1810} 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
] SHOULD be much obliged to any 
of your correspondents, who will 
inform me of a cure for the roup in fowls. 
i have now several chickens labouring 
under this disorder, and have not found 
tlie usual remedies in any degree effec- 
tual. The disease is well known to be 
contagious, and is indicated chiefly by a 
diificult and neisy respiration, I have 
known it continue for near two years, 
and never have seen any case in which it 
was fatal, though it is commonly reputed 
a mortal disorder. In young chickens 
perhaps it is so; and I have now some, 
whose growth is apparently stopped by 
it. As it is one of the valuable distinc- 
tions of your publication to circulate in- 
telligeuce of domestic use, I hope that 
the insertion of this inguiry will not be 
contrary to your rules. 
A Mripovesex Farmer. 
~——L Seo 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
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N writing the preface to~ the Ency- 
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in particular, from Dr. Kirby, that the 
article Physiology, attributee by mistake 
_to another gentleman, was written by 
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Farriery, Geography, Geolovy, Materia 
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_ To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
sin, 
AS Bs ROUGH the whole of the Potte- 
B ries, a district which extends near 
ten miles, and comprehends a population 
of about 50,000 people, asthma is a pres 
vailing disorder. 
Strangers usually feel the ill effects of 
our smokes, and great numbers before: 
' the meridian of life, suffer severely from 
~ this complaint. : 
Situated amidst so many asthmatic 
| subjects, I felt a peculisr interést in the’ 
Is the Nightingale a distinct Species? 
235 
observations of your benevolent corre~: 
spondent, Verax, on the use of stramo- 
nium, and have been. waiting in hope of 
seeing some additional remarks on the 
best method of preparing and employing, 
it, as weil as for fresh instances of its 
utihity. 0° te 
The remarks of Agricola appear te 
have originated in the unavailing use of 
gums, tinctures, extracts, &c. and not 
10 the unsuccessful trial of stramonium. 
If Agricola had given stramonium a fair 
trial, he would have been entitled to a 
andid hearing; but as this does not, from 
any thing he says, appear to bave been 
the case, his remarks are irrelevant. 
Let this root have a fair trial. Expee 
riment ought, and L hope will be, the test 
by which the asthmatic will decide for 
themselves. And when B.C.’s letter is 
answered, I flatter myself that very few 
asthmatic subjects that peruse yout 
pages,will neglect to make the experiment. 
At the same time, Agricola’s observas 
tions on the connexion between the ime 
provement of general health, and the di- 
minution ofasthmatic paroxysms, deserve 
a marked attention. 
Ihave myself afforded relief in the fit, 
and prevented fora long time the return 
of a paroxysm, or any other symptom of 
the complaint, by the successive use of a 
medicine which I have for years used in 
my family, for the gradual improvement 
of two or three weak constitutions. 
The means by which so important a 
change in the constitution of Agricola 
was effected, as that which is stated in 
his letter to have taken place, would be 
communicated to the public with great 
advantage; and Agricola will oblige some 
of your readers, as well as myself, by- 
giving the necessary information through 
the medium of your useful Magazine. - 
Fenley, Sept. 18, 1810. Evpernge 
Ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazines 
SIR, : 
J WISH to ask a question from some of 
B your intelligent correspondents, who 
imay have a better opportunity of mifore 
mation upon the subject than I have. 
It is this: AT€ there any proofs of the 
nightingale being a distinct species ? 
I ask the guestioa from having heard 
birds singing in the night, whieh I was 
told were nightingales, but. the notes 
which [heard seemed so much like those 
of the day, that 1 was led to doubt their 
being a distinct species. 
There seemed evidently amongst them 
the whistling of the thrush, and others. 
which I do not recollect. : 
On thinking z2pon the subject since, I 
Temeimnbez 
