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lates in the larger ramifications of the veffels. 2. Another fluid, to which he gives no name, that circulates where the red globules cannot pafs. 3. The fluid fometimes called lymph, which he fupposes to circulate only in the fineft ramifications of all, and to be the principal inftrument in all the vital and vege table functions of an animal. He fup. poses diseases to differ effentially as fubfifting in these different fluids. Inflammatory fevers he fuppofes to have their feat in the blood, and therefore to be beft cured by venefection; fevers of different fymptoms he fuppofes may fubfift in the fecond nameless fluid, and be beft cured by increafing one or more of the fenfible fecretions; and the fevers called nervous he fuppofes to fubfift in the lymph, and that they are best cured by infenfible perfpiration only.

Mr Colden alfo, in the conclufion of this letter, relates, that the practice of inoculation, which has generally been believed an invention of the Circaffians, to preserve the beauty of their women, is much older, and came from Africa with the diftemper itself. This he difcovered by a converfation between two negroes, which was accidentally overheard; who, upon being examined feparately, gave the fame account of the practice in their native country; which was confirmed in every particular by ma. ny other negroes, who were alfo feparately examined for that purpose.

Art. XXII. Of the powers of ipecacuanba in very fmall dofes. By Dr Pye.

This article contains an account of feveral cafes in which vomiting being neceffary, but the violent ftrainings fometimes produced by the common dofe greatly to be dreaded; the Doctor administered so small a dofe of the ipecacuanha as two grains with great fuccefs. The general refult of his obfervations on this fubject during thirteen months is exhibited in a table, containing the patients name and age, the number of grains adminiftered, and the times of vomiting. By this table it appears, that two grains of the ipecacuanha vomited from one to eight times, and produced the moft fa

lutary effects.

Some patients were cu

red of a diarrhoea, and others of a dyfentery of many months continuance ; others were relieved from pains in the ftomach, and loss of appetite; besides feveral other complaints in which emetics are to be given.

Art. XXIII. An account of an extraordina ry Sleepy woman. By Dr Brady, phyfi cian to Prince Charles of Lorrain.

This woman, whofe name was Elifabeth Orvin, was of a healthy robuft conftitution, and many years fervant to the parish-priest of St Gilain near Mons in Hainault. In the beginning of the year 1738, when he was about thirty-fix years of age, fhe became fuddenly uneafy, fullen, and furly; and in the month of Auguft fell into a fleep that lafted four days, notwithstanding all poffible endeavours to awaken her. At laft she awaked of herself, in a very bad humour; but went about her business for the next fix or feven days as ufual; when she fell afleep again, and flept eighteen hours. From that time till 1753, near fifteen years, the continued to fleep every day from about three in the morning till eight or nine at night, except about four months in the year 1745, when she had a natural fleep, and about twenty-one days in the year 1748, when he was kept awake by a tertian ague. On the 20th of February 1755, about five in the evening, Dr Brady went to see her, with the furgeon-major of an Austrian regiment. He felt her pulfe, and found

it natural. He raised her arm, and found it heavy and rigid, so that he could not bend it without difficulty. He then raifed her head; and her neck being as stiff as a board, her back and shoulders rose with it. Her legs were in the fame ftate. He put his mouth to her ear, and called as loud as he could; and, to be fure there was no cheat, he thrust a pin through her flesh to the bone. He kept the flame of burning paper to her cheek, till he burnt the scarf ikin. He thruft a piece of linen dipped in spirits of wine up her noftril, and set it on fire for a moment. But, notwithstanding. this injurious and cruel treatment, the

