Difeafes.... Public Affairs. 
: The ftate of the atmofphere having, 
undergone confideralsle changes during 
this. month, the number of pneumonic 
difeafes have been rather increafed. The 
prevalence of flight coughs and colds 
has been very general ; though the num- 
ber of thole which have come under me- 
dical treatment has been lefs than is 
ufual at this time of the year. 
Slight rheumatic affections have been 
numerous: and there have been feveral 
inftances both of acute and chronic rheu- 
-matifm, accompanied with a confiderable 
aggravation of fymptoms. In one in- 
ftance of the acute fpecies, which was 
introduced by chillinefs terminating in a 
rigor, a high degree of rednefs and. tu- 
mour appeared in different jdints, accom- 
panied with great pain and reftleffhefs, a 
foul tongue, a full, hard, and frequent 
pulfe, with obftinate coftivenefs, and a 
firong difpofition to profufe fweating, but 
without any abatement of the pain or 
refticfinefs. 
The violent determiination. to the fkin 
in this difeafe, may generally be confi- 
dered rather asymptomatic than critical, 
and is very different from that gentle 
perfpiration through the whole furface, 
which, frequently accompanies a remif- 
fion of fymptoms. 
In the prefent cafe, after having pro- 
cured ftools, and reduced. the infamma- 
tion, by the application of leeches to the 
parts affeéted, the pulfe alfo becoming 
flower, and the remiffion of pain and 
other fymptoms taking place under the 
ufeof antimonial remedies; we proceeded 
toa pretty free aie of the Peruvian Bark, 
combined with the Tinéture of Guaia- 
cum. 
The rheumatifm, in.all its {pecies, be- 
ing a difeale very liableto recur, we find. 
it neceffary to obviate the return of pa- 
roxyfm, by the early. and free ufé of the 
bark. The hard; full, and. frequent 
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pulfe, which moft commonly eccurs in 
the acute fpecies of this difeafe, may 
feem to indicate the free ufe of the lancet ; 
but we have had frequent occafion to ob= 
ferve, that when this practice has been’ 
adopted, though a fudden remiflion of. 
pain and inflammation has been pro- 
duced, thefe fymptoms have returned, and 
the difeafe has in general been protracted. 
to a later period than when the other 
means have been employed. | 
he Deaths in the Bills of Mortality for 
the laft four weeks, are ftated as follow: 
Abfcefs a - eS 3 
Abortive | - - " 
Aged - So ag = se 
Ague ~- - - 6 
Apoplexy_ = ~ = Ir 
Afthma -: - is 4€ 
Bleeding - - -' I 
Brain Fever - e = 
Cancer - = ~ 6 
Child-bed - 3 eS 7 
Cold =i = -~ by 
Confumption - - . 397 
Cholic = e i, z 
Convulfions = - 30% 
Dropfy he a - = 73 
Fever: = . ~ dig 
French Pox = = a 5 
Gout : - = Sor 4 oy 
Hooping’ Cough - - 22 
Jaundice - « 2 4 
inflammation ~ - 26! 
Lunatic - =. = 1z 
Meafles - = = Lge - 
Mortification - 7. 23 
Pally ee a = 2 6: 
Small Pox = = rs 23 
Still-born - - os 36 
Suddenly = a Li 9 
Teeth - ~ = 40 
Thrush - = = i 
‘Water in the Head 3 a 9° 
Jaw-locked = by ei r 
Liver-grown - a I 
Rupture - © oS 3 
Spafm ~ - ~~ t 
Stoppage in Stomach = - L 
ee 
STATE OF 
PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
Ia February, 1798. 
GREAT BRITAIN, 
-T length theminifter is driven, like 
every perfon in diltrefs, to the der- 
nier refort to folicit voluntary contribu- 
tions; this plan at firlt proceeded with 
languid fteps, owing, it was faid, to 
the tardineis of a great perfonage in tak- 
ing the lead; after a fufpenfe of about 
ten days, -his Majefty fignified ‘his pléa- 
fure to. fubfcribe the tum of 20,0001. and 
the donations. flowed in more rapidly’ 
from the dire&tors and proprietors of the - 
bank ‘ftock, the merchants on the Ex>’. 
change, and from a confiderable number” 
ofnoblemen and gentlenien.: The queen 
erfelf took the lead of the female patri- 
ots, and prefented a donation of 5,0001. 
For thofe who-honeftiy believe that this 
voluntary fubfcription is calculated to. 
fave the nation, we have a great refpect 5. 
we admire the patriotifm’ with which. 
they contribute, and while we lament 
their” 
