Thirteenth Co7nHiunication from Dr. Thorntori. 71 



new In principle or in practice, I am at a loss to know upoa 

 what sort of discoxx-ry liis majesty's letters patent have been 

 Solicited. 



Z a.m, Sir, your's, &:c. 



To A. T'dloch, Esq. William Jokes. 



IX. Thirteenth Communkathn from Dr. Thornton, re^ 



lative to Pneumatic Medk'me. 



Feb. 21, 1-S04.. 

 To Mr. TiUoch. No. i, Hinde-street, 



SlRj Manchesttr-square. 



An no instance has the triumph of pneumatic medicine 

 been more conspicuous than in putrid fever; a disease which 

 dcstro\'S at all periods of life, and becomes a national cala- 

 jiiity when its direihl ravages spread from town to town, 

 (illing all ports with desolation and dismay, axid even some- 

 times extending from empire to empire. 



A Case of Typhf/s, or Putrid Fever. 

 Miss Corp, at sixteen*, the amiable niece-of alderman Price 

 {late lord niayor), daughter of Mr, Corp, an eminent practi- 

 tioner, of Barnet, who had se-en typhus fevers in both the 

 East and West Indies, and was upwards of thirty years esta- 

 blished in extensive practice in that part of thecountry where 

 he now resides, alter every means that human sagacity couM 

 devise, found svmptoms at length of approaching dissolution 

 arrive to his daiighter. In the same fever a neighbour, a Ibw 

 ■doors off, was jiow a corse, leaving beiiind hnis a wife and 

 six children, lliis daughter was a beloved child, and so 

 that when the father was requested to see to his patients and 

 Lusiness, Mr. Corp refused all abstraction from his at- 

 tentions, and with the most poignant sorrow, at aai advanced 

 stage of the disease, was publicly obliged to declare to the 

 numerous inquiries which were made, " that eveiy hope 

 was now vanished." The lady was convulsed throughout; 

 ^he tendons were in constant action ; the countenance was 

 eunk ; and the eyes fixed and ghastly. Mrs. Cojp, and the 

 persons in the hoiise, requested the father to leave the room, 



• The reader wiil recollect tiiis case was briefly published before in our 

 M<igazine, vol. iv, with a letter fr(«i Mr. Corp, of Barnc.t, confirming 

 lie contents; the youn^ lady, since tiwt period, bcin^ in the enjoynntnt of 

 j^i od health: but tlie valuable observations herein added, M'itli the cure 

 pirtonned in 1793 arc fresh articles, and open a glorious field for philo- 

 i.ophic (on'jjderaiioni. — LoiT. 



£ 4 and 