poor

poor creature continued to fleep. At half an hour after fix, her neck, arms, and legs became more fupple; about eight the turned in her bed, got up abruptly, and came to the fire. She foon after eat with an appetite, and then fat down to fpin. She feems to have been frequently the fubject of wanton cruelty, which is too often indulged under the pretence of gratifying a laudable curiofity, and increafing ufeful knowledge. Before Brady's experiment with the pin, which he thruft through her flesh to the bone, and the flaming paper with which he fcorched her cheek, a furgeon had forced down her throat eighteen grains of eme. tic tartar, which, if it had waked her, would probably have put an end to her life, four grains being a dofe; fhe had been whipped till the blood ran down her fhoulders; her back had been rubbed with honey, and then exposed in a hot day before a hive of bees, when she was ftung to fuch a degree that her back and shoulders were covered with blotches and tumours; pins had been thrust under her nails; and the had fuffered many other injuries, which Brady calls odd experiments, and says he muft pafs them over in filence on account of their indecency. If a repetition of these experiments have not deftroyed this unhappy wretch, it is probable that she is still in the same state; for it does not appear that any measures were taken to cure her by any of those humane and ingenious perfons who gratified their curiofi. ty by examining her cafe.

[To be continued.]

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

It is hoped that the publication of the following paper, which was fome time fince read at the royal fociety, though not yet printed in their memoirs, will prevent great inconvenience to many perfons, who at this feafon of the year are fcarce ever free from that kind of cough particularly diftinguished by the name of the Catarrhaus Cough.

To the Rt Hon. GEORGE Earl of MAC CLESFIELD, &c. &c. Prefident of the Royal Society of London.

dy for the relief of people troubled with coughs; a diforder very frequent, especially in the winter-feafon.

It is a remedy which every one has, or may eafily have, in poffeffion, at a very low price; a remedy recommended by reafon, and found effectual in experience; which made me apprehend, that the communication of it would be acceptable and beneficial.

When I was making researches after the occafion of, and remedies in catarrbous difeafes, it occurred to my thoughts, that one of the most frequent immediate caufes of coughs, was a defluxion of humours from the falival glands, chiefly on the afpera arteria, which produce tickling in the throat, and fits of coughing.

Perfons under this fymptom may be faid to have a catarrhous cough. And the continuance of it brings another cause of coughing into existence: for when this humour glides down into the airveffels of the lungs, it fills, in fome measure, their cavities, and it becomes, in fome degree, infpiflated by the continual exhalation of its minutest parts in refpiration.

This humour thus thickened (and called phlegm) by the action of the lungs, and of the air in breathing, is, at times, raised and brought into the mouth, and excites a coughing as it paffes to it, and is another caufe of fits of coughing.

But the cause of fuch coughs, and their remedies, is not the fubject of my prefent confideration; but the catarrhous cough, from an excefs in the quantity of the falival humour, the frequent confequence of what we call a catching cold, which diminishes the discharge by the infenfible perspiration. This is the point

I

am upon.

In confidering this kind of cough, I thought, that if the salival glands, from time to time, could be emptied of the Surplus of their contained humour, and that furplus could be conveyed elsewhere, it might prevent its falling into the throat, and into the lungs, and its exciting fits of coughing. And as a remedy for this

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be very effectual; because the action of the muscles in chewing makes the falival glands, and all other adjacent glan dules, to discharge their contained humour, and to mix it with the dry aliment that is chewed; and that the fwallowing it conveys the furplus humour into the ftomach, where it will be ufeful to promote the digeftion of our food, and to preferve the appetite for it, as well as to remove, for a time, the caufe of a fit of coughing. And as by the ufe of this method much lefs of the falival humour will fall into the air-veffels of the lungs, fo they will much longer be preserved from the ill effects of ca

tarrhs.

The dry aliments I chiefly ufe, and recommend, are biscuits of all forts, although the eating of bread will answer the fame end. And I give to my patients the following directions, viz.

1. To eat fome mouthfuls of dry aliment as they are going to bed, which often prevents thofe fits of coughing that otherwife would hinder their fleep.

2. To use the fame remedy in the morning, to prevent the catarrh on the throat, and to convey the falival humour into the ftomach, where it will be beneficial.

But when a patient has been long afflicted with this disorder, and has totally loft his appetite, and is funk down into a confumption, it is not fo effectual'; though always in fome meafure ufeful; and therefore I recommend it.

