1797+] 
The acute miliaria, whi 
quently in the furmmer months, has 
] believe, attracted the notice of any. of 
our practical writers, Its primaty fymp- 
toms are flight fhiverings, with pains in 
the head and back: the pulfe is {mall 
and quick ; the tongue is covered with a 
white fur, but appears of a dark-red co- 
lour at the edges ; 
confiderably elongated. As the dileafe 
advances, the patients complain of a 
great heat and prickling in the tkin, 
with ficknefs at the ftomach ; they are af- 
fected with an unufual languor, and 
faintnefs; and-have often protufe per- 
{pirations during the night. On the 3d, 
4th, 5th, or 6th day of the diforder, a 
rath appears, fometimes in fcaitered 
patches, fometimes diffufed over the 
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others, on the rath, 
the difeafe. 
on, particularly boys, who ufe 
ife 3 ot weather, and. foon 
themfelves to a current of 
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air, or drink cold water, are moft liable 
to be affeéted with this fnecies of milia~ 
ria: in adults/it occurs: very rarely. 
This complaint may. be much mitigat; 
ed and jhortened ‘im. its ‘duration, by a 
gentle emetic, or laxatives, admini ifter- 
ed at the beginning of it; and by after- 
wards taking freely of the, diluted vitri- 
olic acid, a cool. regimen being. at the 
fame time obferved. 
The account of deaths in. different 
difeates, between the 15th of Auguft, 
and the. 19th of September, given by 
the bills of mortality, is as follows : 
whole body. It continues feveral days Aghma and Confumption oP her aoG 
in particular fituations, as the neck, Apoplexy, and fuddenly ie 9 
breaft, ftomach, and back: on other Aged Z * a 55 
parts, it aBPRArS and difappears, many Convulfions ah uae a 390 
times, without any certain order. The Child-bed - = u 9 
puftules, which, from their refemblance Cancer - - - o 
to millet feeds, have fuggefted the name Croup fg 7 t 4. 
of miliaria for this complaint, are diftri- Droply = - i: zi mb peat (AOS 
buted over the facg, and all the bedy; ae . i 2 a29 
but are always moit numerous on the ae Aah gael raises oe : 
breait and back, or where the rafh is Heemorrhagy iy y 
moft vivid. They are round, and very Hooping Cough " “ 28 
minute, and contain a white or pearl-co- Jaundice n is pina hi 
loured lymph. Their duration is but Inflammation and Abfcels * A 37 
thort: frefh ones, however, appear daily, Loofenefs and Gripes - 3 
fo long as the rafh and febrile fymptoms Lunatic - -— 6 
continue. . At the fame time, fmall Meafles - - mine Or an 26 
tranfparent veficles are formed on the Mortification ~ re ae area 
tongue, and often in the fauces; thefe Palty 5 7 m1 a 1z 
ufually terminate in aphthous ulcerations : ae e zm r 
(fee the Magazine for laft Month). Nei- Sonne GSU 7 A 
ther the rath, nor the puflular eruption, Se ae : i > 
afford any crifis, or alleviation of the Abusive and Still-born 5 6 
febrile complaint: but all of them are ‘Teething 3 2 30 
brought to a conclufion nearly at the Thru a is zi 3 
fame time; which is in fome cates on Water in the Head = - 6 
ee SE 
Seen OF PUBLIC AFEAT RS: 
In Septen:ber, 
GreaT Britain. 
. [* our laft itatement of Public Affairs, 
we mentioned the bombardment of 
Cadiz, by the Britith feet, under Admiral 
Lord st. Vincent. We have now to 
notice an attack upon the ifland of Tene- 
riffe, a project, apparently, as rath in its 
Origin as its iffue was unfortunate. This 
expedition was conducted under the 
command of Admiral NELSON; by orders 
feom Lord-St. Vincent. . The atrack was 
Made in the night of the 25th of July,.at 
u : ; ~ 
1797: 
eleven o'clock; between 700 and Soo 
men were embarked in the boats of the 
{quadron ; at half paft one in the mora- 
ing, they approached within gun-fhot of 
the Mole Head without being < difcovered, 
when the alarm bells rang, and thirty or 
forty pieces of aOR with mutketry, 
from one end of the town to the other, 
opened upon them; the night being 
exceedingly dark, only four or five of the 
boats could faite Mole, which, how- 
yer, was inftantly formed and carried, 
although 
