212 Biographical .Memoirs of Eminent Persons. Auc. 



particularly the Contagious Fever of Gaols, to Mr. Keate, Surgeon-general to the Forces, 

 Ships, ami Hospitals; with an Explanation of 1808, 8vo.; A Letter to Sir David Dundas, 

 the Principles of Military Discipline and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, 1809, 8vo. 

 Economy, and a Scheme of Medical Arrange- Dr. Jackson died at Thursby, near Gar- 

 ment for Armies, 1798, 8vo. ; Remarks on. lisle, on the 6th of April, 

 the Constitution of the Medical Department 



of the British Army, 1803, 8vo. ; A Syste- LORD CASTLE COOTE. 



matic View of the Discipline, Formation, Eyre Coote, Baron Castle Coote, of the 



and Economy of Armies, 1804, 4to. ; A Let- county of Roscornmon, in Ireland, was the 



ter to the Editor of the Edinburgh Review, third, but eldest surviving son of Charles 



1804, 8vo. ; A System of Arrangement and Henry, second Lord Castle Coote, by his lady, 



Discipline for the Medical Department of Elizabeth Anne, eldest daughter and co-heir 



Armies, 1805, 8vo ; An Exposition of the of the Rev. Henry Tilson, D. D. He suc- 



Practice of A (fusing Cold Water on the Body ceeded his father on the 22d of January 



as a Cure for Fever, 1808, 8vo. ; A Letter 1823; having married, in the preceding year, 



to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry, Barbara, the second daughter of Sir Joshua 



Explaining the True Constitution of a Medi- Colles Meredith, of Madareen, in the county 



cal Staff, 1808, 8vo. ; A Second Letter to of Kilkenny, Bart. Leaving no male issue, 



the Commissioners of Military Enquiry, con- the title is extinct. His lordship, who died 



tainiug a Refutation of some Statements lately at Paris, is succeeded in his estates by 



made by Mr- Keate, 1808, 8vo. ; A Letter Eyre Coote, Esq. 



MONTHLY MEDICAL REPORT. 



THE concurring testimony of physicians in all ages has demonstrated the salubrity 

 of a mild winter and a cool summer. To the correctness of the first part of this asser- 

 tion, the tenor of many preceding Reports in this Magazine will abundantly testify. 

 The experience of the present season, so far as we have yet advanced in it, seems dis- 

 posed to bear out the old observers in the latter part of their dictum, even to its fullest 

 extent. There has not been one day of great or oppressive heat since the date of the 

 last Report. The temperature of the air has been mild and uniform during the day j 

 the nights have been cold, and occasionally rainy. To these circumstances undoubt- 

 edly it must be owing that the Reporter has so little to communicate regarding the 

 diseases of this period. It must be evident that, if the peculiarities of any season are 

 absent, its usual train of diseases will be absent also. The reader, however, will, it is 

 hnmbly hoped, derive much consolation from reflecting, that, if the " Monthly Medical 

 Report" be meagre and uninteresting, the public health has been, in the mean time, 

 such as to gratify the best feelings of his nature ; and that, in fact, interest can only 

 be given to this communication by the extent and severity of individual suffering. 



The most generally prevalent disease at the present time is fever, of the kind called 

 synochus, or typhus mitior. The London Fever Hospital is in full activity. Nearly 

 all its beds are occupied ; but the character of the fever is mild and manageable ; and 

 never did this institution more thoroughly justify, than at present, its former designa- 

 tion " The House of Recovery." Small-pox is gaining ground too. The admissions 

 into the Small-Pox Hospital during the last month have been unusually numerous, 

 especially from the St. Giles's district j but the disease is quite devoid of those malig- 

 nant features which it is wont to assume under the scorching influence of a July sun. 

 The greater number of admissions has been of children (and others) wholly unpro- 

 tected ; but there have been several cases also of small-pox after vaccination. It roust be 

 very gratifying, however, to the friends of vaccination (that is to say, to all the friends 

 of humanity) to learn that the proportion of admissions under this head has not advanced 

 during the last two years ; and further, that the mildness or severity of the disease 

 has been always proportioned to the degree of perfection which the vaccination origin- 

 ally attained. In other words, whenever the vaccination was clearly ascertained to 

 have been complete and satisfactory, there the subsequent disorder has been so slight 

 as to occasion little inconvenience to the patient, and no uneasiness whatever to the 

 physician. 



The Reporter, however, cannot avoid adding to this statement his conviction 

 (founded now on a very extensive experience), that medical practitioners were formerly 

 and still perhaps in some places continue to be too easily satisfied with the appear- 

 ances of the arm} and that they pronounced on the future security of the individual 

 with a degree of confidence which is not always warranted by the facts even at the 

 time. The constitution of the child must be thoroughly imbued with the vaccine 

 influence, before such an opinion can be properly given ; and it requires a practised 

 eye and a nice habit of discrimination to decide when such an effect has been fully 

 obtained. There appears to exist, in some children, an indisposition to take the cqw- 



