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A singular case of what is erroneously 
termed, Elephantiasis,* has occurred in 
the Reporter’s practice; singular, inas- 
much as the arm and hand, in this instance, 
are the diseased parts, instead of the leg 
and foot. The limb has grown to an enor- 
mous extent, the inuscles of the shoulders 
are coming to partake of the morbid ac- 
tion, which is likewise about to extend 
itself into the breast. The writer has sent 
the unfortunate individual in question to 
Mr. Samuel Young, whose plan of ar- 
resting disordered growth by pressure, 
deserves more attention than it has hi- 
therto received. Its simplicity and freedom 
from charlatanic mystery are unfortunately 
against it. Divest yourself of conscien- 
tious restrictions, abuse ordinary plans of 
cure, talk loudly and lyingly of the spe- 
cific, and unobjectionable, and universal 
efficacy of certain herbs, which are in 
your secret and sole possession; terrify 
the public with anathemas against mer- 
curials, while, at the same time, you are 
covertly employing them; then fortune 
* The Elephantiasis of the Greek 
writers is a very different disorder from 
that of the tumid limb, which is vulgarly 
designated, Elephantiasis. 
Monthly Agricultural Report. 
[Dec. I, 
and fame will be your's; but make a 
candid appeal to good sense and sound 
judgment, simplify and be sincere, you are 
then sure only of that reward which con- 
scious integrity has power to bestow. 
Levers have appeared within the last 
few weeks to he rather on the decline 
than increase. It is probable, that if the 
present rainy season be of long continu- 
ance, as was the case last year, that the 
spring disorders of a febrile cast will, as 
they did in the preceding spring, mani- 
fest a remittent and even intermitting 
tendency. 
As winter approaches, the writer takes 
occasion again to recommend the use of 
wash leather for an under waistcoat, espe- 
cially to those individuals who perspire 
freely and are subject to rheumatic com- 
plaints. He has known persons entirely 
freed by the use of this material from 
their former visitations of rheumatic 
pains; and to have become much more 
warm and comfortable through the winter, 
without any additional clothing, than they 
had before been under the use of a cum- 
berous great coat. 
D. Uwins, M.D. 
Bedford Row, Nov, 20, 1822. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
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ROM .the delay occasioned by a 
want of rain in the early part of the 
autumn, wheat-sowing was not generally 
finished until the middle of the present 
month. Much seed, lowever, was got in 
sufficiently early in good and_ well-tilled 
lands, and, rain soon after following, those 
crops have at present as Inxnriant and 
fine an appearance as ever was witnessed 
in this country; in truth, they already 
stand in need of frost to check their ex- 
uberant growth. The latter sown, from 
the warmth and moisture of the weather, 
have germinated rapidly, and promise, at 
no rate, to be backward in season. In 
the mean time, should the heavy rains 
continue, it must be injurious to the low- 
land corn, and more especially if followed 
by sudden frost. An experiment has been 
made in various parts to sow the refuse, 
unsaleable wheat of last season, nearly 
double the quantity of seed being allowed. 
Turnips have continued to improve, and 
mavy cultivators have been agreeably sur- 
prised to find, perhaps three-quarters of 
a crop of Swedes, where, two months ago, 
they expected none at all. The straw- 
yard has commenced almost generally, 
the Jast crop of clovers and grasses being 
nearly exhausted. The difference be- 
tween the extreme low price of fruit in 
the country, and the very considerable 
one which that which is good obtains in 
the metropolis, has excited notice. We 
have before us letters. from various parts 
of the three kingdoms, but find nothing of 
novelty or of agricultural prosperity, 
which, nnfortnnately, would be a novelty 
to report. The wheat market has con- 
tinued steady for some time, and thence 
many speculators suppose it has been at 
its lowest ebb. It is tarther asserted, that 
the usual quantity has not been sown this 
year; and moreover that, there has not 
yet been any surplus of bread-corn in this 
country; those who have hitherto held 
wheat on such speculations, we appre- 
hend, have not had much reason to be 
Satisfied. Store cattle and shecp have 
sold readily at some advance of late, but 
the quantities at market, ultimately, are 
always found to overrun the demand ; and 
in the distant connties, live stock is now 
said to be even a more losing concern than 
corn. There is a spirit arising in the 
country, embodying itself in associations 
and meetings; if it take a right direction, 
that is to say, clear of partial and fanciful 
views, it is impossible but some national 
benefit must result; otherwise, such mea- 
sures can only tend to embarrass admini- 
styvation, and must end in additional dis- 
satisfaction and heart-buruing. 
Smithfield:—Beef, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d.— 
Mutton, ¢s, to 3s, 4d.—Veal, 3s. to 4s. 8d. 
—Pork, 2s. to 3s, 6d,—Bacon, 
—Raw fat, 2s. 5d. , 
Corn Exchange: — Wheat, 29s. to 52s. 
—Barley, 18s. to 35s.—Oats, 16s. to 278. 
—London price of best bread, 4Ib. for 74d. 
—Hay, 50s. to 60s.—Clover, do. 55s. to 
90s.—Straw, 27s. to 36s. 
Coals in the pool, 57s. 6d. to 50s. 6d. 
Middlesex ; Nov, 22. 
REPORT 
