1803.] 
If any perfon thall commit wilful per- 
jury, or fuborn any perfon to take a falfe 
oath, fuch perfon fhall incur the pains of 
perjury, or fubornation of perjury. § 20. 
_ Aétions for any thing done in purfuance 
of this aét, fhall be commenced within 
three calendar months, and brought 
within the proper county ; and the de- 
Lift of Difeafes. 
fendant may plead the general iffue, and 
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if the jury fhall find for the defendant, 
&c. &c. the defendant fhall recover dou- 
ble-cofts. § 21. 
Nothing in this a& fhall alter any law 
‘for the reitri€tion of artificers from pafling 
to parts beyond the feas. § 22. 
ACCOUNT orf rue DISEASES rn LONDON, 
From the 20th of Fuly to the 20th of Auguft. 
Admitted under the Care of the Phyfictans of the Finfoury Difpenfary. 
No. of Cafes. 
peo aN ae Sik Se gee ree erie Sire 9 
OME IG Gh chicas hee siren lites) a gee 12 
Dy fora: cama aie om gerne eee een te - FS 
MER ein a ee ies Sa ee 32 
PRMOph Vise oni ee ee ee oer eh 
LisleMer ids Haws cine en ee ees 6 
Gee ee ee Cee we eee 10 
Dare carats a alae on oh wilh ee 1S 
Pn ee, a ee ra iain a itr p 29 
Wlenurcae en Cee SS oe A ee OO 
Leelenyihabacs Oo. ieee wee ee wie alee oo 5 
POU epOAG bisa eee sen eg en. 7 
PU ee PE ATAUALCS fin. renin en es eo 1y 
PAGING SB e eee a ninle tees eA 3 
6 APS TACITUS meer eh wc wor ecteceeeeee 2 
WARN i Be 2 ate hh a eh henye hel me im 2 12 
Dhowbi Aight es no we cee - 2 = ee nie 30 
DeRose ye ee 39 
Little of importance or fingularity ap- 
_pears for the laft month on the records of 
_ the Finfbury Difpenfary. It is not, how. 
ever, unworthy of remark, that between 
the 20th of July andthe fame day of the 
prefent Auguit, there has occurred a much 
fmaller proportion of febrile cafes than 
during the fame portion of any of the pre- 
ceding years of the Reporter’s obfervation. 
In his account inferted in the Magazine 
for Auguft 1800, which now lies upon his 
table, fever of the afthenic kind appears 
the pre-eminent and almoft only ferious 
diforder ; whereas for feveral weeks paft 
this fever has fcarcely fhewn itfelf at 
all. The prevailing ftate of mental 
excitement, it is. not impoffible, may 
operate fo far as a ftimulus to the fa. 
culties of the body, as to enable them to 
refit, in a certain degree, the influence of 
debilitating agents. By a happy con- 
trivance of Nature, the exiftence of one 
fpecies of diftrefs has, in many -inftances, 
a tendency to prevent the occurrence, or 
to check the prevalence, ofanother. Itis 
ordained-that a certain meafure of cala- ' 
mity fhould invariably mix itfelf, as a 
component part, in the mafs of terreftrial 
experience. With regard to different 
perfons, as well as to the public, at diffe. 
rent periods, it may be obferved, that the 
principle of evil, although infinitely di- 
verfifed in the external and obvious fhape 
which it aflumes, is univerfal, and, much 
more than is generally imagined, impar- 
tial in the exercife of its power. It is the 
kind, rather than the degree, of happinefs 
or mifery, which conftitutes the real diffe- 
rence between the apparently various lots 
either of individuals or of generations of 
men. 
Remarks like thefe, which are fo purely 
of a moral nature, might in this place re- 
quire fome apology for their infertion, if 
it were not for the fterility of the late fea~ 
fon with regard to medical facts and oc- 
currences. Since the difappearance of the 
Influenza, there has occurred a period re- 
markably barren of difeafes. In another 
month, however, it is probable that the 
writer of this article will have occafion to 
give a reprefentation lefs favourable with 
regard to the health of that portion of the 
metropolis which lies within the {phere of 
his infpeétion and official care. 
Cholera, itis likely, will, ina very fhort 
time, affume the formidable charagter of 
an epidemic, which is not merely diftrefs~ 
ing in its fymptoms, but, if not feafon- 
ably checked, is, in moft inftances, re- 
markably rapid in its progrefs towards a 
fatal termination. 
| J. Reip. 
Southampton-row, Ruffell-(quare, 
Aug. 25, 1803. 
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