[ Feb. x, 
ACCOUNT or DISEASES in LONDON, from Dec. 20. to Fan. 20. 
Admitted under the Care of the Phy/ficians of the Finfoury Difpenfary._ 
No. of Cafes. 
ONTINUVED Fever - - 69 
Small Pox - - Se 3 
Eryfipetas - - - - 5 
Cynanche Tonfillarum - - . z 
Phethifis Pulmonalis - ~ - If 
Hemoptyfis - - ~ - 4 
Pneumonia - - - - 2 
- Cough and Dyfpneea - - ~ 57 
Catarrh. - - - - - 4 
Dyfentery ~ + - - 2 
Diarrhea - - ~ - 6 
Chlorofis and Amenorrhea + - 18 
Menorrhagia - . - - ‘| 
Melancholia a ae - - I 
Dyfpepfia ~ - - - 16 
Hytteria - - - - - 3 
Paralyfis - 4 - - 4 
Gaftrodynia and Enterodynia - 6 
Epilepfia “ - - - - 4 
Cephalza - - - 7 
Dropfly - - - = - Ir 
Afthenia - . < > 19 
Infantile Difeafes “ - > 13 
Chronic Eruptions = - - II 
‘Phe cafes of typhus will appear to have 
very confiderably increafed in number dur- 
ing the laft month; but they have not, in 
general, been charaéterifed by that violence 
of frenzy which was fo efpecially remark- 
able in’ the fevers of the tummer and au- 
tumn. The extraordinary determination 
to the head that prevailed during thofe fea- 
fons, in various infiances produced not 
merely the common delirium of fever, but 
an abfolute and a fpecdily fatal infanity. 
The prefent typhus is more particularly 
marked by a profound coma, and a gene- 
ral proftration of the ftrength. 
In feveral cafes that at firft feemed to be 
defperate, a recovery, it might almoft be 
cniled a refurrection, was brought about 
principally by very trong ftimuli, applied 
in fmall but frequently repeated dofes. 
After the infide had been rinced by emetics 
and aperients, brandy and wine was often 
adminifered in as large a quantity as the 
patient was fuppofed able to {wallow with- 
out the inconvenienceof fucceeding ficknefs 
Or intoxication. 
This mode of treatment, when it was 
afifted by the daily wafhing of the whole 
body with cold water, the free ‘admiffion 
of frefh air into the fick room, the trequent 
change of linen and bed clothes, moderate 
dofes of opium at night, and the careful 
abftraction of every thing that might tend 
to interrupt the fleep cf the patient, or to 
difturb the tranquility of his mind, has 
feldom failed to induce a fpeedy conva- 
lefcence, the. pregrefs of whith towards 
an entire reftoration of health and firength 
was afterwards accelerated by the applica- 
tion of nourifhing diet, and a variety of 
medicinal coirodoran!s. 
It fhould, however, be underftood, that 
the direétions of the phyfician, thofe efpe- 
cially that related to the adminifiration of 
wine and food, could not, in many cafes, 
be carried into effect, in confequence of the 
poverty of the patient, and the flow and 
{canty affiftance of parochial charity. - 
Too generally is it imagined that work- 
houfes are not provided only, but alio are 
fully adequate to the relief of thofe who 
labour under the extremity of want. But .. 
if any credit may be paid to the teftimo- 
nies of many of the poor creatures that 
- crawl] to fupplicate the medical relief of the 
Difpenfary, this is far from being in every 
inftance, actually the cafe. 
Not longer fince than yefterday, to the 
perfon who is now employed in writing 
this report, a boy was brought, whofe at- 
tenuated and nearly lifelefs form awakened 
a femtiment, and even an exclamation, of 
compaffion from all the furrounding pa- 
tients. 
According to the mother’s. account, 
whofe appearance and manner gave not the 
flighteft pretence for fufpecting ihe veracity 
of her affertions, her child had. for fome 
time been depofited in a:workhoufe, but 
had there been deprived of what was abfo- 
lutely effential not to his health merely but 
almoft to the bare fupport of his exift- 
ence. 
By fome the reporter has been charged 
with indifcretion, inthus unveiling the ex- 
treme wretchedne{s of the poor. But, 
deaf to the dictates of worldly prudence, and 
inferfible to the impulfes of felfith intereft, 
never, by fuch motives, will he be tempt- 
"ed to decline the declaration of faéts which 
he knows to be true, and the difcovery of 
which he cannot but regard as of unfpeak- 
able importance*. - 
* Since the publication of the laft repert, 
a donation of twenty pounds has been prefent-= 
ed, by a perfon well known for his huma- 
nity toward the poor, to the phyficians of the 
Finfbury, and feveral other difpenfaries in 
London, for the relief of thofe of their-necef- 
fitous patients whe are confined to a fick bed, 
and 
