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its heavy hand first on one-and then on 
another ; occurrences of ‘this nature rank 
~as_ extraordinary, they’ become prominent 
and. particular’ events;/on which the mind 
fastens—theyare*exceptions to the general 
rules + Gloomy, ‘must’ be the cast: of the 
mind .of:that man who has -witnesssed the 
thousands whom this metropolis has poured 
‘into her suburbs during the late fine wea- 
ther, without experiencing a glow of thank- 
fulness to’ that ** Great First Cause,’’ who 
jhas liberally ‘stipplied sources of enjoyment 
to “allwho live and move’ and have any 
being. » -* . - * 
Since the date of the last’ report fever 
thas been ‘on the increase : a fact established 
‘both by ‘the ‘admissions ‘at the ‘‘ Fever 
Hospital,” and by the testinioniy of ‘private 
practitioners. ° Scarlatina has‘ ‘also been 
more prevalent, and some of the’cases have 
been marked by severity of symptoms. In- 
flammatory’ affections of the ‘tonsils and 
fauces have; within the month, fallen un- 
der the reporter’s observation; the sudden 
transition from an East-Indian tempera- 
ture to the ordinary autumnal weather of 
this ‘country, ‘will sufficiently account for 
the oectirrenceé of such complaints. 
A case of acute rheumatism, induced by 
unusual ‘éxpostire of the person, during a 
voyage to a Scottish port, may not be un- 
worthy’ fo be’ put on record. The patient, 
a young than, stepped, almost from the 
counting-house, into the vessel; he is now 
detained’ in Scotland by the sequelz of the 
disordet. “Since the last report, disorders 
of the alimentary canal have been of fre- 
uent occurrence. Cholera, a disease 
which, Sydenham says, shew itself at the 
close of summer or at the beginning of 
autumn, as certainly as the appeardtice of 
swallows in the spring, or cuckoos in the 
dog-days, has, as usual, visited us; it is, 
as observed by Dr. Good, in all cases an 
acute disease. Some of the cases of which 
the reporter has had cognizance have been 
severe, When the disease has invaded 
constitutions enfeebled by age, or by pre- ° 
vious indisposition ; or when the disease 
has been complicated with other disorders, 
the: issue has; sometimes been doubtful ; 
but, in this country, cholera is, in general; 
if the treatment be prompt, under the con- 
trol.of medicine. Diarrhoea has prevailed 
even more ¢éxtensively than the. disease 
last named... Children as well as adults have 
been the subjects of it; 4n this Jatter class 
of patients, the disdrden has in. some cases 
required the unceasing attention of the 
‘ : 
Monthly Agricultural Report. 
“youth. 
(Sept. 1, 
practitioner. Several cases of furunculus, 
or boil, have recently come under ‘the care 
ofthe writer. ‘These painful tumors occur, 
it’ is said, for the most part, in ‘persons 
of a'phlogotic or inflammatory habit-indi- 
viduals in high health, and in the vigour of 
In-sevgral instances, however, the 
reporter has had to treat the disease in 
constitutions, which, however “previously 
good, had, by various circumstances, be- 
come impaired. at SHS JON 
A male, ‘thirty-six years ‘of age, bowed to 
the earth by misfortune, and ‘an anoihalous 
chronic ailment, which brought him ‘almost 
to the verge of the grave; ‘suffered from 
boils: he ‘could not move fror’ his bed, 
from’ the number and large size’ of these 
imperfect ‘abscesses, which’ ‘assttmed an 
almost ' carbuncular virulerice’; “here was 
certainly no’phlogotie diathésis.’’ “A female 
beyond the meridian of life, who had ‘watched 
day and night in the chamber of ‘a dying 
husband, and’ who, after the dreaded event, 
which had kept the mind wound up to the 
most interise state of anxiety; eviriced the 
most’ unequivocal signs of broken health, 
furnishes the writer with another instance 
of the disease in question. In'this' last 
case, a most decided tonic plan of treatment 
was adopted, and with a result higlily satis- 
factory. Boils were, by the ancient medi- 
cal writers, and by the succeeding humoral 
pathologists, conceived to originaté from a 
morbid state’ of the fluids. * " Modern phy- 
sicians, however, think that diseases of this 
character result from disordered ‘action— 
from functional derangement. “To: “the 
reporter, ‘the disease appears to be often 
the evidence’ of a series of morbid actions, 
which have’ had an injurious effect’ on ‘the 
health ; and he thinks that the occurrence of 
furanculi proves, not seldom, to be a “wind- 
ing up,” so to speak, of these morbid ac- 
tions, which might otherwise’ have termi- 
nated in serious organic mischief. ~ ‘ 
JAaMEs Frevp. 
Bolt Court , Fleet-street, Tis! 
Aug. 23, 1825. 
* Furunculi et carbunculus 4 pituita sunt.” Hip- 
pocrates.—Furunculus (Dothienes dicit), ex crasso 
Succo generatur.. Galen.—Furunculus cacochymie 
soboles est.. Petrus Forestus-—A Froncle, is a lytle 
aposteme engendered of grosse bloude. John Vigun's 
most excellent, workes of Chirurgery,, 1543, —It 
(carbuncle) is a disease bred of hot bloed, which is 
turned into black choler, and hence does arise this 
carbuncle.—John Brown, sworn Chirurgeom to th: - 
King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1678. 9 09" 
wry oF bation! 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPOR? 
—= 
N,, the, subjects of hot weather and 
7 abundant, harvests, our periodical 
press. always. deals: in. the, marvellous. 
Every remarkably sultry season is the most 
90 that ever. oceurred before, and every: 
on oft? te anise 
Astifaon 
ott to 
tiem 
great wheat -crop\ overmeasures@its:piede- 
cessors; _ The temperatare of:the:present 
- Summer solstice “has, no, doubt;-beertcea- 
sionally excessive; but the ‘heat»+has, ‘for 
the most part, been moderated by cooling 
eastern 
