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Sweepers, Weigh-Masters and MeasurMarket Regulations, Assize of Bread, Money Tables, Corporation Laws and Ordinances, Inspectors of Native Produce, Masters and Wardens of the Port, Pilots, Slave Regulations, &c. &c. Embellished with a Plan of the City, and Engravings of Public Buildings, New-York, Printed for, and Published by Edmund M. Blunt, 24mo. pp. 308.

This is a very useful publication; full and accurate. The body of the work is important to the stranger, as it points out what ever is worthy of examination in the city, and, also, the readiest means of access to the repositories of literature and the arts. The appendix contains an abstract of the municipal regulations of New York, and will be found a great convenience both to the resi. dent and foreigner, as it enables them to

guard against imposition, and points out the prope modes of redressing the injuries, to which every person. ignorant of the law, is continually liable. It contains well-execut ed engraved views of some of the most con

siderable public buildings, and is accompanied by an excellent map, which exhibits not only a plan of the city, but also a directory to all the public buildings of every descrip

tion.

T.

Placide, a Spanish Tale; translated from Les Battuecas of Madame De Genlis, by Alexander Jamieson. New-York, Kirk & Mercein, 12mo. pp. 143.

This is an interesting work, written with great feeling, containing striking views of civilized society, as existing in Europe, and exhibing the ad an gs and disadvan tages-the abuses and uprovements, incident to that state of society, in strong and fine contrast of light and shade. The doctrine contained in the work is equally true and important, and explained with great power of thought, and felicity of illustra

tion.

The Adopted Daughter; A Tale for
By Miss Sandham, Au-
Young Persons.
thor of the Twin Sisters, &c.
York, W. B. Gilley, 18mo. pp. 172.

New

This tale seems to have been written for teresting. very young persons,-to such it may be in

Sketches of Lower Canada, Historical and Descriptive; with the Author's recollection of the soil and aspect; the morals, habits and religious institutions of that isolated country; during a tour to Québec, in the month of July, 1817. By Joseph Sansom, Esq. Member of the NewAmerican Philosophical Society,, Author of Letters from Europe, &c. York, Kirk & Mercein, 12mo. pp. 316.

We have not yet had leisure to read this volume, which from the setting forth of the title page. claims more consideration than we should be able to give it in this catalogue.

ART. 16. REPORT OF DISEASES TREATED AT THE PUBLIC DISPENSARY, NEW-YORK, DURING THE MONTH SEPTEMBER, 1817.

ACUTE DISEASES.

EBRIS Intermittens, (Intermittent Fe ver.) 1; Febris Continua. (Continued Fever.) 8; Febris Infantum Remittens, (Infantile Remittent Fever,) 12; Hernia Humoralis. 3; Phlegmone, (Inflammation.) 3; Otitis, (Inflammation of the Ear) 1; Ophthalmia, (Inflammation of the Eye,) 4; Cynanche TonsilTaris, (Inflammation of the Throat,)1; Bronchitis, (Inflammation of the Bronchia.) 1; Pneumonia, (Inflammation of the Chest ) 4; Pneumonia Typhoides, 1; Mastitis, (Inflammation of the Female Breast.) 1; Splenitis, (Inflammatior of the Spleen) 1; Rheumatis mus, (Rheumatism,) 3; Cholera, 2; Dysenteria. (Dysentery,) 5; Erysipelas. (St. Anthony's Fire) 3; Vaccinia, (Kine Pock,) 5; Dentitio, (Teething.) 2.

F rer, 13; Synocha, (Inflammatory Fe.

CHRONIC AND LOCAL DISEASES.

Asthenia, (Debility.) 3; Vertigo, 6; Cepha Lalgia (Head-ach, 6; Dyspepsia. (Indiges tion.) 15; Gastrodynia. (Pain in the Stomach.) 6;; Enterodynia, (Pain in the Intestines.5; Colica. (Colic) 3; Obstipatio. (Costiveness,) 15 Paralysis, (Palsy,) 1; Epilepsia, (Epi

