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| [Feb, ty 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
Tn the public end private Praétice of one of the Phyficians of the Finfbury Di ifpenfarys 
: from the 20th of December to the 20th of January. 
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RANGER PMG Saks US ie ae 
Wisbiks pulengnatis sos oo ac wee ee 
ELEM OL ee Bal ee enue ee ne 
Dyfpepfia’._. 1... BN ace SUS cas hata et oe 
TGerus calculofus . 1. ee seed ee eee dess J 
AMaenbri cay? 6)! sp Weg td Sic DER ga 3. 
Menorrhagia_.. . 28. BL SEYE STL VOM goa Ray IR PR 
Remotrhded 2-5 ao ibe ge tinh 28 id daseey “i 
Biyirope es re os ee oe Hees es Pata Et! 
Pires se Se Ea. OS Ue So ehiehe 3? ae 
Dydlentetiacs4. SS Ye s bee Seep 1 
Bier ia OS oS ag 
Relay ee en edere ies ewe ristmna yl (2 
Fipfiteria) 325 5c— PIR eipires tay) Sphere Ses al aS aK 
Hypochondriafis De ale AA ama SPH 8 
Fey oS RR ENE eget PALIN AI SERA 4 
Afthenia .. 22. eheiodgs wey ghellylt ert CN hi AME YF 
Weipa? Ue ae oe oe ec 10 
The number of mfantile difeafes will, 
this lait month, appear to have much 
exceeded the ufual preportion in the cas 
talozue. 
Vhe abrupt and vielent viciflitudes, 
and other untavourable eircumitances, in 
the atmofphere, operate with more par= 
ticular injury upon the tendernefs of 
childhood, as well as upon the mfirmity 
of age. 
The ¥ igorous manhood of life, inftead 
of faffering, is often corroborated and 
confrmed by thofe fhocks and alterna= 
tious, which are apt to extingith the 
imperfect vitality ef the one flase, and 
the nearly exhautted excitability. of the 
other. In no department of medicine 
does the practice of it appear fo cruelly 
abfurd, as in the mifmanagement of in- 
fants. Of the cafes of mor tality in the 
earlier months of our exiftence, the 
greater number undoubtedly confitt of 
thoie who have funk under the opprefiion 
of pharmaceutical filth. More imfant 
fubjects i in this metropolis are diurnally 
fleftroyed by the mortar and peftle, than 
im the ancient Bethlehem fell victims in 
one day to the Herodian maffacre. 
To a popular eye the facrifice is not fo 
vilible, but the fact is equally certam and 
unequivseal to the intellect of a feientitic 
pr activioner, 
Air duly oxygenated, uitreft ained ex- 
ercife of thé limbs and | lungs, natural 
and nourifhing food, and, above every 
thing elfe, 4 daily and univerial ablution 
af the body, aye perhaps all the réme- 
dies of difeafe, or prefervatives of health, 
whicha ehild in general requires, or his 
conttitution can with impunity adnut.* 
Confumption, or the deceitful fems 
‘Dlances of that difeafe, recur almoit daily 
under the notice of the Reporter. Dyyf- 
pepfia, however, is too frequently mui- 
taken for phthiis. The diftinction is 
not fuiticiently obferved, in practice, 
between general coniunyption and con+ 
faumption of the dungs, between impaired 
energies: and deranged {iructure, between 
complaints merely” of the ftomach and 
of the pulmonary organs: An inade- 
quate attention with regard to thefe, in 
reality eppecie; but fometimes in ap- 
pearance, allied fymptoms of difeafe, 
conttitutes cae often a fource of effential 
error m medical experience. 
On both fides lies miftake: Some cling 
to fyfteim in defpite of fact and obferva 
tion, ridicule the folicitude we are an- 
xious to enforce, and deery the necefhity 
of afcertaining at all the ftate of the 
lungs in cafes ‘of cough and emaciation 3 
while oth ers, pefhaps full more faulty 
and indiferiminating, conceive not the 
polfibility of cough without the prefence 
of pulmonary diforder. 
Truth,. as in moft other inftances, here 
refts between the two extremities of violent 
opinion. / 
The Reporter ftill continues to fee 
cafes; where moral influences are not 
fufficiently attended to in cennection 
with phylical diforders: There is too 
much of materialifm in medical philofo< 
phy. Chemifiry has not fo much to do, 
as 1 generally imagined, with the com= 
poition and conduét of the humar 
frame. Phyfical {cience, in accounting 
for the phenomena both of health and 
difeafe, has recently been ttretched to a 
devree of unprecedented extravagance. 
By fome fpéculatifis, the body of man 
has been converted into a chemical re« 
tort ; by others it has been transformed 
into a galvanic apparatus. The cele- 
* The Reporter, on the prefent eccahons 
cannot refrain from noticing and urging on 
the attention of the public, more efpecially 
the maternal part of it, an admirable article 
on ‘¢ {nfancy,” from the pen o! his ingenious 
and fcientifc friend, Dr. Uwins, in Dr. Gre- 
gory’s new Encyclopedia. 
brated 
