Practical Observations on the Preservation of Health and the Iterenflen
nr Dice, by Sir Ae'rucrey Cs e ■Aste. There is a good deal of plain common sense, and a few valuable hints, in this volume upon the management of children and the diseases of old age. The book is the result of long experience of life and medicine, but it does not contain much of absolute novelty or wisdom. The most encouraging opinions of Sir ANTHONY arc, that scrofula is often, if not always, curable by proper means; and that the old age of the well-to-do may be comfortably prolonged. But though his views are intelligible, their application is so much dependent upon circumstances of natural constitution, and the effects which previous habits and old disorders have left behind, that we imagine an elderly gentleman or lady, breathing the universal prayer, 6, Enlarge my life with multitude of days," had better consult Sir ANTHONY than his book.
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