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[May t; 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
Ja the public and private Practice of one of the Phyficians of the Finfbury 
Difpenfary. 
Fram the 20th of March to the 20th of April. 
SE OO Re CUA RE Ban oe AC Al Se Na einen 
ipbalavia 2 ab br OAR ai et aa 5 
Shipephe soc Tele rear Se OMe 14 
Wenrems I 5 ty 2a SVEN a aig MAU 16 
Wephaw iy se oo LO ee ee ek Pe 3 
ais convathwa) Dolch ea Cee 5 
Pikcbifies pO ee ea ee eal TI 
Dyfinea’ us. bet Ue SOUS RAG 8 7D a0 os 2 
wemenarebrei 6. bi eh Sd 9 
Blodtar hae yt ea ee 7 
MOUENGES ISTE 1) Pe SR Tee OE 6 
Rheumatifmus......- sah Shee Py i 
PCRS Be | Bo pee ee Sry oh 78 
Golisa: pittonum. 522 22 SLL Le ee i 
Morby Cutaner os 2-5 6 8 eee Sey e 19 
Mahi iofantiles 4 220 se eS ee 14: 
Severa! courfes of mercury, which the Re. 
porter has recently felt the nece ffi ity of pre- 
icribing, have, in each infiance, produced 
the defired effect, fo far as the cure of the 
actual difeafe was concerned, 
Bot in one cafe it has induced an ex- 
treme and alarming debility, which, how- 
ever, it Is to be hoped may in time be re- 
lieved by an appropriate adminiitration of 
regimen, atmofphere, and medicine. 
-It may be proper in connection with 
this fubje&t‘to mention, what perhaps is 
not in general futhefently attended in that 
during the ufe of a remedy which is fo re- 
markably calculated to accelerate the cir- 
culation, wineor any other ftimulus ought 
to be carefully avoided. 
It is an erroneous and mifchievous no- 
tion that fpirituous or any fermented li- 
quors are calculated, in a convalefcent from 
illnefs, to reftore the ftrength and vigour 
of his conftitutions and even the moft in- 
necent and ufeful of the medicinal tonics, 
ought to be relinquifhed as foon as the na- 
tural appetite returns for pourithing and 
wholefome food. 
Dyfpepfia, or an inefficient digeftion, has 
frequently occurred of late under the ob- 
fervation of the Reporter. This com- 
plaint is often miftaken for what is called 
the Sle, and, on that acccunt there is fuf- 
pected to be an crganic affectien of the 
liver, when, in fact, all the fymptems are 
to be attributed to an enfrebled or other- 
wife difeafed condition of the ftomach, 
Of courfe, under fuch circumftances, cor- 
voborants are much more likely to relieve 
and reftore, than mercurials, and the noxi- 
ous variety of evcauating remedies. 
a 
With dyfpepfia are nearly conneSed, 
and, wideed, are almoft invariably com- 
plicated, what are called zervous afteétions. 
In confequence, not imprebably of the 
remarks which the Reporter has fo fre- 
epaeaety been induced to make upon this 
Jatter department of difeafe, his {phere of 
obfervation upon this fubje& has every 
month been mere widely extended. 
With the exception of confumptive, 
none, perhaps, more tian nervous, ail. 
ments are calculated to exci e intereft, or 
to demand accurate and affiduous atten- 
tion. The former, in this ifland at leaft, 
arife for the moft part from the viciffitudes 
of the weather ; the latter, from the other 
viciffitudes of life. . 
Patients of both thefe claffes cannot fail 
in general to awaken a peculiar concern in 
conlequence of a predifpofition to their 
difeafes being, in molt inftances, combin+ 
ed with a more than ordinary degree of 
~conftitetional fenfibility. 
Nothing can betray a want of feeling 
fo much as the regarding with ridicule er 
apathy the feelings of a melancholic, whole 
diforder, whether it arife from phyfical and 
interior, or from oftenfible and external 
caufes, is equally deferving of a refpect~ 
ful and delicate compa ffion. 
The Reporter is fo Re he imprefed with 
the conviciion that of the myriads who are 
mad, there are few comparatively who 
have not been made fo by a precipitate 
and premature feverity and pesca of 
treatment. 
It may be a matter of fome poaleatien 
to figeeft that nervous difeafes, when un- 
connecied with crganic mjury, are in ge- 
neral by feafonable and judic:ous manages 
ment capable of eradication or relief. 
But, unfortunately the proper treat- 
ment is teo often deferred, until no treat- 
ment at all can have any falutary efficacy. 
No bufinefs or profeffion expofes fo 
firikingly, as that of medicine, the danger 
ig tco frequently inevitable fatality of 
ela 
By the {cience of medicine is not to be 
underficod merely the woouleges er the 
jodicious application of drugs, 
but lke-~ 
wife a microfccpical ohivacee and inti- 
mate and confidential pare some with 
the moft_minute fibres of the heart, and 
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