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tion will be criminal, and the | editor 
muft anfwer in damages without being 
allowed to fay, he did not intend to 
abufe or feandalize the party. .A man 
who publifhes a faliehood of another, 
does by that means feandalize him, does 
him an injury, and muft make fatisfac- 
tion for it, becaufe ‘he has done it; and 
he cannot fhelter himfelf under any in- 
tent he had upon which he may infift he 
‘Is innocent. It is not fuficient for him 
to fay, I did this in the courfe of oe 
trade and bufinefs, and I had-no perfon- 
al knowledge of the party complaining : 
i employed my printers to print it, and 
other perfons I employed to diflperfe 
it, and all this had happened without 
any intention of mine. 
“The man, who'employs fuch peo- 
ple, employs them at his veril, and if 
they do not colleét what is true, and he 
publifhes it, he muft anfwer for every 
man who is feandalized by fuch a pub- 
lication. 
© The peace and good-ordeyr of fociety, 
Monthly Accaunt of Difeafes. 
and the general ftate of the 
intend the injury ; 
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law require 
that it fhould be fo underftood. He may 
fay he is innocent, but he has infliéted the 
wrong, and having -done that, he mut 
make fatisfagtion. ~That this is fo, with 
regard to all civil coniequences and civil 
purpofes, is the cleareft thing in the 
world. This will alfo go a good way 
into the criminal law : a man who has 
plainly and. dire&tly broken the law, is 
not to fhelter himfelf’ under the idea 
that bis mind was innocent, and did net 
he has done it, and 
muft Bees make atonement : a man 
might comimit murder, and think he was 
a ving God in the do oing Of ity and) ir 
his plea were to avail, he might fay, my 
intentions were pure sind upright.” 
OUTLAWRY. 
We are under the neceflity of poftpon- 
ing the differtation’on outlawry, as relat- 
ing to the important cafe of Mr. PERRY, 
til! the next month. 

ACCOUNT oF DISEAS 
ES In LONDON. 
From the 20th of March to the 20th a eT 
) CER se of mentioning in a curfory 
-™ manner the feries of difeates which 
‘prevailed during the laft month, I think 
it may be ufeful and fatisfaétory to exhi- 
bit a tabular view of all the the cafes pre- 
Aented to my own obfervation ; as by that 
means, the proportion of acute to chro- 
nic complaints, and of the former to each 
other, will at once appear. Such a lift 
being made on a tolerably extenfive feale, ~ 
_may, in fome degree, ferve asa {pecimen 
of general praétice. In order to obtain 
“a complete and accurate account of the 
prevailing difeafes, 1t would be necefary 
‘that the praétitioners who fuperintend the 
numerous medical infiitutions in this 
metropolis, fhould publifh, monthly or 
quarteriy, the refult of their experience, 
which would be particularly valuable, as 
their obfervations muft be made among 
the clafs of peuple molt expofed to the 
vicilfitudes of the feafons, and to other 
caufes of difeafe. 
In the fubfequent table, the diforders of 
Infants under two years of age are put 
down feparately. 
ACUTE DISEASES. 
No. of Cafes. 
Inflammatory fore throat - - - = - 
Aphthous fore'threat - - = <=. 3 
Catarrh s BE aN per aye esigen in baa Nat O 
Hemoptoc, or {pitting of blood = - = 4 
Pulmonary confumption =~ ne) ed 
Wa 
HAW VAUW HM HH AN OR HA HWE DM Bi 
Ophthalmia 2 = a I 
Acute rheumatifm - - - - 6 
Gout Ms 2 = - “ I 
Contagious fever - - - - Ir 
Synochus lentus, or flow fever - = 4 
Small pox a “ = Bs i $ 
Meatles a = — = - 3 
CHRONIC DISEASES. 
* Afthenia ui Son ve - - I 
_ Hyfteria - - - 
Chorea (St. Witus’s Dance) = = 
Epilepfy = - eae ar 
Hydrocephalus - ~- - - 
Cough, and chronic dyfpnea - - I 
Dyfpepfia, or pedieetign - = I 
Jaundice 2 ~ - 
Chlorofis - a ag - - 
+ Gattrodinia bilofa - - - 
f Enterodinia - . - - 1 
Obfiipatio - - - Rf a9 
Diarrhea + =.= - - ~ = 
Tape-worm ~ - - = = 
Abortion - a - - ~ 
Anafarca = - - - = 
Encyfted dropfy - - - = 
Fluor albus - - - = - 
Gravel and dyfury > - - 
Chronic rheumatif{m - - = I 
Sciatica - - - - = 
Rheumatic tooth-ach - - - 
Paraly fis - - - - - 
* Sauyages Nofology, ~ cl. o, Ord4iw eo: 2K. 
+ Do. . - cl; 74ord. 4: 20. 
Nabio! 4 - cl. - 7. ord, 4. 210 
‘Schrophula 
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