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Perfons at an advanced period of life 
are peculiarly addicted to a fuperftitious 
reverence for medicines; and yet it is 
to them that medicines are with the leaft 
efiicacy and propriety applied. The 
coughs and afthmas of the aged, are moft 
frequently relieved by a change of air, 
even to one lefs pure, Jt would be re- 
markable, that change of air was not in 
fuch cafes more generally prefcribed, if 
we did not refleét that air is not an article 
in an apothecary’s fhop. 
At the fame time, although medicines 
are feldom ufeful to the aged, by acting 
immediately upon the body, they may 
however be, in fome inftances, effentially 
fe by agéting upon the imagination. 
Upon the influence of the imagination 
in curing difeafes, a judicious and inge- 
nious pamphlet has been lately publithed 
»by Dr. Haycarru of Bath, It is a fub- 
ject of great intereft, and of an almoft 
unbounded extent. AEN 
The mind is continually meddling with 
the body, and interfering with the reme- 
dies which are applied toit. A due at- 
tention to this circumftance would afford 
much inftruétion to phyficians, and throw 
newlight upon the efiiciency of medicinal 
applications. et 
Even a kindnefs of manner on the part 
of a medical attendant, that befpeaks an 
intereft in his patient’s health, may not 
unfrequently be conducive to its reftora- 
tion. Gratitude will cure adifeafe, when 
it is out of the.reach of all other reme- 
dies. A patient will get well, or, which, 
in many cafes, amounts nearly to the 
fame thing, will endeavour to fancy him- 
felf well, in order to oblige his phyfician. 
_ On the other hand, a brutality, rudenefs, 
or arrogance of demeanor, feems, as it 
were, to induce a /piteful obftinacy in the 
diforder. 
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Alphabetical Lift of Bankrupts and Dividends: 

‘489 
Moft of the cafes which have proved 
fatal, have occurred amongft perfons of 
an advanced period of life. 3 
_ The old age of zature, and the artifi- 
cial old age of intemperance, equally defy 
all remedies, except the dephlogifticated 
nitrous gasof Dr. Bsppces, which how- 
ever was not to be procured at the Dif 
penfary. Q 
In the cafes of phthifis, little elfe was 
‘attempted than to relieve the troublefome 
fymptoms. In a decided inftance of this 
difeafe, a cure cannot perhaps, in the 
prefent ftate of medical {cience, be reafon- 
ably expected. | 
How aftonifhing, that, in one of the 
moft hopelefs of all diforders, hope fhould 
be one of the moft characteriftic fymptoms ! 
‘There is no. difeafe which more invari- 
ably and obvioufly fhews itfelr in the 
complexion and general phyfiognomy of 
the patient. 
It is remarkable, that a connexion may 
in many inftances, be obferved even be- 
tween the complexion of a perion, and his 
habitual occupation of life. Shoe-makers, 
for inftance, are almoft univerlally of the 
melancholic temperament——a circumftance 
that can {carcely be accounted for, unlefs 
upon the idea that a perfon of a fan- 
suine difpofition could not eafily reconcile 
himfelf to fo fedentary and monotonous 
an employment. 
The faét above alluded to, which was 
firft ftated to the author of this article by 
his friend Dr. WILLAN, has fince been; 
/in numerous inftances, confirmed by his 
own experience. ; 
To the remarks of that learned and 
accurate obferver, experience -has almoit 
invariably afforded a fimilar confirmation. 
Fas 
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AupuapeticaL List of Bankruptcies and DivipENDs announced between 
the 20th of April, and the 20th of May, extratied from the London Gazeites. 
ES of) 
BANKRUPTCIES. 
(The Solicitors’ Names are between Parenthefes ) 
ALLEN, A. C, (Noy, 
Mincing-lane) , 
Blake, M. H. London, cutler. (Bigg, Hatton-Garden) 
Brown, W. Grafton-ftreet, taylor. (Orrell, Winiley-ftreet) 
Tronmonger-lane, merchant. 
Bradley, J. Shawbank, calico-rnanufacturer. (Mefirs. 
Edge, Manchetter) 
Bartlett, W. Portpoole-lane, tallow-chandler. (Platt, 
_ Serjeant’s-inn) 
Bache, P. and A. Bache, Bafinghall-ftrect, merchants. 
. (Mawley, Jealous Row) 3 i 
gurn, S. Spalding, grocer. (Harvey and Robinfon, Lin- 
_ €oln’s-inn) ny 
Beanlands, W. and B, Bradford, woolftaplerg. (Rhodes, 
-€b0ke,aud Handley, St. fames’s Walk} 
* Montary Mag. No, 59. 
Burley, }..wakefield, grocers (Aen & Exley, Gray’s-inn) 
Burge, W. Southampton, butcher. (ingworth, Femple) 
Booth, €. Afton, plater. (Sanderfun, Palferave Place) 
Benjamin, A, Caftic-ttreet, merchatit. (Fletcher, Dyer’s¢ 
buildsngs) : ; } $ 
Burch, Wm. Clapton, calico-printéer, 
buildings i : i 
Bird, tone, Wells, Whitefmith. (Lewis, Inner Temple) 
(Owen, Bartlett’se 
Cooper, J. Chorley, cotton manufacturer.  (Barvett, 
Temple) | 5 
Collins, W: Briftol, brandy-merchaut. (Terrant, Chan 
cery lane Ay 3 s 
elarke, C, South Mimms, innholder, (Fletcher; Dyer’se 
buildings) ; \ te 
Darwin, W. Haymarket, hackaeyman. (Burges, Groat 
Portland-ftreet) | ee 
Dalby, J. Sams-Mill, corn-dealer. (Barber, Gray’s-ina) 
Danfie, $. Ruffell-ftreet, coe -Garden, tayern-keeper 
ookée, Colentan-frest) 
(Rooke, Ccleman-f 32 Dalby 







