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plate would , in our opinion , be better promoted by- the * occasional publication of well-written pamphlets , and by giving the most extensive circulation to such productions as Dr . Drummorid ' s Sermon , " Humanity to Animals the Christian's Duty , " which they have rendered deserved praise to , and which the Editor claims the merit of having occasioned the composition of , by the request which
he made to Dr . Drummond when in London . This sermon was reviewed in the Mori . Repos . for May 1830 . The conductors , however , have taken the course which they deemed best adapted for the accomplishment of their object ; and , heartily wishing them success , we caii do no less than apprize our readers of the medium which they have established fur information and discussion .
No . 4 has an engraving , by G . Cruikshank , of " The Knacker ' s Yard , or the Horse ' s Last Home , " which is worthy of our modern Hogarth . The " object is to circulate a considerable number of these engravings , each of which couveys volumes of instruction on the subject . To any respectable hotel > tavern , or coffeehouse , where it would be hung up , the Editors would willingly send it framed ;" It should be in every tap-room .
Several articles are devoted to shewing the advantages which would result from the abolition of Smithfield market and the establishment of Abattoirs , or public slaughter-houses , ( similar to those of Paris , ) in the outskirts of the metropolis . Were this project accomplished , the public feeling would not continue to be disgusted , or hardened , by the loathsome sights now so common . One class of accidents , that occasioned by the
temporary fury of goaded and overdriven animals , would be abolished . The Sunday would not close , as it now does to all who live in the neighbourhood of Smithfield , with sounds of uproar , profanity , and brutality , for which the song , the dance , and the theatre , would be an advantageous exchange . And there would even be a money saving , for the public loss , by the present system , from bruises and deterioration of cattle and
sheep , is rather more than an annual 100 , 000 / . But unhappily this is one of the countless cases of ' * vested rights . " There is always some ' * interest" in the way of the public good . We eat dear bread to uphold the landed interest . We spend a million per annum on bad Canada timber in preference to good Baltic timber , because the shipping interest is so strong * And in the present case , the cause of public decency * humanity , t and
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economy , will long be kept at bay , if rrot finally defeated , by the Smithneld publican interest ,- the butchering interest , and we are sorry to add , the Corporation of London interest .
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Art . IX . —Observations on Distortions of the Spine , 8 fc . By Lionel J . Beale . 8 vo . Pp . 102 . While there is much in this pamphlet which seems to us well to deserve the attention of medical and surgical practitioners , there are also many remarks
which ought to have a much wider circulation than the limits of the profession . It would be a foolish attempt to try to make " every man his own doctor ; " but much good would arise from people being generally so far instructed as to know when they need the doctor , and td render them intelligent auxiliaries to his efforts on behalf of themselves Or their
children , when he is called in . The case described in the following extract is , we should hope , au extreme erne ; but mothers of a much better class may , perhaps , glean some useful hints from this statement : " In another of these cases , a child of two years , the mischief had been engendered by a long course of mal-treatment .
It was a healthy infant when born , but its mother was fond of society , ami was in the habit of taking it out to eVei > ing visits , before it was six mouths old . > 'Phe mother kept late hours , to the injury of her own health , and the poor infant not only suffered in consequence , from the deteriorated supply of nourishment ,-but also from the restlessness naturally
induced by strange beds and strange nurses . The pursuance of this system soon rendered it a puny infant . When it was weaned , it was allowed to partake of all that was ab ? ut ; and , as the nurse drank porter , so S&v baby was indulged in the same ; and there is reason to believe , that it was sometimes gratified with some share in the potations of a stronger liquor . Its meals were irregular , and in the intervals it was indulged with cakes ,
so that , as a matter of course , proper food when offered was rejected , and the child ' s appetite was supposed to be btfd , when in reality the fault was in the absurdity of its mode of treatment . I » addition to the mistakes in point of diet , the child was neglected in regard to cleanliness , and it seldom breathed better air than that of a confined room in a London house . From such a combination of causes , its health declined from the atee of . four months ; and when
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54 S Gritical Notices , —» Miscellaneous *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1831, page 548, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2600/page/44/
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