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Mediidl Rfjwit. 



[Feb. I , 



have been conducted with good taste, 

 and hav(; drawn respectable audiences. 

 Drdry Lane has been even more 

 fortunate; the spirited nvana^'er, who 

 has assembled the best company in 

 every v/alk of the drama that ever ap- 

 peared on the boards of any theatre, 

 has added to his strength, by a liberal 

 engagement with Miss Wilson, ohc 

 of the most tasteful and aecomplished 

 Singers of the present day. She came 

 out in Dr. Arne's Artaxerxes on the 

 19(h, before as laige an audience as 

 ever asseml)lcd in tliat theatre. She 

 was received with enthusiasm, and en- 

 cored in all the numerous songs of 

 Mandane. She unquestionably fills the 

 part with greater effect and spirit than 

 any lady since the best days of Mrs. 

 Billington ; and next to Mrs. Salmon, 

 she may be described as the most scien- 

 tific singer before the town. Nor was 

 the excellency of the performance con- 

 fined to the powers of Miss Wilson ; 

 for the established favourite, M.AnAMR 

 Vkstris, sang all her songs in (he 

 part of Artaxerxes, with a degree of 

 feeling and taste which commanded 

 eutlmsiastic approbation. We need 



not say any thing of (he voice an<! 

 seienceof Messrs. Braham and Horn, 

 because (hey have been so many years 

 before the public, and are so une- 

 qualled in (Inir respective lines, as not 

 to stand in need of our praise. Miss 

 POVEY filled the fifth dramatic cha- 

 racter, and ably supported the respecta- 

 bility of tlie entire performance. As 

 may be supposed, this grand dramatic 

 and musical treat has continued to 

 draw overflowing and delightful audi- 

 ences : and the season of (his theatre 

 promises to be most lucrative. Artax- 

 erxes, and other Operas are to be per- 

 formed three nights a week during (he 

 saasou, for the purpose of exhibiting 

 (he various musical powi-rs of (he com- 

 pany. On other evenings tragedy and 

 comedy will be supported by other 

 performers ; the first in tlieir several 

 lines, of wliose peculiar merits we shall 

 speak more at large in future numbers. 

 We understand Miss Wilson is en- 

 gaged for forty nights only; but we 

 are of opinion that Artaxerxes alone 

 will draw forty oxertlowing houses 

 within the season. Mr. Vr^allack fills 

 the parts of Kean with great merit. 



MEDICAL REPORT. 



Report of Diseases and Casualties occuninp in piihlic and private Practice 



of the I'hysician who has the care oflhc ]Vestern District of the City Dispensah v, 



the lit)iits of which, commcvcinr/ at the Fleet-street end of CImncerij Lane, past 



' hrough Grarf s hin-lanr, Foripooi-lanc, llatton Wall, Great Saffron-hill, West 



'rect,Smithfield-bars, Charterhouse-lane and Srjunre: alongGoswell-street to 0:d- 



thr 

 tti 



street; down Old-street, as far as Bunhill-row ; thence crossing the Old Jewry and 

 extending along flueen- street, terminate at the water-side. 



A CONSTANT recolleolion of t'ue com- 

 Ijliciitecl structure of tbe lungs is abso- 

 lutely requisite towards a correct [latliolot^y 

 and efilcient practice in piilnioniuydisor.lers ; 

 and it is likewise necessary further to recog- 

 nize the difference between specific and 

 common inflammation of the organs in rjues- 

 tion. Consumption lias often not only been 

 predicated but prescribed forwhen the disorder 

 had not existed, and cures of the complaint 

 have thus been falsely conceived aud erro- 

 neously reported, A young lady has just 

 been with the writer whose lisease was or- 

 dinary inflammation of llie bronchia, the 

 force of which has been broken by such me- 

 dicinnls as, had the state been that wliich it 

 was suspected to be by her anxious parents, 

 would have served to confirm and protract, 

 instead of remedying the malady. A single 

 ])age of report presents too limited a space 

 for the diagnostic delineation of pulmonary 

 maladies, but let the practitioner who appre- 

 hetsds phthisis without being certain of its 



p:eseuce, inves!i2;ate carefully the coast 

 tional bins of his patient ; learn whether 'ha 

 attendant irritation have, from tbe very first, 

 partaken more or less of a hectic nature ; 

 whether the white of the eye assume a dead 

 and fixed, appearance, contrasting strikingly 

 and mourufuUy with the disordered brilliancy 

 of its transparent portion, and with the fiery 

 flush of the otherwise pallid cheek. — And let 

 him judge, pronounce, and act accordingly. 

 The reporter will just further say, that in 

 the particular instance alluded to, the co- 

 paiba bal>am evinced decidedly sanative 

 efficacy. 



He is happy to record the complete re- 

 coverj' of the boy to whom allusion was 

 made in a preceding report, as affected with 

 a disorder which menaced either life or intel- 

 lect. Another patient nearly of the ssme 

 age, was Seized suddenly, about a forinight 

 since, with giddiness and loss of \oluntary- 

 power -over the limbs— (>his affection conti- 

 nued gradually to increase, until the child 

 became 



