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ACCOUNT or DISEASES in LONDON, 
From the 20th of “fanuary to the 20th of February. 
“ACUTE DISEASES. No. of Cafes. 
VATARRH - - 20 
Peripneumony - Sa ces 
Pleurify - ws - i 
Biome Te we - - 3 
Peritoneal Inflammation - 2 
Acute :heumatifm ° = 8 
Malignant fever - - 5 
Scarlatina Anginofa - = 3 
Meatles Viretcc sae - 2 
Small- pox ary. - - 3 
Eryfipelas me ae - 2 
Aphthous fore-throat - - 4 
Hooping-cough - = 3 
Slow Fever = = = 2 
Child-bed and Milk-fevers - 6 
Acute difeafes of infants a 
CHRONIC DISEASES. 
Cough and Dyfpneea - = 3 
-Pulmonary confumption - 
Chronic rheumati{m - 
Spitting of blood - - 
Hemoirhagy from the nofe - 
Cephalea - = - 
Apoplexy 
Hydrocephalus - - 
Epilepfy sa i 
Afthenia = - = 
Hyfteria - - 2 
Paralyfis = = - 
Syncope - “ es - 
Hy pochondriafis - - 
Dropfy wes a g 
Scrophula ~ 
Chlorofis aand Amenorhea = 
Abortion = - - ae 
Pain of the fide = oat 
Dyfpepfhia - - ~ mond 
Gaftrodynia - - 
Enterodynia - - 
Diarrhea - ~ = 
Obftipatio - = - 
Bilious vomiting = “ 
Hemorrhoids = “ 
Fluor albus ° - 
Schirrus Uteri a & = 
Tabes mefenterica > ee 
Worms = Sh} 
Jaundice = - ~ 
Gravel - 4 = 
Varices . - = 
Scaly tettar - - - 
Prurigo > 2 Si 
Nettle rafh = = 
Purpura 
Herpes miliaris = * 
Scabies - = e 
- Impetigo - - = 
Porrigo - - 2 ‘ 
In the prefent month, the weather has been 
confiderably milder than during the preceding 
ene. The feries of difeafes in each, will, not- 
withitanding, be found very nearly to corref- 
ond. It is likewife obfervable, that when- 
Yer cutarchal, paeumeni¢, and other inflame 
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matory difeafes prevail extenfively, the pre. 
portion of contagious complaints is much dis 
miniihed. 
“One of the cafes of peritoneal infamma- 
tion, which had been negle&ed for ten days, 
terminated fatally ; on examination of the parts 
affefted after death, a large quantity of pus 
was found effufed into the abdominal cavity ; 
the bowels were glued together by a thick, 
inflammatory exudation, and many portions of 
them appeared black and contracted, but no 
gangrene had taken place; the colon was 
fuperficially ulcerated in feveral places. 
Inflammation of the peritoneum and omen- 
tum frequently occurs here, both in adults, 
children, and infants, and becomes fatal through 
improper treatment. Being attended with bi- 
lious vomiting, great d preflion of ftrength, 
and a 4#mall weak pulfe, it 1s often miftaken 
for a colic, or ent-rodynia, arifing from flatu- 
lenc*, and a too irritable ftate of the alimentary 
canal. Whence opiates, warm purgatives, 
aromatics, and fpirituous cordials are ufually 
given. The confequences of this praCtice are 
always fatal. Not only the puriform effufion 
and exudation take place, but alio extenfive 
ulceration ; fometimes the whole omentum is 
converted into a purulent mals, or wholly 
deftroyed: in other cafes, there are man 
circular gangrenous patches, on the furface of 
the inteftines. The complaint at an early pe- 
riod is eafily relieved by the application of a 
number of leeches round the umbilicus ; by 
pediluvium, fomentations, and -gentle purgas 
tives. Cupping glaffes cannot be applied on 
account of the tenfion, and forenels of the 
abdomen. It may not be amifs to obferve, 
that bleeding from the arm is much lefs ef-s 
fectual in relieving the pain and inflammation, 
than the repeated ufe of lecches. 
The deaths {tated in the bills of mortality 
for the Jaft four weeks are as follows: 
Small pox =. - ~ 67 
Meatles ” - - ra 14 
Scarlet fever ae a 1 
Eryfipelas - ~ - t 
Hooping cough - = 42 
Fevers - - = 132 
Difeafes of infants = = 44 
Puerperal cates - - ig 
Apoplexy and palfy - ss 25 
Hydrocephalus ~ = = 2 
Pulmonary complaints - 510. 
Rheumatif{m or gout - = II 
Dropfy - = - 51 
Cancer = - - 2 
Inflammation and Ulcers - - 32 
Rupture - - 
The number of deaths referred to aia 
confumption feems enormous. I {hail endea- 
vour at fome future period to afcertain, by 
a correct mode of invefligation, whether this 
article im the bills of mortality be confiftent’ 
With truth, — 
SLATE 

