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dofes, has frequently put a fpeedy termi- — 
nation to the difeafes. OF this frightful 
diforder he has, at the_prefent momest, no 
Jefs than jixteen cafes under his profeffional 
fuperintendance. The patients are all 
young, from ten to feventzen years of age. 
‘The greater part of them are females; but 
‘ome remarkable inftance has occurred in 
‘which the complaint has been for feveral 
- generations exclufively hereditary in the 
male branches of the family. In young 
women, hyfteria, when its attacks have 
been violent, and frequently repeated, fs 
apt to degenerate into epileply. | The 
line of diftinétion, indeed, between thefe 
difeafes is too faintly marked, to be, in 
every inftance, pofitively afcertamed by the 
mott clear-fighted and difcriminating phy- 
fician. One very curious eafe has occur- 
red this month of a’ girl, feventeen years 
old, who, for a confiderable time, has been 
liable. to Jong-continued paroxy{ms of 
abfulute in‘enfibility. In any one of her 
intervals of irritable and vivacious exif- 
tence, fhe has not been able to give an ac- 
count of, or to retain the mot obicure 
remembrance of her previous fiate of tor- 
pidity.. The fingular complaint of this 
patient was preceded by the ordinary 
fymptoms of hyfteria. To the medica! 
obferver, it cannet be difficult, from exif- 
‘ting _ circumftances and phenomena, to 
perceive the precife nature, and to dete&t 
the immediare and fole caufe of her dread- 
ful, although, in all probability, not-ulti- 
mately fatal, malady. 
_. Theexciting and corroborating reme- 
dies, which have been vigoroufly and per- 
tmaciouily adminifiered, have, at lengta, 
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produced a temporary fafpenfon of the 
difeafe, and the semblance, at leait, of aa ' 
abfolute and radieal recovery. 
The writer, on many of his epileptic 
patients, has tried the operation of the 
ele&ric fluid: hut, although it,in gene- 
ral, has the effect of awakening fentation 
for a moment, it is not likely that the 
abrupt operation of fo powerful an agent, 
fhonld produce any important or perma- 
nent impreffion upon a chronic, and what 
epilepfy invariably is, an hereditary difor- 
der. Eleétricity is of well-tried and, fpe- 
cife utility im amenorrhea, and perhaps 
in fome other difeafes where the cure can, 
in many inftances, be effeGted oniy by 2 
violent agitation er movement of the cor- 
poreal fyttem. 
But, with regard to thofe morbid af- 
fettions, of, more accurately fpeakings 
thofe pre-difpofitions to morbid affeétion, 
which are either before our birth imp!ant- 
ed, or by the influence of exterior firua- 
tion, or inveterate habitse have been gra- 
dually eftablithed in our frame. iittle elfe 
is to:be prefcrib<d, to the patien’, inaddi- 
tion to a vigilant and unecahige care to 
avoid any circumftance, which may awa- 
ken the fleeping propenftty to difeafe, than 
to adopt habituailythat regimen acd method 
of life, «and occafionally the ufe of thofe 
pharmaceutical remedies, which are cal- 
culated to preferve or refiore the health, 
and by.a flow and almo& imperceptibie 
influence, to give additional vigour to the 
fiamina of the canftitution. J. Rei. 
25, Laff frrect, Red Lion-fquare. 
Oftober 25, 2802, 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, ann DEATHS, in aNp near LONDON. 
With Biographical Memoirs of diftinguifhed Charaters recently deceafed. 
On Wednefday, Auguft 6, 2 Common-hall 
was held at Guild-hall, for the ele@tion of 
‘a Lord Mayor for the enfuing year. Between 
two.and three o’clock, the Lord Mayor, Re- 
corder, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, came upoa 
the Huftings, when the Hali was proclaimed. 
The Recorder, according to ufual pra€tice, in- 
formed the Livery of the purpofe for which 
theyhad been convened. The lift of the feveral 
Aldermen eligible to that office was then read. 
The Sherifis then declared, that the choice of 
the Livery had fallen upon Charles Price, efc. 
ané John Perrin, efqg. The Lord Mayor, Ai- 
dermen, &c. then returned to the Council- 
room, in order to ele one of the two per- 
fons propoied by the Livery. Having re- 
turned, the Recorder announced to the Li- 
very, thet the Lord Mayor and Aldermen had 
proceeded to a fcrutiny, and thar they had 
declared C Price, efg. Lord Mayor of the 
City-of Lendon for the enfuing year. The 
enfign of office, the gold chain, was then 
put round Mr. Alderman Price’s neck, and 
the worthy Alderman returned thanks to 
the Livery, in a concife, but pertinent, 
fpeech. 
Intended Improvements in the Metropolis. —A 
pian has been lately proje&ted, which will, 
Bo doubt, be carried into effc&, as foon as 
pofiible, for forming a beautiful amphicne- 
atre in the quarter called Moorfieids, which 
will be confiderably enlarged by the removal} 
cae of 
