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temperate climate the seasons are often so 
intensely cold, as to be fatal to those who 
are unfortunately exposed to their direct 
severity. In those cases, in leu of the 
warm bath, the body is to be rubbed with 
snow, or surrounded by ae sts dipped in 
ice-cold water, and the galvanic process 
is to be used in addition, until signs of 
life appear. 
cases of paralysis, when derived from 
exposure to. extreme cold. On the re- 
appearance of life, the method adopted 
in the cases above alluded to, should be 
employed. 
In cases of chilblains, or of a single 
member being frost-bitten, it 1s to be 
treated precisely after the same manner. 
Carpue, in his Treatise, has pointed out 
the importance of electricity in the very 
disagreeable affection of chill-bluin. We 
shall farther observe, that if the limb still 
remain benumbed, after a continuance 
of these means for some hours, a warm 
cataplasin of bran and water may be ap- 
Memoir of ihe Right Rev. Beilby Porteus, 
Hence its importance in, 
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plied, and the patient should take as 
much bark in powder, as will lie on a 
shilling, every two or three hours, His 
beverage should be, in this case, the most 
generous port-wine to be had; or,.in lew 
of it, brandy and water. ” After all, 
should mortification come on, as will be 
ubvious by the livid appearance of the 
parts, and their deficiency in feeling; 
give the bark, and dress the part with 
basilicon, made warm in a spoon, and 
apply pledgets hot, thrice a. day, § giving 
an opiate at night. ' 
The method which has been above 
recommended, it 1s hoped will not be the 
Jess acceptable, because its importance is 
as obvious, as its application is easy. We 
need not add that a portable galvanic 
battery, such as is alluded to, and which 
ig quite competent to all the purposes | 
described, should be within reach on 
such lamentable occasions, and it may 
be obtained ata comparatively moderate 
-expence. 
MEMOIRS AND REMAINS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
Some account of the late Right Reve- 
rend and Right Honourable BEtiBy 
PORTEUS, D. D. LORD BISHOP Of LON- 
DON, DEAN Of the CHAPEL ROYAL, VI- 
SITOR of SION COLLEGE, PROVINCIAL 
DEAN Of CANTERBURY, §c. &c. 
HE primitive Christians exhibited 
great simplicity of lite and manners. 
Consisting at first of men in a humble 
sphere, their minds were neither de- 
bauched by wealth, nor led astray by 
worldly enjoyments; their morals were 
accordingly pure, and their characters in 
general unspotted. Replete with integrity 
pad zeal, they bore public testimony to 
their faith : - and from cgnverts beconiing 
martyrs, they spilt their blood on the 
scaffold without a murmur, and even 
gloried amidst all the terrors attendant 
en relentless injnstice. 
In process of ‘time, the Pagan deities 
were trampled under foot, and the Cross 
was finally triumphant. That gentle 
and dove-like religion, which had’ uni- 
formly inculcated * charity and mode- 
ration, and, at first, aimed at no 
more than © simple toleration, in its turn 
became the established faith, Ik was 
then that all the disorderly passions of 
ambition, avarice, and tyranny, which 
had been carefully stifled and repressed 
during along period of sufferance, burst 
forth like a deluge, and casried all be- 
fore them. The once persecuted Chris. 
tians became in their turn persecutors ; 
and, not content with treating the be- 
lievers in the old exploded faith with 
cruelty and contempt, they began to pu- 
nish each other in the most rigorous and 
vindictive manner, on account of petty 
differences in their respective creeds, 
No sooner had religion become the ve- 
hicle of ‘grandeur, and ecclesiastical 
appointments the means of gratifica- 
tion, than men of all descriptions as- 
pired to dignities, that were caleulated 
to confer in many instances ‘exemption 
from punishment, and, in mxost, the 
means of enjoyment.—In Italy, the stic- 
cessor of the bumble fisherman, decked 
out in a purple robe, and adorned with 
the tiara, soon boasted, as well as exer- 
cised, the power of taking away and 
conferring crowns. In Germany Sove- 
reigns arose, who united secular with ec- 
clesiastical authority ; and in, the motley 
character of. Prince-Bishop, ruled alike 
over the consciences, and the fortunes, 
and the persons of their subjects. Bri- 
tain, following the fate of the whole 
Christian world, was long governed, in 
respect to its faith by a foreign sovereign, 
who resided on the banks of the Tiber, 
but whose iron sceptre ruled both the 
Thames and the Tweed, and who indeed 
held the crown of England itself as lord 
paramount 
