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STATEMENT OF DISEASES, &c.

from Feb. 20 to March 20. THE last days of February generally clear. Prevalent winds from the north-west. In the commencement of March, rain followed by fair weather. From the 8th day repeated snows, melting gradually under the influence of the sun, and arrested by frost at night; whence a moisture on the surface of the earth during a great part of the month. Prevailing winds, northwest and west.

Greatest cold, on the 21st February. Therm. 22°.

Greatest heat, on the 17th Mar. Therm. 41°.

Lowest station of the barometer 29.3, on the 25th February.

Highest station 30.4, on the 28th February.

The temperature of the atmosphere, during the month, has been of an equality very remarkable in this climate. The mercury in the thermometer rarely passing 6o above or below the freezing point.

The state of the atmosphere has been more particularly noted, on account of the prevalence of the epidemic catarrh, or influenza, adverted to in the last report. The symptoms, which seemed to be most common, are there stated. We shall now describe those, which appeared in the most severe and strongly marked cases, taking as a specimen a single instance. A person, who had risen suddenly in the night, was on the following day affected with the symptoms of a common catarrh or cold, which were succeeded by a cough. This diminished till, on imprudent exposure a week afterwards, she was seized with severe head-ach, violent pains in the breast, back, and limbs, then a fit of shivering, followed by nausea and vomitting. In three hours a general heat came on, and the chill was felt no more. After this sudden commotion of the system had subsided, the pains be

fore mentioned were found to be diminished, except a pain in the left side of the breast, which became more distinct. A soreness was felt over the chest, rendered more uncomfortable by a short, dry cough. This soon became more moist; and the expectorated matter was once or twice tinged with blood. The tongue was covered with a white mucus the pulse about 100. At this time a small degree of soreness of the throat existed, and this part was seen to be slightly inflamed. Total loss of appetite, and of the sense of tasting-Remarkable depression of mind. Those appearances continued, without much variation, for three days. Then the fever, and frequency of the cough, diminished, and the soreness of the chest went off. The other symptoms subsided so soon, that the patient left her chamber in a week from the attack; but still retained a white tongue, a degree of pain in the side, and cough, of which she was not freed on the 14th day.... Few cases occurred, where the attack was so violent as that in the instance abovementioned; but all the various forms of catarrh were witnessed during the prevalence of the disease. Although this complaint must be called a catarrh with fever, febris catarrhatis, yet there were some cases, where no febrile action could be observed. This remark has been made by STOLL ON the catarrh, which prevailed at Vienna in February and March 1777. "Febricula exigua, errabunda, plerosque tenuit, quosdam nulla." He says that women were more commonly affected. than men; and so far as our observation has extended, we can apply the remark to the disease scen here.-This complaint has now diminished very considerably. Distinct from the disease described, there have been a few cases of Rheumatism and Pneumonia.

Erratum. Page 114, line 8 from top, for mechanicks read arithmetick,

In a former number a passage was cited from the great author of epick song, which might probably have given to his illustrious imitator the first hint of his design. It is presumed, that the reader will not conclude, that the Roman bard, in his formation of the character of Eneas, was under no other obligation to Homer, than for the assistance which that passage afforded. One of Homer's heroes, Virgil kept constantly in his eye, and he was, in fact, the original of his own. Hector's character incorporates so well the hero and the man, the strong lights of the one, are so tempered and restrained by the mellowing shades of the other, that the mind is in a continual state of fluctuation, pity rises into admiration, admiration relapses into pity. At one moment we behold the helmet of the warrior glittering consternation* in the midst of his

*There is one passage in the Iliad, descriptive of the plume of an helmet, of such resplendent beauty, that I cannot resist the pleasure of transcription:

• Wide wav'd the golden honours of his

head,

Trembled the sparkling plumes, and the loose glories shed.” Vol. IV. No. 4.

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enemies; and we feel the stormy raptures of battle; in the next the helmet loses its lustre, and we see him resigning his mind to the empire of the paternal and conjugal endearments. There is one remarkable point of contact between the two great champions of the respective armies, well worthy of notice. Both Hector and Achilles know that they must fall before the walls of Troy. This, so far from abating, serves only to animate their confidence in battle. Paradoxical as this may appear, it is capable of solution. A hero does not live for his life; he lives for his fame; and when he knows but a short space is allotted for the one, is resolved in that short space to give an eternity to the other. The character of Hector is moreover touched, by the hand of his immortal biographer, with an interest still more engaging. He knows that his native city is eventually to fall into the hands of a merciless enemy, that all his valour can only procrastinate the fatal hour, that his aged parents are to die by the sword, and the wife of his bosom to be sold a slave in foreign lands.