1810.] 
Clarke never fails to exhibit, and the 
bass is uniformly well chosen. 
Chorusses from Handel’s celebrated Te Deums, 
Arranged for the Piana-forie, with an Accom- 
paniment for @ Flute or Violin, by Maxzinghi. 
45. 
Mr. Mazzinghi, in his arrangement of 
these sublime and celebrated composi- 
tions, has acquitted himself with bis usual 
address; and to organ performers, and the 
lovers of grand and classical composition, 
the Te Deums,in the shape in which they 
are here presented to the pubic, will, 
we doubt not, be highly acceptable. * - 
** Divine Songs,”’ in easy Language, by the Rev: 
J. Watis, D.D. Set to Music by J. Gildun. 
vf. 
This little work, the purport and ten- 
dency of which the composer has weil 
explained in his preface, contains twenty- 
eight hyons, or divine songs, the melodies 
of which are highly appropriate to the 
Report of Diseases. 
455 
easy simplicity of the words, and well 
calculated to promote the laudable iuten- 
tion of their author. 
*€ Hymn to the Virgin,” selected. from the popular 
Poem of the Lady of the Lake. Writen by 
Walter Scott, esq. and composed for a Soprane 
voice, with an Accompaniment for the Harp or 
Pigno-forle, by Henry Bishop. 25.6d. 
The melody of this hymn is highly ap- 
propriate and expressive. The accom- 
paniment is elaborate and elegant, and 
the general effect, such as anly the efforts 
of a real master can produce. 
Tbe Italian Momfrina,’’ an Original Air. Ar- 
ranged asa Rondo for the Piano-forte, by Mr. 
Holst. 15. 6d. 
This is a pleasing little production; 
calculated to please the general ear, and 
improve the finger of the juvenile prac- 
titioner. 
REPORT Of DISEASES, 
Under the Cure of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 
20th of October to the 20th of November, 1810. 
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T seems idle to state what every one 
i knows, that catarrh is at present a 
very prevalent complaint; neither is it 
necessary to say any thing about the 
treatment of a species of indisposition 
which there are few who do not think 
themselves competent to manage with 
out professional assistance. ‘The reme- 
dies for it are principally negative, and 
confined in a great measure to the-avoid- 
ing of variations of temperature, but 
more especially an exposure to a lieated 
one, and an abstinence from every thing 
that is stimulating in articles of diet. 
The Reporter has lately had occasion 
to prescribe for a female patient, who 
Jaboured under frequent returns of spas- 
modic affection, attended with an almost 
entire prostration of spirits and of strength. 
The present lamentable condition of her 
frame seems to have been produced by 
a habit of taking opium ia the form of 
tincture. It was originally begun with a 
view to.relieve bodily pain, and has since 
been continued whenever it was neces- 
sary to compose irritation to animate 
Janguor, or to elevate depression. It 
would. be well if jlaudanum, which has 
insensibly become a part of the habitual 
regimen of many hypochondriacal inva- 
lids, who have often been rendered in- 
curably such by this circumstance, were 
never used, unless under the especial 
sanction of professional authority. And 
it may at least be doubted whether even 
the sanction of professional avthority be 
not in general too carelessly and. too 
lightly lent to the employment of a drag, 
the application of whose extraordinary 
powers ought to be reserved for occasions 
of proportionate emergence. 
| The writer of this article has at pre- 
sent under lis care an obstinate case 
of chorea, or what is valgarly denomi- 
nated St. Vitus’s dance.* Tie com- 
plaint in this instance bad been pre- 
ceded, as-is not uncommon, by attacks 
of epilepsy. In convulsive affections 
of this aid of most other kinds, the cold 
bath and steel, with a due attention 
to the state of the bowels, may be re- 
garded as the cardinal remedies; and 
SIE OE IND AA IO CONN SSSR 
* {t is remarkable that St. Vitus is no 
where to be found in thé calendar of Romish 
superstition, The mistake has probably arisen 
from some misunderstanding or inaccuracy of 
manuscript, by which chorea invita, or in- 
voluntary dance, the original and genuine 
name of this disease, was read and copied 
chorea st, Viti. 
3 ARS although 
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