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Medical Report. 
[J an. 1, 
Miss Hallande and Miss M. Tree, bare 
drawn and gratified numerous and re¬ 
spectable audiences. The Two Pages 
is a gem of the first water, and, taken 
altogether, in acting', story, and effect, 
one of the most classical pieces wtiicli 
has appeared for many years. 
Drury Dane. Of this theatre, it is 
with pleasure we have to report, that not¬ 
withstanding the drawbacks of so many 
minor exhibitions, the meritorious exer¬ 
tions of its zealous and indefatigable ma¬ 
nager have placed it in a successful and 
flourishing state. The revival of the 
tragedies of De Montfort,Hamlet, Romeo 
and Juliet , Macbeth, and Jane Shore , sus¬ 
tained l>y the unrivalled talents of 
Mr. Kean, and the newly-introduced 
powers of Miss Edmiston, have proved 
most profitable attractions; while the 
comic pieces of Maid or Wife, and 
Monsieur Tonson , been played to ad¬ 
miring audiences. The last piece, in 
particular, is the best conceived and 
best performed broad farce on the 
stage, and no description can do justice 
to tlie admirable acting of Mr. Gattie 
in Monsieur Tonson. The Coronation 
has been concluded after a successful 
run of 102 nights ! 
To these attractions are now to he 
added Don Giovanni in Ireland, which 
contains a delightful assemblage of Irish 
melodies, and some correct and beauti¬ 
fully-executed scenery. Ask Spectacle, 
the procession and installation of the 
Knights of St. Patrick, and the con¬ 
cluding allegorical vision, might have 
entitled it to popular favour; but the 
author has exhibited neither plot, wit, 
or taste; and the partiality of all the 
/l n . . I' iD f 1 1 rtfl 
to save it. How wretched must be that 
composition, which could not be saved 
by the singing of Vestris, Fitzwiiliam, 
Povey, and Cubit, and by an expendi¬ 
ture of several thousands, in dresses 
and scenery ! 
MEDICAL 
til .port of Diseases and Casualtie 
of the Physician who has the care of the 
, REPORT. 
s occurring in public and private Practice 
Western District of the City Dispensary. 
p T has before been remarked in one of 
S_ these monthly communications that an 
e demic character is often perceived in 
respect to the prevalence even of affections 
which would be thought not under the in¬ 
fluence of atmospherical changes, or any 
external circumstances. During the few 
preceding' weeks there has been an unusual 
number of disorders, which implicate es¬ 
pecially the heart and circulation, with¬ 
out apparent reference to any irritating 
cause in the first passages,—and, at the 
same time, without the orgau just men¬ 
tioned being absolutely the seat of struc- 
tural derangement; the affection has 
seemed to be one of pure irritability. In 
some of these cases digitalis, in others 
hyoscyamus, has appeared best calculated 
to aiiay the induced disturbance. Small 
bleedings 1 .ve been required in some, in 
ali, rest and quiet have been enjoined as 
^fiGG^ssry 1 . - 
Mbeu.matis.ni still continues to prevail, 
but not in the. same measure as in some of 
the preceding mouths— -the pains, indeed, 
which are now ccmplaiuedpof, and which 
might, with ut discrimination, be regis¬ 
tered under the head of rheumatism, have 
recently proved rather periosteal, if they 
may be so maned, than absolutely rhea- 
saatic, and affect the membrane which lines 
the bones more than the fascia which in¬ 
vests the muscular fibre. In the writer’s 
-practice large doses of Peruvian bark have 
•been-more radically '-operative upcu tkess 
distressing irritationsthau any other single 
medicinal ; but to be effectual the quantity 
given must be large, and continued for a 
considerable length of time. Half-grain 
doses of the stramonium extract are not 
seldom useful iu allaying the urgent pain 
in cases where opium is objectionable. 
What would be called typhus fever 
has not latterly been a very common dis¬ 
ease, but inflammatory affections of the 
brain have occasionally assumed such a 
typhoid character as almost to justify the 
assumption of Dr. Clutterbuck respecting 
the identity of phrenitis and fever. In 
these cases elaterium, administered in an 
early stage of the complaint, immediately 
after bleeding, and in sonm instances, even 
to the exclusion of bleeding, proves a 
most valuable medicine, since it not merely 
acts as a purgative, but by pervading the 
whole system with its influence, induces 
that state by which the febriie irritation is 
suspended,and often entirely subdued. The 
writer has before remarked, and he may here 
repeat the statement as one of great prac¬ 
tical value—that small doses of the drug 
now referred to will often arrest the course 
of those irritable movements which end, if 
not interrupted, in water on the brain. 
Many cases of porriginous affectious 
have lately fallen under the writer's notice. 
Unguents are still perhaps tco copiously and 
'indiscriminately had recourse to in these 
'affections cf the elfin; cleanliness is one 
pfthe great points necessary in 
the 
