of 
1807.) 
bers poffefs not only the merit of feience 
and ingenuity, but alfo the recommenda- 
tion of variety. The airs are eafy in 
their ftyle, and »!eafingly fancied; and the 
duo, glee, and qvartett, are conftruéted 
with a prop: ety wuich hefpeaks the found 
mufician, 
*6 For Anna, once,T cull’d a Fhurr,” a Glee for 
Three Voices, with an Accompaniment for the 
Piano-forte ; compofed by Sir F. A. Stewen= 
fon, Mus. Doc: -15. 6d. 
This glee, or rather ballad harmenized, 
is a compolition of fimple conftruétion 
and _pleafing efiett. The melody, though 
aaa aa 
lw 
- Report of Difeafes. — 
38h 
not very ftriking, is agreeable in its fyle, 
and the parts lie commodious for the 
voices for which they are defigned, and 
are ealy of execution. 
The lovers~of the fine old Englifh mue 
fic, efpecially of that of Purcsxry, will 
be glad to hear that Dr. John Clarke of 
Cambridge is preparing for publication a 
volume from the works of our British 
Orpheus, under the title of the Beautzes 
of Purcell; to confit of his moft favourite 
and celebrated fongs, duetts, &c. with an 
accompaniment for the piano-forte. 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
In the public and private Pra‘tice of one of the Phyficians of the Finfbury Difpenfary 
‘A yee the 20th of March to the 20¢h of April. ; 
To draw blood 
from a nervous patient, is like loofening 
the ftrings of a mufical inftrument whofe 
tones were defective from deficient ten- 
the prefervation of life. 
fion. : 
Typhus alfo, which for fome time ap- 
—SLa a 
used ON CLG fely Us A ied nae raga oe ee Bae | 
Tniimeen es ee Sg Cer WA UCR iG 
Te a een, Oe OR REA ON Ee 9 
Dyfpepfia-....- os at a ae ee RED I 
BARON AIME ake i gs «a aibim tii wt ei 8 
Catsrrissehs. secs eA nA HAN La lig aid 
Diarrhea ....<. A es nie sn si 
Dyfenteria lp sat pci BAER ET Vega Sol esd 
8 
1 
Rheumattimus. 2)... .n-+ sve 3 
EL Ce ee No re ei ik 9 
enone se te ee OS rok 
2 
5 
3 
Menorrhagia. .. 
DNIRSMNCRNOE Ee «once ck ese e «cine ecihtn 
7 
Piydront oe wes SS. aid lb he eee 
Diab Irtensaler cc eh deere eee Le ey 
Morbi Cutanei....-- NOES Ae Ngee gE Pe 10 
More cafes -of plurify have occurred 
within the laft month than m the fame 
fpace of time the Reporter has before had. 
an opportunity of obferving. 
This is a complaint fh which an early 
and repeated application of the lancet is 
of the moft urgent and indifpenfible ne- 
ceflity.. If bloodletting be had recourfe 
to at a proper period, and to a fufficient 
extent, which of courfe muft vary accord- 
ing to the fymptoms and the fihemic, or 
afthemic, habit of the patient, it will fel- 
dom fail, without much other aid, to re- 
- Move a difeafe which otherwife might, 
and not untrequently does, in a {hort time, 
‘terminate in death. 
But it is a matter of ferious and effen- 
tial importance to difcriminate between 
genuine pleurify and thofe pains, diifi- 
culty of breathing, and other affociated 
fymptoms which arife not from inflamma- 
tion ora too high excitement, but from 
“Merely nervous weaknefs or deprelfion. 
‘Tn the latter cafe venefection is as im- 
‘proper as in the former it is neceffary to 
_ Montury Maw No, 156. 
peared almott obfolete, has of late oc- 
curred ina confiderable number of in-’ 
~ 
ftances. _Of the nature of this fpecies of. 
fever, and the method of treating it, the. 
Reporter has frequently faid fo much, that 
_ he has nothing further to add of novelty 
or importance, f 
Two inttances of theological infanity 
have recently occurred, 
Religion, theugh in its pure and una- 
dulterated ftate the beft regulator and 
tranquillizer of the paffions, proves, when 
debauched or perverted by fupertiition 
or fanaticifn, a frequent caufe of mental 
alienation. ; 
Indifpenfible bufinefs or diverfity of 
amufement are the means principally, if 
not folely, to be depended upon of retard- 
. ing or averting that advanced and deeply- 
rooted condition of the difeafe, which _ 
forbids the anticipation, and precludes 
even the poffibility, of a relief. 
With no lefs truth thanjuftice has Dry 
Jobnion reprefented the infanity of the 
aftronomer Imlac as graduaily declining 
under the influence of fociety aad diver 
fion.—“ The fage confeffed that fince he 
had mingled in the gay tumults of life, 
and divided his hours. by a fucceifion of 
amufements, he found the conviction of 
his authority over the fkies fade grada- 
ally from his mind, and began to truft 
leis to an opinion which he never could 
prove to others, and which he now found 
2c. fabpett 
