prognofis of a favourable termination of 
the difeafe: but when at a more advanced 
period evacuations from the bowels have 
increafed, have aflumed a dark appearance, 
_and, have exhaled a fesvid odour, they 
mut be viewed as fymptomatic of difeafe 
and danger, rather than as affording the 
hope of any critical relief. It by no 
means, however, follows from hence, that 
{uch evacuations are to be checked, whilft 
the prefence: of this offenfive matter is an: 
Indication of difeafe; the removal of it 
may prove the means of relief, and there- - 
fore to correét and difcharge what is fo of- 
fenfive to the inteftines and to the conftitu- 
tion, is furely a more rational practice than 
to detain it. 
Befides thefe affeCtions of the bowels, 
which may be confidered as fymptomatic, 
there have been others which have confti- 
tuted the original difeate. A large num- 
ber of Dyfenteries have lately occurred, 
and fome of them have proved very obiti- 
mate. ) ‘ 
This difeafe, as it is well-known, 
afually cecurs at this feafon of the year, 
s 
and as a diarrhoea frequently prevails at 
the fae time, owing, probably, jn fome 
inflances, taa larger quantity of fruit be- 
ing eaten, thefe difeafes are too often con- 
‘The patient complains of pain 
accompanied with a large 
founded. 
SAS NR 
mM his bowels 
State of Public Affairs in Odtaber, 1801. 
number of ftools ;. and before any medicak 
affiftance is requefted, every domeftic me- 
dicine, calculated to flop a purging, is ad- 
minittered; but when the quantity and_ 
kind of difcharge from the inteitines are 
examined, it proves, that, thouel the in- 
clination to havea ftool has been very fre- 
quent, the difcharge has been very fmall, 
and this confifting rather of mucus, or 
mucous-blood,*than of feces. A confi- 
derable degree of fever ufually accompanies 
this difeale ; and the frequent inclination 
to go to ftaol, and the teneimus which fuc-_ 
ceeds it, are a fource of conftant uneafine(s. 
This difeale is to be traced to a {pafmodic 
firifture in the courfe of the large intef- . 
tines, by which feces are detained ; and, 
confequently, the cure muft be attempted 
by relaxing the fpafm, and evacuating the 
foeces. 
an antifpafmodic, but its exhibition 
fhould be immediately fucceeded by that 
of a brifk cathartic. In the treatment 
of mott of the cafes referred to in the hf, 
pulw. opii comp. trom ten to fifteen grains,” 
was preferred to any other opiate ; and 
cryft. tart. from two to four drams, with 
fix or eight grains of {cammony, generally 
anfwered the purpofe of difcharging a con- 
fiderable quantity of feces, which wags- 
followed by an abatement of the moft ur 
gentfymptoms.  - te 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, | 
We Odiober, 1801. i : 
™ ween Dae 
FRANCE. 
FFIHE Ratification of the Preliminaries 
JL of Peace has, it appears, diffufed an 
equal joy throughout beth nations.In confe- 
quence of this event, the Contuls of the 
French Republic have decreed, that on 
Nov. 9, a feltiva] fhall be celebrated inall 
the extent of the republic. Onthe 4th of 
Odicber, the members of the Confervative 
Senate proceeded to the palace of the-go- 
vernment, to congratulate the Confuls on 
the figning of the preliminaries. Keller; 
manna, thePrefient,exprefied thefe ntiments 
of the fenaté; and the Fir Conful an- 
fwered, that the news of an event which 
had fo much infivence on the happine{s of 
the French people, had with reafon ex- 
cited the joy of the Confervative Senate, 
which had conftantly fhewn itfelf the pro- 
te€ior of libzral'and pacific ideas. 
The-peace between France and Great 
Britain has been followed by a peace witl 
ail cther nations, France has ratified her 
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treaty with Ruffia, and this has alfo bees 
celebrated at Paris. She has moreover 
concluded a peace with Portugal, againft 
whom indeed fhe could no longer have 
any cau‘e of complaint ; and another with. 
the ‘urkifh Empire. 
We learn from Corfu, Augnft the 8th, 
that, inftead of a well-reguiated republic,, 
they had the mof complete anarchy. The. 
inhabitants of the country had revolted 
againd thofe of the city, and both the one 
and the other were upon their guard 
againft the vengeance of the Turks fincé 
the fanguinary quarrel of the 27th of May. 
As to the other ifles, the following is the 
intelligence we received from them. Ce- 
rigo has declared itfelf independent. Zante 
has hoifted the Englith colours: Santa 
Maria is threatened with an invafion by 
Ali Pacha of Janina. -Cephalia is at thé 
mercy of the two factions, who deftroy it. 
By a letter from General Watrin to Ci- 
_tizen Belicville, commercial commiffary of 
<! the 
[ Nov. 1 ; 
Opium may be adminiflered as ~ 
