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as well judged, and produces an effcé 
Rochly advantageous to the compofition, 
Gos Witches. A Glee for Three Voices. Sung 
at the Ladies Concerts, the Theatre Royals 
Covent Garden, @c. Gc.’ Tie Words fe~ 
lefled from the firfi Scene of Macbeth, and 
fet ta Mufic by M. P. King. 
Mr. King has exhibited a refpectable de- 
gree of feience im this glee; but, at the 
fame time, we mult in candour fay, we 
tvace a want of that adroiine/s in the dif- 
pofition of the fads, which, perhaps, can 
enly refult from long habit and experience. 
‘Fhe bafs paflage at ‘* When the hurly 
furly’s done’? is boldly and. charaéterif- 
tically conceived ; and its repetition, ter- 
minating in the flat feventh of the key, is 
mafterly and judicious: nor, indeed, are 
we lefs pleafed with the little fpecimen of 
Lift of Difeapes. 
{ Jan. 1, 
imitation, when the time changes to tempo 
Siufio, nor with that where the upper and 
under parts break in upon the tenor in the 
laft page. 
‘¢ The poor little Child of a Tar’ A much ad- 
mired Ballad. The Words written by Thomas 
George Ingall.. The Mufic compofed by an 
Amateur. 5. 
We do not find, in. this little produétion, 
as far as re{pects the mutic, any particular 
claims to our commendation. ‘The melody 
is infipid, common-place, and void of ex- 
prefion; and the bais awkward and in- 
artificial. Thefe material defeéts, how- 
ever, as we conceive, are more the refult 
of inexperience than abfolute deltitution 
of genius ; and we would by no means 
difcourage the compofer from future ef- 
forts in this caft of vocal mufic. 
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SS SS 
ACCOUNT oF tHe DISEASES 1s LONDON, | 
From.the 20th of November to the 20th of December. 
Admitted under the Care of the Phyficians of the Finfbury Difpenfary. 
—= 
No. of Cafes. 
BEEUMATISMUS e “ 36 
**© Catarrhus et Tuiiis ze = 47 
‘typhus = - = = : 
My pochondriafis - = 9 
Wyferia - - w 15 
Scarlatinag - = + 18 
Dyfpnea = 2. = 13 
Adthenia - = ~ 29 
B emopty fis - . eek i 
Dyfenteria - - = 6 
€holera - = a 3 
Amenorrhea: - ~ =e) 
Menorrhagia = - = 17 
Beucorrhea - ~ os 12 
Epilepfia fe = as IO 
Afcites et Anafarca 5 ws 22 
Angina - 2 - - t; 
Paralyfis. - - a 13 
Bflerbi Cutanei - = 33 
Morbi Infantiles = - 45 
Rheumatifm and catarrh are, as it is 
ufual at this period of the year, the predo- 
minating diforders, and, in confequence of 
the exterior circumftances of the poor, are 
more particularly fo in that clafs of feci- 
ety. The poor want, at leaft, in this me- 
ropolis, nearly every thing that is necef- 
fary to fupport them under, cr to guard 
them againf#, the almoft unprecedented vi- 
-eiffitudes of the prefent feafon*®. 
* sce Meteorol. Reports Monthly Maz. 
Rheumatifm, efpecially that which at- 
tacks the impoverifhed conititution of 
the miferable labourer and mechanic, as 
it, for the moft part, arifes from deficient 
ftrength, is, in a large proportion of cafes, 
not likely to be, cured by bleeding, or any 
of the other debilitating remedies. ‘Thefe 
muft have a tendency to aggravate the 
morbid iritability of the frame, and, by 
this means, not only to increafe the fuf- 
ceptibility of pain, but likewife to produce 
a chronic continuance of the dileafe, a 
{tate which is found to be much more ob- 
flinate in its refiftance to medical treat- 
ment, than the acute paroxyfms of the dif ~ 
order. 
Bark, fteel, wine, opium, nourifhing diet, 
and flannel,are, beyond all queftion,the mof * 
effectual, and perhaps the only, remedies, 
in the generality of rheumatic affections ; 
at leat, when they occur in that rank of 
patients to which the attention of the Re- _ 
porter has, by his official fituation, been 
more permanently and efpecially direét- 
ed. 
The fact is, that inflammatory difeafes 
are almoft become ob/folete. ‘The bold and 
energetic practice of Sydenham, which, at 
-his time, was, perhaps, wife and judicious, 
cannot be followed, at the prefent moment, 
and in the exifting tate and habits of fociety, 
e without 
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