£870. 
“* The Prime of Life ;” a favourite Dance, arranged 
asa Rindo for the Piano-forte, by M. Heist. 
Is. 6d. 
‘This rondo, though not perhaps of pro- 
minent merit, is far from being destitute 
of cleims to public notice. The subject 
iS at least agreeable, and the digressive 
matter consistent and correct, 
Romance and Waltz forthe Piano-forte, composed 
and inscribed to Miss M‘ Donel, of Newcastle, 
Report of Diseases. 
363 
County of Mayo, by I. W. Holden, Mus. Bae. 
Oxon, 25,6d. i 
Many sprightly ideas succeed each 
other in this pleasing little production. 
~The romance is strong in its character ; 
and the waltz, at least as new as the nu- 
merous productions of that denomination 
already befure the public will wel! admit, 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
Under the Care of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 
20:h of September to the 20th of October, 1810. 
Sei Saeed 
VERY remarkable number of cases 
where giddiness of the head or ver- 
tizn, has been the principal symptom, 
have recently cecurred within the re-: 
porters professional observation. In 
three of the cases the patients were 
females, im which it was attended with 
symptoms of hysteria: m the men, it 
was accompanied with features of hypo- 
chondiiasis, which may in general be’ 
regarded as a masculine form of the same 
disease. Whe remedies i such cases 
must of course be varied according to 
the variety of causes which may produce, 
or circumstances which may attend, the 
malady. Purgatives have often a most 
important effect, although, even this 
class of medicine has perhaps been 
excessively extolled, and too exten- 
sively recommended. When the ver- 
tigo appears to have arisen from the state 
of the brain, or the nervous system in 
general, blisters applied to the head, are 
of almost infallible advantage. 
Measles and scarlatina have been un- 
usually prevalent. Inthe former as well 
as the latter disease, the reporter has re- 
commended the sponging of the body with 
tepid water. This mode of washing ia 
measies has not hitherto been common, 
but it perhaps deserves to be so, from 
the unequivocal utility which it has ex- 
hibited in the cases where the experi- 
anent has been made by the reporter. 
The reporter has had several patients 
of late, who erroneously fancied that they 
were bilious. There isnot indeed amore 
ordinary, nor perhaps a more mischievous, 
absurdity amongst the hypochondriacal, 
the hysterical, and the dyspepuc, than 
this imagination. The idea of an excess 
of bile often arises merely from those 
uneasy feelings in the abdomen that ac- 
company indigestion; from a foul taste 
and furred tongue on awakening, and 
from that sallowness of the skin which 
is usual in various cases of habitual, or 
constitutional weakness. But none of these 
circumstances, either separately or in 
combination, afford evidence of an over- 
flow of bile; the uneasy feelings and the 
foul taste, may be attributed to the venee 
ral bad condition of all the organs of di- 
gestion, from the mouth to the farther 
extremity of the alimentary canal. As 
for the yellow bue of the complexion, it 
may be accounted for by the unhealthy 
state of the cutaneous glands; the bile 
may have no share in it. 
The reporter has certainly much 
raised his estimation of the powers 
of the medical art by a more protracted 
experience of its operations; at the 
same time he is by no means disposed to 
regard every favouravle termination ef 
a disease as a cure of it. There is 
an inherent bias observable in’ the 
animal economy to restore health. “ As 
the surface of a lake which clearly 
reflects the skv, and hills, and verdant 
scenes around its borders, when it is 
disturbed by the falling of a stone, im- 
mediately endeavours to recover its scat- 
tered images, and restore them to the 
same beauteous order in which they are 
wont to appear; in hke manner, when 
the natural course of the animal economy 
is interrupted and disturbed by disease, 
the powers of the constitution are con- 
tinually endeavouring to restore its ore 
gans to the perfect use of their functions, 
and to recover its usual vigour and se= 
renity.”* J. Rem. 
Grenville.street, Brunswici-square. 
October 26, 1810. 
* Dr. Moore’s Medical Sketches. 
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