The Westminster Review.Volume II.July-October,1824

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: ... methes which have at different periods been boasted of as certain preventives of the disease, such as mercury, volatile alkali, and many others. The reason of it is, that we have no faith in any of them. They are generally if not always useless, and as they tend to lull the patient into a false security, to the neglect of a certain measure, excision, their employment cannot be too strongly discouraged. It is certain that many persons, who have made use of them, have escaped the disease; but it is equally true, that many persons, who have actually been bitten by a mad dog, have-also escaped, when no means of prevention havebeen employed. We shall terminate this inquiry by observing, that it is professedly a compilation from the writings of previous authors, the names of several of whom have been mentioned in the course of it. We have not given our authority for every particular fact, because the name did not occur at the time. All we claim for ourselves is, the endeavour to lay before the public, in a clear and concise manner, the principal facts connected with this terrible disease. Art. IV--Tales of a Traveller. By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 2 vols, 8vo. London. Murray. A T the hazard of being classed among the Dennises of old, and the still sourer critics of a more modern age, and in the teeth of the gentle Geoffrey Crayon's genteel reputation, we shalj. 'promulge a few observations on the nature and extent of that reputation, the place of its existence, and the probable limits thereof. Although it may not have occurred to many of our readers to imagine it, gentle Geoffrey's fame was occasioned by the fact of his being a prodigy; a prodigy for show--such as La Belle Sauvage, or the learned pig: up to the time of Geoffrey, there were no Belles Lettres in Amer...