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with the proper principle of treatment of that distemper. To apply warmth, or administer cordials in the cold stage; in the hot, to reduce the amount of temperature, by cold affusion and fresh air; or, for the same purpose, to exhibit, according to circumstances, an emetic, a purgative, or both in combination. With quinine, arsenic, opium, &c., the interval of comparative health-the period of medium temperature - may be prolonged to an indefinite period; and in that manner may health become established in all diseases — whether, from some special local development, the disorder be denominated mania, epilepsy, croup, cynanche, the gout, the influenza! In the early stages of disease, to arrest the fever is, in most instances, sufficient for the reduction of every kind of local development. A few rare cases excepted, it is only when the case has been of long standing and habitual, that the physician will be compelled to call to his aid the various local measures which have a relation to the greater or less amount of the temperature of particular parts."

By Dr. Dickson the same things are said more at length in his first lecture; had we room, we should offer the two paragraphs descriptive of the two conditions of the human body when in the state of health and disease, and a passage from the close of the first lecture, which will be found to present the characteristic features of the system.

These portions of the book, together with Dr. Turner's brief summary already given, will furnish to the reader almost as complete an idea of this new theory as can be had by reading the whole of the lectures. Of the theory itself we offer no opinion, not considering ourselves at all competent to such a theme.

We have only a word more to say, and that is, of the way in which Dr. Dickson has thought best to present the results of his speculations. His manner is not such, to say the least, as to plead in favor of his system, but on the contrary, to raise at once a prejudice against it, from the pert and presumptuous tone in which he announces his conclusions, and the offensive one, in which he speaks of the old practitioners and the old practice ;-an error, unfortunately, which he shares with nearly all who term themselves reformers, whether in religion, law, physic, or morals. To philanthropists, rudeness and arrogance of speech have been their most easily besetting sin. It has proved the very rivet to the chain of slavery, and to many another evil it has sincerely and honestly assailed. It can do Dr. Dickson no good. Had Dr. Turner rewritten the volume, or thought proper essentially to remodel extensive portions of it, we cannot but think it would have been received with vastly more favor by the profession. Modesty a little of it, not the mock article—is generally good policy; at any rate, it is always good manners.

We will only suggest, in conclusion, that if another edition of the volume should be demanded, its interests would be essentially

promoted by a larger type and a better paper. Those who have arrived even at middle life read the pages with difficulty, certainly without pleasure or ease.

3. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Trade and Commerce of the British American Colonies since 1829. February 6, 1851. 31st Congress, 2d Session. Ex. Doc. No. 23. 8vo. pp. 775.

THIS massive report was prepared by J. D. Andrews, United States Consul at St. John, New Brunswick. An abstract of its statistical tables would demand several pages. Our sole object in this brief notice is, to call attention to one of the most laboriously and faithfully prepared public documents that have ever seen the light. The author has been unwearied in his endeavors to prepare the way for a system of reciprocal free trade between the United States and the British Provinces. He shows that our existing tariff operates as a prohibitory duty with regard to many of the exports from the Colonies, and, in that same proportion, cuts off the profits of the return sales; and that, were all restrictions removed, our ports would be the chief emporia of colonial commerce. Certain it is, that the usually alleged objections to the free trade policy lose their force with reference to the British Provinces. Their inhabitants are so nearly on a level with our people as to the wages of labor and the standard of comfort, that the arrangements suggested by Mr. Andrews could not, by any possibility, bring the industry of the citizens of the United States into competition with pauper labor. As regards the future, too, the vast quantities of unsettled but improvable land in the Provinces, by providing an outlet for superfluous labor, must postpone for many years to come the glut of the labor market, which alone can lead to a permanent reduction of prices. The geographical relations of the United States and the Provinces manifestly indicate the expediency of reciprocal arrangements for commerce on the most liberal scale; while, with the increased facilities for intercourse as between different sections of the same country, restrictions upon trade must every year become at once more irksome in the endurance, and more easy to be evaded. And finally, if we would stave off the awkward question of annexation on the North, with the fierce intestine controversies to which its agitation would give rise, no measures can be so conducive of that end, as those which shall ensure to the citizens of these States and the colonial subjects of Great Britain the commercial benefits which would be almost the only possible advantages of a political union.

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