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ACCOUNT or DISEASES tw LONDON, 
_« From the 20th of March to the 20th of Aprle 
ACUTE DISEASES. 
No. of Cafes. 
ATARRH > - 16 
-Pesipneumony = - 2 
Wxemoptoe - = 6 
Epiftaxis - Meta 2 
Angina - = 4 
Ota'gia - = 2 I 
Ophthalmia - > 2 
Petitoneal Inflammation = 3 
Enteritis S =, I 
Phlegmone Teftis = = I 
_ Acute Rheumatifm = = 4 
Gout is - = Sein 3 
Scarlatina Anginola - 2 4 
Meafles 4 & = Z & 2 
Small Pox - - - 3 
Hooping Cough = = 3 
Malignant Fever - = 2 
Slow Fever - = = 2 
Puerperal Fever - - - 2 
Acute Difeafes of Infants = - 9 
CHRONIC DISEASES. 
Cough and Dyfpnea ~ 
Phthifis Pulmonalis = 
Chronic Rhevmatifm = - 
Sciatica : pe - 
Nephralgia = = 
Pleurodyne ~ ie 
Atthenia * = « 
Hyfteria = e ‘s 
Epilepfy . eS s 
Para'yiis © A aah 
Cephalza ES . o 
Apoplexy = - 
Dy{pepfia = = a 
Gattrodynia = “ 
Enterodynia 2 ~ 
Diarrhea ~ = xs 
Obftipatio 
Colica Piétonum = - 
Hemorrhoids © = = = 
Hernia = = ‘s 
Wornis ~ Te ee 
Dytury be = 2 
Menorrhagia = - = 
Chlorofis and Amenorrhea - 
Fluor Albus - - 
Schirrus Ovarium - - - - 
Schirrhaus Liver = 2 
Anafarca _ - = ie 
Hydrothorax - = 
Rickets - = 
Scrophula - - = 
Porrigo - - = - 
Itch - = - Healt 
Ecthyma, = = ~ 
Puerpura < - 
PERIODICAL DISEASES. 
Tertian ‘3 = he 
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The number of catarrhal | complaints 
has been confiderably diminifhed svithin 
the prefent month: inflammatory difeales, 
however, appear, onthe whole, to have 
been moft predominant. One of the 
cafes of peripneumony terminated fa- 
tally ; the patient, a female, having been 
bled largely, and repeatedly. The 
meafles and the hooping-cough are not 
very frequent at the weit end of the 
town; but, as I underftand, prevail 
much in the city, more efpecially the 
latter difeafe: forty-four children have 
died of it, between the 2:ft of March, 
and the r8th of April, according to the 
report in the bills of mortality. 
One of the three cafes of icarlatina 
anginofa proved fatal: the patient was 
adelicate boy, about four years of age, 
who ftruggled with the complaint till the 
igth day, and then expired fuddenly. In 
the cafe of this difeate given laft month, 
a confiderable quantity of matter formed 
in the (Welling of the under eyelid, 
which was difcharged by an cpening 
made on the 24th day from the begin- 
ning of the fever: the abfcefs healed in 
a fhort time; and the child has fince 
been gradually regaining her health and 
ftrength. 
After the abatement of the epidemic 
catarrh, a violent difeafe fell upon cats, 
by which many hundreds of thofe do- 
meftic animals perifhed. The particular 
fymptoms of their me I had not a 
fufficient opportunity of afcertaining z 
but from diffections, it appears, that the 
bowels had been drawn together bya 
violent cramp, or fpafmodic conftriétion, 
involying likewife the oventum, and 
preventing any pafflage. In fome, the 
inteftines were partially red, or blackith : 
but in'the greater number of inftances, 
the contraction and extraordinary twift- 
ing of the bowels had taken place 
without any marks of inflammation. 
Between the 21ft of March, and the 
18th cf April, the bills of mortality re- 
port 1500 deaths; 29 by the {mall-pox ; 
526 of infants and children under five 
years of ages s5o2 from afthma and con- 
ftinption. I formerly noticed the large 
proportion of deaths ftated ip the bills 
of mortality, as arifing from pulmonary 
complaints ; and propofed to apply fome 
teft, in order to afcertain the correStneis 
of this article. The only one I have to 
offer is the refult of my own experi- 
Rrz ence, 
