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selves in periods distinguished by the generality, fatality, or singula- 

 rity of their diseases. As the present time will be admitted by most 

 to belong to one of these descriptions, it becomes highly interesting 

 to ascertain how far the remark in question will be borne out ; and if 

 it be in anv degree confirmed, it is highly important that the facts 

 should be properly recorded whilst recent, rather than left to a fu- 

 ture day, when the fruits of a fertile imagination may be substituted 

 for those of a too barren memory. 



I have no doubt that thou wilt willingly permit thy Journal to be 

 the medium through which observations of the kind of which 1 am 

 speaking may be communicated to the public. But if any individual 

 should in preference be disposed to transmit to me any well-attested 

 facts, bearing on the subject, I shall be obliged and gratified by re- 

 ceiving them. 



I am thy respectful Friend, 



New Broad Street, Thomas Hodgkin, M.D. &c. 



2nd month 24th, 1832. 



LIST OF NEW PATENTS. 

 To S. Hobday, Birmingham, steel snuffer and toy manufacturer, 

 for a certain improvement in a machine to be worked by steam, that 

 may be applied for the moving of ships' boats and barges on the 

 water, and to carriages either on the road or tram -ways, and in a 

 fixed position may be applied to all the purposes that steam-engines 

 are now used for.— Dated the S^th of May 1831.— 6 months al- 

 lowed to enrol specification. 



To N. H. Manicler, 5, Union-road, Southwark, chemist, and 

 J. Collier, Canal Grove, New Peckham, civil engineer, for a new 

 manufacture of useful products from a certain oleaginous substance. 

 — 3 1 st of May. — 6 months. 



To S. Lambert, Regent-street, St. James's, Westmiiister, gold 

 laceman, for an improvement in throstle spindles for spinning and 

 twisting silk, cotton, wool, flax, and other fibrous substances — 

 2nd of June. — 4- months. 



To T. Spinney, Cheltenham, gas engineer, for certain improve- 

 ments in apparatus for manufacturing gas for illumination. — 1th of 

 June. — 2 months. 



To J. Pearse, Tavistock, ironmonger, for certain improvements 

 on wheeled carriages, and on apparatus to be used therewith.— 7th 

 of June. — 6 months. 



To E. N. Fourdrinicr, Hanley, parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, Staf- 

 fordshire, paper maker, for a certain machine for an improved mode 

 of cutting paper. — 20th of June.— 6 months. 



To J. L. Stevens, auctioneer, and P. Waycott, clock and watch 

 maker, both of Plymouth, for certain improvements in mangles. — 

 22nd of June. — 6 months. 



To W. G. Kneller, Hackney, esquire, for certain improvements 

 on stills, or apparatus for distilling.— 29th of June.— G months. 



To J. Perkins, Fleet-street, engineer, for improvements in gene- 

 rating steam. — 2nd of July.— -6 months. 



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