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_ For fome weeks paft, there has beena 
large number of cutaneous difeafes; the . 
different {pecies of herpes have prevailed, 
and, in fome inftances, puftulary eruptions 
have been very obftinate. “The ftrenuous 
manner in which the ufe of the nitrous 
acid had been recommended, induced us 
to try it ia feme of thefe cafes; and we 
have a pleafure in reporting that, in feve- 
ral inftances, it produced a {peedy removal 
of fymptoms. ‘That a conclufion refpeét- 
ing the powers of this medicine might 
not be rendered dubious by the ufe of ex- 
ternal remedies, of a different kind, a 
Jotien, compofed of this acid and water, 
was ufed in thofe cafes in which any exter- 
nal remedy was thought to be neceffary. 
‘In two cafes of tinea thefe means fuc- 
eceded. The ufe of this medicine was 
Hot, in many inftances, attended with any 
inconvenience : and im thofe cafes where 
any paim in the ftomach or bowels was 
complained of, a larger dilution of the 
acid, or the addition of a {mall quantity of 
any tincture, or fpirit, prevented any far- 
ther effect of this kind. x 
The cafe of Trifmus terminated fatally. 
¥t was preceded by a flight wound in one 
of the fingers, from which very Irtie in- 
convenience arofe until feveral days aiter 
the accident, when the jaw became fud- 
denly fixed ; fome fi'ght convulfons were 
felt im different parts of the body, the 
puile became exceedingly quick and feeble, 
and in a 
The cotica “piétonum was 
anafarcous fweilings of the lower estremi- 
ties, accompanied with fuch a difficulty of 
breathing, as indicated fome effafion mte 
the cavity of the thorax. ‘Phefe fymptoms 
may be attributed to a fiace of conftitution 
“induced by repeated atcacks. of the former 
difeafe, to which the patient, who was a 
painter: by trade, had for fevecal years 
been fubject, or, perhaps, with as much 
probability, to. an intemperate ufe of {pi- 
rituous liquors in which he had indulged 
himfelf, and which might co-ogerate with 
the other.caufe in producing the effect 
Fhe mifchief arifing from this fpecies of 
tatemperance kas been admirably well de- 
feribed bythe writer of the account of dif- 
eaies prevalent in the month of Novem- 
der. 
In one of the cafes of hydrothorax,; on 
the death of the patient, an oppoxtunity of- 
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Difeafes in London. 
[Jas 
fered of inpeéting the body *; upon ele- 
vating the fternum, and infpe@ling the ca- 
vity of the thorax, we difcoyered a large 
quantity of a brown. or réddith coloured 
fiuid. There was likewile a preternatu- 
ral quantity of 2 fimilar fluid in the peri- 
cardium. The left lobe of the lungs was 
much compreffed, fo as to appear much 
diminifhed in its fize; and there were 
confiderable adhefions of that portien of 
the pleura which covered the lungs, to 
that which lined che cavity of the thorax. 
The deaths in the Biils of Mortality 
he the laft four weeks, are ftated as fol- 
OWS : 
Abfcefs ; a a 4 
Abortive = ine 2 
Age = = T20 
Ague fa = =- = o 
Apoplexy - - - es: 
Afthma - 4) P 41 
_ Bleeding ae ae as ataae 
rain Fever = aa ry 
Cancer ~ = a Lg 7 
Child-bed 5 s 18 
Confumptior = E = 320 
Convulfions = Saha 300 
Dropfy # = ns bx 
Fever = iE wig ty FOS 
French Pox : = Ns 5 
Gout “ ¢ to 
Hooping Cough. - are 14 
Jaundice - = Era = 
5nflammation - : 23 
Lunatic - cree 3 
RMieafics - — z 16 
Mortification z ee 7 
Palfy 2 = E g 
Pleurify = F: t 
Scurvy = it: $ 
Smali-Pox - - G 38 
Stiil-born ~ = 32 
Suddenly = - 8 
Teeth = = 2 36 
Throfh at ed = 4 
$ 
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* The body. was opened at the particniar're- 
queft of the deceafed, who, not long before his 
death, mentioned his wifh on this fybject, and 
folicited a promife from his family, that it fhould 
be complied with ; affigning, as a reafon for 
this requeft, that a knowledge of the feat of his | 
complaint might contribute to the relief of 
others, who might be affii€ted in the fame man- 
ner. Such a requeft being rather unufwal, efpe- 
cially among perfons ina lower rank of lite, 
deferves to be mentioned, as highly worthy of 
imitation. i } at 
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