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Medical Report. 



[July J, 



DrurV La^e.' At the house of drama; wliicli was »o well received as 



the I\ing''s Servants, a new serious to awaken our hope, that by becoming 



*i{)era has made its appearance under a stock piece. D/rce might have lonsti- 



itfee title of Dirce^ or the Fatal Urn. tuted a second serious English opera, 



' The music given to this new transla- and contributed to evince the power of 



tionfromMe?ff*<«4/o, though principally our own composers, under proper en- 



from Mozart, was partly supplied from couragement, to compete with the Ita- 



other classical and established com- liaus in that province of composition, 



poser.s, and partly by Mr, Braham and and to demonstrate a taste in our coun- 



l^lr. Horn, who, we understand, were trymen capable of appreciating and 



"^|Jic arrangers of the whole. That this enjoying the melodious and expressive 



■jiiecc possessed much merit, with (he intonations of dramatic recitative. 



fj^Iiloy of considerable defects, we must Mr. EUistou, who in his vocation, as 



lieallowed to assert. In some instances, manager, is indefatigable, has closed a 



the music^ though exquisite in itself, prosperous season, eked out, however, 



\\-as not sufficiently subservient to, and bj^ the super-addition of a. masquerade 



illustrative of, the sentiments of the /(?*?/i'rt^, preceded by a variety of stage 



^{iitthor; while in others, though the performances, both scenic and vocal. 



Ifibet's meaning hatl obviously been On the ISth and 25th of June, this 



.Tonsultcd, and was not weakly convey- treat was presented to the public, in- 



^^, the melody was deficient in beauty troduced by an ode ^vritten by Dr. 



sMid originality of feature. Without Busby for the occasion, and recited by 



t.weetness, music is nothing ; its Mr. Cooper; and the numerons and 



[J f harm is wanting; and, in spiite of the brilliant crowd by which it was attended 



,'j socal skill with which it was given, wAs profitable (o the treasury, and en- 



iiihe songs fell flat. This remark, how- couragiug to the futuje enterprize of 



never, ap])lies but to an inconsiderable the present conductor of this iiQmense 



■'^oi'tion of the whole of this operatic establishment. 



}*: MEDICAL REPORT. 



„ j^EPORT of Diseases and Casualties occurring in puhlic and private Practice 

 f)f c^the Fhi/sician who has the care of the JVestern District of the City Dispensary- 



—fflPH^^^flSon has been one rather of un- 

 jjj JiL comfortable sensation than of positive 

 ^gickness, and there has been no recent 

 ^e^demic beyond the ordinary catarrhal 

 dfiraiigenients, whroh could scarcely fail of 

 jjjcing prevalent under such a persevering 

 , , tpyevalence of unfriendly weather. In 

 ,^^pme districts scarlet fever has indeed 

 jjj occurred with more than common fre- 

 quency ; and the reporter has now under 

 his care a young lady, who is the second of 

 the family to whom this visitation has been 

 jimde twice. In some individuals there 

 ^ appears to be a constitutional pre-dispo- 

 sition to eruptive derangements, while 

 others remarkably resist the influence of 

 "^hose poisons, to be aK'ected by which al- 

 .v»*aQSt all are destined who live iu civilized 

 society ; the first tendencj', is, however, 

 •^''¥f»e "most frequent, and the instances we 

 -i-jshpar of small pox, subsequent to vacci- 

 nation, are for the most part rather refcr- 

 rible to this source, than to any actual 

 deficiency in the security of the preventive, 

 or to mismanagement in the mode of com- 

 '^*niunieatiug it. In these examples, how- 

 .ei?,er., of second editions of disease, the last 

 .TK^iti for the most paj't vithont danger; and 

 ip the instances of scarlet fever ju&t ad- 



verted to, the fortunate event of the malady 

 was predicted with some confidence in 

 spite of its apparent severity at the com- 

 mcuccment 5 just such is the state of things 

 in that small pox which occasionally makes 

 its appearance after both inoculation and 

 vaccination ; so mild is it under these cir- 

 cumstances, that vaccination might be con- 

 sidered one of the kindest grants ever con- 

 ferred by Providence on man, did it 

 never effect any thing more than this mo- 

 difying operation ; for even in that case 

 we should possess in the vaccine process 

 all the advantages without any of the evils 

 that ai-e confessedly appended to variolous 

 inoculation ; and the reporter must indulge 

 the hope that neither the apprehensions of 

 the timid, nor the wroug-headedness of the 

 obstinate, will operate to any very consi- 

 derable extent, in encouraging the re-in- 

 troduction of the latter practice. The 

 sword for ages suspended over ns has been 

 blunted to the extent of almost entire 

 harmlessness, and it were folly amounting 

 to insanity, to polish it ourselves into its 

 pristine power. 



D.UwiNs.M.D. 

 Bedford Rote, June 20, 1821. 



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