bos 
PERIODICAL DISEASES. 
Quotidian = a i 
Tertian = = 2 
Hetica Adolefcentium = 2 
Heética Senilis > = 3 
4 J 
The moft extenfive feries of complaints 
im the. months of September and Oéto- 
ber, has confifted of inflammations of 
the bowels, bilious vomitings, and diar- 
thea, attended with violent pain, and in 
many cafes with hemorrhagy. Thefe 
diforders of the bowels require early at- 
tention, and nice difcrimination: fome 
cafes, if negleéted at the beginning, or 
improperly managed, prove fatal within 
48 hours. 
The meafles, fearlatina, fmall-pox, 
and hooping-cough, occur in various 
laces, but have not been very exten- 
Evely diffufed within the laft two 
months, : 
It was obferved in thé laf Magazine, 
that cafes of the fynochus, or fummer- 
fever, had been more frequent than 
ufualin the months of Auguft and Sep- 
tember. They were fucceeded at the 
fatter end of September by a propor- 
tionate number of cafes of the contagi 
ous malignant fever, which, in feveral 
inftances, terminated fatally. A little 
girl, feven years of age, recovered from. 
an apparently hopelefs fiate of it. She, 
as well as her whole family, was greatly 
zlarmed on the 7th or 8th night of the 
fever, by the repeated howlings of a. 
firange dog * under her window. All 
the fymptoms were immediately aggra- 
vated: fhe was affeéted with a diarrhea; 
her pulfe became very quick, her tongue 
was furred, and fhe was at times deliri- 
ous, Inthe third week, her tongue be- 
‘ came dry and brown, her eyes funk and 
heavy ; the excretions pafied inyolunta- 

* ‘This circumftance is confidered by the fu- 
perftitious as a certain omen of death. How- 
ver, in two inftances of the kind, which have 
occurred to me during the prefent year, the dogs 
have proved falfe prophets, as both patients 
_ happily recovered. The reafon why dogs occa- 
fionally prefent themfelves, in the night, at a 
houfe where any one lies fick, is, that having 
loft their mafters, or miffed their way, they 
_ feek’ protection; and, in confequence, repair 
where the lights, and ftir inthe honfe, give 
hopes that they may gain attention, which they 
endeavour todo-by a mott piteous howling. 
Difeafes in London... Bills of Mortality, ec. 
rily ; and fhe fell into aftate of ftupor, or 
rather of total infenfibility. There was 
no diftinét crifis of the fever: but the 
little patient regained her faculties and 
firength very gradually. She took fearce- 
ly any nourifhment for a fortnight; the 
remedies apparently moft efficacious, 
were blifters to the head and other parts ; 
finapifms applied to the feet; and calomel 
given occafionally in moderate dofes. 
The typhus, or malignant fever, it 
was formerly remarked *, often fuper- 
venes to the fynochus, or fummer-feyer . 
in which cafe petechial fpots,” hemor- 
‘Yhagy, adry, brown, or black tongue, 
and a quick, irregular pulfe, are united 
with violent pains of the head, and deli- 
rium; pains and tenfion of the ftomach — 
or bowels, fometimes attended with di- 
arrhea, fometimes with obftinate coftive- 
nefs. This congeries of fymptoms is, 
for the moft part, faral. 
“In the bills of mortality, fromthe roth 
of September to the 17th of October, 
the following number of deaths has beem 
recorded : : 
Aged a = hte 
a a a ee 
* See Monthly Magazine for Séptember, 
1796, p. 657. | 
STATE 
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_ Apoplexy, and fuddenly oe cr 
Ague = - r 
Brain-Fever = ; ad 898 2 
Cancer e - = 7 
Child-bed _ = - = Tr 
Confumption, Cough, and Afthma 292 
Convulfions Ppa = 295. 
Croup - - es 2 
Dropfy ° - - © ~ 53 
Fever = s = 122 
Flux - = I 
Gout = : ‘< 10 
Hooping Cough a Sa eres 25 
ee - = 2 7 
nflammation and Abfcefs - = 44 
Lunatic - - 4 
Meafles = = =, eee < 25 
Mortificatioa - = 2 
Palfy = - e - 4 
Rupture - = - 2 
Rheumatifm s = 2 
Scurvy - ~ ee 
Small-Pox meres - Ie 
Sore-Throat - I 
Still-born and Abortive - 49 
Teething - ° 16 
Water in the Head = 5 
Worms - ~ é x 
