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256 ; Report of Diseases, 
adapted for the production of catarrhal 
symptoms, which, where there is an un- 
fortunate predisposition in the frame, 
not unfrequently lead to tubercles, and 
terminate in suppuration of the pulmo- 
mary organs. Coughs, in general, and 
amongst children the hooping-cough* in 
particular, constitute a large share in the 
class of vernal maladies.. With cough, 
pains in some part of the thorax, not 
unfrequently occur, and never without 
Jaying a ground for serious apprehension. 
A stitch in the side, occasioned in the 
first instance by a slight cold, 1s some- 
times found to adhere witha pertinacious 
and fatal tenacity, in spite of any anta- 
gonist efforts, or imedicinal applications 
for its removal. 
6¢ Fieret lateri lethalts arundo.”” 
The arrow cannot be extracted, until 
the wound it produced has become 
“mortals?” ex: . | ee 
_ Hypochondriasis is never out of 
season. The mournful magic of a 
dyspeptic fancy, sheds. a darkness. over 
the clearest and the brightest sky. 
The mind of an hypochondriac  re- 
mains fixed, in spite of the unweanied 
revolutions of the earth, and the constant 
shiftings of nature’s external scenery. 
Through the whole year alike, 
&¢ The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, 
And heavily in clouds brings on the day.” 
Of unreasonable dejection, sluggishness is 
perhaps the most immediate and uni- 
versal cause and characteristic. An im- 
potency of the will, an inertness or in- 
dolence in the intellectual and active 
powers, are for the most part the root of 
the evil. Paradoxical as it may seein, it 
is ina certain sense true, that we wear 
out our faculties-by not using them ; to let 
them lie by is an unwise and unproduc- 
tive economy: unless kept in motion, 
they will inevitably wither and decay. 
——Immota tabescunts 
Et que perpetuo sunt agitata manent. 
Two cases of epilepsy have been seen 
rans 
* Hooping-cough isa disease which, on 
account of the extreme delicacy and tottering 
irritability of the usual subjects of its attack, 
requires more than ordinary care and ma- 
magement. . But it would be unnecessary to 
_ go over again the plan of treatment, as it is 
sufficiently simple and is generally under- 
- Bt00da: 
| fAptil 1, 
by the Reporter, duving the lasi month. 
_ Though apparently sudden in iits.smere 
violent and perfectly established pa- 
roxysms, it is far from beinp thar. tyger 
disease which springs without natice 
upon its prey.  “Scrictly speaking, who- 
ever has less feeling or voluntary inmotion 
than he would have bad at any given 
period, if no. nvoxieus power had operated 
upon his nervous system, vray be const- 
dered as an incipient paralytic.”* © A si- 
crnailar remark may be applied to the epi- 
leptic, whose condition. is associated 
with, and apt ‘to terminate in, palsy. 
Transitory numbness of some linih, or 
muscle, dark spots floating, or fixed 
before the eye, an occasional dimness of 
discernment, an indistinctness or con- 
_ fusion of memory, a temporary chaos of 
the mind, are viten experienced, some- 
times for years before epticpsy assumes its 
nore frightful and dishgutiag character. 
Wien, however, the.eurly iitimations 
of its progress are uot attended to, and 
its propensity towards further encroach- 
ment carefully, and vigorously resisted, 
by. correction of diet, or a suitable re- 
culation of the passions aud habits, the 
destiny of the unhappy subject of this 
disease, ere long, is likely to. be’ irre- 
trievably fixed, by one decisive blow, .- 
which, if it cruelly spare for a, time, 
the principle of life, blasts at once, or 
obscures for ever, all the energies and 
capacities of intellect. The drivelling 
survivor of his reason, presents an object 
truly pitiable and humiliating, an un- 
buried and respiring corpse, a soulless 
image, a mockery of man! Allis fled 
that was valuable in-the interior, it is 
now only the she// that remains. The 
empty casket serves merely as a me- 
lancholy memento of the jewel which is 
once contained, _ ; 
- The terrors of the grave are not to be 
compared to those of mental aberration 
or desertion, The loss.of a mere breath- 
wg existence, is a contemptible subject 
of fear, but the danger of an eclipse, or 
of a premature and abrupt decline of 
the understanding, ought to arouse! the 
most vigilant precaution, and justifies the 
utmost extremity of horror ahd alarm, | 
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