1823.] Medical Report 



7. c. 7. entering goods in the names of — 6, 7 W 

 others, repealed by 1. H. 8. c. 5.-3 H. 8. 

 c. 15.— ai H. 8. c. 9.— 1 M. St. 2.0. 11. 

 Foreign hats and caps, repealed by i J. 1. 

 c. 25. § 7. — 5 H. 8. c. 7. Foreigners 

 buying leather, repealed by 5 El. c. 8. $44. 

 — 21 H. 8. c. 14. Linnens imported, 

 repealed by 28 H. 8. c. 4 — Irish Act, 12 

 E. 4. c. 2. Importing bows, repealed by 

 ID C 1. St. 3. c. 22. — 2, 3 Edw. 6. c. 26. 

 Exporting ashes, repealed by 28 G. 3. c. 

 16. — 1 El. c, 9. Exporting leather, re- 

 pealed by 18 El. c. 9 — 1 J. 1. c. 22. § in. 

 Punishing officers permitting exportation 

 of leatlier, repealed by 48 G. 3. c. 60. $ 1. 

 — 5 H. 8. c. 3.-27 H. 8. c. 13.— 33 H. 8. 

 c. 19. Export of woollen manufacture, 

 repealed by 50 G. 3. c. 83. — 3 E. 4. c. 4. 

 1. R. 3. c. 12. As to import of wrought 

 goods, repealed by 66 G. 3. c. 36. — 17 st. 

 3. c. 1.— 27 E. 3. St. 2. c. 14.— 38 E. 3, st. 

 I.e. 2.-5 R. 2. St. 1. c. 2.— 17 R. 2. c 1. 

 2 H. 4, c. .5.-2 H. 6. c. 6.-4 H. 7, c. 23. 



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c. 17.— 7, 8 W. 5. c. 19. Ex- 

 porting gold and silver, repealed by 69 

 G. 3. c. 49. § 11, 1.'.— 5 El. c. 7. as to 

 import of wrought goods. — 12 C. 2. c. 

 4. § 11. Export of gunpowder, both re- 

 pealed by 59 G. 3. c. 73. 



And the said several Statutes and Acts, 

 and parts of Statutes and Acts, so repealed 

 by the said several Acts made for repeal- 

 ing the same, shall accordingly be and re- 

 main, and are hereby declared to be re- 

 pealed, except only so far as they repeal 

 any former Act or .Acts ; and all which 

 Act or Acts so repealed, shall be and 

 remain so repealed, to all intents and pur- 

 poses whatsoever. 



N.H. This, and (he following five Acts, 

 may be regarded as the most imporluut com- 

 mercial Acts of Parliament that hare passed 

 since the Navigation Act. They entirely 

 change our system and policy of commercial 

 law, and merit special noiice. 



MEDICAL REPORT. 



Report of Diseases and Casualties occurring in the public and private Practice 

 of the Physician who has the care of the Western District of the City Dispensary. 



'X'HE prevalence and obstinate severity 

 A of coughs are the circumstances which 

 have particularized the present and imme- 

 diately preceding months, in reference to 

 medical requisites: to such a degree has 

 this been the case, that it may be almost 

 said, with stronger than poetical affirma- 

 tion — 



Those cough now who never cough'd 



before, 

 And those vv'ho always cough'd now cough 



the more. 

 The character of these pulmonary affec- 

 tions has of course been more or less regu- 

 lated by constitutional tendencies in the 

 individual subject ; but their leading fea- 

 tures have proved rather of the asthmatic 

 than of the phthisical kind, and they have 

 thus called for, and borne, those stimu- 

 lating remedies, which, when employed in 

 truly consumptive ailments, are much 

 worse than useless. Many of the patent 

 prescriptions, named " Cough drops,'' 

 might properly be labelled with the word 

 " Poison," were they intended only for the 

 eye and the stomach of the consumptive 

 invalid, — the principle of their efficacy in 

 any case beinj; that of exciting those parts 

 of the pulmonary organs which in phthisis 

 are already in a state of morbid excitation. 

 Some practitioners, indeed, call in question 

 the rectitude of expectorant agency, as 

 applicable to any sort of pectoral disorder ; 

 while others, again, deny that balsamics 

 uiid demulcents have more than an imagi- 

 nary efficacy, seeing that the parts sup- 

 posed to be sheathed and soothed by these 

 substances never actually come in contact 

 2 



with them, but pass down another chan- 

 nel, viz. through the gullet into the sto- 

 mach ; while it is the wind-pipe and lungs, 

 not the oesophagus and stomach, which the 

 disordered action implicates. These ob- 

 jections, however, in both instances seem 

 to be too much founded on the refine- 

 ments of theory, and to stand in op- 

 position to truth : medicine, after all, 

 would prove a poor inefficacious affair, 

 were it neVer lo act but in obedience to 

 the dicta of pathology. Our continental 

 neighbours, the French, condemn British 

 practice as empirical; but the most tri- 

 umphant reply lo this charge is the supe- 

 rior success of the English physicians. 

 Disease with us is often done away with 

 by decided measures, long before the gal- 

 lic school of tissue and texture practi- 

 tioners would have determined upon the 

 organ implicated, or the remedial indica- 

 tions demanded. The French are good in- 

 vestigators of disordered lesion,it is allowed, 

 but dexterity in the inspection of a dead 

 body does not necessarily imply an effi- 

 cient practice upon the li"ing ; nay, it is 

 possible for morbid anatomy (in moderation, 

 the most useful ofall medical studies,) to be 

 carried to an ultra extent, by encouraging 

 analytic minutiae to the exclusion of syn- 

 thetic and pervading principles. French 

 medicine, like French art, is full of correct 

 littlenesses and beautiful fragments ; but 

 it is wanting in the commanding spirit of a 

 combining whole. It is ou/^iny, and cold, 

 and raw. 



A curious case of nervous affection is 



now under the Reporter's care. A child, 



about six years old, who is without the 



smallest 



