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month, to explain a propofition which was 
niade by him in the. preceding number of 
tisis Magazine, with regard to the cure and 
management of bisa 
The writer of that article did not mean 
to fay, that in all cafes, or in the greater 
mumber, when a patient dies of fever, it 
mutt inevitably be owing taan error of the 
medical ettendant. He. wifhed merely to 
exprefs his Grm conviction, that where the 
excitabilivy had wct beea previoufly ex- 
hantied by years, or by habits of intem- 
serance or indilcretion, a perfon, who from 
the Jr fe eliag-of a febrile attack, was pro 
perly managed and attended to, which by 
the way depends as much on the patiere 
bamfelf, his friends, or his nurle, as ch his 
phylician, would never fall a victim to ere 
complaint. 
When the affertor of this opinion fha!l 
meet in his practice with a faét that op- 
pofes it, he pledges himfelf to recant his 
faith,and to publish, without any,cclouring- 
or mutilation, the alual circum#ances of 
the cafe. yy ' 
Fhe fatal error confiff's in nefitating to 
apply for any advice unui) that period of 
= dileafe when the be& advice is oftea of 
re avail—**. For went. of timely care 
miilions have died of medicable wounds.” 
A vemarkable i uplanse. of dimnefs of 
fchi that for fome months patt has been. 
peau e. 
gradually appre aching towards 
bilndsefs, which indeed has agtuaily tak 
place in one of the eyes, is at pretent un- 
der the Keporter’s care. The paiient frit 
perceived. it (Be day after fhe had been 
frightened with a violent. parcxyim of 
epriepiy. with se her bufband was art-, 
tacked jn the night. , Since that time, al- 
though. never in “the lenlt fo before, the has 
berfelf become extrem ely liable to fits, and 
is apt to fail down nie enfible upon oce2- 
fons of the flighte& degree of fagprite or or 
agitation, Ber complaint feems to con 
fit not in an injured ructare of the eye, 
but in i de! bility of the nervous fyftem tn 
genelal, that appears more particularly: ia 
that delicate and exquificely w ritable part 
ef it, wi hich is deftined for the purp peie of 
Vv fion.—It is, of courfe; neta caie tox furs 
gical, bet medical, treatment.* 
—- 
* Such. diftinGiogs, alti es the moft 
part they ought:to.be oblerved, mav fome- 
times be-carried to an abfurd and ladienas €x- 
teni. At Calais, about three yeats ago, as 
the writer was Meifeiot 1g up6n the fands of the 
fhcre, a ‘particle from theay lodged itfelf un- 
der pis upper eyelid: Happening at the mo- 
ment of the ‘accident to be near a fhop that 
wore a pharmaceutical phyfiognomy, he ene 
R eport of Difeafes. | 
She derided, medicines and Cee ane 
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She already begins to feel an alleviation 
of her complaint. She fays that ‘* fhe can 
bear the light of the fun better.” ‘Before, 
fhe was {carcely able to fee at all, unlefs 
when in the houfe or in fome other way 
fheltered from the glare of the folar rays. 
The capacity of feeing with the eye that 
is not altogether blind, is intermittent— 
© going and coming,” to ule her own 
metaphor, “ like ee fun when a cloud 
pallies over it.” The patient has likewife 
been liable to a deafnels, that may be 
traced to. the fame circumftance as gave 
rife to her ophthalmic malady. Her bear- 
ing is in a great meafure refored, which 
affords an agreeable prefage wit ch regard 
to the ultimate recovery of her fight;— 
both having | a-common origin, and alike 
tymptoms o ub Nervous debility or derange. 
ent. 
One of the feven men who lately fell, a9 
ftated in the new! ‘papers, froma Gate in 
Thames-fireet, died upen the {pots In 
confequence of the horror which this acci- 
dent excited in a near female relation who 
was before in a weak and irritable fate, 
fhe was feized witha paralytic: affection of 
all her limbs. She is now a patignt of 
the Difpenfary. 
This fa& occurring obby a few. days 
after the one jut fated, itrongly co-ope= 
rates with it in demonttrating not the un- 
limited, but the important and incalcula- 
ble power which the mental faculties and 
fenfations poflels over the. fed clings and 
energies of the body. C : 
In addition to the two ‘inftarces already 
mentioned tending to difplay the afcen. 
dency of the mind over our material or- 
ganization, the Reporier has a third cafe 
to relate which likewife came under his 
cognizance a very thort time ago, in which 
a- derangement of the body “produced: a 
Bie ep diforder in the power and, 
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perfpicacity of the upderfanding. Ft oc-. 
curred at one of thofe critical periods of 
life at which the female fex are particu- 
larly bable to an anomalous variety of dif 
eafes, efpecially to thefe to which there’is 
any hereditary ot contlitutional propenfity. 
The poor woman fancied that the faw, 
her bedi incompavied with a legion-of-devils, 
impatient to hurry ber toeternal torments; 
i, aoe 
eae to remove the. troublefunie intruder by. 
means of the feather of a. quill that was lying 
upon his deik, { 
'« The. performance of this operapiesy hows 
—‘‘je vous des 
mande pardon, nous femmes: chynvilts, pas 
ever, he fecupuloufly. declined ; 
chirurgiens, il oeft pas. a nous 2’ operer,”” 
haughtily 