lepsy.) 3; Hysteria. (Hysterics,) 3; Ophthal mia Chronica, (Chronic Inflammation of the Eyes.) 3; Cynanche Tonsillaris Chronica 1; Catarrhus. (Catarrh.) 1; Bronchitis Chronica. 5; Asthma et Dyspnea. (Asthma and Difficult Breathing.) 2; Phthisis Pulmonalis. (Pulmonary Consumption.) 6; Hepatitis Chronica, (Cronic Inflammation of the Liver,) 1; Rheumatismus Chronicus, (Chronic Rheu matism.) 8; Pleurodynia, 3; Lumbago, 9 ; teria Chronica, 12; Diarrhoea, 27; AmenorHæmoptysis, (Spitting of Blood.) 2; Dysenrbæa, 9; Ischuria, (Retention of Urine) 1; Dysuria. (Difficulty of Urine.) 1; Lithiasis, (Gravel,) 1; Plethora, 2; Anasarca, (DropVermes. (Worms.) 15; Syphilis, 16; Urithri sy,) 1; Hydarthrus, (White Swelling) 3; tis Virulenta. 8; Phymosis, 1; Tumor, 3; ́ Hernia Inguinalis, 2; Luxatio, 2; Stremma, (Sprain,) 1; Contusio, (Bruise.) 7; Vulnus, (Wound) 5; Abscessus, (Abscess.) 3; Ulcus, (Ulcer,) 17; Fistula in Perineo, 1; Odontal gia 12; Sepra Venerea, 1; Ptoriasis. 1; Ptoriasis Gyrate Venerea. 1; Euythena, 1; Urticaria, (Nettle Rash,) I; Impetigo, 3 ; Porrigo, 4; Scabies et Prurigo, 11; Herpes, 1 ; Aphthæ, 1; Eruptiones Varica, 5.

The change of of temperature during September, has been considerable, but not frequent. A prolongation of the summer heats, with occasional calms, marked the first twelve days: on the 13th the weather became more cool, and continued temperate, or moderately warm, throughout the remain der of the month. The winds, though mostly from the south and southwest, have been somewhat various and irregular, as is usual about the time of the autumnal equinox, when more or less revolution and commotion take place in the whole atmosphere, accompanied, generally, with one or two storms. The whole quantity of rain that has fallen in this month was equal to 4 inches and 6-10, being little more than half the quantity for August-Showers occurred on the 5th, 11th, 12th, 17th, and 27th; a considerable rain through the night of the 14th, a more heavy one on the 15th, and 16th, and again on the 234 and 24:-no thunder storms, but incessant lightning during the evening of the 11th. The highest temperature has been 83°; lowest 48°; greatest diurnal variation 18°; mean temperature of the morning, 60° and 3-100; of the afternoon, 71o and 70 100; at sunset, 67° and 83-100;-greatest elevation of the mercury in the Barometer, 30 inches and 35-100; greatest depression, 29 inches, and 36-100.

Both the diseases and the mortality of this month have, in the aggregate, increased, but not to any considerable extent, or so as materially to impair the public heatth. The autumnal season, in this climate, generally brings with it an augmentation of diseases, and is particularly favourable to the extension, or at least to the continuance of fevers, dysentaries and diarrhoeas. Among the more obvious causes that contribute to, and tend to produce this morbid influence of the autumn, may be reckoned the impaired ener gies of the constitution itself, induced by the debilitating power of excessive heat, continually operating during the preceding summer months; the diminution of perspiration; the sudden reduction of external temperarature; the variable state of the weather; and lastly, the impure condition of the sur rounding atmosphere, which, at that time, is more generally loaded with noxious miasmata exhaled from large quantities of decay ing or putrifying animal and vegetable mat

ter.

The diseases that have principally prevail. ed, during September, were fevers, and disorders of the primæ viæ, chiefly in the form of dysentery, diarrhoea, and dyspepsia. with most of its consequent affections. There has also been some intermixture of inflammatory and especially rheumatic complaints.

Cholera, though on the decline, was not unfrequent in the early part of the month; but it rapidly diminished after the cessation of hot weather, and has almost entirely disappeared within the last two weeks. Dysentary and diarrhea have, on the contrary, rather increased in frequency, but have ex

hibited no very obvious change of character, except a great proneness to degenerate into the chronic form. Some cases of diarrhoea were accompanied with large dejections of bile; but in the majority of instances, the complaint was without any preternatural increase of biliary secretion, and oftentimes seemed to be owing principally to a want of due tone in the intestines themselves. And indeed, a relaxation of weakness or the intestines, produced by the hot season, may be considered as the most general predisposing cause of these autumnal complaints of the bowels. Hence it is, that dysentaries and diarrhoeas with us, seldom begin to prevail much till towards the conclusion of summer or beginning of autumn, when the hot wea ther constantly acting for several months together, has had its full influence in debilitating the animal system;-and they do not cease before the approach of winter, when the corroborant power of atmospheric cold has braced up the solids and implanted new vigor in the constitution.

