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impreonated with bile, depofiting at times 
a confiderable fediment. There was a 
fenfe of pain and ftricture about the pre- 
cordia, accompanied with a confiderable 
degree of tenfion of the abdomen: and 
the pain in the left hypochondrium fre- 
quently returned. The breathing was 
fometimes very much affected: the heat 
of the {kin was increafed and feconded by 
a defquamation of the cuticle, and fuch a 
degree of itching as proved very trouble- 
fome. The ftate of the pulfe was not 
much affected at any age of the difeafe. 
Thefe fymptoms continued for feveral 
months, attended with great languor and 
debility, an indifpofition to motion, to- 
gether with confiderable anxiety of mind. 
As in the courfe of the difeafe a variety 
of fymptoms occurred, fo different medi- 
cines were employed, according to the 
different circumftances of the cafe. The 
bowels were kept open by aloes, rhubarb, 
and foap. Different bitters were em- 
ployed: gentian and columbo were fre- 
quently ufed. Myrrh and. fteel were 
taken with a view to their tonic effect, 
‘and for the mitigation of pain, opium was 
repeated!y adminiftered. 
Calomel was frequently ufed, but the * 
ftate of the bowels fometimes rendering 
the ufe of it improper, mercurial fric- 
tions were fubitituted in its room. 
After the ufeé of various’ medicines, 
without any important advantage being 
produced, the witreus acid was taken in 
the quantity of a dram every day. Dur- 
ing the ufe of thefe medicines, the various 
fymptoms gradually. avated: the yellow 
colour of the eye and of the fkin grew 
fainter; the tenfion of the abdomen di- 
minifhed; the pain and ftrifture about 
the pracordia abated; the ftrength gra- 
dually returned, and the appetite was 
muchimproved. No inconvenience arofe 
to the ftomach.or bowels from the ufe of 
the acid, till after it had been taken for 
forme weeks, when the patient felt a 
pain in his ftomach; for the relief of 
which, he teok a few grains of kali 
preparatum, and repeated the dofe twice 
or thrice’ in the courfe of the week. 
Whilft it was judged proper to mention 
Difeafes....Public Affairs. 
_ 
this circumftance, it is equally neceffary 
to obferve, that the {mall quantity of the _ 
kali taken can hardly affect the conclu- 
fion which may be drawn refpetting the 
advantage of the nitrous acid in this in- 
fiaiice." 
This report will probably bring to the 
recollection of the medical reader, the 
experiments of Mr. Wma. ScoTr, of 
Bombay, and the conclufion which he 
draws concerning the effect of the nitrous 
acid on the refinous baie of the bile, and 
the refemblance of the effets of this medi- 
cine to thofe which generally eccur in the 
ufe of mercurials. 
‘The Deaths in the Bills of Mortality for 
the laft four weeks, are ftated as foliow: 
Abfcefs - - - 2 
Abortive 2 = 4 
Aged Sd evs 
Apoplexy - - = 9 
Aftthma > - - 36 
Bleeding - - 2, 
Bed-ridden - - I 
Brain Fever = . - 2 
Cancer < - 6 
Child-bed: _ = - Tr 
Confumption - ° = * 394 
Convulfions - r 307 
Croup - : - r 
Drop{y - * - 69 
Fever - - e 124 
French Pox - - 7 
Gout - - - 13 
Gravel = - - x 
Grief =! + hee - 4 
Hooping Cough ‘2 a 30 
aundice - = - 4 
Inflammation - - 39 
Liver-grown - ~ I 
Lunatic - - = 6 
Meafles * - - 24 
Mortification + - Ig 
Palfy = = - 4 
Pleurify - I 
Rickets - - ~ x 
Rupture - -) > - -¥ 
Small Pox = - - 99 
St. Anthony’s Fire - ~ - ¥ 
Still-born - wit: - 33 
Suddenly - “ - Io 
Teeth - - - 36 
Thrufh - - yf Keak 4 
Water in the Head - - 5 
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STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
‘ 
\N the 23d of April, the Duke of 
‘ Portland prefented a meflage from 
his Majefty, to the Houfe of Lords, ac-. 
quainting their Lordfhips, that. Ireland 
required pecuniary afiiftance, therefore 
recommending a loan of 2,000,900, for 
which the Irifh were to pay the intereft, 
In May, 1798. 
GREAT ERITAIN.- 
©n the fame day, the Chancellor of the ~ 
Exchequer, ina Committee of Supply, 
ftated, that it would be neceflary, for the 
fervices of the current year, to provide 
a fmall augmention of our fea forces, ta 
mect the exigencies which extraordinary 
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