1821. 



[ 375 J 



MEDICAL REPORT. 



THE diseases of the few past weeks 

 have not been numerous. Rheuma- 

 tism is still prevalent, but by no means in 

 the sane measure as during the three first 

 months of the present year. If any affec- 

 tion have recently proved more conspicu- 

 ous than another, it is a disordered state of 

 the head, marked by pains of g-reater or 

 less acuteness, and in some instances cha- 

 racterised by such unequivocal signs of 

 congestion in the blood vessels, as loudly 

 to call for the application of cupping glasses 

 to the neck. But even in these cuses of 

 congestive head-ache, the practitioner must 

 not limit his remedial resources to the let- 

 ting out of blood, but must follow up de- 

 pletion by those plans which prevent its 

 further necessity ; and after a single 

 bleeding, the immediate administration 

 of exciting and tonic medicines - will 



often prove surprisingly restorative 



Equal parts of the valerian root in powder, 

 and the cinchona, or cascarilla bark, are 

 almost daily used by the reporter in the 

 cases now adverted to, and oftentimes with 

 signal success. 



The immediate succession of stimulating 

 materials to a single pretty face and co- 

 pious venoe section, constitutes a principle 



and practice in medicine deserving of 

 every regard. In how many instances may 

 the vital power be preserved from total 

 extinction hy ammonia or opium, after a 

 temporary exhaustion from debilitating 

 measures? And this practice, as above in- 

 timated, may not only prove thus immedi- 

 ately beneficial, but permanently operative, 

 by conveying an energy and impulse to the 

 weakened vessels, which counteracts that 

 partial and irregular re-action that is 

 otherwise often the result of liberal deple- 

 tion. Even the management of actual in- 

 flammation ought always to be conducted 

 with a recognition of the fact, that the dis- 

 ordered state, in spite of its being marked 

 by violent perturbation and high activity, 

 implies some degree or kind of vascular 

 weakness. Although, then, the depletory 

 hand must never be paralized by the half- 

 way feelings of hesitating indecision, yet, 

 at times, it requires to be stayed by the re- 

 collection that the doctrine which assumes 

 the inflammatory state to be one of capil- 

 lary debility, is not founded merely upon 

 hypothetical views, but has had its correct- 

 ness substantiated by actual, microscopical 

 observation. D. Uwins. M.D. 



Bedford Row, April iiO, 18-21. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



LITTLE remains for report during the 

 present season, but a repetition of our 

 great, even super-abundance, in unison with 

 our want and misery. In the olden time, defi- 

 ciency or waste, made woeful want; at the 

 present momentous crisis, a plethora of all 

 the good and fat things of life, has induced 

 galloping coDsuniptiun in the most vital and 

 important parts of the body politic. Our 

 state phy.sicians, after sundry consultations 

 and feelings of the public pulse, however 

 they may disagree on the causes of tbe dl.s- 

 ease, and the peculiar importance of the 

 symptoms, seem sufficiently unanimous 

 as to the only practicable remedy— send- 

 ing tbe patient to Bath, the English of 

 which every one is able to construe. The 

 weather has been variable during tbe pre- 

 sent month, but its present mildness and 

 warmth, after the rains, will doubtless have 

 a sudden aud forcing effect on vegetation, 

 which ha.s not bitiierto been forwarded. The 

 late sown tind thin wheats begin to cover the 

 ground, and to put on a luxuriant appear- 

 ance. Tbe pulse and L«ni corn crops in the 

 early districts, make a good show, and the 

 seed season will soon be finished in tbe 

 north. All the operations of husbandry are 

 remarkahlj' forward, more particularly, the 

 dintre.sg of tbe time* considered. Should 

 iIm warm weather continue, the gras.s crop 



will be general and abundant. Both fat 

 and lean cattle, from tbe vast stocks, are at 

 moderate prices, and the country is amply 

 supplied with Irish pigs, pork and bacon. 

 Valuable horses, always scarce, are at 

 great prices. Long wool is in request. Hops 

 are in great plent) , and a new crop coming 

 forward. Tbe weather has lately been 

 more favourable for seeds and artificial 

 grasses. The lambing season has bsen par- 

 ticularly suecei-sful. 



AveragePrices : Beef 3s. 4d. to 5s. Od. — 

 Mutton 3s. 4d. to 4s. 8d.— Lamb 6s. 6d. to 

 8s. 8d.— Veal 6s. 6d. to 8s. Od.— Pork 38. 4d. 

 to 6s. Od.— Bacon 3s. lOd. to 4s. 8d. — Raw 



Fat 2s. lOd. Wheat 35s. to 6;8.— 



Barley 20s. to 30s.— Oats 15s. to 28s.— The 

 quartern loaf in London 9id. — Hay 45s. to 

 95s. Od.— Clover, do. 35s. to 105s.— Straw 

 26s. to 34s.— Coals in the Pool 29s. 6d. to 

 42s. 9d. 



Tbe Committee of Agriculturalists as- 

 sembling at Henderson's Hotel, have pre- 

 sented to the Coiimiittee of the House of 

 Commons " the case'" of the Agricultural 

 Petitioners. After describing with much 

 clearness tbe e.ttent of the losses which Agri- 

 culture has sustained for the lastseven years, 

 through inadequate prices, brought on by 

 excessive im|)orlations of foreij^u corn, duty 

 free, the Committee state, that nothing but 



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