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( 4429 
REPORT or DISEASES, 
In the public and private Practice of one ff the Phy/icians of the Finfbury Di/penfarys 
From ihe 20th af Odtober, to the 20th of November. 
claim 
by fyftematic authors as difting difeafes 
being apparently occafioned by one caufes 
The cafe alluded to was that of fever ap-- 
pearing in different forms in the ditferent 
individuals of the fame family. “The fa- 
ther had flow nérvous fever, or typhus; 
one of the children clearly marked fearla- 
tina ; another of the infants, a flight fe- 
brile indifpofition, which had fcarcely a 
to the title of genuine fever; while 
a third, after having moft of the prefa- 
tory indications of febrile ation, was ab- 
rupily relieved from them by a copious 
ditcharge of ‘purulent matter from the 
meatas-audilorius exteraus. This fuc- 
ceeded to-an excruciating a on that fide 
of the head from which the falutary and 
crit tical difcharge took place. 
One of the patients in the aftthenic clafs, 
of from actual poverty, but from an by- 
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MC o.oo inion win 9 wo Janae sicaiin 5 oloaaias 
PE MBIG GI cifein cis ca iarinnie one caine 
OE MGM Ga aise s'alcws aint es aan minjee 2 
Bcartaeie ss Pee re POS ee MAES 3 
Beh ward ase saG i antasiwisiis orejaceierd oaveoly 5 
Pre CAG acinksl y onisiny sic, aising 9 os onde 2 
aed 
erneerrereeeaeorere reves 
Morbi infantiles 
The vulgar and common place dileates of 
sheunitiin and catarrh heve been the 
prevailing maladies of the laft month. 
Upon thefe fudjects nothing of any inte- 
Reet or importance can fuogelt itfelt to the 
mind of the Reporter in addition to what 
he has already remarked with regarl 
ei herto their nature, their phenomena, or 
their cure. 
A confiderable number of taftances a 
pulmon ary confumption have occurred 
but it thould be rbtorved: that moft BF 
thefe cafes were not attended with any in- 
flammatory or tubercular affection, but 
commenced their attack in advanced life, 
and arofe fimpiy fiom the extreme ex- 
hauttion and debility of fuperannuated 
lungs. 
and oppreffzd circulation, will nat, in 
fuch ioftances, jultifly any evacuation of 
blood. We cannot. be too fearful and 
tender in deducting from the aged a por- 
tion, however fmall, of that fluid waich 
is barely fufficient to fupport the vigour, 
or even vitality, of their enfeebled and de- 
clining frame. 
A remarkable inftance appearea buta 
fhort tume fince, im the Practica of the 
Diipenfary, which affords a fair example 
Of the occurrence of what are decribed 
Montity. Mac. No. 122, 
The difficulty of breathing, pain, 
pochondnaedt fi ear of its approach, de-~ 
nied himfelf, in order to indulge his pro. 
penfity to accumulation, not merely the 
enjoyments, but likewile the wholefome 
comin and even the meager neceffities 
of exifence. He infulated himfelf fronf 
convivial and all focialintercourle, that he 
might avoid the expences attending upon 
it; and refuled whar was effential to im- 
mediate fuftenance, left he might ulti. 
mately want the means of procuring it. 
He died, in fa&, of an extreme debility and 
emaciation both of mind and body, froma 
neither of them having been regularly 
provided with a futicient quantity of its 
appropriate aliment, apse: nce 1s Me- 
diocrity. In the proper fenfe, therefore, 
of the word, we may be intemperately ab. 
itemious as well as intemperately luxurious 
and felf-indulgent. That de egree of depra- 
vation which is unnatural or onreafonable, 
proves as invariably and much more expe- 
ditioufly de@ructive than faperfluces and 
fupsrabundant gratification. ' It is pofi- 
ble by fimple and almof inncxious means 
to relieve ourfelves trem the burden of ex. 
cefs; but it is not long poffible to bear 
with impunity, or even without a taral 
refuit, the inconveniences of a fcanty and 
deficient lupply. The vitel fame requ res 
a perpetual renovation of nutritious fuel. 
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