Some perfons have told me, that they cannot poffibly fwallow any fort of folid food: however, I advise them to the chewing dry aliment at the times mentioned in my directions, and to spit it out; because their doing this will very much leffen the quantity of falival humour, which otherwife would fall into their lungs; and will prevent or shorten many fits of coughing, which would violently fhock and fatigue the body.

But I will no longer take up your time, and fhall only add, that I am, &c.

THEOPHILUS LOBB.

The nature and propriety of true tafie cónfidered, either in vocal or inftrumental mufic; or, Some few firictures upon finging or playing with what is generally called a proper grace.

Illud obfervatione dignius, quod hic ipfe honeftus ornatus pro materia genere debet effe variatus. Quintilian.

3. To use this remedy likewise, when A

by a tickling in the throat they find the catarrh is coming.

I have myself many years been fubject to a catarrhous cough, and frequently troubled with it, but never fo feldom as fince I have used the method now recommended.

It is my practice to eat fome dry bifcuit night and morning; and thofe to whom I have advised the like method, have found great benefit in the use of it. But as catarrhous coughs arife from a diminished difcharge of the perfpirable humours by infenfible perfpiration; fo fuch internal medicines as attenuate the blood, and ftrengthen the action of the vital organs of the body, are needful for

the cure of them.

The use of fuch medicines, with the method propofed, generally frees the patient from his cough in a fhort time, and he foon recovers his firength and vigour again.

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Mr URBAN, Worcefler, Sept. 13.1757. S there is no one thing that is attended with more difficulty than mufic, and as it requires a very peculiar genius to make any confiderable progrefs in all the branches of that most elevated and exalted science; it may not perhaps be quite uninftructive, if I fhould endeavour to give some few hints upon one particular part of it, which is generally diftinguished by the name of TASTE, or playing any compofition with proper grace. It must appear (I should imagine) extremely clear, that true tafle can by no means confist in a great profufion of graces, but fuch as are well imaged, and properly applied. There feems to be a genius peculiar to this fort of tafte. It is impoffible to tell how the fineft piece of harmony may fuffer by an unnatural mixture of unnatural graces. It is very often the most violent inroad upon the propriety of harmony.

If there were a kind of committee appointed in all mufical affemblies, in

order

order to examine into the graces both of the vocal and inftrumental performers; I am almoft perfuaded that fuch an expedient would not only conduce to the improvement of mufic in general, but that of taste in particular. There is certainly a much greater beauty in a proper plainnefs of finging and playing, than the generality of people are apt to imagine. What Horace has very beautifully remarked of dress, may in a great measure be applied to mufic. feems to be the fimplicitas modulationis (if the mufical world will allow me the expreffion) in the latter, as well as the fimplicitas munditia in the former.

There

When

a compofition confifts of a great variety of parts, the performers, either vocal or inftrumental, fhould be very cautious how they give an improper loofe to any great luxuriancy of fancy, (I mean with regard to graces), and more particularly fo where movements are flow, because the leaft departure from harmony is then more eafily perceived. To hear a compofition quite choaked and fmothered as it were with a multitude of graces, is inconsistent with the true life and fpirit of mufic, and what must be univerfally condemned by all those who are well-wishers and promoters of true melody. As my auditory fibres or nerves (or whatever you please to call them) have received a good deal of injurious treatment from this quarter, I have a fort of right to propofe a mediocrity of gracing for the future, which is a thing much defired by, &c.

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Prologue to the Male Coquette; or, MDCCLVII.

Written and spoken by Mr GARRICK.

W of Seventeen hundred fifty-seven?

WHY to this face this title given,

Is it a register of fashions,
Of follies, frailties, fav'rite paffions?
Or is't defign'd to make appear
How happy, good, and wife you were
In this fame memorable year?
Sure, with our author wit was fcarce,
To croud fo many virtues in a farce.
Perhaps 'tis meant to make you ftare,
Like cloths hung out at country fair,
On which strange moniters glare and grin,
To draw the gaping bumpkins,in.
VOL. XIX.

