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lleport of JOifiases. 



497 



feis route, and took the road to Furftcniberg. 

 It is probable that being cut otf Irom the 

 Oder, he will be furrounded and made pri- 

 lioner. 



" The Duke of Weimar is in a fimilar fitu- 

 ation with refpeiS to Marshal Soult. The 

 puke ieemcd to wilh to crofs the Elbe at 

 1'angermunde, in order to approach the Oder. 



On the 25th Marrtial Soult anticipated him. 

 If we come up with him, not a man will ei- 

 cape ; if he fucceeds in crolii ig the Oder, he 

 will fall into the hands of the Grand Duke of 

 Bcf^, Marihdl Latui'^s, and the Prince of 

 Ponto Corvo. A part of our tnvops are upoa 

 the QAzi. The Kin^ of PiulhihaE pallia tile 

 Viftula.'' 



REPORT OF DISEASES, 



In the. public and private Pru£ike of one of the Fht/jkians (f tlie Finjinry Difpenfaiy^ 

 from the 20th of Oclobp- to the 201 h of November. 



J^TARRHCEA 19 ^o point of greater importance to attenfl 



Dyfentena 2 to, than to prcl'erve the regularity of tile 



O SiW" '."" ? alvinedirdi'u-es. 



J-koatitis '.'...'..'.'.'..'...'.'.'.".'..". ". .'. '. 5 "'^ number of conrumptivc patients havp 



Stydrops " 7 o<^curred, but none have been marked by 



Pifpna-a .' " '. ". ." '.'. '. '. '. '. '. '. ... '. '.'.. '. '.V. . 3 ^^''Y imp.Orlant peculiarity. 



AmenorrhcEa li Ilyol'ciumus luis of late been tr ed by 



jMenorrfiaoia 4 the lleporter in tliis difealb lis a fiibflitute 



JEpilepfia 1 for opium, being ef|ua!ly calculated to 



Paralyfis S fecure rcpofe, ac the fame time that it 



Afthenia 14 is not apt to occal';(ju the cufiivenefs, and 



Morbi Cutanei 7 other inconvenient confequcnces, vvhictl. 



Morb, Infantiles 13 ^rife from the employment of the latter. 



Catarrhus -lU ij... (■;„, i i i i r 



,,,, ,.^ , ,. „ il>olciamus has been rciyirded asapoilon, 



Phthifis pulmonalis 9 ,•■', ,- . .-ii •■ * 



«L„, ^,;f^„^ p lU has arlciiic, winch, however, is now 



Kneumatilmus o . ' ' ' , 



Podra ^ra 1 'OUlid to be, vviicn properly applied, one 



Apopfexia ; 5 "^ "^'"^ "'''A t'fcful articles of the materia 



Ilyfteria 2 medica, and, under certain circumihmces. 



Scarlatina 5 one of the moll faliitary, inllead of the 



Bowel complaints are at prefcnt ex- moll obnoxious, a^ients upon the liumaii 



tremely prevalent, fo as to be aimoft re- frame that are to be found in the rcfor- 



gardcd as epidemic; but of their fymp- voir of nature. There is in nature no fuch 



toms, or mode of treatment, nothuig fur- thing as abltractcdly a poil'on : it is to aft 



thcr occurs than what during the courfe inaccurate acquaintance with its proper- 



of thefo Reports has been frequently ties, or an incapacity to regulate its ad- 



ftated and explained. miniflration, or I'uitably to apply it, that 



~ (Jut of the three cafes of paralytic af- we are to attribute to any thing its poi- 



fettion, one was that of a young num, fonous operation. 



■whole habits of intemperance had tor fe- In the hands of an empiric there is not 



Veral years produced fcarcciy any other any thing which may not prove apoifon; 



f-lfect than a morbid iivitalnlity and re- but, there is nothing perhaps, on the 



Jaxalion of the llomach and intcflinal other hand, employed by a Ikilful phyfi- 



canul; but of late, an indifcrect indul- cian, which he may not convert to foinc 

 p,<-iice in fpirituous liquors has, in lieu of ialutary purpofe. 



tliis elfeCt, been followed almolt invaria- Of the t\vo cafes of opthalmia alluded 



illy by a i'emi-paralytic aifef.tion, accom- to in the catalogue, one appeared to 



panied with feelings of the hsad and other be a fyphilitic aifeClion, and the other 



parts, which threatened evei'y niomciit a not prciperly a difeafe of the eye itfelf, 



iiecitled and fatal apoplexy. The feafori- fo much as of the nervous I v Item in gcnc- 



able appliciition of a potent and active ral, with the Hate of which the vifual 



purgative, by inducinglubforinerdiarrhcEa, nerve, fi-om its peculiarly exquiutc fenli- 



lias averted the approaching paroxyliti. bility, is mtire particularly apt to lyiopa- 



Not in pally merely, but in epilepfy, me- lltife. The latter of which, therefore, was 



lancholy, and perhaps all otiier difeafes not to be cured by merely local applica- 



bclonging-to tjie nervous clafs, thore'is iwns; the former by a lon^ protraded. 

 ; , ■ but 



