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which this publication consists, form an 
zgreeable sonata, and a useful exercise for 
the finger. They are conceived with much 
vivacity of imagination, possess many 
well-constructed and striking passages, 
and place Mr. Gildon’s talents, in this 
species of composition, in an advantage- 
ous point of view. 
4A familiar Duet for two Performers on one Piano= 
forte. Composed by Jobn Monro. 3s. 
This duet (in which Mr. Monro has 
introduced the celebrated Scotch air “ O 
Nanny wilt thou go wi? me?”) is-written 
with ability. The subject of the opening 
movement is firm and energetic, the bor- 
Report of Diseases. 
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rowed air is decorated with judgment, the 
concluding rondo is cheerful and pleasing, 
and the combination of the four parts, 
evinces considerable science an@ skill. 
The admired Spanish Air, danced asa Pas Deutz, 
by Miss Lupine and Mr. Noble, in the Grand 
Balle: of the Castilian Minstrel; alsoin the 
fevourite Spanish Divertisement at ihe Englisk 
Opera. Arranged as a Rondo for the Piano= 
forte, by Henry R. Bishop, esq. 25. 
In this air we find much of the true 
Spanish character. Mr. Bishop has 
worked it into an exercise for the piano= 
forte, and in that shape it will, we doubs 
not, find many admirers, ~ 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
Under the Care of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from thé 
20th of July to the 20th of August, 1810. . 
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HE writer of this article has been 
often asked for a remedy for watch- 
fulness, or broken and unquiet sleep. 
He has Iately had a patient who had tried 
nearly all the inedicinal or dietetic opi- 
ates, as well as other methods, for pro- 
ducing the same effect, without obtaining 
the object of his wishes. The reporter 
recommended a trial of the cold bath, 
which hé had found in some former in- 
stances to prove narcotic, where other 
experiments had failed, and it has not in 
this latter case altogether disappointed his 
expectation. At the conclusion of the 
day on which this invalid has bathed, he 
invariably feels a disposition to sleep, al- 
though on other nights he continues to 
“experience his former wakefulness. The 
cold bath is by no means a novel pre- 
scription for the malady we are speaking 
of: we find Horace long ago recommen- 
ding it— 
«Transnanto Tiberim, somno quibus est 
opus alto.” 
Next to involuntary vigilance, ranks 
the almost equal distress of anxious and 
agitated slumber. It is sufficiently known 
that the condition of the mind in sleep, - 
is modified by the occurrences and im- 
pressions of the previous day; but we. 
are not perhaps equally aware, that 
dreams cannot tail to have a certain de- 
gree of reciprocal influence upon our 
ideas and sensations during the waking 
state. 
sick man, depends much upon his good 
or his bad night; and, although in a less 
degree, the same circumstance affects’ 
alike those who are considered as well, 
z 
The good or the bad day of the 
The due digestion of our food is scarcely 
more necessary to health, as it relates 
even to the body, and more especially 
as it concerns the mind, than the sound- . 
ness and serenity of ourslumbers. After 
a night of fancy-created tempest, it is 
not to be expected that we should 
at once regain our composure. © The 
heaving of the billows continues for some 
time after the subsidence of the storm; 
the troubled vibrations survive the delu= 
sion which at first occasioned them; the 
nerves, for many hours after the cause 
has ceased, retain the impression of dis- 
order. aie 
The feelings with which we awake de= 
termines, ina great measure, the character 
of the future day. Each day, indeed, 
may be regarded. as a miniature model 
of the whole of human life; in which the 
appearance of its first, seldom fails to 
give a cast and colour to its succeeding 
stages. The comfortable or opposite 
condition of our consciousness imme- 
diately subsequent upon sleep, for the 
most part indicates the degree in whicla _ 
we possess a sound and healthy state of 
constitution, To those who are in the 
unbroken vigour of life, the actof awaken- 
ing is an act of enjoyment; every feel- 
‘ing is then refreshed, and every faculty — 
Is in @ manner regenerated; it is a new - 
birth to a new world: but to the hypo- 
chondriacal invalid, or to the .untuned 
and unstrung votary ‘and victim of 
fashionable and frivolous dissipation, the 
morning light is an intruder. During his — 
perturbed and restless process of conva- 
lescence from a diseased dream, he real-- . 
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