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opium and one of ipecacuanha may at the 
fame time be taken each evening on going 
to bed. The diet fhould confitt of nou- 
rifhing emollient liquids, as weak broth, 
rice gruel, &c. In the cafes more purely 
dyfenteric and attended with much pain 
and tenfion of the abdomen, a folution of 
neutral falts every morning has a more 
powerful effet than the rhubarb in remov- 
ing the fcybala retained in the inteftines. 
There were fome inftances of very fevere 
head-ach, and much general diforder occa- 
fioned by the diarrhoea having been _pre- 
maturely checked by opiates and afirin- 
gents. In all cafes indeed of this com- 
plaint, but efpecialiy when it prevails epi- 
demically, the means of ftopping it fhould 
be ufed with great caution. 

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New Patents enrolled. | 
[O&ober ry 
The continued fever, ortyphus, although 
confiderably increafed in frequency ducing 
the prefent month, has become more mild 
in its fymptoms ; the furious delirium, in 
particular, with which it was attended dur- 
ing the heat of the fummer, and which’save 
it at that time the name of the brain fewer, 
having now ina good meafure fubfided. 
A relaxed ftate of the bowels at prefent 
moft generally attends it, and within due 
bounds appears to be falutary. Thus 
the obfervations of the immortal Sydenham 
in regard to the mfluénce of the reigning 
epidemic on the other contemporary dif- 
eafes, and the importance of keeping in 
view this fact in their medical treatments, 
received in every fucceeding feafon, additi- 
onal confirmation. Ww. Ww. 
J.R 

THE NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 

MR.BRUNEL for a WRITING aizd DRAW- 
; ING MACHINE, 
PATENT bas been ‘granted to 
Mr. Marc IsamBarpv BRuneELy 
ot Canterbury-place, in St. Mary’s parith, 
Lambeth, for an invention of a writing 
and drawing-machine, by which two or 
more writings or drawings, refembling 
each other, may be made by the fame 
perfon at the fame time. ; 
It is impoflible to defcribe, in mere 
words, the principle of this very compli- 
cated and very ingenious machine: fuffice it 
to fay, that it confifts of a flac furface or 
defk, upon which the paper is laid for the 
feveral writings, the principal machinery 
of which is raifed upon two upright 
pillars, and hang acrofs the lower trame, 
and from which fufpends over the paper 
an oblong frame, into which are fixed the 
pens, one of which is guided by the hand 
of the perfon ufing it, and the other fixed 
to the tame frame, obeys and imitates all 
the moticn of the firft. ‘The machinery, 
by which a confentaneous motion is given 
to every part of the lower frame, fome- 
what refembles the pentagraph in principle, 
but 1s much more complicated, as it has 
a greater variety. of objects to fulfil. 
The whole machine is made to fold up 
in the compais of a writing-defk, and with 
a little additional apparatus, four copies 
of the fame writing or drawing may be 
taken at the fame.time, inftead of two. 
In merchants’ counting-houfes, and on 
many other occafions, this machine may 
prove highly ufeful. 
+4 
MR. HORNBLOWER for a@ METHOD of 
MAKING PATTENS. . 
A PaTenrT has been granted to Mr. 
JeTHRO HorNBLOWER, of the parifh of 
Kenwyne, in Cornwall, for a method of, 
making pattens, by altering the compofi- 
ticn and clumfinefs of their make, and 
preventing their frequent breaking and un- 
eafinefs to the feet. 
In this contrivance, inftead of the com- 
mon wooden patten to which the rings are 
rivetted, iron or any other metalhe fub- 
ftance is fubftituted. This is made of 
thin iron-plates, and to prevent them 
bending, a piece of iron is applied under 
the bend of the patten, rivetted at each 
end. The ties are likewile fixed to the 
iron by rivetting. ‘To prevent the foot 
from flipping out of the patten, an elaftic 
firing made of brafs-wire, and covered 
with cloth, comes round the heel, and 
makes the whole fit tighter to the wearer 
ELI 
MR. HARRIS for MANUFACTURING 
PINS. 
A Patent has been granted to Mr, 
TimoTuHy Harris, of Waltham Abbey, 
Effex, pin-maker, for a method of ma- 
nufa€turing pins with iron and other ma- 
terials, and making them white. 
The moft important improvemests in 
this patent is the cafting heads upon pins, 
by applying the fhafts to melted metal of 
a proper compofition. The fhafts are 
fixed in a very ingenious machine, and 
the metal ufed is lead, with about a tenth 
of regulus of antimony, The ule i the 
atter 
