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fifted is ftirred in and mized. Do the 
fame to the fine piece, and card it on the 
under ‘fide, and apply it to the coarfe, and 
prefs them together with a hot iron, fo as 
to make them unite, then finifh the hat in 
the ufual manner. 
Obfervation.—The above is one among 
a great number of examples of modern 
Lift of Difeafes. 
[Jan. ty 
improvements in manufactures, perform 
ed by uniting fine and coarfe pieces of the 
fame materials of which the former is to 
{trike the eye, and the latter to give the 
requifite bedy or fubftance. Whether this 
practice will be confidered as any real im- 
provement to our mianufactures, our fo- 
reign cuftomers will perhaps determine. 
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ACCOUNT or DISEASES 1n LONDON, from Nov. 20 to Dee. 20. 
Admitted under the Care of the Phyficians of the Finfoury Difpenfary. 

No. of Cafes. 
*NONTINUED Fever - 49 
“Small Pox - - . 5 
Hrylipelas; vet re tote - 2 
Cynanche Tonfillaru - - 3 
Pneumonia - - = = 4 
Hemoptyfis - - - = 2 
Phthifis Pulmonalis . - 9 
Cough and Dy{fpnea “ - 44 
Catarrh + - > - 8 
Dyfentery - - - . 3 
Diarrhea - = - = 4 
Chlorofis and Amenorrhea - 10 
Menorrhagia - - - 6 
iypochondriafis = = - = 2 
Dyipepfia he ie = - 3 
Gaftrodynia and Entercdynia = 8 
Hyfteria - - - - 4 
Epileply = = = - 3 
Vertigo - . - - 2 
Cephalea ~~ - - 5 
Hemiphlegia - - - 2 
Droply  - ° - - 9 
Afthenia = = ° = 25 
Difeafes of Infants - - i4 
Chronic Eruptions - ~ Coke 
From the above lift it will appear that 
fevers of the typhoid character continue 
fill to prevail, with fearcely diminifhed 
violence, among the lower claffes in this 
metropolis. 
' For a very long period there has never 
occurred afeafon that has been charac- 
terized by fuch a untverfality and malig~ 
nity of febrile contagion, . 
' Many of the probable caufes of this pe- 
ceuliar prevalence of contagion have been 
{tated in more than one of our reports} 
unfortunately a principal of thefe caufes, 
the want of food, is likely to grow ftill 
more fatal and extenfive in its eperation: 
whatthe circoumftancesarewhich may have’ 
induced this want, it is far out of the pro- 
vince of a Medical Writer to inquire; but 
st is within his province, and even it is his 
indifpenfable duty, to make known fa¢ts 
that are of the moft prefling importance, 
and that aimoft exclufively fall within the 
fphere of his profeffional obfervation. It 
isa fa&, and a moft miferable fact it is, 
that a large proportion of the difeafes with 
which the poor in London are afflicted, 
xrifes from a deficient quantity of natural 
and wholefome nourishment. To fuch 
feeble, hungry, and emaciated wretches, 
the adminifiration of drugs is farcical ; 
it may be evenregarded as cruel and infult- 
ing: to thofe who are afking for bread, 
it is giving a ftone. Not lorg fince, the 
author of this report was called toa fa- 
mily who, he was told, had been attacked 
by fever ; but after cxamining the fkin, the 
tongue, the puife, the countenance, and the 
late hiftory of his poor patients, he foon 
found that their pitiable condition was 
entirely to be attributed to their not hav- 
ing taken food for. three days: He be- 
helda child with hiseyes open, but as far as 
it could beafcertained from appearance, al- 
together infenfible. Not the fainteft veftige 
of fenfation, or power of motion;remained. . 
His lower limbs had been for fome time 
in a {tate cf contraction, bet it was re- 
markable that this contraction was remov- 
ed by expofing them for a few moments to 
the vivifying infiuence of the fire. His mo- 
ther lying befide him on the fame mifera- 
ble bed, although from a fimilar caufe 
herfelf unable to fpeak or move, every 
other moment caft a melancholy and anxi- 
ous glance on the ceuntenance of her fa- 
mithed and expiring child. The writer has 
heen particularly induced to enlarge more 
perhaps than is confifteht with the proper 
bounds, and the general intention of this 
article, with regard'to the prefent affli@- 
ing ftate of the difeafed poor, as a plan 
for their relief he underftands is at prefent 
in actual contemplation. | 
~The nature of houfes of recovery has 
been explained, and the urgency of their 
importance has heen already inforced in 
one of our medical reports. From that 
high fenfe of generofity, for which the in- 
habitants of this great capital are cele- 
brated} alimogt as much as for commercial 
induftry, it is beyond all doubt that they 
will be able and willing to carry inte 
{peedy and extenfive effect, an inftitution 
that will conduce more eflentially to the 
good of the lower claffes of the commu- 
nity, and will redound more to the real 
honour of the higher, than perhaps any 
medical eftablifhment that has as yet been 
formed, or which even in future ts likely 
to be conceived. 
It is not amiable, nor is it reafonable to 
believe, that mankind are fo infeniible as’ 
fometimes 
