And, while Remembrance brings thee near, How oft does Sorrow bend the head, Verf'd in the commerce of deceit, Then lovely Nature is expell'd, The dear illufions will not laft; The fallies of the foul are o'er, ་ Song. The day is departed, and round from the cloud The voice of the Nightingale warbles aloud Maria appears: now the feafon fo fweet I cannot, when prefent, unfold what I feel; Does ere a kind thought run on me as you rove Alone by the light of the Moon? Your name from the fhepherds whenever I hear My bofom is all in a glow; Your voice when it vibrates fo fweet thro' mine er My heart throbs, my eyes overflow. Ye powers of the sky with your bounty divine, Indulge a fond Lover his boon; Shall heart fpring to heart, and Maria be mine With the tragedy of Runnamede, we are lefs difpofed to be fatisfied, although it may be readily acknowledged to contain many excellent and brilliant paffages. We confider this little volume in its prefent form, a valuable acceffion to our poetical collections. It should not be omitted to inform the reader, that fome of the Poems are to be found in Dr. Anderfon's collection. ART. III. Practical Obfervations concerning Sea Bathing, to which are added Remarks on the Ufe of the Warm Bath. By A. P. Buchan, M. D. of the College of Phyficians, London. 12mo. pp. 206. Pr. 6s. Cadell and Davies. 1804. THE obfervations contained in this little volume are the refult of experience obtained by the author, in the courfe of frequent vifits to the fea-coafts, for the recovery of of his health, or to shake off the languor occafioned by a long refidence in London, and the labour of his profeffional avocations. In thefe vifits, by mixing with perfons fimilarly affected, he was enabled to collect much information on the effects of bathing, on different conftitutions, and in a variety of complaints. Sea-bathing, the author obferves, is reforted to, for the general improvement of the health, or for the cure of particular difeafes; for each of these claffes of perfons, he has given appropriate directions. The general effects of cold fea-bathing are to brace and ftrengthen the conftitution, and to render it lefs fufceptible of injury from the frequent changes in the temperature of the atmosphere occurring in this country. Hence perfons accustomed to bathing are rarely affected with cold, or as we fay to catch cold, on being expofed to damp or cold air. A practice the contrary to bathing is wearing flannel next the fkin, which debilitates, and makes us feeble. This is very properly, we think, condemned, excepting under certain circumftances, and as a temporary remedy for cough, rheumatics, paralyfis, &c. and even in those cafes, the waistcoat fhould be frequently changed, and the fordes, which speedily collect, wafhed from the skin. The use of the flesh-brush might, in moft cafes, fuperfede the fleecy hofiery. The autumn is generally found to be the beft feafon ́in the year, and the morning the best time in the day for bathing. In fome debilitated conftitutions however, it is far better to defer bathing until an hour or two after breakfast, when fuch perfons are more alive and vigorous, and better able to refilt the fhock, which every one experiences on going into the fea, or into any cold bath. The custom of putting children into bed after bathing is improper; it occafions them to perfpire profufely, and entirely destroys the bracing effects of the bath. Walking, or taking fo much exercife as will excite a glow of heat, is proper both be-. fore and after bathing. Though it is neceffary that the head, as well as every part of the body, fhould be immerfed in the water, the cultom of plunging in head firft is neither neceffary, nor in many conftitutions proper. The author has known fevere head-achs occafioned by that practice, as well as by going into the bath with the head covered with an oil-fkin cap, a piece of furniture which should be excluded the bathing-room. We give the following paffage, containing an important caution to persons who refort to the fea as an amufement, amufement, in the author's words, as a specimen of the exe. cution of this part of the subject. "The hilarity of fpirits and increase of appetite," he obferves, p. 88, "which people in general experience during a vifit to the fea-coaft, together with the temporary exemption from all ferious occupations, are powerful inducements to indulge in the pleasures of the convivial board. To inculcate any strict plan of regimen would, I am fure, prove an invidious, and, I fufpect, be an ufelefs attempt. To live, as the expreffion is com monly understood, lower than ufual during a courfe of feabathing, can anfwer no good purpose. But the intention