to the wealth and profperity of our country. Having thus particularly explained the nature of the work, we refer the reader to fome curious extracts in the prefent Number of our Miscellany.

We shall only add, that this interefting work is embellished with feveral beautiful engravings, including landscapes and fubjects of natural hiftory. We fervently hope, that the other volumes of the Outlines of the Globe may be configned over to the public.

The Villager's Friend and Phyfician, or a Familiar Address on the Prefervation of Health and the Removal of Difeafe on its First Appearance, fuppofed to be delivered by a Village Apothecary; with Curfory Obfervations on the Treatment of Children, on Sobriety, Industry, &c. intended for the Promotion of Domeftic Happiness. By James Parkinson. Symonds. s. Eighty-five Pages.

THE author of Medical Admonitions for Families,

has here applied his talents in a most happy and benevolent manner to the relief of the lower claffes of the community. Of the object of this little work every individual muft entertain a favourable idea, and the utility of its contents may be pronounced beyond calculation. It is adapted to remove thofe vices and diseases among the POOR, the prevalence of which is a fubject of very ferious regret to every well conftituted mind. For this humane effort, Mr. Parkinfon deferves the thanks of fociety.

We have feldom feen fo fmall a work embracing fuch a variety of important topics, fo immediately connected with the welfare and happinefs of the perfons to whom it is addreffed. Befide the excellent medical advice with which it abounds, moral obfervations are here and there interfperfed with an appropriate felicity. It is our fincere with that the wealthy would contribute for

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the diftribution of fuch a pamphlet amongst the poor; this would, in every refpect, be a well directed generofity, for by fuch a measure both their bodies and minds would be effentially benefitted.

Of the moral advice given in this familiar address, take the following specimen :

"The amusements to which I have hitherto alluded, are thofe adapted to the fummer, when fine weather and long days give the opportunities of an hour or two of day-light for your enjoyment when labour is over. But in winter, a greater portion of time will be found free from the exercise of bu finefs, which want of day-light renders you unable to employ in out-door amufements. This portion of time is too commonly devoted to the ale-houfe; and this, it is frequently faid, because your home can afford you no amusement. But let me point out an amusement or two, which I am confident, when you have made trial of for a little time, will yield you delight beyond any you have ever experienced, whilft fmothering away life in that grave of happiness. Moft of you have children, and if you are not devoid of affection for them, pleasures beyond expreffion will be derived from instructing them:

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought;
To teach the young idea how to shoot,
And pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind.

THOMSON.

But you may fay, that, not having yourself received the advantages of education, you can communicate to them but little inftruction. The inftruction I however allude to, is such as the most unlearned may communicate. Trace over in your memory the various events of your past life; you will then fee how you failed in your aim to do well, and alfo, why your endeavours fometimes fucceeded. Communicate to your children the reflections which these observations create. Shew them the advantages of industry, civility, and sobriety; let them fee the neceffity and advantage of rendering themselves ufeful to thofe around them. Place before them particularly the policy of fuch conduct towards their employers: fince he

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who renders himself useful to his employer, becomes neceffary to him; and creates that attachment of his master, both from intereft and from refpect for his industry; that, if he engage alfo his affection by his civility and obligingnefs, the moft advantageous and profitable confequences may follow. Point out to them the evils, which experience has taught you the neceffity of avoiding. Put afide all falfe fhame-own your youthful follies to them.-Show them the ill effects which followed, and confirm them in the refolution of fhunning fimilar foibles; and, on the other hand, hold out to their imitation those actions which recollection is delighted in recalling. By this conduct, you will not only lead your children into a love of virtuous and induftrious exertions, and take away the neceffity of employing that correction which may rob you of their love; but you will actually excite their affections, make them love their father as their friend, and perhaps fecure for yourself in age, that protection from your child, which you might otherwise have to feek from a work-house. But to be affured of this, teach them to abhor cruelty to the brute creation; fince the child who delights to torment any fellowbeing, may be brought at last to view the fufferings, of even a parent, with feelings, worse than indifference. Be affured

That all the pious duties which we owe

Our parents, friends, our country and our God;
The feeds of every virtue here below

From difcipline alone and early culture grow.

WEST.

