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fever, have presented themselves; and we 
have already had intimations, that de- 
rangements of the stomach and bowels 
will soon call upon the medical practiti- 
oner to be alertly at his post. Prompt- 
ness and propriety of treatment are, in 
disorders of the bowels especially, im- 
portant, and the nicest discrimination is 
occasionally demanded, even in the treat- 
ment of ordinary diarrhea ; lest, in arrest- 
ing morbid discharges, we arrest at the 
same time healthy secretions; and lest we 
constringe and irritate, where we ought 
to relax and allay irritation. 
Affections of the wind-pipe are either 
more common than they were wont to be, 
or an improved observation separates 
them more than formerly from actually 
consumptive cases. Distinctions here are 
really important, inasmuch as hope of re- 
Meteorological Report. 
[Aug. I, 
covery from merely tracheal or laryngeat 
disorders may be much better founded 
than when the lungs are themselves dis- 
organized. - D. Uwins, M.D. 
Bedford-row ; July 20, 1824. 
*,* The writer begs to acknowledge 
the receipt of a very interesting commu- 
nication on the subject of rhenmatism, 
which will probably be noticed more par- 
ticularly at afuture period. He thinks it 
likewise his duty to state the gratification 
he has recently received from an attentive 
perusal of the abridgment of Morgagni, 
by his friend, Mr, Cooke, of ‘Trinity 
Square; a work, judicious in selection; 
able in execution, and abounding in ex- 
planatory and practical notes; -a work 
which ought to be read by every student, 
and. possessed by every practitioner, of 
medicine. 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
ee 
Journal of the Weather and Natural History, kept at Hartfield, East Grinstead, 
by Dr. T. ForsTER, for June 1824, 
Barometer. 
7s 
10 P.M. Wi 
Days, | Thermomet. 
2PmM\l0 PM. 
66 | 55 
70 | 58 
«» | 50 
64} 51 
53 
54 
51 
54 
51 
46 
45 
51 
55 
30:04 
30°20 
30°20 
30°18 
30°05 
30:06 
29°99 
29°84 
29°86 
29°94 
80°06 
29°85 
29°50 
66 
71 
67 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
aze 
56 
56 
60 
59 
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= 
nd. State of the Weather, 
is] 
Calm fair day. 
Gentle breeze—Showers at night 
Cloudy—Spiders on the wall, 
Clouds—Clear. 
Clouds—Clear—Cold wind. 
Fair, but cool wind, 
Calm hot day, 
Calm fair day. 
Misty—Clear—Signs of rain, 
Rainy day. 
Clouds—Clear and cold. 
Hazy—Fair. 
Fair day—Showers P.M. 
Showery day, 
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*,* Being absent ~ +m home, the following part of the Journal for June was 
necessarily omitted. 
OBSERVATIc 
The month of May having been for the 
most part wet, and much below the 
average temperature, June commenced 
with warmer weather; but the tempera- 
ture fell again, and was low all the month, 
with much rain. The plants have all 
flowered late and badly. The scarlet 
lychnis not in blow till quite the end of 
the month; and most of the solstitial 
plants late in proportion, Vermin have 
been particularly numerous and destruc- 
tive in the gardens, 
The air has been evidently unwhole- 
some, and many epidemics have prevailed. 
Measles have been particularly prevalent 
all over the south of England. 
There is an exceedingly bad show of 
fruit. Apples in Sussex will be prodigi- 
ously scarce ; pears rather more plentiful. 
Strawberries, currants, cherries, and the 
solstitial fruit in general, are plentiful, 
but ripen late and badly. The last three 
days of June produced strawberries in 
tolerable plenty, and a few Madock 
cherries, 
Violent Storm on the 14th of July. 
The thunder-storm of the 14th was the 
most violent remembered for above twenty 
years at Hartfield, in Sussex, At 
Chidingstone, eight miles distant, three 
men were killed by the lightning. 
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