'e-Comfort-able very We
once got stiff neck by looking across a counter at
it in the middle of summer, and then we doubted its
reality until the proprietor produced huge L" Ba-
danna, and subjected the suspicious feature to Sc
res of manpulations snortifeations and twistifca-
tons, that we felt convinced nothing but the genu-
inc article, A No l, could have survived. Not all
the red pepper and obeia which form the staple of
any effect upon that remarkable proboscis, and while
it continues it is, we can never think upon Dr.
COMFORT without thinking upon his nose, nor of his
nose without being reminded Of the GOODNESS of a
dogs nose perfectly doggish association of ideas
But the book. Aye, there's the rub. Well, the
book is eleven inches long by six wde and contains
about six hundred pages and though last not least
cost us 80 cents postage. A tax to which we must
not be subjected in future. It contains whole sys
tenn of Thompsonian Family Medicine, which will
doubt be highly beneficial to US, as we (the wri
ter) have no family, and have not swallowed dose
of any kind of medicine within the memory of man
Ss k9 Ts 6 d d the this aha Ro2B
found to contain much useful information. We hope
the publisher will, in future, remember that such
things sent to Editors should be postpaid con-
scientious adherence to this rule, will prevent any
further review of his cold nose.
The Medical Examiner, for June LINDSAY BLA-
K1sToN publishers, Philadelphia.
More medicine. We find in it, however, some
items of general interest There is an article by DR.
JACKSON on Wetting the Streets in Summer, which
practice he considers injurious to health. His idea
is that the human frame can support almost any a
mount of heat provided it is dry, but that if the ali
be surcharged with moisture it cannot dissolve anc
carry off the perspiration and other exhalations
the body, which thus becomes shut up in little at
= mosphere Of its
From an article on the Opium Trade between In
dia and China, learn that the amount of land il
India, occupied in the cultivation of the poppy,
ceeds 100000 acres. More than $4,000 chests ar
annually shipped from India to China, taking off il
return tbrty-fve millions of dollars. During tn
year 1882 the clear profits of the British govern
ment in India amounted to $l5,4S8,000, and thi
from traffic in an article which annually ruins nc
l. only thousands but millions of Chinese. It is sal
that ten years is the average duration of opiur
10 smokers life after he has become devotee of th
IL drug AS for instance, if be fairly started
E. smoke opium at twenty, he is pretty certain to
u ruined at twenty fve and dead at thirty.
THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW, for June, is on hant
% An article Military Presidents is the leading p'
e. per in the present number.
~ THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, for April, is also {
our table We have only had time to glance ov
er two articles The junction of the Atlantic and
Al cifc,' and review of HENDRIX CoNscIENcE's nov
% of Jacob Artevede the republican hero of Fla
~ ders. Every American of any literary pretension
H. should take the Westminster as through it alone
can get fair view of the movements of the Liber
90 party in Europe. So per annum. LEONARD Sco7
& Co., New York.
ne Cooley, for July, is also received, and is vel
nj pretty number. ANY number of steel plates al
IL wood engravings.
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