1826.] [ 549 ] 



appetite fails, and tlie tone of the stomach is for n time ruined. It has not this 

 season occurred to the reporter to meet wth any Instance of rheumatism asuuming 

 this highest degree of intensity. Nor indeed could it be reasonably ox|)ected : the 

 liprhter varieties of rheumatism require only wliat may 1)e called rfn/ ctjld for their produc- 

 tion ; the acute rheumatism, on the other hand, is never developed without the con- 

 currence of cold and moitture. Moist cold always operates more prejudicially on the 

 human body than dry cold ; its agency is much more complete and permanent, and 

 its deleterious effects therefore cannot be obviated except by a greater exertion on the 

 part of the constitution. In other words fever is then excited, which at the end of a certain 

 time succeeds in restoring the functions of the body to their natural and healthy state. 



The only other disease which has been very general during the last month is indiyestion. 

 Whenever there is no particular or reipnintf epidemic, stomach complaints are sure to be met 

 with ; not that tliey are then more frequent, but they become more prominent from the 

 absence of graver maladies. From what cause it may have arisen the reporter knows not, 

 but during the last month stomach complaints have been peculiarly severe, and have been 

 attended with a degree of depression of spirits which he seldom remembers to have seen 

 exceeded. Languor and lowness of spirits have constituted indeed the urgent or pre- 

 dominant symptom, and it required the sagacity of the practised physician to detect the 

 latent cause, and to refer the complaint toils true source. The inlluence which stomach 

 complaints exert upon the mind is so great, so infinitely beyond what could reasonably be 

 expected, that persons, unacqusiinteij with the nympatliies of the system, liesitjite in giving^ 

 full credence to the opinions of medical men regarding the effects of indigestion. In all 

 those cases where the nervous system has been much impaired, the reporter has found 

 decided advantage from the administration of calomel. Mischief has undoubtedly arisen 

 from the too free employment of this powerful medicine in the indigestion conse- 

 quent upon confinement and sedentary habits, and in that which results from mental 

 anxiety, and caution is therefore necessary in the selection of cases for its use ; but the 

 reporter is satisfied, from very ample experience, that in those acMe cases which occur 

 at this season of the year, and which are attended with great and otherwise ottustteas 

 depression of spirits, calomel has the strongest claims upon the confidence of medical 

 practitioners. Georgi: Gregoiiy, m.d. . 



8, Upper John-slreet, GoULn-squure, April 22, 1826. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



Cotton Wool. — The market both here and at Liverpool continues very dull, and a 

 decline of prices from ^. to Id. per -lb. has taken place, with little or no prospect of 

 amendment. Sales have been attempted, but to no effect. 



Sugar. — A very material decline has taken place in the Sugar market; low browns 

 having sold from 30s. to 52s. jier cwt., and the refined in no demand for exportation.— 

 Good strong lumps have been sold for 78s., and now offered for 77s., without purchasers, 

 for home consumption. 



Coffee — continues very depressed, and prices have again declined Is. to 2s. per cnvt. 

 Domingos are offered at 50s , and Brazils at 48s. to 50s per cwt. 



Indigo. — The East-India Company's Sale, of upwards of 4,000 chests, consisted mostly 

 of ordinary qualities, which sold at Is. to 2s. 6d. per lb. under the prices of January Sale ; 

 only about 770 chc'^ts were actually sold, the remainder being either taxed too high or 

 taken in. Such a sale has not occurred for many years, and accords with the depressed 

 state of trade and manufactures. 



Spirits. — Rum, Brandy,and Hollands — the prices are nominal, and little or no demand. 



Hemp, Flax, and Tallow. — The market dull and prices lower : 500 Casks of old Yellow 

 Candle Tallow were sold at 28s. 6d. to 29s. 6d., and one lot at 30s. 3d. per cwt. 



Spices — Are nominal and in no demand. 



Course of Foreign Exchange. — Amsterdam, 12. 10. — Rotterdam, 12. II. — Antwerp, 



12. 11.— Hamburg, .37. 11.— Paris, 26. 10.— ^ourdeaux, 26. 10 — Vienna, 10. 28 



Madrid, 35i— Cadiz, 33^.— Bilboa, 35^^.— Frankfort, 156^.— Se^alle, 35.— Barcelona, 

 33. — Gibraltar, 31. — Leghorn, 47. — Genoa, 43. — Venice, 25. — Palermo, 114. — Lisbon, 

 50|.— Oporto, 31. — Rio Janerio, 44. — Bahia, 47. — Dublin, IJ — Cork, IJ per cent. 



Bullion peroz. — Foreign Gold in bars, £3. lis. 6tf.— New Dollars, 4s. 9*?^. — Silver in 

 bars, 4ss. lid. 



Premiums on Shares and Canals, and Joint Stock Companies, at the Office of Wolfk, 

 Brothers, 23, Change Alley, Cornhill. — Barnsley Canal, 270/. — Birmingham, .300/. — 

 Derby, 0. — EUesmere and Chester, llOZ. — Erevvash, 0. — Forth and Clyde, 0. — 

 Grand Junction, 259/. — Leeds and Liverpool, 390/. — Mersey and Irwell, 850/. — 

 Neath, 360/.— Oxford, 700/.— Stafford and Worcester, 80W.— Trent and Mersey, 2,000/. 

 — Alliance British and Foreign, par. — Guardian, 16j/. — Hope, 4/. 13^. — Sun Fire, 0. — 

 Gas- Light Chartered Company, 37/. — City Gas- Light Company, 15^/. — Leeds, 0.— 

 Liverpool, 0. 



