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fult of pretty accurate obfervation, and 
fue eee in this diforder. I am 
aware, that, in the curative part, I have 
fzile ae to impart muchi eee os. The 
faét is, and I honeftly confefsit, I have 
fucceeded in HEnY few cafes, and thofe 
were chiefly where the Giede was 
flight. Taken at the beginning, much 
may-be done, but the pane ents are very 
apt to conceal it, probab sly from motives 
or delicacy, until ir acquires Jeena? 
which common remedies will no oppofe. 
ahe indications are likewife ma etimes 
fo complicated, that one does not know 
how to obviate one fymptom without en- 
creafing the violence of another. What 
can be done where there is an izflazzma- 
iovy tendency, accompanied by Jowze/i and 
aveainefs, a very common form cf the 
difeafe? I muft, therefore, clofe the fub- 
je&t for the prefent, with obferving, that 
an emineot ph: ay Sean cf my acquaintance, 
Dr. Abraham Newland, , has a very elegant 
form of pre eleriptio ns which I never knew 
any patient reiul fe to fake; but it is liable 
tothe fame .objeétions 1 have already 
mentioned; namely, that it will not pre- 
vent a reiapie. 
eed 
am, Sir, 
Your very hu 
Warwick Lane, May 9th. 
mble fervant, 
cc: 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
“FAAMISG ob! ferved in a Number of 
your much-approved Mi fee llany, a 
fort of inv itaticn to the difcuffion of fub- 
jects belonging to language, I am in- 
duced to Bice you fome brief remarks 
on a matter relative to Englith ftyle, 
which T cannot but think of fome impor- 
‘tance, ‘The firft principle of good tafte 
in writing, as in every thing etot ap- 
pears, tone, to be congruiiy, and I fear cely 
“know any adv antage to be gained by its 
violation which can compentate for fuch 
a defeét. But to mix the ftvles of dif- 
ferent periods or different fubjeéts in the 
fame fentence, is certainly fuch a viola- 
‘tion ; and there is an initance in which 
this “has been, and ftill is practifed bil 
many of our firft writers. ‘This is, where 
“in fome verbs the third perfon. aueulat is 
“Made to preferve its old termination #/, 
while in Bae and indeed in the gene- 
ral courfe of conftruétion, it has the mo- 
dern termination of s. There are two 
cafes, in Which J obferve this incongruity 
very “frequent. The firft is in fermons 
and otltr grave writings, where, I fup- 
pele, tor the purpofe of throwing a fane- 
Ox Congruity of Style.... Watering Places. 
“tice; 
My 
timonious air of antiquity over the com. 
pofition, it is ufual, almoft univerfally, to 
terminate the auxiliary verbs in this man. 
ner, vig. dote, bath, rather than aes, has, 
The other cafe is, where, for the fake of 
euphony, it is thought proper to avoid a 
concurrence of s’s, by fubftituting the zh; 
thus caprefeth, rather than expreffes ; pofe 
Jfegeth, rather than poffeffes, &c. Tn both 
thefe cafes, it is, I acknowledge,a fen. 
timent of taite which occafions the incon- 
gruity I complain of ; and fome of our 
moft elegant authors have fanétioned ir 
both by their precept and example. 
Again this, I have nothing to fet, but 
another rule of tafte ; and it pe be left 
to the reader to decide, which is of the 
greatett obligation. For my own part, f 
avow that this mixture of different gram- 
mars—this junétion of the antique and 
modern—is, to my perception, @ de- 
fortat y indnitely greater than any caco- 
phony can be; nor do £ believe it can be 
justified by a fimilar example in any other 
ern language. I am, Sir, your’s, &c. 
May 3- SIMPLICIUS. 
mec 
——— 
To the Ed:ior of ibe Monthly Mazazine. 
iu the. following Letter, written fome 
years ago, bya phyiician to a friend, is 
thought worthy of infertion in your Mif- 
cellany, you will oblige me by giving it 
room. Your’s, N.N. 
= 
‘©Y ou will be much concerned,my dear © 
»my 
friend, to hear that your amiable ac- 
quaintance, Mrs. , is irrecoverably 
gone in ’a confamption. We have had 
the painful tafk of watching the progrefs 
of this flow undermming diforder, fo flat- 
tering and frcnehodaen to the_ patient, 
though generally obvious enough to the 
intelligent obferver. 
tinualiy mortitied with the imefiicacy of 
the beft-direéted means of relief, and have 
feen every glimmering of hope fucceffiv e- 
ly vanifh, and only ferve to augment 
defpair. Country air, milk diet, medi- 
cines, have all been tried—but in vain. 
Ah, what avails the life-infpiring breeze, 
Elaftic, fragrant! what, the wholefome herb, 
Cull’d from the mountain! what, the milky 
ftream, © 
Balfamic, ftrain’d thro’ thoufand fmeft tubes, 
Nature’s beft lab’ratory ? In her fide, 
The fatal arrow flicks; its barbed point _ 
Tears deep, and all the curious texture mars. 
** There is one ftepin the routine of prac- 
which ufually commences about this 
ftage Of the perp that I certainly fhal} 
net 
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