Fevers have continued to make their appearance under a variety of forms; and have more frequently shown marks of degeneracy, or a stronger tendency to assume the characteristics of the malignant or putrid type. Some have exhibited malignant symptoms from the very commercement, being attended with anxious and difficult respiration, hot and offensive breath, brown dry tongue, pungent heat of skin, violent pains of the head, confusion of ideas, or stupor.

In some few cases of remittent and continued fevers, a diarrhea accompanied them during the three or four first days, and probably arose not merely from congestion, produced during the cold fit, but also from the usual tendency of the humours to flow towards the intestinal canal, when in a relaxed and debilitated state. In one instance in which this symptom existed, it was almost immediately relieved by venesection.

The remittent, judging from Dispensary Practice, has been the most general form of fever; and has assumed, in different individuals, a sub-inflammatory, bilious, or putrid diathesis. In the two former kinds, the use of the lancet was, in a few instances, had recourse to in the beginning of the first stage of the fever, and with decided advantage.

From a review of the diseases of the three last months, it appears that we have had fevers, which have assumed all the different forms. or types, that usually occur in this climate. The writer is happy to have it in his power to state, that we have not, in addition to these, been alarmed by the appearance of that occasional visiter and scourge of our city, the yellow or pestilential fever. The unfavourable state of the summer season, being accompanied with great and continued heat, along with frequent, and oftentimes heavy rains; the early occurrence of yellow fever in the West-India Islands; its subsequent appearance in some of the southern ports of the United States; and the report of

the existence of some cases at our Quarantine Ground, introduced by vessels coming from infected ports, all concurred to indicate approaching danger, and to excite serious apprehensions. But by the strict enforcement of Quarantine Regulations to guard against the introduction of contagion from abroad, the city of New-York has again escaped a visitation of this dreadful pestilence.

As the avowed object of these Reports, is a history of the weather and prevailing diseases, with details of practical facts and observations, the writer forbears to enter upon any formal discussion or examination of the important questions which have divided the medical profession of this country, as to the nature and origin of this pestilential disease: whether it be contagious or non-contagions; whether it be a foreign or domestic production; a disease of a peculiar and specific character, originating only in tropical climates, or merely our common autumnal remittent, rendered more violent and fatal from local impurities, from a deranged state of the atmosphere, or from other accidental circumstances. It may, however, be proper to add, that our city, during the last season, has been under the influence of all the causes which the advocates for domestic

These causes are a continuance of heat and, moisture, with a quantity of decaying With regard animal and vegetable matter. to the two former of these, it must suffice to observe, that it will scarcely be denied that they have, during the last season, existed to an extent quite equal to that of some of the years in which yellow fever has appeared: and as to animal and vegetable filth, it may safely be said, that our city has seldom, if ever, presented a greater abundance! In addition to other nuisances, our streets, docks, wharves and market places, have been notoriously foul. So great, inded, was the annoyance, and so serious the apprehensions from some of these sources ef disease, that we witnessed the extraordinary and unusual occurrence of a presentment of the "Grand Jury," in behalf of the people of the city and county of New-York, actually preferred against the guardians of the public health, the Mayor and Corporation, for dereliction of duty, in not interposingftheir authority, in order to remove and prevent, as far as possible, these several nuisances, so obnoxious to the health of the city. In the said "presentment of the Grand Jury," among other things, it is remarked that, "at no time for many years has the public health been exposed to greater danger, from pools of stagnant water, carcases of dead animals, and large heaps of street manure, which are suffered to remain in the very heart of this

origin, have considered necessary for the
production of yellow fever, and yet it has
not occurred; from which the conclusion
must follow, that either these causes are not
in themselves suficient, or else that "similar
causes have, in the present instance, ceased
to produce similar effects."

The deaths recorded in the New York bills
of mortality for September, are as follows:
Abscess, 1; Apoplexy, 3; Asthenia, 1;
Cancer, 1; Caries, 1; Child Bed, 1; Cholera
Morbus, 2; Consumption, 51; Convulsions,
20; Diarrhoea, 9; Drinking Cold Water, 1;
Dropsy, 5; Dropsy in the Head, 9; Dropsy
in the Chest, 1; Drowned, 5: Dysentery,
23; Inflammatory Fever, 1; Intermittent
Fever, 2; Hectic Fever, 1; Remittent Fe-
ver, 3; TyphusFever, 21; Infantile Flux. 6;
Hæmoptysis, 1; Hæmorrhage, 2; Hives,
3; Inflammation of the Bowels, 5; Inflam-
mation of the Brain, 2; Inflammation of the
Chest, 2; Inflammation of the Liver. 4; In-
flammation of the Stomach, 1; Insanity, 1;
Intemperance, 5; Killed, 1; Marasmus, 3;
Mortification, 2; Nervous Disease, 1; Old
Age. 10; Palsy, 2; Peripneumony, 1; Quin-
sy, 1; Rickets, 1; Scrophula 3; Sprue, 7;
Still Born, 17; Sudden Death, 1; Suicide. 1;
Tabes Mesenterica, 4; Teething, 3; Un-
known, 4; Worms, 1.-Total, 259.

