1808.] 
phyry pillars, the capitals and bases ex- 
ecuted in silver. On the walls are paint- 
ed designs, representing a vineyard in- 
termixed with emblems of the seasons. 
From the cornice is suspended a sweep- 
ing drapery of azure biue silk, trimmed 
with biack velvet, and a similar drapery 
1s attached to every door and window. 
rn} ee % a a 4 
Lhe anti-rooms are fitted up ima style of 
equal elegance. 
Ata meeting of the Royal Academici- 
aus, On tbe 1Uch of December, 1807, Mr. 
Tresham was elected professor of paint- 
ing. Mr. W. Turner, professor of per- 
Report of Diseases. 
587 
spective. Mr. Lascelles Hoppner, Mr, 
Hoppner’s son, obtained the gold medal 
for paiuting. | 
- The statue of Napoleon, from a mould ~ 
executed by Canova, who is termed on 
the Continent another Praxiteles, has 
lately been cast at Naples, and exposed 
to public inspection. : 
The sum of twenty thousand rix dol- 
lars, which had been collected to erect a 
monument to Luther, at Mensfeldt, have 
been seized 6n by the war contribution, 
aid the monumental peculation has been 
put oif until the year 1808. 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
In the public and private Practice of one of the Physicians of the Finsbury’ Dispensary, 
; Srom tie 20th of November to the 20th of December. 
J 
aise se ee ee eee demanded. until all. that 1s. lett: forshin 
Catafrnus 7-......-...-...------15 “to do, 1s te soothe, the patient and to 
Neuroses .....---- settee eee eee 12 mock his sympathizing triends with ialse 
Asthenia and Dyspepsia ~-...------2-- 21 aid traiterous promises of speedy ame- 
A Sy Pat ace ac lioration and ultunate recovery. The 
Torte een es ee. > subject ot true cobsumption seidom an 
Vere ine reese haa 3 ticipates the approximation of his tate, 
Sa Ee tee ee q He often fancies, within a few moments 
Pani ee PRES sere ore ... 2 Of ls extinction, that the mouldering 
Fiysveria es oe ee ie | veeers..¢.,, 4* flame of life is kindling afresh. 
Epilepsia .... 1 
Ghana teretals eet ieterever sco. 5 owe te Saat ore ted. 
NMenorchwerie ceed esate gases ee eri 6 
Amenuorrea 3) 
me) feral Werte. wag te lepe ce veliet) oi Moe 1 
Lettconriiced <6. seer tet eee eee 
UL eTET EC OPiS sha) ae SRS EN a Ee REN SS 17 
Mosby Infantilies ..cisifaee Gm oes. 50 Big, | 
It is a grievous and ungracious task, 
almost every month imposed upon the 
Reporter, to urge the awful and irre- 
parable mischief of delay, with regard 
to the use of remedial means in tie 
nasceucy of pulmonary consumption. 
Butonasubjectso universally and vitally 
important, there is no impertivence in 
tautology. Ou the contrary, it is a duty 
otticially incumbent on the part of the 
medical parole, to repeat frequently a 
warning, which cannot be too sirongly 
enforced. Admonition, for a certain 
time, little regarded, may be compared 
to the dropping of a particle of water, 
which, although, at first it produces no 
effect that is apparent, will, by a sufh- 
cient reiteration, dig a deep and per- 
manent impression into the hardest and 
miost impenetrable stone. 
In imost cases of this disease, no as- 
sistance is sought for, until the best can 
be of little use. The physician is seldom 
Monterxy Mac., No. 165, 
The receiving of a pecuniary recom- 
pence. under such circumstances, is like 
taking a fee from a corpse. Professional 
attendance would have been equally 
availing had it been posthwmous, aiter 
the patient had been imprisoned in his 
coffin, and with holy rites solemnly de- 
posiied in the sepulchral vault. 
Cotds, 1dependently of pthisical dis- 
organization, or tendency abound at this 
period of the year, for the most part ace 
companied with asthmatic afiections, 
and attacking with peculiar frequency 
those who are far advanced in life. 
Winter is cruel to old age. 
celerates the descent of life. 
At the ultimate or penultimate stave of 
its existence, the intense severity, alter= 
nating with the equally debilitating damps 
of the season, often puts a stop to the 
action of that machinery, which has been 
exliausted by the slowly progressive de- 
predation of time. 
Yhe remark of Dr. Franklin, con- 
cerning colds, with regard to the truth of 
which, an appeal was made to the Re- 
porter in the last number of the Monthly 
Magazine, he has no scruple te pro- 
nounce, although in acertain degree, yet 
not accurately well founded. Colds cer= 
4 iL tainly, 
It ac- 
