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say much; but ‘a consistent flow of 
ideas pervades the composition, and 
certainly ranks it above mediocrity. 
Two Sonatas, Fantasig Fuga, and Polacca. 
Composed and dedicated to J, B. Cramer, esq. 
by Dec.or Cogan. 7s. 6d. 
Though the second movement in the 
first of these sonatas is not perfectly in 
the Scotch style, nor the air forming the 
subject of the third movement correctly 
given, we find in the work much to 
praise. A. freedom, and sometimes a 
brilliancy, of conception, evince them- 
selves in the construction and turn of 
the passages, and the general effect be- 
speaks a cultivated taste, as well as con- 
siderable knowledge of the instrument 
for which the pieces are written. 
“* Le Carillen;” a favourite Divertinento, for 
the Piano-forte. Composed and dedicated to 
Miss Smith, by F.C. Panormo. 3s. 
Le Carillon,” ip which is introdu- 
ced the celebrated airs of “ Hark! the 
bonny Christ-Church Bells,” and “‘ How 
Report of Diseases. 
blest the Maid ;” is an ingenious ‘and 
pleasant composition. Nothing great 
is attempted, consequently nothing greaé 
is effected; but the qualities of ease, 
originality, and simplicity, (qualities by 
no méaits common,) aré strikingly dis- 
played, and evince considerable com- 
mand of idea in this species of pianos 
forte compdsition. 
*§ Robin, you'll eome to. Summat ;"? a Pastorgt 
Comic. Song, sung by Mr: Lund, at Sadler's 
Wells, in ihe Melo Drama of the Red Reavers 
Written by C. Dibdin, jun, composed by Wy 
Reeve. 45.64. Wok ry rene 
This trifle will-not-be--heard. without 
pleasure by those who» are» partial “to 
the light effusions of humour. ‘The pag- 
sages, though they cannot claim the 
praise of oviginality, are consistent and 
connected, and the general result is on 
effect certainly creditable to Mr. Reeve’s 
talent for this inferior species of ballad 
composition, 
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REPORT OF DISEASES, 
Under the Care of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 
20th of Aprit to the 20th of May. 
a 
RATHER curious case of palsy 
A. has, within these few weeks past, 
fallen under the notice and care of the 
Reporter, in which the patient was him- 
self perfectly aware of all the circum- 
stances of the seizure. He felt.as if the 
ground were sinking from under his feet, 
and all the persons and objects before 
him, appeared to him inverted; he sud- 
denly became incapable of, moving any 
limb, or part of his body; at the same 
time his recollectiow and other faculues 
of mind, seemed not to be i any degree 
‘jmpajred.” Instend of bleeding, or any 
other violent method of inauition, sti- 
mulants being both externally and in- 
_ternally administered, the patient was 
gradually aroused from his state of tor- 
por, and a resurrection tock place. .of 
those powers which, might have been 
irrecoverably extinguished by an. un- 
ealled-for. and ill-timed expenditure of 
the vital fluid. Bleeding, being almost 
indisermminately resorted to upon such 
oceasions, may in a great measure ac- 
‘count for the too general fatality that 
attends apoplectic and paralytic seizures. 
’ From the period of life at which such 
seizures are most apt to take place, from 
the enfeebling habits or diseases: which, 
in a large proportion of cases, have pres 
ceded and prepared the way for their 
occurrence, and from the variety of cir= 
‘cumstances indicating a worn and debi- 
litated frame, which almost invariably 
appears in concomitance with a paralytie 
or apoplectic attack, it would seem na- 
tural to-infer, that, although the habitual 
abuse ‘of stimuli may bave helped | to 
bring on this deplorable state of the con 
stitution, @ recovery ‘from it can be 
effected’ only by their temporary -appli- 
cation; and’that, on the contrary, to have 
recourse in so extreme a case of’ actual 
weakness, attended: by a partial suspen- 
sion of the functions of life, to one of the 
‘most ditect and’ powerful means’ of pros 
‘ducing further exhaustion, is, m/effecr, 
to keep down the drowning, and to tram- 
ple upon the already prostrate. His 
long known sentiments upon this subject, 
the Reporter cannot better countenance 
than by the authority of the Jate vene- 
rable Dr. Heberden; whose words. upon 
‘a point so important, it may not be im- 
pertinent to extract. “ Etenim:jupiores 
et robusti non tam obnoxii sunt his mor- 
bis (apoplexy atid palsy) quam. peeri 
infirmi et effeti genes, in quibus' vires’ 
nutriende sunt et excilanda, potiis 
quam, 
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