thing that's new, which has too often not to have made use of dangerous rerendered fuch defigns fuccessful. The medies, but a proper regimen (which bill now before us, I think, I have is the principal) can never be deferred fome reason to confider in this light; in thefe cafes without extreme danger. and the more fo, becaufe of the motion By a confumption, phyficians underthat was fince made in the other houfe, ftand a decay, or ulceration of the lungs. for excluding all placemen, except a Mr Bayle's immenfe labours of the mind, very few, from having feats in that af- give room to fear their decay. The fembly. Both thefe regulations were, winter wherein the defluxion began, I find, promoted by the fame men; and and its perfeverance, give great fufpiif both had fucceeded, our happy con- cion of the impreffion, that an acrid feftitution would have been brought in- rofity (which has thrown itself upon to the most imminent danger: for the the lungs) may have made on their fubcrown would then have been under a ftance. The cough, frequent and dry, neceffity of employing none but per- or elfe attended with ferous, bloody, or fons of low rank in its fervice; which purulent fpittle, may decide it. Nothing would of course have rendered the fer- enters immediately into that part, but vice contemptible, and might very pro- the air by refpiration; the reft arrives not bably have produced fuch a civil war there, but with the blood by circulatias we had, but laft century, between on: a perfon must therefore have great our fovereign and his parliament. A attention to the air that he breathes, Noble historian has observed, that in and to the aliments with which he is K. Charles I.'s time, the arts and cla- nourished, and make use of thofe two mours of the difaffected party at laft fo means to introduce agreeable remedies far prevailed, that it became fcanda- into the lungs. The air fhould be of lous to ferve the crown; which fo fuch a temper, as to be neither too pierweakened the hands of the crown, and cing nor heavy; that which is filled with fo much exalted the power of the lead- falt exhalations is pernicious to difteming men in the other house, that they pered lungs, and that wherein there are involved their country in a bloody and fuch noxious fumes, as rife from turfs deftructive civil war, overfet our mo- burnt, &c. is not lefs dangerous. He Enarchy, and at last turned your Lord- muft avoid alfo that which is moist and fhips out of doors. These wicked de- fufty, and for this purpose should not figns began to be formed in the year inhabit apartments which are on the 1640; and if these two new regulati- firft floor. Cold and exceffive heat are ons had met with fuccefs, I fhould have equally to be feared, especially the heat had the forrow to fufpect, that fome of ftoves, which drive into the air minefuch defigns were now in embryo: but, ral particles that cannot be breathed = thank God, one of them was defeated, without hazard. A fire of wood in a = upon its first appearance, in the house chimney that does not smoke, and which of Commons; and, I hope, the other renews the air without infecting it, is will be defeated by your Lordships. the only agreeable one, provided it be [ This Journal continued in Jan. Mag, moderate day and night, and that the 1741.] perfon is at fuch a distance as not to breathe the falt of the wood, and yet fo fituated as not to fuffer by the cold, taking care fufficiently to clothe himself that he may not feel it. It is of great importance to prevent this in the night, particularly by covering the head, the neck and the back, fo as not to perceive the cold that always chills the air at dawn of the morning, and which fails not to awaken the cough in thefe cafes. 4 M a

The confultation of Monf. Fagon, Firft Phyfician to the King, upon the diflemper of Monf. Bayle.

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Perfon can't without concern hear, that an indifference for life, has engaged the illuftrious Mr Bayle to neglect the progrefs of a diftemper, the feaft fymptoms of which are formidable. It must be an happiness to him

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more agreeable. Recourfe may be had to thefe in boiling the leaves and roots of marth-mallows, the leaves and flowers of colt's-foot, the flowers and flices of the roots of nymphaea, the flowers of mullin, lint-feed with camomile in milk and water. He should draw in (often in breathing) the vapour of that deco&tion as it smokes, and as near as he can conveniently.

I recommend for this purpose, not only thick curtains that fhut close, but a pavilion under them fixt to the four bedpofts, and which clofes on the perfon laid down, and only contains the air that is commodious for refpiration, and to keep it temperate all the night by the natural heat of the patient, and by the external fire of the chamber. This care regards not only the temperature of the air which we breathe, but also While we carefully attempt by thefe that on which the general transpiration methods to serve the lungs with all the of the whole body depends, a freedom of fuccours that can be drawn from the which is of infinite confequence to carry air, we fhould not be lefs attentive to off from the breaft the acrid parts of make all the advantage poffible of thofe that ferofity that foaks it, which, if they we may hope for from the blood, that were stopped by the cold air that clofes contributes to the nourishment of them, the pores of the skin, would much more and (which without ceafing flows with dangerously return upon the lungs, than rapidity through the fine capillary velin the direct attack. But it is not fuf- fels) in rectifying it by the choice of ficient to hinder the air from increafing good aliments, and procuring to it, by the diftemper; we should attempt to fill the mixture of fome balfamick fubftan it with that which may serve as a re- ces, the means of contributing to the medy, that fo it may carry it with it re-establishment of the breast. The aliinto the lungs. If then there appears an ments proper to that purpose, fhould be ulcerous difpofition in Mr Bayle's cafe, yery foft, fimple and eafy to digeft; fuch by fpittle tinctured with blood or pu- as fowls boil'd or roafted, if Mr Bayle rulent matter; in order to charge the air is in a condition to use folid nourishwith fomething balfamick, and which ment; if not, chicken-broth with rice, may penetrate immediately with it into light foops, fresh eggs, gelly of hartsthe lungs, it is proper to diffuse in it, horn or of chicken, and other things of many times in a day, the fmoke from like nature: milk, as well for its fofta mixture of equal parts of maftic and nefs, as for its confiftence, and its easy carabe burnt upon red embers, and to converfion into chyle, would be moft aorder it fo, that the particles which form greeable for all his nourishment, with that fmoke, may infinuate themselves good bread, light, not fharp, and withat a distance from the patient into the out barm, if the habitual fever which air of the chamber, that fo they may ordinarily accompanies thofe attacks of be gently breathed without making the breaft, and which increases after a him cough or fneeze; or we may take meal, does not hinder the good effect of a little of the fubtile powder of the fame it, by fowring and corrupting it. But mixture, and having put it in a thin filk it is my cuftom to fubftitute in its place bag, by gently fhaking it, fpread abroad a kind of broth, mixt with an emulfion, in the air a little of that balfamick powder or duft, with the like precautions, to make him breathe almost imperceptibly. But if a cough, dry and convulfive, fhows the dry ftate of the lungs that are damaged by the ftipticity of the falt, which has begun to prevail in the humours, as the fpirits (diffipated by the excefs of ftudy) have ceafed to temper them, the use of emollient and vulnerary decoctions will be

