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ACCOUNT or THE DISEASES tin LONDON, 
From the 20th of Auguft to the 20th of September. 
Admitted under the Care of the Phyficians of the Finfoury Difpenfary. 
No. of Cafes. 
(CHOLERA ah ee Rika no wid at ae ae iia hate 39 
MCU MIATNMIMS t.k oO, Se kee ee 18 
Gstarehus ce eee. cle eae ae 21 
Hamopryfis. .......- DPT OL GP LEK Ets 4 
Dytenterias Orewa eC oe ee re 
‘Ryppimss eee eae Cn ey teas, 
Afcetes ett Anafarca.;..2 2% «~~ See 2 
PREM he aa aie ema olay aie ess oh OG 
Amenorrhea fktis cokes ee eee bo 17 
Menotehawia ioc ninies- = ecm 3 
Leucorrlicea’ o's fs a wie sc Dee Boe re a 2 6 
Peyime ole i We sa Ree. emt ta aihre a. 2 to 26 
SCHMMIVMEN Ob h eS nt Se ne Sh Rie leh ares 3 
Paveiibarars ts ao ak sient ee leo MS ea EE 7 
BAG NS fete totes pitas bina h wine ee caste ae 2 
RAE hr Be ee cee eas Hahei en 4. 
WPOPUR NSE enen Ae on ee 22 
Wr Eira ites) oa aa ie Se ee 27 
_ Cholera, as it was predicted, has be- 
come the predominant diftemper of the 
feafon. There was little rifk in prophe- 
fying the fpeedy recurrence of a com- 
plaint which has, in this ifland at leaft, 
fo invariably attached itfelf to the au- 
tumnal pericd of the year. It has been 
generally afcribed to the eating of fruit. 
This, however, although it fometimes 
may act as an exciting caufe, can by no 
means explain the exiffence of a prevail- 
ing predilpofition to inte(tinal diforder. 
"Phe treatment of this m alady is fimple, 
and when early enough apphed, almoft 
uniformly fuccefsful in its refult. But 
no time is to be loft in the managément of 
a complaint which clofes not unfrequently 
the lite of the affli&ted and exhaufted pa- 
tient in lefs than twenty-four and fome- 
times even of twelve hours, after the com- 
mencement of its attack. It is one of 
the difeafes of the human frame which 
impreffes ftrongly the folly and :mminent 
danger of medical procraftination. 
Seldom, in perilous and acute diforders, 
are more than a few hours allotted to the 
_ practitioner, for the effectual exercife of 
his fkili; which, if froma timid hefita- 
tion with regard to the treatment, or too 
late a detection of the a&tual effence of the 
cafe, he unfortunately permits to efcape 
uniinproved, no future exertion of recol- 
leétion or fagacity can avail to counteract 
the milchievous and fometimes fatal con- 
fequence of his error or neglect. A more 
tha. ordinary guickne/s of mental fight, is 
the diftin-uifhing and radical conitituent 
Monga.y Mac. No. 106. 
in the character of a pre-eminently quali-, 
fied phyfician.* 
Of typhus and rheumatifm, a confi- 
derable number has occurred during the 
laft month. Concerning the former difeate, 
the Reporter will appear, perhaps, ale 
ready to have faid more than was at all 
interefling or important. With regard to 
the latter, he takes this frefh opportunity 
of repeating, that when it attacks the 
poor and laborious part of the communi- 
ty, relief is more frequently derived from 
chalybeate and Peruvian corroborants than 
from the more ufual adminiftration of re- 
laxing, evacuating, and fudorific, reme- 
dies. Itis too common for thole to regu- 
late the treatment of adifeafe' by its aame, 
who are ignorant, or do not refleé that a 
difference in the age, the fex, the previous 
habits or original ttamina of the patient 
cannot fail, in every inftance, to create 
an important diverfity in the character of 
the diforder. Paely a fingledifeafecan be 
pointed out in the fy fem of nofology, 
which is not capable, in different cireum- 
fiances, of being cured by methods diame- 
trically oppofite to each other, 
This remark may be fretched, without 
danger of weaken\ng its fuked even to 
the cafe of an apoplectic patient, who, al- 
though he is, and ought in general to be, 
treared on a plan decidedly and purely 
antiphlogiltic, in many inftances may be 
* Anadvocate at the Scotch bar, uniformly 
brilliant from the fcintillations of his wit, 
once, by an ebullition of it peculiarly happy, 
excited a convulfion of laughter, that fpread 
univerfally around him, with the exception 
only of one learned gentleman on the bench, 
whofe gravity appeared undifturbed by the 
bon-mot ; until, after many minutes of fo- 
lemn confideration, and when the orator was 
occupied with another topic of his harangue, 
he fuddenly exclaimed, to the no fmall furprife 
and amufement of he’ court, §¢ Ob, I fee it 
mow !?ameThe tardy perception of the venerae 
ble judge betrayed, on an occafion like the 
above, was highly pleafant and entertaining ; 
but, how different from pleafant or enter 
taining, would the difcovery of a fimilar 
flownefs of difcernment be in a medical prac- 
titioner, wlio, after the mortal termination 
of a difeafe, the nature of which he had nct 
previouily afcertained, fhould be beard to 
exclaim, 6 Ob, I fee it now!” 
Na reltored, 
