1824.] 
voluminous use of medicine which “ throw- 
ing in the bark” implies, recourse has been 
had, in the reporter’s practice, to the sul- 
phate of quinine; but he is sorry to say 
that his trials of this concentrated tonic do 
not warrant the high encomiums passed 
upon it, even by some individuals who have 
administered it without any @ priori deter- 
minations to view its effects through a mag- 
nifying medium. ‘The writer’s feeling re- 
specting it is, that under some circumstances, 
of high debility, connected with a low state 
6f stomachic power, it may be employed’ 
with decisive advantage: but that so far 
from being of universal application, it will 
not agree in some instances, even where the? 
propriety of exhibiting vegetable tonics is 
plainly indicated. oy 
Tendencies to hydrocephalus among 
children, during the period and process of 
teething, are at this moment general. It is 
searcely necessary to say that these ten- 
dencies require to be narrowly watched and 
nicely dealt with, lest they fall into the. 
full development of this most frightful and 
fatal of all diseases. 
Discharges of blood from the lungs have 
lately been prevalent, and have in some in- 
stances excited more alarm on the part of 
the patient and his friends than has been 
due to the occasion. When the consump- 
tive disposition is not strongly marked, when 
the hemorrhage soon subsides, without 
being followed by hurried pulse or hurried 
respiration, and when the individual finds 
himself rather relieved than made worse in 
his feelings by the occurrence, the accident 
ought not to be considered, as it is too apt 
to be, a necessary indication of and prelude 
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77 
to a break-up of constitution, and a coming 
on of consumption. ’ 
« Some cases of disturbance in the stomach 
and bowels, not quite reaching to the height 
of cholera, have been clearly traced to taking 
meals with careless and gowrmand rapidity. 
At this season of the year, when the sto- 
mach is morbidly alive to excitation, and 
the biliary secretion has more than usual 
susceptibility to deranged -action, burried 
meals, with copious draughts, ought espe- 
cially to be abstained from. It is a curious 
fact, that while every one almost is aware 
that thorough mastication is important, very 
few, indeed, act up to the knowledge which 
in this particular even feeling imparts. But 
let it be recollected by the more than com- 
monly careless in this respect, that the in- 
convenience which the stomach suffers, from 
being obliged to perform the office of masti- 
cation as well as digestion, does not end 
with the moment. Many more-die of mere 
indigestion than is generally imagined; and, 
where chronic disorganization is the result 
of- even temperate intemperance, you may 
repent and call for aid as you will, but it 
will be found that the time for repentance 
and for succour is gone by. Large draughts 
at dinner, under the notion of the solvent 
property of drink, will do more harm than 
good. The writer-does not subscribe to 
the position that “man is not a drinking 
animal (a position, by the way, which has 
been advocated with much ingenuity and 
eloquence), but he thinks, nay, he knows, 
that a well-masticated meal requires but 
little of fluid to aid its’ solution, and that 
much drink of any kind rather tends to dis- 
tension than digestion.’ D. Uwins, M.D. 
Bedford Row, Aug. 20, 1824. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
E trust there has been some truth 
of late, as well as in former days, of 
its raining “by planets ;” because, if so, there 
may have been fine harvest, weather in some 
parts of the country, whilst in others which 
we have seen, the corn in sheaves has been 
much exposed to rain, and harvesting has 
beett troublesome and expensive, the corn 
getting wetted, then dryed, and wetted 
again, before it could be carried. The in- 
jury however, if general, has not been cf 
material bad consequence. Little wheat 
was cut before the 20th instant, but from 
that day harvest has become general, both 
in South and North Britain; and it seems 
a peculiar feature of the present season, 
that in Scotland it is equally early as in the 
south ; also that there was drought in Scot- 
Jand, whilst we were deluged here. The 
prospect is here of having as fine harvest days 
as ever shone ; considerable solar heat, with 
a drying north, or north-east wind. There 
is much danger, however, to the heated field 
labourer, in such variable temperature. Our 
aged weatherwise persons, male and female, 
Monvnty Mac. No. 400. 
augur a continuance of fine weather, whiclt 
will make a vast and favourable difference 
in the values of the crops. Wheat, barley, 
beans and peas, are universally held to be 
good crops ; potatoes great and of fine qua- 
lity ; turnips of high promise ; oats of infe- 
rior character, as to*bulk, both of ‘straw and 
grain. Hay and grasses, as great in bulk 
as has been knowr by the oldest husband- 
men; and the damaged hay, of which the 
quantity is considerable, has been submit- 
ted to the preserving process with salt, to 
a greater extent than ever before witnessed: 
here the late act has been eminently benefi- 
cial. The farmers generally seem to have 
been in no improvident haste to cut their 
cor, and there is good hope the season will 
be ultimately propitious. In the mean- 
time, the public ought to receiye with cau- 
tion, those high-flown accounts: daily pub- 
lished’ of the vastness of the present crop 
of wheat—*“ the greatest which has been 
seeni upon the land during the last fifty 
years!’ Such are’ customary, and have 
been regularly repeated, in ‘almost every 
ees year 