which fupplies that which we may hope for from the softness of the milk, and which carries into the blood fomething balfamick, fo far as to make it a kind of vulnerary remedy when it pales into the lungs. This broth is made with one chicken, with half a pugil of rice, and a little bit of the root of comfrey, the whole well boiled. We then pound apart a dozen and a half of pistachioes good and fresh, a dram of white poppy

feed

Sprain, two receipts for
41
Standing army, formerly very inconfi-
derable
103
Stanislaus fitteft to be K. of Poland:
5
State affairs, danger of peoples believ-
ing them intricate and myfterious 79
States General, their critical fituation 8.
Diffatisfied with the Fr. fquadron 433
Stewart, Sir Ja. sentence on
Sulpicius, C. his fpeech for a place-bill
490

140

Summary of publick affairs. See Per-
fia, Ruffia, &c.
Sweden much divided and perplexed 7.
Affairs there precarious 333.
Par-
ties there

430
Terence, quotation from, on paternal
indulgence
66
Townhend packet, its obftinate refi-
ftance when attacked
337
Town-clerk, behaviour of a country
one 107. Account of his rogueries
ib. Refuses to give account of publick
money 108. His farther infolence 109
Toupee, Mr, his misfortune on the fro-
zen Thames 32. Account of the O
pera's 114. Ramble to Vaux-hall 210
Trade, its declining state
Treaty of fubfidy concluded with Swe-
den
333

Great Mogul

475

Treaty between the Sophi of Perfia and
428
Triarius, C. his fpeech for a call of the
houfe

542
Tribune's speech to the Rom. fenate 18
Triennial act, arguments for restoring

522

465

Triennial parliaments
Truth. See Happiness.
Tullius Cicero, M. his fpeeches, against
bringing in a bill to fecure our Ame-
rican trade 313. Against the addrefs
about raifing marines 402. Against
the motion for a place-bill 502
Turkish Ambaffador's retinue 333.
His publick audience at Vienna 430
Turkish empire, ftate of
Turks, their unhappy divifions 134
Tufcany, G. Duke of, declared joint
Regent with his confort

575

Tuscany, Great Dutchefs of, delivered
of a Princess

489

46
Valerius Corvus, M. his fpeeches, in fa-
vour of the bill for exporting Ameri-
can fugars 176. For the bill to se-
cure our American trade
311
Valerius Flaccus, L. his fpeeches, against
the address anent raifing marines 355-
Against the place-bill
Venice, ftate of
6
Vernon, Adm. his bravery and conduct
at Porto-bello 121. Thanked by the
parliament
534
Victories commemorated in a defert,
remarks on
193
Victory man of war damaged 335
Vote of credit argued for 125. No
ways hurtful ib. Confiftent with the
mutiny-bill 162. The refufal of it
may prove fatal
ib.
Vote of credit, of a dangerous nature
129. Ill effects of complying in it
Inconfiftent with the mutiny-

130.

act

170

United provinces. See States General.
Wallis and Neuperg, Counts, their hard

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fate
Waldgrave, E. of, his memorial to
the French court
479
War recommended by the oppofition
before proclaim'd 109. Objected a-
gainst when begun ib. Our conduct
in the present humourously defcrib'd

89

558
War with Spain, publick conduct in
carrying it on 59. Ought to be fup-
ported with vigour
ib.
Warlike preparations
Weather, philofophical account of the
late cold 42. Very fevere on the
poor
59
Weft-kirk parish, burials there 580
Westminster itch, died of 377
Wexio, an old church burnt there 333
Whales taken by the Dutch 334
Winlafs, Will. his letter
153
Wifhfort, P. an old maid, her letter 329
Words taken in different senses, caufe
of great delufions 53. Inftanc'd in
feveral particulars

INDEX to the POETRY, 1740.
230 Admiral Vernon, on

54

Dmiral H-k, on

134

Advice to a girl of fixteen
4 Q

133

Alehouse

37 Young Lady's recovery, on a 38