Though 'tis the genius of the age
To catch the eye with title-page;
Yet here we dare not fo abufe ye,-
We have fome monsters to amufe ye.

Ye flaves to Fashion, dupes to Chance, Whom Fortune leads her fickle dance; Who, as the Dice fhall fmile or frown, Are rich and poor, and up and down; Whofe minds eternal vigils keep; Who, like Macbeth, have murder'd fleep a Each modifh Vice this night fhall rife, Like Banquo's ghoft before your eyes; While confcious you shall start and roar, Hence horned farce! we'll fee no more.Ye ladies too, maids, widows, wives, Now tremble for your naughty lives. How will your hearts go pit-a-pat? "Blefs me-Lord!-What's the fellow at? "Was poet e'er fo rude before?

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Why, fure, the brute will fay no more→→ "Again!-O Gad!-- I cannot bear"Here-you boxkeeper,-call my chair." Peace, Ladies, 'tis a falfe alarm: TO YOU our author means no harm: His female failings all are fictions; To which your lives are contradictions. Th'unnat'ral fool has drawn a plan, Where women like a worthlefs man, A fault ne'er heard of fince the world began. This year he lets you fteal away; But if the next you trip or fray, His mufe, he vows, on you fhall wait In feventeen hundred fifty-eight.

Speech of the Prince of BRUNSWICK to the Ha noverian and Heffian troops.

fpoke,

To injur'd troops, thus gallant Brunswick
"Shall we with tamenefs bear the Gallic yoke!
Will ye, O veterans, inur'd to pains
And to ls of war, drag ignominious chains?
Turn and behold, behold where hoftile bands
Seize on your properties, lay waste your lands;
Slaves to proud Gallia's fons, to luft a prey;
Your daughters, wives, fnatch'd forcibly away,
Hark! how, with piercing cries, the trembling
By force fubdu'd, implores her father's aid; (maid,
In agonies repeats her brother's name,
To flay the ruffian, and preferve her fame.
Roufe, Germans, roufe, a glorious vengeance take,
Religion, honour, freedom, all's at stake."-
"Enough," they cry'd, "let Ferdinand proceed;
We dare to follow, where he dares to lead."
Fir'd by their country's wrongs, to arms they fly,
Refolv'd to fave her, or refolv'd to die.

CESAR and FREDERICK.

́OU came, you saw, you overcame; ́

Yafar, 'twas bravely done:

But Frederick twice has done the fame,
And double laurels won.

Rosbach, of one important day,

His glorious weeds fhall tell;

And Breslau's neighb'ring plains shall say,
How Auftrians Aed, or fell.

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Auguft on Wisdom's, as on Pruffia's throne;
Of France and Auftria's fons the gen❜ral dread;
In winter campaigns nurs'd, in battles bred;
Whofe juft revenge the combin'd league difarms;
The world's great chief, in council and in arms!
Rais'd to defend thy darling country's cause,
Direct her fenate, and protect her laws.
Pleas'd we behold thy valiant fons advance,
To check the tow'ring infolence of France:
Whofe hoftile troops in mad confufion draw,
To keep the hero of the world in awe;
'Thro' guiltless nations force their lawless way,
Condemn'd to crown the triumphs of the day;
The day for which Parnaffian laurels grew,
"And Greece beheld her olives bloom for you."
Aw'd by thy prefence, trembling legions fled,
And combin'd factions hung their drooping head;
Wing'd with thy glory, thund'ring cannons roar,
And the fword jocund plung'd in reeking gore.
Serene in battle, prudent, valiant, wife,
Here all thy glories, all thy virtues rise;
Thy fteady temper, not by numbers aw❜d,
Detefts intrigues, rebellion, guilt, and fraud.
O'er Leipfic's walls, truth, juftice forc'd thy way,
To fave thy country from the favage prey:
True fortitude, unknown to half mankind,
Rous'd up the gen'rous ardour of thy mind.
The hero foon in great exploits prefides,
Which juftice warrants, and which wifdom guides;
Prompt to attack, to refcue, and defend,
He proves his country's guardian, father, friend;
Grafps the keen dagger, bravely ftrikes the blow,
Fraught with due vengeance on his guilty foe.
To grace his triumphs, Drefden met her fate;
In vain the wifh'd her fcheme of longer date,
In vain fhe wifh'd the had not liv'd to fee
Her honour funk in vile obfcurity.