Of whom there died, 73 of and under the
age of 1 year; 37 between 1 and 2 years;
13 between 2 and 5; 8 between 5 and 10;
17 between 10 and 20; 23 between 20 and
30; 18 between 30 and 40; 25 between 40!
and 50; 18 between 50 and 60; 8 between
60 and 70; 8 between 70 and 80; 8 between
80 and 90; and 1 of a 100.

JACOB DYCKMAN, M. D.
New-York, September 30th. 1817.

populous city, and at this season of the year,
when the Board of Health invite the serious
attention of the citizens to the means pro
vided by law for the purpose of guarding
against malignant and pestilential diseases;
And the Jurors, aforesaid, do further present,
that at the intersection of Orange and Leo-
nard streets down to Collect street; in Col-
lect street down to Canal street; in and
across Canal street nearly to the foot of Hes-
ter street, down to the river, diverse miry,
offensive and unwholesome places remain,
and are permitted, to the great danger of the
public health, and annoyance of the people
thereabout inhabiting; and so the Jurors,
aforesad, do present the Mayor, Aldermen
and Commonalty, of the city of New York,'
for permitting the said places and streets
aforesaid, which remain to the great danger
of the good people, and to the great scandal
of the city of New-York."

17. CABINET OF VARIETIES.

THERE nothing derogatory to

ant's made its appearance. Sir Thomas's

The English Courts of Justice, in their jockey weighed, and it afterwards come as't

being obliged to sustain actions founded on bets. Besides the countenance thereby given to a pernicious system of gambling, the transactions themselves are frequently too base or contemptible for grave investigation. Among those disgraceful suits which learned Judges have been obliged to decide, was one between two young fashionables, on the lives of their fathers, running them against each other, and calculating the bet in proportion to the chances of longevity. He whose father died first was to pay a forfeit. It turned out that the father of one of these hopeful youths, was dead at the time his dutiful son was making this wager, though both the parties were ignorant of it. He refused to pay the stipulated sum, which was, however, recovered at law. A bet was made as to the sex of the Chevalier D'Eon, but lord Mansfield refused to try it, as affecting the feelings of a third person.' An action was lately brought to recover a bet won on Joanna Southcot's non-delivery of a male child, before the 1st. of November, 1815; but it appearing that Joanna Southcot was not a married woman, the learned justice dismissed the suit, as involving too delicate a subject of inquiry,-though he admitted, if she had been a married woman, it would have been a strictly legal wager!

We think the Supreme Court of Massachusetts took the proper ground in regard to this species of litigation. On the first attempt to inforce a contract of this kind, the Court disclaimed all cognizance of questions of this description, as unworthy of their notice. It was well observed by the present Chief Justice of that Commonwealth, that from being the umpires of such controversies, it would be but a slight descent to become the stakeholders of the parties.

The following trial will show what English courts can stoop to.

Chester Assizes.

'Sir T. Massey Stanley, Bart. v. Hodgson.This was an action against the defendant. a gentleman of the first respectability on the turf, for the amount of a bet which was refused to be paid, as being against the laws of the turf. The case had been argued before, in a court of another description, but al though a court of honour, (the Jockey Club), the members had no power to issue writ or process, to compel the execution of their judgment. The case was as follows:

In 1811, a party of sporting gentlemen dined at Colonel Barnston's in Chester, among whom were the plaintiff and the defendant, a gentleman of fortune at Liverpool. They had each a filly a month old, and it was agreed by the parties they should run a match at Chester races, 1813, 8st. each, for 100 guineas, h. f. Sir Thomas brought his Elly to the post, but no horse of the defend

that the defendant's filly was dead. The learned counsel observed, that the stipulation of the half forfeit was to guard against accidents, which horses as well as men were subject to. The wager had been won up to the extent of one half of it; and the law of England would shew that the defendant was bound to pay the 50 for the recovery of which the action was brought

The Attorney Generai submitted to the court, that the act of God had rendered it impossible for the defendant to fulfil his part of the contract; and that such rule of law was equally as applicable to brutes as to mankind.