"The amufement which books afford, exceeds all others, which can be enjoyed by the fire-fide, by thofe whofe days have been laboriously exercifed. But thould this not be to your taste, or fhould your youthful progrefs in learning not have been fufficient to enable you to indulge in this delightful enjoyment; have not to reproach yourself with not having done all in your power, to enable your children to obtain the pleasures and benefits of reading. Confider at how trifling an expence you may procure them this useful and entertaining accomplishment, and that a few pence, a very few pence, weekly employed for this purpofe, may better their fituation through the whole of their life. By reading they will have their minds ftored with precepts, instructive to the prefervation both of their

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health and morals: they will become better members of fociety, be more confirmed in their duty to you, and be furnished with an inexhaustible fource of amufement and reflection for every vacant hour; fo that the tediousness of leisure shall not drive them to the ale-house for amufement. In their youth it will afford them amusement and instruction, and in age, comfort.

"Nor do I go out of my way when I recommend reading to you; for I recommend it as a medicine, which, by its effects on the mind, will fecure you from the attacks of fome diseases which really originate from the mind not being sufficiently exercised; and alfo, as a remedy which will better enable you to beguile away the dreary hours of confinement, from almoft any kind of malady. Nor is this remedy an expenfive one, fince there is one volume, the cheapest in the kingdom, which, whether you feek to be interested by the plain facts of history, by the moft pathetic defcriptions and fitua tions, or by the moft marvellous and even miraculous adventures; whether your tafte be for plain profe, or for the moft fublime poetry: whether in your youth, you search for inftructions for obtaining happiness; or in your age, folid and effential comfort, this one volume will afford it all."

Of the manner in which diseases are treated, the subfequent extract will enable you to form an opinion.

"The difeafe which I fhall next speak of, is often, in its first stage, mistaken for the effect of worms. Dropy of the Brain, or Watery Head, may be suspected, when a child appears uncommonly heavy and dull, complains of pain in the head, has its fleep disturbed with alarming dreams, reluctantly moves its head from the pillow, or attends to furrounding ob jects; and is affected with frequent sickness and flight fever. To diftinguish this disease in that early stage, to which the above fymptoms belong, requires such skill as you cannot poffefs; therefore here you must not trifle, but on the appearance of fymptoms refembling those I have mentioned, confider there is no other alternative, you must either apply directly to the most respectable profeffional man, or to fome charitable inftitution. To pretend to recommend particular remedies in this cafe, would, you must see, be in me a prefumption full of mischief.

"This complaint is frequently occafioned by the falls on the head, which children are expofed to on firft going alone. Guard their heads, therefore, at this time, with the oldfashioned head-drefs for children, a quilted ftuffed cap, or pudding. I am forry to be obliged to add another caufe of this malady, fevere blows on the head, inflicted in the correction of children. Parents too often forget the weight of their hands and the delicate fructure of a child. You muft excufe the direction-It was but yesterday I paffed the cottage of one you all know to have neglected his children; I heard the plaintive and fuppliant cries of a child, and rufhed into the cottage; where I faw the father, whofe countenance was dreadful, from the ftrong marks of paffion and cruelty which it bore, beating moft unmercifully his fon, about ten years old. The poor child's countenance would, one would have fuppofed, obtained mercy from the mo obdurate; it was fhrunk up with dread and terror; the most earnest and humble fupplications proceeded from his lips, whilft his eyes were fixed with horror on the impending inftrument of his chaftifement. I stopped the brute from proceeding in his violent outrage, afking what was the crime the boy had committed, and found he had not finished the task of work he had fet him. Ah! John, I exclaimed, confider how you ever neglected your children; you have never troubled yourself to give them good advice, nor refrained from fetting them bad examples. The crimes of the children of such a parent must be on his head : you merit correction, and not he, for you never showed him what it was to be induftrious. Expect not duty from a child, you have not done yours towards him. Duties are required of parents as well as of children; and although an undutiful child may be termed a monster, know, that the worst of monfiers is an undutiful parent. The wretch growled at the interruption he had fuffered; and I need hardly fay, manifefted no compunction or regret, at his cruelty.

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"What I have told you, is not foreign to the purpose of our meeting; for, not only do I believe the disease I have spoken of, may be brought on by undue correction, but I have feen moft dangerous difeafes occafioned by the terror thus excited in the mind of a child. Let reafon and parental tenderness weigh with you; and, in juftice to the little offending trembler, before you correct your child, correct your own anger;

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