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but little felt, and are ill rendered by the 
cold timid hand of the copyift. It may 
be that J faw this copy to too great a dif: 
advantage, (from the want of light and 
proximity), to do it jaftice ; but the ori- 
ginal, the glorious work of Leonardo, is 
now no more. I faw the laft of it at 
Milan ; for in paffing through that city 
on my return home, (in company with © 
my long-efteemed, amiable, and ingenious 
friend and brother academician Mr. Ri- 
gaud), I faw a feaffold ereéted in the 
Refestory, and one-half of the pic- 
ture painted over by one Pietro Mazzi. 
Not one was at work, it being Sunday : 
but there were two men on the {feaffold, 
one of whom was fpeaking to the other 
with much earneitnefs about that part of 
the pi€ture which had been re-painted: 
I felt much agitated; and having no idea 
of his being an artift, (much lels the 
very identical artift who was employed to 
deftroy fo beautiful and venerable a ruin), 
I objef&ted with warmth to the fhocking 
and ignorant manner in which this was 
carried on, pointing out at the fame time 
ghe immente difference between the part 
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that was untouched, and what had been 
re-painted. He anfwered that the new 
work was but a dead colour, and that the 
painter meant to go over it all again, 
*Oh! maloré, faidI, *worle and worfe! 
if this painter has thus lo& his way, when 
he was immediately going over the lines 
and features of Leonardo’s figures, what 
will become of him when they are all thus 
blotted out, and that, without any guide 
in repafling over the work, he fhall be 
utterly abandoned to his own ignorance |” 
On my remonftrating afterwards with 
fome of the Friars, and entreating them to 
take down the {caffold, and fave the half 
of the picture which was yet remaining ; 
they told me that the convent had no au- 
thority in this matter, and that it was 
done by order of the Count de Firmian, 
the imperial fecretary of ftate. Thus perith- 
ed one of the mott juftly celebrated monu- 
ments of modern art, particularly for that 
part of the defign which regards the {kil- 
tul delineation of the various fentiments 
of the foul, in all the diverfities of charac- 
ter, expreffion of countenance, and of 
action,”’ 
Account of the Difeafes in an Eaftern Diftrict of Loudon, 
_ From the 20th of Sune to the 20th of Fuly. 
ee 
ACUTE DISEASES. 
No. of Cafes. 
FEBRIS Intermittens Tertiana - 
Scarlatina Anginofa = > 
Pleuritis ~ - a 
Eryfipelas 
Rheumatifmus Acutus - - 
CHRONIC DISEASES, 
Tufis ~ - - o Bs I 
Dyfpneas- - - a 
Tuflis cum Dyfpnea - she 
Hzmoptyfis - - 
Hy drops Pectoris - 
Anafarca 
Pleurodyne 
Epilepfia ~ 
Cephalagia 
Payalyfis ~ - : 
Syncope ~ - 
Hyfteria - « 
in Hw PA 
Gattrodynia - 
Diarrhea - 
Afcites ~ > = oo 
Hemorrhois 
Chlorofis 
Hernia 
Scropbula 
Smpetigo " 
Pbeumatifmus Chronicus “s 
oe 
YAN HPPWOWAIP PNYAKBPW HKHOND 
No. of Cafes. 
PUERPERAL DISEASES. 
Abfceffus Mamme ~ 2 
Menorrhagia Lochialis = - 3 
Ephemera - - - 4 
INFANTILE DISEASES. 
Pertufiis Bs Ss se 4 
Opthalmia - - % 3 
Opthalmia Purulenta - a 
Herpes - = = 3 
Tinea - 2, 
With a flate of the weather fo unufeal 
at this time of the year as that which we 
have lately experienced, and efpecially 
with a temperature of the air, continued 
for a confiderable time, fo far below the 
point to which it generally rifes at the 
prefent feafon, we might well expe& that 
the human frame, as well as the vegetable 
produétions; fhould be materially afe&ted. 
We have accordingly obferved an unufual 
prolongation of thofe complaints which 
ufually accompany fuch a fiate of the air. 
Colds and coughs, pleurifies and peripneu- 
monies, rheumatic affections end pains in 
the face, have been very frequent. Hoop- 
ing-cough, though the number of pa- 
tients labouring under it are fewer, and 
C the 
