1309.]. 
Peruvian bark, in its most efficacious 
and eligible preparations. There are, 
Howaber, occasionally, instances of con- 
stitutional peculiarity, in which the ad- 
ministration of arsenic 1s attended with 
Inconvenient, and couvteracting con- 
sequences; .in such cases, the bark 
is, no doubt, the only alternative; and 
at any rate, atter the violence of the 
fever, and the regularity Gf its paroxysms 
have been proken by the enerey of the 
former medicine, the subsequent use, tor 
a considerable period of the latter, 1s 
preferable for the purpose of re-establish- 
ing dilaprdated strength, and restoring to 
their natural and accustomed vigour, “the 
functions and appetites of health. But, 
to prolong a pharmaceutical course, for 
the sake merely of still further corrobo- 
rating, after the desire for solid’ and 
wholesome food, with the facuity of di- 
gesting it, has returned, appears a prac- 
tice contrary to common sense, although 
not altogether so to ordinary routines 
Beefstake, or some article of diet equally 
subst antics Should then be She Elaedl 
for bark. It as only what nourishes, that 
permanently strenythens: all medicines 
are unnatural, although not  intoxi- 
cating stimuli; and of course, they are 
nut to be had recourse to, except in 
that state of the constitution in which 
it cannot be duly excited by the or- 
dinary incentives to vital action. ‘** Life 
is a furced state;” but we should employ 
ho more force than is absolutely neces- 
sary, 10 the phrase of Dr. Cullen, ‘ to 
counteract the tendency to death.” Tt 
iS 1n Contradiction to culinary economy 
to use the bellows, except when the fire 
is near being Salmond and then 
only with a dradual and caretully-ad- 
Justed application of its Ber: 
The metropolis is, at this season of 
the year, in a great measure empued of 
Hts more tashionable, or valetudimanian 
inhabitants. The grand tide of human’ 
€xistence is nnpelied towards the coast. 
Although the air of London, at least in the 
better parts of it, 1s in general sufhciently 
good tor all practical purposes, the 
breezes of the ocean, bear healing under 
their wings, and ae particularly adapted 
fur restoring those convalescents, who 
have fittie ‘other“reliét” of disease, ‘boe 
the weakness or emaciation which it 
generally leaves behind. For this re- 
duced and debilitated condition, the 
marine atmosphere seems to be a species 
of specific. It proves, when combined 
with gentle exercise, ihe best of all 
known eurroberants ; aud often pro- 
Report of Diseases. 217. 
duces, in-a very short time, effects the 
most “astonishing, in filling up the ex- 
hausted form, and in giving nerve and. 
muscle to a frame that ‘bis been attenu- 
ated, and almost dissolved, by long cone 
tinued malady, medicise, and confine- 
ment. But the benetic of ase 1s 
often worse than counteracted, by indis. 
creet, and indiscrimmate bathing. This 
practice, to which so much evod 13 ate 
tributed, is far more frequently attended © 
with positive and permanent e evil, The 
shock of a sudden transition from the 
temperature of one element to that of 
another, can seldom be beneficial, and 
cannot always be safe to a very dete 
and irritable invalid; more especially 
when there exists any visceral complai: ity 
of the lungs for instance, a true and ir 
retrievable consumption of which has, 
no doubt, often been produced by a 
remedy too generally prescribed, and 
adopted under a notion of its tonic and 
bracing influeuce upon the system. 
Simple. ablution, without the perils, will 
produce all the advantages of dine | 
mersion, provided that the former be not 
restricted to any ae part, but 
extended to the whol e surface of the 
body. In the observance of cieanliness,@ 
man should act as if he were, al face, 
With revard to three young laches of 
the same fainily, the Reporter has lately 
been consulted, in consequence of some 
symptoms that meuaced pudmonary «ise 
Organization, It appeared from the ac- 
count which they gave, that their com- 
plaints were to be ascribed principally, - 
if not solely, tothe confinement,* seden= 
tary habits, and other circumstances, 
which make a part the austere and iim 
auspicious discipline of a fashionable 
boarding-school. The representation 
which they gave, could not be doubled, 
although an itself scarcely credibie, of 
the unwholesome regulations and habits 
* The worst species of personal conane- 
ment, consistsi n the insuiterable bondage of 
dress, in the ligatures, or unequai and uie- 
wholsome pressures, by which the important 
parts of the interior are crammed and 
crushed in such a manner as to preclude, or 
to impede at least, not merely the easy move 
ments of health, but Likewise the esse wiel 
processes of vitality. The invisibie defor- 
mity of the thus maltreated viscera, is all 
compensated by those monstrous distortions 
of the external form, which are adopted in 
obsdience to the iron despotism of fashigu, 
and which, instead of exciting horror or dis- 
gust, are even regarded by Modern cezene- 
racy of taste, as tvatures of elegance, and in-. 
gtedicnts of corporeal beauty. 
which 
