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Report of Difeafes. 



[Sept. Ij 



lliglincfs the Commander in Chief, to direft 

 the General Officers, and Infpecting Field 

 Officers attached t<i the Volunteer Corps, to 

 give notice to thofc Corps of the pofi'ibility 

 of their being fpeedily called upon for fer- 

 Tice ; and alio to fufpend all furloughs lor 

 ■working during the harveft till finther or- 

 ders. I have the honour to be, 



Your Mioft obedient and luoft humble 

 fervant, IIariiincton, 



General Commanding the Loudon 

 Difiria. 

 WEST INDIES. 



The latert intelligence tioin this quaifer 



announces the fate of DelTjlInes, and that 

 his troops have hv.ve been driven from 

 the Spini(h part of St. Domingo. He 

 has loft a very confiderab'e part of his 

 army, and much of that which remains 

 wi'h hinn cannot lie depended wpy. 



The homeward-bound Barbadoes fleet 

 has fafely arrived j and it is with great 

 legret that we are obliged to add, that 

 the Combined Fleets, while in the We(t 

 Indie*, captured f. urteen fail of Antigua 

 meichanimen the day after they lelt the 

 poit. 



REPORT OF DISEASES, 



In the public anayl vate Pra8ice of one of the Pkyficians of the Flnjbury Dlfpenfary, 

 From the 20th of July to the 'iOth of Auguft. 



PE'IRIS 2 



Cho era . 1 



DiarrhtEi 17 



Rlieumatifmus 3 



Phthyfis 8 



Catarrhus . 8 



PyfpncEa et Tapis ij 



Dyfpepfia 12 



Hypochondri ifis 9 



Epilcpfia I 



Anienorrhoei 14 



CephaUi 1 



Anai'srca 5 



Morbi cutanei . 16 



Mciihi infintiles 19 



The laft month has not been mailced 

 by the extraordinary picdoininance of any 

 individual dilcrJe. Complai'ts of the 

 boyiels have mdecd, as is ufual about this 

 period pt the year, prev.i'ltd to a confi- 

 derabie extent j but decided choleia has 

 been 1 ai e. 



A itmarkable inftance has recently 

 occurred, in which a fit ijf epileply 

 irriinediatel\ tcllowed a par-xylm ot arger. 

 An sttack. ot «hat are called nervcus af- 

 fcftiors, in all their vauous and milccl- 

 lanrous forms, not unticrocntly origiraie 

 from ibnie agii.'tion or innetuous move- 

 ment cf the mind. The important in- 

 fluence of ill managed (aflions is by no 

 mtans fiffitiently appreciated. 



To a caielels adjuftment rr an infuffi- 

 cient rrt'tilaiion of the mental, are to be 

 attributed, much more frequently than it 

 is ill general imagined, tt^e diio.rers and 

 anomaicms irregulaiiiie* iliat occur in the 

 corporeal department cf our frame. 



P:iarmacv is but a imill part of phyfic. 

 In the fiiccef»ful treatment of dileaie, 



other and more powrrTul agents muft often 

 be employed than are to be found amidd 

 the medicinal variety of the (heps. The 

 art of heeling implies, in a metaphorical 

 as well as a literal fenfe, a knowledge of 

 the human heart — the anatomy of the 

 mind as wtll as thiU of the body. Medi- 

 cal cannot be (eparated from moral fcience 

 without reciprocal and effential mutilation. 



This remark applies more particularly 

 to a proper knoviledge and treatment of 

 their compUints, whofe rank and circum- 

 ftances in life entitle them to the fall'ely 

 tnv;ed privil^gts of luxury and leifure. 



The dlcafes of the poor and the rich 

 are not efTcntially different. Similar de- 

 bility and diforder are produced in the 

 one inftance dire£lly, and in the other in- 

 directly, by a very full and high, or by 

 a very low and meagre regimen. 



The indigent wretch whofe fcanty fare 

 fcarcely is fufficitnt to fupport the ftamina 

 of exiftence, and the no lei's wretched dc- 

 bauche;;, whofe intemperate indulgence 

 dailv accelerates the period of hi* deltruc- 

 tion, iTiay both with an equal piopriety 

 be faid to {I've hard. The only important 

 diftinflion that t.xift* between the difeafes 

 of the vulgai- and of the more fafhionable 

 world, ariics from the former being fo en. 

 tirtly engroffed in fupplying the neceffities 

 of life, and in lufFering finm its phyfical 

 inconveniences, as not to be at fufficient 

 liberty to feil and contemplate thofe infi- 

 nitely moie dreadful cahmities that grow 

 out of the foil of a pampered and confe- 

 quently diltempered imagination. A 

 pcrfon muft be idle in order to be perfeflly 

 mifcrable. Nj evil is worfe than that in- 

 tolerable 



