iSO Report of Diseases. — Report of Chemistry, 8fe. [Oct. 1, 



a-'ps and Travels into ilie East. The fifth description of Leith and the Tiosachs ; 



edition, «iih many additions and coriec- with ■i? cnnraviugs of public buildingi-, 



tions; 'by Adam Clarke, LL.D. F.A.S. he. IBino. 6s. 



4 vols. 8vo. '_»!. 5s. The Lakes of Lancashire, Westmorland, 



TOPOGRXPHY. and Cumberland ; delineated in forty-three 



The History of Hartlepool ;bv Sir Cnth- engravinfis, by the most eminent artists, 



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ments, and remarkable objects in and proofs, l^^l. l^s. 

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MONTHLY REPORT OF DISEASES in N. W. LONDON; 



From August 24 to September 24, 1816. 



THE cases which have more frequently come under my notice this motith are those 

 of a chronic nature ; dyspepsias, chronic rheumatisms, and various painful affec- 

 tions. On the whole, it may be said, that the metropolis has seldom exhibited less un- 

 healthiness than at present. 



A great number of the (supposed rheumatic) complamts for which I am consulted, 

 are, in reality, the effect of visceral obstruction. About a month since, a remark. 

 «b'e case of this description was brounht to me, of which I am enabled to record the 

 Buccesstul termination. It had existed threi years ; scarcely a part of the body was 

 free from pain of ihe most exquisite kind. The use of the upper limbs was, m a great 

 degree dotroyed, and the joint of the left elbow was immoveably fixed. The appear- 

 anceof the countenance, approximatius to that of jaundice, indicated the source of all 

 the symptoms. I directed him to be immersed every night in a bath made in the pro- 

 portion of two ounces of muriatic acid, to four gallons of water; ten drops of nitric 

 acid, to be given three times a day, with half a dram of turmeric powder, in a full 

 tumbler of water, and a dram of mercurial ointment to be rubbed into the thigh every 

 night, until the mouth was affected ; in the course of three weeks not a vestige of the 

 complaint remained. , . , t i n /• t 



I have also under treatment other cases of this description, to which I shall torbiar 

 to advert, their termination being at present uncertain. 



In the two preceding numbers 1 pointed out two modes of curing the Sciatica, 

 each of course applicable to some diversity in the character of the symptoms, or the 

 constitution of the patient. In an obstinate Sciatica now under treatment, which re- 

 sisted both of the remedies to which I allude, the pain has been completely removed 

 by the application of the leaves of the Ranllnculu^ Flanuiiula, which possess the pro- 

 perty of powerfully vesicating the skin. The use of this plant requires, however, great 

 circumspection ; in our next report I shall furnish the necessary cautions to be ob- 

 served when 1 hope also to detail the particulars of this case in full. 

 11, North Crescent, Bedford Square. John Want, 



Late Surgeon to the Northern Dispensary. 



HEPORT OF CHEMISTRY, NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, &c. 



IT appears, that by means of a blow-pipe for burning the gaseous constituents of 

 water, in a .state of high condensation, and which is constructed by Mr. Newman, of 

 Lisle-street, a degree of heat may be produced greater than that of the most powerful 

 Galvanic battery. Professor Claike, of Cambridge, who is engaged in a scries of an- 

 alytical experiments with the blow-pipe, has already succeeded in the decomposition of 

 the earths; having obtained metals from barytes and siron'ian, which do not become 

 oxided by exposure to atmospheric air. The metal of barytes is ductile, and Las the 

 Justre of silver. 



Insects, as to their direct attacks upon man, say Messrs Kiiby and Spence, in their 

 introduction to Entomology, may be arranged in three principal classes. Those, 

 namely, which seek to make "us their food ; those, whose object is to prevent or revenge 

 an injury which they either fear, or have leceived from us; and those which indeed 

 offer us no violence, but yet incommode us extremely in other ways. 



The first class of our insect assailants is, unfortunately, so well known, that it will 



pot be necesary to enlarge upon its history. Leeuweuhoek proves that their nita 



or eggs are not hatched till the eighth day after they are laid, and that they do not lay 



before Uiey are a mouth old ; and he ascertained that a single female louse may, in eight 



* week." 



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