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ACCOUNT o? DISEASES 1s LONDON, from Sept. 20. to Of. 20. 
Admitted under the Care of ihe Phyficians of the Finfoury Difpenfary. 

No. of Cafes. 
ON TINUED Fever - Go 
Ouotidian - oo - I 
Pneumonia - - - : Y/ 
Small Pox - Re | 
Rheumatifm > > - 15 
Cholera - - = 6 
Diarrhea - = 13 
Dyfentery : - ° 29 
Menorrhagia - ° - 5 
Amenorrhea and Chiorofis - ro 
Soirrhufuteri - ce - - a 
Hezmorrhois - - i 
Eryfipelas > - - 1 
Ophtalmia . - t 
Cephalza . - 3 
Dropfy - eh - 9 
Difpepfia, Gaftrodynia, and Enteredynia 14 
A tthenia - - - 16 
Catarrh - ~ - 5 
Pleurodyne - = 6 
Cough and Dyfpnosa - - > oe 
Jaundice - - - 2 
Nephralygia - - - I 
Phthifis Pulmonalis = - 6 
Hy pochoniariafis » > 2 
Scrophula - - 2 
Prolapfus Ani . > I 
He@tica Senilis ~ - ° I 
Chronic Eruptions - > II 
Acute Difeafes of Infants - 12 
The cholera has now nearly difappeared, 
and the diarrhoea and dyfentery have been 
lefs frequent than in the preceding month ; 
but the latter difeafe is become more fevere, 
and has afflumed a more decided charatter. 
The fymptomatic fever, however, by which 
it is generally accompanied has been very 
flight, and in fome inflances fearcely per- 
ceptible. In thofe perfons whofe vilcera 
have been injured bya courfe of hard drink- 
ing or by previous attacks of fimilar com- 
plaints in a hot climate, the dyfentery 
proves fingularly obitinate, and, if it does 
not terminate in death, ‘eaves them in an 
extreme itate of debility and emaciation, 
with a moft exquifite tendernefs and irrita- 
bility of of the alimentary canal; and it is 
only by a ftri&t attention to diet and regi- 
men that they gradually recover a tolera- 
ble fhare of health and trength, which re- 
quire ever afterwards the greate% care for 
their prefervation. Notwithftanding the 
prohibition of opium in thisdifeafe by feve- 
ral re{pectable authors, its daily adminiftra- 
tion, after the operation of a purgative, fo 
far ftom producing any bad confequences, 
feemed to promote the cure, and invariably 
afforded great eafe dnd comfort to the pa- 
tient, Tt is beiter thatit thould be com 
bined with ipecacuhanna, but this perhaps 
is of little importance. 
The cafes of pneumonia were none of 
them formidable. General blood-letting 
was not once required, The application 
of leeches to the thorax, and the repeated 
ufe of blifters, with antimonials, calomel, 
and opiates, proved fully adequate to the 
cure. 
The rheumatifm was molly of the 
chronic kind. In feveral afflicted with it, 
a pill containing one grain of cpium and 
one of calomel, taken daily for about ten 
days, was of the moit eminent fervice, af- 
ter fudorifics, bark, and guaiacum had 
been adminiftered for a long time withoat 
any benefit whatever, 
It is feldom that an intermittent fever 
appears in our lift. This difeafe, which 
in the time of Sydenham was one of the 
principal epidemics of London, is novw 
rarely to be met with. When it occurs, 
it is commonly in labourers who have 
Jately returned from the fenny counties, 
where they had been engaged in the bufi- 
nefs of the harveft. 
The cafe of pytalifm, inferted in the ca- 
talogue of the laft month, being atcended 
with circumffances rather unafual, is per- 
haps worthy of notice. A. man about 
fifty years of age, of a {trong and pletho- 
ric conftitution, has for thefe fix years pat 
been affeéted with a preter-natural dif. 
charge of faliva, to the amount of a pint 
in the twenty-four hours, and of a very 
vifcid confiftence. It takes place chiefly 
in the morning after rifing from bed, 
when he finds a fecfe of fulnefs and unea- 
finefs about his head, which is immediate. 
ly relieved by the fpitting, His health is 
tolerably good, and the other fecretions 
are natural. There appears to have been 
no obvious caule of his complaint, bur he 
mentions that. he had a very fevere fever 
about fx months before he perceived it. 
He is in the habit of fmoaking tobacco, 
but he has found that the omifhion of the 
praétice for a confide:abie time occaions 
no alteration in the difcharge. Whar is 
remarkabie, he is enabled, by 2 voluntary 
effort perfilted in for a few days, toredace 
the fecretion to its) natural quantity. 
At the fame time, however, he becomes 
affe€ted with head-ach and giddincls; hs 
appetite fails him ; and the ftomach ard 
abdomen are painful and much diftended. 
Thefe fymptoms arethen relieved bya pro- 
fufe difcharge of blood: from the hemos 
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