Chief Justice" Here not so, undoubtedly; a man undertakes that he will doso and so, and binds himself to the performance of it; he is responsible for the non-performance of his agreement. So with a horse; a man may bind himself that his filly shall perform a stipulated task, which it cannot do. The responsibility certainly lies upon the contraet."

Verdict-For the plantiff. damages 501.

Chief Justice-Gentlemen of the Jury, you will recollect that pounds are always guineas on the turf!"-The verdict was accordingly altered to guineas.

From the European Magazine for Aug. 1817.

ENGLISH BISHOPRICKS.

Statement of the Value of different Sees, according to the present Rentals: the inequality among them is generally little known.

Canterbury-the Duke of Rutland's York-Lord Vernon's and Lord Harcousin (Dr. C. Manners Sutton) court's brother (Dr. Edward Venable Vernon)

Durham-Lord Barrington's uncle (H. S Barrington) Winchester-Lord North's brother (Hon. B. North) Ely-The Duke of Rutland's tutor (Dr. Sparke) London-(Dr. Howley) Bath and Wells-Duke of Gloucester's tutor (Dr. R. Beaden) Chichester-Duke of Rickmond's tutor (Dr. Buckner) Litchfield andCoventry-Lord Cornwallis's uncle (Dr J. Cornwallis) Worcester-(Dr. Cornwall) Hereford--(Dr. Huntingford) Bangor-The son of the Queen's English master (Dr. J. W. Majendie)

St. Asaph--Duke of Beaufort's tutor (Dr. Luxmore) Oxford-Brother of the Regent's tutor (Dr. Jackson)

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In the year 1803 a very curious proposal was made to the public by a Mr. Saunders, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, who asserted that he had discovered a new kind of food for pigs, which was so highly nutritious, and at the same time so extraordinary cheap, that these animals might be kept (taking all ages and sizes together) at the low rate of one penny per head per day.

Mr. Saunders observes, that "clover or sainfoin hay, at 41 14s. 4d. per ton, is 4s. 8d. per cwt. or one halfpenny per pound; and that twenty pounds weight of either, well boiled, will make, with the addition of the incorporating ingredients, sufficient wash or food to maintain throughout the day fifty store pigs, from three months old to an indefinite age upwards.

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after digging. I find that when potatoes are left in large heaps or pits in the ground, that a fermentation takes place, which destroys the sweet flavour of the potatoes. In order to prevent that fermentation, and to preserve them from loosing the original fine and pleasant flavour, my plan is (and which experience proves to me to have the desired effect,) to have them packed in casks, as they are digged from the ground, and to have the casks, when the potatoes are piled in them, filled up with sand or earth, taking care that it is done as speedily as possible, and that all vacant spaces in the cask are filled up by the earth or sand. The cask thus packed holds as many potatoes as it would was no earth or sand used in the packing; and as the vacant spaces of the cask of potatoes so packed are filled, the air is totally excluded, and cannot act on the potatoes, and consequently no fermentation can take place.

"I sailed from New-York to S Bartholomew's, and brought with me two hundred barrels of potatoes, packed in the above manner On my arrival at the island, I found, as I expected, that the potatoes had preserved all their original sweetness of flavour; in fact, were as good as when first dug,having un dergone no fermentation, nor in the slightest degree affected by the bilge or close air of the ship. Some barrels of the potatoes I sold there, and at the neighbouring islands, for four dollars per bushel, and at the same time potatoes taken out in bulk without packing, and others that were brought there packed in casks which had not been filled up in earth, sold only for one dollar per bushel, they being injured in the passage by the bilged air and fermention, being bitter and bad, whilst mine were perfectly sweet and dry as when dug What remained, I shipped from Bartholomew's to Jamaica, where they arrived in equally good condition, and sold it at a higher price than they had brought at the former island. Some of these casks of potatoes were put in a cool cellar by the purchaser at Jamaica, and on examining them when I was leaving the island, two months after, I found that they had, in a very small degree, sprouted, but that all their original flavous was preserved.

From the Philosophical Magazine for Aug. 1817

METEOROLOGY.

At Tunbridge Wells, on the night of Wednesday the 30th of July, about half after eleven o'clock, appeared a beautiful paraselene, or mock moon. It was at the distance of about 25 degrees south of the moon, and was highly coloured with red and yellow, and at length had the addition of a projecting and tapering band of light extending in the direction of the halonic radius The phænomenon lasted about three minutes. The sky was full of the cirrus or curlcloud, and the wanecloud passed overtin fine veils, here and there dispersed in wavy bars. A change had

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