1798] 
ever, it has been found to be ‘a trouble- 
fome and obftinate difeafe. This circum= 
ftance has often been occafioned by an at- 
tempt too haitily to check the dilcharge 
by the ule of aftringents and opiates ; 
which might more {ately have been pro- 
noted by the ule of gentle eccoprotics, 
‘and the unpleafant irritation of which 
might have been alleviated by plentiful 
dilution, or the employment of fome de- 
mulcent remedies. 
The dytentery is a difeafe of a more 
alarming } kind, and, though it refembles 
the diarrhea in fome of its {ymptoms, is 
fufficiently diftinguifhed by others, and 
is to be traced to a very different caufe. 
In this difeafe, though the ftools are 
frequent, they are generally j in a {mall 
quantity, and coniitting raiher of mucus, 
fometimes mixed with blood, than of na- 
tural feeces. They are aie for the moft 
part, accompanied with fevere gripings, 
and followed by tenefmus, This difeafe 
is fometimes preceded and generally ac- 
companied by iebrile fymptoms, and ot- 
tentimes proves contagious, particularly 
in camps. Sir JOHN “PRINGLE, in his 
treatife on Dileaigs of the Army, has re- 
marked, that the contagion arofe fre- 
quently from dead bodies unburied in the 
field of battle, or fometimes irom the ef- 
Difeafes in London... New Mufie. 
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ark 
fluvia of marfhes, and at other times 
from crouded jails and hefpitals. Diffec- 
tions have proved, that the feat of thie 
difeafe is in the larger inteftines, and 
pathologifts have referred its proximate 
caufeto a fpafmodic ftriéture of the colon 
and a detention of hardened feces: the 
cure, therefore, muft confift in the re- 
moval of ftricture and the evacuation of 
feces. Fomentations of the abdomen, 
and the application of a blifter, have 
fometimes “Lucceeded in the removal of 
{pafm. If opium be adminiftered, it 
hould be followed by the exhibition of 
cathartic remedies, as it can only be 
ufeful by abating the irritation of the fto~ 
mach, removing firccture in the large in- 
teitines, and thus promoting the cpera- 
tion of the cathartic remedies, and the 
evacuation of the inteflines. If medicine 
adminiftered ay the mouth is rejected by 
the ftomach, the ufe of elyfters becomes 
particularly neceflary._ ‘The difeafe now 
deicribed, has not atfumed its work form, 
in the miftances referred to in the lif, 
Mott of the cafes of cholera morbus have 
been attended with a mild train of fymp- 
toms, which have yielded to the diluting 
and demulcent plan’ of treatment; though, 
in fome inftances, there has been occafion 
for the -ufe of opiates. 
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REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
eee ig SDE 
AMBR ghee Gn hiffor ical Play, as Pe n= 
formed at the Theatre Royal, ee 
The mific by Dr. Arnold, 8s. 
Longman and Br oderip. 
The overture to the Cumbre Britons 
eonlifts of four movements; the firft of 
which opens in a bold and martial file, 
and proceeds with confiderable energy of 
effect: in the fecond, third and fourth 
Dr. Arnold has Paidicis ufly availed him- 
felf of the Cambrian inftrument-; and in 
the fecond, where he employs two harps 
in feparate parts, the idea of which was 
happy, he has been particularly fucceis- 
ful. 
The vocal part of the work is not 
buiky, but the excellence of fome of the 
airs, &c. well compeniate the lack of 
quantity. “ When the rude voice of 
war,” jung by Mrs. Bland, is pleating, 
_ novel, and highly Bisiaetemibic ge iNiag 
Arthur kept at merry Cailifle,’’ dung by 
Mr. Jobnt on, Mr. Suett, and Mrs. Bland, 
is a pleafant trio; and tie {emi-cherus qt 
Angels i is productive cf a powerful and 
mellifluous efee, Them arch intred uced 
aiter the fong, ‘* The iumwas fet,’ fung 
by Mrs. Bland, moves with dignity, and 
exhibits a confummate knowledge of the 
orcheftra. With the ** Chords of Bards” 
the verfes of — 
we are peculiarly pleafed : 
Gray, ‘* Ruin teize thee, ruthlefs king 1”? 
were moft happily adopted by the au- 
thor; and the compoter has been equally 
fortunate both in the harmony with which 
he has accommodated them, and in the 
accompaniments with which he has 
heightened and charaéterifed that har- 
mony. Ihe finale, which cbmmences 
with a ace is ot flight conftrudtion, 
but agreeably m melodized , and concludes 
the piece with Heh eclat. 
A favourite Air, oot with variations for 
o-forte, by W. A. Moyart. 1s. 6d. 
ee 
Mr. Moy.arr has given nine varia- 
tions to this the euie, fome of which are in 
the fame time with itfelf, Viz. 3, while 
others are in Juels ze ney exoibitvan 
ingenious efort oft fancy, are ie Bk 
in point of execution, and are calculated 
bothtoengage and improvethe practitioner 
on the inttrument for “which they are de- 
fiowed, . 
tke pian 
A grand 
