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dications, except purulent expectoration 
of pre-advanced pthysis;. when the origin 
ef his complaint was deteeted to be 
merely worms in the intestinal canal, 
To discriminate between true consump- 
tion, and the deceitful resemblances of 
it, is a matter of extreme importance in 
the practice of medicine. Nervous 
atrophy affections, arising fromm some 
canker upon the mind, is particularly apt 
to be mistaken for the effect of pulmo- 
nary disorganization. 
The Reporter has recently met witha 
case, in which at unexpected mortifica- 
tion of overweening pride brought on a 
state of mental aberration, under the 
form of melancholy, It is remarkable, 
that the proud are, of all persons, the 
most liable to this humiliating afdiction. 
Upon a similar principle, inordinate 
egotism will be found for the most part 
to be a prominent feature in the character 
of persons who are prone to insanity. 
‘Themselves are, in general, the favourite 
subjects of their conversation, and of 
course of their silent thoughts. Nothing 
ean be so likely to endanger, in case of 
any adverse occurrence, the stability of 
reason, as this miserable absorption in 
self. He who suffers most for the mis- 
‘fortunes of others, will be best able to 
bear his own. A practical benevo- 
lence, by habitually urging us to disin- 
terested exertion, alienates the attention 
from any single train of ideas, which, 
if favoured by indolence and self-con- 
templation, might be apt to monopolise: 
the rind, and occasion us to-lose a sense 
of our private feelings and concerns in 
an enlarged and liberal sympathy with 
the general good.* Howard, had he 
* An admirable sermon of the late Dr, 
Priestley’s, ‘© Onthe duty of not living to 
eurselves;” if the principles of it were pro- 
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fit 
not been a philanthropist, would pro- 
bably have been a'maniac. 
A case of rypochondriasis has likewise 
occurred lately within the practice of the 
Reporter, which approached in its symp» 
toms to that of melancholy, above re- 
ferred to, but which originated from, and 
has been perpetuated by, a very different 
cause. The former arising from circum- 
stances, acting immediately upon the 
mind; the other, upon the mind, through 
the medium of the body. The depres- 
sion, and irregularity of the spirits, im 
the latter instance, seemed to be in & 
great measure, if not entirely. produced, 
by « want of tone in the principal organ 
of digestion. The stomach appeared ow 
this occasion, to assert an ascendancy 
over the mental faculty. The connec= 
tion between them, involves in fact, a 
reciprocal dependance. ‘The mind 
and body are like a jerkin, and a jer- 
kin’s lintng, rumple the one, and you 
rumple the other.”+ The operation of a 
disorder in the physical part of our frame, 
is more frequently evident in inducing 
not a totdl obscuration, but a twilight of 
the intellect, an intermediate and equi-« 
vocal state between entire sanity, and 
decided derangement. A state in whictr 
a large proportion of hypochondriacal 
men, and of hysterical females, under 
the influence of the vapours, may be cone 
sidered as nosologically placed. 
; J. Rerp. 
Grenville-street, Brunswick-square, 
March 26, 1811. 
poi i EAL UN DY Ne CaN ad il) ke 
perly digested and. assimilated into the habit, 
would prove a better preservative against 
the malady of mental derangement, than any 
prophylactic, that is to be found amidst the 
precepts of moral, or the prescriptions of me= 
dical, science. 
T Sterne. 
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AtpuaneticaL List of Bawxrurtcres and Divipenps, announced betw 
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the 20th of February and the 20th of March, extracted JSrom the London 
Gazettes. 
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BANKRUPTCIES. [This Month197.J 
(The Solicitors’ Names are between Parentheses.) 
An AMe Je and J, Uudluw, Walworth, oilmen, (Wat- 
fon, Clitford’s ina 
Ainfecow M. and R. Clayton in, the Woods, Vancafer. co 
ton manufacturers. (31 kelock and Makinfon,™ 
Temple, and Blanchard.and Bickertaff, Pretion 
Aitken J. Burvley Lancafter, munufacturere (Hurd, 
Temples and Jackfon, ~ancheter 
ck W. Heywood Lancafter, victualler. (Claughton 
oe Fitchett, Warrington, and Santon, Chancery 
« 
Auderfon W. Hull. thoemaker.. Ellis, Chancery, 
add Galland, Hulk “en ey 
Andras J. Barth, haberda(ner. 
A Br mag Temple 
mhton J. Salford, Manchefer, roper, 
2 Rede st Chancery lane DETR REGS JRABERE ECs 
aker J. Litto, Derby, cotton manufaturer. Shaw, 
Welton Hall, Tidfwell, Derby, and Ware, Gray's inn.” 
Baker J. Frome, Selwood, Somerfet, fadlers (Chiflets. 
Frome, and Janes Gray’s inn fquare 
Ballingall, Re Liverpuol, merchant. (Staniftreet and 
Ed Liverpool, and Windle, John ftreet, Bedford 
Bartielot W. A. Portfmout . { 1 
POE ti h, perfumer. (Callaway, 
Bath R. Maker, Devon, rope maker. (Williams an@ 
« Warke, Prince’s treet, Bedfdr - 
mor A ’ Ord row, and Buzon, Ply 
(Webb, Bath, and Ane 
Batty 
