1826.] Motii/ili/ Medical Report. 32S 



tton of tlie whole biuiii and nervous system, which cliaracteri/icd the latter periods of 

 this jjcrson's life, assuming the form of coma. 



It is also worthy of note, though the same observation has frequently been made, that 

 the milk of a jaundiced nurse is unaffected. It proved so in this case :— up to a very 

 late period of the complaint, the woman, whose case has been just described, continued 

 to suckle her ort'sprin;,', which throve perfectly well. 



Tlic re|)orter ought perhaps to offer, in conclusion, some apology for the gloomy cha- 

 racter of his present re|)ort. It shall be his study to compensate for this on a future 

 occasion, by laying before the reader an account of some complaints in which the skill 

 and resources of the ])hysician are unequivocally manifested, and which afflict the human 

 mce without swelling the bills of mortality. Gkokge GRtGOiiv, M. D. 



8, Upper John Street, Golden Square, February 22, 1826. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



It is again our most grateful task to report the univci-sally prosiierous state of the 

 agriculture of our country, so far as relates to the season, the condition of the soil, of the 

 crops upon the ground, the forwardness of the relative operations, the abundant supplies 

 of com and cattle, and of all the necessaries of life. If these immense natural advanta- 

 ges are not made the most of, if we are in a state of artificial distress, of turmoil and 

 trouble, of even woeful want to thousands of those whose indis|)ensable labours have 

 operated this overflow ing abundance, tlie blame is to be cast elsewhere than on fate or 

 fortune. 



The frost continued a sufficient length to pulverize the stubborn clays, and to check 

 the wheats, which, upon warm and good soils, had become too luxuriant. That interval 

 was employed in carting manure upon tlic spring fallows, in road-mending, and tending 

 live stock. In the southern counties, beans and pciis have been generally got into the 

 earth, with scarcely any impediment, and sowing the Lent corn has commenced and is 

 jiroceeding with the utmost diligence. In fact, should a favourable spring ensue, we 

 can scarcely fail of another season universally abounding in all the most material of the 

 earth's products. 



Wheats are a \ast breadth, and look as well as vrc have at any time witnessed, and the 

 same may be affirmed of tares, rj'e, and all the winter crops, common turniiis excepted, 

 which, as is their nature, were generally destroyed by the frost. The Swecdish tuniips, 

 on good soils and well cultivated, have stood sound, and will be invaluable in tlie lambing 

 season to those provident farmers who have a sufficient number of acres. If we did not 

 know, from long experience, tliat it is the nature of farmers in general to avoid present 

 trouble and expense, whatever may be tlie prospect or the risk, we should really wonder 

 at the neglect of the good old practice of storiny turnips. There has been alreatly great 

 difficulty in stock feeding, from the failure of the turnips, and much damage done to the 

 shee]), both before the frost, when the animals were kept upon lands in a state of bog, 

 to feed upon roots sodden with moisture and devoid of nourisl)ment j and afterwai'ds, 

 when frozen too hard for their teeth. Should the spring prove backward, the expense of 

 feeding will indeed be heavy. Stall-feeding of cattle has not been successful, excepting, 

 ])erhaps, with the extensive growers of mangel wurtzel. All kinds of live stock, and 

 both meat and corn markets, are gradually declining in price ; and horses cannot be sold 

 at such prices as were readily obtained a twelvemonth since. 



Our Autumnal Reports controverted the notion, that the quantity of wheat on hand 

 was barely sufficient for the expenditure of the coming year. It appears now imquestion- 

 able, that the fanners are considerable liolders of wheat, and that the stock in the 

 country is lai-ger than has been known during a number of years. Tliere is also a con- 

 siderable stock of old malt and of hops, w-hich certain speculators in the last article have 

 found to their cost. Tlie quantity of barley, however short, will yet, with the aid of 

 that which has been importwl, prove sufficient until the new crop be ready, without any 

 probable rise of price. Wool seems almost a defunct trade, and the present embarrass- 

 ments will certainly not contribute to its speedy rewval. Good potatoes will be in request 

 both for cidinary use and for seed. Milch cows, a species of stock seldom out of request, 

 still fetch a good price. 



Amidst general and overflowing plenty, it is heart-breaking to have to report, from 

 so many quarters, the recurring distress, through want of emplopnent, of our agricultural 

 laboui'ers ; a class which, from their periodical miseries, relieved only at intenals and 

 that by degrading charity, has long appeared too numerous for tlieir occupation. We 

 can descry no prospective remedy for this, unless in the extension of manufactures and 

 commerce. The subject of a free trade in corn is deferred to the consideration of the new 

 Parliament, of the probability, or rather necessity of which, we were fully aware. With 

 respect to the present commercial distress and embarrassment, it is obviously the distress 



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