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3 1 - (REPORT OF DISEASES, 
qpiter the are of the lute senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensarys from the: 
ce . - 80th of April, to the 20th of May, 1809. es 
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Fevers, attended with bilious symp- 
etoms have, in consequence of the late 
extraordinary temperature of the season, 
‘been amore than usually prevalent. In 
saote than one instance, the disorder 
was aggravated by the administration of 
“tonics and stimulants, without having 
previously rinced the stomach, and in- 
testinal canal; a circumstance which’ 
“pught never to be omitted in the first in- 
stance, especially in. fevers connected 
with any hepatic derangement. For 
this purpose, and to preserve during the 
“eoutinuance of the disease, a due and 
“yegular evacuation from the bowels,‘ ca- . 
Jomel is, perhaps, one of the best remedies 
“in the store-house of the pharmacopeia ; 
“although this mercurial preparation may 
“have been too ‘extravagantly extolled, 
‘atid too indiscriminately applied. ‘* The 
bile” is the fashionable complaint, and 
against it calomel is the antidote prin-. 
-eipally in yogue. It bas, certainly, in 
may conditidas of the human frame, a 
most happy “abd extraordinary effect. 
But as any agent from which we have de- 
rived #reat avd invaluable advantage, 
“me ave apt to elevate beyond its intrilsie 
merit, aud almost to deity, 20 the zeal 
for this imestimable, medicine may, In 
some instaices,. have, approached the 
boundaries of an excusable fanaticism. 
"This, ike other preparations, of mer- | 
> eury may, when its use is long continued, 
; ‘tien! 
whust it apparently cures, a particmar 
‘disorder 
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‘disease, gradually and secretly undermine 
the basis of health, and the stamina of 
vitanty - : 
Hfvoping -cough has, amongst chil- 
dren, been a kind of epidemic, not un- 
frequently connected with violent and 
alarming convulsions. ‘To relieve either 
the cough, or the apparently ‘painful | 
‘spasm, opium ‘and digitalis are in danger 
‘of being apphed to the exquisitely irri 
‘table constitution of infancy, with tee 
Jittle ‘caution and reserve :——a_ circume= 
‘stance, of which parents and other unpro= 
fessional prescribers are not suticiently 
aware. 
Scrophula, which has lain dormant, ‘or 
more properly latent, during the winter - 
months, begins in general to make itself 
‘visible upon the opening of the sumnier. 
Tt is then in full blow. This disease 
sweeps into its compréhensive circle 
almost every straggling indication. of 
which . is. vot found within 
the precincts of any other specific’ di- 
finition; and, under its name of ‘vague 
and vulgar import, may meluce nearly 
“all ‘the «misceilahéous affections, which 
‘orivinate from a generally relaxed and 
debilitated tone of the constitation. Of 
this malady the essence is not local, al- 
though the appearance of it may ‘be so; 
and, of course, is not to be removed by 
extracting a morbid part, Ov separating 
‘from the trunk a diseased extremity. - 
By lopping the branches, we implant 
more:deeply, or more frmly dix, the ra- 
dical fibres of the evil we would destroy. 
Without an ultimate necessity, or motives 
‘the most urgent and mperiogs, seldom 
ought we, in such cases, to'seek’ relief in 
-the desperate resource of a surgical epe= 
ration. ie ee 
:  JoRer. 
Grenville-street, Prunswick-square, 
May 25, 1809. - ey 
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