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obfervation. Upon the furface of the bo- 
dy, more efpecially in hot weather, when 
the fecretion is more rapid, ftratum upon 
ftratum of filth is apt to accumulate, 
which, although not vifible to the naked 
eye, produces, in addition. to a fenfe of 
languor and other difagreeable feelings, 
febrile, and a multitude of cutaneous 
difeafes. To the latter it is feldom that 
any external applications ought to be ad- 
miniftered, but that of warm or cold wa- 
ter. | 
If cleanlinefs, in the moft accurate and 
rigid fenfe of the word, were generally 
adopted, thefe complaints, and indeed a 
large proportion of other complaints, 
would be fenfibly diminifhed, and perhaps 
exterminated altogether. 
At this period it is a paffion amongft the 
inhabitants of the metropolis to pay a tem- 
porary vifit tothe country ; but it isa pal- 
fion founded upon a falfe philofophy. An 
excurfion into the country no doubt tti- 
mulates and enlivens ; but, like other fli- 
mulants, it aéts only for a fhort time, and 
appears to produce, in fome cafes, a fimi- 
lar exhauftion. It is a chimerical idea, 
that you can lay up a ftock of health for 
the winter; that is a fpecies of property 
which cannot be funded. 
There is a difference between air and 
atmofphere, fince a multitude of mechani. 
cal particles, in many fituations, mix with 
the latter, which do not form chemical 
components of the former. Thefe hete- 
rogenous ingredients are in this place 
owing, in a great meafure, to effluvia 
from the manufactories, workfhops, &c. 
of the city ; on which account it is de- 
firable for the inhabitants of that com- 
mercial diftriét, when circumftances allow 
Marriages and Deaths in and near London, 
613. 
of it, to feek for their hours of leifure and 
repofe, an alylum in the more wettern 
parts of the metropolis. 
After all, it is not the atmo/phere 
nearly fo much as the habits of London 
to which we are to attribute the difeafgs 
and comparative relaxation and debility 
of its inhabitants. 
The writer does not flatter himfclf, 
that he is able, or if he were able, would 
he with to give any check to the fafhion 
of emigration. 
To thofe who haveno other occupation, 
that which affumes the name of amufe- 
ment is of indifpenfable importance. _ 
Occupation in faé, is every thing. 
It is an immutable decree of Providence, 
that no one can enjoy, who does not ad? 5 
and that the health of our faculties of 
body, as well as mind, depends ina great 
meafure upon the temperate and regular 
ufe of them, 
The opinions of the Reporter may ap- 
pear too pofitive. Decifionis of:en called 
dogmatifm. But no one can confcienti- 
oufly, or if he be confcientious, comfort. 
ably practife medicine, who has any 
doubts with regard to the theory and ap- 
plication of the fcience. _ 
To prefcribe witha hefirating mind, is 
not lefs dangerous, than to operate with a 
trembling hand. 
Sceptici{m in phyfic, as in other branches 
of ftudy, indicates no fuperiority: bu’, on 
the contrary, betrays either a defect of 
knowledge, or an obfcurity and inaccu- 
racy of intelleCtual conception. 
J. Rei. 
Southampton Row, 
Ruffell-/quare. 
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“MARRIAGES anp DEATHS 1n anp near LONDON, 
With Biographical Memoirs of diftinguifhed Characters recently deceafed. 
The direétors of the Royal Hofpital, 
Greenwich, have lately ordered an increafe 
in the number of feamen’s fons, educated in 
the Hofpital, by the admiffion of fifty more 
boys to the benefit of the eftablifhment. 
MARRIED. 
Henry Hill, efq. of Wandfworth Common, 
to Mifs Mitchell, of Abingdon-ftreet, Weft- 
minfter, 
At St. Mary-le-bone church, Dr. Fordes, 
efq. of Stowrey, Somerfet, to Mifs M. Beef- 
ton, of Manchetter-ftreet, 
Mr. Fofbury, wine-merchant, of Billiter- 
lane, to Mrs. T. Thomas, of the hotel, 
Berkley-{quare. 
At St. Dunftan, in the Eaft, Dayid Fore 
MenTuHLY Maa. No. 116. 
fyth, efq. of St. Peterfburgh, to Mifs C. 
Jackfon, of Idol-lane. 
Major Francis Haftings Doyle, to Mifs 
Milner, daughter of Sir William Milner, 
bart. 
At Newington, Surrey, Richard Saumae 
rez, efq. to Mrs. Hetherington, of Burrow’s 
Buildings. : 
At St. James’s church, Captain Gabriel, 
of the Hon. Eaft India Company’s Madrafs 
eftablifhment, to Mifs Harriet Court. 
Capt. W. Hotham, of the royal navy, to 
Mifs Jeynes, daughter of Sir Edwin Jeynes, 
of Gloucefter. 
At St. George’s church, Frederic Grant, 
efq. of Red Lion-fquare, to Mifs Wood, 
4L daughter 