of thefe obfervations would be ill fulfilled, were I to omit pointing out the dangerous confequences of excefs. "The impropriety of bathing in the morning, after having been, in any degree, intoxicated the preceding evening, is nearly equivalent to the risk of going into the water while the body is in the act of cooling after fevere exercife. The general debility and torpor of the fyftem, the effects of the immoderate use of in toxicating liquors, cannot fail to be augmented by immerfing the body into cold water. To plunge into the fea in the height of the drunken paroxyfm would be attended with lefs danger, than to bathe during that ftate of comparative weakness, through which the inebriate muft neceffarily pafs, before reverting to the usual standard of health. Never to exceed the limits of mo. deration is a degree of felf-denial, perhaps difficult to practise; but after any aberration from the rules of temperance, prudence ought to enforce the propriety of defifting from the ufe of the bath for fome days. Perfonal obfervations lead me to conclude, that no year paffes without fome victims to the neglect of this neceffary precaution." The fame precautions fhould be used, particularly by delicate females, after dancing. "Thofe who chufe to indulge," he fays, p. 91, "in the evening ball, ought to ab ftain from the morning bath." Among the difeafes for which the fea air and bathing are recommended, fcrofula is moft diftinguifhed. In infancy it manifests itself by fwelling of the lips, thickness of the partition dividing the noftrils, and enlargement of the glands in the neck; in its more advanced state by white fwellings, diseases of the hip joint, &c. To obtain a cure in thefe cafes, it is neceffary that the parties fhould continue to refide on fome convenient part of the fea coaft, for several months, perhaps for two or three years. The author "has feen one cafe," he fays, p. 104, "and heard of fome others, where fcrofulous fores of confiderable extent healed, while the patient was daily taking two table spoon ful fuls of the recently expreffed juice of the water parínip (finum nodiflorum), mixed with an equal quantity of milk. It produced no fenfible effect on the conftitution, except that of keeping the body gently open." Sea air and bathing are also thought to be highly beneficial in preventing and in curing rickets. The diet in crofulous and ricketty cafes fhould be of a generous and nutritive kind. Hyfteric, and in general all nervous complaints, St. Vitus's dance, epilepfy, a particular kind of apthous fore throat, which has fometimes been mistaken for venereal, the feeblenefs remaining after paralytic affections, profufe menftrual difcharges, chlorofis in its early flage, are eminently benefited by fea air and bathing. The author has feen a large wen, fituated between the angle of the jaw and the ear, diffolved by applying falt and water, in the manner recommended by Mr. Chisholme. On the other hand, fea-bathing is injurious, the author thinks, in every kind of cutaneous eruption. Some are manifeftly aggravated by it; and, on the most careful inquiry, he could not hear of any that were cured by it, although many patients are fent to the fea coaft with that view. Perfons affected with pulmonary confumption fhould neither bathe, nor, as the author thinks, breathe the fea air; and yet failing on the ocean has been recommended as a remedy for the complaint. Perfons, not accuftomed to bathing, fhould not begin at a late period of life. "In the The quantity of falt contained in a given quantity of sea water varies in different parts of the ocean. The propor tion is greater in warm than in colder regions. northern parts of the Baltic, a pound of fea water fcarcely. contains two drams of falt; on the British coaft, it contains nearly an ounce; in the Mediterranean, two ounces; and in the Atlantic, near the line, it contains nearly three ounces." On the internal ufe of fea water, the author obferves, it is not adapted to every conftitution. "When the bowels are loaded with vifcid phlegm, it anfwers particularly well, and the use of it frequently reitores health and appetite. But in irritable, hectic, and what are termed bilious habits, it heats the body, and occafions confiderable, and fometimes permanent diforders of the organs of digeftion. When purgatives are previoufly known to difagree with the conflitution, "the ufe of fea water internally, fhould not," he fays, “be ven→ tured on." A wine-glafs full of fea water, taken every night at bed-time, amends the appetite, and promotes digeftion; per fifted in, it is faid to kill the little worms, called afcarides, and to affift in ejecting them from the bowels. It may for |