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Phthysis 0.02. .c- ce eee oe new eeterece 
Hysteria a--.--- 2 2-22 ee ee eee eres 
Epilepsia... + ..sceccereceeecsserees 
Diarrhea et Cholera ..e..ecrerseseve 
Amenorrhea cecetesesertes eanactie 
Morbi Cutanei.. .. epee ccc ce ce ncnces 
Morbi Infantiles .. 1.0. cece e even vese 
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Twe Aor GHEY 
The passion for the Coast is now at 
its height. ‘Ihe majority of those whose 
cireumstances will permit it, joyfully em- 
brace the seasonable opportunity of a 
voluntary bamishment from the Capital, 
hopiwg, often vainly hoping, to drown 
their cares in the waters of the ocean, 
and, by a species of niarine baptism, to 
regenerate their constitution. Solicitude, 
commercial or domestic, may, during a 
temporary absence from the immediate 
seat of it, abdicate its empire over the 
mind; but, upon a relapse to their ha- 
‘bitual home, they will find generally a 
renewal, and even an accumulation, of 
those anxieties from which they fancied 
they had fled. 
On the other hand, the debauched and 
imprisoned gases of the central city, from 
a contrast with those which have recently 
been left behind, wil} be doubly oppres- 
sive tu the feelings, and act with an in- 
creased injury upon the organs in general, 
and more‘ especially upon those of respi- 
ration. The citizen, who since his birth 
has not once emerged out of his native 
neighbourliood,. or at any rate has not, 
in his most adventurous excursions, ever 
trespassed beyond the Inmits of Islington, 
suffers less harm and inconvenience from 
the filth, and other heterogeneous and 
noxious materials that encircle him, than 
others who give into the fashionable rage, 
“during two or three months of the sum- 
miner, for indulging themselves in the ve- 
getable variety, the fragrant effluvia, and 
the ¢haste and undefiled exhalations, of 
a rural residence. ; 
_ Sea-bathing is too generally considered 
as a specific for every individual symptom 
jn the multitudinous miscellany of com- 
plaints: it is, however, by no means a 
negative or'an indifferent thing; and, from 
the careless and indiscriminate mammer in 
which it is, under almost all conceivable 
circumstances, had recourse to, there can 
be little doubt, that upon an average, it 
adds considerably to the catalogue of 
giseases, and to the bills of mortality. 
: See me 
Z REPORT OF DISEASES, - 
Under the cure of the late senior Physician of the Finsbury 
of August to the 20th of September. 
—n a 
Dispensary, from the 
The churchyards of watering-places are . 
crowded with melancholy monuments, of 
this interesting and affecting truth. The 
earth of those sacred cemeteries is prip- 
cipally composed of the relics of a ei- 
deount, ati, for the most part, recent 
animation, This is a circumstatice by 
which the young, the delicate, and the 
consumptive, ought to be more especially 
impressed. 
There is a well in the vicinity of 
Brighton, where the Reporter once paid 
a transitory ‘visit, which, mdependently 
of its mineral merit, cannot fail to be of 
essential advautage to the valetudinarian- 
pilgrim, as it reguires him to walk or 
ride a considerable length, over the most 
salubrious downs, in order to drink thie 
water from the fountain-head. 
Within the few weeks past, vatious 
cases of physical derangement have o¢- 
curred, which evidently arose from a se~ 
dentary life and a constrained. posture, - 
Posture is not saffiiciently attended to in 
the prosecution either of business or 
study. The attitude, where it is habitual, 
is almost as important as the habitual ali- 
ment. Several clerks in counting-houses, 
for instance, and from the offices of law~ 
yers, have, at different times, applied to 
the reporter, whose difficulty of breath- 
ing, stricture of chest,.and pain of the 
abdomen, appeared to him to arise 
from the nature of their occupation. 4 
valuable treatise might be written on the 
Diseases of the Desk. ~ ae | 
One case of insanity has lately come 
under the cognizance of the reporter, 
which seemed to be occasioned solely by 
disappointed ambition. Pride is the 
most frequent occasion of this disease, 
That ‘* Pride was not made for man,” i$ 
a doctrine which cannot be better illus- 
trated, than by the influence which it has 
in destroying the balance of the mind; 
there is no passion which makes such a 
‘havoc in the brain, orinduces such anars 
chy in the imagination. Qn which ace - 
count, one should strive, especially if of 
an inflaramable or irritable temper, to 
keep down the rising swellings of resent- 
ment, and to stifle the very first sugges- 
tions of self-esteem; to eStablish the 
mind in tranquillity, and to overvalue 
nothing, in one’s own or arother’s posses= 
sion. Eygotism, though neither medically 
nor vulgarly classed among the diseases 
incident to the huinau frame, deserves, 
@ pras 
