Dr. Parry, of Bath, on Mr. Bel?s Anatomy. 
Church in Holborn. It might be expett- 
ed that he was aftonifhed at the fublime 
combinations of mufical chords in the 
blind Stanley, and melted by the unaf- 
feéted pathos of Garrick. Nothing lefs. 
Me made himfelf mafter of the exact 
number of words, fyllables, and let- 
ters pronounced. by Garrick; but the 
rapid execution of Stanley defied his 
powers of reckoning, and he returned 
home abafhed, as under irretrievable dif- 
race. Jedidiah Buxton was an Arith- 
metician, Mr. BELL is an Anatomift. 
Although that Gentleman could not 
advert to the confequences which I drew 
from the compreflion of the carotids, I 
muft bee leave to repeat them for his 
benefit. I learnt fromit, that all nervous 
difeafes depend upon irritation of the 
brain, either from mechanical ftimuli, or 
the fulnefs of its veffels ; and that in 
every conititution, without exception, 
they are to be cured, if at all, by thofe 
means which diminifh the flow of blood 
to the head. T learnt from it, that all 
tonic medicines, as they are called, full 
diet, wine and all other cordials and 
general ftimulants, are injurious; and 
that the only efficacious remedies, are as 
low a diet as the digeftion will allow, uni- 
form and gentle exercife, and perfeverance 
in evacuants, fedatives, and thofe remedies 
which are calied febrifuge or refrigerant. 
I inferred that, among A evacuants, the 
chief confidence was to be placed in blood- 
letting, not witha view of preparing for to- 
nics, as recommended by Sydenham, nor in 
order to counteract accidental plethora, or 
to relieve a particular fpecies of a genus, 
as by my late revered mafter, Dr, Cullen; 
but frequently, and in {mall quantities, 
as a radical, and generally indifpenfable 
remedy.. And during eleven fucceeding 
years, I have had the fatisfaction (one of 
the greateft which the human mind can 
feel) of finding that my theoretical ex- 
pectations have been infinitely more than 
anfwered by practical fuccefs.. Thus a 
clafs of difeafes, which were before confi- 
dered as incurable, are now as abjolutely 
within our power as the moft obvious in- 
flammations. Mr. Bet, if he would, or 
if he could, might haye profited from the 
principles which I. have laid down; 
and then he would have had no reafon 
to complain of my haying infligted on 
him the torments of Tantalus. Is it my 
fault, if his mind is its own tormentor? 
At prefent it feems that this practical 
fyftem of nervous difeafes is a thing new 
to Mr. BELL wader ihe fun. Permit me, 
fir, to add with confidence, that when 
Sirk publithed, it was equally new to 
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others ; for I will venture to.affert, that. 
no example can be produced, in which | 
the practice had been defignedly employed, 
except in confequence of my own verbal 
communications to my friends of my fuc- 
cefs, in fome of thofe cafes to which E 
afterwards referred in my paper in the 
6 Medical Memoirs.” . 
_ Excufe my thus dwelling on myfelf, I. 
am compelled to do fo, left hereafter, 
when my method of cure in fuch difeafes 
comes into general ufe, as it certainly will, 
fome future Mr. BELL, envious of a dif- 
covery which chance allotted to anothers 
may rake out from amidft the dult and 
mould of a College library, fome dark pal 
fae, in which he may develope my whole 
fyftem ; and then, like his worthy prede~ 
ceffor of the prefent day, exclaim, THERE 
Is NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN- 
With this gentleman, fo far as refpects 
myfelf in particular, 1 have now done- 
But I beg leave to add a few words on 
behalf of {cience in general, It is ufual 
with authors to difculs grave fubjeéts in 
a grave manner; and one would have 
thought, that the importance of patholo- 
gical inquiries would have fecured them 
from all admixture of levity. But Mr. 
BeLL’s conttitution is fuch as to defy all 
common rules of condu&. Almoft in the 
ame page he dictates, and pouts, and 
{colds, and laughs, and cries; and each 
fo immoderately, or in fo wrong a place, 
that one cannot avoid picturing to one’s 
telf a fine lady ina fit of hyfterics. It may 
reafonably be hoped that age, and a little 
wholefome mortification, will diminifh this 
irritability of Mr. BELL’s nerves; and 
then, probably, medical fcience will owe 
much future obligation to the acutenefs 
of his genius. Lam, fr, &c. &c. 
Bath, April 22,1798... Cs H, PARRY. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
A DiaLrocut IN EMPYREUM, 
‘ Louris XVI. and CuaR es I. 
1 OYAL martyr, brother of my 
fate, take me. to thy embrace. 
With thee at leaft Iam fecure of fympa- 
thy, the only alleviation my hard lot ad- 
mits. 
C, Hail, brother ! 
L. It comforts me that I have burf, 
although by. death, my bonds, that £ 
breathe not in the fullied prefence of thofe 
wretches whom I remember the depend- 
ants of my nod, the creeping flatterers 
of my power, who won my confidéiice, 
like Dalila, to hear me of my-ftrength, 
and who have fince announced their in- 
fluence over Iny people by a climax of 
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