Hs == On the Itch and Scald'Head, and Importanceof [Sept. 3, 
the permission of transferring may en- 
danger the whole; if it is not, then why 
require entrance money at all? 
, Lhe writer of this: paper submitted a 
\ittle work to the public three years ago, 
enutied, ‘ Observations on Charity 
Schools, &c.” printed for J. Hatchard, 
Piccadilly; J. Johnson, St. Paul’s chureh- 
yard; and J. Mawman, Poultry; in 
which, Mr. Editor, your two worthy. cor- 
respondents would probably find some of 
the information of which they are in 
search, and particularly in chap. xxiii. 
on the principles essential to the stability 
of friendly societies, and to this she begs 
leave to refer them. W. N. laments, 
-and with reason, the circumstance so 
general in these societies of meeting at 
public houses, both as highly mjurious 
to their morals, and as considerably in- 
creasing the expence of the istitution ; 
and he suggests the desirableness of their 
being provided ii every. town, by the le- 
gislatuye, with a suitable place for meet- 
ing. This it is adinitted nyght be weil, 
aud would do something towards the 
removal of the evil; buc-if ventlemen and 
others of some property, and. of respect- 
able character, would eome forward as 
their avowed patrovs on this express 
condition, either that the meeting should 
not be held at a public-house, or that the 
room where they assembled should be 
paid for in some other way, than by the 
purchase of liquor, they would do more. 
Will it be objected that the general 
/ members would not endure such a re- 
striction? be it admitted, that unless it 
were for their interest in a pecuniary, 
as well as in a moral view, it is,much to 
be feared they- would not. But if these 
gentlemen, as honorary inembers, were 
to appropriate their subscription to the 
formation of a separate fund, solely at 
their own disposal, out of which they 
were to pay for a room of meeting, to 
defray the expence of printing the rules, 
‘and of pther contingences, and from which 
they.should from ume to time make pre- 
sents to worthy distressed members, vi- 
sited by calamities to which their own 
contributions to the general fund could 
not extend relief, they would eventually 
gain a degree of influence, (if the expe- 
rience of the honorary members of many 
female benefit clubs may be trusted,) 
which would enable them at length to 
carry any proposal for the general good, 
however opposed to the mere selfish gra- 
“tification of the moment. 
to be a first principle in these institutions, 
that the contributions of the general 
members themselves should be fully ade- 
i 
As it ought: 
quate to the ends proposed, there would 
be no use in adding those of the.honorary 
members to the general fund, bat a most 
important one in applying them. in the 
manner here proposed, I would further 
beg leave to recommend the perusal ef a 
sermon, preached on the first of June, 
1808, before the York female benefit club, 
by the Rey. John Graham; sold by 
Rivingtons’, St. Paul’s Church-yard, and 
by. Hatchard, Piccadilly. By an early 
insertion of the above, you will greatly 
oblize, Your's, &c. 
York, Caru. Carre, 
Fuly 12, 1808. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ELE proposal contained in your last 
Number relative to the enquiry 
concerning popular remedies, I perused 
with much satisfaction, and could not 
help wishing that your correspondent 
had gone still further, and proposed an 
enquiry concerning the various forms of 
diseases usually known by the same name}; 
but which neither follow the same laws, 
nor are curable by the same remedies, 
Common Sense will pevhaps say that this 
more properly belongs to another publi- 
cation. which he very aptly styles the 
Gazetle of the Faculty. However as the 
subject has been begun gn the Monthly 
Magazine, I shall offer an illustration of 
my meaning by some remarks, on two 
popular diseases, concluding with an old 
woman’s successful recipe for one of 
them, bl 
The two diseasesI refer to are the 
terror of every c.eanly matron in this 
kingdom, where more attention is paid 
to the personal appearance of children, 
than in any other part of the world. L 
mean the z¢ch, and the diseases vulgarly 
called the scald head. 
Ever since Dr. Mead gave a transla-_ 
tion of an Italian paper by Dr. Bonomo*, 
on the subject of the atch, it has general- 
ly been believed that the disease is the 
effect of an imsect. Yet almost every ate 
tempt at searching for the insect by me- 
dical men, has been unsuccessiul. The 
late Mr. Hunter, whose patience was 
equal to his accuracy, was so constantly, 
disappointed, that he at last gave up the 
pursuit, making up his mind that there 
must besome fallacy in the business. It 
must be admitted that the ifch is now so 
rarely met with among the more respect- 
able class of the community, as to be 
less an object of enquiry than heretofore, 
EE 
* See Philosophical ‘Transactions, 
and 
