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every system, between which and his own Lord Stanhope has 

 drawn or. may draw a comparison, referring also to the num- 

 ber o{' beats made per l" by each tempered conchord, through- 

 out the whole scale, we shall ultimately be able to bring his 

 Lordship's loud pretensions to pre-eminence overevery other 

 system, to a more scientific and competent test, than the 

 opinion of Go or 70 anonymous persons, who heard an instru- 

 nient played upon, whicli, Lord Stanhope says, (vol. xxv. 

 p. 306) was tuned according to his systeu). See Monthly 

 Magazine, vol. xxii. p. 114. 



I am, sir, yours, c-:c. 



John Fauet, 



12, Upper Crown-Street, Westminster, 

 January IJ, ISOS. 



LL Report of Surgical Cases in the City and Flnslniry DiS' 

 pensariesfor Jugust 1807. By John Taunton, £5^. 



In the month of August there were adnj'itted on the books 



of the Citv and Finsbury Dispensaries 188 surgical patients. 



Cured or relieved - - 171 



Died - - - - 1 



Under care - - - 16 



188 



Mrs. A. C. set. 53, of a thin spare habit of body and of 

 a very delicate constitution, has been afflicted with hernia 

 in the left thigh upwards of 20 years : it first appeared sub- 

 sequent to a dilTicidt labour, and was much aggravated by a 

 second labour al>oiit two venrs afterwards : she suffered much 

 from carrying heavy burthens, and was frequently confined 

 to the house for some days. For about the first eight years 

 it coidd be easily returned by placing the body in a hori- 

 zontal pos'tion ; but from that time it has been irrriducibic, 

 and occasionally attended with great pain, sickness, vomit- 

 ing, and constipation of the bowels; for which, however, 

 she had not any surgical assistance till the present attack, 



which 



