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od LJameck. 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
In the public and private Praétice of one of the Phyficians of the Fiybury Difpenfary, 
from the 20th of April to.the 20th of May. 
a 
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Scrophula 
ach dF sk NNR gabe nd opel Rg Ng 
Astheria ebriosa & crapulosa .....2-.+- 21 
Predreie re itee Bee e 3 
Rheumatismus acctus 
Dysenteria 
Enteritis * 
Cararrhus 
2S 2S apg SAMO al IMG a Boi A 0 Gaye Abn) ape a, 
De SUES wie he eee 
Dyspnea A nipag 
Pipers See tre CBIR subi gS Lk haat Ree tg ta) 
PD coda i hh ape alle Melep lee MMe! Sait le et Wi 
Paralysis. . 
Didier oS st sai eel ag Mad Aik Drie eng? 
Dys cea ee IS Cone Ria hak ae Re eS ag 
sey im omeepet ay ahaa a Aer alte 7 
=sse©eeewe reer eee = Sees epee 
LieciHe 
Scorbutus ...--. DR Sere see ate crea 
Pai ea ooo oe ence aimee ees nin Ry 
COWS LIDARIO Sao a oe ee mm nm alate Lily 
WRENS Sek ee Be eae Nh oie Sere 
ES Lins oa vic game Mean tay RE 8 AR ed ESE SLi 
Pree tiiey ly rgeres os oy ie eee er ee 4 
Consumption, that “ giant malady,” 
still continues to present itself the most 
promment and conspicuous object within 
the circle of the Reporter’s observation. 
Several cases of scropbula have oc- 
curred during the last month. In scro- 
phula, as allied to consumption, the 
writer of this article feels particularly 
interested. Nothing surely could be 
more irrational than what formerly was 
the general, and 1s now a too frequent 
practice in the treatment of this disease. 
Tris a disease ef debility, which is exhi- 
bited more obstously, and particularly in 
glandular odstruction, In such cases, 
the object ought to be to invigorate, and 
to, excite the languid and enfeebled ener- 
gies of the frame. 
Purgatives that have been so com- 
monly. administered, are unequivogally 
improper, To give laxatives in order to 
give strength, is a kind of solecism, which 
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tréspasses “beyond the ordinary limits of 
even med feat 2 absurdity. 
Scrophula being regarded as an here- - 
ditary disease, Is a subject of peculiar. 
horror and apprehension ; and te be 
afflicted with it, is by mahy considered. 
as ah ignominions taint. But it ought 
to. be understood and impressed, that 
there is no disease whieh is an inevitable. 
«inheritance; although there may be trans- 
mitted more than ordinary susceptibility _ 
to the operation of those agents which are 
. 
calculated to. awaken a particular ek 
order, One who presuming ‘on constitu- 
tional immunity from scrophula, from 
asthma, consuniption, or insanity, exposes 
himself with negligence and without re- 
serve to the exciling causes of then, will . 
danger of their invasion 
what conscious of an ori- 
be im gréater 
than another, 
ginal propensity to. their production, 
cautiously regulates his internal- state 
and external circumstances, in order to 
prevent this predispostion. from ripening 
into actual and established disorder: 
He may cut off the entail by appropriate 
management and resolute self denial. 
The Reporter has known ‘several in- 
stances, 12 which he entertains entire 
behef, that an early tendency towards 
mental derangement has been arrested 
in its progress by a vigorous and perse= 
vering exertion of the understanding and 
the will. f 
‘We are in more danger from ourselves 
than from our parents. There may be 
a morbid temper of body, as well as of 
mind coeval- aay the moment of our 
burth. But this, in each instance, may 
perhaps, by proper care and culture, be 
neutralized or resisted. 
Those who start in life with a scanty 
fortune, or an sndigent constitution , otter 
gain an ultimate superiority in- ‘both over 
others who born with more robust staminay. 
have been nursed in the lap of afilnence, 
educated in prospects of prosperity, and. 
in habits of inadvertence, or. of luxurious 
and licentious dissipation. 
Several cases have. recently passed, 
under the eye of the Reporter, which’ 
consisted in the impaired and nearly ex- 
hausted vitality of a premature and artr- 
ficial old age. Men seldom live gut theig, 
legitimate ran e of existence, 
3y profusely squandering the enone’ 
of youth, they leave no fund for the i ina 
firmity | and muabecility of age. 
be, restored to 
their former condition. Every irregular 
gratification of appetite, or passion, pros 
duces a deleterious impression on thé 
permanence: and solidity of our frame.’ 
On this account it is, that veterans in 
vice; often appear to become virtuous in 
consequence of having lost a ce upacity, 
for voluptuous indulgence. _ 
‘ Joun Rem, 
Grenville-st*eet, Brunswick-square, 4 
May 27, 1807. 
| ALPHABETICAL 
. These, - 
bankrupts i in constitution can never, like, 
.commercial insolvents,. 
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