Lectures. — List of Patents for veiv Inventions. 239 



extraordinary power of imagination over diseases of the 

 bodv. Being troubled with an intermitting fever, brought 

 on durincr our excursion in Troas, I had been observed by 

 him to go frequently to a clock in the anti-chamber of 

 our apartment, watching for the hour when the paroxysm 

 began. This used to occur exactly at noon. One morning 

 he put back the clock a full hour. At twelve, therefore, I 

 had no fear of mv fever, for the index pointed to eleven ; 

 and at one, although the hour seemed to be present, the 

 paroxysm did not take place. Unforiunately, jileased by 

 the success of his experiment, he told me what had hap- 

 pened ; and after the usual interval the fever again re- 

 turned. Bv the same manner, all the charms used amontr 

 the lower order of people in this country operate in the 

 cure of agues. The Tomb of Protesilaus, as related by 

 Philostratus [in Heroicis. — See al.«o Chandler's Ilium, 

 p. 142], was anciently resorted to in healing a quartan fever." 

 — darkens Travels, part ii. sect. i. p. 173. 



LECTURES. 



Dr. Adams's Autumnal Course of Lectures on the In- 

 stitutes and Practice of Medicine will commence on Thurs- 

 day the Sth of October, at Ten o'clock precisely, at his 

 house No. 17, Hatton Garden, and be continued every 

 Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. 



Further particulars may be known by inquiring as above, 

 or of the different medical Booksellers, where a Prospectus 

 and Syllabus of the Lectures may be procured. 



LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To Roger Thompson, of North Shields, in the county 

 of Northumberland, shipwright, for a new mode of work- 

 ing two or more pumps for delivering water out of leaky 

 ships, stone quarries, or mines, of a moderate depth, em- 

 ploying in the operation only about half the usual manual 

 force, and delivering nearly double the quantity of water. — 

 5th August, 1812. 



To Thomas llubball, of Clerkenwell Close, in the 

 county of Middlesex, japanner, and William Robert Wale 

 King, of Union Court, llolborn Plill, in the city of Lon- 

 don, tin plate worker, for their new and improved method 

 of ornamenting articles, japanned, painted, or sized, whe- 

 ther made of paper, wood, or any metallic substance ; as 

 also leather, oil cloths for tables or floors, and wainscot 

 or plaster v/alls or partitious.— -Cth August. 



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