1807.] ( 595 ) 



REPORT OF DISEASES, 



J« the public and privnte Pruf lice of one of the Phi//icians of the Finjbury Dij'pen/ary, 



J'nwi the 20lh of November to the 20th of December. 



pHTHlSIS pulmonalis 1j Confuinptivc fubjefts, not from tlie 



Rheiiniulifmus nature of their dilcaie lolely, but like- 



Catarrluis 1 '^ wife from the general character of their 



Opthi^lmia 1 temper aiul mental conlUtution, arc par- 

 Scarlatina 1 ticularly calculated to engage our fym- 



Amenorrhcea .) patiiv and aneCtion. 



Menoirhajia o ^^^^^ ^^.^j^. of i],.,t character is, that 



Colica Pict^r 1 ,, ^ ,, ,. , ^ , . ,, 



D f f It they are leldom lound to complam ot 



Afthenir ".!;!'.■."'■".'.''/.■-'.".-."-'"-- 17 their complaints 



IWorbi Cutanei 14 ^" ill-iounded and unnatural hope 



Morbj Infantiles 11 ouiiht to be regarded as tlic bafis of ef- 



Phthilis pulmonalis, or confumption, {lecial apprehenlion. 



is a difeafe of every year and of every I'he diforder becomes defperate by 



month. It has recently, however, in an anticipation, too long protracted, of 



more than ordinary abundance occurred fpeedyand fpontaneous recovery, 



^vithin the rans;e of the Reporter's pro- Perfons have not often died of con- 



feifional oblcrviiticju. )?ome of the cafes funijition who have feafonalily feared, 



alluded to arc in their infancy, on which and guarded againll, the event, 



account, Jiopc may be entertained with By loling time, every thing is loft, 



regard to their happy and not remote. Death becomes the confecjuence of de- 



teimination. lav. 



Others had arrived at that degree of Tiie phyfician is fummoncd too fre- 



orcranic injury, which trcfpalled beyond qnently at that far advanced period, 



the reach of poQiLle i-eparation. when the call can be regarded in fcurcely 



This is a diforder which, of all others, any other light than as a kind of funeral 



requires to be vigilantly watched in the ceremony, — as an etiquette which a. 



nafcentcy of its exillence. family of decent character and circum- 



The cough Icaft complained of by the (lances think it a duty, or at lealt a 



patient deferves to be moll alarming to decorum, to obfervc. He is fent for to 



ills friends. A /iiich in the lidc, giving pcrufe the lall page of a difeafe, jult 



little pain, may be attended with much when the volume is about to clofe. 



danger. Cold colliquative pcrfpirations, John Reid. 



which are regarded as merely the etlu- Crcnville-fireet, Bninficick-fquare, 



fions of debility, not unfrcqucntly in- Dec. 27, 1800. 

 volve the menace of approaching death. 



INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS, in and near LONDON: 

 With Biogri/phicul ?^Iemoirs of' cJijiinguiJhed Characters recently dcccu/'cd. 



SMITHFiELD CATTLE SHEW. 



•yUE great importance of breeding and rear- 

 ing fuch animals as will make the quiclc- 

 eft and l.ugeft rttwrn of food for min, from 

 the confuniption of given qyaiitities of ve- 

 getable food, was the principal mo'ive with 

 -the late Duke of Bedford, and ofiier patriotic 

 noblemen and gentlemen, for afibciating 

 tliemftlves unt.cr the title of the Smichfield 

 Club, with the viev/ of encouragina;, by an 

 annual exhibition at the time of the principal 

 market previous to Chriftmas, iind by the 

 diftribution of premiums, the hictding and 

 bringing to the London market of cattle, 

 flieep, and pig's, fattened in the molt econo- 

 mic manner ; this being the only ralioual 

 fource from whence to expctt a Hop lo the 

 incrcafe in the prices of butcher's flleat, The 



ftevv this year took place in the large and 

 Commodious repofitory-yard of Mr Sadler, 

 in Gofivell-ftreet, on the 12th, 13th, ana 

 15th of December. James Backwell Praed, 

 E.''q. and Mr. P:!ul Giblett were the ftcwardi 

 for the Ihe'.v, and attended on the 10th, ani 

 morning of the 11th, to t'ae receiving 'if the 

 certificates of age, work per;brmed, time of 

 putting to fatten, kind and quant, ty of food 

 cgnfumed by each animal, and other parti- 

 culars required as conditions f.ora their own- 

 ers to entitle lliem tp exhibit as candidates 

 for the premiums. The judg-,-'3 appointed for 

 deciding on the comparative merits of ths 

 animals Ihewa, and awarding the prize? uc- 

 cnrding to certain principles laid down in the 

 printcJ conditions of the ihew, confided as 

 ufuil of three geutlemen graziers^ viz. Lord 

 .Sjincavii'iCi 



