4796.) 
( 1657 .) 
ACCOUNT or DISEASES in LONDON, 
From the 20th of dugufi to the 20th of September. 
ACUTE DISEASES. 
No. af Cafes. 
OMe LE Fox te = oe 
Meafles iS 3 ni 
Scarlatina Anginofa foe S 1 
Eryfipelas uF i a 
Aphthous Sore-throat = = 
Ulcerated Sore-throat o co 
Hooping-cough ~ a 
Dyfentery = a a 
Cholera < a 
Summer-fever eS és 
Puerperal Fever = s as 
Malignant, or Putrid Fever - 
Acute Rheumatifm wb a = 
Gout A ~ ps 
Catarrh = = rs 
Peripneumony = = 
Peritoneal Inflammation ~ - 
@cgte Difeafes of Infants = - io 
CHRONIC DISEASES, — 
_ Aftthenia -~ = - 
Syncope ” - - 
Hyfteria - ~ = 
Epilepfy - - a 
St. Vitus’s Dance < s 
Paralyfis - = - 
Anatarca = a 
Chronic Rheumatifmn = fe 
Lumbhago. - _- a 
Sciatica - eS 23 
Cephalea _ - - ie 
Cough and Confumptior ° 2 
Dyfpepfia - a 
Gaftrvodynia - ~ “a 
Enterodynia - “ 
Diarrhea = 2 z 
Jaundice “= es ws 
Worms our e- = He 
Menorshagia - = = 
Leucorrhoea 2 a mA 
Abortion ( a = a 
Chlorofis and Amenorrhea | ~ m 
Schirrus uteri a safe 
Mammary Abfcefs = 
Uleer of the Kidney pale eis 
Stone and Gravel « és 
- Prolapfus Uteri co = 
Scrophula and Rickets te > = 
Tabes mefenterica - = 
_Lepra Grzcorum As aN 
’ Tooth Rafh us i 
Scalled Head - - 
Crufta Lactea = < 
Impetigo __ = - is 
Sycofis * - ° = - 
Itch and Prurigo . & a 
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The fearlet fever, which is now exten- 
fively difufed, has, fince the beginning 
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* See €clfus De Medicin, Leib, 6, cap. 3. 

cf September, affumed its more malig~. 
nant and dangerous form; being at» 
tended with deep ulcerations of the 
throat, with a colleétion of tough phlegm 
in the fauces, and an atrimonious dif- 
charge from the nottrils, a weak and 
quick pulfe, with interchanges of tor- 
por, and yiolent agitation. In this 
form, the difeafe ufually proves fatal te 
infants on the 7th or 8thday. 
But few cafes of the meafles occur at. 
prefent ; and the fmall-pox feems con- 
fiderably declining. The fatality of the 
latter diforder has been, during the laft 
half-year, uncommonly great. It ap- 
pears from the London bills mortality, 
that 1050 perfons died of the fmall-pox, im 
17953 Whereas, between the 1ft of Janu- 
ary, and 25th of Auguft, in the prefent 
year, the number of deaths has amounted 
to 2196. During the fummer months, 
the deaths are ftated in the bills as‘fol- 
lows: In May, 331; in June, 3403 in 
July, 412; in Augutt, 360. 
Cafes of cholera have been few and 
flight during the prefent feafon, owing, 
perhaps, to the uniformly warm weather 
which prevailed at the latter. end of 
Auguft, and the beginning of September. 
The dyfentery has alfobeen very flight < 
this difeafe has not been epidemical in 
London, fince the autumn of the year 
17380. ‘ 
The fynochus, or fummer-fever, 
which was formerly defcribed, begins to 
change its form during the month of 
September; and aflumes, in the fecond 
week of its courfe, the charaéteriftics of 
the malignant, or putrid fever, ofter 
proving fatal about the 18th, or 19th 
day, if timely care be not taken te 
check its progrefs. 
In September, alfo, fevers ufually ap- 
pear, which from their commence- 
ment, exhibit fymptoms of malignancy ; 
being attended with a brown, dry 
tongue, viclent pain of the head, 
delirium, or coma, deep-feated pains of 
the limbs, petechial fpots, and hemor- 
rhagy. Thefe fevers become -highly 
contagious, efpecially when they occur 
in clofe confincd fituations, and in houfes 
where little attention is paid to ventila- 
tion, or cleanlinefs. The difeafe is ex. 
tended by infection during the months 
of October and November, but its progre(s 
is generally flopped by the frofts of De- 
cember. ie . 
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