Victorious wreaths the fifter-arts have twin'd,
And wait to crown thy conftancy of mind:
Fair Truth already in the rolls of fame,
Has under Cato, Scipio, mark'd thy name;
Approves thy enterprife, applauds thy birth,
Proclaims thy reign the nobleft reign on earth;
See here! the cries, the man in fuff'rings great,
Who bravely struggles in the ftorms of fate!
Born to oppofe the Pope's malignant clan,
He'll do whatever prince or hero can;

Retrieve that martial fame by Britons loft, (boaft!
And prove that faith which graceless Christians
O! make his caufe, ye powers above! your care;
Let guilt fhrink back, and innocence appear.,

ODE intended for the New Year 1758.
By the late COLLEY CIBBER, Efq; Poet-Laureat.
Behold the circle forms prepare!

The fmiling morn leads on the year;
The year advancing to prolong
The date of Cafar's way,
Sublimes the lowest lay,

Demands the fong,

And calls for univerfal cheer..

While wafteful War in foreign fields
Spreads wide her train of defolation,
Britain her untrod harvests yields,

Which plenteously regale the nation.
Turn, turn we now our annals o'er,

And mark the reign we most admire,
Where fhall we find a monarch more
Indulgent to our heart's defire!
Our rights, our laws, our liberty,
His lenity fo well maintains,
That foreign monarchs hence may fee
How gloriously Auguftus reigns!
So gently Cafar holds his fway,
That fubjects with delight obey;
While from his pow'r fuch bleffings rife,
Him they behold with grateful eyes.
To him they quaff the ev'ning-bowl,
Till funs beneath the ocean roll.
How blefs'd our lot by heav'n ordain'd,
Then to have liv'd when Cafar reign'd!
When Fame had confefs'd,
In the best-order'd state,
No people fo blefs'd,

No monarch fo great.

To the celebrated F--D--E, on hearing him preach.
By an English gentleman.

Why the foul, and captivate the heart
Ith ev'ry talent blefs'd, with ev'ry art,
To roufe each latent paffion in the breast,
Go on, thy facred energy difpenfe,
Or gently foothe the mind from rage to rest;

Still throw Religion's flaming darts around,
And pour Heav'n's thunders on the fons of sense;
Till Folly gafps, and feels a deadly wound.

While reas'ning fools would gladly think it plain,
That pray'rs, and praife, and piety are vain;
Would fain believe the fcriptures fraught with lies,
Or prieftcraft poorly patch'd up in disguise;
Their light is darkness, and their darkness light;
Teach them, by more than Ciceronian might,
Point out the claffic arts of Greece and Rome,
By Heaven's more facred eloquence outdone,
Till words arm'd with the pathos of the skies,
Make mankind feel that to be good is wife.
An ELEGY on the death of a lately deceased
SCHOOLMASTER near Alton in Hampshire.

Quando ullum invenient parem?
Halt thou unhonour'd to the duft return;

No wept by one of all thy pupil train?

Forbid it, Gratitude!-Yet one furvives

Hor.

To wail thy lofs, and tune the pensive strain. Spite of thy foes (for all have had their foes),

Who meanly dare this humble verfe to fneer; Yet will the mufe you early taught to fing,

Drop to thy fame her tributary tear. 'Twas thine in life to bid me comprehend (fraught; The fpeaking page with ufeful knowledge To teach my mind to feel th' enamour'd glow Of what a Horace and a Tully wrote. 'Tis mine, regretted talk! to mourn thee dead, To faatch with daring hand the poet's bays;

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