Manthly Report of Difeafes. 
Diarrhea - - - 8 
Hemorrhois - ~ - 3 
Dyfuria - - ear 5 
Scrophula > - 2 
Hypochondriafis - - 3 
Hyiteria - - - 2 
Vertigo - . 5 
Herpes - ~ - 7 
Prurigo - - 2 
Tinea - > ~ 3 
Nephralgia - - I 
Procidentia Vaginee - é 6 
Chronic Rheumatifm - . 3 
Sciatica - : ~ = 2 
PUERPERAL DISEASES. 
Ephemera - - - 2 
Puerperal Fever - - I 
Matftodynia - - 3 
Rhagas Papillz ‘- - 3 
INFANTILE DISEASES. 
Eryfipelas Infantile - - 7 
Aphthe - - 3 
Ophthalmia ~ - - 4 
Ophthaimia Purulenta ~ - I 
Since the laft medical report, there has 
‘been a confiderable alteration in the tem- 
perature of the air, and the {tate of the 
weather, which has occafioned, mm fome 
inftances, an aggravation of fymptoms 
‘in the different fpecies of pneumonic 
complaints, : 
The number of recent cafes, however, 
is finaller than that which occurred du- 
ring the time in which the former report 
was taken. Fevers have been more fre- 
quent than in the prefent month. The 
fpecies which has been moft prevalent is 
the Typhus, or what has by fome wri- 
ters been called the Nervous Fever. 
This difeafe ufuaily commences. with 
flight chillinefS and fhiverings, alter- 
nating with fufhings of heat unequally 
‘diffuled, very different from the rigors, 
and the coniequent violent degree of 
‘heat which occurs in other fevers, There 
is generally great reftleffhefs and anxiety; 
in fome cafes, a confiderable degree of 
pain, and in others, a vertiginous affec- 
tion of the head. Throughout the dif- 
eale, there is generally a confuljon of 
‘Ydeas, and, on fome occafjon, great 
‘hurry of fpirits. In fome of the cafes 
referred to in the lift, an infenfibility pre- 
yailed, which made it diffcult to obtain 
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‘any ciear idea of the patient’s fen{ations. 
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In one of them, whiclvterminated fatally, 
befides the ufual fymptoms of debility, 
the frequency and weaknefs of the pulfe, 
colliquative fweats and involuntary du- 
charge of urine and foeces, there was af 
unufual degree of fiuhfultus tendinum: this 
fymptom, indeed, imftead of a merely 
involuntary twitching of the tendons, 
amounted to a {pafmodic contraction of 
the muicles, nearly yelembling the cone 
vulhons of epilepfy. 
In one of the gales of Afcites, 
which had long continued, and at firit 
proved yery obitinate, we Cucceeded, 
beyond our expectation, jn obtaiming a 
recovery. This we think may be attri+ 
buted to the free ufe of elaterium. The 
draftic operation of this medicine, at 
firft, difcouraged the patient; but the 
large dif{charge of fluid which followed », 
excited in his mind the hope of a reco-! 
very ; fo that ina little time he folicited 
a more frequent repetition of it than it 
was prudent to allow: but upon the 
fteady ufe of it, together with bitters and 
chalybeates, to fupport the wis vite, the 
moft happy conlequences enfued. 
The ery/ipelas infantile, mentioned in the 
lift of difeafes, terminated fatally. This 
is a difeafe to which new-born children 
are liable, and under the violent fymp- 
toms of which they frequently fink. It 
attacks different parts of the body 3 the 
fingers and hands are the feat of it when 
itis firft difcovered, though in its pro- 
grefs it extends over almoit every part of 
the body. It is diftinguithed by a num- 
ber of livid difeolourations, with fome 
degree of tumour and hardnefs.. In the 
prefent inftance, there were feveral yefi- 
cations, fimilar in appearance te thofe 
from which an ichorous difcharge pro- 
ceeds in cafes of mortification, Phis 
difeafe is generally fo rapid in its pros | 
grefs, that but little affiftance can be de- 
rived from medicine, The free ule of the 
bark, with the external application of cas 
taplafms, fomentations; and {piritvous 
embrocations, are the moft probable 
means of relief, and in fome miider {pe- 
cies of the difeate, they have proved ef- 
feftual remedies, 
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STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. 
ITALY, 
) OME, once themiitrefs of the world, 
AX bue often the author of defolation 
and maflacre, has experienced another re- 
volution in her government. ‘The fanatic 
banners of the crois, which have waved 
for twelve centuries upon the ruins of the 
Roman capitol, have now given place to 
MoutTaty Mac. No. XXIX. 
the tree of liberty... The following isa 
fhort {ketch of the principal events at- 
tending this important tranfa&tion: 
Soon after the infurreétion in Rome, jn 
which the French genera! Duphot was 
killed, the Executive DireQory ordered 
‘the army of Italy to march againit the 
capital, under the pretext of avenging the 
Gg outrages 
