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tion, or of the appearance of dilapidation 
which it gives to the face, but becaufe it 
involves the lofs of one of the inftruments 
moft effentially and intimately conneéted 
with the prefervation of vigour and the 
continuance of vitality. 
By medical inquuers who have taken 
pains to fearch into this particular fubject, 
jt has been remarked, that one of the cir- 
cumitances that have almoft invariably at- 
tended among the phenomena of old-age, 
is the unimpaired integrity of the teeth. 
Their decay, which for the moft part ac- 
companies, cannot fail likewile:to contri- 
bute to and accelerate that gradual reduc- 
tion of {ubitance and of ftrength which fo 
utitormly characterizes the more advanced 
fiages of our exiftence. 
It is of bigh moment that parents and 
ethers. carineeted with the fuperintendance 
of perfons in very early life, thould fuffici- 
enuy attend to and feel the ed odio of 
thele remarks. 
It ought not to be overlooked, that 
while the ftate of the teeth produces an ef- 
feSt on the ftomacn, the difeafed condition 
of the latter is net ogi ccawel commu- 
nicated to the fo:mer. 
One of the cafes of typhus fever alluded 
to in the catalogue is alarming, and will 
not improbably prove fatal, in confequence © 
of being compiicated with a confumptive 
affection. The corroborating and ftimu- 
lacing remedies neceflary for the one, be- 
ing directly calculated to aggravate the- 
fymproms and incieafe the danger of the 
other. * 
A perfon has recently been attended by 
the writer of this article, who died of a 
fairly: exhaufted excitability. It is re- 
markable that his wife. who had been in 
that relation tur nearly Afty yea:s, furvived 
her intimate ail.ciate only a few weeks, 
without any apparent or affignable caufle of 
* The Parifian pra€tice, which the Re- 
porter ad an opportunity, fome years ago, of 
ubferving at the Hotel-Dieu, in febrile com- 
plaints, wouid not interfere with an inflam- 
matory or tubercular afteftion of the lungs. 
It confifted principally of bleeding, ptifans, 
ard du wiz, which laft wads in faét wine only 
to the zye. It was weaker than our fmall- 
beer, and was fingularly well calculated to 
induce that degree uf diarrhoea which ought 
to be particularly guarded againft in fevers of 
extreme debility. 
Report of Difeafes. 
[ March 2, 
difeafe, except the difruption of fo lonz 
an wnion, and amalgamation, as it were, 
of minds. 
The vital principle of two fridividiiaks 
may, from congeniality or habit, be fo 
identified or combined, that it would be 
impoffible ta deftroy the one without fa- 
tally injuring the other. It is fomewhat 
like that fynvpathy by which if the right 
eye, in confequence of weaknefs or difeafe, 
become blind, the left feldom retains ned 
afterwards its capacity of vition. 
Several inftances of difeafe: have very 
recently occurred, which arofe evidently 
trom want of occupation. «6 Employ- 
ment is every thing.”’* For diforders 
charaéterized by languor, the radical re- 
medy is exertion. Leifure, in its phy fical 
Operation, is not feldom almoft equaily 
injurious with licentioufnefs.’ Bufinefs 
attended with extreme care ard uneafinefs, 
is perhaps more defirab!e than the having 
no fubject at all of uneafinefs or care. An 
atmo(phere, however contaminated, proves 
lefs certainly and immediately dettructive 
than an.abfolute vacuum. In the labo- 
rious and luxurious extremes of fociety, 
the fime effect may be obferved to origi- 
nate from caufes apparently oppofite. 
The former, by.a total. deprivation of 
hope, the latter by pofeffing fo much as 
to have nothing left to hope for, are too 
apt to take refuge in debauchery or ex- 
cefs. In either cafe a fimilar calamity 
ev eH enfues. If indifcretion of this 
kind merely curtailed life, i¢ might admit 
of fome apology, or even of vindication ; 
buta forced hilarity, or an artificially ii: 
duced ftupefaétion, does not, like the 
guillotine, feparate at once the flender 
thread of vitality. For the mof part it 
produces this effect through the medium 
of a flow and agonizing difeale. A labo- 
rious and protracted interval of dropfy, 
{chirrous liver, pally, or fome other equal- 
ly fearful diforder, in moit inftances oc- 
curs between the lols of a capacity for 
enjoying life, and the period of its ulti- 
mate and entire extinction. 
Death is the laft, but not the wort, re- 
 fult of intemperance. 
Te eo 
Grenville fireet, Brunfwick -fquare, 
Feb. 24, 1806. 
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