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blithed at Copenhagen, whofe chief employ_ 
ment it will be to calculate, ina nautical 
almanack, the moon’s diftances from the 
planets, and thereby to increafe and ren- 
der lefs difficult the methods for finding 
the longitude at fea. The plan was fug- 
gefted in a letter from the celebrated aftro- 
nomer of Gotha, M. voz Zach, to the 
Chevalier von Lowenhora, who was the 
firft navigator who not only properly un- 
derfteod and acknowledged the utility of 
_ the moon’s diftances from the planets, but 
actually employed them, for finding the 
longitude during his voyage to the Weft- 
Indies in the-year 1783... And the advan- 
tages that would be derived from fuch an 
eftablifhment were reprefented by the Che- 
valier von Lowenhorn with- fo much zeal 
and ability to the Prince Royal of Den- 
mark, and to the Duke of Auguftenburg, 
that the foliowing Royal Order was iffuec: 
—‘* It having been reprefented to us, 
that great advantages would arife for the 
promotion of navigation from tne calcu- 
hating of Nautical Ephemerides, which 
Should contain the moon’s diftances from 
the planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and 
Saar awe 
ACCOUNT of DISEASES In 
Lift of D feafes. 5 

LONDON, fro 
{ Dee.-#, 
Saturn, we have refolved, and it is our 
will and order, and do hereby _ order— 
1. That at our aftrenomical obfervatory 
of the Univerfity of Copenhagen a Boaid 
of Longitude be appoimted, to which prin- 
cipally the calculation of the faid Ephe- 
merides fhall be committed. This com- 
miffion fhall -be under the diretion of the 
profefior in ordinary of afironcmy; and 
the other perfens joined with him mut 
likewile afiift him ‘in all other aftrononsi- 
‘cal labours. —2. This commiffion to con- 
fift of profeflcr Buggé, of an extraordinary 
profeflor of aftronomy and two adjunSts, 
of whom only one will receive cur royal 
patent. “The director of the commifficn 
receives the cther as his pupil on terms 
which are left to his own difcretion. The 
director of the commifficn mutt annually 
deliver a clean and diftin€tly written copy 
of the Ephemerites: calculated. by them, 
together with the moon’s diflances fiom 
the planets, to the direétor of the depot 
of fea-charts,* who is to fuperintend the 
printing and publifhing of them.” 

* The Chevalier von Lowenhorn: 
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6 
m OG. 20. to Nov. 20. 

Admitted under the Care of the Phyficians of the Fiajbury Difpenfary. 

No. of Cafes. 
ONTINUED Fever = 58 
Intermittent Fever - - 
Pneumonia = -! - 
Hemoptyfis = = 
Phthifis Pulmonalis = ae 
Catarrh . - - 
Cough and Dyfpnea = pee 
Rheumatifm - = Whos 
Cynauche Parotidia - - 
Eryfepelas - > 
Peritonitis - = 
Wephritis ~ - 
Diarrhea ~- _ - 
Dyfentery ~ = - S 
Hypochondriafis = - - 
Dyipepfia im - - 
Gaftrodynia and Enterodynia - 
Menorrhagia . - = 
Chlorofis and Amenorrhea a - 
Hivfteria 2 
Epilepfy - - 
Droply 2 = = 
Afthenia = = = T 
Pally - - = - - 
Cephaleza - a - 
Gout pe M4 E & 
Ancurifmus Aorte es - 
Hemorr ois - - ~ 
Colica PiGonum - - 
Scorbutus = = “ 
Chronic cutaneous Difeafes - 
Dileaies of Infants ~ - z 
b Bb 
m CO COON COOH 
NOH HW PD eH DYN W HO YP Qu bWw HY H Hw 
The autumnal epidemics have retired 
with the feafon ; and the winter has been 
ufhered in by its ufwa! train of attendant 
difeafes, Thofe of the lungs, comprifed 
under the terms Pneumonia, Catarrh, 
Phthifis, Cough and Dyfpnza, Hemop- 
tyfis, &c. have become univerfal fince our 
lait report, and from their importance, and 
the aggravated ftate of their fymptoms, 
now occupy a principal fhare of medical 
attention. Thefe complaints, from the 
peculiar charaéter of the climate, are re- 
markably common in this ifland, and frem 
the circumftances of a large and populous 
city, prevail among the inhabitants of 
London ina much greater proportion than 
among thofe of the country. The refpi- 
ration of more than a million of inhabi- 
tants, and of the horfes and ether animals 
fubfervient to their ufe, within fo cop- 
fined a {pace, conftantly exhaufts a confi- 
derable portion of the vital or oxygenous 
part of the atmofphere, and imparts to it, 
at the fame time, an almoft equal quantity 
of a gafeous fluid, pofitively deleterious ‘to 
animal life. The continual burning of 
fuel on a prodigious fcale, not only ‘con- 
tributes to the fame effe&t, but furnifhes 
an immenfe ma{s of fmeke and focty par- 
ticles; enveloping the city and its environs 
to 
