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India.
formation of a new Lodge . He intends , as we learn , to visit Chufiar and Allahabad , as soon as the extreme hot weather shall have passed . The provinces have suffered much , masonically , by the drain of troops towards Aff ghanistan , and have to mourn the death of many an excellent Brother . AVe are not moving Arch Masonry in the provincesnor is it likel
, y that branch of our sublime art can prosper , unless a Grand Superintendent is appointed . We are in the most anomalous state possible ; it would seem as if those in high places in England would wish to extinguish the only light that can do us justice , and ivould break the mirror that reflects their own supineness .
Review Of Literature, &C.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE , & c .
The Simple Treatment of Disease , deduced from the Metliods of Expectancy and Revulsion . By James M . Gully , M . D ., Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society , & c . & c , London : Churchill , Princes-street , Soho . The great mass of medical works of the day—and their name is legion—we find to be written either with a view to carry out some peculiar crotchet in the treatment of a particular disease , or to enforce the
value of a recently invented specific { discovered is seldom the appropriate term ) for tbe cure of " all the ills that flesh is heir to . " Now and then , it is true , a good practical work makes its way among the multitude of cotemporary quackeries , amply repaying perusal , and sometimes redeeming the labour previously expended in wading through volume after volume of worthless pages . . Dr . Gull ' s treatise ranks with the very best of the better class ; and
y has this manifest advantage over the vast majority of medical publications , that it can be as readily understood and appreciated by the non-professional as by the professional reader . It appeals forcibly to the common sense of the former , and to the practical experience of the latter ; and we trust that it will be eminently successful with both .
Rapidly tracing the history of medicine from the earliest ages to the latest modern practice , Dr . Gully shows that the principles of Expectancy and Revulsion have been more or less known to all the great medical authorities from Hippocrates downwards ; but that they have been carried into practice , separately or relatively , in either an imperfect or excessive manner . His object , therefore , is to define to what extent the one , the other , or both should be acted upon , in order to produce
early and permanent cures , instead of immediate temporary relief and protracted recovery , should the patient in the latter case recover at all . To treat the subject distinctively , he divides the two modes of life that obtain in the body into the vegetative and the animal , which he defines with much accuracy , and then proceeds to show how these act upon each other , especially when the organization is in a partially or generall y unhealthy state ; and from these comprehensive postulates he deduces
the mode of treatment to be observed . His main axioms being , that in " a majority of cases in which excessive purging and blood-letting are now had recourse to as indispensable , they should be entirely avoidedthat it is unnecessary to punish the stomach to relieve the bowels , or to distress and exhaust the latter where rest and proper diet would restore
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
India.
formation of a new Lodge . He intends , as we learn , to visit Chufiar and Allahabad , as soon as the extreme hot weather shall have passed . The provinces have suffered much , masonically , by the drain of troops towards Aff ghanistan , and have to mourn the death of many an excellent Brother . AVe are not moving Arch Masonry in the provincesnor is it likel
, y that branch of our sublime art can prosper , unless a Grand Superintendent is appointed . We are in the most anomalous state possible ; it would seem as if those in high places in England would wish to extinguish the only light that can do us justice , and ivould break the mirror that reflects their own supineness .
Review Of Literature, &C.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE , & c .
The Simple Treatment of Disease , deduced from the Metliods of Expectancy and Revulsion . By James M . Gully , M . D ., Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society , & c . & c , London : Churchill , Princes-street , Soho . The great mass of medical works of the day—and their name is legion—we find to be written either with a view to carry out some peculiar crotchet in the treatment of a particular disease , or to enforce the
value of a recently invented specific { discovered is seldom the appropriate term ) for tbe cure of " all the ills that flesh is heir to . " Now and then , it is true , a good practical work makes its way among the multitude of cotemporary quackeries , amply repaying perusal , and sometimes redeeming the labour previously expended in wading through volume after volume of worthless pages . . Dr . Gull ' s treatise ranks with the very best of the better class ; and
y has this manifest advantage over the vast majority of medical publications , that it can be as readily understood and appreciated by the non-professional as by the professional reader . It appeals forcibly to the common sense of the former , and to the practical experience of the latter ; and we trust that it will be eminently successful with both .
Rapidly tracing the history of medicine from the earliest ages to the latest modern practice , Dr . Gully shows that the principles of Expectancy and Revulsion have been more or less known to all the great medical authorities from Hippocrates downwards ; but that they have been carried into practice , separately or relatively , in either an imperfect or excessive manner . His object , therefore , is to define to what extent the one , the other , or both should be acted upon , in order to produce
early and permanent cures , instead of immediate temporary relief and protracted recovery , should the patient in the latter case recover at all . To treat the subject distinctively , he divides the two modes of life that obtain in the body into the vegetative and the animal , which he defines with much accuracy , and then proceeds to show how these act upon each other , especially when the organization is in a partially or generall y unhealthy state ; and from these comprehensive postulates he deduces
the mode of treatment to be observed . His main axioms being , that in " a majority of cases in which excessive purging and blood-letting are now had recourse to as indispensable , they should be entirely avoidedthat it is unnecessary to punish the stomach to relieve the bowels , or to distress and exhaust the latter where rest and proper diet would restore