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[Nov. 1, 
REPORT OF DISEASES, | 
Fa the public and prwate Practice of one of the Physicians of the Finsbury Dispensary, 
from the Wih of September to the 20th of October. — 
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In the lif prefatery to this Report, 
pulmonary consumption, in consequence 
of the temporary ebsence of any parti- 
eular epidemic, holds amore than usually 
prominent and distinguished rank, 
Phthysis, however, is a disease. of no 
individual season; but is attached alike 
to all the stages and the various vicissi- 
tudes of the year. 
There is no sign of the zodiac which 
exempts us from this calamity. 
Slaring illustrations have recently oc- 
enrred to the Reporter, bf the fatal folly 
ot delay, in the emptoyment of the means 
nceessary for preventing the attack, or 
arrefting the progress, of the mc s- formi- 
dable foe that we have to our physical 
constitution. 
The imperfeét fetus of this malady 
may be annihilated in the womb.—— 
But after it has been negligently allowed 
to acquire a more entire formation and 
a further development, there is danger 
that the infant Hercules may prove tuo 
powerful for at least ordinary resistance 
or counteraction. 
The other day, a Lady, under the Re- 
porter’s care, observed, “ That she should 
be very well, only for her cough.”—The 
importance of that word “on Ly” she did 
wot, nor do the world in general, suth- 
ciently appreciate. . 
The sound of a cough, in the phthysi- 
cally disposed, ought to strike upon the 
eur as a fearful foreboding of the funereal 
toll. 
impeded breathing, even in the slight- 
est de 
more alarming aspect. 
Any obstacle to, or restraint upon, the 
free sweep and fair play of the lungs, 
either notices their actual, or menaces 
¢licir approaching, laceration. 
[If the machinery of respiration have 
not amplitude of rom fer 1ts movements 
degree, 1s a symptom of- perhaps still - 
in the cavity of the thoracic chest, it 
cannot fail to be injured, in the same 
manner as a body would be mutilated or 
deformed, by being crammed into any 
other chest, which is not fully commen- 
surate to lis size. : 
The person who breathes with labour, 
will seldom breathe long;* unless the 
obstructions to the performance of that 
essential function are speedily detected, 
and hastily and radically removed. 
?ain In the side, nocturnal or matin 
perspirations, the crimson circle of hectic, 
2 gradually, somermes hastily, advancing 
emaciation and debility, are subsequent 
pages in this volume of disease:—a volume 
which is seldom inspected, or at least is 
not carefully perused, until the last chap- 
ter of it is drawn near towards its lamen- 
table eonelusion, 
If we conquer this disease, we must 
attack it on the threshold. 
“ De toutes choses les naissances sont 
foibles et tendres. Pourtant’taut-il avoir 
les yeux ouverts aut commencemens. Car 
comme alors en sa petitesse on ne dé- 
couvre pas le danger,—quand il est 
accru, on n’en découvre plus le rémede.” 
MontTaIGne. 
The raze for the coast, has, in conse- 
quence of the approach of winter, for 
the present, ina great measure subsided. 
This is an unfortunate passion for those 
who have any phthysical propensity.— 
These excursions a hectical patient can- 
not bear, without an important degree 
of injury or risk, - 
The shocks of immersion in the sea 
must be particularly perilous to a young 
person who has any pulmonary irritation, 
or 1s afflicted with general debility. 
The cemeteries of almost every water- 
- Ing-place, are uncommonly and even in- 
decently crowded with sepulchral monu- 
ments of melancholy misunderstanding, 
with regard to the cause, character, and 
suitable management of this disease. 
For consumption, heme is the best 
* The exception to this general rule seems 
to occur in cases of spasmodic asthma. For 
a much-valued friend, who is occasionally 
affiicted with this complaint, the Reporter, 
in consequence of an application from one of 
the offices of insurance, not long since, con- 
scientiously gave a favourable certificate with 
regard to the security and probable longitude 
of his life. 
hospital, 
