4811), 
neral effect has been happily consulted, 
and every bar exhibits the hand of a 
master, 
$¢ Fategavethe Word ;”’ a Ballad, composed and 
dedicaied to Mrs. Harrison, by T. Haigh. 25.6. 
The melody of this ballad, the poetry 
of which is from Burns, though not of the 
first excellence,contains some pleasing and 
appropriate passages ; and will, wedoulst 
not, gratify the taste of many hearers, 
Mr. Haigh, however, will allow ,us to 
notice the false accent with which the 
song opehs, The word fate should not 
have been given toa leading note, but to 
the first crotchet of a bar, The author’s 
sense is not ** Fate gave the word,” but 
S* Fate gave the word.” 
Le Retour de Cambridge ; Romance and Rondo far 
' the Piano-forte, composed and dedicated to Miss 
Day, by J. Gildon, 
Mr. Gildon, in this little production, 
has displayed much of that talent for 
piang-forte composition which has already 
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559 
frequently demanded our commendation, 
Both the movements are good in their 
kind, and the style of the romance is. 
particularly calculated to introduce the 
rondo with advantage. 
© All bail to the enlivening Morns?? a favourite 
Song, composed by 1. Thompson, Organisi of 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 1s. 
Tn this song we .cannot find any 
prominent traits of original fancy, or 
striking evidences of a cultivated judg- 
ment: mediocrity is the word that best 
applies to the composition, whether jook» 
ing to the air orthe combination. 
ff me to the Cotlage;” a Ballad, composed or 
the Votce and Prano-forte, ot Harp; also ar- 
yanged for the Barb, Lute, or Lyre, by Jobs 
Parry, Editor of the Welsh Melodtes. 15. 6d. 
s* Adieu to the Cottage” is a very plea- 
sing little song. ‘The melody is assimple 
as appropriate, and conveys the senti- 
ment of the pogtry with truth and forces 
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REPORT OF DISEASES, 
Under the Care of ihe late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 
20th of November to the 20th of December, 1810. 
—aS ae 
HE Reporter has recently met with 
several instances of the proper in- 
termittent fever. During a_ period of 
nearly nine years of attendance as Phy- 
siclan upon one of the most extensive 
medical charities in the metropolis, the 
writer of this article does not recollect a 
single instance of this modification of 
disease in which he could not trace its 
origin to some of the marshy counties of 
the Island; so invariably do the effluvia 
from a particular sort of soil operate as 
a cause of a particular species of fever. 
The more recent instances of ague which 
he has met with, form no exceptions to 
this general observation, The Reporter 
has found arsenic, in the form of Fowler’s 
Solution, to be more uniformly and expe- 
ditiously successful in this complaint, 
than ‘the much and justly celebrated 
cinchona. The reputation of the Peru- 
vian bark has been in a certain degree 
impaired by a continuance of its use. 
It is remarkable, that 4: medicine, at its 
first introduction into practice, has often 
been attended with more signal success 
than at any subsequent period of iis em- 
ploymént; its efficacy, as well as its 
fame, seems as if it wore away al- 
ter a length of time; when it has be- 
come an old remedy, it ceases to he 
so powerful a one. Of the Peruvian 
bark, however, we may still, withont 
trespassing upon truth, speak in very high 
terms, although not as an infallible speci- 
fic. Protracted experience seldom fails 
to throw a dash of diffidence into the 
composition of our opinions.* 
Decided and dreadful as the indicae 
tions of fever generally are in its advanc- 
ed and established form, its symptoms 
are at other times so faintly marked, as 
to be scarcely distinguishable by a super- 
ficial observer, from the condition of ordi- 
nary health. The whole oflife is, indeed, 
with some, a stite of fever. 
The Reporter has lately had an oppor 
* When Sir Jolin Tabor went to Versailles 
to try the effects of the bark upon Louis the 
Fourteenth’s only son, the Dauphin, who had . 
been long il) of an intermittent fever; the 
physicians who were about the prince, did 
not chuose to permit him to prescribe to their 
royal patient till they had put to him some 
niedical questions: amongst others, they ask- 
ed him to define what an intermittent fever 
was. He replied, ‘¢Gentlemen,, it is a dis- 
ease which ican cure, and which you can- 
dots. 6, a, 
tunity 
