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REPORT OF DISEASES, 
In the public and private Practice of one of the Physicians of t : Finsbury Dispensary, 
Jrom the 20th of January to the. 20th of "February. 
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After so many years have elapsed of 
experience, it may easily be conceived 
that some difficuity must be felt, in 
throwing a new phy siggnomy over "me- 
dical repurts. \ Such regularly periodical 
comimunications cannot fail, when they 
have been continued for a along period, to 
lose in some measure the freshness of 
originality, er to escape the dullness of 
identity on repetition, But Jength of 
time, if it deduct irom the variety, ought 
to add somewhat’ to tie authority of a 
writer’s observations. The remarks of 
more early experience, will be ‘likely to 
be cancelled or conérmed by the acces- 
sion of subscytent intarmation, and the 
advantage of a consolidated and more 
established understanding, The Re- 
porter would never feel unwilling to re- 
tract any doctrine which he could not 
continue conscicntiously to support; and, 
without reluctance, would difute the un- 
due strength of expressions, 0 hich, how- 
ever, he might still regard, with some mo- 
dificat: ton, as funda mentally correct. To 
thesrics in physiclogical scicuce, be has 
ceased for some time to attach an csscn- 
tial importance; as he has found, that 
diferent creeds in medicine ma Ly be com- 
patible with a coincidence in practice, 
A theory is merely a mode of explaining 
facts, the existerice of which all acknow- 
ledge, and of justifying the treatment 
which the variety of sects m speculation 
would harmonize in approving, Coughs, 
and other afiectionus that wear the sem- 
blance of consanguimity to consumption, 
have, during the last month, been so we- 
neral, that it is presumed that Yee tea 
ders of these reports have been alto- 
gether unafficted by them. 
In those persons who have been born 
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with a right to the unenviable inheritance 
of pthysis, the slightest and almost in- 
distinct. assault upon the pulpenary nia- 
chinery, fearfully forbodes, i if not arrested 
im is ‘advancement, thew ultimate and 
not tardy disorgauization. 
“Several cases of paralysis have lately 
occurred, one of which terminated fatai- 
ly, in consequence, apparently, of a neg- 
ligent insufficiency m the supply of nou- 
rishipeut and stlmuiation. Lhe moment of 
the patient’s death was unperceived and 
siicui, hike a watch which stops without 
giving any sound or notice, merely be- 
cause it has not been wound up atresi, 
before the exhaustion of its functions. 
This 4s oily one, nor is it the most de- 
plorable ramification of nervous, or, as it 
has becn denominated, the English mas 
lady. | _ By its visible Mee rapid progres- 
sion, it renders itself every day more de- 
serving of the title. From its ininature 
and infantile state, exhibited merely in a 
transient and occasional fit of causeless. 
depression, or of unreasonable hilarity, 
up to the gigantic and formidable mag- 
nitude of its maturity, Madness, strides 
likea Colossus over this island. 
Those depdts for the premature cap- 
tivity of intellectual invalids, scatteréd 
m the country, evcirclinge and ‘emplauted 
jn the bosonr of the metropolis, ¢ can be 
regarded only as nurseries for, and ma- 
nufictories of; inadness 5 arsenals.é for the 
destruction of human reason, magazines 
or reservoirs of lunacy, frony which may 
be issued out, trom time to time, a suf- 
ficient supply for perpetuating, and ex- 
tending the generation of this disease :—a 
disease, which is not to be remedied by 
stripes or strait-waistcoats, by umprison- 
ment or impoverishment, but by an uns 
wearied tenderness, -and an wiceasing 
vicilance and exertion. 
Tu the miscellany of patients that are 
enclosed together in an insane Asylum, 
there are few that can sympathize, or 
form an asa ty or asscciation with each 
ether. Rel suicholy seeks to shelter it- 
self under the shadow of solitude. The 
visit even of the morning teht is felt as 
anintrusion, ‘The svu’s rays cast a dark- 
hess over the mind. Juterruption of 
any kind produces distraction, . ‘The us- 
fortunate victim loves to fea: st UW pon his 
ment of misery, without disturbance or 
controu, A giuttonous indulgence in 
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[March 1, 
