1802.] oe Sr 
ACCOUNT oF 
GR ie todas 
cue DIS EASES iw LONDON, Mei, 
From the 20th on January. to tbe 20th of February, 
Admitted unser the Care of the Phyf yfici tions of the Finpbury Ape SF 
(CONTINUED Pevety eT ee ii 
Catarrhal Fever ary ~) 3 
Aphthous Sore’Throat  - - 6 
Pneumonia: Oo MET Bk maeuiad 2 
Peripneumonia Notha s+ ae 5 
Eryfipelas - - - 4 
Hemoptyfis. - 2. 9+: - 3 
Rheumatifmus -. -- - 13 
Dyfenteria le acl ks He 8 
Dyfpepfia and Apheni - kk ha te 
Chlorofis and Amenorrhea: - 16 
- Menorrhagia  _—- ae - II 
Leucorrhea - - - 3 
Nephralgia Calculofa |: - - 2 
Hyfteria - ea one 13 
Hypochondriafis - fe gin ae 
Cephalea -. - - 2 
Diarrhea - - - 5 
Infantile Fever - ~ - 9 
Chronic Eruptions -— - 6 
Afcites and Anafarca - - 12 
A Sey vke* le number of dropfies have 
occurrei during the laft moths feveral of 
them were evidently occafioned by vifceral 
difor ganization, but the ereater number 
arofe from-caules which Prose a gene- 
ral and extreme relaxation of the whole 
body. In the former, it is feldom that 
any thing can be done toward the effefing 
ofa permanent and radical cure: In the 
latter, if there be a confiderable diftention 
of the abdomen,,it is iret in the 
firit inftance, to draw off the water by a 
furgical operation, and afterwards to fup- 
port and corroborate the conilitution, by 
cordials, imulaiis, and tonics. From 
_fach a mode of treatment ahappy refultmay, 
in 45. inftancss, be not uureaionably 
expect 
In ae of this latter defcrip- 
tion, the {qills, calomel and fox-glove, 
ufually adminiftered, are calculated, by 
fill farther dimini( thing the ftrength S the 
patient, to encreafe in a proportionate de- 
gree the.ftrength and probable fatality of 
his diforder. - 
In this connection it may not be imper- 
tinent to advert to a mode of praétice 
which has not unfrequently fallen under 
: the obfervation of the Reporter, in thofe 
meneraraess that are apt to occur in en- 
feebled an enervated conttitutions. He 
was witnels te a ftriking inftance of this 
kind, during a late temporary retreat to 
~ Monraty Mac,. No. 84, 
“hotion, that by retarding the circul 
- fecretion, Py the 
“veflels which contain it. 
the country. The’ patient was a young 
woman of a very relaxed Habit 3 fhe had 
laboured under menorrhaigia for a conh- 
derable time previous to. the vifit of the 
phyfician. During that period large dofes * 
of digitalis had been daily adminiltered by 
her pharmaceutical attendants, fro the 
it could not fail to lees the quanti A 
the morbid difcharge. Butit ought to have. 
been confidered that the application of this 
medicine could retard the circulation only 
_by the general debility of the lyitem palsy 
it induced. That debility was, in faét, the 
ca of the complaint, and the en effect | 
of it from which a fatal conclufion con'd 
be realonaply apprehended*, 
An exceflive hamorrhage may be occa- 
fioned either by too great a quanti ity of © 
partial ascumulation of 
itor by the laxity aqd tenuity of the 
Ya the prefent 
condition of the human frame, debilitated 
as itis by’ every {pecies of pene and 
Stina, difeafes in general, and efpe- 
cially that clafs of them which has been 
jut alluded to, originate from =. dehic! lency 
of phylical vigour. ve 
A tod copious hemorrhage a arifes 
from an exiraordinary mals < impetus of 
blood, ,but, in almoft every inflance, from 
a want of that centra@tile power which is 
A casita fo refift its “tendency to immo- 
devate effufion. 
In the particular cafe of menorrhagia, 
of which we have been {peaking, the. dai! ly 
wathing of the aydole body with cold wa- 
ter was pre(cribed by the FERONCETS upon 
the principle that the tonic and altringent 
efficacy vf cold muft be in proportion ro. 
the extent..of, furface to which it is ap 
plied.. The wafhi: pg of the face invigo- 
rates the limbs, and when apa ed to any 
* The molt decifive teft of medical faga-_ 
city, confiftsin the power of inflanvancoutly 
diftinguithing between the origin of a dif~. 
-eafe and the externa] phenomenon that it 
produces. By correcting a lymptom, it 1s 
poflible that you may give deeper root to the 
malady. It is either from_an ignorance, ora 
dilregard to this circumftance, that quacks fo 
often gain undeferved popularity ana emolus 
ment. | i 
part, 
