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fallen on another writer of a late date, 
whofe account adds to. the perplexity. 
A work entitied ** Nouveau Voyage de 
Grece, d’Egypte, de Palefine, d’Icalie, 
de Suiffe, d’Alface, et des Pais Bas, fait 
en 172415 17225) et, 1723,. -has, this re- 
mark, when fpeaking of Cleopatra’s 
needles, ‘* C’eit entre ces deux aiguilles 
que quelques antiquaires placent le tom- 
beau d’Alcxandre, dont en ne voit au- 
cune preuye.”” Your’s, 
; CEpipus. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ANSWER a paper, figned Oblerver, 
in your Magazine for this Month, 
p- 1:26, in the following manner. Your 
queftion, Mr. Obferver, came to me in 
the very nick of time, ior I was bufy in 
removing a paroxyim of the gout, after 
an interm:ffion of nine months of good 
health. But initead of my fimple me- 
thod, I am ufing Mr. Smith’s air-pump 
vapour bath. Your ftory of the old lady’s 
great uncle is a folitary and uncertain 
inftance, and to me too fabuicus to deferve 
notice. But out of commiferation to your 
friend I fhallendeavour to cure your doubts 
and fears. 
In the now State of Maryiand, in North 
America, I practifed my profeflion for 
twenty-yearse There was a diforder in 
that country, vulgarly calied the dry elly- 
ache; when that dilorder dic not yield to 
the ufual means, it was my practice, and 
that of.others, to put the patient into a 
hogfhead, partly filled with water as hot 
as he could bear it, and to cover over the 
eafk with a blanket round his fhoulders, 
fo that there was nothing left out but the 
head. He remained there as long as he was 
able to fuftain it with ea‘e to himfelf, or 
until the eam was too cold to be of more 
ufe; and I never knew or heard of any 
bad confequences from this practice. My 
wifh in writing is to teil truth with 
concifenefs and perfpicuity. ‘* There are 
not many certain truths in this world,” 
fays a great man ; and I fay, if you will 
not believe any thing, but what can be 
proved by the rules of geometry or ma- 
thematics, you are neither a good Chrif- 
tian nor an inquifitive philofopher. 
Iam your’s, &c. 
A. STennouseE, M. Dx 
Edinburgh, Fuly 11, 1804. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE above came enclofed to me to be 
forwarded to you ; it forms no part 
Letters on Vapour-bathing—Noife of Deer. 
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[ Augnt ty 
of my plan to contend with the prejudices 
of elderly ladies re[pefing the difeafes of 
their great-great-uncles! Neither have I 
ever thought it honourable or handfome 
to endeavour to writeto the feelings of 
perfoas, who, however well informed on 
other fubjects, cannot be fuppofed to know 
much on medical ones. I will fay, how- 
ever, that in the whoije courfe of my prac- 
tice I have never feen any bad effects from 
the application of fteam. . 
Teo the few of your readers, who may 
be difpofed to take an intereft in this fub- 
ject, I would recommend the perufal of a 
letter in the Jatt Number of the Medical 
and Phyfical Journal, a work, which does 
its editors no lefs credit than this one 
does yourfelf. I am your's, &c. 
RaLPH BLEGHBOROUGHe 
Margaret-fireet, Cavendyb-{quare, 
Fuly 16, 1804. 
; a : 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SER, : 
\ N Y ALKING about a fortnight fince 
in Bultirode Park, I was much 
amufed with obferving the fine herds of 
deer kept there. Many of the does hed 
fawns at their fides, which gave me the 
upportunity of remarking a circumfiance 
entirely new to me. ‘This was the fin- 
gular noife proceeding from the dams and 
their young, which was fo loud as to re~ 
found through the park, as the herds 
were flowly proceeding in a long line to- 
wards the houfe, forming a very pic- 
turef{que appearance, whilfl they crefied 
the little hills and vallies. I fcarcely 
know to what to compare this noife, 
which I fhould never have fufpected to 
have been made by thefe animals, had I 
not feen them. It was a diffonsnt mix- 
ture of a kind of hoarfe creaking or 
braying, with a fhrill bleating, altogetiber 
refembling- mere the clamour of a flock 
of water-fowl, than any thing elfe with 
which I am acquainted. What furpri‘es 
me is, that I do not recolleét any refer— 
ence to this noife, either in writers of na- 
tural hiflory, or in thofe of the poets who 
have moit attended to rural. incidents. 
The beliowing or braying of the ftag or 
buck in the rutting featon, has been no. 
ticed; but it is very different from this 
to which Iam alluding. In feme of the 
many books formerly written on bealts of 
chace, or vezery, 1 fuppofe notice hes 
been taken of it, and probably a parti- 
cular name annexed to it. If fuch fhould 
occur to any of your readers, by point- 
ing it out they will gratify . 
London, fuly20,1804.  ARAMELER. 
